<p>I think we’re all forgetting THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA?</p>
<p>I’m sorry, but you’re forgetting the worst: Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad). 130 pages of pure torture.</p>
<p>Heart of Darkness. The racism aspects were interesting but his voice is so boring it’s ridiculous.</p>
<p>Brave New World, anyone?</p>
<p>Ethan Frome and Walden</p>
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I loved that book! It did get a bit tedious at times, but not nearly to the same extent as books like The Scarlet Letter or Jane Eyre.</p>
<p>I really didn’t like the Scarlet Letter. Sorry.</p>
<p>-Guns, Germs, & Steel. Could literally be summed up in a chapter or so.
-The Scarlet Letter</p>
<p>The Scarlet Letter.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
The Great Gatsby.</p>
<p>UGH UGH UGH.</p>
<p>Oh, and I also really didn’t like The Catcher in the Rye. I don’t know why everyone else likes it.</p>
<p>I’m really surprised to see some of the books on here, even though it is a very subjective topic…but I thought To Kill a Mockingbird was beautiful. So was Anthem.</p>
<p>Firstly, I have to say that I absolutely love Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations, anything by Charles Dickens, and A Doll’s House!</p>
<p>That being said… I hated The Scarlet Letter, Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Invisible Man, and And Still We Rise. Ugh!</p>
<p>Oh god! Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. Kill me now!</p>
<p>Frankenstein. Total hack job.</p>
<p>Can anyone comment on the boringness level of Fahrenheit 451 and The Awakening? I need to be reading these for AP English next semester, as well as The Great Gatsby.</p>
<p>I actually liked Brave New World… and The Scarlet Letter as well.</p>
<p>I hated Great Expectations and Dante’s Inferno. I also disliked Pride and Prejudice. I don’t think I even finished reading it. </p>
<p>^I haven’t read The Awakening, but I thought Fahrenheit 451 was okay. Wasn’t the most exciting thing ever but I didn’t think it was bad and it’s pretty short.</p>
<p>I really enjoyed Brave New World. I read it a couple times and tied to read it backwards. </p>
<p>Great Expectations is somewhat hard for me to read. I read it on iBooks and it seems like an endless journey. An endless journey that I enjoy and can smile back on. One day I will finish that book!</p>
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<p>I read both! I read Fahrenheit 451 over the summer two years ago, and I loved it. It’s one of those books you can use as a parallel to humanity in every expository essay. Then again, I’m a sucker for dystopian novels. You may not like it since you didn’t like Brave New World. In my mind, it’s on the same boring level as Brave New World; both get somewhat tedious at points, but both follow stories that are too good to make them completely boring. </p>
<p>As for The Awakening, it’s more of an easy read. There’s not much to read into; of course there’s still symbolic stuff, but the key points of the story come out easily. It had its boring moments, but every book does. The ending is completely unexpected, which could either be a good thing or a bad thing; you decide!</p>
<p>Great Gatsby, you either love it or hate it. It’s a pretty easy read as well.</p>
<p>My Antonia. Without a doubt that worst book I’ve ever read.</p>
<p>I couldn’t get past the first 35 pages of 50 shades without curling up in a ball of laughter. To think that it made some women’s ovaries quiver…</p>
<p>Forgot how to have fun while doing the Gifted IB.</p>
<p>How can Of Mice and Men be boring when it’s so short? I can get through it in under two hours :)</p>
<p>I can’t stand anything by Mark Twain or John Steinbeck. I especially hated * The Pearl. *</p>