<p>The Scarlet Letter. </p>
<p>It’s torture. Paragraphs of complete what-the-heck? I fell asleep like 2 times already and I’m only 5 pages in.</p>
<p>Going through this list… I remember my teacher saying: “If you think Othello is just boring, then I think it’s you… not Shakespeare”</p>
<p>I can’t believe I haven’t seen Hedda Gabler on this list. Ugh. It’s the most boring book ever. And the protagonist is worse than some villains I’ve encountered. Most things by James Joyce can get pretty boring too- I know that is the point of his works, to portray Ireland as a dry, dull place, but it really gets annoying.</p>
<p>Othello, however, was a really good read. Iago is one of the darkest, most insane villians out there- and a very cunning one at that. Desdomona does have a lack of depth for being the main female, but the story and the message it sends make up for it. It really shows the depths of human jealousy and hate, and the madness that results from them.</p>
<p>I really disliked Huck Finn…
Mark Twain…gah</p>
<p>I loved slaughterhouse five! </p>
<p>I hated candide, the metamorphosis, and lord of the flies. </p>
<p>This summer I have to read the scarlet letter (the consensus agrees it sucks, so I’m not too optimistic) and rhe grapes of wrath and the crucible - how are those?</p>
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<p>Something from 500 years ago is unoriginal because it seems common now? Your logic fails. If a Shakespearean character seems unoriginal, it’s probably because he invented it or made it popular and it was copied in other works (all literature, after all, is plagiarizing)</p>
<p>I loved the crucible… But that may have been because I had an awesome class and my AP teacher for English is the best teacher in the school!</p>
<p>And Then There Were None.</p>
<p>Really, Flapjackz? I liked that…</p>
<p>A Separate Peace. Read it in 7th grade but think it should still count for this list because it was terrible.</p>
<p>Also Wild Fang, awful.</p>
<p>I enjoyed The Crucible when I re-read it on my own time, but in AP Lang we were reading one of those really long chapters EVERY 2 days, and it was insane and I wanted to burn the book.</p>
<p>Also, I forgot to mention Lord of the Flies. I might have erased it from my consciousness, because it was THAT terrible. And I didn’t think Heart of Darkness was a bad story, it was just incomprehensible and irritatingly detailed. </p>
<p>And after reading All the Pretty Horses I’m pretty sure McCarthy was like “I’m going to model my writing after Joseph Conrad’s, but my book will also be 300 pages long!” Add in random bouts of Spanish words and very little conversation to break up walls of text, and you have a tailor-made high school student’s nightmare.</p>
<p>Why has nobody mentioned Great Expectations? It was 35 chapters of NOTHING. Pip is the most boring main character in the history of literature and Estella is just a plain *****. I was disappointed with Dickens, especially since A Tale of Two Cities is actually really good.</p>
<p>Wow, I meant The Scarlet Letter, not The Crucible. God I was tired when I wrote that.</p>
<p>Great Expectations was bad. </p>
<p>Lord of the Flies was really good haha I loved that book.</p>
<p>The Grapes of Wrath might not be the WORST book I’ve ever read, but it’s definitely the most boring. It’s like 700 pages of nothing. Unbearable. I had to give a 20 minute presentation on it as a freshman; I read about 200 pages, sparknoted the rest, and got an A- haha.</p>
<p>It’s all up to opinion, I think Iago and Othello are great characters, but I don’t know how I’d convince you of that. And I just wasn’t understanding your logic in the other point.</p>
<p>Maybe you’d like it more if you saw it, reading plays is never fun.</p>
<p>I actually liked Great Expectations somewhat…</p>
<p>Im only in middle school but I hated the outsiders because I had already read it :P</p>
<p>Great Expectations (though this was in 8th grade, but it was an English 1 class) and Like Water for Chocolate.</p>
<p>Anthem or Who Moved My Cheese?. Both were extremely bad.</p>
<p>^really? I loved Who Moved My Cheese. I wish we had to read that for school. it was pretty easy to get through</p>
<p>Anybody else hate Oliver Twist? </p>
<p>I found all the characters to be flat or static, except maybe Nancy.
I would also call it pretty predictable if it wasn’t for the fact that Dickens used a remarkable series of unlikely coincidences to develop the plot. </p>
<p>Also the writing style is terribly verbose. I read it was such because Dickens was being paid by the word to write the novel as a series in a regular publication. </p>
<p>It didn’t even feel like something with literary merit. It’ll be a stretch to label it as pulp fiction, but it just doesn’t feel as well executed as any of the other novels I’ve read, even others I hated.</p>