<p>We're reading House on Mango Street in spanish. I can't understand a single thing that's going on.</p>
<p>Sophomore year, we had to read Dandelion Wine. That book is horribly boring, as the frequent symbolism and frequent switches between barely-linked characters kills any plot that the book might have had.</p>
<p>Grapes of Wrath
Crime and Punishment
Jane Eyre (didn't bother finishing)</p>
<p>Bless the Beasts and the Children</p>
<p>What's up with all of the hate for The Scarlet Letter!?!? I loved it, personally....tis my type of writing style ;)</p>
<p>I didn't like "The Scarlet Letter" much. Maybe the fact I forced myself to read it and write an essay in one day contribute to it. </p>
<p>I really liked 1984.</p>
<p>i abhorred Macbeth, and most certainly disliked guns of august</p>
<p>passage to India....</p>
<p>The Scarlet Letter. One of the most boring books I ever read.</p>
<p>nathan bedford forrest- APUSH ahah never finished the book in time but still gave in a book report. i would read it at night n fall asleep in 2 minutes... my mom timed me lol.</p>
<p>Invisible Man is pretty high on my list right now.</p>
<p>Invisible Man - torture
Scarlet Letter
Old Man and the Sea - freshman year I had to actually write a research paper on it. bleghhhh</p>
<p>But how can anyone hate Shakespeare??? Macbeth is brilliant and most of his comedies are very entertaining! I dunno, maybe its cause I'm a theatre kid.<br>
Jane Austen's a hit or miss for me. I loved Pride and Prejudice but couldn't get through Sense and Sensibility. Oh and Huck Finn is so fun and the plot is always moving; I don't see how anybody can find it boring.</p>
<p>Uncle Tom's Cabin can be boring at times (I'm not a fan of the style), though I guess it's ok to preach about slavery. Moby Dick on the other hand has preaching about whales. The book is a ****ing crime against humanity.</p>
<p>I haven't read the book, but Les Mis the musical is awesome.</p>
<p>"Amusing ourselves to death" by Neil Postman</p>
<p>Oh dear lord.. The WORST 3 I have been forced to read are:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court: So awful; I eventually bought the audiobook for it and listened to it while I drove to and from work/school.</p></li>
<li><p>The Hound of the Baskervilles: I don't think ANYONE in my class made it passed page 20... kind of a "wall" thing going on there.</p></li>
<li><p>Tropical Gangsters: African history never really did much for me.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>And for Honorale Mention: The Grapes of Wrath, T-KAM, Pride and Prejudice, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Ethan Frome</p>
<p>I looooved hound of baskervilles! I composed an trio (v1/v2/cello- aka my friends) piece for it in 9th grade. </p>
<p>I agree that grapes of wrath and ethan frome were boring to me. But maybe that's because my american lit teacher (also an ex-bartender) did care about the class at all.
Pride and prejudice, on the other hand, was taught by a brilliant teacher. She made it interesting.</p>
<p>Sula by Toni Morrison</p>
<h2>Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich</h2>
<p>A lot of others too ._.</p>
<p>Great Expectations for 9th grade honors...</p>
<p>I HATE Charles Dickens.</p>
<p>WHO CARES ABOUT PIP????</p>
<p>WUTHERING HEIGHTS. OMG</p>
<p>i hate that book with a passion.</p>
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<p>wow. i don't even care if you posted that in july. you put it in exactly the right words. except for the one paragraph about actually being the catcher in the rye, i did not like that book.</p>
<p>Beowulf = awful, seriously it was so unrealistic and just so generally irritating that words can't even describe. Plus I'm not one of those people who can detect these amazing underlying meanings based on some random thing some random character said. </p>
<p>Tale of Two Cities is one of those books where you absolutely despise reading it and it is super confusing unless your a brilliant genius but then at the end your like "oh, that was kind of good."</p>
<p>Johnny Tremain in 6th grade, oh my gosh, she spent like 200 pages talking about how his thumb was scared to his hand, what it looked like, how it felt, what this would mean for the rest of his life. Seriously, it was the worst book I've ever read.</p>