<p>I hated Charles Dickens(Tale of Two Cities), until I read Lord of the Rings. The descriptions were like “■■■■, did you just say all that to give a description?”</p>
<p>OMG, whoever said the Uglies’ series - are you referring to Scott Westerfeld’s teen books? If so, I ADORED those! I read the first after checking it out of my public library then immediately went out and bought the rest :D</p>
<p>Twilight, for sure. I reckon it should be banned entirely! It…It promotes adoloscent stupidity! lol. Best argument I could conjure up off the top of my head.
I actually LIKED Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter actually. Surprised at the number to profess a hatred for it - can’t go past a book with adultery as a main theme! LOL. That said, I despise Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Though I may have picked it up expecting erotica. Ahem… :P</p>
<p>Forget antiquity though, I’m still completely devoted to Harry Potter and have been for the last eight and something years. Mature, huh? lol.</p>
<p>Haha. Yep, I was refering to Mr. Westerfeld’s books. I just couldn’t get into it.</p>
<p>And likewise, I love the Harry Potter series.</p>
<p>Oh my goodness. I have this thing were I can never leave a book unfinished, especially if it’s for school, and I nearly cried when I started The Scarlet Letter. That book was so horrible… I wrote a scathing analysis of Hester Prynne for my Lang class just to make myself feel better haha. Even my teacher was shocked at how much I utterly disliked that book.</p>
<p>Also, Lord of the Flies (horrible book), Silas Marner (Really? There was no story until the last two pages. I wanted to gouge my eyes), Twilight (there is nothing in this book to warrant the hype. Nothing.), Flatlands, and pretty much anything Dickens. I’m sorry, but I’ve tried over and over, and I still can’t get into Dickens. Maybe one day though…</p>
<p>The only appealing thing about Dickens is the social commentary. I only liked Lord of the Flies because it short and simple, an easy read for school.</p>
<p>The catcher of the rye by JD Salinger. Oy ve. I thought it’d be interesting to choose that book for my English project. Boy, was I wrong thank god I did not stick with it.</p>
<p>Ironic I was going to choose The Scarlet Letter as well but my teacher said it would be a tough read. After reading what guys have to say, I’m glad I didn’t go with that book. Instead, I chose a different book, House of the seven gables by the same author, Nathaniel Hawthorne. I haven’t read much but flipping through the book, it doesn’t look very attractive :(</p>
<p>Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocaville</p>
<p>I read it after freshman year in 2006. If I knew Sparks Notes existed online , I would have used it .</p>
<p>Okay, I admit, I was a Twilight fan when they first came out, but then Breaking Dawn killed it for me. I think the reason why people like it so much is not so much the writing as the senario. I mean, isn’t is nearly every adolesent girl’s dream to find that perfect guy who loves you know matter what? But like I said, I got over it, and when I tried to read Twilight again, I couldn’t see why I liked it. That said, the Host was much better, at least in my opinion :)</p>
<p>Adding to my earlier list, none of the Harry Potter books were any good.</p>
<p>My friend said that she liked Twilight because it made her feel smart to read such a big book…</p>
<p>^ :D</p>
<p>10char</p>
<p>Robinson Crusoe takes the cake here</p>
<p>I found the Bible captivating though I didn’t believe it</p>
<p>A Prayer for Owen Meany.</p>
<p>I hated all the characters…
oh and To Kill a Mockingbird</p>
<p>I like all of these books, pretty much, heh. Hemmingway (sp?) is a genius. Austen picks up if you stick with her, and even Dickens has a damn good story hidden in all those words. And to hate Hamlet…wow.</p>
<p>The only (scholastic, I never got Twilight and lost respect for Eragon once I realized it was “Dragon” with an E instead of a D, come on!) book I well and truly loathe is Madame Bovary, and that’s only on a purely aesthetic level. Flaubert’s symbolism is intense, even if it does make the book less enjoyable.</p>
<p>I think there’s a different between ‘bad’ and ‘difficult’. A majority of this list is ‘difficult’ writings. Personally, I can’t respect those opinions too much. Especially if they say they go on SparkNotes -_-* </p>
<p>I liked the creativity of Twilight. Not exactly the plot… Bella and Edward are so typical (whether one is a faint-hearted klutz and the other is a brooding vampire)- but her relationships of everyone around her. This whole world, I love it. </p>
<p>The books like Lord of the Flies and Harry Potter are just for people who want more excitement and/or for people who aren’t into conformity.</p>
<p>I think people who think along any of these lines probably don’t read books for fun. </p>
<p>Horrible book? Never read one.</p>
<p>A Tale of Two Cities</p>
<p>■■■■. I’d kill myself before I read that again.</p>
<p>walk two moons. god that was terrible</p>
<p>My two favorite books ever. Eragon series and Roots.</p>
<p>Most hated, 90% of the high school curriculum.</p>
<p>^ hated Eragon.</p>
<p>Shinashi- I don’t think that these books were too “difficult” for people to understand them. I mean, To Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye are pretty easy reads. Also, this is CC, and most of the people on here are insanely smart (myself NOT included haha). So I’m sure it was more a matter of them just not liking the book.</p>
<p>And I found all the relationships in Twilight to be so superficial and predictable. I mean, every guy fawns over her, while all the girls hate her? Clueless dad whom she babies, even though he clearly had to be taking care of himself all those years before she moved in with him? The only one I semi-liked in that book was Jacob, but I’ve heard the author pretty much kills that character/relationship later on, so no more Twilight for me I guess. :] But I have plenty-I repeat, plenty-of friends who are absolutely in love with this series, so whatever. To each his own.</p>