<p>I loved Gatsby and house on mango street!
The only good part of Les mis were the action and love scenes, the rest was boring.
Jane Eyre was a tiring read and Julius Caesar. </p>
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<p>Henry V didn’t do it for me, nor did Hamlet. Doll’s House, which we also read this semester, was really good.</p>
<p>Great Expectations, Scarlet Letter</p>
<p>Anything Victorian, bacially.</p>
<p>The Red and the Black. </p>
<p>Kill me now.</p>
<p>Great Expectations, suffered through the first eleven chapters, then suffered through sparknotes!</p>
<p>great expectations…book is a brick</p>
<p>^ agree with you both! We’ve spent a year on it so far and still only just finished part 2 of 3. 3 months left to our exam :(</p>
<p>I actually liked Great Expectations. I once read twelve chapters in one night during freshman year.</p>
<p>Here’s my ultimate boredom list:
-Anna Karenina - like 50 characters introduced within the first 5 pages and no events whatsoever
-For Whom the Bell Tolls - just a bunch of soldiers talking about a battle and their families
-King Lear - it seemed like nothing was happening
-Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - I was literally reading it on-and-off from 2003 (the day it came out) to 2006; the damn thing was like 875 pages</p>
<p>What the Dog Saw
actually contemplated removing my eyeballs while reading this</p>
<p>I know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Didn’t even finish it. I got a C on the test, which is bad, but not so bad considering I only read 2/3 of the book.</p>
<p>I don’t think Of Mice and Men was too boring, but I absolutely hated the book and despite it’s historical significance or whatever, I think it was utterly pointless. </p>
<p>Reading Gulliver’s Travels was like death.</p>
<p>I had to read Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad for Academic Decathlon last year. Some people liked it, but it was the most boring book I’ve ever read. It was a pain to get through due to its overly complicated diction (although this was Conrad’s intention).</p>
<p>A Preface to Politics…
But I guess this is cuz I tried to make some sense out of it when I was in 8th grade or sth so… I guess all the politics talk was a lil advanced to me then…
LOL… I only chose it cuz it said “PREFACE”… as in INTRODUCTION I thought… anyway, I bet i’d like it now… But I hated it so much then that I dunno if I can get myself to start a “clean slate” with that thing hahaha</p>
<p>The Scarlet Letter… The plot wasn’t that bad I just could not get into the story though.</p>
<p>-“The Awakening” by Kate Chopin
-“Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck
-“The Plague” by Albert Camus
-“Hiroshima” by John Hersey (hard to believe a big detailing one of the most tragic moments in human history could be such a snoozefest)</p>
<p>‘Anthem’ by Ayn Rand. With every single sentence I read from this book, I felt more and more miserable. Rand seems like she would be such a bummer to be around. She seemed so jaded about everything.</p>
<p>-Les Miserables is so freaking long! Has a nice moral to it, but it is unreasonably long. There are whole chapters just describing the cholera epidemic that had nothing to do with the story.</p>
<p>-Lord of The Flies. The plot was awesome! And the themes and motifs were amazing, but lots of grandiose verbosity. Hardly read it…</p>
<p>I agree Les Mis and Don Quixote are boing but I only read small excerpts for those classes so it was bearable.
The absolute worst book I have read was A Tale of Two Cities. I did fall asleep reading it. And I could not catch anything that was going on at all.
Some book or an excerpt from a book by some guy named Pritchett about the Spanish temper…
Lord of the Flies
A Seperate Peace (I didn’t finish it)
July’s People— ugh one of the only people in the class who actually read the book and I regret that.
Boring plays:
Oedipus
An Ideal Husband (but I was sick that week so…)
Midsummer nights dream
Twelfth Night… The rest of my class found it funny, after all it is a comedy, but I was absolutely bored to death
Julius Caesar
Wit
[obviously dramatic lit was not a very good class for me… Not all of these are from that class though]</p>
<p>Anything by Immanuel Kant, simply because I Kant understand him (sorry, couldn’t resist :p). But his ideas are very interesting in Sparknotes form.</p>