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What are books that you have had to read for school that you absolutely hate?


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I'm normally apathetic for books in English Literature. Only really in Year 11 (IB1) did I start to actually form genuine opinions. So far in Options, Part 4, we've done a few things. I really really enjoyed reading Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" which most of my class hated. Conversely, most of my class liked Khaled Hosseini's "Kite Runner" and I DESPISED it. I enjoy English but I could not focus when we studied this book, I hated it. 

We also did an IB Anthology, but nothing stood out. Luckily enough, we moved on from that quick enough..,

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On 8 de Outubro de 2010 at 3:22 AM, KifujinMizu said:

Absolutely hate? I actually have two.

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. I read this on my junior year. The storyline is so dry, and I did not understand where the book is taking me.

And I also didn't like the Iliad. It was too much for me to handle (must be because I was a sophomore, heheh). The 45 page-per-chapter thing made me not wanna read it, but I'm getting used to those now. :P

I have to read The Heart of Darkness actually for my EE as I am doing it on Film, by comparing the idealism and the self-destructiveness on The Apocalypse Now and The Lord of the Flies. Do you think its a good topic? Original?   

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