Classic Literature You Hate

[Del Murder]

Anything by Faulkner or Joyce. Can't understand them.

[Pike]

How did you hate Of Mice and Men! It made me so sad

Because the entire purpose of the book was to make people (or perhaps just me) uncomfortable and depressed and eff that.

[Spuuky]

Everything by Steinbeck and Hemingway. But special mention to my least favorite "important" book ever, The Awakening (Kate Chopin).

Pike, if you don't like King Lear, I can fix that for you with a movie recommendation. Let me know.

[The Man]

I'm judging all of you right now

the only "classic" literature I can think of that I actively dislike is Ayn Rand but I think everyone realises that's troute by now

[Sephex]

Jane Eyre was the most boring book ever where nothing ever happened. Thanks, public school for droning on it from 5th grade to Junior year of High School.

[Shiny]

The Great Gatsby. Such a superficial book. I hated Of Mice and Men as well. If the moral of the story is to kill your best friend who is also retarded, that's horrible. The Old Man and the Sea was boring. Steinbeck is overrated. Heart of Darkness was terribly boring as well. The movie was better. Andddd...mostly everything written by British authors, I hate.

[Forsaken Lover]

....killing Lennie being "the moral of the story" is a very rare interpretation. And by rare I mean wrong and I don't know who would ever seriously think that.

[Pike]

Pike, if you don't like King Lear, I can fix that for you with a movie recommendation. Let me know.

I'm game.

[Spuuky]

Pike, if you don't like King Lear, I can fix that for you with a movie recommendation. Let me know.

I'm game.

Ran (1985) - IMDb

[Bubba]

Andddd...mostly everything written by British authors, I hate.

Wow. That's a pretty long list. Surely you can't hate everything?

[Scotty_ffgamer]

I can believe that Shiny hates most all classic British literature. Pretty much all classic British literature has the same style of being pretty slow paced.

[krissy]

the scarlet letter

[Pike]

Pike, if you don't like King Lear, I can fix that for you with a movie recommendation. Let me know.

I'm game.

Ran (1985) - IMDb

I had no idea that this was based off of King Lear. I feel a bit dumb now!

[I Took the Red Pill]

Anything by Faulkner or Joyce. Can't understand them.

The thing about Faulkner is that all of his novels have a completely different tone, and consequently some of his stuff is more difficult than others. Absalom, Absalom! , for instance, requires your complete attention and goes way off into absurd tangents of stream of consciousness. That was a difficult read. But, if you'd be willing to give him another chance, something like Sanctuary is a much less intimidating read, and is quite short.

[Shiny]

Andddd...mostly everything written by British authors, I hate.

Wow. That's a pretty long list. Surely you can't hate everything?

Everything I've read or gotten pretty far in, but didn't finish. It's still a pretty long list. British Literature just isn't my cup of tea.

I remember I saw Ran. I fell asleep halfway through. I also fell asleep during the in class reading of King Lear. Ffffff uuu British Literature. It's a wonder I managed to get an A in that class.

Other books I dislike: Black Spring

If you want to talk about random tangents, this book has got them. Also it was always weird to imagine someone like Henry doing most of the things he claims he's done. Gross old man.