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Classics You Dislike
- Thread starter Rival
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Romeo and Juliet wasn't my thing.
I never read anything I didn't like. I've never read Lord of the Flies. I always thought of it as an artificial classic, something that English teachers wanted me to think that it was a classic but that actually wasn't a classic. It was a book that they, for some reason, made students read and thereby caused it to be a classic.
That was my teenage reasoning. "I'm not going to let them make something be a classic that isn't!" Not that I really cared. I actually didn't know if it was genuinely a classic or not, but it seemed like an English teacher thing rather than a book anybody would desire to read.
exchemist
Veteran Member
The Lord of the Rings. Bloody Tom Bombadil, the ultimate pub bore.
Also hated the Catcher in the Rye. But perhaps that's not a classic.
exchemist
Veteran Member
Now I did that one for O Level and in consequence I like it a lot, though it is in some ways rather ridiculous, admittedly.
We did it at GCSE and I remember specifically writing it's a 'lust story' instead of love. Lol.
Because it is 
Wuthering Heights.
O Level?
Ironically my favourite
No, what put you off?
The writing is difficult to follow; as they say, above my pay grade. lol...You would have to read it to understand the problem.If reading does not 'flow' for me I don't enjoy the read.
Gravity's Rainbow....uninteresting & tedious.
Shakespeare's anything....inscrutable language.
The Catcher In The Rye....uninteresting
Shakespeare's anything....inscrutable language.
The Catcher In The Rye....uninteresting
Not a Classic "Novel" but I hated the Odyssey. Also, The Scarlet Letter is probably the worst thing ever written.
Hard Times.
Way too dreary, even for Dickens.
A Clockwork Orange I never got. Though weirdly I do actually like the movie.
I hated the Butler Translation of the Odyssey. I actually like the other translations. So I don’t know if that counts? Lol
Way too dreary, even for Dickens.
A Clockwork Orange I never got. Though weirdly I do actually like the movie.
I hated the Butler Translation of the Odyssey. I actually like the other translations. So I don’t know if that counts? Lol
AlexanderG
Active Member
I can't think of any classics that I did like. The Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, anything by Shakespeare, Lord of the Flies, Tale of Two Cities, anything by Jane Austen, etc.
I read avidly, and I always have. I would usually read a few books a week in my free time while going to school growing up. But I always thought the classics were boring, unrelatable, irrelevant to my life or my dreams, and conceptually simple.
My oldest son wouldn't read until he came across Diary of a Wimpy Kid books. About that time, I had argued with his teacher about his reading comprehension. She said he didn't have any, I said he didn't care for the books she chose.
I ended up reading one of his Wimpy Kid books to test out his reading comprehension. It was as I suspected. He understood his books fine, he just didn't like hers. But, I got hooked on the Wimpy Kid books, too.
I remember in one of the books, Greg, the main character claims he doesn't like classics because they're gloomy and someone always dies in the end. I suspect he's not too far off from the truth there...