Fucking Catcher in the Rye. Holden Caulfield is a whiny bitch. You want disillusioned New York boys? Read The Basketball Diaries, which did it with more soul and better prose.
Also, most anything Hemingway. Hemingway bores the shit out of me.
OMG, Hemingway. That fucker HAD to have been paid by the word. GOOD GOD MAN, GET TO THE POINT AND STFU!
The Handmaid's Tale. This book is an awful stream of conscious nightmare that meanders all over the damn place and annoys me to no end. I even tried reading it again after CEP was raving about and how you look at it differently when you are older. No, it still sucks. It's like Peter Griffin's description of The Godfather, it insists upon itself.
The Handmaid's Tale. This book is an awful stream of conscious nightmare that meanders all over the damn place and annoys me to no end. I even tried reading it again after CEP was raving about and how you look at it differently when you are older. No, it still sucks. It's like Peter Griffin's description of The Godfather, it insists upon itself.
My poor high school teacher practically had a revolt on her hands because EVERYONE in my class hated the book. Then she wanted to discuss the symbolism of the pickle or jelly dish or whatever it was we were having none of it.
The Awakening by Kate Chopin. I understand that it is supposed to be this groundbreaking story of feminism and self-discovery, but have a hard time finding any redeemable qualities in Edna. I didn't like her, so I was annoyed that I had to root for her.
The Handmaid's Tale. This book is an awful stream of conscious nightmare that meanders all over the damn place and annoys me to no end. I even tried reading it again after CEP was raving about and how you look at it differently when you are older. No, it still sucks. It's like Peter Griffin's description of The Godfather, it insists upon itself.
"You. You and your crazy life. You and your geographic anomaly. You and your drunken lesbianic ways and terrible navigational skills." - ProfArt and her holy baby
Most of them? I dunno. I feel like I read everything I was "supposed to" but I was too young for all of it and found them all boring, despite my uncanny ability to write good HS essays (and kick ass at graded discussions- even when I hadn't read the book! MAD SKILLZ!)
Now as an intelligent adult I feel like I should re-read the classics but it's hard for me to re-read something that I didn't enjoy the first time. I feel anti-intellectual and guilty about this, but I'm happily burrowed into Red Rising and Outlander at the moment, so maybe I'll be an adult some day in the future. :-P
Most of them? I dunno. I feel like I read everything I was "supposed to" but I was too young for all of it and found them all boring, despite my uncanny ability to write good HS essays (and kick ass at graded discussions- even when I hadn't read the book! MAD SKILLZ!)
Now as an intelligent adult I feel like I should re-read the classics but it's hard for me to re-read something that I didn't enjoy the first time. I feel anti-intellectual and guilty about this, but I'm happily burrowed into Red Rising and Outlander at the moment, so maybe I'll be an adult some day in the future. :-P
This will be a future classic. You are redeemed.
I've tried to read Outlander several times, and I found it so boring.
The Awakening, Catcher in the Rye and mothafuckin' Tuesdays With Morrie, which may not be a classic but I've had to read that saccharine bullshit on three different occasions.