A book you wish you hadn’t read!

[KOBY15]

Same with Poison is the Great Gatsby. It is really boring and my grade dropped from an A to a D just because I can't pay enough attention to be able to write about the book.

[Crashinggg]

So when I was in 5th grade, one of my friends had told me about this book called "Candy Floss". It seemed really cool to me at that time and it had this really cool cover. But then all the sudden... *drum roll please*, I started reading it and it was SUPER boring. It seemed like days when I got passed chapter 2, because for me, I read faster when I enjoy books. Also the boring thing about the book was that there would be three pages of the main character doing the exact same thing. There was not really anything in the book's plot, like bullies the main character could stand up to.

That sounds awful, I hate when books are just kind of stalemate like that, like the plot does not move and the characters do not have any character development and you do not see any changes!

[Crashinggg]

Same with Poison is the Great Gatsby. It is really boring and my grade dropped from an A to a D just because I can't pay enough attention to be able to write about the book.

I wish high school and colleges gave students the same ability to read whatever they wanted within reason and report on it rather than reading what is 'super intellectual and popular' because that isn't really making you any smarter. Like I get shakespeare or whatever like having a diverse range of writing styles, but at least have kids pick books in each writing style instead of making everyone read all of the same book. It just increases the likeliness of cheating and gives the students that do not want to read it or write about it even more of a reason to not do what they are supposed to if they do not like it.

[KOBY15]

I completely agree! I love reading but when schools try to shove these books down my throat it just puts me off reading as a whole.

[Icefox101]

OH NO! Don't get me started on those books they make you read at school! We had to read this very long book called "Bound for Oregon" that the class would only read for 30 minutes, AND IT FELT LIKE A DAY WHEN WE GOT DONE READING IT. Guess what? It's even worse when they make you have to take a test on it or worksheets at least! (which they made us do several of on this book and I couldn't even remember what happened in the book)

[ClaratheBlaziken]

Just gonna bump in real quick

When I was in elementary school, I was suggested this one book called "Listening for Lions". It was basically about this girl around 1918 who worked at a hospital to help people affected from the Spanish Flu at a hospital and taking care of children at a nursery, which sounds interesting, right? Surely this would be a huge tale describing the struggles people went through, the horrors of witnessing death in a real pandemic that happened, and the journey of maturing and seeing people for who they are and not by physical appearance, yes?

Yeah, no. Boring. Day to day stuff happens, but nothing too big. Oh, I'm pretty sure her dad died, but instead of giving us details from that they were all like "oh yeah my dad died, so now I'm all alone. That sucks, I guess. Anyways I stepped outside and went into the sun, and came back in because I wanted to." I swear, every time the author had an opportunity to start a plot they just ignore it and keep writing uninteresting, bland details that contribute hardly anything. Look, Where the Red Fern Grows was historical realistic fiction, but that was a good book. You know what WtRFG did? It had plot and elaborated on the main character's emotion! I've read books that perfectly depict raw emotion and make me want to read more but somehow Listening for Lions got a reward? Maybe I just remember it being more boring than it actually is but good grief.