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re: What’s the worst book you had to read in high school?
Posted on 1/7/19 at 8:59 pm to athenslife101
Posted on 1/7/19 at 8:59 pm to athenslife101
Red Badge of Courage
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Posted on 1/7/19 at 8:59 pm to athenslife101
I Know what you did last Summer. If you think the movie was bad, the book was a real turd.
Posted on 1/7/19 at 9:05 pm to athenslife101
I like William Faulkner, but damn, The Sound and the Fury was ridiculous.
Posted on 1/7/19 at 9:09 pm to athenslife101
Moby fricking Dick
BORING
BORING
Posted on 1/7/19 at 9:14 pm to athenslife101
None. I don't remember being told to read anything, if I did I used spark notes.
Posted on 1/7/19 at 9:14 pm to athenslife101
Winesburg, OH
I was absent the day all the books were handed out in English class. It sucked.
I was absent the day all the books were handed out in English class. It sucked.
Posted on 1/7/19 at 9:47 pm to athenslife101
Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. Absolutely terrible. I ended up failing 10th grade honors English, went to ‘summer school’ at Tara and, among other things, helped teach some of my fellow classmates how to read. Extremely humbling experience. Looking back it was an amazingly formative experience that helped shape who I am, and how I interact with people today.
Posted on 1/7/19 at 9:50 pm to athenslife101
Crime and Punishment
quote:Just hard to read when stoned all the time.
focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in Saint Petersburg who formulates a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her money. Before the killing, Raskolnikov believes that with the money he could liberate himself from poverty and go on to perform great deeds; but afterwards he finds himself racked with confusion, paranoia, and disgust for what he has done. His moral justifications disintegrate completely as he struggles with guilt and horror, and confronts the real world consequences of his deed.
This post was edited on 1/7/19 at 9:51 pm
Posted on 1/7/19 at 9:59 pm to Gigoleaux
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Beowulf was pretty hard to understand without some expert coming into class and explaining it to you.
Yeah my teacher played a record of the first first page or so being read in old engrish...arghhhhhh we all just banged our heads on the desk knowing how much it was gona suck arse.
Posted on 1/7/19 at 10:05 pm to facher08
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The Scarlett Letter.
Hawthorne wrote in these ridiculous run on sentences that took up half a page when he could have described his point just as easily in a 10 words.
This combined with the English of the times made it an excruciating read.
Glad this was mentioned.
That book was like 200 pages but he could have gotten in and out in about 30 based on the actual action that took place. It was like that fricker was getting paid by the word...
Posted on 1/7/19 at 10:24 pm to athenslife101
The Great Gatsby
Posted on 1/7/19 at 10:29 pm to athenslife101
I seem to remember Antigone being a challenge to sit through.
Posted on 1/7/19 at 10:44 pm to athenslife101
I don't remember reading a book but wrote a few reports using dust jacket notes and cliff notes. Worst in college was Invisible Man.
Posted on 1/7/19 at 10:50 pm to athenslife101
I actually like a lot of classic literature.
But Jane Eyre... frick that book and that bitch.
But Jane Eyre... frick that book and that bitch.
Posted on 1/7/19 at 10:52 pm to athenslife101
quote:No maybe about it. And it was the first thing I thought of when I saw the subject line.
Maybe the Awakening.
Posted on 1/7/19 at 11:01 pm to Lugnut
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The Old Man and The Sea
Should be marketed as a safe and effective sedative.
This post was edited on 1/7/19 at 11:08 pm
Posted on 1/7/19 at 11:03 pm to athenslife101
The FountainHead, well over 500pgs
Posted on 1/7/19 at 11:05 pm to facher08
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The Scarlett Letter.
Glad I wasn't the only one. Even worse was the only copy I could find within a 20-mile radius where I lived was printed in the 1940s and was nearly falling apart. This was in the mid to late 90s mind you.
This post was edited on 1/7/19 at 11:06 pm
Posted on 1/7/19 at 11:11 pm to facher08
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Scarlett Letter.
Hmmm. I think Steve Stafford was my English teacher then.
Anyone here remember Coach Stafford?
Posted on 1/7/19 at 11:12 pm to athenslife101
Heart of Darkness and it’s not even close.
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