Chicks On Lit discussion

For me it was The Catcher in the Rye. I just did not love that one. In general though I find it really hard to like a book I am forced to read. That's why I stink on the group reads. The minute someone says I have to read something in this amount of time the rebel in me kicks in and i blow it off. It's horrible because I do it even if I really want to read the book. I'm working on it.

Canterbury Tales in college, I hated it because I had to do a project on it and I couldn't find any information on the innkeeper. We were each assigned a pilgrim and that was mine.

Lord of the Flies

Shakespeare. I'm not a fan, never will be. I don't even like Romeo and Juliet.

I managed to get through high school and college without having to read Romeo and Juliet.

Ha, I did to...only to go on to learn and then teach it to home school kids. Now I love him. :o)

I like the Shakespeare plays I read. I just never had to read Romeo and Juliet. It's only a comedy if no one dies in the play. :)

I hated both Catcher in the Rye and the Lord of the flies. I reread them both as an adult.Still hated them. Grapes of Wrath when reread as an adult was a favorite. I think I was not mature enough as a sophomore in bhigh school for that book

In high school I hated Animal Farm and The Old Man and the Sea. Took me years to read these authors again (love Owell; on the fence about Hemingway but want to read more).
In University, I hated My Ántonia and The Playboy of the Western World. I've since read more of Willa Cather, including My Antonia and love her writing. I haven't retried reading Playboy or the author's other works, if he has any.

The Old Man and the Sea. I thought it would never end. And then it did. And then …nothing.

Shakespeare is the first to come to mind, so I'm guessing that's what I disliked the most. Along with The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

a farewell to arms was awful. I got a d on the test and the teacher accused me of not reading it even though it took all summer to read

Great Expectations. Ugh! So LONG and wordy.

I hated "Faust" or whatever it was titled. The idea of selling your soul to the devil for some short term gain - abhorrent. However, I had a really good teacher for "Animal Farm" who talked us through everything that happened. It wasn't really about animals, it was a satire about politics (sorry, I'm sure you know that). I proceeded to major in politics at univ so it must have had an impact.
Loved Shakespeare, hated Hemingway.

I never read "Faust" or "Animal Farm"

The Fifth Child *shudder* I will never read Lessing Again!

Silas Marner by George Eliot. Enough said.

'night, Mother. I still get depressed just thinking about it.

The Canterbury Tales.

Uncle Toms Cabin and Animal Farm

I loved Lord of the Flies. Also loved The Inheritors. I hated Waiting for Godot.

Anything Nathaniel Hawthorne, and also, Catch 22. Ugh!

Cyrano de Bergerac and Inferno

Lord of the Flies, it was so depressing, not simply the plot of the story, but what it said about human nature. At 15 years old, I was not the cynic I am today and everything in me rebelled at that book.

Last of the Mohicans! Maybe if I had actually done the assigned reading I would have enjoyed it more. Then again, maybe not!

Works of John Locke by John Locke for high school American Government.

Teri wrote: "Last of the Mohicans! Maybe if I had actually done the assigned reading I would have enjoyed it more. Then again, maybe not!"


I read it after the movie came out and thought the book was awful.

Great Expectations in HS.

Anything by Philip Larkin I don't like being in that man's head

I read Canterbury Tales in college and I hated it when we got to the end. Our Professor assigned us to one of the characters and I got the host. I couldn't find a darn blasted thing on the host and I looked through several books. So I winged it. Regardless to say, I didn't do very well.