- StopJoiningWars ( @StopJoiningWars@discuss.online ) 1•38 minutes ago
Equus. Was forced to read it for highschool English literature class. Never again.
- NauticalNoodle ( @NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml ) 3•6 hours ago
the scarlet letter. I found it extremely unrelatable, and generally boring. I think The Crucible play by the same author conveys the same overarching principles about religious hypocrisy and herd mentality in a much more interesting way.
- all-knight-party ( @all-knight-party@fedia.io ) 2•7 hours ago
Had to read Animal Farm for school. Haven’t read it since then, so this could be a now incorrect edgy high school opinion, but I felt that its allegory was so obvious and direct that it had no need to be written and was a waste of time to read when we could’ve just directly discussed communism instead.
- Alice ( @Alice@beehaw.org ) 4•9 hours ago
When I was a kid I absolutely loved The Chronicles of Narnia and I hated The Last Battle. I thought King Tirian was an unpleasant asshole and I thought killing the Pevensies sucked because they all go to Narnia Heaven forever while Susan has to bury them.
It probably wasn’t a bad book but it felt like it ended my childhood.
- Otter ( @otter@lemmy.ca ) English1•8 hours ago
Charles Dickens wasn’t fun, back when we covered it in school
- Che Banana ( @The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ) 2•10 hours ago
The grapes of wrath. I hate read that in about 5 days in HSchool and still cannot stand it. The other books we were assigned I enjoyed…but this motherfucker, nope.
- 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 ( @Dirk@lemmy.ml ) 1•11 hours ago
For me personally: Triton. I remember reading it 25+ years ago. I really had to fight through it, after circa half of it I put it away and never touched it again.
So remarkably not my favorite book that I still feel the exhaustion when thinking about it.