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S/O Classics

Which classic do you not like?

For me it is The Grapes of Wrath. I just cannot finish that book. I've tried twice.

 


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  • Catcher in the Rye
    Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.”
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  • Catcher in the Rye, I never read it in HS so I went and read it recently just in case I missed out on anything and I just hated it, I think I was too old to identify with the main character.
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  • Heart of Darkness

    Interestingly, I disliked Fahrenheit 451in HS, but I recently reread it and loved it. I think I was too immature at the time to understand its themes.
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  • MrsC7 said:
    Heart of Darkness

    Interestingly, I disliked Fahrenheit 451in HS, but I recently reread it and loved it. I think I was too immature at the time to understand its themes.
    I had to read Heart of Darkness, twice and it was just as awful the second time around.  I had blocked this from my memory. 
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  • The Old Man and the Sea
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  • I also cannot stand The Grapes of Wrath and Catcher In The Rye.  I think if I had read CITR in HS, I might have gotten something from it.  But I waited until I was in my late 20s or early 30s, and just thought Holden was a whiny bitch.
  • Catcher in the Rye. Hate. 
    Anna Karenina. Couldn't even finish it. 
    Great Expectations. Too depressing. 

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  • The Scarlet Letter
    I hated it in high school. I started re-reading it for a challenge and got halfway through the second "real" chapter (after the customs house bit) and nearly threw it across the room in disgust.

    Runner-up is War and Peace. I just found it terribly boring, because I could care less about Napoleonic troop movements. Then after slogging through dozens of pages of war stuff that didn't interest me, Tolstoy would have major events take place and shoot a major character in the span of just 2-3 pages!
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  • Catcher in the Rye

    To Kill a Mockingbird (I know, flame me.  I'm going to try a re-read.)

    Heart of Darkness

    Moby Dick

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    I can't remember if I ever read Catcher in the Rye in high school or not but I want to read it and see if I like it. You guys are bumming me out with that one lol.
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  • Great Expectations. Blech.
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  • I can't remember if I ever read Catcher in the Rye in high school or not but I want to read it and see if I like it. You guys are bumming me out with that one lol.
    I read it recently. I didn't hate it, but I didn't really enjoy it. I'm glad I finally read it just to know what everyone was talking about, but it's not something I would recommend, and I think I would have liked it more as an angsty teenagers.
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  • Most of them actually.  I'm not a fan of the classics.

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  • jenndawnp said:
    Catcher in the Rye, I never read it in HS so I went and read it recently just in case I missed out on anything and I just hated it, I think I was too old to identify with the main character.
    ^This exactly.
  • Heart of Darkness and Old Man and the Sea.
    Such small books, but both were agonizing to read.
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  • I feel a lot better about disliking Catcher in the Rye. I read it in high school and most people I know look at me funny when I mention that I really didn't like it.
    Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.”
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  • Anna Karenina: I can't seem to get past about 100 pages.

    I second/third The Scarlet Letter. 

    I remember really enjoying Catcher in the Rye but I was in high school and listening to Smashing Pumpkins brought out even extra teen angst to go along with it.


  • KSKim said:

    I remember really enjoying Catcher in the Rye but I was in high school and listening to Smashing Pumpkins brought out even extra teen angst to go along with it.

    LOL. Yes, I had a similar experience. When I was in middle school, I loved this book. I reread it a couple of years ago, and I kept thinking "get over yourself, kid!"
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  • I tend to love classical writing, but Anna Karenina can kiss my ass.  HATED.

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  • The Scarlet Letter is THE WORST.

    I also really did not enjoy Wuthering Heights. The moors, the longing, and the blah blah blah did not entice me at all.

    I read Jane Eyre in high school, but I think I may try and read it again as an adult because I hated it then, but I might enjoy it now.
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  • I have tried 7 times to get past the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice.  Can't do it.  

    I have also tried to finish Silas Marner twice.  Can't do it. 

    And don't even get me started on Siddhartha.  UGH.  
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  • I have tried 7 times to get past the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice.  Can't do it.  

    I have also tried to finish Silas Marner twice.  Can't do it. 

    And don't even get me started on Siddhartha.  UGH.  
    I loved Siddhartha.

    I was made to read Silas Marner in 8th grade.  To this day I have no clue wtf was going on in that book, and I'm also pretty sure I never finished it.

    I completely hated P&P when I was made to read it in HS, but I tried again as an adult, and made it through Book the First and Book the Second before I quit.  I mean to go back and finish it, I just never feel like it.  I no longer hate it, but it's really NMS.  At least now I can appreciate that so many people love it so.  It's sort of nice if you read it aloud with a British accent, but otherwise, I can't. 
  • Heart of Darkness.

    I'm actually friends with my HS English teacher on FB and some of us were talking with her one day and she outright apologized for making us read this. :P
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  • Wuthering Heights. I feel like nothing happened in that book and everyone was a selfish ass.
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  • The Old Man and the Sea.  Anything by Hemmingway, really. 
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  • I've tried to enjoy Hemingway but its just really tough for me. I forced myself to read Old Man and the Sea three times (once for "pleasure" as an adult.) and the result was, "at least I don't hate it anymore." I made it halfway through The Sun Also Rises before putting it down. Self-entitled snoozefest.

    All Jane Austen, not my style. Pride and Predjudice was a CHORE. I've attempted Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility and just can't do it.
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  • Atlas Shrugged.  I attempted it once and barely read a few pages.
  • GilliC said:
    I can't remember if I ever read Catcher in the Rye in high school or not but I want to read it and see if I like it. You guys are bumming me out with that one lol.
    I read it recently. I didn't hate it, but I didn't really enjoy it. I'm glad I finally read it just to know what everyone was talking about, but it's not something I would recommend, and I think I would have liked it more as an angsty teenagers.
    @GilliC - I'm definitely going to read it one day with an open mind. But just from reading the comments it sounds like a whiny teenage boy. Not my cup of tea.
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  • Lord of the Flies for me
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