/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16956522]

What is the worst book that you had to read for school that wasn't about the holocaust?

[Anonymous No.16956525]

>>16956522
Did you go to a religious school or something?

[Anonymous No.16956530]

>>16956525
Public school, but the teacher was very religious

[Anonymous No.16956542]

Kite Runner, Ethan Frome, or the Great Gatsby are all absolute dogshit that made me think I didn't like any modern literature.

[Anonymous No.16956547]

Being forced to read this garbage made me hate blacks for at least 5 years until I stopped being racist around a year ago for other reasons.

[Anonymous No.16956552]

>>16956542
what's wrong with gatbsy?

[Anonymous No.16956555]

>>16956522
The five people you meet in heaven are all Holocaust survivors.

[Anonymous No.16956559]

>>16956547
What made you stop?

[Anonymous No.16956573]

>>16956559
he hasn't seen any blacks for 5 years and is starting to forget his experiences

[Anonymous No.16956578]

>>16956559
Actually talking to black people who were as intelligent as me and learning about statistics, outliers, and human development

[Anonymous No.16956759]

>>16956522

Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho. Utter trash, required for a college class.
I feel like I hated the Color of Water, but I didn't actually read it so I don't think it counts.
Lord of the Flies is also fucking terrible. Hamfisted, contrived, and dull.

[Anonymous No.16956788]

>>16956522
We had to read a bunch of garbage about anti racism, "black experience", etc. so probably one of those.

[Anonymous American No.16956789]

Senior year, my class read Lord of the Flies; at the time I enjoyed the book, but looking back, I feel the book is over-rated and more suitable for children.

[Anonymous No.16957209]

I had to read this YA garbage, saddest part was that the teacher took it and her job very seriously, more so than most college professors

[Hardgebard No.16958449]

>>16956522
Checked. Tony went to the bodega.
>Tony’s father left the family
>And the Long Island city projects,
>Leaving a mongrel-skinny Puertorriqueño boy
>Nine years old
>Who had to find work.
>Makengo the Cuban
>Let him work at the bodega
Who else had to read this shit?

[Anonymous No.16958600]

Pic related. A dystopia-light socialist parable, written by a CND member, which manages to reinforce the roles it tries to question by presenting the working class as inherently uneducated and violent when left to their own devices. I've since learned that children the same age in Poland were reading Goethe.

[Anonymous No.16958610]

>>16958600
Forgot to mention that half of the book is written phonetically in what a Carnegie Medal winner imagines to be how poor people speak.

[Anonymous No.16958817]

>>16957209
I stopped reading when they got to the test part

It's basically girl's dream about being a special slowflake

[Anonymous No.16958849]

>>16958600
Hilarious. We read Germinal for history, and I remember being irritated that cooking with onions was presented as an intolerable mark of poverty and perplexed when people threw bricks at guys with guns and then were shocked and outraged when they got shot for it. Sounds like it's been covered, worse.
>>16958449
Never heard of it. Sounds ok to me, if it's short. It's funny though all I can find on google is essays about it.
>>16957209
A new one by me. What class was it for? What was it supposed to be an example of?

[Anonymous No.16958854]

>>16956522
In fifth grade I had an alcoholic female teacher that made me read a horse story for girls. The thing is she forgot about the assignment and never made us do a book review.

[Anonymous No.16959378]

>>16958854
Nothing especially wrong with horse stories for girls. On one hand it's a nice to have students of different sexes try to understand what the other half likes. On the other, at that age, it's just as likely to solidify prejudices as soften them.
Not a horse book, but Anne of Green Gables is legit beautiful and uplifting no matter who you are. It's likely to fly over a youth's head, but especially given current norms, the story of a brother and sister reaching old age childless and still living together, but finding place and purpose through caring for her is top sweet. Can't speak much for other youth girl lit though.

[Anonymous No.16960121]

>>16958849
>What class was it for?
Just a normal high school english class
>What was it supposed to be an example of?
The teacher realized that almost everyone in the class was just using sparknotes instead of reading all of the other books, so she tried putting in a novel that was at the time trendy into the curriculum to get people to actually read it. They used sparknotes anyway

[Anonymous No.16960161]

>>16956522
It's a mediocre book but the fact that I had write a paper on it, and look for some sort of "deeper" meaning made me hate it even more. If there are any Snow Falling on Cedars Fans out there please tell me if I missed something.

[Anonymous No.16960170]

>>16960161
Forgot Image.

[Anonymous No.16960215]

>>16960121
>They used sparknotes anyway
Lol. It's amazing how just being required to read something saps the enthusiasm. To this day I wonder whether I would have hated Gatsby if it hadn't been a chore. Can't wash that stigma off it though.

[Anonymous No.16960217]

>>16956522
Native Son

>lets read a book about a nigger murdering a white woman and cutting her head off to show that racism is bad

The entire book is a cuck fantasy

[Anonymous No.16960232]

>>16959378
>Can't speak much for other youth girl lit though.

Secret Garden is great.

[Anonymous No.16960252]

>>16958817
that's every YA novel
>dystopia with bad government/corporation
>one teenage girl has some special talent
>goes through some set of tests to prove their worth and train
>love triangle
>overthrows the government at the end

[Anonymous No.16960266]

>>16960215
My english teacher tried her hardest to make me hate the great gatsby. Before I even read the damn thing there was an assignment where we had to go through the novel, locate over 100 vocab words, and write down the sentence they were is verbatim

[Anonymous No.16960459]

>>16959378
it was fucking retarded and I hated every second of it. Probably turned me into the incel chud I am today.

[Anonymous No.16960501]

>>16956559
sexy black girls

[Anonymous No.16960512]

>>16956547
I forgot about this entirely, but seeing the cover brought it all back. Terrible.

[Anonymous No.16960581]

[Anonymous No.16960615]

>>16956578
i didn't dislike blacks until i moved to a state with lots of black people. they have issues, but should still be judged individually and given the benefit of the doubt, but they have issues

[Anonymous No.16960635]

>>16956578
Blacks are only civilized because they are living under the net of white-created and white-run civilizations. Once whites become the minority and die off, and niggers are left to their own devices, society will basically collapse in about 8 or 9 minutes.

[Anonymous No.16960643]

>>16956522
holohoax books are good though. I enjoy a good laugh.

[Anonymous No.16960650]

>>16956542
The Great Gatsby is brilliant. You're just an NPC who has never been in love and never felt any true passions in life, so obviously you can't relate to Gatsby. It's understandable. Zoomers don't have a soul.

[Anonymous No.16960659]

>>16956522
in tenth grade I had to read The Secret

[Anonymous No.16960663]

>>16956555
jews don't go to heaven

[Anonymous No.16960669]

>>16960615
>>16960635
Fuck orcs

[Anonymous No.16960673]

>>16956573
>>>16956559
>he hasn't seen any blacks for 5 years and is starting to forget his experiences

This is the only reason. Once you meet and orc, you will know the heart of the orc is zug zug. There are no good orcs.

[Anonymous No.16960679]

>>16960643

[Anonymous No.16960681]

All books they make you read in high school now are literally just "It's hard being [fill in ethnic minority of your choice] in America." It's unironically a conspiracy to make kids hate learning and have an aversion to books like vampires to a crucifix.

[Anonymous No.16960693]

Hunger Games

[Anonymous No.16960700]

>>16960679
thanks bro. Do you laugh at lies of the establishment and suffering of the skaven as well?

[Anonymous No.16960727]

>>16956555
Citation needed.

[Anonymous No.16960962]

>have a group assignment where we randomly get assigned a short story or play to read
>do a group essay on it afterwards
>Kafka, Twain, Shakespeare, etc
>buddy convinces the teacher to include some Lovecraft on the list (Rats in the Walls)
>teacher agrees
>I get the Lovecraft story
>he gets some other shit
>know I'll ace the essay because I've read it like five times
>spend the next two weeks of classes just hanging out while he reads, analyzes and writes
he was so mad