s/o Literature you hate and why
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Anonymous
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I HATED Grapes of Wrath
Because Those effing people were so stupid - they deserved their fate. Also, I couldn't even read Middlemarch those people were so unpleasant. |
Anonymous
| Oh, I"m also over literature that was originally published as serials. Something about the cadence bugs me. |
Anonymous
Really? I loved it even though I read it in high school which was a long way away. I hated Atlas Shrugged. Those effing people were too smug. |
Anonymous
| OP, you sound like a person of eloquence, grace, and class. |
Anonymous
| Grapes of Wrath is my favorite novel of all time. They "deserved" their fate? Really? Ok, I need a break from DCUM now. |
Anonymous
| Basically any poetry. I just get tired. |
Anonymous
| I find Steinbeck, Kerouac, and Rushdie agonizingly DULL. |
Anonymous
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Moby Dick. Hated it.
Didn't like Grapes of Wrath either. But there's a lot I do like: Salinger, Austen, Orwell, Kerouac, Brontes (all of them), etc. |
Anonymous
+1. I have heard everything now. |
Anonymous
| George orwell. I made it through Animal Farm ,but couldn't make it through 1984. I just can't read such a negative view of humanity. |
Anonymous
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1984
For years I heard it proclaimed as great literature and something that will really make you think. No way. It's an ok story but the themes and concepts are so simple. |
Anonymous
| I'm an English teacher and I can't stand Steinbeck. I also despise Jack London. I just don't like their styles. |
Anonymous
| Lord of the Rings was painful to read |
Anonymous
| A Tale of Two Cities. Absolutely, positively could not get into this book no matter how hard I tried. So incredibly dull. |
Anonymous
It was published in 1949 and sparked the whole idea of Big Brother is watching you. You've heard of things referred to as "Orwellian," haven't you? Pretty impressive for something so simple. |