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 ]

[Talon StarDrifter]

I actually liked To Kill a Mockingbird. The movie, too.

As for the ones I ******** hated... Invisible Man. I could not bring myself to read that. I ended up SparkNotes-ing that s**t. And Great Expectations. Holy s**t that was boring. Aaaaand Impressions of the Artist as a Young Man. Holy ********, worst reading ever. I didn't even read it past the first two chapters.

[i stalk mime]

Besides The Great Gatsby, ive pretty much hated any required readings from school.

Everything else....I try and completely block out. Of mice and men. The grapes of wrath. To kill a mockingbird. Romeo and Juliet. Moby d**k. The Odyssey. Frankenstein. Hated all of them. Half of these we never even got completely through before we just watched the movie.

I'm literally the only one in my class who enjoyed Gatsby. But I loved the characters and just everything. Gah. I'm gushing///

[Anjoulie]

Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies and even Heart of Darkness were minor annoyances of mine compared to Wuthering Heights.

I wasn't even made to read that unlike the other three.
My lasting impression of it: everyone was miserable, treating everybody else terribly mean and I couldn't understand the attraction of anybody towards anyone.

[this rainbow lover]

I hated Huckleberry Finn. It was so useless and boring. I couldn't understand a lot of the words, because we read it freshman year.

[this rainbow lover]

Jalakins

I hated Frankenstein. It was absolutely a bore. Hated it. So awful. Great Expectations by Dickens was horrible too. I don't remember ever finishing it.

I actually enjoyed the Great Gatsby and 1984. I found both of them interesting. They were a bit boring to read for school, but after I finished them, I like them. I liked To Kill a Mockingbird as well. Good read. Never saw the film though.

Frankenstein was a horrible book. It was full of s**t.

[GirlPuck]

Catcher in the Rye was the only classic book we read in school that I absolutely hated. To me it just seemed that there was no plot, no character development... no story. Everything about it irked me, and it certainly made me understand why so many people dislike books taught in schools; you just can't put it away and forget it.

Netogrof

John Steinbeck. I read Of Mice and Men and The Pearl. Hated both. Of Mice and Men I actually shudder every time I remember it.

About a year ago I read The Grapes of Wrath. I knew nothing about the book other than recognizing it as a classic. It was horrible. The story itself was alright, but the way the dialogue was written [as spoken], I just could not stand. Honestly, by the end of it I was kicking myself every time I saw family written as 'fambly'. The book alternates between chapters about the main family, and occasional chapters describing the general conditions and lifestyle changes during the Depression. Those chapters were good, I liked the style... but the particular family in the rest of the chapters... my lord it was awful. I only finished it because I can't leave a book half-read.

[calledmalice78]

I like a lot of the 'classic' books I've read, but I can't stand Gone With The Wind. At all.
It's definitely not my kind of book.

[Queen of Riddles]

Well I'm in the Netherlands so besides Shakespear(which I have read in old English on my own for fun.) I can't really relate. But the one book I have read which was on my highschool reading list is Een hart van Steen(Or a Heart of Stone if you want the title translated.) Most ******** depressing book I've had the pleasure of sitting trough ever.

Here's the storyline for you.: A woman is pregnant and returns to the house she grew up in, she almost has had a misscarriage and thus has to keep rest. That is now, But she is the only surviving familymember. Basicly she used to be part of a household of 6 people. Mom gets pregnant of the fifth child, gives birth to the baby, which is a very sickly girl. Mom thinks it has something to do with the devil(Actually she's suffering from what we nowadays know as a post natale depression.) Goes crazy, abuses the baby and only the main character notices. And then one day decides to kill the baby, and swap everyone's vitaminepills with valium and sleep[ing pills, every one takes these, except the main character because she happens to have been walking the dog. Looking trough the family album in current times she tries to figure out how to deal with the questions about family her unborn child will have. At the same time she hallucinates about all her dead familymembers.

[Bibbidi Bobbidi Boop]

Despite how awesome Lord of the Flies is said to be-
I cannot bring myself to like it, to me it's just a documentation (for lack of a better word) of human existence at it's lowest and frankly, most barbaric.
It includes way to many aspects of human tendencies that I do not tolerate.

[IggyxNoir]

Yep. The Great Gatsby, Moby d**k, and- I'm not really sure if this counts as a classic, but if not, I hate it anyway- The Giver. They all suck terribly, but that'e just my opinion.

[Emerald_Twilight5]

Purple_On_The_Brain

Well this year we had to read Mansfield Park and I just haven't been able to bring myself to do it. For the first semester we had to read the Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser and that is the most difficult thing I have ever read (Or attempted to...). It's just so difficult to decipher what is actually going on.

If you want a good classic to read I would recommend Tom Jones by Henry Fielding. Some people didn't like it and it is a very, very long novel, but it's quite funny and ironic. biggrin

Mansfield Park happens to be my third favorite of Austen's novels. =/ Maybe I could somewhat relate to Fanny in terms of personality than most people...?

[Purple_On_The_Brain]

Well this year we had to read Mansfield Park and I just haven't been able to bring myself to do it. For the first semester we had to read the Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser and that is the most difficult thing I have ever read (Or attempted to...). It's just so difficult to decipher what is actually going on.

If you want a good classic to read I would recommend Tom Jones by Henry Fielding. Some people didn't like it and it is a very, very long novel, but it's quite funny and ironic. biggrin

[Jalakins]

I hated Frankenstein. It was absolutely a bore. Hated it. So awful. Great Expectations by Dickens was horrible too. I don't remember ever finishing it.

I actually enjoyed the Great Gatsby and 1984. I found both of them interesting. They were a bit boring to read for school, but after I finished them, I like them. I liked To Kill a Mockingbird as well. Good read. Never saw the film though.

[Netogrof]

To Kill A Mockingbird - If a book takes 200 pages to get interesting...well. Not worth my time.

John Steinbeck. I read Of Mice and Men and The Pearl. Hated both. Of Mice and Men I actually shudder every time I remember it.

Death of A Salesman - so boring...the whole time I wished for the Salesman to kill himself and succeed.

[Yilullo]

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. The book itself isn't that bad, but the way my English teacher dragged out reading it over two months killed any possible chance of anyone actually enjoying it.