[Turb0 Negr0]

Originally Posted by DayoftheGreek

I really didn't like The Kite Runner.


I can't say I have read many books in my life that I though were worse.

GTFO, thats in my top 5

[Nutworth]

Originally Posted by snwbrdr913

Catch-22 is a one trick pony that keeps on telling you what it's trick is, over and over until it ends.

Please elaborate, because I for one just think that you want to be the one person in the flock who go's against the trend, or that you simply have no sense of humor.

[sbballer92]

Wuthering Heights
God i hatted that book

[gdawg plox]

A Separate Peace

Buhuhuhuhhhhhh

[bnctaj]

Flatland.

[chris_arnet]

Originally Posted by twss

Worst book I've ever read has to be A Brave New World. Goddamn I hate that book, the most overrated book ever. It was just awful.

I loved that book. I picked it up at B&N one day after reading a few pages and fell in love with it. Then, two months later I found out that its actually an AP English book at my school. Doesn't matter, still loved it. We get to read 1984 as our final book in senior english this year. I've already read it, and I swear if anyone complains abou that book, Im going to kick them in the head.

[MF Snakes (Banned)]

I didn't actually read it, but Rachel Carson's Silent Spring seemed pretty ****ty from the summaries I read of it. ~375 pages of "pesticides are bad mkay"

[twss]

Originally Posted by chris_arnet

I loved that book. I picked it up at B&N one day after reading a few pages and fell in love with it. Then, two months later I found out that its actually an AP English book at my school. Doesn't matter, still loved it. We get to read 1984 as our final book in senior english this year. I've already read it, and I swear if anyone complains abou that book, Im going to kick them in the head.

1984 is probably my favorite book ever. I think the reason I dislike Brave New World so much is it seems like it's a cheap take on the same stuff as 1984. It's very weak compared to 1984, no good characters, nothing too interesting or exciting. It's just very dull for a book with that type of subject matter.

[CAHunter3]

Originally Posted by sbballer92

Wuthering Heights
God i hatted that book

What was it like? Hatting such a book.

[Marko34256]

i'm not much of a book reader, but The Pioneers is BY FAR the worst book i've ever read (had to for some gen. ed. history class)



i feel sorry for anyone that has to read that

[SmartyJones]

I kind of enjoyed Flatland actually

Originally Posted by holycheezit

Not the worst book ever, but ones I hated are Jane Eyre, Scarlet Letter, and a Tale of Two Cities

I by no means hated Jane Eyre, but I believe it is somewhat overrated

Originally Posted by paintball_shaman

I hate Grapes of Wrath.

But I love Great Expectations. And I don't know who couldn't love Catch-22.

I too love Great Expectations.

Originally Posted by Jack of Blades 2

The Iliad. Not a fan.

WTF

Of course I love epic poetry, so my opinion is biased.

Originally Posted by Mike.Sen

...—Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles.

Yes.Yes.Yes. Fagles' translation is beautiful just for that reason. Strange, it may be, but―I have the first line memorized in Fagles' translation and Greek (not that it's that hard to 'memorize'.).

Not sure about the accents, but

μήνιν ἄειδε, θεά, Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχίλληος,

It's translated that way because μήνιν means rage, but ἄειδε is the verb telling θεά (Muse/Goddess) to Sing about the rage of Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχίλληος (the Son of Peleus, Achilles).

So it's one of the more apparent issues we have with literary translation.

And second, μήνιν is pronounced manin (long a, as in tame), and it's feminine. The word isn't as cut throat as Rage. So, even though Fagle's translation is so much more gripping for it's opening line, it's kind of innaccurate. (you know, cuz it's Achilles' childish rage that costs lives and all.)

Hope you enjoy the read in Greek. I read the Aeneid in Latin while translating, it was a good and enjoyable time.

Originally Posted by Malitov

Great Expectations. I hated that book. We had to read it and watch the movie.

Never saw the movie, but the book I thought was great.

Originally Posted by ipoppedtammy

I freaking hated The Da Vinci Code. I don't read much pop lit because I'm an English major and read too much other stuff already, but I read that book after hearing about it forever, thinking it would at least be engaging. Instead, it's so nauseatingly predictable that you can guess who the secret person carrying Jesus' blood is just about 2 pages after the idea is introduced.

I could never bring myself to read that book

Originally Posted by sbballer92

Wuthering Heights
God i hatted that book

I absolutely love Wuthering Heights. It's probably my favorite novel

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As for books I don't like, I couldn't get into Achebe's Things Fall Apart, but I still view it as an esteemed work. The Scarlet Letter wasn't too fun either.

[Hu_Hi]

Originally Posted by Mr. Bush

Old Man and the Sea.

This.This.This.This.This.This.This.This.This.This. This.This.This.This.This.This.This.This.This.This. This.This.This.This.This.This.This.This.This.This. This.This.This.This.This.This.

[RippedRippa]

The Pearl

[K-Saw]

I've tried reading it about five times now but I can never get past 100 pages in Love in the Time of Cholera.

Oh, and The House on Mango Street. Let's take The Grapes of Wrath and Their Eyes Were Watching God and roll it into one big pile of ****.

[Supra_MKIII]

The Scarlet Letter.

Absolutely horrible.

[Pwned6911]

Originally Posted by IplayforRelentless

Worst books I've ever read are

To Kill a Mockingbird

I don't get how people hate this book.

[IplayforRelentless]

Originally Posted by CAHunter3

So you pretty much hated your high school English classes, huh?

For the most part. We read some short stories that I didn't like at all, but would take too long to list/remember. I did, however, enjoy Beowulf quite a bit when we read it, as well as Animal Farm and Lord Of The Flies.

Originally Posted by Pwned6911

I don't get how people hate this book.

I found the book to be very dull and over-rated when it came time for us to read it. I was just bored with the book from start to finish, nothing really caught me/captivated me to appreciate and like the book. With that said though, I do believe that Atticus Finch is one of the best literary characters I've ever read.

[Wrath Man12]

Cheaper by the Dozen. 8th grade summer reading

[skiier08]

Originally Posted by Supra_MKIII

The Scarlet Letter.

Absolutely horrible.

This and A Tree Grows In Brooklyn...

[t("t)]

Actually wasn't that bad once you got past the first 20 pages.

[Bobeo]

Just off the top of my head:

The Great Gatsby
Great Expectations