<p>A Thousand Splendid Suns. It’s a fascinating book, and the societal issues that it discusses are fascinating, but it’s the saddest book I’ve ever read. I wouldn’t have finished it if it wasn’t required. </p>
<p>Moby Dick</p>
<p>"The Rainbow Fish " by Marcus Pfister. </p>
<p>Should be renamed “The Socialist Fish”, or “The Lowest Common Denominator Fish”</p>
<p>I kind of liked Moby Dick, but it’s probably because I had a teacher that LOVED it. She even went to 24 hour read throughs of it on the East Coast for other Moby Dick lovers. Lol.</p>
<p>Anything by Ayn Rand. What do you get when you cross abysmal, bland prose, plot that’s contrived solely to bolster an ideology, and all the long-winded conversations your republican relatives have had about politics? Bingo. </p>
<p>That, and all the generic YA fiction I read in 6th grade. Nothing interesting going on there. </p>
<p>Silas Marner 
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<p>Grapes of Wrath easily… I didn’t mind Lord Of The Flies </p>
<p>I hated Lord of The Flies. Shew.</p>
<p>I second anything we have read by Ayn Rand. Anthem was particularly atrocious (even my English teacher agreed). </p>
<p>Besides that, Nectar in a Sieve and The Scarlet Letter were both brutal. I see the artistic merit in TSL, but I was only a sophomore when I read it and it was so complicated and dense to me at the time. </p>
<p>Fahrenheit 451 was probably the only one I couldn’t even force myself to read. I can usually trudge through a book that I dislike, but Fahrenheit 451 was awful. I hated the way it was written and the way everything was done. It definitely had an interesting premise but the execution was terrible, in my opinion. </p>
<p>The Things They Carried, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies and The Book Thief — I hated all four</p>
<p>Snow flower and the Secret fan. Worst. Book. Ever. </p>
<p>Lmao I’ve read some pretty boring sparknotes over the years!</p>
<p>I read 1984 last year, and that is probably the worst book I have ever read. I had to read Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass over the summer, which wasn’t terrible. But, I had to annotate it in detail, which was really painful. So I would nominate that for the worst book I have ever had to annotate. </p>
<p>I’ll add Ethan Frome 
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<p>Grendel</p>
<p>By far the worst book I’ve read is The Catcher in The Rye, very annoying, pretentious, and a terribly unlikable character.</p>
<p>Clearly people have different preferences; Catcher in the Rye is one of my favorites.</p>
<p>The Odyssey by Homer. Greek and Roman lit weren’t all bad, like Antigone, but the Odyssey dragged.
Oh and Beowulf. Couldn’t concentrate at all.</p>
<p>Great Expectations was… er… interesting. It dragged on a bit, to be honest. I prefer Dickens’ other books. I didn’t particularly like Romeo and Juliet, either–it was too cheesy and just generally not realistic (although I suppose Shakespeare never tries to be realistic… but I really do prefer Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing).</p>
<p>Lord of the Flies was okay. I didn’t particularly like it, but it wasn’t a bad book, either. But I loved To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s probably one of my favorite novels. </p>
<p>Honestly, I like most of the stuff I’ve read for school. </p>