<p>Of Mice and Men is brilliant, and it’s only around 100 pages, which I can easily read in less than two hours. Dante’s Inferno is also brilliant</p>
<p>New addition: The House of Mirth</p>
<p>Who ever said Fast Food Nation, I loved that book. </p>
<p>Then again, I was on a middle school health food kick, so I guess my opinion is a bit swayed.</p>
<p>And a big WTH @ whoever hated Slaughterhouse-Five. Kurt Vonnegut is an amazing writer, and SH5 is one of his best works</p>
<p>My son says Cry the Beloved Country is the absolute worst book he’s ever had to read. He has to put the TV on in the background to read it.</p>
<p>My son’s friends were in the English class that had to read Love in the Time of Cholera. We teased them incessantly about having to read an Oprah’s Book Club selection.</p>
<p>This is at an all boy’s Catholic school.</p>
<p>Twilight… what was I thinking? haha. </p>
<p>musicallylatin- i agree about fast food nation btw.</p>
<p>-Johnny Tremain I couldn’t get past the first three chapters and I’m the type of person who almost always finishes books (even school ones)</p>
<p>-Oh and the Hemingway one where he is an ambulance driver, I forget the title. I stopped when he began describing his “romance” with the nurse. Not really his strong suite IMO.</p>
<p>Also does anyone else remember being really wierded out by the pig rape scene in A Day No Pigs Would Die?</p>
<p>And I agree completely pyroza.</p>
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<p>I actually liked that play but that is very good summary (pretty much). Like I said I did enjoy the play but afterwards I thought to myself “*** did I just read?”</p>
<p>@sev1991:</p>
<p>ok, House of the Spirits was really creepy with all the incest stuff and none of the magical realism even seemed to fit, the Poisonwood Bible was boring and I got tired of the characters complaining all the time, Like Water for Chocolate got boring after a while, and To Kill a Mockingbird was boring.</p>
<p>I do agree, Fahrenheit 451 was a good…and Shakespeare is good, especially Macbeth.</p>
<p>Hemingway is pretty bad except for Old Man and The Sea.</p>
<p>“-Oh and the Hemingway one where he is an ambulance driver, I forget the title. I stopped when he began describing his “romance” with the nurse. Not really his strong suite IMO.”</p>
<p>haha a farewell to arms. yeah not so good. i HATED that one paragraph-long sentence. he’s gotta let us breathe somewhere, or the book itself will kill us with its boringness</p>
<p>YES! Finally someone who thinks Hemingway sucks! Never read old man and the sea though. His Macumber short story thing about a lion eating a guy was just downright dull.</p>
<p>heart of darkness</p>
<p>I read Old Man and the Sea ages ago, but I remember actually liking it for some reason. Even though nothing happens. (Because the entire book can basically be summed up as this: Old Man 1, Big Fish 0).</p>
<p>Just finished For Whom the Bell Tolls. Hated the main female character. She made me want to shoot myself. Repeatedly.</p>
<p>Poisonwood Bible. Huh. I adored the first half of it (great voices), but by the second half, it was basically Kingsolver pushing her political beliefs on the readers. Annoyed me a bit, but I dealt with it.</p>
<p>As for Heart of Darkness. Totally understand why people hate it. I still like it, and I have no idea why. Heh.</p>
<p>I find it hard to believe that these are the “worst” books you guys have ever read.</p>
<p>Maybe the <em>least enjoyable</em>, but certainly not the “worst”.</p>
<p>Pride and Prejudice, and yes, I’m a woman.</p>
<p>Tuck Everlasting… we often said F— Everlasting. 6th grade.</p>
<p>I love Animal Farm.</p>
<p>Actually, Old Man is so much more complex than Old Man 1, Fish 0. I wrote an entire paper about the representations of the pointlessness of violent individualism, taoism, and the classical greek tragedy in the novel. It can be interpreted in so many ways and is, on the surface, one of the least complicated and most accessible novels ever written. It is, in my opinion, one of the greatest pieces of fiction ever composed.</p>
<p>Ii dontknow if this has been mentioned, but I personally cannot stand Faulkner. Ii was reading Absalom for about 10 pages but I just had to stop. I find his style completely unintelligible and by the time I get to the end of the sentence Im often asking myself *** just happened</p>
<p>Well, now two of my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE BOOKS have been listed as the WORST. I must defend them. :)</p>
<p>The Good Earth: I could not put this book down. I LOVED it :)</p>
<p>And Tuck Everlasting?!?!?! I’ve read it five times and it has made me cry every time. And I generally don’t cry alot with books :)</p>
<p>@pretty_vacant: Oh wait, I confused The House Of Spirits with one of her other books. I agree, I didn’t like it much either. But especially To Kill A Mockingbird I didn’t think was boring at all ;-)</p>
<p>I hate Goethe. Anything by Goethe.</p>
<p>Yeah all of Faulkner’s books starts off really boring but he draws you in towards the end when it gets all eerie and twisted. Read A Rose For Emily, the end is pretty gruesome when she kills her love interest and sleeps with his cadaver for a very long time.</p>
<p>And @ YAWN, my apologies “worst” was a bit misleading. You’re right, it should have been titled “least enjoyable”</p>