Farewell to Manzanar. I'm so freakin' tired of WWII and growing-up-as-an-ethnic-in-America stories!
Terrible books you have to read.
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Thats because she was predominately a poet. As a matter of fact, Wuthering Heights was her only novel.S53 said:
yeah i had to read that for school, i kept falling asleep cause it was so boringAmethyst Wind said:
there was also to kill a mocking bird. i had to read it for school and it was very dry. there was another book i had to read for school that i absolutely hated but i forget the name of it
The Fellowship of the Rings.
Probably going to get some hate for that but I just got hideously bored with it.
Probably going to get some hate for that but I just got hideously bored with it.
Our Day Out by... I forgot his first name, but his last name is Russell.
I hate that book with a passion, it's so shitty and I had to re-read it so many times for English.
Oh, and the Twilight books. They're horribly written, or at least what I read of the first one was.
I hate that book with a passion, it's so shitty and I had to re-read it so many times for English.
Oh, and the Twilight books. They're horribly written, or at least what I read of the first one was.
Jane Austin and, although it's poetry not a story, Carol Ann Duffy. She is seriously shit, beyond that even. All her poems are pointlessly morbid and an awful read.
Also, The Duchess of Malfi. Absolutely terrible. Here's a little plot synopsis:
Duchess marries and has kids. Brother is jealous. Incestuous undertones. More jealousy. Duchess is murdered. She takes 5 minutes to die. Dies. Then comes back a few minutes later to deliver the most badly written one liner in history. Dies again. Treachery. Jealousy. Jealousy. Incestuous undertones. More treachery. Then everybody dies. THE END
Couple that with the playwright forgetting what happened at the start and the resulting continuity errors and you have yourself a couple of hours of pure drudgery and torture on behalf of the audience.
The Boredom Award goes to Dickens, who is a great author but so slow to read you get tired after 1 or 2 chapters.
Also, The Duchess of Malfi. Absolutely terrible. Here's a little plot synopsis:
Duchess marries and has kids. Brother is jealous. Incestuous undertones. More jealousy. Duchess is murdered. She takes 5 minutes to die. Dies. Then comes back a few minutes later to deliver the most badly written one liner in history. Dies again. Treachery. Jealousy. Jealousy. Incestuous undertones. More treachery. Then everybody dies. THE END
Couple that with the playwright forgetting what happened at the start and the resulting continuity errors and you have yourself a couple of hours of pure drudgery and torture on behalf of the audience.
The Boredom Award goes to Dickens, who is a great author but so slow to read you get tired after 1 or 2 chapters.
Their Eyes Were Watching God is like reading a bad Lifetime movie, and I'm not looking forward to reading "The Veiws of an Erewhonian Concerning the Rights of Animals"
Have to read the color of water for honors Lit. Truly terrible. I would rather dig a trench in the muck, under fire, using my jaw.
I had to read the book The Chosen. I know it was supposed to be an insight on the different sects if the Jewish religion. As well as the moral choice of succesion. But this all fell flat through lack of intricate charicter developement.DN83 said:
Thanks for this thread. Teachers should just make us read the encyclapedia in middle school and never make us read anything again.
Yeah, It was pretty bad.rknight718 said:
I had the displeasure of reading "The fountainhead" and "A Land Remembered"