Classic books you HATE

Best required reading?

The Catcher in the Rye	8.1%	[ 22 ]
Shakespeare!!!	17.6%	[ 48 ]
The Great Gatsby	6.2%	[ 17 ]
To Kill a Mockingbird	11.0%	[ 30 ]
1984/Animal Farm	11.8%	[ 32 ]
Lord of the Flies	9.2%	[ 25 ]
Of Mice and Men	7.4%	[ 20 ]
Other	25.0%	[ 68 ]
I love lamp	3.7%	[ 10 ]
Total Votes:			[ 272 ]

[BlueIris18]

I don't particularly a few classics, but the one that always jumps to the front of my mind first, the one I really can't stand, is The Scarlet Letter. I want to kill that pointless, depressing book and every character in it.

[Fizzlesticks]

Dracula. Goodness me, it was boring.

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have you ever read metamorphosis by franz kafka. i did not like it.. scream .. i bought my own copy thinking it was good. but not so much...



"You smell good, too,” said Patch

"It’s called a shower.” I was staring straight ahead. When he didn’t answer, I turned sideways. “Soap. Shampoo. Hot water.”

"Naked. I know the drill."
— Becca Fitzpatrick (Hush, Hush)

[Javier Cross]

BlueIris18

I don't particularly a few classics, but the one that always jumps to the front of my mind first, the one I really can't stand, is The Scarlet Letter. I want to kill that pointless, depressing book and every character in it.

There is no point in having a lot of depressing incidents without good reason, this much can be agreed on.
Did the Scarlet Letter have good reasoning behind such depressions, if this is true?(I'm not branding you a liar, i need to be sure, that's all!)

[luisag]

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have you ever read metamorphosis by franz kafka. i did not like it.. scream .. i bought my own copy thinking it was good. but not so much...



"You smell good, too,” said Patch

"It’s called a shower.” I was staring straight ahead. When he didn’t answer, I turned sideways. “Soap. Shampoo. Hot water.”

"Naked. I know the drill."
— Becca Fitzpatrick (Hush, Hush)

oh my gosh! ive read that book. horrible. i just wanted to step on that cocroach

[QueenShebaVIII]

I love Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby for the record. xP Of Mice and Men wasn't bad.
1984 by George Orwell I did hate.
I haven't read enough Shakespeare to say I hate all Shakespeare's work. But I don't like Romeo and Juliet at all.
I also hated Frankenstein. :/

[TwilightsTea]

QueenShebaVIII

I love Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby for the record. xP Of Mice and Men wasn't bad.
1984 by George Orwell I did hate.
I haven't read enough Shakespeare to say I hate all Shakespeare's work. But I don't like Romeo and Juliet at all.
I also hated Frankenstein. :/

Omgg I love Catcher in the Rye...almost everyone I've met hates it though. What a shame.
Nooo don't give up on Shakespeare! I've never read Romeo and Juliet but Hamlet is definitely one of his best tragedies.

[BlueIris18]

Javier Cross

BlueIris18

I don't particularly a few classics, but the one that always jumps to the front of my mind first, the one I really can't stand, is The Scarlet Letter. I want to kill that pointless, depressing book and every character in it.

There is no point in having a lot of depressing incidents without good reason, this much can be agreed on.
Did the Scarlet Letter have good reasoning behind such depressions, if this is true?(I'm not branding you a liar, i need to be sure, that's all!)

Well, the fact that it was so relentlessly depressing was only part of it. Mostly, I just couldn't like a single character. I hated everybody. And if I can't like a single character, I can't get into the book. I have to have somebody to root for, you know?

@QueenShebaVIII: I couldn't get into Shakespeare either, until we started watching the movies of his plays right after we finished reading them in English class. Stuff that was utterly boring and incomprehensible on the page suddenly made total sense and became interesting once I saw it acted out in front of me. They're much better that way. Of course, the values dissonance can make me mad sometimes, but they're still entertaining stories.

[Javier Cross]

BlueIris18

Javier Cross

BlueIris18

I don't particularly a few classics, but the one that always jumps to the front of my mind first, the one I really can't stand, is The Scarlet Letter. I want to kill that pointless, depressing book and every character in it.

There is no point in having a lot of depressing incidents without good reason, this much can be agreed on.
Did the Scarlet Letter have good reasoning behind such depressions, if this is true?(I'm not branding you a liar, i need to be sure, that's all!)

Well, the fact that it was so relentlessly depressing was only part of it. Mostly, I just couldn't like a single character. I hated everybody. And if I can't like a single character, I can't get into the book. I have to have somebody to root for, you know?

@QueenShebaVIII: I couldn't get into Shakespeare either, until we started watching the movies of his plays right after we finished reading them in English class. Stuff that was utterly boring and incomprehensible on the page suddenly made total sense and became interesting once I saw it acted out in front of me. They're much better that way. Of course, the values dissonance can make me mad sometimes, but they're still entertaining stories.

Good thing that The Aeneid and MockingJay by the likes of the late Vergil and the still-breathing Suzanne Collins have at least that much going for them, right?
Although with either, i'll just settle for the fact that the major crisis in both are gone(plus with the former, there's proof its possible for a half-mortal Aphrodite kid to be epic in the front-lines!)

[NightfallDuet]

I'm sorry but Frankenstein is the most boring Classic I have ever had the pleasure in reading. I had to read it during my Junior year of HS and I couldn't finish it. My god, it was dreadfully boring. Gah!!!!!

[Ice_Fire_Princess]

I hated Gulliver's Travels with a passion when I had to read it senior year. A bad case of Senior-itis and Strep probably didn't help any though.

[FactOfFiction]

The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. It's listed as one of the top 100 Classical Books Collection, but, UGH.

[Mneme6020]

I really dislike Wuthering Heights. The main characters, y'know, the couple we're supposed to be rooting for, are completely miserable people. What's more, all they ever do is make the other characters miserable. I couldn't get through the thing without wanting to stab the hero and heroine every ten pages!

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luisag

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have you ever read metamorphosis by franz kafka. i did not like it.. scream .. i bought my own copy thinking it was good. but not so much...



"You smell good, too,” said Patch

"It’s called a shower.” I was staring straight ahead. When he didn’t answer, I turned sideways. “Soap. Shampoo. Hot water.”

"Naked. I know the drill."
— Becca Fitzpatrick (Hush, Hush)

oh my gosh! ive read that book. horrible. i just wanted to step on that cocroach

finally someone agrees with me smile