<p>this thread makes my head hurt because it makes me sad when people don’t like my favorite books :/</p>
<p>New least favorite book assigned in school: Daisy Miller.
Its brevity is literally the only thing going for it.</p>
<p>virginia woolf - room of ones own</p>
<p>holy boringness</p>
<p>A Clockwork Orange. I don’t care that it has literary merit. I don’t care that it’s supposedly “amazing” and “thought-provoking”. I gave up after the first seven-or-so-pages due to my inability to comprehend… those words… it was like learning yet another foreign language all over again in an immersion class. Bad.</p>
<p>I’ll be honest, I hated reading Ender’s Game for my freshman year summer reading assignment. It was boring and made no sense. The ending felt like Card was thinking “Well… crap. I’ve written myself into a corner, so I guess I’ll just break all the rules I’ve previously established in this universe!”</p>
<p>It didn’t help that I had something against the author prior to reading it.</p>
<p>^Yeah I didn’t find out much about Card until after I’d read the first book, so that helped me enjoy it. The second one’s pretty good though if you can forget about him for a bit :)</p>
<p>Summerland by Michael Chabon. </p>
<p>Literally the worst book I’ve ever read.</p>
<p>Liked: the Kite Runner, The Things They Carried, Old Man and the Sea, Beowulf, Tuesdays With Morrie, A Prayer for Owen Meany, To Kill A Mockingbird.</p>
<p>Indifferent: Atlas Shrugged</p>
<p>Disliked: Invisible Man, Siddhartha</p>
<p>Currently Reading: Things Fall Apart</p>
<p>Romeo and Juliet for sure. I don’t care if it’s Shakespeare, I hated the characters and I couldn’t understand it and I survived that unit with a high A using only Sparknotes.</p>
<p>awww why all the romeo and juliet hate :(</p>
<p>beowulf though ughhhh puts me to sleep</p>
<p>I’m only a freshman so I haven’t run across any bad books so far. But we read A Separate Peace at the beginning of the year and I loved it.
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<p>I can’t believe that I actually read Great Gatsby on this thread. Great book.</p>
<p>I got three pages into the scarlet letter and I was just like “nope” and went straight to sparknotes</p>
<p>The Catcher in the Rye, oh my god. Holden is the most unlikable character ever! That book was such a pain to get through because he was so annoying.</p>
<p>^It’s interesting to see people call Holden “annoying” (especially people our age)…shows how much our generation has changed.</p>
<p>House on Mango Street</p>
<p>Definitely Catcher in the Rye.</p>
<p>The old man and the sea</p>
<p>i’m surprised nobody said the canterbury tales…but actually i really liked it. it rhymes, at least</p>
<p>For me, the worst were Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck is depressing) and Romeo and Juliet (I have nothing against Shakespeare, but I feel he has far better, less overrated work). I also was not a very big fan of Huckleberry Finn, but I was able to tolerate it.</p>
<p>I also despised every single story in my ninth grade Honors English textbook. It was called Multicultural Perspectives, and excelled at dullness.</p>
<p>The best I’ve read in high school are probably The Omnivore’s Dilemna (dry prose, but it has really made me think since reading it), Death of a Salesman, The Great Gatsby, and Macbeth (see, nothing against Shakespeare).</p>