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Brave New World was so hated by my class that my teacher gave in and had us read a different book just after the first few chapters. I really like 1984 but BNW was just so boring to read. Same thing with Great Gatsby, like I can read the summary and understand why it's a good book, but the writing style was just so boring that I couldn't get into it.
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They made me read Atlas shrugged. I hated every second of it. This came after the Bell jar so I already wanted to kill myself.
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Jan 31, 2016 08:56
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I really hated A Farewell to Arms but I can't remember why.
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Jan 31, 2016 08:58
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Space Jam posted:wuthering heights the most boring piece of crap ever in high school
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Jan 31, 2016 09:00
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i really enjoyed to kill a mockingbird and lord of the flies though
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Jan 31, 2016 09:01
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Hot Karl Marx posted:i really enjoyed to kill a mockingbird and lord of the flies though
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Jan 31, 2016 09:04
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Sorry George Bernard Shaw, but I did not care for Arms and the Man.
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Jan 31, 2016 09:04
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...poo poo i feel really weird for barely knowing any of these books. like i'm actually struggling to think of novels i had to read, most class reading was in those big old textbooks which actually tended to be pretty cool, all the stuff by ray bradbury and the monkey's paw and the most dangerous game were great. the only like, novels i remember reading were...catcher in the rye which i was okay with, 1984 which i could get into, and like...a mile in their moccasins or something, which I barely remember but it was probably stupid and bad. i was supposed to have read machiavelli's the prince but i didn't. i feel like i missed out because i'm pretty sure a class one year actually had the Watchmen as their class reading, i remember seeing a big shelf full of copies but it was probably for a year after i left that school e: oh right, to kill a mockingbird was one too. yeah i'll probably just go ahead and say catcher in the rye was the worst of the lot mostly because it didn't do much special and its title was dumb and not really relevant to anything.
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Jan 31, 2016 09:05
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the giver was also a good introduction into real novels in junior high
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Jan 31, 2016 09:05
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here is what happens in "Beloved" by Toni Morrison -a guy fists a cow -fuckall else
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Jan 31, 2016 09:08
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...jesus christ a lot of these books sound super hosed up
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Jan 31, 2016 09:11
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i read this in college so it doesn't count for this thread, but there was this book about a young chicana woman growing up in Chicago named Esperanza, and every other woman in the book either gets unexpectedly pregnant or constantly beaten up by her boyfriend. i don't remember the name of the book but it was a depressing slog (obviously), plus i read the version in Spanish
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Jan 31, 2016 09:13
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Gyra_Solune posted:...jesus christ a lot of these books sound super hosed up i suppose drawing a picture of a man fisting a cow is more difficult than writing a few paragraphs about it.
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Jan 31, 2016 09:14
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Y-Hat posted:i read this in college so it doesn't count for this thread, but there was this book about a young chicana woman growing up in Chicago named Esperanza, and every other woman in the book either gets unexpectedly pregnant or constantly beaten up by her boyfriend. i don't remember the name of the book but it was a depressing slog (obviously), plus i read the version in Spanish "A series of vignettes narrated in the first person present tense" the way i see it, maybe the book would be better received as a student if you do an overview/summary first and then dive into the rest of the material to get the true texture of it. being simply immersed into a book can feel like you're drinking an ocean
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Jan 31, 2016 09:16
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Y-Hat posted:here is what happens in "Beloved" by Toni Morrison
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Jan 31, 2016 09:17
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A Streetcar Named Desire sucked
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Jan 31, 2016 09:18
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Sestze posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_on_Mango_Street thanks for the assist
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Jan 31, 2016 09:18
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Hector Beerlioz posted:A Streetcar Named Desire sucked stella
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Hector Beerlioz posted:A Streetcar Named Desire sucked STEEEEELLLLLLLAAAAAA
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Go Ask Alice
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Jan 31, 2016 09:43
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One thing i found sort of interesting were the stories in our books we didn't get assigned to read. We had to read The Breathing Method, Shawshank and The Body from Different Seasons, but we didn't read the other one. My guess is because we were a public school and Apt. Pupil was probably about some kid getting home-schooled or something...
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Jan 31, 2016 10:11
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Wuthering Heights was hateful, boring garbage.
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Jan 31, 2016 10:24
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Hirethor posted:Wuthering Heights was hateful, boring garbage. My biggest gripe is that the plot depends on characters missing the opportunity to talk to each other and that is some lazy as poo poo plot. Granted, maybe it was the first book to excrete that steaming turd but a rose by any other name still smells like cow pie. Edit: Oh Heathcliff! Oh gently caress you, get railed. Helical Nightmares fucked around with this message at 10:33 on Jan 31, 2016 |
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Jan 31, 2016 10:29
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Shakespeare, The Pearl, The Great Gatsby, I can't recall the others. On the other hand I read some other commonly school-assigned books on my own time (100 Years of Solitude, Brave New World, Don Quixote) and enjoyed them - I guess I just hated being expected to pore over every. little. minute. detail. of the assigned stuff. I'm surprised some people like 1984 more, to me Brave New World painted a more vivid and interesting dystopian future. All I really remember about 1984 was the dude like, fuckin some chick? And vague descriptions of big brother television screens? Maybe I should revisit it.
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Jan 31, 2016 10:47
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Only Australian goons will know the pain of having to read at least one Tim Winton novel for every year of school. Local hack somehow owns the entire curriculum, so now your English Literature class skips over the classics in favour of Cloud Street, the lovely supermarket tier 'strayan-ified knock-off of 100 years of solitude. Year before that, lets check out Tim Winton's first novel that he wrote in college and which wasn't well received or read by anyone until it was added to the education department's list of recommended books. And for your earlier year levels, good thing he has a series of children's novels to undo whatever gains harry potter made in getting kids to enjoy reading. Motherfucker is using the department of education to run a very profitable racket, to the detriment of australian literacy standards.
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Jan 31, 2016 11:16
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1984 is much more easy to imagine, basically. Brave New World touches on futuristic themes with frightening prescience but does it through the lens of early 20th century pulp. Brilliant ideas, stupid names and embarrassing plot details.
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Jan 31, 2016 11:18
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Murphy Brownback posted:I really hated A Farewell to Arms but I can't remember why. I have quite a few books like this, where I remember hating them but nothing else. I distinctly remember being really angry at something called The Great Gilly Hopkins back in elementary school, but I remember nothing else about it besides that the main character's name was short for "Galadriel." Thanks for being really good at holding a grudge against some probably-unobjectionable kid lit, 12-year-old self!
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Jan 31, 2016 11:23
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Book 10 of the wheel of time crossroads of twilight.
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Jan 31, 2016 11:24
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middlemarch, loving kill me
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walden. what a turd. henry david thoreau was probably the biggest bitch irl and sounded completely insufferable
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field balm posted:middlemarch, loving kill me Yeah, that one was really boring
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Catch 22. Just horrible. You can't try to be all serious after half the book is about a funny little merchant named Milo who sells cotton candy and other food.
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Jan 31, 2016 13:26
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prob one about geography or something
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romeo and juliet was boring but not really to a scorn-worthy level like wuthering heights macbeth was actually kind of rad though
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The Awakening by Kate Chopin. Synopsis: uuuuuuuugggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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oh man i totally forgot about this other book, i think it was called "the power of one" or some poo poo. it was about a white kid growing up in south africa and i remember like every other page was talking about either little white dicks or big black dicks. it was really weird and i remember everyone in the class thinking it was awful. i think some of the only high school books i remember liking were all quiet on the western front and the things they carried.
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the great deceiver posted:oh man i totally forgot about this other book, i think it was called "the power of one" or some poo poo. it was about a white kid growing up in south africa and i remember like every other page was talking about either little white dicks or big black dicks. it was really weird and i remember everyone in the class thinking it was awful. We had to read this; I actually still have the highlighted book on my bookshelf. I remember it being good, no recollection of dick talk though.
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Space Jam posted:wuthering heights
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Jan 31, 2016 14:32
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I remember in 4th grade they made us read Sarah plain and tall. And I immideatly decided no loving way am I gonna read this snooze fest. Jokes on me because that basically describes half of my girlfriends as an adult.
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real talk though i never read a single assigned book in high school. teachers didnt know about sparknotes.com and other internet crib notes sources yet it was the poo poo. i went back and read some of the actually good and important novels later in life though so they kind of accomplished their goal. we did have to annotate books for this one class which was a pain in the rear end but easy enough to fake
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