2007-07-03 09:10:56 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Atlas Shrugged- horrible!
2007-07-03 18:19:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have loved every single book I have read in school however I hated several of the short stories we had to read, the red dress girl( or the red dress, i cant remember), Rules of the game and the challenge were all pretty bad. I have actually never disliked a book, I have an appriciation for anyone who writes something and gets it published and I guess I just choose good books when I pick them up or am assigned them.
2007-07-03 09:22:25 · answer #2 · answered by shannon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Break with Charity... an incredibly ridiculous account of the Salem Witch Trials... so unrealistic
and the characters are so hard to relate to. the main character "breaks down in tears" about every two pages, and she does not progress at all over the course of the book. Her stubbornness is responsible for 8 people's deaths
2007-07-03 09:54:22 · answer #3 · answered by I run... 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Great Expectations"- Charles Dickens
The book made me fall straight to sleep everytime we were forced to read it.
And I had the worst teacher.
All he did was say "Turn to page ~~ and read chapters 3-6". And then he would sit down and play solitare on the computer. ><
I might have somewhat liked it if I had a teacher that would actually explain what the ~ was happening! ><
2007-07-03 09:15:49 · answer #4 · answered by whatisn'twouldn'tbe™ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ugh. Watership Down. Who really could find it in their hearts to care about a bunch of ridiculously ignorant rabbits, all out for finding a new warren and some more influence over *other* rabbits? This book was tedious, and I had to painfully force my way through it just for the sake of a decent grade.
In the end, I think it's best some rabbits are just left alone.
2007-07-03 10:29:11 · answer #5 · answered by Vampirate 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rebecca
It was soooooooo long. I don't usually mind long books. Unlike people around me I loved Great Expectations and such, but this was just too much. There was waaaaaay too much useless detail...in the red room the curtain by the left wall was red; the lamp by the red chair with the red footstool was red...on and on for pages. We get it! If you take the story itself (watch the movie or read a summary) its just fine...its actually pretty good, but it was ruined by the wording. Just like Phantom of the Opera...a wonderful story destroyed by horrible writing.
2007-07-06 04:14:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Tale of Two Cities, was the worst book i had to read in high school. To me it was long and boring with no plot.
2007-07-03 09:21:32 · answer #7 · answered by NOHSED 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's a toss up between absolutely anything by James Joyce and absolutely everything by Thomas Hardy.
But the worst experience of all was the Lit. prof. who led us through Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" at the rate of about 3 lines per day, hectoring and belittling our answers until he got, word for word, the exact answer he had written down in his notes under "Student will respond . . . "
It's why I became a reading teacher. Literature just can't be left in the hands of people like that.
2007-07-03 09:23:16 · answer #8 · answered by Boar's Heart 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Was only forced to read one book and it as the best book ever. To Kill a Mockingbird.
that was almost 15 years ago
2007-07-03 09:18:30 · answer #9 · answered by rainmichelle2007 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. By the end of the book I still couldn't figure out what happened.
2007-07-03 09:24:28 · answer #10 · answered by Rachel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tale of Two Cities at 40-50 pages a night for a test the next morning.
2007-07-03 09:18:43 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋