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<li>Odyssey (mainly read it on sparknotes)
-Anything Shakespeare </li>
<li>Night (not boring, just depressing)
-Guns, Germs, and Steel</li>
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<p>My top 5;
The Crying of Lot 49
My Life and Hard Times
Oedipus Rex
As I Lay Dying
Salt; A World History</p>
<p>Obviously, all of these books lack an interesting subject, plot, or the style just makes it that horrific. And for this semester, I have to read Invisible Man so I’m hoping it’s good.</p>
<p>Side note; I’m surprised that someone hated A Seperate Peace because I loved it.</p>
<p>SharkSAT, I loved My Antonia. It made me feel really nostalgic.</p>
<p>chaosdog, The Catcher in the Rye SUCKED. Oh my god I wanted to die when I read that. I liked the main character, but it was just sooo boring.</p>
<p>crimsonivy, I just finished reading the Odyssey and I really enjoyed it. The first couple of chapters kinda suck, but the rest is really good, I think. Odysseus is such a cool guy.</p>
<p>I thought The Tempest was pretty bad. So was A Raisin in the Sun and To Kill a Mockingbird…</p>
<p>Actually, there WAS one book I hated–A Separate Peace. Most pointless book ever.</p>
<p>I think 1984 can S my D as well</p>
<p>^ 1984 is a brilliant book! If you are ten years old the first time you read it, it is far better than the thinly veiled “Animal Farm”…</p>
<p>I was never hot on either The Great Gatsby or Slaughterhouse 5. But the prize has to go to Atlas Shrugged… Which is an mediocre piece of philosophy and a TERRIBLE example of literature, and this is coming from a person who really liked The Fountainhead.</p>
<p>1) I loved Beowulf, and it was only a two-hour read if reading casually so it was quick too. Read it in one sitting.</p>
<p>2) I agree that Great Gatsby wasn’t great. At the end of the novel, I still felt as though nothing happened. Didn’t feel bad for any of the characters either.</p>
<p>3) I heard that Catcher in the Rye is either a book that you love, or a book that you hate. No middle. Haven’t read it yet, though.</p>
<p>4) 1984 was amazing. Animal Farm was good, but I agree that Orwell was a little too obvious in making his point. Took away from the book just a tad. At least it was a quick read.</p>
<p>5) For those who dislike Shakespeare, what have you read by him? I hated Romeo and Juliet, wasn’t a huge fan of Othello, but I absolutely loved Hamlet and Twelfth Night. I also like Macbeth and Much Ado About Nothing.</p>
<p>6) I just finished the first hundred pages of Wuthering Heights and it’s still awful. Catherine and Isabella are really whiny b****es, to censor myself.</p>
<p>Slaughterhouse-5 by Kurt Vonnegut
I couldn’t stand the way it was written with the setting changing every paragraph. I seriously felt Shakespeare is easier to understand.</p>
<p>Tie between The Iliad and The Scarlett Letter, I can’t believe I actually read both of them…(so boring)</p>
<p>OMG I loved Slaughterhouse Five! “So it goes.”</p>
<p>Ugh 1984 sucked. I really just hate old literature so I am pretty biased haha. I like modern books, like The Deceived and The Cleaner by Brett Battles. Also I love The Prince of Theives, which is the book that the movie The Town is based off (only about 999999x times better than the movie…)so yeah</p>
<p>Shakespeare alive: A book with no plot that just throws random facts at you while trying to “immerse” you in the story. I couldn’t even finish this one.</p>
<p>The Awakening: A really ungrateful woman cheats on her husband even though he loves her, she can’t work out the small problems in their relationship, and she has two great kids. So after cheating on her husband, what does she do? She abandons them and kills herself.</p>
<p>Animal Farm
The Old Man and the Sea
The Pearl</p>
<p>All three of these I read freshman year and it was rough. Absolutely terrible, and kind of funny since there are books by each of those authors that I like.</p>
<p>Some people mentioned Siddhartha and The Catcher in the Rye…those are 2 of my favorite for sure haha.</p>
<p>For me, it really depends on the class. When I first saw this board, I thought of a bunch of books from my sophomore year. That teacher pretty much spit symbolism and analysis at us without letting us figure it out for ourselves first. This year, my teacher has discussion based classes, and I’m enjoying the books a LOT more.</p>
<p>Wow… You guys hate all my favorites, in this order: the great gatsby (made me cry… at work…), the catcher in the rye (which inspired John Lennon’s murder, allegedly), and Siddhartha… </p>
<p>But I will agree that Tess of the whatevers sucked hardcore. As did Madame bovary. And anything by Charles dickens save a Christmas caroll.</p>
<p>I actually really enjoyed A Separate Peace, anyone who disliked that book should probably just change their mind</p>
<p>Wuthering Heights, bar none.</p>
<p>I can’t believe there is anyone out there who disliked Slaughterhouse-Five, and whoever said Heart of Darkness was racist clearly missed the point of the book. Although Conrad used the n-word to describe the Africans, that was more a problem of his time.</p>
<p>I liked a Separate Peace V_V</p>
<p>
hahahaha we read that this year. death.</p>
<p>We’re reading 1984 now, and I think it’s interesting. A lot of the books we’ve read are current: The things they carried, Into the Wild, and we will read the Kite Runner (already read). Etc and etc. It’s strange, because we usually read old books. Hmm</p>
<p>Probably The Bell Jar.</p>
<p>Pride and Prejudice, Oedipus</p>