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What book did you hate reading in school?
« on: November 11, 2012, 11:44:10 AM »
Plain enough.  However, I can't think of one off hand.
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Re: What book did you hate reading in school?
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2012, 12:25:09 PM »
A lot of them. First to come to mind are Billy Budd and the short story A Turn With the Sun.
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Re: What book did you hate reading in school?
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2012, 03:38:00 PM »
'Het verrote leven van Floortje Bloem' (the wretched life of Floortje Bloem) written by Yvonne Keuls. For some reason I picked it off a list of books (the so called 'literatuurlijst' in Holland (=literature-list)) one has to read 10 or more books of.

Fart, that's not a nice book to read whilst being sensitive and 14 y/o.. at all. Left a dent unpleasantly for quite a while.

It's about a girl with a lousy youth with abuse, no real/save home, heavy drugs and prostitution. All of it was negative shite, as far as I can tell now.
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Re: What book did you hate reading in school?
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2012, 06:28:59 PM »
  There was one book that took me forever to finish, darned if I remember what it was.  :tard:
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Re: What book did you hate reading in school?
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2012, 07:46:34 PM »
Quote from: couldbecousin on November 11, 2012, 06:28:59 PM
  There was one book that took me forever to finish, darned if I remember what it was.  :tard:

Did it have lines like See Dick run.  Dick can run. See Jane run.  Jane can run. ?

Mine would probably be 1984.
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Re: What book did you hate reading in school?
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2012, 07:51:12 PM »
Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 11, 2012, 07:46:34 PM
Quote from: couldbecousin on November 11, 2012, 06:28:59 PM
  There was one book that took me forever to finish, darned if I remember what it was.  :tard:

Did it have lines like See Dick run.  Dick can run. See Jane run.  Jane can run. ?

Mine would probably be 1984.

  I think it might have been  Mr. Popper's Penguins.   :orly:
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Re: What book did you hate reading in school?
« Reply #6 on: November 11, 2012, 08:34:50 PM »
In my first school, it was thought I couldn't read.

Actually...it was more a case of refusing to read those awful kiddie's books, as they were completely beneath me and uninteresting.

I'm insatiable when it comes to reading, and read at a very, very quick rate. Re-read lord of the rings recently, and it only took me a few hours.
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Re: What book did you hate reading in school?
« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2012, 10:17:26 AM »
Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 11, 2012, 07:46:34 PM
Quote from: couldbecousin on November 11, 2012, 06:28:59 PM
  There was one book that took me forever to finish, darned if I remember what it was.  :tard:

Did it have lines like See Dick run.  Dick can run. See Jane run.  Jane can run. ?
We had those Dick and Jane books. We also had an Australian version with Sam and Pam and Nat the cat and Digger the dog. Not very interesting.

One I remember was The Machine Gunners (can't remember who wrote it) - got given it in Year 9. I read it in a night and the next day found out we were only supposed to read one chapter. So I had to reread it and I didn't much like it in the first place.
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Re: What book did you hate reading in school?
« Reply #8 on: November 15, 2012, 08:08:37 PM »
Moby Dick and To Kill A Mockingbird are both horrid memories.  :thumbdn:
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Re: What book did you hate reading in school?
« Reply #9 on: November 16, 2012, 06:04:06 AM »
My Place by Sally Morgan.

We had to read it for a whole year, before doing half a HSC english exam on it, plus countless numbers of in-class essays and assignments on it's related themes.
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Re: What book did you hate reading in school?
« Reply #10 on: November 18, 2012, 03:54:50 AM »
^I had to read that one for my English class as well. The parts about her childhood were ok but later in the book it got boring imo.
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Re: What book did you hate reading in school?
« Reply #11 on: November 18, 2012, 02:09:58 PM »
Just about all the ones I was told I had to, I was fine with ones I had a choice in
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Re: What book did you hate reading in school?
« Reply #12 on: November 18, 2012, 02:19:51 PM »
The Tulip Touch

God, what a shitty, shitty book. Dull, predictable, poorly written.

Why was it never Tolkien, or Asimov, or Pratchett?  :thumbdn:
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Re: What book did you hate reading in school?
« Reply #13 on: November 18, 2012, 05:07:04 PM »
Taking a whole year, reading "The Pearl" with the whole class (10 minutes a week or so), when we had not had most of the vocabulary used in that  book yet, made the Steinbeck work a dreadful thing.

Maybe I should try it again one day, when I have a couple of hours. Losing track of the story may be not bound to happen then.
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Re: What book did you hate reading in school?
« Reply #14 on: November 20, 2012, 04:34:38 AM »
Quote from: ῦ on November 18, 2012, 02:19:51 PM
The Tulip Touch

God, what a shitty, shitty book. Dull, predictable, poorly written.

Why was it never Tolkien, or Asimov, or Pratchett?  :thumbdn:
I tried reading a Terry Pratchett book and failed. I couldn't "see" anything properly. I guess I don't have the right kind of imagination to read his books.
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