Book (only real Litrature, no airport pulp) that you hated the most.
 

Crime and Punishment.

Actualy didnt manage to finish it. The protagonist pissed me off to much with his constant whinning.

I dont think it helped that I had just read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Ivan was having a very hard time but did you here him complain. No. He got on with the job and even found time for a smidgen of happiness and satisifaction. Unlike skint moaning axe murdering student, talk about wallowing in self pity.

Re: Book (only real Litrature, no airport pulp) that you hated the most.
 

Madame Bovary...

Had to read it at least 3-4 times throughout my schooling...never even came close to finishing it.

--Rico

Re: Book (only real Litrature, no airport pulp) that you hated the most.
 

anything by Shakespeare.

Re: Book (only real Litrature, no airport pulp) that you hated the mo
 

There were so many that I can't think of them all. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Actually, they were few and far between...the Iliad (or was it the Odyssey?) springs to mind.

On a related note, I've read Atlas Shrugged several times, but there is this part in the middle that I've never been able to get through. I wonder how many of you have had the same experience with this book?

Chuck

Re: Book (only real Litrature, no airport pulp) that you hated the mo
 

Any of those stupid Rabbit books by John Updike.

Anything by Kurt Vonnegut. Talk about over rated.

Re: Book (only real Litrature, no airport pulp) that you hated the mo
 

On a related note, I've read Atlas Shrugged several times, but there is this part in the middle that I've never been able to get through. I wonder how many of you have had the same experience with this book?

I don't know if it's the same part, but I couldn't finish it either... [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

Re: Book (only real Litrature, no airport pulp) that you hated the most.
 

Fahrenheit 451

Total tripe. I don't understand why anyone likes this book... especially when you could read Brave New World or 1984 instead.

EDIT: Oh. Also, Edith Wharton. Ugh.

Re: Book (only real Litrature, no airport pulp) that you hated the most.
 

Red Badge of Courage.

Far From the Madding Crowd.

I'd rather run a chainsaw up my ass than have to deal with this crap.

Re: Book (only real Litrature, no airport pulp) that you hated the mo
 

yeah I never got the rabbit books at all. I didn't really like "the tin drum" by gunter grass very much, entertaining in parts but something about it I just didn't get perhaps.

--turnipmonster

Re: Book (only real Litrature, no airport pulp) that you hated the most.
 

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. Didn't get very far with it; hated the tone.