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51. I liked the Mayor of Casterbridge.............

Reply to chalky (Reply #13)

Sat Aug 18, 2012, 11:30 AM

Aug 2012

but I couldn't take Hardy's other "great" read, Tess of the D'urbervilles.

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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