<p>What's the worst book you ever read and also state the author of the book?</p>
<p>THE AWAKENING by kate chopin
CRASH by JG Ballard</p>
<p>i haven't really read that many books though...</p>
<p>Anything Dickens</p>
<p>Woman hollaring creek
made no sense to me and why we read it in englsih</p>
<p>Wuthering Heights. (better retitled as "Blithering Homosexuals")</p>
<p>No contest.</p>
<p>Wuthering Heights did suck...a lot</p>
<p>But "Guns, Germs, and Steel" takes the cake, by Jared Diamond. Oh god does it suck</p>
<p>I fell asleep reading "The Scarlett Letter". urgh.</p>
<p>.-<em>-.
.-</em>-.</p>
<p>The Crucible - Arthur Miller
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass</p>
<p>I couldn't finish either one and ended up using Sparknotes.</p>
<p>The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (fantasizing about a horse?!?!)
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (passion so strong that it sets the shower on fire?!?!)
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (probably the worst of the lot- takes boring to supremely new heights)
The Yearling by Marjorie Rawlings (waaaay too much description)
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (pitiful prequel to Jane Eyre)</p>
<p>snoopy, I loved The Scarlet Letter! I'm taking an early American lit class (Irving, Thoreau, Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville), and it's my favorite class. :)</p>
<p>* Velocity* by Dean Koontz. That book had no end to me. Just went in circles with some really exciting plot at first but then you realize that nothing really connects to another thing later on. And there is no explanation for the occurrences. It's just so random and pointless.</p>
<p>I'm reading Scarlet Letter now.
Don't like it, but Romeo and Juliet is worse:(</p>
<ul>
<li>"Homeless Bird" became the laughing stock of the whole classroom. Quickly morphed into "Dead Bird." Seemed kinda pointless.</li>
<li>"The Giver" ... =_="</li>
<li>"Blue something, sequel or prequel to the Giver"</li>
<li>"Chain of Fire" ... I'm sorry, a serious issue, but...</li>
</ul>
<p>Good Books:
"Foucault's Pendulum"
"Galactic Astronomy"
"Introduction to Astrophysics"
"Fermat's Enigma"
:D</p>
<p>the handmaid's tale
great expectations
and i echo the sentiment of wuthering heights being a bad book 1000X over.</p>
<p>"The Glass Dragon"</p>
<p>TOTALLY weird and... ugh, weird. </p>
<p>Best book?
"The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath. Read it. Now.</p>
<p>-morgan</p>
<p>O.O I LOVED the Giver!!! !! !! </p>
<p>Xp</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>I loved Wuthering Heights. However, I did hate "Black Boy" by Richard something. Despicable book.</p>
<p>A Farewell to Arms</p>
<p>Basically all Hemingway.</p>
<p>"Black Boy" is an amazing book. Richard Wright is a genius; what have you got against him? It is a true life story with none of the sprinkles on top.</p>
<p>OMG, I cannot believe you guys have said the following book. If you were assigned to read this book, you would die...(I almost did).</p>
<p>WALDEN
by Henry David Thoreau
...</p>
<p>AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhh</p>
<p>Oh...Great Expectations sucked badly too!</p>
<p>I liked Farewell to Arms...k
its only boring if you skim it or read it without meaning
once you search it furiously in an attempt to find meaning, it is hard NOT TO LIKE</p>
<p>One needs a certain background to really grasp Walden. His references to beans and the Pythagoreans are likely to pass over most people's heads, for example.</p>