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Post by mockingbrid on Mar 8, 2008 9:58:07 GMT -5
I Had to read M.C. Higgins the Great in 6th grade. It is by far the worst book I have ever read. Basically a kid sits on top of a pole all day and watches his town.
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Post by thenephilim on Mar 8, 2008 16:30:17 GMT -5
I didn't really like Huck Finn since the language was difficult to understand. I also didn't like Frankenstein- I liked the idea/concept of it, but not the book itself (way too dry and descriptive. I could have done without the endless pages of iceberg descriptions)
I really hated when teachers in high school would spend MONTHS on a book, absolutely tearing apart every single word in it, deciphering it until it lays dead and lifeless. That really annoyed me. You don't need to spend that length of time on a book-it gets so old. And it is not necessary to analyze every single sentence and word- some things in a book are not that important.
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lindsay
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Post by lindsay on Mar 9, 2008 11:48:07 GMT -5
I totally agree. There is less feeling involved when you analize something so deeply.
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Post by bookaddict on Mar 24, 2008 16:02:12 GMT -5
I really hated when teachers in high school would spend MONTHS on a book, absolutely tearing apart every single word in it, deciphering it until it lays dead and lifeless. That really annoyed me. You don't need to spend that length of time on a book-it gets so old. And it is not necessary to analyze every single sentence and word- some things in a book are not that important. I think that's why I hate poetry. I hate picking it a part.
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Post by emu on Mar 24, 2008 23:49:30 GMT -5
"I hated Heart Of Darkness *dodges thrown apples*"
No apples from me, Jo Bean. Actually don't know any women who like that book. think it is a real blokes book. A lot of Africans find it really racist as well.
Must say I do quite like DIckens (what I have read in the past at least - probably wouldn't have the patience now). Never read Huck Finn (the Australian curriculum much more geared towards British ratehr than American literature - now more Australian works being studied). Read a really atrocious 'chick lit' novel by UK writer Jane Green (don't normally mind her too much - for a bit of light relief) which I felt compelled to review on Amazon as it was that bad. Can't remember the title now.
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Post by emu on Mar 24, 2008 23:54:07 GMT -5
Oh and also remember reading something truly, truly atrocious by that talk show woman Rosie O'Donnell a few years back. Think she really needs to stick to her day job.
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lindsay
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Post by lindsay on Mar 25, 2008 10:35:48 GMT -5
I honestly fear Rosie O'Donnell. That woman is ready to throw down anytime!
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Post by neh on Mar 26, 2008 19:19:58 GMT -5
I don't know if i've mentioned this one, but there's an Aussie novel called "Loaded" that i had to read last year for Contemp. Aus Lit and Pop Culture. I LOATHED it - to such an extent that when i had done with it for the course i threw it in the bin! Ugh! The subject matter wasn't so much what digusted me - it concerned a young angry, confused homosexual man who wasted his time sleeping with strangers and doing drugs - but the protagonist himself as a character and way his actions were described in such detail but with a truly "don't-give-a-dam" attitude... i just didn't want to be in that world for one second longer!
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Post by emu on Mar 30, 2008 0:04:23 GMT -5
Think a girl I knew in Melbourne's cousin wrote that book, Neh (don't worry, don't see her anymore lol)! It has been made into a film with Alex Dimitriades as well, hasn't it? Thought the film was okay but know what you mean about the main character being very unlikeable.
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Post by neh on Apr 3, 2008 5:14:56 GMT -5
Yeps, it was made into a film but it's under a different name (like when they adapted 'Thunderwith") Hehe, it wasn't that it was poorly written, it was just as you agreed; you just can't care for the protagonist at all.
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Post by annak on Apr 3, 2008 17:56:14 GMT -5
I've read Heart of Darkness three times now and I have to say I still hate it. It's very hard to get into. I also didn't like how ambigious it was. I understand it was done on purpose, but I hate that! I really don't think I plan on reading it ever again.
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Post by swissmiss on Apr 3, 2008 19:20:26 GMT -5
The summer before my junior year in high school we had to read Heart of Darkness and Turn of the Screw by Henry James. I didn't really mind HOD (though not my favorite book by any means), but I definitely didn't like Turn of the Screw!
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Post by emu on Apr 3, 2008 19:57:42 GMT -5
I quite liked Turn of the Screw. Thought it was bit like a Twilight Zone episode. Nto at all like anything else of his I ahve read.
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Post by pixie on Apr 10, 2008 1:46:03 GMT -5
I know it's a classic but I really hated "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" by Jules Verne. reading it was a BIG MISTAKE !!
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Post by Pilleriin on Apr 10, 2008 3:03:30 GMT -5
When I was 10 I read the adapted version of Journey to the Center of the Earth and I really liked it.
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