Worst Book You Had to Read in School
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I thought Sarah Plain and Tall was stupid, but I was also 8, so who knows?
Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding was a colossal piece of ****. Like an Elizabethan John Irving book without the humor, warmth or accidental amputations.
I highly recommend you to hate it as well.
I highly recommend you to hate it as well.
The Dollmaker.
My English teacher actually told me that it was purposefully written to be boring to reflect the plight of the heroine.
Get pumped, Harriette Simpson Arnow. Get. Pumped.
My English teacher actually told me that it was purposefully written to be boring to reflect the plight of the heroine.
Get pumped, Harriette Simpson Arnow. Get. Pumped.
Already answered for high school, but should throw in a college one. Took a class called "ways of knowing" which was some 'modern' replacement for English 101/102 and Social Science at UK. Basically it was a bunch of classes (other than the real sciences) that gave the ultra-liberal (which is fine ... whatever) professors a big stage to teach whatever they wanted. Anyway, the first textbook was called Ways of Seeing. It did have some good nudie pics in it, but the rest was just weird stuff that confused 18-year-old me. I might appreciate it more now, but I had no clue at the time.
Synopsis for the first semester FRESHMAN class textbook (non-honors) WTF?
The book Ways of Seeing was written by Berger and Dibb, along with Sven Blomberg, Chris Fox, and Richard Hollis.[1] The book consists of seven numbered essays: four using words and images; and three essays using only images.[1] The book has contributed to feminist readings of popular culture, through essays that focus particularly on depictions of women in advertisements and oil paintings.[2] Ways of Seeing is considered a seminal text for current studies of visual culture and art history.
Synopsis for the first semester FRESHMAN class textbook (non-honors) WTF?
The book Ways of Seeing was written by Berger and Dibb, along with Sven Blomberg, Chris Fox, and Richard Hollis.[1] The book consists of seven numbered essays: four using words and images; and three essays using only images.[1] The book has contributed to feminist readings of popular culture, through essays that focus particularly on depictions of women in advertisements and oil paintings.[2] Ways of Seeing is considered a seminal text for current studies of visual culture and art history.
anything by any of the bronte sisters...which was heaped on us by our sophomore english teacher in my little high school. i hate them even now.
Somebody said "Old Man in the Sea". What the hell is the matter with you? That book is like 100 pages long. That's a gift in high school.
Pilgrim's Progress. I just didn't care at alllllllllllllllllllllllll.
Wuthering Heights was stupid too. People call that a love story? A bunch of dumbasses being dumb.
Wuthering Heights was stupid too. People call that a love story? A bunch of dumbasses being dumb.
Damn... Not sure I read over 1,000 pages of forced literature in a single year in high school. Much less for a single book.
I felt the same about Walden. How anyone could possibly enjoy that book is beyond me! Definitely a snoozer