reading these sucked
Submitted by taryn on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 09:59
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- Piercing the Darkness - Frank Peretti
- Flowers in the Attic - V.C. Andrews
- Love Comes Softly (series) - Janette Oke
- Cement Garden - Ian McEwan
- Walden - Henry David Thoreau
- A Sand County Almanac - Aldo Leopold
- Faust - Goethe
- The Penal Colony - Franz Kafka
- Beowulf
- all the Faulkner I've read
Author Comments:
i read the first four willingly but the rest were assignments. needless to say i despised them all.
Well, one could give the administrator of this facility a good kick in the pants so he gets out there and drums up some decent traffic. :)
As long as you made it through Beowulf, you should really read Grendel by John Gardner.
Wow, almost 6 years later, I finally see this post. You are officially the first person I've come across who has read this book without me having to force it on them. Oh how I love that "ridiculous hairy monster, torn apart by poetry".
I think V.C. Andrews is properly read only in about 8th grade. (at least that's about when I read a whole bunch of hers.. At least they were probably better than the Sweet Valley High crap that I used to read before that).
speaking of V.C.Andrews, how is it that this person is still releasing books--i thought he/she had died?! anyone know the scoop on that?
Don't know about V.C. Andrews but the most painful assigned reading I can recall was A SEPARATE PEACE.
VC Andrews (I was very into her in about the 6th grade) died, but left plot outlines for numerous books. When she passed, they were ghost written. I have to say that its been so many years now since she died that I think they may just have someone else making up the plot in some sort of franchise. They are extremely formulaic, and anyone could probably do it if they read a few books. In addition to Flowers in the Attic being awful-- try the movie. It is worse.
oh, that explains alot about how prolific she's been since death... but as for the movie, i saw it a looooong time ago, but i remember thinking it was *better* because it cut out some of the less savory portions and added a bit of revenge at the end. interesting...
Well, I am personally impressed that you finished all those books you were assigned. I often abandoned them and faked the exam. See my Books I will never finish list.
I've never cared for Faulker much, or Thoreau either. Most of your others I was never assigned.
Why didn't you like Faust?