Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 15:02     Subject: s/o Literature you hate and why
Anonymous wrote: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.


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.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 14:51     Subject: s/o Literature you hate and why
A Tale of Two Cities. Absolutely, positively could not get into this book no matter how hard I tried. So incredibly dull.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 14:37     Subject: Re:s/o Literature you hate and why
Lord of the Rings was painful to read
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 14:29     Subject: s/o Literature you hate and why
I'm an English teacher and I can't stand Steinbeck. I also despise Jack London. I just don't like their styles.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 14:29     Subject: s/o Literature you hate and why
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
Post 03/22/2014 14:25     Subject: s/o Literature you hate and why
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
Post 03/22/2014 14:23     Subject: Re:s/o Literature you hate and why
Anonymous wrote:Grapes of Wrath is my favorite novel of all time. They "deserved" their fate? Really? Ok, I need a break from DCUM now.


+1. I have heard everything now.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 14:08     Subject: s/o Literature you hate and why
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
Post 03/22/2014 14:02     Subject: Re:s/o Literature you hate and why
I find Steinbeck, Kerouac, and Rushdie agonizingly DULL.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 10:58     Subject: s/o Literature you hate and why
Basically any poetry. I just get tired.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 10:58     Subject: Re:s/o Literature you hate and why
Grapes of Wrath is my favorite novel of all time. They "deserved" their fate? Really? Ok, I need a break from DCUM now.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 10:57     Subject: s/o Literature you hate and why
OP, you sound like a person of eloquence, grace, and class.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 10:56     Subject: s/o Literature you hate and why
Anonymous wrote: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.


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
Post 03/22/2014 10:52     Subject: s/o Literature you hate and why
Oh, I"m also over literature that was originally published as serials. Something about the cadence bugs me.
Anonymous
Post 03/22/2014 10:51     Subject: s/o Literature you hate and why
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.