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keepergirl:
--- Quote from: crypticgimp on October 02, 2004, 09:17:54 pm ---nathaniel hawthorne's the scarlet letter
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Agreed on that one!
Others I've hated:
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. I had to read this for school ages ago, and found it to be horribly boring. So I bought the Cliffs Notes to try and not have to read the book, and even that was ridiculously wordy. As I got older, though, I wondered if I was unduly harsh on Dickens, so I tried reading A Tale of Two Cities. Didn't get very far before I decided Dickens just wasn't for me.
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. I'm not really sure if this book should fall on my most hated list, because after reading it I felt absolutely nothing about it. I still didn't care about the characters. They all could have died in the first two pages and I wouldn't have cared. I just felt like this book offered absolutely nothing- no plot, no interesting characters... nothing. In fact, I just googled for a summary of the plot, to make sure I accurately remembered what it was about. The first five chapters are summarized in four sentences, in which the biggest action is a kiss. That's just how exciting this book is. Regardless, I've grown to hate the book and I resent the fact that I had to read it over my summer vacation from school. :P
I know Steinbeck's The Pearl was already mentioned. I have to give Steinbeck some credit though- The Pearl was blissfully short. If all crappy books we had to read were that short, I wouldn't mind so much.
Hmm, I think there was another book I wanted to add to the list, but I can't recall what it was...
I did want to mention that I really enjoyed Daphne DuMaurier's Rebecca. My sister had that book and gave it to me, and I found after the first few chapters it started getting much, much better.
mamochan:
I don't hate books :)
Tsubasa why are you listing Math textbooks? Those do not count.
Masakari:
--- Quote from: mamochan on November 07, 2006, 11:55:16 pm ---Tsubasa why are you listing Math textbooks? Those do not count.
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Cuz she's a counterfiet AZN and Jealous of REAL AZNZ. Everyone knows REAL AZNZ do well in math and get high paying jobs as a result - I.E. it figures she would hate those books.
Tsubasa:
For your information Masakari, I scored the highest in the World in O Level Pure Mathematics (which is far advanced than any College-preparatory Mathematics curriculum in the US) and a 95% average on General Mathematics. In addition to that, scored perfect scores in 5 out of 9 of my Mathematics papers in A levels with a mark of 97-99% on the rest of the papers. I also got 296/300 without any preparation in AS Physics. This is the reason why I know which books actually suck when it comes to Math.
Mamo, bobby's was also a trigonometry book. Since she listed Math, I listed it too.
Plus it's not any of you who decides what to post and what not to because this is not your thread.
-Tsubasa
bobby6:
--- Quote from: Tsubasa on November 08, 2006, 12:43:20 am ---For your information Masakari, I scored the highest in the World in O Level Pure Mathematics (which is far advanced than any College-preparatory Mathematics curriculum in the US) and a 95% average on General Mathematics. In addition to that, scored perfect scores in 5 out of 9 of my Mathematics papers in A levels with a mark of 97-99% on the rest of the papers. I also got 296/300 without any preparation in AS Physics. This is the reason why I know which books actually suck when it comes to Math.
Mamo, bobby's was also a trigonometry book. Since she listed Math, I listed it too.
Plus it's not any of you who decides what to post and what not to because this is not your thread.
-Tsubasa
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Yay! math sucks! ;D Well, i know you like it Tsubasa, but I think is sucks. :D
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