It seems to me that a lot of them are just overrated pieces of crap that OHs pretended to like so they could seem artsy and educated. (OH=Original Hipster)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Any examples?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Catcher In The Rye.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I actually love that book ;_;

by Anonymous 12 years ago

People can like it. I just think it's a little overrated.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Catcher in the Rye wasn't the best example. I thought of a really good example, but I can't remember the books name. Give me a minute to think of it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

A Seperate Peace. I absolutely hated that book. I'm not sure if it's a classic, though.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Are you serious? I loved that book. I think a better example would be something by John Steinbeck (other than Of Mice and Men, which is amazing in my opinion)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It was one of the absolute worst books I've ever read. It had the stupidest story line with random bits of homosexuality that had nothing to do with the plot.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well I haven't read it in a while, so maybe I'm remembering wrong, but I remember enjoying it. To each his own.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah. It doesn't matter what I think. If you enjoyed it, keep enjoying it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

*salutes you*

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Old Man and the Sea, the Scarlet Letter, Huckleberry Finn. Most "classics" are really just try-hard-symbolism books. And the Scarlet Letter suffers from overactive description syndrome. I found none of the books enjoyable, and I even tried reading the Scarlet Letter before it was assigned to us this year. Even without the pressure of grades, it was dreadful.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Scarlet Letter definitely had a lot of purple prose, and I didn't enjoy that or Huckleberry Finn much, but I thought the Old Man and the Sea was very enjoyable, although I didn't have to read it for school. I see your point though.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Agh, the Old Man and the Sea was terrible for me. It had a lack of different settings and I thought the premise was boring. But it's all a matter of preference, really. Or maybe I'm too much of a teenager to understand.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I find that a lot of books published have premises that seems overblown and ridiculous and I sort of found it refreshing to have a story with a fantastic premise that didn't need to be completely unrealistic.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I really like unrealistic stories that have realistic but slightly exaggerated people. The world today sucks ass. I don't want to read a story about realistic shit because I hate people. I want a bunch of magic and new cultures or creatures because they're exciting and new and it's always interesting to read about how the author perceives the mythology or culture. I don't read books for symbolism or meanings or realism. I mean it's a plus if the story has that, but If I wanted that, I'd go read or watch a critic critique stuff. I read books for a nice story line (but I'm very picky with that). Most stories that are "symbolic" oftentimes have shitty stories. I'm not going to read about a guy who likes fishing just for the symbolism or realism attached to it. In my opinion, that's dull.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Huckleberry Finn was the bane of my existence in high school. I seriously could not get through it because of the way it was written. I understand that it's SUPPOSED to be that way, but the bad grammar and spelling and such just kills me inside.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Check please. I couldn't read what the black guy was saying at any moment unless I really took the time to read it all. And I really hate country-themed stories. The culture sucked and the people sucked. The grammar and spelling killed me, too.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I somewhat understood it, but it was pretty painful to read the novel. I think my teacher actually got the audio book for my class at some point.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I feel bad for the speaker who had to read all that...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I loved Huck Finn. I liked it because it was written in the first person, from the point of view of a child, it was funny, and it used the vernacular of the time. (It's dumb that they remove the n word a lot of the time.) I didn't like Tom Sawyer nearly as much.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I didn't find most of it funny. It was just a terrible read for me. Even if that's how they spoke, I hated it. Nobody should speak like that. But I do admit to enjoying the chapter where they're at school and there's that kid that just leaves the classroom and the teacher gets her panties in a bunch...at least I think that was Huckleberry Finn...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well, the book isn't supposed to be funny, but some of Huck's thoughts were funny in a kind of "kids say the darndest things" way. I don't remember much about it because I read it two years ago. You're probably in the majority. I don't think most of the kids in the class liked it. The vernacular was hard, but at least it was generally an easy-read, unlike Uncle Tom's Cabin (which I hated).

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I had to read the Scarlet Letter last year as well. It was probably the worst book I had ever read. I didn't care about any of the characters, and the plot managed to be so full of useless words that I fell asleep everytime that I read it. Ok, rant over. I just really hated that book.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The Pearl, Hamlet, A Raisin in the Sun, Of Mice and Men, Beowulf: yeah I get your drift.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Oh god The Pearl. Don't even get me started ;-;

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The Grapes of Wrath. >.<

by Anonymous 12 years ago