<p>I’m gonna go with Pride and Prejudice. </p>
<p>oh, and I’m a girl.</p>
<p>Haha position69. </p>
<p>i’d have to say maybe catch-22 for summer reading. i think it was the last book out of 3 that i had to read that summer and it just kept dragging on…and on…and on…and…well u get the picture.</p>
<p>Oh, I forgot: Wuthering Heights (so boring and depressing) and Slaughterhouse V (*** was going on in that book?)</p>
<p>I liked Slaughterhouse V.</p>
<p>Brave New World seemed outdated and didn’t have the shock value like it probably used to. Our teacher talked about it like it was so disturbing. We’ve seen the Matrix, it takes a little bit more than test tube babies to freak this generation out.</p>
<p>OMG. Firstly, following books should not be on this list:</p>
<p>Animal Farm
The Giver
Brave New World
Twilight (We all need books with cheap plotlines - they can be very enjoyable 
)
Ella Enchanted (so it’s for younger readers, who cares?!:))
The Metamorphosis
Lord Of The Flies
Eragon
The View from Saturday
Love In The Time Of Cholera (though I read it in Spanish. Marquez always adds weird twists, but I think that’s what makes him interesting)</p>
<p>I always finish reading any book I start, with two exceptions:
Moby Dick
Wuthering Heights
So I would have to say I would rate them as terrible ;-)</p>
<p>Also, The Princess Bride (the book, not the movie! It’s the only movie that’s better than its book 
) was pretty bad.</p>
<p>Thank you, sev1991 and musicallylatin. Can people not comprehend the epicness that is Orwell and Lowry?</p>
<p>I LOVED BNW and Animal Farm, but Sg9018, you’re right on the money. I absolutely hate Kafka.</p>
<p>I hate BNW with a passion, but I won’t consider it a bad book. If nothing else, at least Huxley’s trying . . . (except he ends up trying too hard and it shows through but . . .)</p>
<p>On the other hand, sev1991, I respectfully disagree with you: Eragon and Twilight should definitely be on that list. They’re bad even by fantasy standards, and that’s saying quite a bit. Yes, they’re only to be read for enjoyment, but that doesn’t mean that we should read them fully expecting to see bad-quality writing all over the place (for that, I say, we have the majority of fanfiction).</p>
<p>-Hunger of Memory:The Education of Richard Rodriguez.
-had to read it over the summer. basically 200+ pages of boo hoo i was an immigrant & my family didn’t know english & blah blah blah NO ONE GIVES A ■■■■■</p>
<p>-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
“@ STEVENSEAGUL that was Jim from Huck Finn. I know what you mean, I totally lost IQ points after reading his dialogue!”
lol, ditto.</p>
<p>-THE DAY NO PIGS WOULD DIE. i can’t quite remember what it was about, but reading it for class as an 8th grader, i remember being thoroughly disturbed by the pig-birthing scene…so weird.</p>
<p>aw, i liked animal farm when we read it in the 9th grade : )
also, i just read the hunger artist & i’ve decided that i like kafta.</p>
<p>& after i was pretty much forced by my friends into reading twilight & becoming completely addicted to the entire series, i’ve concluded that even though meyer has no talent as a writer, that she did make me feel completely invested in the characters. so there is…some…talent…there 
so, yeah, i love twilight. don’t shoot me :)</p>
<p>Scarlet Letter and Moby Dick. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my god. They were terrible.</p>
<p>^i love twilight too =) even if the writing is simplistic, it still has some cool characters =) if only fictional characters were real!</p>
<p>Is Stephenie Meyer’s writing really that poor?</p>
<p>its descriptive but nothing earth shattering, i must say i became infatuated with her characters and for about 5 months after i read the series i was thinking in immortality/vampire perception…haha lame huh?!</p>
<p>Oh, I see. I haven’t read Twilight, but I’ve heard Stephen King’s insults about her writing.</p>
<p>lol, sometimes books can change your life!</p>
<p>blair, it’s nothing exceptional. also, she uses a lot of the same words over & over again, lol.</p>
<p>“its descriptive but nothing earth shattering, i must say i became infatuated with her characters and for about 5 months after i read the series i was thinking in immortality/vampire perception…haha lame huh?!”
LOL, me too. those books will do that to u :p</p>
<p>Why is everyone saying Moby Dick was terrible?
And anyone who is saying Twilight has any literary merit whatsoever deserves to be shot on spot.
Anyways, worst book ever is Ethan Frome.</p>
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<p>This gives me great chagrin, per se.</p>
<p>Moby Dick is not terrible. Melville can really write. It’s just half the book was dedicated to showing us how to go whaling. It made me yawn.</p>
<p>Are you kidding? Whaling is possible the most manly activity one can engage in, besides beard competitions</p>
<p>“This gives me great chagrin, per se.”
LOL, yes, chagrin 
there was also tons of mumbling going on. ‘he mumbled. she mumbled.’ we get it;they are vampires & they mumble…</p>