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The book that I didn't ever liked was 'The Caucacian Chalk Circle'I didn't understood it so much as it used an alien English of ....But I had to reread it many times as it was mandatory to my exams. :no-spoil: :no-spoil: :no-spoil:
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We read Of Mice and Men and Lord of the Flies and I hated them both. Needless to say English literature quickly became my least favourite subject, which saddened me as I've always loved reading!
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Bless the Beasts and Children. My freshman English teacher was just too into the allegorical nature of it. A lot of books I didn't like when I had to read them for class I have later gone back and read, and actually liked. But I have never been able to convince myself to even look for this book again.
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Gulliver's Travel!!
I hated coz there was 2 parts of the book and it was mandatory for us to read it before the exam.
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The obnoxious and famous Don Quixote. I never read it in the end... I was honest with my teacher and I said I tried hard, but just couldn't. In the end, she said she understood, and gave another piece, which I finished in two days and had my report about it handed in the day after.
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Almost without exception, I came to admire and even love the books that were assigned. There is one exception that came later in life which I will get to in a moment. The problem, at least for me, with the classic books assigned by well meaning teachers: I was not ready for them. I doubt most of my classmates were ready. I always cite The Scarlet Letter as the prime example of this. In ninth grade, at least back when I attended it and the mighty mastodon roamed the earth, was not a hotbed for deep thinking concerning sin, redemption and adultery. We had no way to enter the book. I was slightly more prepared in college but it was not until a third assignment in graduate school that I came to understand the book in any meaningful way.

And speaking of grad school: I am sorry Professor M (wherever you are) but I never finished James' Portrait of a Lady. I have tried and tried and tried again, but I cannot help it. I want to shout at Mr James: just get on with it! Try to write a sentence that does not require a map and a compass. So, it is not the first book I hated in school, but it currently reigns as undisputed champion.
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There's an O'Neill play that I hated, Long Day's Journey into Night. I just all seemed so pointless and meandering. I couldn't stand it.
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The Evenings by Gerard Reve. It's a Dutch classic (my native language is Dutch), recently translated into English, and I read it for school. They often say in the Netherlands that this one kills your love for reading Dutch literature and I agree it did for me.
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The Catcher in the Rye. My goodness, what a horror was that to be subjected to.
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I can't say that there is a book I hated while at school because after my teacher succeeded in making me a lover of books, I became so addicted to books and I could read anything readable to date though I have become picky though not extremely picky.
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I don't remember the name of it. It was a book about a teenage girl who fell for a typical bad boy type and ran away from home. They had to live at the YMCA. She woke up one morning and he was gone.
It was REALLY lame, in my opinion. Aside from those details, the only other thing I remember is her name was Donnie and his name was Mitch. Because my 9th grade English teacher accidentally called them "Donnie and Marie" one day. LOL :D
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Maralynx wrote: 31 May 2019, 08:59 The obnoxious and famous Don Quixote. I never read it in the end... I was honest with my teacher and I said I tried hard, but just couldn't. In the end, she said she understood, and gave another piece, which I finished in two days and had my report about it handed in the day after.
I hated this book too. Cervantes wrote this book just as a parody of the traveling knights that were popular in his century. So we had to read a very old parody. :roll2:
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A Separate Peace. I read it my freshman year of high school and it was garbage.
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-Tinuthien- wrote: 06 Jun 2019, 06:46 The Catcher in the Rye. My goodness, what a horror was that to be subjected to.
I had to read that my sophomore year of high school and I think my biggest grievance with it was just that Holden was a jerk and I wanted to jump into the book just to fight him.
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I never liked Animal Farm by George Orwell or How to Read Literature Like A Professor by Thomas Foster because I though they were both incredibly dull. However, the book I despised and hated with every fiber of my being was Moby Duck. Not Moby Dick. It was called Moby Duck and was about the ship of rubber ducks that got lost at sea during the 1900's. Our science teachers in 7th grade made us read it because I suppose at first glance it seemed interesting enough, but it was truly a horrid book. That book was the only one I have never been able to finish. Nobody could bring themselves to read it, and eventually the teachers let us get away with it after they too realized what a bad book it was.
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