What is the worst book you were forced to read as a child?
>>24923151I thought To Kill A Mockingbird was trash with no extractable value.
>>24923151pic rel.complete fiction.same goes with schindlers list.
>>24923573>complete fictionSchindler's list really happened retard. The only fictionalizations in the book were dialogue that he couldn't remember exactly or filled in plot points.
>>24923151The Catcher in the Rye and Of Mice and Men were AWFUL
I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsThe AwakeningThe Color PurpleThe Woman WarriorA Separate Peaceand I didn't even like Catcher in the Rye, but it shits all over the absolute trash listed above that I was forced to read
>>24923151a book for retard kids that teaches how to study and the importance of studying, i don't remember the name
>>24923579thanks.to my knowledge it was merely a novel.for that reason to be considered fiction.
>>24923600why are those obligatory reading in american schools?
>>24923151Every fucking piece of Estonian """"""""literature"""""""Randaja by Juhan Liiv or Smuul, about how great it is to be a schizo hobo roaming through the land.Kunksmoor, a fairy tale about a troll woman.Arabella, feminist slop before feminist slop existed. Some story about Estonian inbreds living in a nigger hut and unable to start the fire (the narrative time is 19th - 20th century).Truth and Justice, about peasants turning into lawyers in four Bible sized tomes. Trash. All of it.Provincial myopic trash. Reading Joyce in English had been a revelation of how aesthetic language can be after Estonian stilted autistic trash.
>>24923663kekany Estonian literature you'd actually recommend?
Middle school teacher loved to read Roald Dahl books to us. I hated them due to the callous sentiment.
>>24923579That's right. It was real to me. I felt that it happened.
>>24923600I much preferred Catcher of the Mice
>>24923151Häräntappoase(How to kill a bull, which is by the way completely wrong, the correct translated title would be Bull-killing Weapon). A boring story of some teenagers in the boonies who do nothing but bicker and sleep around. Bad prose, bad story, bad characters, just bad.
>>24923151The author of picrel unintentionally used a recipe taken from the legend of Zelda in a recent book
>>24923151I LOVE middle-high school The Holocaust(tm) books. They really show us what modern literature is all about.
HATCHET
>>24923151Ardiente Paciencia by Antonio Skármeta. Had to read it for school in 9th grade. Absolute shit. The story itself left me with nothing and it read like fanfiction. The writing itself was also fanfic-tier and sounded like the author used a thesaurus for every other sentence. Very cringy depictions of sexuality, too. I'm from Italy so I had to read a translation, I hope the original was slightly better.
>>24923151>it's mandatory to club children over the head with the Holocaust>start young, start often, just like Epstein
>>24923243>>24923579>>24923600If this information makes you feel better, the publishers in Vietnam are gradually promoting the Jew-Holocaust-related literature; and I supposed in other second - third world countries they are also promoting whatever the American boomers and millennials were/are reading.
>>24924952why?
>>24924957So it never happens again
>>24925102yes, yes, but what is the actual reason?Why would they want to capture third world countries like Vietnam with this stuff? Because it's losing its grip on the first world?
>>24923663>Randaja by Juhan Liiv or Smuul, about how great it is to be a schizo hobo roaming through the land.That sounds based as fuck though
Yeah.
>>24923151The Scarlet Letter.Why we reading books about whores in school? Actually I can't even remember what it's about.
Walk two moonsLord of the fliesCatcher in the RyeWhy not let kids read pulps? They're quick and snappy abd way less boring.
>>24923151I have a weird memory of reading In The Year Of The Boar And Jackie Robinson in middle school, which confused me a lot.They basically had us reading anti-racism novels before we had any understanding of what racism was in the first place.I remember the main character talking about "white devils" and I just assumed this was a reference to some kind of Chinese mythological creature, I had not the slightest clue that this could be referring to white people.Come to think of it, I didn't pick up on any race concepts in Holes, or any religious concepts in the Narnia books for that matter. I was a smart kid but this stuff just doesn't scan without a certain level of cultural awareness that middle schoolers just don't have.
>>24925102>meanwhile in palestine
The Diary of a Young GirlI'm not even that interested in whether it's legit or Otto Frank being weird as hell, I just think it's a really boring fucking book to give to children. It made zero impact on me.If we're talking mainstream "canon" books on the holocaust I liked Man's Search for Meaning much better though I couldn't accept its conclusion when it was assigned to me. But it at least made me think.Striped Pajamas was also pretty shit.First book on the Nazis that I genuinely gave many shits about was Hitler and the Fall of Weimar Germany. It actually challenged my views and changed my mind on a variety of things, some not even pertaining to the Nazis directly.
>>24923151Lying about the holocaust is like murdering childrenIt's ok, as long as you're Jewish
>>24923606A Separate Peace seems like such a well-hated "classic" that ive never seen anyone actually praise its literary qualities. Or let alone have any fans.
>>24926729Ethan Frome, too
>>24923600>>24923151you people might just be retarded ngl, all of these books are enjoyable.
>>24927167provide some reasoning or examples of your own for comparison or you're just being contrarian for the sake of it
>>24927175i read the books and i enjoyed them
>>24927187exposed, gg
I never read any Holocaust literature in school. In fact, the Holocaust was just a footnote topic in history classes. This was in the 2000s.How was I spared reading Holocaust lit? I’m a bong afterall.
Animal farm was the worst one for me. 1984 actually has merit. Animal farm was pure shite with no redeeming qualities
>>24927201Growing up in the 90s my school was literally in the same street as Anne franks house. Never read her book or anyone even suggested it. I think when things are too close to home people avoid these topics.Similar to how no one talks about the failed integration of immigrants into Europe in Europe. All the literature about the integration failures are external.
>>24927201I'm Dutch and we never even had to read Anne Frank
>>24927201We read Anne Frank at my school. I also remember us watching Schindler's list and Der Untergang in like 5th or 6th grade.
>>24927210I actually liked 1984
>>24927162I only vaguely remember that one
>>24927326In the 90s (when I was in high-school) being a holocaust denier was seen as weird yet I humored it as 16 year old in an armpit city in Ohio. Then again I also had few friends, too.
>>24927331Yeah that's what I was saying 1984 is good but animal farm is dogshit and should be removed from curriculum.
>>24923151The great gatsby. I can appreciate ots message and themes. That bad things happen to good people, that good things happen to bad people and vice versa that sometimes the good gets the good and the bad gets the bad. That life for the moat part is selfish assholes cruising through life while ruining other people's lives.But the way it was written was such a slog to get through that it made it unpleasant.
>>24925115You just have to understand that the American culture dominates the world and all these countries, by catching up gradually with the latest trends and "developments", feel that they have proved themselves to be civil and morally well. That is to say: the current zeitgeist of these countries - like Vietnam - spawns from the culmination of post WW2 liberalism - boomerism - GenX nihilism- millennial's quirky chungus attitudes and... all that the Whitoid goyim consumed on a daily basis. Is there someone who's making these countries' publishers to shit out those books? Perhaps, yes; but in my opinion it's just a natural occurrence. When everyone becomes one, Vietnamese are just Americans of a different skin color.
>>24927460So you're saying that they are adopting it voluntarily to be more like westerners?
Popcorn reading (student reads out loud for a few paragraphs and then teacher says switch, and they pick another student) Romeo and Juliet. And I was in honors English and still it was absolutely retarded. This is back in 2008ish so I can’t blame brainrot, most people CANNOT read out loud effectively. Mix in old English dialogue heavy text and it becomes an absolute shitshow. I don’t know what my teacher was thinking.
>>24923151A cidade e ass serras.
>>24927460Charlies are commies, THOUGH
>>24927726IMO, Shakespeare is best watched rather than read. Students struggle to understand Shakespeare because they throw them into the deep end with him rather than engaging with them as fun plays.
>>24927214I almost went there, but the line was too long so my friend and I said>fuck itKek
>>24927726I think popcorn reading was designed to force students to pay attention because they could be called on to continue reading at any point, which is fair enough. But Shakespeare is going to force students to pause constantly based on words they haven’t seen before not to mention you’ll hear Romeo speak in like 25 different cadences. Quite funny.
>>24923600I hate Steinbeck>>24925115Vietnamese "people" look they have down syndrome.
>>24923243FPBP The only thing I got is that white people become like dogs with rabies and they need to be put down by white male father figures both on the streets and in the courtroom and southern whites just can't help themselves but not be tolerant enough.
>>24927810Tolerance is weakness.
>>24927824Tolerance is unironically white. And I agree.
Not a child, but still a teenager in college. Mom works for scholastic and asked me to read Ready Player One for feedback. Couldn't make it past 20 pages
>>24923151The nigger in the gay favelas
>>24928228This may be the only case where i think the book is far worse than the movie. Maybe starship troopers too.
>>24927702Yes. What even is Westerners at this point, I do wonder, since there's actually more diversity in their thoughts than those in the second-third countries (or this is just based on my worldview). Post-modernism and Americanism, like how Evola wrote, is more accurate.Even pure-blood Thais or Laos act like American Asian nowadays.
>>24923579Reminder that the real Oscar Schindler charged people to help them escape
I forget most of the slop shit they had us read in my dogshit highschool but The Maestro was so bad it put me off all literature until my 20s>some kid with a chip on his shoulder living in the boonies running away from his shitty father comes across a retreat/cabin of some reclusive but talented composer/pianist out in the forest working on some new important magnum opus to be played at a large concert.>they bond for a while, guys get care packages airdropped to him by some broad he knows>one day kid wakes up there to find him deadAt this point I had enough experience reading YA slop that I had predicted what the book would do. Its an obvious hook to the kid to live out in the retreat for a while and learn the maestros final composition and play it for him, in the process having some kind of character arc. Instead he almost immediately leaves taking the composition with him, dicks around in oddjob menial labor for a while, beats the shit out of his dad, and then finally travels to some woman who knew the maestro who wanted the composition, and she plays it instead. Book ends with him buying new shoes or something. My teacher for 9th grade english was the drafting teacher who was forced to teach english, it was really funny having him shill us this book in grade 9 and then grade 10 drafting students would hear him complain about having to shill this dogshit book to the 9 students. I mean i had to read some other total dogshit as part of our shitty english program like the fucking hunger games and mocking bird, but I couldn't tell you what happened in either besides basic plot outlines I absorbed via osmosis. This fucking book is still living rent free in my head
>>24923151Not necessarily obligated but the pop culture was there enough where I felt I had to be apart of it The Hunger games I honestly enjoyed the first and very much the second, the third was bad though you can tell the author was rushed
>>24923243>It's bad to hurt things that don't harm otherIt's a bit childish yea but I'm sure it was fucking mind blowing in the segrate southern U.S. at the time
>>24925183Oh shit I was gonna post this>"The whole of Denmark is his bodyguard"Nigga you surrendered after 8 hours
>>24923663Be the great writer you want to see in Estonian
Never cared for Things Fall Apart and was surprised when I saw people on this site saying they liked it
>>24924739He's also a huge TERF, I'm not sure which one is more embarrassing.
>>24923600If you don't like Of Mice and Men, you literally have no soul
>>24928228He was probably forced to read them in schools. I read both. Hated Mice and Men which I had to read as a teen in school. Loved Catcher as an adult which is like a top tier 4chan shitpost. Almost nothing escapes the classroom atmosphere enshittification, if you read it in school it will suck.
>>24929195meant for >>24929079
>>24929070Can we at least agree that Things Fall Apart is a great title for a novel?
UK schools forced me to read this dogshit Its an alternative history book where whites are the low income minority.Some black bitch falls in love with a white dude, Romeo and Juliet ripoff type shit.Was very awkward considering the fact that the heroine is oblivious self insert for the author who must of had white boy fetish.
>all the people complaining about Steinbeck and SalingerDid your schools not give you real dogshit or did you just not read them?
>>24923151I also had to read this shite and Sive by John b keane which was decent, are you irish?
>>24923151Hamlet shortly followed by Holes. I suppose at least as you get older you can appreciate Hamlet as you understand the concepts better, yet Holes whilst having a somewhat controversial story comes across as propaganda to put people into the mindset of being a victim of a system (propaganda?). Hamlet has at least got a good story going where eventually chaos ensues instead of a redemption arc and feels more believable or real.
>>24929394LondonerMandatory reading in primary
>>24927702>So you're saying that they are adopting it voluntarily to be more like westerners?there's just a lag that's required before you can roll it out on a wide scale and have it be comprehended by the populace. ten years out of a way-of-life eradicating war 'nam would've still been installing basic western infrastructure. forty or fifty years out, now that they're reasonably assimilated to western culture, they're finally ready to comprehend the holocaust myth.
>>24931603>now that they're reasonably assimilated to western culture, they're finally ready to comprehend the holocaust myth.Just as the west is abandoning that same myth, it seems like?
>>24929463Holes was fun as fuck you rat
>>24931998Yeah I thinks holes are fun as fuck too, especially your mom's
>>24923151Wuthering Heights. Absolute soap opera drivel for women. >>24923243This one wasn't too terrible. It was fairly short, had some interesting characters like Boo Radley, and they said the nigger-word many times in the book which we were allowed to read out loud in class (we didn't have any africans in our school). It became a sort of game to see who could make the class laugh the most when they got to read it.
>>24929074Kinda based ngl
>>24923579>Schindler's list really happened retard.White man sacrifices everything he has saving the lives of thousands of jews. White man later dies penniless and jews (unsurprisingly) do nothing whatsoever to help him. THAT is the story of "Schindler's List (of rats)".
>>24933185>jews (unsurprisingly) do nothing whatsoever to help him.This just isn't true.
De Sade's Justine. No I will not elaborate.
It's a toss up between three novels.There was Taronga, which was about a young boy with telepathic powers to talk to animals who lives in the Taronga zoo in Sydney. There had been a global war and now the world has descended into chaos.There was a very gay novel with a setting in a public school in Britain. Sadomasochistic bullying, imagery about putting on a mask to fit in, the main character was a swimmer and the bully prefect character quoted 1984 to sound tough. I think the female English teachers were titillated by the setting.The final one was a crime thriller. A teenage boy has been made homeless and we follow just how tough life is for the homeless. The b-plot is a psychotic veteran collecting disability payments who kills the homeless and does it to feel like he isn't a leech and to differentiate himself from the homeless. This meanders for 200 pages and in the last 20 pages, the homeless boy meets an undercover journalist, they are attacked by the psycho and the day is saved. I hated the structure of it, neither story felt like it tied into the other one. I hated how it avoided any mention of drugs or decision making, the homeless people just became homeless and the welfare state that has existed for the past 100 years wasn't addressed. It was as if they were describing the homeless as if they were all George Orwell in Down and Out in London and Paris.
>>24934373I looked them up, it was Inventing Elliot and Stone Cold.
Anybody read this for German class?
>>24932984>Wuthering HeightsOnly thing i ever knew about Wuthering Heights is that it is a song by prog-metal band Angra with rather unusual vocal part. Today i had read, that actually it is a cover on Kate Bush, who had wrote this song after watching an ecranisation of this book (and song depicts a ghost).
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>>24923600>>24923631>>24924952>>24927167The Catcher In The Rye is a book specifically for young men with a conscience.Similar to Huckleberry Finn.
>>24934462This book is like 1984 but for simpletons. And that's not a bad thing, because it's actually a much more interesting and moralistic story, being a fable, than 1984 is, which is a nonfiction essay done up in a narrative torture porn form in order to be less seen as didactic.Animal Farm is also more interesting than Lord Of The Flies, which like 1984 is more intriguing for its concept and outline than it is for the words actually committed to page. Whereas with Animal Farm, I don't recall it being a laborious read.
>>24934435>ecranizationSecond new word I've learned this year.
>>24934408I took Latin.
>>24929463>>24931998Holes is a movie bro
>>24929463I can't think of any Shakespeare play that actually has a good story, Hamlet included. The themes are more important than the narrative.
>>24929254I was assigned this and legit didn't read it. Summer homework? Nah nigga fuck that. That was my policy for all "summer reading".
>>24924767Into the trash YOU go
>>24929249such a word could only have been conceivable and entertainable within the postracial societynow everyone would regard such a concept as unthinkable, let alone logically impossible
>>24929203no, it just makes me think of the Zebrahead songit's nigh deeply unsophisticated and somewhat boorish even
>>24929195>Almost nothing escapes the classroom atmosphere enshittification, if you read it in school it will suck.perhapsI read The Catcher In The Rye on my own as a young teenager, and enjoyed it and found it touching and relatable, though somewhat dated.Nobody wants to be forced to read something, and on a timeline no less.
>>24929057The only such novel craze I ever participated in was A Series Of Unfortunate Events. I also feel as if it starts off better than it ends.
>>24928943how do the boards come up with such curricula
>>24928770Scoundrel classanything for creditshonorary jew
>>24928659Americanism is largely based. Other nations should mostly endeavor to be particularized flavors of Americanism.
>>24923151I've been redpilling my gf and her bestie on the holocaust. This came up and had to admit I never read it. What should I say next time. I don't want to read kikefiction.
>>24928228damn, this dude was a year older than one of my parents, and a few years older then than I am now
>>24927747I once saw a Shakepeare play put on by some zoomers many years ago, and although I hadn't read that particular one before, I found it no more interesting to watch than others had been to read—which is to say, hardly at all.Shakespeare is simply boring and overrated by pseudointellectuals.
>>24934946Plenty of people have never read this, or Night, or Anne Frank's Diary, or Schindler's List, or whatever else is out there.I've only watched The Pianist and Inglorious Basterds.I don't need more fiction for a fictional event (The Holohoax).
>>24927427It's slightly more tolerable than The Scarlet Letter. Both should be forgotten in my opinion, however. Unremarkable literature.
>>24927348What exactly is to terrible about Animal Farm, in your opinion? I think it's a better Communism Bad story than 1984, which is barely a story and more like an inventory; and a good companion to read alongside Anthem.
>>24927210Animal Farm puts into an enjoyable narrative form many themes which are pertinent even today, because it's all about abuse of political power and the breakdown of communities and societies.
>>24927201We can thank our schools for ending literature history with the 1920s, foolish as that was.
>>24926723*sensible cackle*
>>24926541>Hitler and the Fall of Weimar Germanytell me about this book, will you
every book you’re forced to read is bad.
>>24923151I'm surprised no one has mentioned Jane Eyre yet.Abominably dull as well as appallingly long. It's possibly the longest pre-college assigned reading I ever completed in-full, and probably redpilled me on doing ever again in the future.
>>24934995Well, I cannot recall any forced reading I ever ended up genuinely adoring.
>>24926281>Walk two moonsnever heard of it>Lord of the fliesexcellent concept, poor execution>Catcher in the Ryeenjoyable but indeed could have been better>Why not let kids read pulps?Such as? I don't think assigning me Goosebumps and Encyclopedia Brown would have accomplished much past the earliest years, alongside the likes of Frindle.
>>24925219it's even worse than just a simple slutit's about a slut who cucks her older husband for a young chad who's supposed to be a man of god iircand you have to sit through pages long descriptions of scenery in-between subtle pity parties for this PUTAits place on the curriculum is a relic of the fading anti-slutshaming movement
>>24934946The book actually massively downplays the Holocaust because the vast majority of children were murdered as soon as they got there
>ctrl f animal farm>seven resultswell it was animal farm. only book i disliked in school
>>24936334why
>>24923243To Kill A Mockingbird is a genuinely good book.
>>24923579>Schindler's list really happened retardThere's a book called The Road To Rescue which, in the afterword, the author proves Isaac Stern was a fraud who forged documents to make it look like he was the one with the idea.
It as
>>24923151Its funny to see people get mad over Boy in Striped Pajamas because it makes them realizes the Germans were humans too.
>>24937272It really makes you understand why various great writers claimed to detest allegory. It's just an allegory, that's it, an allegory & nothing else. It's so empty
never let me go by kazuo ishiguro was so ass
The wost book assigned in school was so bad I refuse to say the author's name or the title of the book. The faster it falls into obscurity the better. It was very anti-white, and the author owes his entire livelihood to white readers buying his shitty books. Not only was the message dumb, but his style of writing was incredibly melodramatic. He liked to use words that rhymed even though they didnt work together. Shit like: "He tried and he fried." I'm not exaggerating. He literally wrote shit like this in the biggest most dramatic moments and it was cringe and dumb. It takes skill for a 13 year old to look at your prose and tell that it's bad.
Australian schools are genuinely are retard factories was only ever made to read one classic (and it was Macbeth) meanwhile they’d just shove some woke abo shit down our throats
oh man i've been waiting to mention this7th grade, we were all assigned this really dull novel about pottery. The name escapes me but it was pretty much this guy making pottery under the supervision of his boss, and that's pretty much it re: plot. Also same grade, we read a novel about the Titanic. That shit was painful. High school was mainly the typical English curriculum stuff, Of Mice and Men, To Kill a Mockingbird. I somehow got bumped up to AP Lit when I was a senior and had a harder time adjusting to the courseload but my teacher assigned some good stuff like Wilde and Frankenstein
>>24923151>Grade 9>Read teen-slop instead of at-least a modern-classic . . .
>>24943221Cont'd:>Grade 12>Read Australian Retard Erotica instead of Hamlet . . .>What the Hell.
>>24923151A Separate PeaceNot really a bad book, just really boring. I was really bored as a kid going to school so reading about another kid going to school was double boring. I remember the book because of how much I don't care about the protagonist, the plot, and the themes.
