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im sitting here getting ready for finals and i have to read this boook by emile durkheim called "suicide". what a horrible book, not only is it long and boring but the majority of it is in german. what are some of the worst bool that u had to read in order to pass a class?

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I wasn't a big fan of Canterbury Tales. I thought it was really boring.

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Anything by Charles Dickens. Good lord, that man sucked.

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i was gonna post mine in this thread until two people dissed Chaucer and Dickens in successsion.

Good lord, people

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knuckles of frisco wrote:
i was gonna post mine in this thread until two people dissed Chaucer and Dickens in successsion.

Good lord, people
Just because it's a "classic", doesn't mean you have to like it. Same goes for movies, music, exc... Like Water for Chocolate bored the hell out of me when I had to read it in high school. Classic my ass!


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LikeAnOcean wrote:
knuckles of frisco wrote:
i was gonna post mine in this thread until two people dissed Chaucer and Dickens in successsion.

Good lord, people
Just because it's a "classic", doesn't mean you have to like it. Same goes for movies, music, exc... Like Water for Chocolate bored the hell out of me when I had to read it in high school. Classic my ass!

just because you "don't like it" doesn't mean it's "horrible", especially if it's a "classic".

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Grapes of Wrath and Moby Dick. And both Charles Dickens and Chaucer were interesting. Although Chaucer gets lost in translation for sure.

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knuckles of frisco wrote:
LikeAnOcean wrote:
knuckles of frisco wrote:
i was gonna post mine in this thread until two people dissed Chaucer and Dickens in successsion.

Good lord, people
Just because it's a "classic", doesn't mean you have to like it. Same goes for movies, music, exc... Like Water for Chocolate bored the hell out of me when I had to read it in high school. Classic my ass!

just because you "don't like it" doesn't mean it's "horrible", especially if it's a "classic".
If you don't like it, "horrible" is a perfectly acceptable term you could use to describe it. Just because you think it's horrible, doesn't mean people need to agree with you. I think the title of this post was worst book YOU have read. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. :?


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The Scarlet Letter was pretty eh. And Madame Bovary...gah! What a slut! (not a bad book though.)

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loralei wrote:
Grapes of Wrath and Moby Dick. And both Charles Dickens and Chaucer were interesting. Although Chaucer gets lost in translation for sure.


i thought grapes of wrath was pretty decent....




Scarlet Letter SUCKED...capital "S"

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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.



I liked 1984 and Farhenheit 451 much better.

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StyrofoamChicken wrote:
Anything by Charles Dickens. Good lord, that man sucked.


I'm reading A Tale of Two Cities now. :oops:

But, for a class... Lord of the Flies. Read it two years ago and all I remember is some cannibalism and a seashell.


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Jane Austen books :x

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I love Jane Austen novels, love Like Water for Chocolate (I agree that it is not a classic, though), and I recommend The Jungle to anyone that works in the internet retail industry (lots of similarities, at least in 2001 Seattle.) I can not stand Faulkner. I had to read it for a class devoted soley to Faulkner, and my Professor turned me completely off Faulkner.

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Stephen wrote:
But, for a class... Lord of the Flies. Read it two years ago and all I remember is some cannibalism and a seashell.

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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.

i've tried, twice, to read that book for pleasure and have made it about 15 pages both times. so dense.

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I had to read Aristotle's On Rhetoric for a class once...I've never read so much and not understood any of it in my life.

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StyrofoamChicken wrote:
Anything by Charles Dickens. Good lord, that man sucked.


I realize he's a classic, but he sucks in my opinion.

Chaucer, on the other hand, is the fucking man.

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I tried to read "The Catcher In The Rye" for English. I fucking hated it. Stereotyping shit.

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