worst book you were to read for school/uni
this broke me.
>>7910544
Please do greentext.
As for my experience, nothing too horrorific. Probably Futureless Capitalism by Emanuele Severino, but honestly just because it was written in the inane, incomprehensible way most (Italian, at least) contemporary philosophers use. All hail philosophical fiction.
> SJW the class
> First day of class the wage gap and white privileged is brought up
> Oh well 8 classes are dedicated to movies so I will suck it up and take it easy this sem
> Fast forward to this book
> Chulito is a closeted youth in the city
> His best friend, Carlos is gay but is open about it
> Carlos is outcast and Chulito is pussy for not being open
>Carlos and Chulito have their gay moment
>Chulito is still closeted and Carlos dumps him
You can guess where it goes from there. The dialogue to really sappy and the story is really uninspired. I do not normally go for audiobooks but I tried looking for one for this novel. I was crushed to find out I had to read 300 pages of homo erotic gansta bullshit.
>>7910591
It goes downhill from the start
>>7910544
Worst book I had to read?
The Scarlett Letter
>>7910544
Is that a Mexican supreme gentleman?
>>7910573
>>7910544
Maria Konopnicka Sierotka Marysia
>>7910544
Heart of Darkness was tedious as fuck
some bitch tried making me read The Scarlet Letter I literally switched schools
>>7910544
Bend it like Beckham
>>7913083
not Lessing's best work, I agree, but if it's the worst book you ever read in school, you're lucky.
Fiela's Child
It was about a nigress in Africa raising a white kid, some shit happened, something something racism in Africa, something something colonialism, boo.
It was for our "international sequence" and I'm sure it had nothing to do with the fact that the school was 99% black.
>>7910544
This fucking book
>>7910544
this shit
>>7913190
>Mfw I actually liked this book because it's one of the very first things to have awoken my degenerate sexuality.
>>7913264
holy shit senpai I thought I was the only one
WHAT ARE THE FUCKING ODDS THAT I HAD TO READ THIS FOR TWO SEPARATE CLASSES
ONE OF THEM WAS A PROFESSOR THAT WAS SO IN LOVE WITH BBC SHE MARRIED A BLACK IMMIGRANT SO SHE COULD HAVE BLACK SONS AND ALL SHE TAUGHT WAS BLACK LITERATURE
"SHORT STORY" CLASS MY FUCKING ASS
KRIK KRAK IS THE WORST NIGGERLIT
I found Angela's ashes to be very boring when I was 13. Was I wrong?
>>7913190
Read this in middle school. Thought it was decent then, if I remember correctly. I'd probably hate it now.
>>7914027
No it's sad. It's a good book. It's hard to empathize like an adult at that age.
I had to read this shit when I was in year 8, so 13 or so.
It's about a boy who travels back in time to meet Shakespeare.
WHY COULDN'T WE JUST READ SHAKESPEARE REEE
>>7914122
the skateboard cracks me up
reminds me of the time they showed us dicaprio and juliet in school
>>7914135
The essay I wrote was entitled 'Symbols of Modernity; from the Stage to the Skateboard'
This piece of shit. Age 14. Story of a dog, that turns out to be an allegory for how Hungarians lived under the Soviet boot.
It's the only book I haven't finished.
>>7914122
Seriously? We started reading actual Shakespeare in 7th grade, and I lived in Texas. What ass backwards middle school english program is getting outclassed by a Texas public school? (admittedly one of the better ones in the state)
>>7914165
I think all of NYRB books are good because of their covers. Fuck me, right?
>>7914184
Secondary school in London guv'ner. To be fair there were some fairly illiterate children in my class, Shakespeare wouldn't have been appropriate.
>>7914187
On average, NYRB manages to find really good "forgotten" books, I've yet to randomly pick one and get a "bad" book (worst was "average" for Nightmare Alley). Haven't read Niki so I can't comment on that.
![1996[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/kdeHezk.jpg "1996[1].jpg")
This is the worst one that I remember.
>>7914453
this is the book that Don Gately didn't read in English class in Eternal Joke by Dave Fauster Wallis.
DUDE
YAMS
LMAO
>>7913169
Hated this and everything else we had to read in HS related to muh proud africans, muh slavery or muh holocaust.
>>7914463
DFW probably didn't like it because it's almost comically boring. I remember discussing the symbolism of one of the characters breaking a gravy boat. Who fucking cares?
>>7914481
People who understand literature
>>7914470
Things Fall apart isn't bad at all. I Dislike Achebe's stance on Heart of Darkness but he is a competent writer. Zora Neal Hurston sucks though.
>>7914481
did he spill any gravy on the curtains that were blue too? LMAO. (Laughing My A** Off)
>>7914476
Agree with Great Expectations.
I was 15, so if I cared to read it again I might have a different opinion, but at the time it came off as boringly preachy with caricatures for characters.
>>7914470
Nah man I loved TFA. I get the yams meme but Achebe was hardly a blanket defender of Igbo society in the book. If anything it's a character study that occurs during a tumultuous sociopolitical backdrop.
Hard Times was garbage.
have mercy and kill me
>>7910544
Best: Lord of the Flies and 1984
Worst: Fahrenheit 451 and Gatsby
>>7913190
Is it wrong to actually like this book?
All the ones I've had to read for school were good, at least from what I remember. My country's education system is pretty good when it comes to languages.
Here's what I read in Portugal starting from 7th grade (that I can remember), not counting poems, plays and short stories from well-established and classic authors:
Brothers Grimm
Robinson Crusoe
The LusÃadas
Diary of Anne Frank
The Maias
Baltasar and Blimunda
B A S E D tbqh
fortunately we don't have to read those books written by literal whos about race and sexuality.
Pic semi-related
I remember our English teacher exclaiming his disbelief how a bunch of rich, rowdy 15-6 years old can't understand the struggles depicted in the book.
10 something years later I grow to like Albert Camus's work on my own, I feel sorry for the old guy but I still think including a book that deals with heavy existential themes to a bunch of highschoolers at their height of their youth was a bad move.
>>7916479
Oh man I fucking hated that book reading it as a 15 year old. Nothing seemed to happen, and everything was described as having importance. Re-reading it a decade later was like a revelation.
>>7916479
That's actually the perfect age to read it. Were you developmentally disabled?
This. Alongside another book by the same author called Bud, Not Buddy.
Read this shit back in 6th grade by a black teacher who taught us nothing but Black literature.
>>7916479
>>7916655
that's pretty interesting. based on my own experience I'd think that age would be the perfect time to get into Camus. the stranger was actually THE book that got me into literature. don't know who I'd be without that experience. granted, I found it on my own, outside of school, so there must have been something that attracted me to the novel in the first place.
>>7916678
>that book cover and title
fucking lol
this piece of shit
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>>7916678
Holy kek I had to read both of those
Thanks for reminding me of this shit
Also, I had to read this in grade 6. Thinking back to it it was a pretty bold move on my teachers part since my class was composed of very religious people and this book deals with abortion in a somewhat progressive way.
>>7916708
fucking this
>>7916708
Holy shit I hated this book
The same teacher who taught that book made us read this fucking book too
I remember there being almost an entire chapter where this jackass talked exclusively about his hemorrhoids
>>7916747
forgot pic
>>7916673
When you are a) a kid and b) young as shit you don't give a fuck about anything in the world.
It's like stopping some random kids while they are playing in some playground and tell them "hey kid do you know some guy is suffering because nobody understands him?" 9 out of 10 kids simply wouldn't understand what this means because they are too young or just ran off thinking "who gives a fuck".
>>7916683
Maybe you had went through a special (childhood) event in the past that attracts you to the book.
I got into Albert Camus after from being the most popular kid at highschool to a loner in uni.
>>7910552
Why italians have to be so obtuse, their ideas usually are spot on, but damn if it doesn't border on autism-high levels of digression
>>7910552
>Probably Futureless Capitalism by Emanuele Severino, but honestly just because it was written in the inane, incomprehensible way most (Italian, at least) contemporary philosophers use
You're not reading real philosophy. You're reading pseudo-intellectual gibberish.
>>7913054
Hawthorne is a hack, Hestia is a slut, Chillingworth did nothing wrong.
>author is an Afghan
>writes the dialogue of his afghan immigrant characters with perfect English
>all of the east Asian immigrants in his book talk in off-the-boat English
Subtle....
Jane Eyre. Garbage.
>>7914688
this title alone makes me want to fucking die
>>7910544
like being waterboarded with stale syrup
>>7917146
Thank god I'm not the only one that thinks this.
Fucking boring book
Had to read this together with the class in 6th grade. The entire class hated this book so much there was some sort of mob mentality going on, even the kids who loved reading hated it. Looking back I feel bad for the teacher trying to force a class to read a book they all hate. We got through it and then happily watched the movie.
>>7916708
Wasn't there some awkwardly written back massage scene in this book? I remember the teacher made the class take turns reading and the poor girl has to "moan" along with the writing as it was written. Might of been a different book.
this was horrible
>>7917201
and the poor girl who had to read that part had to moan*
It's late and I'm not typing properly.
>>7914135
>Romeo +
>Bad
Some things I can understand. Someone wants to say The Scarlet Letter sucks? Fine, they're entitled to do so, because they have a point. Someone doesn't get Achebe? I can live with that. But suggesting that Romeo +, the GOAT, is a bad movie fucking triggers me to no end.
It's a play but whatever, had to read it for GCSE English. Literally nothing happens, full of forced, in your face symbolism and the dialogue is dry and unnatural as fuck. Doesn't help that the teacher was a self proclaimed feisty feminist who 'understood the issues' because her one grandparent was evacuated as a child, she occasionally broke down into actual tears when criticised for mundane things. This woman basically ruined English classes for me and pushed me towards the stem subjects as a result, luckily I manged to escape in time for uni and got onto a history degree by some fluke but I've only recently got back into lit and lament all those wasted years.
>>7917204
>Someone thought that photo was aesthetically pleasing, even though the lighting and angle make her nose look as ugly and huge as possible.
>Someone thought that one and three made for a cute and/or clever title
You really CAN judge a fucking book by its cover.
>>7916888
the book is 100% about dimmsdale
the other 2 are accessory
anyways ill throw 2 new titles into the ring,
>>7917204
I thought it was beautiful. Granted, I enjoyed Looking for Alaska and The Perks of Being A Wallflower as well.
>>7914669
/THREAD
>>7917174
i literally just made this as a joke
>>7917206
thats a blatant lie, why?
>>7917081
>author is Afghan
More like the Kike Runner amiright?
>>7917201
I loved Hatchet when I was in middle school, bro.
It was one of a few things that kindled this love of survivalism and wilderness I still have.
>>7917308
>he didn't like a separate peace
>>7916821
Have you read the book or are you reacting to its title?
While far from what you'd define "real philosophy" (which Severino wrote many times in his life, just saying), the book isn't worthless or naive in what he says. It's a convoluted mess but it managed to offer me a few new avenues of thought.
The Cay
It was difficult to read, especially when you are aware Timothy rapes him
Probably The Woman in Black
>>7914453
came here to post this, that shit was boring as fuck.
Also didn't like Great Expectations, The Remains of the Day and The Playboy of the Western World, but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt because they might just have been 2english/2irish4me, being a filthy Americlap and all.
>>7917324
I loved it. Really spoke to me when I was clinically depressed. I have a signed copy.
>>7920138
Please don't post here. I don't like the idea of you sharing your opinions
>>7914476
BACK TO MR WALDRON'S CLASS WITH YOU FAGGOT
>>7920171
Get fucked faggot. Other people have opinions that are just as valid as yours, even if you don't respect the opinions of others.
>>7914470
>muh proud africans
if it's a good book, then it shouldn't matter. however, i find that they assign a lot of this type of author and most of the time it's not very good and they all say essentially the same few topics
>>7910573
God have mercy on your soul for reading 300 pages of that.
>>7914624
Read it when I was 18, holds up pretty well with an older perspective.
>>7918067
kek
>>7916479
At my school it wasn't until the last year when everyone got into existentialism so everyone was around 17/18 years old. But it was as if all of a sudden like 1/2 of the male cohort was suddenly semi-ironically quoting Nietzsche and Sartre and Camus in the hallways, it was pretty based.None of the girls got into this stuff
>>7910544
My English teacher was so obsessed with these books that she actually took time out of every class period to assign roles to students and make them perform their roles in the middle of the class room(Our desks were aligned along the walls facing the middle). We read every book and every line, forced to act these roles. We had to stop every few lines because some kids couldn't follow along with what was happening and the teacher stopped to explain it in detail. We had to write reports on this book and fill out questionnaire packets. I ended up reading the entire book on my own time and just biding my time until I was selected to perform a role and because my English class was small I had to perform multiple roles every week. It was horrible.
>>7910544
it's dreadful.
We had to read Benjamin Zephaniah's Gansta Rap. It's nigger shit and had all the Jamaican slang in it. He was a criminal dat dindu nuffin and is now a "poet". Vid is one of his "poems"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ1yYOAwvvo
Our English teacher was pretty funny and he read the first page out in the accents to take the piss and threw it in the bin. We just changed the books after a month because he refused to "pollute our minds".
Pic related: Quintessentially British
>>7921695
This video made me cringe so hard (I'm British).
>>7921645
looks fun desu
>>7921695
>he attended an approved school but left aged 13 unable to read or write
That is an achievement, more than anything he did afterwards. Being illiterate, even when you're going to school.
>>7910544
in High school it was either The Great Gatsby or Death Comes for the Archbishop
though I was such a procrastinator in high school I ended having to read them 3 days before they were due
in college it is hands down Heidegger's What is Called Thinking
>>7917308
The awakening was such shit
High School:
Ethan Frome, Wuthering Heights and Like Water for Chocolate
College:
Anything by Junot Diaz
>>7917204
>go to HS speech competition
>choose prose recitation category because ezpz
>girl wins first place by reading this with faces and a fake british accent
>I chose Invisible Cities, and didn't even qualify for provincials
I hate my life.
i just need someone to tell me why?
>>7922810
>>7921695
Villa supporter.
Maybe a lot of it flew over my head due to highschool, but i thought it was pretty damn boring.
At least when comparing it to 100 years of solitude, which we had to read the same year.
>>7923486
Only the soulless find Dostoe boring.
>>7923497
I haven't read anything else made by him, so i can't really say that i don't like the author. I just disliked that particular book at that particular time; i barely remember anything about it now, other than the MC being kind of a poorfag, believing in superhumans, and all that planning and shit for one murder.
>>7910591
Call of Chulito?
