Which classics are you reading that are "boring"?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I read @312930 (Anonymous): Great Expectations, Grapes of Wrath, Lord of the Flies...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

:O I love those! Haha guess lit isn't for everyone

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No way! I haven't read Great Expectations, but the other two were good, especially Lord of the Flies! Do you dislike reading in general, or just the classics?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I REALLY hated Lord of the Flies. I couldn't get into it, but everyone acts like it's such a masterpiece.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Who cares, No one actually reads, and if you do, Good for you. I never read any books and I have a 3.7 gpa

by Anonymous 13 years ago

a gpa is just a number

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I wouldn't be into HALF the books I'm into now if it weren't for the classics. Although I love Harry Potter, let's be honest, it's not the strongest literature.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

my opinion, Lord of the Flies was rediculous, so were the rest. just let us read whatever we choose, i didnt learn anything from those books, let me read something that i actually enjoy, that way ill learn something from it. Everyone i know just sparknoted them.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

i love the classics! they are the best!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

They turn the majority of kids from reading. Kids become jaded when then are forced to read books they find boring.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

the books that kids want to read, even intellectual adolescents, most often teach the reader very little. they make us read these books in school because they teach us valuable analytical skills and promote intelligent discussion in everyday life. you get more respect from everyone around you. I don't particularly enjoy reading all the classics, but I do it for my own intellectual advantage and to prepare myself for life. in almost every career, there will be unnecessary literature that you will have to read to get paid. so quit complaining about reading a simple book, and grow up.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

furthermore, many of these books have been considered beautiful literature for around a century or more. you have absolutely no right to consider yourself above the opinions of multiple generations of scholars. they are indeed classics for a reason, even if the new generation is too enveloped in themselves and their own enjoyment in school to accept this. you go to school to learn. if you just want to enjoy yourself, drop out. you will not be missed, and there are people out there who like to learn.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

everything you said is completely spot on to how i feel. true story: i'm in college, and on the first day of my freshman lit class last year, the professor asked everyone to say who their favorite author was. i said it was between george orwell and charles dickens, and this one douche said "nerd" out loud. i mean, come on! thats just ridiculous. why the fuck are you even here (in a COLLEGE class) making fun of someone because they like to learn? wtf? you go to college to further your intellect and gain more knowledge. i mean, i thought i got out of middle school once already. and then the idiot said his favorite author was j.d. salinger, which is pretty smart, except he didn't say "jd salinger," he said "the dude who wrote that one book that was like that teenager guy like running around new york that the dude from the beatles got shot by." and that quote is almost word for word.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

those books are considered classics for a reason. and i would much rather read great expectations in my english class than twilight.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

last year in my british literature class (i'm in high school) we got to read frankenstein. and i was pretty excited, because that's considered one of the greats in literature. even though it was kind of hard to read sometimes (mary shelley spends a lot of time talking about nature) and none of the characters seemed to have their own distinct voice, it was one of the most awesome books i have ever read. and now i know why it's a classic. but almost everyone else was adamantly against reading it, because it wasn't a modern novel. and everyone complained about how boring and lame it was, and how it didn't live up to its expectations. and in the end i was one of the only ones who actually read it. and that kind of pissed me off.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Great Expectations was hell.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

All classics aren't bad, but some are ridiculous. I loved 1984, Animal Farm, All Quiet on the Western Front, and The Things They Carried. Some of that shit is just ridiculous,though. Lord of the Flies? Slaughter-house Five? God, it was terrible trying to muck through them. It'd be nice if we could get a list of "classic" books and allow the class to vote on which ones they'd like to have in the curriculm. That way we could still learn, but have a say.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Last year my class read Othello, Lord of the Flys, Antigone, Romeo and Juliet, 1984, and The Iliad. I don't see why anyone complained about them, because they were all great (well, the Iliad was a bit silly, oh well). I think what people need to do is just look past the fact that what they're reading is a hundred years old, and just enjoy the story.

by Anonymous 13 years ago