Books you cant stand.... |
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 Aug 27 2006, 01:28 AM
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Are they're any books you really dislike?
I couldn't stand Bean Trees. I got through some of it but I found it so boring and long. I didnt enjoy Romeo and Juliet either. I love the way Shakespeare writes but I couldnt stand the characters. |
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Aug 27 2006, 08:37 AM
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When I was little, I absolutely hated the Magic Treehouse or whatever. Our first grade teacher was obesessed with those books. -shudders-
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Aug 27 2006, 05:17 PM
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 For my shirt. Group: Member Posts: 113 Joined: Aug 2006 Member No: 454,674 |
I didn't like Romeo and Juliet as well, but I really couldn't stand Of Mice and Men. I just didn't get why it is considered such a classic. If anyone can explain it to me, please do.
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| *Kathleen* |
Aug 28 2006, 02:55 PM
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I LOATHED Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Awakening. Borrrrrinnng.
 The characters pissed me off in those books as well. Getting through the dialect in Their Eyes Were Watching God was TORTURE.
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Aug 28 2006, 04:09 PM
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 All The Girlies Say I'm Pretty Fly For A White Guy Group: Member Posts: 1,944 Joined: May 2006 Member No: 400,858 |
QUOTE(Kathleen @ Aug 28 2006, 3:55 PM)  I LOATHED Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Awakening. Borrrrrinnng. The characters pissed me off in those books as well. Getting through the dialect in Their Eyes Were Watching God was TORTURE. I didn't like Project X. Never Read it. It is horribly written and the editing was horrible as well. So many typos  . I couldn't stand to read it but once I start a book I have to end it.
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| *mona lisa* |
Aug 29 2006, 01:53 PM
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The Call of the Wild by Jack London. Had to read it in English class in the ninth grade. It was so long and boring. I remember there wasn't much dialogue and I couldn't understand what was going on.
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Aug 29 2006, 01:55 PM
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 the bird and the bee sides! Group: Member Posts: 1,697 Joined: Aug 2005 Member No: 201,280 |
QUOTE(mona lisa @ Aug 29 2006, 11:53 AM) The Call of the Wild by Jack London. Had to read it in English class in the ninth grade. It was so long and boring. I remember there wasn't much dialogue and I couldn't understand what was going on. I received that book as a gift, read half of it, and got bored. It was really dry and the whole plot was sorta hard to follow. |
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Aug 29 2006, 02:12 PM
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 Nikkie Group: Member Posts: 2,336 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 28,991 |
at the moment I can't stand my summer reading book, Fast Food Nation, its all facts and whatnot and it's scaring the crap otta me O.o some people that already read it say that its good and other say its boring. nuts.. i'm half way done i'll be done before this week is over. =]
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Aug 29 2006, 07:07 PM
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YES, Mona, The Call of the Wild was terrible. I read it in eighth grade. I read Alas, Babylon for my ninth grade summer reading, and it sucked as well.
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Aug 29 2006, 07:12 PM
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 Remember, you're unique; just like everyone else! Group: Member Posts: 225 Joined: Aug 2006 Member No: 457,419 |
Far From the Madding Crowd. I hate to read it my senior year, and I hated it. It was dull, and about sheep.
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| *disco infiltrator* |
Aug 29 2006, 09:20 PM
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The Turn of the Screw...did anyone ever have to read that? Oh, and the Odyssey. A lot of people like it, but I hated it.
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| *mona lisa* |
Aug 29 2006, 09:27 PM
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QUOTE(disco infiltrator @ Aug 29 2006, 10:20 PM) The Turn of the Screw...did anyone ever have to read that? Oh, and the Odyssey. A lot of people like it, but I hated it. The Turn of the Screw? Is that a parody of The Taming of the Shrew?
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Aug 29 2006, 09:36 PM
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Oh I hate the Odyssey. It was long and boring and I didnt understand much of it
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Aug 29 2006, 09:58 PM
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Remember, you're unique; just like everyone else! Group: Member Posts: 225 Joined: Aug 2006 Member No: 457,419 |
I hate most literature, actually.
I have a very active imagination, so I need something fast-paced, full of action, and deep characters. Literature usually lacks that. |
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Aug 29 2006, 11:20 PM
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well .. the ones you know what happens at the end after reading the first chapter /=
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Aug 29 2006, 11:24 PM
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 Yawn Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 9,530 Joined: Nov 2004 Member No: 65,772 |
QUOTE(mona lisa @ Aug 29 2006, 2:53 PM) The Call of the Wild by Jack London. Had to read it in English class in the ninth grade. It was so long and boring. I remember there wasn't much dialogue and I couldn't understand what was going on. Oh God, I remember that one. They made us read that in middle school. I hated that as well. I'm pretty sure I hated "The Tempest", I just remember really wanting to finish it quickly. |
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| *disco infiltrator* |
Aug 30 2006, 07:12 AM
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QUOTE(mona lisa @ Aug 29 2006, 9:27 PM) The Turn of the Screw? Is that a parody of The Taming of the Shrew? No, it's just a really awful book. |
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Aug 30 2006, 12:12 PM
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 You say you eat fucking hearts for breakfast. Group: Member Posts: 662 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 28,026 |
into the wild by jon krakauer
blech 
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Aug 31 2006, 09:33 PM
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i couldnt stand A peoples History of the United States I HAD to read it for my history class dammmmmnnnn that was SO BORING!!!!!
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| *mona lisa* |
Aug 31 2006, 09:41 PM
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QUOTE(' post='2263770 @ Aug 31 2006, 10:38 PM) ..I really hate the boxcar children or whatever. I would pretend to read them in class, but really I was just blurring it out. Gosh I hate those. Aww, really? =\ I loved reading them when I was a kid. Mystery, adventure, lots of dialogue; my type of book.
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Aug 31 2006, 09:48 PM
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For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemmingway. It should have been interesting, with bridges blowing up and gypsies and whatnot, but I absolutely hated the way it was written. All the sentences were three words or less, I swear. I never finished it. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness was horrible too.
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Aug 31 2006, 09:50 PM
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East of Eden. I wanted to burn in when we had to read it in english. It had really cool connections and allusions but it was too long and there was no actual plot.
And my AP american textbook. |
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Sep 1 2006, 12:06 AM
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te quiero Group: Banned Posts: 2,586 Joined: Apr 2004 Member No: 14,678 |
The Scarlet Letter . I can't stand Nathaniel Hawthorne. Even that short story "Young Goodman Brown"... Maybe it wasn't so bad. Maybe I just hate him because my junior year english teacher made us analyze him to death.
We had to read City of Darkness, City of Light by Margeret Pierce (I think... now that i think about it, i'm not so sure) for World History sophomore year. It's pretty trippy. Lots of sex and blood and at the end, the woman turns lesbian. It's set during the French Revolution. I thought it was a waste of time. |
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Sep 1 2006, 12:28 AM
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i hate the lord of the rings trilogy x___x'
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Sep 1 2006, 12:58 AM
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Go Ask Alice.
I can't begin to stomach that bullshit. |
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