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5921829 No.5921829 [Reply] [Original]

>bad books you had to read in school

For me it was this, as well as most of the other "multicultural" books we had to read instead of something decent.

>> No.5921837
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5921837

>>5921829
>instead of something decent.
>Like Everyone Poops

>> No.5921859

>>5921829
Everyone in my AP lang class hated An American Childhood but I really enjoyed it. Comfy book. I cannot fucking stand Sandra Ciseneros I don't understand why she's required. One of the worst writers I've had to read.

>> No.5921867
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>>5921829
Anyone can top this ?

>> No.5921937

>>5921867
Op here I had to watch the movie sophomore year in English.

Not the book. The move.

>> No.5921940

>>5921829
I had to read that exact book in school coincidentally.

>> No.5921972
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>>5921940
so did 40% of high school students

I had to read this.

>> No.5921987

>>5921867
great movie

>> No.5921992

>>5921972
Was the romance as bland as the cover makes it look?

>> No.5921993

>>5921972
I didn't know that. I didn't go to public school so we weren't forced into a lot of the SJW shit I'm assuming you guys were in your English classes.

>> No.5922000
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5922000

They made us read this

In reality, not a bad book
But we are all just going to be second graders. All the themes and ideas just passed through our heads and all I remembered was the prince trying to eat the fox or something like that. Just goes to show you that you can't jump tiers

>> No.5922003

>>5921992
I don't remember, I think the girl was the real school shooter bc her jock bf was abusive and she wanted to kill him, but the nerd who loved her took the blame?? It was a mess.
>>5921993
can we at least not retroactively call the push to diversify school reading lists as SJW, it happened decades ago and Things Fall Apart is cool, sorry about your bad taste

>> No.5922008

>>5922000
>the prince trying to eat the fox
in a good way?

>> No.5922011

I went to high school in Baltimore so it was all Poe and Fitzgerald. I was literally assigned Gatsby 3 years in a row.

>> No.5922017
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5922017

Had to read this in our English class (as a foreign language; I'm in Yurop). Embarrassingly bad. Juvenile moralizing by a senile man. Reads like unedited blog posts or one of those hilariously bad self-published novels that get mocked here once in a while.

>> No.5922021

>>5922003
Yeah, it's not really social justice, just cuckolding.

>> No.5922022

>>5922017
omg
they really force people to read utter crap like that for english class?

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5922027

>>5922000

best memories...

>> No.5922028

>>5922022

In the educational system's defense, it wasn't part of the curriculum, but something the teacher decided on herself, so I just got supremely unlucky. But yeah.

>> No.5922032

>>5922028
>herself
they should forbid women to be literature teachers

>> No.5922035
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5922035

Entirely one dimensional.

>> No.5922041

>>5922035
still wanna kick that little monster Pearl

>> No.5922043

>>5921829
>I have nothing to learn from cultures that aren't my own
>>5922035
>I have nothing to learn from cultures of the past.
I didn't like it because the symbolism was too overt, but it was a decent story on the whole.

>> No.5922047

>>5922043
>I have nothing to learn from cultures of the past.

Puritanical culture is pretty easy to hate after 1st grade social studies.

>> No.5922060

>>5922047
True, but it is an interesting culture to juxtapose our own against. Not saying it's good, or worthy of much praise; in my opinion, Puritanism is fun-hating, and, as an ethical hedonist, it goes directly against my principles. Nevertheless, I did enjoy it.

>> No.5922065

I remember watching the Flowers for Algernon movie in 5th grade or something. Trippy.

>> No.5922088

>>5922065
did it have him running away from a pregnant flasher lady

>> No.5922098

>>5922088
All I really remember is our teacher telling us it was going to be a strange film, and the main guy on a harley in a leather jacket.

>> No.5922104

>>5922098
>>5922065
You guys should watch the Sorrows Of Young Werther movie the GDR/DDR made, we watched that one in HS - they somehow changed half of the story to shoehorn a critique of the bourgeoisie in there.

There's a supertrippy scene in which a general or something takes Werther's face and rubs it all over his medals (for no reason). Werther's face bleeds all over and he runs away. It makes no sense except as a symbol.

>> No.5922106

>>5922098
>the main guy on a harley in a leather jacket
terminator 2

>> No.5922115

>>5921829
I liked Things Fall Apart. I know /lit/ shits on it a lot, but why?

It's been forever since I read it, so maybe it isn't as good as I remember, but besides "To Build a Fire", I thought it was way better than any of the other bullcrap I had to read. (looking at you Gatsby)

>> No.5922119
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5922119

Achebe's "Things fall apart" is not "multicultural" you fucking retard stormtrooper. It's just a different culture, and pretty good book as well.

>> No.5922135

>>5922119
exactly, i never understand why people pick on this book (actually i do: "NIGGERS")
at least shit on zora neale hurston

>> No.5922193

>>5922119
Okonkwo is a pretty flawed character even according to the values of his own culture, as well. That's what makes him interesting.

>> No.5922326

>>5922060
I can concede most of what you said, the writing itself in the book wasn't bad, just typically verbose of the Era. At least it's short. Shit like Wuthering Heights is dense and insufferable.

>> No.5922355
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>>5921829
Should I assume you read only white authors and take pride on it?

>> No.5922359

>>5922355
I read Joyce and various mangas, so fuck you.

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5922366

>>5922359

>> No.5922370

>>5922366
Joyce is above average and some mangas are really good. What's to mock?

>> No.5922466

>>5922355
everyone is forced through multicultural poetry i assume

>> No.5922523

>>5922359
>le irish arent white meme

>> No.5922527

>>5922523
It's not a meme, learn some history.

>> No.5922632

>>5922527
i fucked your mom, how's that for learning some history?

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>>5922632
>this is how continentals actually debate

>> No.5922648

>>5921829

Had to write a 3,000 word critical essay about personal and cultural dislocation about that for my A2 coursework

Threw in as many colonialism buzzwords as possible and came out with full marks

>> No.5922653

>>5921829

I didn't hate Things Fall Apart, but I did hate it that I was called a racist because I thought this book was about how illogical and sexist old African tribes were.

>> No.5922671

>>5922642
nigga what

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5922676

>>5921829

>> No.5922677

>>5922671
I'm not a nigger, I'm Celtic.

>> No.5922687

The ONLY good book I read at school was batalhas de castelo at the 5th grade. Other stuff were just excuses to teach us about drugs, preservatives and racial diversity. Literature classes in Brazil are a joke.

>> No.5922692

>>5922011
What a dream...

>> No.5922696

I never read this in school and I really enjoyed it. Maybe that's the difference

>> No.5922708

>>5922000
they read parts of it to us in french in my school and it made it even harder to comprehend.

>> No.5922715

I've only read good books in school, so I can't participate in this thread. Feels bad man.

>> No.5922718

>>5922047
Fun Fact, the puritans weren't really like that.

>> No.5922719

>>5921829
At first I was gonna say Ronia the Robber's Daughter by Astrid Lindgren

Then I remembered the time I had to read Conrad Richter's A Country of Strangers. I can't remember any other book I found as loathsome to read.

>> No.5922728

Our teacher let us decide which books we wanted to read, you gave her the title and she checked if it wasn't crap and she said she always read all the books others chose for the oral examination.

>> No.5922730

I had to read Silas Marner in high school and hated every minute of it, and now I keep seeing people rave about Middlemarch and I wonder if I should give George Eliot another try, especially after having somewhat mixed love-hate relationships with many other 1800s novels since then.
Also had to read some Charles Dickens in high school, and decided I don't much care for him. Nothing has made me change my mind about him since then.
Anyway, I feel like a lot of people dismiss really good books in school just because they're being forced to do a lot of reading. Maybe if our culture celebrated reading rather than treating it has either dorky or hard work than this situation could be remedied? Letting kids choose their own books would just result in most people either sticking to YA books or only reading things that look short enough to read in one night or things they can quickly find sparknotes on.

>> No.5922743

>>5922648
I love college so much. The incredible levels of stupidity and ignorance among my fellow students allow me to never prepare for class, yet still be the most active and constructively contributing individual in any seminar. Even when exposed, the simple fact that I read a book every once in a while and am able to actually formulate a logical thought always saves me. Whenever an essay is due I just write exactly what I know my SJW professors want to read and pass with the highest grade. I can't help but secretly laugh whenever one of them praises my extensive efforts, knowing I put in minimal effort.

Then again, I have to live with the realization I'll never reach my full potential with my attitude.

>> No.5922746

Los ojos del perro siberiano, The Eyes of the Siberian Dog.
Shitty YA short novel from my country.
It was about some high class family were someone gets AIDS. There is a siberian dog somewhere.
I really can't remember it very well

>> No.5922749

>>5922743
>tfw you can't put your soul in a class because you are already obnoxiously vocal when compared with the rest
>tfw you can't help turn the class into a one on one if you're the only one who read the required reading
>tfw imaginary social norms make you waste your time

>> No.5922820

>>5922743
It's the same way for me, at least for gen ed's, I'm literally the only one who asks questions or even responds to the teacher at all. Then people complain how they never have time to do homework in their liberal arts majors while I'm over doing sports, working two work studies, maintaining a 3.3 in my STEM major. Also completely bullshitted my final essay is women gender studies saying how much I learn that I'm just a cis white male who couldn't see the struggles of women or people of color and got a 100.

>> No.5922977

Joy Luck Club.

God fucking damn fuck the joy luck club

>> No.5923011

>>5921867
I read the Hunger Games in grade 10 for English class

>> No.5923063

>>5922820
>>5922743
It's honestly amazing how easily the sensibilities lf these professors are taken advantage of. They severely lack any sort of introspection of the capability to realize that their students are regurgitating their opinion back to them to get a good grade. They're just happy the students share their opinion.

High school was harder than this. My teachers would almost always be more critical of essays that share their opinion. In my religion class my teacher spent two hours condemning the Chinese annexation of Tibet (which I agreed was terrible) but as an essay topic at the end of the year, I had to write the essay supporting China.

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So incredibly bad

>> No.5923158

>>5923011
Seriously?

>> No.5923171

>>5923158
Yes. We read The Hunger Games and Romeo & Juliet in comic book form.

>> No.5923178
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5923178

The fucking worst book I have ever read.

>> No.5923248
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5923248

This fucking book is nothing but pseudo-philosophical bullshit with no redeemable value.

>> No.5923291

>>5921829
I liked it. One of the better suicides in all of literature.

I couldn't stand Marquez when I read him for school, but have since come around.

>> No.5923473

>>5923248
I forgot I had this as summer reading one year, couldn't get through it. Such fucking trash.

>> No.5923479

>>5923473
Do you live in New Jersey?

>> No.5923617

I think I'm the only person that liked Ethan Frome.

>> No.5923732
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5923732

If you were in 7th grade in 80th Germany you got the "Canterville Ghost". Fucking boring, though the retards liked it.

>> No.5923752

>>5922718
Maybe not collectively, but in individual pockets there was plenty of that assbackwards repressive shit which came in endless variety. Personally been to plenty historical small town museums, the road to being total cunts was short for those people.

>> No.5923762

>>5922820
if you bullshitted, wtf were you doing in women gender studies in the first place?

>> No.5923788

>>5923479
yea m8
They gave us such crap to read over break.

>> No.5923798

>>5923617
I didn't get to read this bc AP lit didn't teach it, was kind of jealous. Also didn't read Frankenstein.

All the cool dudes in this thread totally owning and tricking all those SJW feminist prof sure seem smart and clever, not at all like lazy close minded dweebs.

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i was only 5 years old

>> No.5925279

>>5922060
>and, as an ethical hedonist
*slightly adjusts trilby*

>> No.5926333

>>5923248
Seconded.

This is faux-religious babble dressed up with proverbs to hide the fact that it's all just pulled out of his ass.

>> No.5926388

>>5923798
pretty passive aggressive Anon

>> No.5926404 [DELETED] 
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5926404

A timeless classic of SJWism.

>> No.5926428

>>5923798
Yea if there's anywhere politics belongs it's in the 10th grade classroom via an emotional pseudo-lesbian landwhale you fucking piece of garbage.

>> No.5926432

A Visit From the Goon Squad. To add insult to injury, I had to read it in two different classes.

>> No.5926523

>>5926428
lol sorry your teacher last semester was so mean to you

>>5926432
in HS? that book is cool, but I think it's a couple years too old for teens to get/would be pretty depressing to read at like 17 (I read it at 23)

>> No.5926542

>>5926523
You're the one who seems to be offended that people don't want identity politics pushed in the public classroom m8

>> No.5926565

>>5926542
it's more the 'yeah man! I did no work and fooled my teacher into giving me an A! I'm so clever!' bragging that I find pathetic, although the other stuff doesn't help