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1. The Scarlet Letter

Fri Aug 17, 2012, 11:25 PM

Aug 2012

I couldn't see any reason the people in it were so hateful and stupid. To make it worse, the teacher loved the book and it was the first book we had to completely analyze. It was sad because I really like the teacher but we were completely at odds about that book.

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Whether it was college or high school, what was the book you hated to have to read? [View all] OmahaBlueDog Aug 2012 OP

The Scarlet Letter csziggy Aug 2012 #1

OBKid1 has to read that too -- it's part of what inspired me to ask the question. OmahaBlueDog Aug 2012 #2

Try reading it now.. WCGreen Aug 2012 #33

I hated Hawthorne in high school, but loved him in college Tom Ripley Aug 2012 #64

Great minds! Tom Ripley Aug 2012 #3

Oh geeze -- I'd have changed majors or switched schools OmahaBlueDog Aug 2012 #8

I don't think there was any way to avoid her at the time (late 80s) Tom Ripley Aug 2012 #65

Yep! Mid 80s college American Lit class OmahaBlueDog Aug 2012 #101

Beowulf NightWatcher Aug 2012 #4

Some Shakespeare in 11th grade. Denninmi Aug 2012 #5

Silas Marner kwassa Aug 2012 #6

That one was really bad. femmocrat Aug 2012 #75

Not true ANewEra Aug 2012 #82

YES! I hated that book! graywarrior Aug 2012 #103

I can't remember a single book LWolf Aug 2012 #7

I get why you'd dislike Twilight OmahaBlueDog Aug 2012 #9

Yes. LWolf Aug 2012 #11

I admire your stamina, as well as that of your Seventh grader. OmahaBlueDog Aug 2012 #14

I read Moby Dick in 7th Grade, too! Loved it! Odin2005 Aug 2012 #85

That's not the average 7th grader, lol. LWolf Aug 2012 #98

THe Bell Jar Tabasco_Dave Aug 2012 #10

Arrow of God by Achebe Riftaxe Aug 2012 #12

Yams are power! Tom Ripley Aug 2012 #66

I loved that book. Don't remember much about it now. But it opened my mind. applegrove Aug 2012 #77

It is an interesting book, we can agree on that at least Riftaxe Aug 2012 #128

I'm not a writer at all so if it wasn't well written it would be lost on me. I think applegrove Aug 2012 #137

I remember reading one Achebe book in college. harmonicon Aug 2012 #130

The Mayor of freakin' Casterbridge. chalky Aug 2012 #13

A definite second there tjwmason Aug 2012 #27

I liked the Mayor of Casterbridge............. mrmpa Aug 2012 #51

I hated that one too sakabatou Aug 2012 #60

Why Did They Force Feed Our Reading Choices? grilled onions Aug 2012 #15

re: Airport and Valley of the Dolls OmahaBlueDog Aug 2012 #16

The Sun Also Rises blue neen Aug 2012 #17

I concur mythology Aug 2012 #69

James Fucking Fenimore Fucking Cooper Arugula Latte Aug 2012 #18

Cooper has scored 114 offenses against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record. OmahaBlueDog Aug 2012 #30

Hah hah! Gawd I love Twain. Arugula Latte Aug 2012 #78

OWW!!! Major burn by Twain!!! Odin2005 Aug 2012 #86

Yup. GoCubsGo Aug 2012 #56

I'll second that. Odin2005 Aug 2012 #84

That's where my vote would go gollygee Aug 2012 #126

Great Expectations, Silas Marner. Manifestor_of_Light Aug 2012 #19

I was also not a fan of Great Expectations. Suffered through it in 9th grade. Boring as hell. LibDemAlways Aug 2012 #140

Pamela, kiva Aug 2012 #20

Villette by Charlotte Bronte IcyPeas Aug 2012 #21

A few I didn't like at all.... Broken_Hero Aug 2012 #22

Black Like Me is an important book, IMO av8rdave Aug 2012 #120

I could never buy into it.... Broken_Hero Aug 2012 #122

Ethan Frome. GobBluth Aug 2012 #23

Anything by Tolstoy n/t Mopar151 Aug 2012 #24

Least favorite book from HS: luv_mykatz Aug 2012 #25

Post removed Post removed Aug 2012 #28

Play nice please. It's the Lounge, after all. OmahaBlueDog Aug 2012 #48

Snob much, Muriel? n/t kurtzapril4 Aug 2012 #67

Nope. Just someone entitled to her opinion. murielm99 Aug 2012 #90

No, but you were the only one who called him/her "illiterate" WildEyedLiberal Aug 2012 #104

The jokes on you, murielm99. luv_mykatz Aug 2012 #91

I love Vonnegut & he didn't write A Clockwork Orange HarveyDarkey Aug 2012 #31

I'm sorry, but Anthony Burgess wrote "A Clockwork Orange" pink-o Aug 2012 #41

Alastair Cooke (Masterpiece Theater narrator, writer, etc. ) said that he spoke with Burgess... OmahaBlueDog Aug 2012 #49

How much more violent... jmowreader Aug 2012 #79

Never could get into HeiressofBickworth Aug 2012 #26

Don't even recall the name of it. But it was already in Readers Digest Condensed books. alphafemale Aug 2012 #29

John Knowles A Separate Peace... WCGreen Aug 2012 #32

I couldn't relate to the characters in A Separate Peace at all. annonymous Aug 2012 #36

Yep petty and venal and I just couldn't relate to it at all... WCGreen Aug 2012 #40

I read A Separate Peace Dorian Gray Aug 2012 #114

It seems to be a high school English standard--and I hated it, too, when Lydia Leftcoast Aug 2012 #139

..and as if the book wasn't bad enough OmahaBlueDog Aug 2012 #42

Didn't see the movie and I can't imaging anything more strange than WCGreen Aug 2012 #63

The movie is seriously awful OmahaBlueDog Aug 2012 #102

Whenever I think of a book I loathed, cordelia Aug 2012 #97

Oh sweet jeebus, I had blocked that book out MountainLaurel Aug 2012 #99

That's the way to draw the kids in.... WCGreen Aug 2012 #132

Why, oh why, did he joust the limb?! harmonicon Aug 2012 #131

War and Peace. It lost me in the first paragraph. n/t shadowrider Aug 2012 #34

My Mom gave me great advice on that one. OmahaBlueDog Aug 2012 #46

BURN THE HERETIC! WaP is an excellent book! Odin2005 Aug 2012 #87

I didn't say it wasn't an excellent book. It just didn't grab me. I may give it another shot. n/t shadowrider Aug 2012 #93

Wright's "Native Son" turtlerescue1 Aug 2012 #35

You're welcome OmahaBlueDog Aug 2012 #45

I didn't like that one, either. GoCubsGo Aug 2012 #57

The grade book.... whistler162 Aug 2012 #37

Not a book, but any and all poems by D H Lawrence! LeftishBrit Aug 2012 #38

"1984" HopeHoops Aug 2012 #39

Ulysses by Joyce LiberalEsto Aug 2012 #43

This message was self-deleted by its author Iggo Aug 2012 #53

I could never get drunk enough to understand it Rambis Aug 2012 #106

Beuowolf Generic Brad Aug 2012 #44

Grendel's Dog, from Beocat eridani Aug 2012 #105

I hated Catcher in the Rye. Yea, I said it. bigwillq Aug 2012 #47

I loved it, but Mrs. OBD hated it OmahaBlueDog Aug 2012 #50

My 17 yr old is hating that one right now! Iggo Aug 2012 #54

Hated that one too sakabatou Aug 2012 #61

If Holden existed in today's world, he would be a teabagger jmowreader Aug 2012 #80

Typical teenage angsty whining. Odin2005 Aug 2012 #88

One of my favorites. I know Holden is LibDemAlways Aug 2012 #141

My Antonia PassingFair Aug 2012 #52

I hated that book too TuxedoKat Aug 2012 #59

I read MORE out of school than I ever did in school, benld74 Aug 2012 #55

Exactly caraher Aug 2012 #107

Great Expectations - Dickens ellisonz Aug 2012 #58

Catcher in the Rye & The Bell Jar WolverineDG Aug 2012 #62

The Lord of the Rings kurtzapril4 Aug 2012 #68

Actually, it's three stupid books OmahaBlueDog Aug 2012 #100

Beowolf CountAllVotes Aug 2012 #70

Beowulf sucks so bad it bends light av8rdave Aug 2012 #121

High school and "Don Quixote" greatauntoftriplets Aug 2012 #71

Lord of the Flies..... AnneD Aug 2012 #72

Glad I never had to read that... cyberswede Aug 2012 #96

Not sure why so many English teachers chose that book. eppur_se_muova Aug 2012 #110

Yep Lord of the Flies retrogal Aug 2012 #135

Beowulf, ugh. reformist2 Aug 2012 #73

Some awful book by Henry James. femmocrat Aug 2012 #74

Any book Hank James writes is a bloodletting. HughBeaumont Aug 2012 #143

I had to read this one book for some English class in college zbdent Aug 2012 #76

Solaris by Lem and Siddhartha by Hesse Odd Won Out Aug 2012 #81

Bridge Over San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder n/t Pryderi Aug 2012 #83

Moby Dick ailsagirl Aug 2012 #89

Moby Dick. nt raccoon Aug 2012 #92

the Celestial Prophecy blueamy66 Aug 2012 #94

You know, I'm struggling to remember one that I actively disliked RFKHumphreyObama Aug 2012 #95

Silas Effing Marner byeya Aug 2012 #108

high school -- The Sun Also Rises Bertha Venation Aug 2012 #109

In high school: Hardy's "Return of the Native;" in college, Rand's "We" deutsey Aug 2012 #111

World Defeat Xipe Totec Aug 2012 #112

Not a book but a short story Art_from_Ark Aug 2012 #113

Really good movie with Henry Fonda, though! OmahaBlueDog Aug 2012 #125

That movie was shown on KOED-TV (PBS) once that I remember Art_from_Ark Aug 2012 #127

"What I Saw at the Revolution" by Peggy Noonan Blue_Tires Aug 2012 #115

Math books. Hated 'em. Any other book I was happy to try... nt riderinthestorm Aug 2012 #116

A Farewell to Arms Ava Aug 2012 #117

I thought that The Old Man and the Sea by Steinbeck was rather boring Nikia Aug 2012 #118

Nikia, I hate to tell you this - Ernest Hemmingway wrote "The Old Man & The Sea" OmahaBlueDog Aug 2012 #124

The Sound and the Fury -- Faulkner KurtNYC Aug 2012 #119

I liked it, but our professor went on and on about the muddy drawers OmahaBlueDog Aug 2012 #123

I think it might be a tie. harmonicon Aug 2012 #129

Moby Dick GeorgeGist Aug 2012 #133

I took a "Bible as Literature" course in college. hunter Aug 2012 #134

TBAL can be an interesting class - I'm sorry you had a bad experience. OmahaBlueDog Aug 2012 #136

The Canterbury Tales. marmar Aug 2012 #138

This. aikoaiko Aug 2012 #142

Any book by Toni Morrison. HughBeaumont Aug 2012 #144

The Color Purple AngryAmish Aug 2012 #145