Amandurrs Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 Glad to see someone shares my deep dislike of Julius Caesar. We just read it in class and I couldn't help but fall asleep every time she put that tape on. I really couldn't find anything in the play to interest me and I'm pretty sure as a result of my dozing off in class, I did poorly on the test we had. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperpheasant Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 The Plague by Camusit was soooooooooooooo boring and I had it for one of WLA'sand then it was The origins of 2 WW by A.J.P. Taylorso badly written, it feels like he was just taking the notes for himself to remember, defo not reader friendly book Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGBellamy Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger. I had to read it for GCSE, and it's one of those books I know I would have liked if I didn't have to study it for an exam.Jane Eyre. Just ugh! I know it's a classic, I know it's a 'feminist' novel, but I just can't stand it! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karbs Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 (edited) Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller: Read it last year! Freaking hated it!!!And Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, just finished it this week, was so difficult to concentrate. Edited February 24, 2011 by Desy ♫ do not type in all CAPS Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiffly101 Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 the White Castle by Orhan Pamuk!!!it was sooo boring!!! i stopped reading it from the third chapter!! n ive only done that thrice in my life!! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proletariat Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller: Read it last year! Freaking hated it!!!And Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, just finished it this week, was so difficult to concentrate.Haha, I'm reading Sargasso right now as well. I don't find it that bad, although her style is very misty-eyed and meandering, and I could almost tell no difference between the voice of Rochester and that of Antoinette. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
--- mk Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 There was this one book we had to read w-a-a-a-y back in Year 7 or something and I think it was called Skellig .. worst book I have ever had the misfortune to read + = Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrcr87 Posted February 26, 2011 Report Share Posted February 26, 2011 Chinua Achebe's No Longer At Ease, although that was pre-IB. Currently, I don't hate any of the books yet, because I haven't really read them Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-IB Student Posted March 2, 2011 Report Share Posted March 2, 2011 Lord of the Flies and Lucky Jim:P Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaaeDore Posted March 2, 2011 Report Share Posted March 2, 2011 The only book I've ever hated-- Candide, by Voltaire. I know he's trying to make a point, but the waaaay-overdone misfortunes made it unbearably tedious to read. I can't understand my classmates who somehow found it hilarious. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milos Posted March 2, 2011 Report Share Posted March 2, 2011 Hmmm... if you have problems falling asleep or insomnia or something like that then I would recommend you to read Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky that I'm reading and I guarantee that you are going to fall asleep after few pages because the book is generally boring but there are few interesting ideas and once you read it you are going to get it all... after 600 pages it starts to make sense... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainbow_Imi Posted March 2, 2011 Report Share Posted March 2, 2011 Death in Venice - Thomas Mann.I see myself burning that book as soon as my exams are over Unfortunetly I still need it for the Interactive Oral Presentation & WLA2 otherwise it would have been destroyed ages ago It's like Oscar Wilde all over again Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ad astra. Posted April 2, 2011 Report Share Posted April 2, 2011 Kensuke's KingdomSkelligTwelfth NightMacbethStone ColdAnimal FarmBasically, a majority of the books I had to read for school.I didn't particularly hate them, but I remembered thinking that reading those books were such a chore.And the Shakespeare plays are better performed anyway. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slovakov Posted April 2, 2011 Report Share Posted April 2, 2011 Definitely "Crime and Punishment" by f. Dostoevsky. I've never read such a depressing book before. Although I like the majority of Russian authors, this one was really too much for my mind... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emmi Posted April 2, 2011 Report Share Posted April 2, 2011 Siddhartha was terrible.The Great Gatsby was terrible. I know so many people liked it, but for me, no. I thought it was awful.I didn't like A Scarlet Letter either.And Crime and Punishment was just so long, it was ridiculous. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bomaha Posted April 2, 2011 Report Share Posted April 2, 2011 Julius Caesar was one of the most books that I hated Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam-chan Posted April 17, 2011 Report Share Posted April 17, 2011 100 Years of Solitude. I couldn't even read it completely. I'm going to have fun with it for my World Lit 2 Paper. 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Hook Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS. i really hated this book... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
knucklebumper Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. Ugh.I mean, I appreciate the text's importance historically and all, but I just didn't enjoy reading it. With most texts we do in class, I enjoy dissecting and inspecting them - looking at the fine details of the author's work etc. And later on, I'll proudly put it on my bookshelf. But this was just such a boring process for BLCS and I'm just glad I never have to pick that book up again 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hexa Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 100 Years of Solitude is messed up and just plain wrong. on top of that the writing is horrible, and the parts that were remotely interesting to me were more or less skipped over completely with only a like a page dedicated to them, while things that I would rather not read about, like incest, were expanded on so much I felt like burning the book and accepting zero marks for all related assignments. I've never hated a book this much in my life. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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