What's the worst book you ever read?

Linda · Post by **Linda** » 15 Mar 2007, 21:32

but u laughed....and you love me even more for it. don't lie

knightss · Post by **knightss** » 15 Mar 2007, 21:46

only a little =x

Linda · Post by **Linda** » 15 Mar 2007, 22:26

that's better than nothing. at least im not the loser who laughs at corny things :X

Linda · Post by **Linda** » 16 Mar 2007, 08:02

that was mean....what i meant to say is i love u. it just came out wrong

Linda · Post by **Linda** » 19 Mar 2007, 09:45

alright so i read this book in elementary school and i really want to find it and there is no possible way too. it was like a little poetry book and it had like a crow in it or a raven? and like a thing of water that the bird was smart enough to kno to put rocks in the water to raise the water level so it could drink...yea idk where i was going with that but i want to find that book.

awelker · Post by **awelker** » 19 Mar 2007, 17:03

wouldn't those be Assoups Fables? (However you spell it.)

Linda · Post by **Linda** » 19 Mar 2007, 17:24

ha that is it Aesop's Fables...wow i love you.

awelker · Post by **awelker** » 19 Mar 2007, 17:25

thanks. i full of useless knowledge. my mom tells me i would do good on Jeopardy

sleepydumpling · Post by **sleepydumpling** » 20 Mar 2007, 03:29

You pipped me at the post awelker, I remember Aesop's Fables very well. Some of them were used on Sesame Street! I think they were on the primary school curriculum here.

metroidhunter9292 · Post by **metroidhunter9292** » 10 Apr 2007, 06:01

awelker wrote:ive noticed that a lot of the books that i have been forced to read in school i absolutly hated. i hate everything about them and sometimes refused to read them. but now that i don't have that class i actually think, i mean think, about re-reading them to see if i can get more out of them. i mean most of the books that i read for my American Lit class i hated with a passion but now thinking about it i might one day re-read them .

I Think that is ABSOLUTELY true. I always hate books that are forced upon me from those buildings of pure EVIL.

(By the way, a book I hated was The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. I thought it was Extremely disturbing.)

Anna · Post by **Anna** » 11 Apr 2007, 01:15

I have to disagree. I loved a lot of the books that we had to read in school. Some of those which we had to read and which I really liked were:
- The Giver
- To Kill A Mockingbird
- Triage
- 1984
- A Cage Full of Butterflies

I guess it depends on what books your school chose.
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CollegeReader · Post by **CollegeReader** » 11 Apr 2007, 01:43

True. My senior year of high school, we read some excellent books:

1984
Hamlet
Doctor Faustus
Frankenstein
Jane Eyre

This isn't the worst book I've ever read, but I really didn't like The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards. I read it over the summer and I thought the characters were unrealistic and the plot was just dragged on with no good ending.

sleepydumpling · Post by **sleepydumpling** » 11 Apr 2007, 05:58

I liked some of the ones we read, others I hated. Depended heavily on the teacher I had too.

But I've always hated how high school curriculum forces kids to dissect a book to a million pieces, and doesn't teach them to just enjoy reading. I think that whole mass analysis of literature often can spoil a good book.