The actual worst thing
People acting like the opinion of a book they formed at age 13 of a book they were forced to read for school matters, or means anything
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though i think i read The Great Gatsby later and i was certainly older than 13 at that time and i still didn't like it
the handmaid's tale was sort of...weird, like i got that it was supposed to be political but it was still weird
fahrenheit 451 was also political and i think was my first exposure to literature with a political opinion, and i don't remember anything other than the premise (which i understand)
martian chronicles was surprisingly boring after i remembered finding something interestingly meaningful in F451
animal farm was quite readable and straightforward to understand
slaughterhouse five was weird but i think that was part of the point and i think i got at least enough of it to make sense of the basic premise
catch-22 was funny despite my missing a number of the jokes (but at least they worked as nonsensical humor, often through repetition, also snickering at "Scheisskopf" and how he got promoted repeatedly")
in the lake of the woods was...i don't even know, but i didn't like it, but i guess it introduced me to northern minnesota?
hamlet was boring
romeo and juliet was not boring but everyone gets that one
othello i actually enjoyed
of mice and men became one of my faves because it is really touching
heart of darkness, i think got what it was trying to do
things fall apart, another story that i really appreciated
pride and prejudice, one of my faves and one of the few love stories that i like specifically for its being a love story
great expectations was meh
wuthering heights was also meh
the odyssey was straightforward and decent
catcher in the rye was sorta...just there i guess? i know it's famously "offensive" for its like one use of the f-word but it was sorta just, it was a story that just felt like it didn't go anywhere, but i think that was the point
a doll's house, i remember i appreciated that
the crucible, less fond of that one but i remember little
chronicle of a death foretold feels like a dream i don't remember; all i remember is that it's magical realism
i remember there's this other work that for some reason i group with OM&M in terms of being a touching tragedy but i can't remember what it is (never read the grapes of wrath despite wanting to)
Uh, I remember not liking Across Five Aprils bc boring and for whatever reason I could. not. fucking. parse. Wuthering Heights and I found Brave New World sanctimonious. But other than that, few complaints.
Slaughterhouse-Five and Catch-22 are both favorites of mine.
Anyway, I agree with the premise of this thread
Also read The Awakening, which I think I got but then was annoyed at how much emphasis the teacher placed on water being symbolic of sex, when iirc in retrospect, sex in the story was just a plot device.
100 years of solitude
Kafka
Poe
bad required reading
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Motherfucking Bridge to Goddamn Terabithia
utterly pointless
and not even in a "teaching you that pointless bad things happen in life" kinda way
Meanwhile though everyone was saying how difficult The Scarlet Letter was to read but for some reason I found it readable just fine. Which was a surprise to me since my previous experiences had been that I had trouble making proper sense of literature and story themes and such. I think that was a sort of turning point in my maturation.
It did require jane eyre, which i hated, but I'm willing to believe i was wrong there
Did spend like, an entire term on Of Mice and Men and An Inspector Calls, though. (That is, a term per.)