Tom Bombadil just slapped you.

I didn't see the film, but I'd quite happily watch it - after all, it was the actual writing style that I objected to. The only way you could recreate that on screen would be to have wooden acting and jump-cuts in every scene.

Dracula: The Undead

Not the original Dracula, but the "sequel" by a decendant of Bram Stoker.

I've never read any of Jane Austen's stuff, but of all the times I've seen it mentioned you're the first person I've ever heard refer to them as comedies.

catcher in the rye, the main character was a creepy whiny loser who thought the world owed him something....and yes i was forced to read in high school

i don't actually remember the story so much as just remembering how much i hated the main character

Moby dike

Christ what a boring book. 600 pages of a bunch of men on a boat talking about a whale and whaling. Why this is a classic I do not know.

seconded. you can throw the great gatsby in there as well. i had to read that in highschool and was bored to tears. i was also not overly impressed with 1984 which is another book that gets forced on everyone it seems. even the "good" parts in the movie were ruined when she flashed those hairy armpits. :yucky:

there was discussion about nazi and holocaust stuff. i think that it should be used so long as its historically accurate and or plausible. i could easily understand why some people might find movies like captain america and every third sci fi weekend movie distasteful because they treat a serious subject as some some kind of backdrop for a lame superhero or nazi super zombie creature.

I found it dull as well, but the beauty in it is the then-unique setting. Had LOTR been released in 21st century it would have been just one of the many mainstream fantasy cereals - but the thing is that much of modern fantasy are just modified LOTR copycats. Without LOTR, fantasy genre would be much, much lesser.

Not really, no. If I found a book boring I'd just stop reading it. The only way I could hate a book is if I was forced to read it (which reminds me of secondary school), but no book was really that bad. I did find Of Mice and Men a bit of a drag, but at least it's very short.

Lord of the Flies is easily one of my most favorite books of all time, I read the whole thing in one night during the 8th grade.

I have a hatred for Cirque de' Freeaks books, they are all essentially torture porm, nothing scary about them, just gross.

Also, I just could never get into Lord of the Rings.

Lots of hate for Catcher in the Rye; that is also one of my favorite books. I read it when I was in a similar situation to Caulfield and it helped me out a lot.

Can't say I hate any book, but LoTR I could never finish due the way it was written. Also, reading Song of Susannah by S.King felt more like digging a ditch than relaxing with a good story.

Ian Banks' The Wasp Factory. It's just crude, sick crap.


Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. I'd rather read Marx's polemics on dialectical materialism again than that tedious, pretentious rubbish.

:sick: Oh God, I'd forgotten about that mess.

The Old Man and the Sea. No idea why. The story is okay, but I feel it garners too much popularity for what it is. Actually, I love the plot of it. The meaning of it. Etc. Just... it's more of a children's book in my opinion.

I was forced to read it along with Alice Walker's jive-talking pormo-book, it's sole redeeming feature was that it made The Color Purple look good by comparison.

In my class of 30, I was one of only 3 that suffered through the entire book. I was reading it on Boxing Day to get it finished for crying out loud. :banghead:


Hawthorne said "Hells yeah, I'm gonna write the first big American epic, it's gonna be full of symbolism and be really awesome!"

And then he writes a turgid mess full of uneccesary adjectives and sub paragraphs. In a way it primed me for reading Supreme Court judgments.


I've never read any of her stuff all the way through, but what I have read of them makes it pretty clear she's mocking the characters.


I found Atlas Shrugged hilarious really. Her ideas are so alien and stilted, it permeates her writing and reads like some angsty college kid's livejournal.

What I was forced to read and absolutely hated;

Hamlet
Romeo and Juliet

Actually, anything by Shakespeare I find abhorrent. Although many of his prose, verse and soliloquy were brilliant and poetic observations of the moment, his grander narrative is nothing more than "pop culture" with cosplay. My first year English paper was titled "Die Hamlet, Die!". Whiny indecisive punk that man is...

The only one I forced upon myself was, Ulysses by Joyce. Hated it. There is a point where the elegant allusion becomes far too contrived in satisfying one's own ego. Author a book for a point other than confounding "scholars".

But you clearly were feeling rebellious




That was a terrible book.

The only book I can't stand is one that we were forced to read in grade 10 English: Lord of the Flies...I found absolutely nothing to like about this book.

I don't really have any others, I find that reading a bad book is infinitely worse then watching a bad movie or playing a bad game.

I agree. And I respect Lotr for that, but it's still dull. And I'm not too interested in high fantasy anyway.

I think 1984 is a overrated, I disliked the characters immensely and the plot as well.
Also, Catcher in the Rye sure I understand without that book being made my favorite anime would of never been made but it was such a depressing book I was just waiting for the main character to kill himself.
Another book I forget the name but there is some terrorists in north eastern United states took a school bus and held the kids hostage and accidentally killed a kid with candy.
Great Gatsby I did not like as well, Gatsby you stupid svcker you.

Would probably say Harry Potter because I just can't stand the hype around it. Looked at the books and never got into them because it just couldn't keep me interested.

It's extremely DARK however when I was in middle school instead of reading the "Friendly" books I picked up Stephen King books like Tommy Knockers and Dark Tower. This also transferred to High school when students were forced to take a reading test to see our comprehensive level. Being in 9th grade I scored a 13+ so had to pick out advanced books to read for myself. Only thing that caught my interest *refused to read War&Peace* was about Aztec/Myan culture which talked about human ritual sacrifices. Won't go into details since mods will have to edit 90% of everything I type up since those people were brutal.

However ya can't stand Harry Potter way to....unusual for me I just didn't like it.

Five actually:
1: Shadow Moon.
2: Shadow Star.
3: Shadow Dawn.
These three books are the official sequel to the movie Willow and they are boring as hell!
4: Lord of the Rings.
5: The Hobbit.
I love the Lord of the Ring movies and The Hobbit cartoon but I hate the books. I can't get into a book if it's WAY to descripted and keeps taking you out of the story just for back plot. That's the one thing I hated about the Hobbit. You read part of the story then the next chapter is back plot then the next chapter back to the story. It was like that through out the entire {beeping} book and I bairly made it through it and I never re-read it again.

Great Expectations. I didn't hate it necessarily but it was just a boring book.

My windows user manual? :shrug:

See, I couldn't get into Harry Potter until last year, when I re-read them (read the first two when they came out, didn't like them) and I fell in love with them.

The Dark Tower however, I thought was absolutely pathetic. I read up the Wizard and the Glass and I just gave up entirely.


I've never finished "Moby dike", got too bored by it.

Aaaand I think that's it. I thought "Alice in Wonderland" was a bit dull as well