Morality aside, what book would you ban from schools so no one would have to suffer through reading them again?
by 
Cyndi Ninja
ANSWERS: 73
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Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Bible.
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the bible
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miracle worker x.x
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The Scarlet Letter There is absolutely nothing to be taken from that book.
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i never read of the books assigend to me in school.... why i had to take college Lit to graduate....
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Lord of the flies. augh. augh augh augh. And you couldn't even try to look up online study guides, because there were so many different interpretations. Beelzebub? Homoeroti- what? Surely that's not what we're supposed to find... I think there were a lot of books I could have enjoyed if I didn't have to write papers about them (Frankenstein, for one), but that was just awful.
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Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce) . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Portrait_of_the_Artist_as_a_Young_Man . . What a load of archaic tripe...:-P...
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
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The Diary of Anne Frank.
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1984..... Uncle Toms Cabin The Bible
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Not a single one.
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Catcher and the Rye.
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"The Custer Story- Touched by an Indian"
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Moby Dick or The Last of the Mohicans...I had to read those in university...I'm surprised I ever woke up
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Dick and Jane. See Dick. See Jane. See Dick see Jane. See Jane see Dick. See Dick In Jail. Muther of pearl WHY must we do that to our children?
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I wouldn't, I'd ban teachers from ranting about the "real interpretation" of the book.
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Anything by Anne Coulter.
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Anything by the Clintons. Unless you consider them the fiction they are.
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Catcher in the Rye. I'm gonna get alot of static for this one, but don't read it until absolutely necessary. It bored my socks off.
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I really can't stand Shakespeare. Anything by him needs to go. It's just not relevant for Americans to read that when our brand of English has changed so much that students are having more trouble understanding the point of his work.
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Burry my heart ar wounded knee
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Anything in old english (Shakespeare, Dickens) and Mark Twain's Southern writing
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almost anything shakespeare
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Great Expectations. I think I feel asleep every other page.
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Heart of Darkness *shot self in face*
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the bible
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Catcher in the Rye. Either that or at least have the choice not to read it. Please don't hate me. I just really don't like that book at all.
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"Invitation to the White House"/Hillary Rodham Clinton
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"See dick run".
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The Giver, Hatchet.. i swear we had to read those books twice a year.. every year .. its ridiculous.. also "Beowulf" as a 'Tag' class, i have to translate the Old english into modern and then read it.. thnk god its only part of the story :S
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Any "suffering" is temporary. The benefits of reading a difficult book, especially as an adolescent, far outweigh any perceived hassle in the long run.
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THE SCARLET LETTER. akjdsakjdakas.
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To the best of my recollection I've enjoyed every book that I've read, such as Of Mice and Men, Tale of Two Cities, and Jamaica Inn. I wasn't able to read all the way through Crime and Punishment but I think that was mostly because I was so lonely then and I was very distracted by my nascent romance.
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Definitely the bible. It's one of the most violent, rascist, hate filled books ever to be published.
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far from the madding crowd...did that in Eng lit and couldn't ever fnd a longer more boring book
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Anything by Shakespeare
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No book deserves to be punished.
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I would banish the Quran. After all, adherents to this book bombed the two towers and killed thousands upon thousands.
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Anything by Charles Dickens. He is so boring. I tried when in high school. I tried in my 20's, 30's and so on...I have tried different novels - all to no avail. I have gone back and read many things that I didn't understand or like in school because I am aware that tastes in things like literature can change over time. I really love Jane Austen but I can take or leave the Brontes, same with Hardy. I like shakespeare, in fact I have come to really love Merchant of Venice and King Lear and I still like Orwell. I am STILL bored to tears with Charles Dickens. I can see no litery merit in tediousness.
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The Scarlet Letter
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The Bible, and "The Return of the Native"...
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the great gatsby
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Moby Dick or War and Peace
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would Physics count?
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Moby Dick.....I mean seriously......who cares about the stupid whale?
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Both superb choices, ladies. Tolstoy & Steinbeck = kinda like a literary surf & turf?
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when i was in high school, i wished Lord of the Flies was a banned book everyday .. i HATED it
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The Hungry Ocean If you can call it a book...I call it a 243 page instruction manual on how to fish
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BEOWULF!!!
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The Grapes of Wrath- argh! The book was so boring! It could be cut in half, THEN it would be good! It's so weird... Of Mice and Men is one of my favorite books, and it's from the same author!
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My Antonia. Most boring book ever.
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The Da Vinci Code. Seriouly, Dan Brown is one of the worst writers I've ever read.
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Nothing but the Truth...
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A Passage To India by EM Forster. Forster, himself, hated it. He thought it was so badly written and confusing that he was about to rewrite it when he died. Now we have to suffer through the drivel. It didn't make sense to me either. Honestly, if the author hated the book, why is it considered good literature?
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'The Red Badge of Courage.' I had to read this in the 9th grade & do an essay test on it. Easily the most boring thing I've ever read. I'm definitely not a fan of banning books...but I think the students would benefit from changing the reading list up a little...there's really no way a teacher can keep a class interested and engaged over a book like 'The Red Badge...'
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Heart of Darkness - the longest short book I ever read.
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mobie dick
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Well your question said "...So no one would have to suffer through reading them." That is an opinion based situation where what one person likes another may not. You should never ban anything based on that as a reason. Intelligent men tolerate the tolerable and discuss the things that are personally intolerable. A church minded person might not agree with anything in a public library or bookstore. That is exactly why they have "Christian bookstores." Even those things that are highly offensive should not be banned. You can get as pissed off and as up in arms as you want, but burning anything, (Even the Pussy Cat Dolls new CD,) should never be allowed.
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But you know... I have most of both of their works... They are really really dusty, but I have them if I need them.
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The Catholic catachism! ;-)
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A Confederacy of Dunces and The Wide Sargasso Sea. Both novels which received critical accliam but have no sympathetic characters in them whom you can like or root for, and have no redeeming message to share. I want back the time I spent reading them.
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ANYTHING from Willam Shakespeare!!! The number of "D"s I received, trying to read his stuff!!! Supposed to be in ENGLISH class, learning ENGLISH, but forced to read this crap...if I knew where he was buried--I'd PISS on his grave!!!
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Personally, I'd toss EVERYTHING written by or ABOUT William Shakespeare!!! This Danish a**shole, who butched the very language that we were SUPPOSED to be learning (english)--in the name of "literature!!!!" If I knew where his gravesite was--I'd P*SS on it!!!
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The Bible of course. Barbaric and badly written.
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1984 or Animal Farm, both terrible books
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Moby Dick or The Last of the Mochicans.,..I had to read them both for an English course.....You could die of boredom reading those:)
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the scarlet letter
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The bible, and yes it is actually taught in some schools. I even know of a few public schools in the south.
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Ethan Frome... The book that is supposed to teach about irony, just the most boring thing ever written.
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"Cry the Beloved Country." It is a book about South Africa. It has to be the most boring piece of literature that I ever read.
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Anything by Thomas Hardy Most of the great Russians too. The are so wordy they put most youngsters off Literature.
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'Redgauntlet' by Wally Scott, a book with no redeeming qualities whatsoever that I can remember. Also 'Scoop' by Evelyn Waugh, not because it is tedious, in fact it is laugh-aloud funny, but it takes more maturity to understand it than the average 14 year-old possesses. I hated it at school but I can read and re-read it now.
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Ayn Rand is pretty bad. Describing a rape as a "good rape"? Ugh.
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