<p>Ethan Frome and Frankenstein. Hands down the most boring books I’ve ever had to read in high school. I enjoyed Beowulf more than those books. Now that’s saying something.</p>
<p>I HATED Light in August. It was painfully longwinded and boring. </p>
<p>I actually really liked Heart of Darkness though.</p>
<p>A Passage to India.</p>
<p>More than slightly-borderline racist and discussed poorly.
Our teacher sparknoted it more than we did.</p>
<p>^^^ I liked Ethan Frome </p>
<p>Didn’t like Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Maybe it was too deep for me</p>
<p>Henderson the Rain King
Their Eyes Were Watching God
A Doll’s House
Sound of Waves</p>
<p>Actually, come to think of it, the only high school assigned book I’ve ever enjoyed was Brave New World…</p>
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<p>I’m pretty sure the point of A Passage to India is that racism is bad</p>
<p>^^ A Portrait of the Artist (in tandem with Paradise Lost) pretty much showed me why I valued education. The 5th Part of it is amazing</p>
<p>Siddhartha
Their Eyes Were Watching God</p>
<p>Bleghhhhh. To be fair, though, I didn’t even read all of Their Eyes. I didn’t hear my teacher assign chapters 7-12 one day and I never bothered to catch up. Maybe I would’ve liked it more had I read those, but I seriously doubt it.</p>
<p>Slaughterhouse-5
The Sun Also Rises
Huck Finn
Secret Garden (…9th grade should NOT read this. We laughed when our teacher said we were going to read this.)
Hitchhiker’s Guide</p>
<p>A Separate Piece (Peace?) was funny. Gene (or was it Phineas?) was definitely gay. We used to argue whether or not the guy meant to push him off the tree.
Scarlet Letter was decent.</p>
<p>Beowulf and Frankenstein sucked…</p>
<p>Haven’t read many good books in high school.</p>
<p>Someone on page 4 said that they hated 1984 because they just don’t like old literature. I hope they realize that Orwell wrote it in 148, so it’s not that old. Sounds like an excuse.</p>
<p>But to answer the question, out of everything that I read for school, I disliked Of Mice and Men. There are several short stories by Flannery O’Connor that I despised.</p>
<p>yah getacar, I can’t say I don’t like all literature, because I do enjoy some of it (like ee Cummings and stuff like that) but mostly old stuff sucks, IMO. and whatever “148” is (1948?), that’s old enough for me. I’m a modern guy</p>
<p>I really disliked A Hero of our Time by Lermontov. I also didn’t like Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, but it didn’t feel wrongwrongwrong like Hero did. Although to be fair I already have a minor dislike of the way Russian reads when translated into English, and that probably exacerbated everything else wrong with the book.</p>
<p>The Great Gatsby…kill me now.
Their Eyes were watching God… torture me… then kill me.</p>
<p>Huh. I liked both Gatsby and Eyes. They weren’t mindblowing or reread material, but they were solid. I can see why you would dislike them though. The style of Gatsby can be grating if you don’t like it, and Eyes’ dialogue can be hard to comprehend. Also, random rabies, what.</p>
<p>I don’t see why everyone finds Gatsby and Catcher in the Rye to be so amazing, but I certainly liked them far better than all the Shakespeare we read and The Scarlet Letter. Scarlet Letter was torture. Anybody read Call of the Wild. Hated that book. I’m not a big classics fan…</p>
<p>The Count of Monte Cristo so far, but I haven’t started my sophomore year’s bout of Shakespeare, so it will probably change soon.</p>
<p>The House on Mango Street; holy hell was that book unbearable, especially since my teacher thought it was comparable to the Bible. She also showed us a video of the author discussing the story and, damn, that woman’s voice sounded like a rogue squeaky toy.</p>
<p>Just finished Wuthering Heights today. AWFUL!
However, I did hate Scarlet Letter even more.</p>
<p>I saw on the second page that someone listed A Separate Peace. That is my favorite book I’ve read in high school. I received the highest grade my Honors English 09 teacher (and principal) ever gave for my literary analysis of it haha. I can’t find anything wrong with that book.</p>
<p>But enough of that.
Othello is surprisingly good even though I generally dislike Shakespeare.</p>
<p>Ethan Frome was unbearable.</p>
<p>The Secret Life of Bees was beyond the worst thing I’ve ever read. It should be burned, every copy.</p>
<p>Pride and Prejudice. Terrible. I then had to write an 8 page paper glorifying her life and works (that is, Jane Austen). Awful.</p>
<p>NOTHING, absolutely nothing, was worse than The Scarlett Letter.</p>
<p>Narrative by Frederick Douglas wasn’t bad its historical but I’d have to say that THE GIVER! Was a book I absolutely never finished</p>