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

[The once and future king]

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.

[Rico Suave]

Madame Bovary...

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

--Rico

[ThaSaltCracka]

anything by Shakespeare.

[imported_Chuck Weinstock]

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

[Boris]

Any of those stupid Rabbit books by John Updike.

Anything by Kurt Vonnegut. Talk about over rated.

[Ed Miller]

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]

[Ed Miller]

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.

[BeerMoney]

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.

[turnipmonster]

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

[nicky g]

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