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what's the worst book you were ever forced to read in school?

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fuck this fucking book.

>> No.2137317

Some gay John Grisham book. The House on Mango Street is a close second.

>> No.2137335

I believe it was titled Speak, no idea who wrote it but I was glad the protagonist got raped.

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Why did he feel the need to write this?

>> No.2137392

Some book about a baron named Lamberto who lived in an island. At some point, he could go younger instead of getting older. Novel for kids. I was 11 years old and could realize it was shit.

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Fuck this trash and the horse it rode in on; not a singly person in my class enjoyed it and the attempts to have any sort of conversation were stulted and forced by the teacher.

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>>2137392
No, thinking again, this one is worse.
Indian kid moves to italy and it's all so different from india, sigh! Luckily some old fuck who can't even say the kid's name straight befriends him. I think that book is still in my house and it makes me feel bad

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>>2137381
shitty opinion detected

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The only right answer.

>> No.2137435

heart of darkness is a fucking turd

>> No.2137438

>>2137317
Egotistical hispanic author complains about the time that she was poor and/or got felt up

but now she's rich and famous and far away from all that

what was this supposed to teach

>> No.2137446

it's really cool how threads on this subject almost immediately become a bunch of suburban crackers griping about having to read something outside the realm of applebees and pt cruisers

by "really cool" i mean "fucking christ, /lit/"

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god i fucking hate this book to death

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This.

>> No.2137533

The only ones I remember really hating were Jane Eyre and The Scarlet Letter

Though in the case of the former I only read one chapter before chucking the book and using sparknotes for everything, the latter I read all of.

>> No.2137545

>>2137424
I wholeheartedly agree with you!
My worst one though is "A Raisin in the Sun"

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The Trial by Franz Kafka, thank god for sci fi and fantasy.

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>>2137583
:D

More seriously, this book. Meandering purple prose by a crazy woman who nursed from a cat.

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this thing... it wasn't that interesting, I didn't learn anything notable, and it was the most depressing thing I'd read in my life up to that point

>> No.2137719

>>2137715
LIKE YOU NEED TO READ A BOOK FOR THAT

>> No.2137748

>>2137719
I'm... I... what?

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Toss this book into the ocean where it belongs.

>> No.2138550

>>2138438
>Had to read this for school
>fucking loved it
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>> No.2138567

I can't remember the name of it but it was:

1) Australian
2) About some weird country kid who was a bit stupid but had the occasional vision
3) Featured some weird older guy who fucked that kid's sister

My year 12 English teacher ended up hated me because I voiced my hatred so often. But she was a bit weird. She got visibly upset when I was late to class and wasn't forced to see whatshisname's penis in The Piano.

>> No.2138568

>>2138438
If you give it long enough it'll just walk out there on its own. It just has to be a shallow cunt for about 200 pages first.

>> No.2138574

Sense and Sensibility.

>> No.2138587

Hamlet

true story

>> No.2138602

>>2138438
This. This so much.

I would also say "Deep Economy" - that was a huge pile of nothing but propaganda.

>> No.2138607

reading romeo and juliet with the class was an awful experience.

>> No.2138653

>>2138607
Moral of the story: check for a goddamned heartbeat before you kill yourself.