The one piece of literature you hated reading in school

[the_ultimate_evil]

Juno and the paycock

i despised that play in a year i read macbeth and animal farm, i couldn't take my english lit teacher constant praise for it

 

[twylight]

Wow.. so much Shakespeare dislike. I actually really love Shakespeare. Not all his work, but the majority of it. I took a Shakespeare class in HS and another one in college.

and shhhhhhhhhhh speak not of the Scottish play.

 

[SuperFerret]

You know what I mean.

And you know what I mean.

 

[SuperFerret]

I like Willy Shakes too.

 

[Franklin Richards]

So far I haven't heard anyone complain about the material. Just the fact that they had to read a "play".

 

[twylight]

Well dang, I have no issue reading plays. The Crucible to this day is one of my favorites (while I hate The Death of a Salesman, but that's because of a specific Prof I had who was obsessed with it and had us write 3 papers on it during one class).

I tend to act them out in my head when I read them.

But I mean seriously, the stage direction is as fun as the actual material!

Exit, pursued by a bear

 

[Franklin Richards]

I just finished doing a summer production of Noises Off and the stage directions are just as funny as the farce.

 

[Boom]

The Scarlet Letter.


There are NO words for that novel.

 

[Brother Jack]

Looking back, most of the stuff I read was good.

Of Mice and Men, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Road. I should be so lucky.

 

[Franklin Richards]

Of Mice and Men is SO short and so memorable. Easy A on that one.

 

[SuperFerret]

I'm still pissed as I was when I found out that other schools read The Lord of the Rings.

 

[twylight]

The Scarlet Letter.


There are NO words for that novel.

I'd gladly read Mockingbird or Of Mice and Men again before touching that one again.

Looking back there are some 'holes' in my learning. I never had to read Animal Farm, or Lord of the Flies.

I'm still pissed as I was when I found out that other schools read The Lord of the Rings.

You didn't? Mine was coupled with Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

 

[SuperFerret]

My schools focused on books about things that were boringcould happen in real life.

 

[Franklin Richards]

Yeah. I didn't get Lord of the Rings either.


Frikkin' Great Expectations.

 

[Speedball]

I'm still pissed as I was when I found out that other schools read The Lord of the Rings.

We never read Lord of the Rings, but the summer before freshman year of HS, I had to read the Hobbit and Ender's Game. Sophomore year we read A Wizard of Earthsea and junior year we read the Sword in the Stone part of Once and Future King and had a whole section on Arthurian myth.

 

[Mr. Thing]

Studied Emma by Jane Austen in my first year at Uni. Words cannot describe the hate.

 

[Franklin Richards]

I prefer Anne of Green Gables.

 

[socool]

Beowulf and Animal Farm for sure. Mostly Animal Farm. Beowulf was bad because it was Shakespeare and poetry combined, but it had some entertaining parts. Animal Farm was boring all the way through and the fact that everything was a hidden symbol for some type of government or something within the government just bored me further.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Animal Farm was boring all the way through and the fact that everything was a hidden symbol for some type of government or something within the government just bored me further.

Kind of agree. Animal Farm belongs in a history, political science or social studies class, not English.

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

why its a well crafted story and has interesting characters, yes i can see your point of it being in a politics class but it has just as much right to be in a literature class

 

[Metamorpho1977]

****ing hated that book

Oh, and yeah, Shakespeare for sure. They're plays dammit, I'm supposed to watch it, not read it and analyse its ass off

My high school English teacher would read Shakespeare and she sounded like Andy Griffith when she read it. Only without the talent.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

The Great Gatzby wasn't that great either.

 

[Specter313]

Not a whole lot of books that I didn't like that I had to read in high school, and I took most of the higher level english classes, but the one I still remember hating reading the most was Heart of Darkness. That one was torture.

 

[Boom]

As I said, the correct answer to this thread is The Scarlet Letter.

If you've never read it, I dare you. All the other novels mentioned in this thread are a cake-walk compared to that literary abomination.

 

[DoomsdayApex]

Wow.. so much Shakespeare dislike. I actually really love Shakespeare. Not all his work, but the majority of it. I took a Shakespeare class in HS and another one in college.

and shhhhhhhhhhh speak not of the Scottish play.

You mean... MAC****!!

Yes, by god. I was (and still am) enticed by Shakespeare's works.

Hamlet has to be without a doubt my all time favorite play.