<p>Both Who Moved My Cheese and Anthem were too preachy for me.</p>
<p>I’m in the middle of Great Expectations at the moment, was getting through it really well until I watched it (the new version has Douglas Booth in!). Now I know what’s going to happen, I’m not interested enough to read it as it is really slow</p>
<p>Anyone who was bored out of their skulls by Romeo and Juliet needs to watch the 1996 “William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet”. The one with Leonardo di caprio. </p>
<p>I, at any rate, became interested. Although it may have been because of the leading male actor 
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<p>^ Watched it, still hated it. That rendition was especially cheesy. But I’m a heterosexual male, so I’m not swayed by Leo like you are. ;)</p>
<p>^It had Claire Danes!</p>
<p>Honestly though I thought that movie was awful.</p>
<p>Heart of darkness</p>
<p>Really? Oh, well. I didn’t particularly dislike the play itself, so maybe that’s another factor for why I enjoyed the movie. That and the whole young-Leo thing. </p>
<p>Another one I just remembered: the house on mango street. Short, but awful.</p>
<p>The Old Man and the Sea. -___- Took me a whole month to read even though it was only like 100 pages.</p>
<p>Anthem was probably the worst, but I also despised this book called Whirligig. I read it freshman year, but it would have been easy for my 10 year old sister to read. I also disliked Things Fall Apart, Fahrenheit 451, and Romeo and Juliet.</p>
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<p>@Aguiljos, I attempted to read that for academic decathlon. I generally can’t stand Joseph Conrad. His stories are just too slow for my taste.</p>
<p>Bless Me, Ultima was Godawful. Half the book is in Spanish, there’s a never a real sense of plot direction, the ending is so unsatisfying to the rest of the book’s material, and the characters are rather unrealistic, somewhat flat perhaps.</p>
<p>“A place Where the Sea Remembers”</p>
<p><em>shudders</em></p>
<p>I really just wanted to comment because I was surprised by how many people didn’t like The Catcher in the Rye!!! I loved it! I know you’ve probably heard this before, but if you didn’t like it you probably didn’t understand it.</p>
<p>Probably The Scarlet Letter, but the movie for Beloved is worse.</p>
<p>I can’t see why 1984 and The Old Man and the Sea are on here. Two of my favorites.</p>
<p>For me, Heart of Darkness was the toughest assigned book to get through.</p>
<p>@andover I understood (or at least I think I did) what it was trying to say, but I don’t like books with protagonists so… bleak? I didn’t like the perspective it had on life. I know Holden sort of changes by the end, but it didn’t seem horribly significant to me. the change didn’t seem so great.</p>
<p>Ugh, 1984 and the Old Man are not bad at all compared to a Jared Diamond book I had to read for AP World last summer. The book is called “Guns, Germs, and Steel”, and while is does have good anaylsis of history (specfically the establishment of the first civilizations), it’s boring becuase it feels like Diamond is repeating himself, especially on NOT the intresting material but devoting whole chapter to plants… has anyone else had to read this book?</p>
<p>@stressedouttt You make a better point than most, because I can understand that you just don’t like somewhat depressing books. I liked it a lot because I really identified with Holden, especially that feeling of absolute loneliness. It just bothers me when people don’t even try to like it, they just proclaim it to be a terrible book.</p>
<p>Lord of the flies and (especially) Sophie’s world make this list. Still working on Sophie’s World for AP Euro Summer HW. I hate it so mucchhhhhhhhhhhhhhh</p>
<p>The Scarlet Letter, hands down! It was way too slow and overly descriptive.</p>