My Place (story about Aboriginals) and another Aboriginal novel (forgot the title). I didn't like the texts for most of the early high school years anyway; I'd take Frankenstein, Huckleberry Finn, Catcher in the Rye over the aforementioned two any day.
Every year since the sixth grad, each one of my English teachers had us read "The Things They Carried". This is an AWESOME FUCKING BOOK, but They had us reading it every single year. Retards figured theres no way it would be used in the other grades due to its reading level being (whatever age level their class was). My teachers were dumb as fuck.
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Anonymous2009-12-26 20:47
I enjoyed A Separate Peace, though it was never required reading for me. I always associate The Great Gatsby with childish feelings, simply because it was required reading.
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Anonymous2009-12-27 4:17
Celebration by Henry Crews.
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Anonymous2009-12-29 19:35
There is no contest here, and one clear winner:
Things Fall Apart.
Yes, thank you, Chinua, I did not realize how wonderful the african mans life was before those pesky missionaries and their hospitals came along. It sure is sad when something ends and progress takes precedent. I sure do relate to Okonknwo and his inability to handle progress.
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Anonymous2009-12-29 23:21
Things Fall Apart
OH NO WE IS AFRICANS AND THERE IS BAD WHITE PEOPLES AND BOOHOO OUR TRIBES. Not saying that British imperialism wasn't bad, but this was a shitty book.
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Anonymous2009-12-30 13:45
>>44
A Separate Piece was the kids-join-war novel or whatever, right? I couldn't stand that one. I recall in my freshman English class a girl yelling at the teacher about how boring the book is. She essentially said, "Well, listen, the book is awful, so I didn't read it". It ended up being a small battle, something that occurred often as the teacher is literally insane. The only time I ever actually talked to that girl was after that class, when I simply asked her why she acted so stupidly.
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Anonymous2009-12-30 20:45
>>48
A Separate Peace was about this boy who is obsessed with this other boy and then winds up killing him because of jealousy. It is a melodramatic piece of shit.
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Anonymous2009-12-31 2:15
The Giver. Whenever I mention how much I hated reading this in seventh grade, I'm always told, "Read it now, you'll understand it soooo much more." No, I won't. It was a boring book back then, and it is now.
>>51
That's cool. The guy you're responding to didn't. That's cool too. Isn't it cool that we can be cool with each other? Cool.
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Anonymous2009-12-31 17:08
>>52
Since this thread is about worst books and not least favorites, we all need to agree.
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Anonymous2009-12-31 21:32
>>53
Not necessarily. I, >>51, was just stating my opinion and wasn't trying to challenge anyone.
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Anonymous2010-01-03 22:35
Cold Sassy Tree made me want to fucking commit suicide, my god. Light in the forest was a shitpile, but I personally greatly enjoyed Flowers for Algernon, Maltese Falcon, and Of Mice and Men.
Bronze Bow was fucking awful, so was Crispin.
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Anonymous2010-01-04 23:13
The Color Purple. Absolutely the worst thing I've ever had to read.
A close second is The God of Small Things. It might have been alright had I not been forced to study it, though I think the relentless depression would have got to me in the end anyway. Seriously; lighten the christ up.
At the other end of the spectrum, I rather enjoyed studying Of Mice and Men and The Remains of the Day.