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« Reply #15 on: October 04, 2004, 02:49:02 am »
then again you know food comes with warnings on the box "for internal use only" so you start to wonder HOW MUCH  you have to explain to the youth today to keep them from screwing up.  Honestly if you can't figure out to eat your food instead of shoving it in other areas... you might not be able to read either.

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« Reply #16 on: October 04, 2004, 02:56:30 am »
lol but notice how some warnings like "do not turn upside down" is printed on the underside of the box?  but you're right some things just shouldnt have to be explained..
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« Reply #17 on: October 07, 2004, 08:16:07 pm »
I was cooking dinner when the fire chief had to point out something to me a little later on.  When the cook book said, "Put oil on the bottom of the pan"  it really means "INSIDE".

I figured it was for reducing friction or something.

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« Reply #18 on: July 09, 2006, 10:01:50 am »
  The worst book I ever read was definately my trigonometry textbook. Probably the largest contributing factor in why I didn't take most advanced math after that.
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Re: top hated books
« Reply #19 on: November 07, 2006, 11:35:31 am »

Most recently.
Barron's SAT II Subject Tests Physics (read three chapters and gave up) and Math II (read three pages and gave up even though it was the only prep book I had) >_>.
They [CENSORED] [CENSORED] totally.
I mean wt $#(*$@@ do they mean? I had a hard-time believing they expected High School people to prepare from that [CENSORED]. Wish someone had told me how hard it sucked before I spent my $$$ on it. If my Physics test didn't go as well as it should've, it's because of this [CENSORED].

Anyways, my top 10 worst list:
1) The Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (I hate any of his work except the ones that were made into musicals like Oliver)
2) Barron's SAT II Math II
3) Mathematics II by L. Harwook Clark
4) Mathematics III by L. Harwook Clark
5) This series my Grade 5 teacher use to read to us in class, I don't even remember the name heh
6) A New Certificate Chemistry by Lambert (O Level Chemistry book)
7) New English by Rhodri Jones (O level English book)
8) Barron's SAT II Physics
9) A level Mathematics Mechanics M3 (or it might have been the teacher who taught it).
10) O level Mathematics by L. Harwook Clark (ok, I generally do dislike his books)

There.

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« Reply #20 on: November 07, 2006, 06:30:22 pm »
nathaniel hawthorne's the scarlet letter
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.

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« Reply #21 on: November 07, 2006, 11:55:16 pm »
I don't hate books :)

Tsubasa why are you listing Math textbooks? Those do not count.
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Re: top hated books
« Reply #22 on: November 08, 2006, 12:38:00 am »
Tsubasa why are you listing Math textbooks? Those do not count.

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.

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« Reply #23 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.

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« Reply #24 on: November 08, 2006, 06:56:44 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.

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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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« Reply #25 on: November 08, 2006, 07:00:12 am »
For me Math, Japanese and Physics are the only subjects you can get away without any preparation before tests.
Why no preparation?
Well, I hate the prep materials so...  :P

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« Reply #26 on: January 01, 2007, 11:58:53 pm »
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Re: top hated books
« Reply #27 on: January 02, 2007, 12:35:20 am »
Hemmingway books in general... however I did like Hemmingway's A Farewell to Arms... but I'm a sucker for romance so ya.

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« Reply #28 on: January 02, 2007, 01:34:03 am »
Daisy Miller by Henry James.  The most waste of a time book ever. There is no point to it. It's just about this girl and all the guys she flirts with then randomly dies at the end.


I like Hemingway's writing style, but the only one of his works I've read is The Old Man and the Sea, which was rather interesting. It wasn't great, but the symbolism and irony of the whole situation wasn't lost on me.

And math prep materials are annoying. If I were allowed to, I'd be listing math textbooks too. I'm just a little above average in math, and I don't really like the subject. My reading comprehension scores are always at the top of the charts in SAT, ACT, and FCAT, so I'm not completely talentless. And I can hold my own in science, for some strange reason.
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Re: top hated books
« Reply #29 on: February 04, 2007, 10:46:47 pm »
I dunno if everyone went crazy about them everywhere else, but inEngland, everyone was obsession about the dan Brown books, like da vinci Code and Angel and Demons, so I thought I'd give them a try.

I got about ten pages into Angels and Demons and gave up. The writing style was so dull and informative, rather than descriptive. it was like reading stage directions, so it's been sitting on my shelf ever since. My dear friend Ruth (may she rest in peace) also agreed with me, as did my sister and mum. Though one of my other firends, ill-informed as she is, has claimed The Da Vinci Code to be the best book ever.

So all Dan Brown books, pretty much
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