Are there any books that you are forced to read (for example, school) and they just make you fall asleep? Or vice versa; have you read any books for class that were actually interesting?

To Kill A Mockingbird - Good
A Tale Of Two Cities - Bad

Great Expectations made me fall asleep. I have to read it for English, and I seriously cannot stay awake when I try to read it.

A Place Where The Sea Remembers
Things Fall Apart
The Joy Luck Club
A Mid Summer Nights Dream

All intensely boring.

The Cay

Kind of interesting.

I like all the school books I've had to read. Great Expectations did get boring sometimes though.

I fell asleep so many times in class when we were reading To Kill A Mockingbird.

However, when we read the The Giver I took it home and stayed up all night reading it.

i think the only reason books are so bad reading them in school are because most of the time there`s assignments that go with them. that ruinsss it for me.

I liked To Kill A Mockingbird and I thought Romeo and Juliet (both freshmen reads for me) was actually interesting. It wasn't the dead boring crap a lot of people made it out to be for me.

Hmm... I didn't like Lord Of The Flies. I appreciated the strong symbolism and extra messages the author put in "behind the scenes", but I just... wasn't interested in the story.

War of the Worlds is horrible IMO, and it made me fall asleep.

We didn't even read the entire book! It was a total waste of like, 8 bucks.

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The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Of Mice and Men by John Steinback
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Saligner
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare




It's pissing me off that I need to login like 5 times just to make the Add Reply page show. Seriously. It's like that every time.

Ironically, I totally loved all three of those and for the last one, I totally want to read that again.

But I totally reccomend the book The Woman in the Dunes to any insomniacs looking for a fail-safe cure.

The Odyssey - Boring.
The Bean Trees - I only got to chapter two. I can't stand that book
Romeo and Juliet - Fun to read but I just don't like the storyline
Life of Pi - I'm not even going to say anything.

A Raisin in the Sun made me fall asleep in class every time we read that.
The Scarlet Letter - It was ok, wasn't that great.
Night - I didn't really get into that one at all.

The Joy luck Club and Catcher in the Rye and Bean Trees are my favorites though.

Aieeee....

Of Mice and Men-John Stienbeck

hated it

Animal Farm- I loved it

those are the only ones I can remember

SCARLET LETTER OMG

snoozefest.

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OMG. Things Fall Apart has to be THEEE most boring-est book ever. >_<;;

all the books everyone listed i read for school, prob everyone has.

most of the school books are ultimately boring.
to kill a mockingbird, raisin in the sun, great gatsby, so many
i couldnt focus on any of those stories, so i went to SPARKNOTES ftw and i did well on all my exams on them. how cool is that.

the joy luck club i read on my own,//for a school project, and it was pretty awesome. idk how you people dont like it. :[
being asian is *[star]

The Great Gatsby is a great book!

I feel weird..am I the only person that enjoyed great expectations?

well anyways, the only two books that have ever bored me are In The Wake of the Plague and Snow Falling on Cedars

LOL. Read the fisrt part and DEFINITELY read the end. It's all you need. It's a snooozefest in the middle.

You've got to be kidding me (in regards to Things Fall Apart). Seriously, the only reason I can come up with for anyone saying this is because the names are somewhat confusing since it is an African novel; I mean, I had to make an entire chart of all the characters and their relations to Okonkwo, but really the book is fantastic once you get the hang of it.

ANYWAY, in total contrast to African commentary, read Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. I couldn't even get through the first page without getting lost. Then, read Chinua Achebe's article analyzing it.

A Tale of Two Cities... blah

and Great Expectations = zzzz