Hopping along this Friday from The Blue Bookcase. Here's the discussion question for the week
Discuss a work of literary merit that you hated when you were made to read it in school or university. Why did you dislike it?
Before I answer this, let me just say that I've always been a reader. However when told what to read, I find myself faltering. I don't think I have ever enjoyed a book that I was told to read, and that include Jane Eyre, The Scarlet Letter and Les Miserables.
I could give you horror stories about my reading of Les Miz. I had to read that one over the summer in Honors English. Needless to say, I never really read the abriged version until I was out of school. Oh and can I mention the book was in two column text book form!! ARGH!!! The pain.
But I didn't hate Les Miz.
The book I hated...
MOBY DICK.
I despised this book. It was so dry and to my tenth or eleventh grade self, it was so freaking boring!! I don't think I ever totally finished it. I used Cliff Notes for most of it. It is also the one book that I won't even try to re-read now.
That book was evil!
Oh and I don't care what any of you say, it was about a crazy man and a whale!!!!!!
