Classic books that were not fun to read

[cantthinkofanything]

Feel free to add to this list

My Antonia
Of Human Bondage
Jane Eyre
Ethan Frome
The Good Earth

[leemajors]

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin before I found out he made most of it up, then it was pretty damn entertaining.

[CubanSucks]

pretentious tbh

[Drachen]

East of Eden

[CosmicCowboy]

A Tale of Two Cities

[Kai]

Pretty much anything I was forced to read in high school. I automatically hated them.

[desflood]

Lord Jim and Moby .

[thispego]

the great gatsby

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Whawhaat
Gatsby was good as far as high school readings go

[Blake]

Canterbury Tales

[Blake]

The Bible before I found out most of it was made up. Then I found it to be pretty damn entertaining.

[leemajors]

Whawhaat
Gatsby was good as far as high school readings go

So is a Tale of Two Cities imo, but I like ens.

[DeadlyDynasty]

Canterbury Tales

/thread.

Olde English is a ........unless you're drinking it.

[Drachen]

Pretty much anything I was forced to read in high school. I automatically hated them.

My freshman english teacher required a book called "dandelion wine" as summer reading between 8th and 9th grade. When we got to class in August the first thing she did was introduce herself and the second thing she did was apologize for making us read that. She said a friend (another teacher) recommended it and described it much better than it actually was. She put it on a whim onto her summer reading list then when she read it realized the mistake she made. Since it was before freshman year she had no way of contacting us to let us know how bad it was and to not read it... LOL
She didn't live that down.

[DeadlyDynasty]

btw...the most brutal read you'll ever come across is Finnegan's Wake...I gave up on it a couple pages in, and I'm a big Joyce fan.

[CosmicCowboy]

Lord of the Flies

[cantthinkofanything]

Lord of the Flies

Seriously? That was near the top of my "like" list.

[Drachen]

Lord of the Flies

Wow, I liked this book too. To each his own I guess.

[leemajors]

My freshman english teacher required a book called "dandelion wine" as summer reading between 8th and 9th grade. When we got to class in August the first thing she did was introduce herself and the second thing she did was apologize for making us read that. She said a friend (another teacher) recommended it and described it much better than it actually was. She put it on a whim onto her summer reading list then when she read it realized the mistake she made. Since it was before freshman year she had no way of contacting us to let us know how bad it was and to not read it... LOL
She didn't live that down.

pretty good Ray Bradbury book tbh.

[Drachen]

I am not going to say I liked it, but I thought that she went way farther with the apology than she needed to. It wasn't epically bad or anything.

[JoeChalupa]

Seriously? That was near the top of my "like" list.

Mine too.

[CosmicCowboy]

I thought it was pretentious bull .

[CubanSucks]

Lord of the Flies

I thought it was pretentious bull .

what the is your problem? Not only are you wrong but you used my word. Don't use my word you pretentious turd

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

Grapes of Wrath.

And add me to the list of folk who actually liked Lord of the Flies.

[CosmicCowboy]

Oh, it had action and blood, I'll give you that. It's just that the english teachers and analysts tried to read so much more into it than was probably originally intended.

Kind of like over analyzing Old Man and the Sea. Jesus? REEEEEEEEELY?

Maybe you guys didn't have to go through the analytical I had to do...I was in this very limited enriched class from Freshman on (pretty much college level) and we had to write papers on every book we read and the symbolisms, allegories, etc.