<p>The Scarlett f-ing Letter.</p>
<p>I’ve only went through the first page, and I see … </p>
<p>[ul]
[<em>]Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
[</em>]Macbeth, Shakespeare
[li]Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>My mouth fell open when I saw a poster mention Tess.</p>
<p>My hand grabbed my heart when I saw a poster mention Macbeth.</p>
<p>I almost died of grief when I saw a poster mention Heart of Darkness.</p>
<p>:(.</p>
<p>Anything by dickens is ■■■■■■■■ and pretentious</p>
<p>Agree with Scarlet Letter. It took me a while to recover after reading such an unbelievably tedious book</p>
<p>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man… handsdown the most boring book ever!!!</p>
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<p>It’s funny, because I’m renowned in my class as the only person who actually LIKES assigned lit books. We read The Mouse that Roared in 8th grade and I really liked it (some parts were really funny but they were satire so nobody got it) and the whole class hated it. TKAM also is in my Top Ten Books Ever list. However, even I couldn’t stand
-Hiroshima: my queasiness when the severe injuries sustained by the Hiroshima residents are discussed, and the fact that there were two people who were named Sasaki and I read it with a 103-degree fever, and kept getting them mixed up. It wasn’t even assigned to me, but to my little sister as summer reading. She is GOING INTO NINTH GRADE. Definitely not grade level.
-Iggy’s House: admittedly I read this in 4th grade, but my whole grade hated it. I still don’t remember why, but it became the symbol of bad books in my grade.
-The Great Gatsby: haven’t done it in class yet, but it’s waaaay overrated. I had to force myself to keep reading (summer homework).
-The Mysterious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime: firstly because it miscited the title quote as being from Hound of the Baskervilles instead of Silver Blaze and I cannot forgive mangling of Sherlock Holmes. Also because if I had read it straight I might have liked it, but since my school is a private school run by a board and some of the board members (parents) were shocked that we’d be reading a book with actual CURSE WORDS in it that they made my teacher photocopy us pamphlets with EVERY SINGLE CURSE WORD WHITED OUT. No joke. It was torturous to read this book and especially since we KNEW exactly what word was supposed to be there, but it was confusing to read books with gigantic whited out passages.
Jane Eyre: I have this unreasonable pathological HATRED for this book. It might be because it was my first “romance” I ever read in a time when I HATED boys and was very anti-romance (think “cooties”) and I found it gross and boring. (I was also in 5th grade, incidentally.) Then, when I read it for school, I had a teacher who loved acting out parts of books with us and she decided to have us act out Jane’s marriage proposals. We’re a girls school. It was quite awkward for those girls who were eagerly awaiting a chance to do it and then kinda had a change of heart when they realized what they would have to act out… especially the girl who was Rochester…</p>
<p>Heart of Darkness.</p>
<p>I don’t like Joseph Conrad. Why, why, why. We used the book as a literal doorstop and told our teacher we hated it, and he just laughed at us.</p>
<p>I honestly didn’t understand anything after page 7. I felt like I was reading some book in Chinese or something.</p>
<p>^NO NO NO NO NO … </p>
<p>HoD has to be my favorite book ever. Conrad just has such an intimate grasp on human psychology. He knows how exactly to put what I feel on paper, with such brevity, and yet such clarity.</p>
<p>I admit though the book is dense and that my first attempt at reading it was exactly as successful as walking into a brick wall. But after that it was a breeze, and I actually ended up re-reading it several times.</p>
<p>Yeah, I think I need to revisit it.</p>
<p>My English teacher in 10th grade wasn’t the type that was conducive to English education. Now I actually like English class and read the books.</p>
<p>The Catcher in the Rye. All those swear words gave me… A headache. Hooray. I wrote a completely BS essay on it too.</p>
<p>Oh and I hate a bunch of all the other English books ha 
AP Lit = Done with lit classes for life. Then after that College Composition II and I’m done with English for life =D</p>
<p>Out Stealing Horses. </p>
<p>Such a dreadful book. </p>
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<p>The House on Mango Street -_-</p>
<p>Worst. Book. Ever.</p>
<p>Fifty Shades of Grey- choice of summer reading, no plot, sex scenes poorly written, just no.
Jane Eyre- too wordy, I dont care how green the grass is Ms. Eyre, shut up.
I agree with the house on Mango street
Night- its an interesting account, but I believe he was not a good writer
The Diary of Anne Frank- good god, she is awful, just freaking awful</p>
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<p>The Iliad and the Odyssey</p>
<p>Hannah–Our HS literature book had an “expurgated” version of Hamlet and our teacher made us go get a “real” copy to read. He couldn’t stand that Shakespeare was being altered to someone else’s sensibilities.</p>
<p>I did hate reading “The Great Gatsby” while in HS but after listening to it on audio I love it.</p>
<p>All Quiet on the Western Front and Catcher in the Rye</p>
<p>Oh and Things Fall Apart</p>
<p>True, TFA (Things Fall Apart) was also another terrible book, it made no sense to me what-so-ever.</p>
<p>Nectar in a Sieve. Legitimately, there was no reason this book should be on the curriculum for any educational system ever.</p>