Top 10 Worst Books You Had to Read in High School English Class
Here are the pieces of "classic" literature that your sadistic high school English teacher forced you to read and write reports about, take tests on, and discuss in circles. I actually don't hate a majority of these books (I even love a few of them), but I just added a bunch I knew people read and didn't like.Never said how to kill a mockingbird.
Most boring piece of trash ever written. A story about people who have no life and no one cares about them. Should have just written a sentence like this: Some people in life are shallow and useless. The End.
Barely any plot, not great writing (how many times can you use the word "pink" in one chapter?). I get it's supposed to be a metaphor, but it was annoyingly repetitive.
The characters didn't really have any personality other than "evil," "good leader," or "sad." The allegory was interesting, though, so that was the book's only redeeming quality.
Honestly, I love the idea, plot, characters, and the symbolism/allegory. But the writing and ending were horrible.
The author took too much time to explain details, and at the end, I still couldn't picture it. The one time I wanted details was the ending, and it didn't have any.
Worst book I've ever read. Period. See my entry in "Worst Books of All Time" about it for my full review.
Never before has such a great story had two such bland main characters. This should have been about Mercutio.
No Grade 9 can survive without reading Romeo and Juliet in English class.
And the amount of work the teachers give for it is insane too.
Interesting story and characters. Most boring execution I've ever had to drag myself through.
A travesty of literature that has no place in courses at the middle- or high-school level. It championed libertinism and the rejection of the beliefs and mores of the established order, as proximately represented by parents. Think of it as Anarchy 101.
Why would high school teachers try to make their students even more uncaring, useless people by making them read this book about a useless, uncaring person? I thought teachers were supposed to inspire you to greatness, not teach you to be an ass.
Most boring book and stupid premise I've ever read. The writing style of Bradbury is awful too.
It could've been a good book, but it was too anti-technology in my opinion.
Good, but there's something that I can't quite put my finger on about this book that makes it kind of unlikeable.
A bit tedious and thin. Dracula is better.
People in my school's drama club claim it's so bad that saying it on production night will curse the play and kill the cast members.
Great, tragic story about a misunderstood young man who just wanted acceptance in nature. Jon Krakauer telling pointless personal tales of trekking into the wilderness and endless paragraphs repeating the same info over and over? Not so great.
Thanks to books like this, crazy people now live under freeway bridges instead of in hospitals. Thanks, "progressive" writer!
My life sucks, so I will do nothing about it. The end.
This is my #1 most hated book. Mainly because Conrad's style is so hard to read, and the premise also sounds boring, which makes it harder to read.
The phrase What? was invented after the first person read this book. If you feel alienated, then do something about it. Kafka says, No, just lay in bed and endlessly whine about it. What?
This book is the reason my grade is tanking in English. This book can burn in Hell.
I hate other people's relationships. Why do people care enough to write 8,000-page books about them?