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11/16/2012 2:50:21 AM
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Worst novels you've been forced to read for school?
I think I have a tie between Native Son and The Great Gatsby. I swear if it wasn't for Sparknotes and Google I would've failed my Literature classes. I never even read a single chapter of any of those novels.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Fahn777 "Brave New World" was the worst novel I've ever had to read. It was either that, Pride and Prejudice or The Color Purple, and when I found out that Brave New World was sci-fi I decided it would be relevant to my interests. It was LITERALLY nothing but people taking opium pills and having orgies, and people were grown in big jars (yes, jars, not stasis tanks)because natural birth was seen as obsolete and disgusting, and their oxygen supply was limited to control their intelligence and body type. Little kids were allowed to walk around naked and screw each other, and what pissed me off is that their 'caretakers' would be like "Now run along little Sue and Jimmy, go back to your erotic play" (I can't make this up). Babies were also electrocuted as a way of conditioning them to fear certain things (for example, to teach future mine workers to fear grass and flowers so they'd stay underground). It was extremely long and boring, had WAY to much sex, and the main character just ends up hanging himself after an opium induced orgy at the end of the book.[/quote] You're missing the whole point of Brave New World. The idea was to mock the idea of utopia by portraying a society in which everybody is happy. In doing so, the government took to more oppressive and controlling measures and humanity is a slave to their baser instincts.
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I hated A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Officer Nasty16 I never even read a single chapter of any of those novels.[/quote] How do you know they're bad then?
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any book assigned can be good if you have a good teacher to explain it I thought canterbury tales was complete ass until my teacher pointed out all of the hilarious dick jokes
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God of Small Things
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Of Mice and Men was fine for me. I don't remember liking The Pearl though. There was this book I had to read for College English. It was a collection of short stories written by students of the same college. It had crap like Bondage -blam!- and this homo-blam!- kid fantasizing about a male pet shop owner. The most perverted crap I've ever read and the reason I quit college. Basically, the english teacher thought, "Hey this is adult material and you guys are adults so this is for you." No you moron.
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Lord of The Flies. as a writer, thinking back to that book makes me shudder.
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- Lord of the Flies (which I just got done doing a second time for college) - Great Gatsby - Of Mice and Men - A Farewell to Arms - To Kill a Mockingbird - Catcher in the Rye - Brave New World Really, the only book I actually enjoyed that I had to read was The Things They Carried. [Edited on 11.16.2012 8:36 AM PST]
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Frankenstein. Worst book I've ever read.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Fahn777 "Brave New World" was the worst novel I've ever had to read. It was either that, Pride and Prejudice or The Color Purple, and when I found out that Brave New World was sci-fi I decided it would be relevant to my interests. It was LITERALLY nothing but people taking opium pills and having orgies, and people were grown in big jars (yes, jars, not stasis tanks)because natural birth was seen as obsolete and disgusting, and their oxygen supply was limited to control their intelligence and body type. Little kids were allowed to walk around naked and screw each other, and what pissed me off is that their 'caretakers' would be like "Now run along little Sue and Jimmy, go back to your erotic play" (I can't make this up). Babies were also electrocuted as a way of conditioning them to fear certain things (for example, to teach future mine workers to fear grass and flowers so they'd stay underground). It was extremely long and boring, had WAY to much sex, and the main character just ends up hanging himself after an opium induced orgy at the end of the book.[/quote]TBH, the whole point of "Brave New World" was to present a society that was as -blam!- up as possible. The point is basically, "Humanity, get your -blam!- together, or we'll probably end up like this!". Also, it was written in 1931, so the sci-fi stuff is going to be pretty basic.
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"Brave New World" was the worst novel I've ever had to read. It was either that, Pride and Prejudice or The Color Purple, and when I found out that Brave New World was sci-fi I decided it would be relevant to my interests. It was LITERALLY nothing but people taking opium pills and having orgies, and people were grown in big jars (yes, jars, not stasis tanks)because natural birth was seen as obsolete and disgusting, and their oxygen supply was limited to control their intelligence and body type. Little kids were allowed to walk around naked and screw each other, and what pissed me off is that their 'caretakers' would be like "Now run along little Sue and Jimmy, go back to your erotic play" (I can't make this up). Babies were also electrocuted as a way of conditioning them to fear certain things (for example, to teach future mine workers to fear grass and flowers so they'd stay underground). It was extremely long and boring, had WAY to much sex, and the main character just ends up hanging himself after an opium induced orgy at the end of the book.
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Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. That had to be one of my least favorite books.
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definitely "Speak." THe best I ever read was "Of Mice and Men."
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The Pigman. Retarded book.
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I doubt this counts, but I had to watch the movie twilight in a lit/comp class once D: In terms of books though, I think it goes to the Scarlet Ibis for me. [Edited on 11.16.2012 7:08 AM PST]
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I actually like Gatsby and Grapes, and the Shakespeare I read (Julius Caesar, Othello, King Lear). On the other hand, I hated The Scarlet Letter, Ethan Frome, and Antigone. I know the last one was a play, but whatever.
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The Scarlett Letter and Jane Eyre, they both were just awful. [Edited on 11.16.2012 6:48 AM PST]
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The Great bloody Gatsby, it's a book describing rich buildings with the occasional afterthought of some kind of non-plot. Still managed to get 100% writing about it in my exam though, apparently my examiner thought along the same lines as I did. Northanger Abbey is a close second, what a [i]terrible[/i] book. The best texts I read were Homer's Odyssey, Doctor Faustus, Of Mice & Men, Frogs and Lysistrata.
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The Scarlet Letter. I don't think I even need a reason to back this up.
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Anything by F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Shakespeare.
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The Great Gatsby. To the above, The Great Gatsby was nowhere near 'good literature'. It was boring as hell. [Edited on 11.16.2012 6:13 AM PST]
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Can none of you appreciate good literature??? Can't believe how many people said the Great Gatsby was bad. Or The Grapes of Wrath. Or hell most of these books are good.
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The Virgin and the Gypsy was a [u]horrible[/u] book that bored me into tears. On other notes, I kind of liked The Great Gatsby as that book had some depth to the values behind the characters. [Edited on 11.16.2012 5:14 AM PST]
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Jane Eyre I couldn't do it. I had to use sparknotes.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] theHurtfulTurkey [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] spngefan11 OT: Romeo and Juliet. It wasn't even a tragedy.[/quote] I'm not sure you understand what a Shakespearean tragedy is. [/quote]Well it was a Shakespearean tragedy. That I understand. However, what I was trying to say that I didn't care about the death of those two. IMO they were whiny and angsty teens who thought they were in love. The only real tragedy I thought was the two families who seemingly fought for no reason at all. In short, yes it was a tragedy. However, I just didn't care about their deaths because I felt they were so amazingly stupid.
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-The Good Earth- It wasn't good and it wasn't about the earth. -The Heretic's Daughter- Boring and it's aimed for a female audience.
