/lit/ - Literature

Pride and Prejudice
The Red Badge of Courage
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

>>813160
Grafton's "A is for Alibi"?

Personally I liked them all. Or at least I didn't dislike any one of them.

Fucking Ethan Frome.

Somehow the movie was even worse, even with Liam Neason!

inb4 a million people saying Catcher in the Rye.

>>813170
I'd like to personally shit in Sue Grafton's mouth.

A Tale of Two Cities
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

A KIKE WOULD SAY THAT

A FUCKING RUSSIAN JEW OF A KIKE'S CUNT WOULD SAY THAT

the alchemist

It was okay until the end when he started TALKING TO THE FUCKING SUN AND WIND AND SHIT.

Pic related, it was my face when I was reading it.

A Raisin in the Sun
A House on Mango Street

Or any other piece of literature not made by a white person. I truly believe that the poor book choice for my High School English classes made me racist.

>>813160
i fucking sympathize OP, i despised that book. just when you thought the symbolism couldn't get pounded further into the ground, we're treated to another paragraph of bullshit.

Can't think of any.

Though as a massive racist, some were less than agreeable to me politically.

813187 your right on the money

The House on Mango Street. - Sandra Cisnero
(This was the worst book by far in school)

The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
(I hate femenist, female cultural lame crap like this. This was a close second to Mango)

Grapes of Wrath
(I live in So-Cal so we had to read this and it was drawn out and lamesville)

Tale of Two Cities
(Dickens was paid a dime for every word he wrote.)

The Color Purple
(This is right up their with Mango Street too. This was an awful awful awful book)

The Great Gatsby

Awesome books were

A Call to Arms, Shakespeare, LOTR, Lord of The Flies, Of Mice and Men, King Arthur, Beowulf, Federalist Papers

I hated reading Shakespeare in high school. Probably because I believe plays should be watched and not read unless you plan on actually producing it.

I also hated reading The Illustrated Man. The stories were boring. I did appreciate the project we had for it (draw a tattoo for the Illustrated Man and write a story about it), though. It was fun.

>>813464
>The Color Purple
Too much color, not enough purple, amirite?

Don't you people have spark notes or cliff notes or pink monkey or wikipedia? If i didn't like a book I didn't read it.

To Kill a Mockingbird

Red Badge of Courage
and The Pearl. Took me off Steinbeck for years.

Shit-tier books:
Their Eyes were Watching God
Ethan Frome
The House on Mango Street
The Scarlet Letter
Great Expectations
The Awakening

I did get some good ones, though. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Beowulf, Grendel, The Plague, The Great Gatsby, The Turn of the Screw, Macbeth, Death of a Salesman, and Notes from the Underground.

>>813531
fuck that

I just didn't read shit, and took the 0s on my assignments

The Old Man in the Sea
I don't care about you, old man! You or your stupid fish. Nothing about your life is relatable to a young schoolgirl like myself and I do not have any sympathy for the problems you suffer through. And dear god your life is BORING. Just die already!

A Seperate Peace
Pretty much the same as above (and most other books I dislike): didn't relate, didn't have any emotional investment in the characters, it was boring and dragged on forever, blah blah blah. BUT it had the added bonus of being a homosexual sausage-fest.

>The Old Man in the Sea
HELP HELP I'M DROWNING lol

>>813576
Oh hey, I herd you liek 9th grade.
Underage B&

The Red Badge of Courage didn't bother me too much. The Pearl . . . that's another story . . . .

The Great Gatsby
I finished that and raged. What the hell was the point of ANY of that shit?

>ITT: Highschool kids comlaining about having to read good shit.

>>813178
At least it was short, unlike the never ending nightmare of The Scarlet Letter.

>>813573
Why are you even on /lit/?

>>813187
You might not believe me, but there is some hope. Turns out you can churn out good literature just from being at least half white.

The Outsiders
The Pearl

House on fucking mango street.

Hey guys, I herd you liek whining liek a punk ass bitch. Most of the books listed in this thread are actually fucking awesome.

Except for A Is For Alibi. That was the most regrettable book purchase I have ever made. Never again Sue Grafton, never again.

>>813634

Holy shit, I had to read that pile of crap too. Where'd you go to school?

Also, "Nothing but the Truth" was the fucking worst book ever.

>>813634
fuck that latino bullshit
that book is why I hate the Spanish language.

>>813625
How the fuck could you hate the outsiders?

Nothing.

Most of it was good, and the rest was necessary to present me to the kind I could know I don't like.

>>813160

Dear God I hated the scarlet letter. FUCK

Extremely boring and Incredibly Stupid.
The Catcher in the Rye.
Romeo and Juliet.
The Awakening.

Pretty much any literature that was added to "promote diversity".

Being forced to read and analyse an excerpt from Notes from the underground made me hate Dostoyevsky for 10 years. Took me another five before I could open that particular book.

Romeo and Juliet
Of Mice and Men
Night
They Had Seen Castles
The Pearl

The Taming of the Shrew. Fuck I hate that story.

I liked what I read.

Children of the River and Rolling Thunder Here My Cry and a House on Margo Street.

Der Vorleser
(don't know the english title)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Their Eyes Were Watching God

I wanted to burn both.

>>814609

I could not get through Their Eyes Were Watching God either. Hurston's dialogue just irked me.

And I enjoyed House on Mango Street. Haters be hatin

Catcher in the Rye. It worse more whiney than I am!

Kafka's The Trial.

Bel Canto. Sentimental shite.

The shipping news. I didn't think it was talentless but I didn't enjoy it very much.

took too long /lit/

The Pearl.

What a pile of shit that was.

Emilia Galotti. There is no worser choice to make when you want to bring the Age of Enlightenment nearer to schoolkids.

>>815210
i hated the pearl. Of Mice and Men restored my faith in Steinbeck, though.

The Catcher in the Rye. Good God did I hate this book.

Of Mice And Men for me, although not for lack of enjoyment. The problem was that I was unable to relate to Steinbecks ideas, other than what I was told existed within the book.

tl;dr school ruins a good book.

Huxley's ideas are great, but he has no place as a fiction writer. He should have just written an essay or something.

Romeo and Juliet.
Shit sucked.

how to ppl not like catcher?
i one sitting'd that shit yesterday, too good

PAULO COELHO.

I hate most of the books I read because of school, Brazilian literature is not that great.

The Ramayana. wtf was up with the muni child?

>>815316
I feel you bro. Coelho is one overrated xianoid hack.

>>813464
>Grapes of Wrath
>bad

I can't think of a book I hated more than The Scarlet Letter. Fuck that book in half.

>>815298
1. It is about a whiny brat complaining that things have to change.
2. The stream of consiousness style of writing makes it very easy to miss importent details if you are a fast reader.
3. This especially sucks if you need to read it for school and are getting quizzed on minute details.
4. It takes way to long to say what it is trying to say.

>>815389
hahahhahah, in other words your a little on the unintelligent side.

>>815389

>The stream of consiousness style of writing makes it very easy to miss importent details if you are a fast reader.

If you miss details, then you're not really reading fast; you're just skimming.

Much Ado About Nothing.

Fucking horrid.

>>815524
Did you ever consider that it's possible that people are different from you, and you should give them the benefit of the doubt?

where the red fern grows

Moby Dick.

The great gatsby. I really did not fucking like it and Yes I know its a major lit piece that everyone falls over for.

Fucking. Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
I hate that book so fucking much, jesus christ.
Apparently a goth kid in the year before mine tried to throw himself out the window while they were reading it, I can see why. Jesus, I hate it.

None, all the books (or most) that are taught in school are classics.

Homeschooled, never forced to read anything until college, and I've liked everything so far.

:D

Their Eyes were Watching God
Raisin in the Sun
Great Expectations
Scarlett Letter

I absolutely loved Les Miserables though.

>>813160

fucking that book OP. I have never hated a book as much as I hated that one. It made me want to cry, that's how much I couldn't stand it.

Also, I had little patience for Frankenstein and Hamlet.

other than that, I've loved all of them

Things Fall Apart

On the road

"The war and the piece" by Tolstoy

All the black people books.

adventure of huckleberry finn

>>816263
this. No black authors are good. Stop forcing that shit down my throat for a month.

>>816263
>>816278
Agreed. Slavery wasn't that bad. Stop bitching about it. It's been 100's of years since.

>>815361
People don't really like Paulo Coelho here in Brazil, but he is LOVED all over Europe and USA, I don't understand how, he is terrible!

>>817799

Because most people that read Coelho in Europe/North America and actually enjoy him aren't regular readers, which is another way of saying they don't know good literature.

>>816291

LORD JIM

also, agreed with OP
SCARLET LETTER blows dick

Jane fucking Eyre

ugh, it almost killed me

>>817804
Well most people here don't read 5 books per year, and when they do read is something like Twilight and Dan Brown, which is pretty awful too.

Having trouble getting through Kafka's The Trial.. it's pretty slow paced and is barely culturally relevant.

>>817856
This. A thousand fucking times this.

School ruins books for me so I tried to read the books before the class so I could like it and the teacher wouldn't ruin it with some bullshit analysis reading way too into it trying to make every author out as some fucking genius with a double meaning to every goddamned word they typed.

>>813464
Bitches BEST not be talking shit about the great gatsby

>>815273

What the FUCK?
Id love to read huxley in school anytime over the fucking Outsiders or Jane Eyre or Pride and Predjudice.

>>813160
I learned everything I needed to know about The Scarlet Letter from summaries by other people. I could not for the life of me understand a damn thing the author was saying.

Tale of Two Cities is right up there with it.

On the other hand, I think I was the only high schooler who enjoyed the Great Gatsby

>>813542

To Kill a Mocking Bird.

I followed it pretty damn well, I just hated the way the story and the plot points occurred. Felt like 0 rising action or anticipation 'til the right fucking end.

But thank god I had a teacher who actually knew how to analyze art junior year, otherwise I never would've gotten through the Great Gatsby, Huck Finn, or Of Mice and Men.

Everything fucking Toni Morrison has ever written. Pretty much all books that were HURR DURR RACISM. Have to agree on Scarlet Letter too. And MOTHERFUCKING HEART OF DARKNESS. Fuck that noise.

>>818767
A HOT THINGGGGG

As I Lay Dying. I raged SO HARD, and that was BEFORE I even got to that FUCKING ENDING. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF---

I actually really like Dickens... But I hate anything Faulkner, hated Grapes of Wrath, and hated Things Fall Apart.

Seriously. I was SO GLAD that Okonkwo died. Best ending ever.