Agreed, The Scarlet Letter was awful. I also hated Wuthering Heights .
Awful awful awful books.
Agreed, The Scarlet Letter was awful. I also hated Wuthering Heights .
Awful awful awful books.
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I despise Dubliners and The Hobbit.
<i>Dubliners</i> is awesome though!
Yeah, I liked Gatsby as well, and "people" who don't like The Hobbit deserve to be shot.
The Great Gatsby made a good film, I liked that.
Dear gosh I remember that book. IT was horrible.Originally Posted by devilmaykickass
OMG I jsut remembered one thats even worse than Sign of the Beaver...its called "Sarah, Plain and Tall". Yet another hellish book I was forced to read in school (6th grade I believe).
I also hated the Iliad and the Aenead. they blew hottibly.
You hated the Aeneid? That's the best book I've read in my entire life! I guess you kind of got to be a fan of Virgil and be into Greek Mythology to really enjoy it. I thought it was written wonderfully. Especially the way Virgil described the battles in Latium. He didn't just have nameless soldiers kill nameless soldiers. Every soldier that he had die in those fights had a name, and a story behind him. You could really feel for the enemies, mostly Camilla and Turnus.
Did they force you to read it? I can understand how someone might not like it if they were forced to read it for a class or something.
To hell with Battletoads and Double Dragon.
THIS is the ultimate team.
I really didn't like Lord Of The Flies.
I haven't read too many books but I did enjoy were The Hatchet, and there was the second one of The Hatchet which was good too... and I also liked the Myst books that were later created into a video game series I think.
"... and so I close, realizing that perhaps the ending has not yet been written."
That makes me sad. John Steinbeck is one of my most favorite authors.
Say whaaaat?
Oh, dear God, yes. I had to read it in a week, and then analyze the whole thing in a day.
And to think I read this voluntarily. Downright face-numbing dull.
/agree on all points. Great Gatsby is one of my favorite books of all time.I enjoyed:
The Great Gatsby - Come on, old sport, this was an entertaining battle between old money and new money. And Nick reminds me of myself, always the observer, never the participator. But I do think this shouldn't be the 'great American novel' that so many claim it to be. The Grapes of Wrath should be reserved for that honor. But Gatsby's contradictions and witticisms alone were enough for me to like it.
Of Mice and Men - The dynamic between George and Lenny was great. This book actually made me feel an emotion, so it can't be all that bad.
The Scarlett Letter - Only good because Hawthorne has a very distictive style of writing. Also the demon references toward the child were very interesting. Too bad the back cover told me who the father was before I even started. Oh well.
Lord of the Flies - Not for everyone, but the statement about man's savagery is pretty powerful. Simon was my favorite.
I don't really hate any books that I've read.
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I agree. Scarlet Letter.
Amen.
The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison. Very strange, very boring, very bad. There wasn't even a plot. I don't know how to explain it.
I loved Of Mice And Men. The end gave me a lump in my throat.
The Great Gatsby was alright, but that may be because I was forced to read it, and it was quick.
The Scarlet Letter was bad, and having to write endless amounts of papers on symbolism made it ferociously horrible.
I liked the Iliad, even though there was a lot of extra junk crammed in there. Haven't read the Aeneid yet.
The Sign of the Beaver and Sarah, Plain and Tall were as dull as all hell.
The Eaters of the Dead was completely different from his other works and just so, I dunno, way outta left field. I read it only to say I've read all of Michael Chrichton's fiction, but it wasn't worth it.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was pointless.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry was pretty good when I read it in fourth grade, but I don't know about now.
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