What was your least favorite book that you had to read for school

The answers, in order recieved, with some deleted because they misered the question:

  • Life on the Mississippi. This book was like reading the diary of a really boring kid. Ugh. I wrote my paper on how Mark Twain was a dry and stale writer. I used a bunch of stuff from the book as examples, and I was told for the first time in my life that my opinion was 'wrong'. How can an opinion be wrong? I don't get it.

  • Hmmm...I think it was probably "Dubliners" by that master of evil, James Joyce. The low point of A.P. English which was otherwise the greatest class of all time, bar none.

  • English, Math, Science, History. You name it it sucked rocks :)

  • I had to read 'The Good Earth' by Pearl S. Buck. - middle school Man, did it suck.

  • The title is Billy by Herman Melville. I had to read it my for senior year high school English. God, it was awful. I think my English teacher liked it because it was filled with bad homosexual/Christ metaphors.

  • Tess of the D'urburvilles

  • bridges of madison county was really sucky

  • arrgh... So much crap, well I guess the book I dislike the mostest was... umm.. Economics by that McConnell dude, you la canada AP Gov/Econ students know what I am talking about... The horror.

  • Do any and all textbooks count? If not, I'd have to say "The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin," which I had to read in high school. I had no interest in it fromt the word "go," and never bothered with it--blew every quiz over it too.

  • If we're talking junior/high school, it would have to be _Lord of the Flies_ I just couldn't get into it, and Golding wasn't telling me anything that I felt I didn't already know. In college, it would have to have been this mammoth work called _The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia_ by Sir William Sidney. Not a "bad" book, just an insanely complex plotline with a lot of references to ancient countries and too many identity changes. I can't sufficiently put it into words.

  • Anything Cliffnotes did not have offered

  • "Snow Dog" by Jim Kjelgaard (sp.?) This was in 6th grade Advanced English, and I remember feeling so bad because I got a C- on the big packet of work on it....it was just soooo boring. I mean, most dog books are, Jack London included.

  • Hemmingway. I had to read several of Hemmingway's novels. Ugh. A friend and I came up with the following description of Hemmingway: "He was a revolutionary author - he eliminated the plot and the theme." Aargh. Actually I hated all textbooks also, though they were mildly more interesting.

  • Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

  • Aldus Huxley's "Brave New World"!! It was _REALLY_ boring!!

  • "great expectations" and anything else by charles dickens. geez...you can't tell *he* got paid by the word, can ya?? i never did finish a book by him...i get bored easily when i read.

  • that's kinda a hard one 'cause like, ya know that summer reading crap? I kinda only read one book in high school for that out of the half a dozen or more that you were supposed to read... I did enjoy that one book though... it was The Count of Monte Cristo. I have to say that I probably should have read more now that I look back..

  • Favorite book I had to read for school is easy. "The Bluest Eye". If I had any real least faves, I guess I'm blocking them pretty well, 'cause I cain't remember. Although I'm sure I didn't relish "Medea", "The Stranger" and "Heart of Darkness".

  • The Grapes of Wrath.

  • Easy. That would be "Landscape for a Good Woman" that I had to read for History 111. BLAHHH. For 150 pages all the author does is whine about how the State should do more for people like her and she doesn't even try to improve her position or life any. I got to page 13, quit, and was it predictable? Yes, as I railed against it in discussion.

  • So far, it would have to be one of the books read in English 471, among some which were supposed to be classics, but never quite impressed me. Writers such as Thoreau, Jewett, and James quite frankly put me to sleep. I wonder if this signifies anything...?

    My answer:

    The Red Pony. I'm sure that Steinbach must be a great writer based on how much he's studied, but to Donald the sixth grader he was just somebody that could descibe a decaying pony really well.
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