<p>So far, my vote is with the Book of Job in the Old Testament.</p>
<p>The Autobiography of Benjiman Franklin
gahhhhhh the book had fricking grocery lists in it</p>
<p>^LOL REALLY HAHAHA</p>
<p>uh, i’d say a tale of two cities. NOT convincing at all, cute tho</p>
<p>Crime and Punishment. 650 pages of some guy angsting about how he’s not superior to the people around him.</p>
<p>Dude, C&P is good IMO. We read it a month ago in AP Lit. Well, compared to Heart of Darkness, anyway. We just had our test on that and it KILLED me. Bloody hell. I have never read a more confusing and rambling book.</p>
<p>Heart of Darkness is next semester for me. Thanks for the heads up.</p>
<p>And I know a lot of people liked C&P, but, seriously, the whole thing was Raskolnikov b****ing about how he’s not a Superman in between completely idealized characters (Razumikhin, Sonya, Dunya) being angelic foils. GRR! I mean, in the end, he didn’t even learn anything! He still wasn’t truly remorseful about killing Alyona and Lizaveta, only about the idea of killing them. Not to mention the whole religion thing and the way that the reader was bashed over the head with it. Maybe I just felt awkward because I was the only Jew a roomful of Protestants with a Catholic teacher but, come on, there’s almost nothing more patronizing to a reader than blatant Christian symbolism (except the symbolism in The Awakening, but that’s a whole nother story).</p>
<p>I don’t think there was a single character in that whole book that I actually liked (although Sonya’s mom was kind of ok to read about since she was totally NUTS). The idealized women just irritated me. Svidrigailov & Luzhin were obviously “bad guys,” in the simplest of terms. Raskolnikov was a sniveling whiner. </p>
<p>I just…<em>calming breath</em> That book really rubbed me the wrong way. </p>
<p>Darwin’s Origin of Species.
Yep. We read the whole thing.</p>
<p>Pride and Prejudice. </p>
<p>Scold me all you want. I do NOT like Jane Austin’s style of writing. Eh.</p>
<p>And The Scarlet Letter. How many pages does it take to describe a door? (I think that’s what it was)</p>
<p>Neither were very hard… but they just sucked for me.</p>
<p>Omg Ilove Pride And Prejudice What Are You Talking About</p>
<p>Reading Emma was extremely painful.</p>
<p>Sorry Narcissa. I REALLY, REALLY tried to like it. My best friend is IN LOVE with her so I figured I might like it after a while. But… no sorry :/. Lol.</p>
<p>I totally loved P&P. Austin’s subtly sarcastic style was brilliant, especially when talking through the father’s and Darcy’s voices. </p>
<p>Though I do recall seeing a poster somewhere that read: “Everytime a Jane Austin book is opened, an angel rips off its wings.” I don’t agree, but I thought it was a funny sign.</p>
<p>romanigypsyeyes i just had to read both books for ap lit over winter break.</p>
<p>NOT fun.</p>
<p>Jane Eyre was pure torture.
Also, although I like the story, Their Eyes Were Watching God is extremely difficult. It’s written in the dialect of poor, uneducated, black Southerners, so all the spelling/pronunciation is atrocious and a pain in the *** to work your way through.</p>
<p>For me it’s either A World Lit Only by Fire (for AP Euro) or The Scarlet Letter. Haha, I agree with you romani about the door thing…Hawthorne also took up 3 pages to describe Hester’s entrance onto the scaffold.</p>
<p>Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury” annoyed me to no end.</p>
<p>romanigypsyeyes, I’m with you buddy. Pride and Prejudice was a total NIGHTMARE!</p>
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<p>So dry. So boring. </p>
<p>Jane Austen…Pride and prejudice was the WORST. Closely following is emily bronte with wuthering heights</p>
<p>Their Eyes Were Watching God had both vernacular and “educated language” just authors style…</p>
<p>I didn’t like the book when I first read it but now I’m glad to have that book under my belt (:</p>
<p>Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson was beyond boring</p>