Gregor Samsa
That Guy
I figured that with the 'School Texts' providing what constituted the best of texts, a thread in which we could relate the nature of the many and/or few (depending on your experience), the turgid, the nonsensical, the worst of texts, the horror...the horror...
My particular list comes entirely from my junior years (7-10)... In almost all cases, I've blocked the composers out of my memory. Too traumatic.
-Shiloh (An 'insight' into the lives of a group of rednecks. I hate to sound intolerant, but the tone of this text is extremely annoying.. Seriously, the first line is Ma makes pie real good for dinner on Sunday. Only positive that can be said is it's brevity, yet it felt much longer for it...)
-The Great Gilly Hopkins (The feelings of the protagonist switched so rapidly that it almost gave me whiplash. Within the space of about two pages, it goes from I hated living here[/]i] to I loved living here, without really providing any adequate justification.)
-The Handmaiden's Tale. (I think this was it.. Very bland.)
Robin Klein-People Might Hear You (Again, rather inane and/or uninteresting..)
-David Brin-The Postman (The novel wasn't that great, although for some bizarre reason, most of my class enjoyed it.. Loses 10 000 000 points for resulting in my having to watch that egotistical abortion of an 'adaption' in class.. Stretched on for hours.)
There were more than these (Including poor works such as 'Firestorm' and 'Playing Beattie Bow'.), but the memories of some have again been blocked out, temporarily, possibly waiting to give me PTBD (Post-Terrible Book Disorder).
But yes, what are your personal selections for this list of textual infamy?
My particular list comes entirely from my junior years (7-10)... In almost all cases, I've blocked the composers out of my memory. Too traumatic.
-Shiloh (An 'insight' into the lives of a group of rednecks. I hate to sound intolerant, but the tone of this text is extremely annoying.. Seriously, the first line is Ma makes pie real good for dinner on Sunday. Only positive that can be said is it's brevity, yet it felt much longer for it...)
-The Great Gilly Hopkins (The feelings of the protagonist switched so rapidly that it almost gave me whiplash. Within the space of about two pages, it goes from I hated living here[/]i] to I loved living here, without really providing any adequate justification.)
-The Handmaiden's Tale. (I think this was it.. Very bland.)
Robin Klein-People Might Hear You (Again, rather inane and/or uninteresting..)
-David Brin-The Postman (The novel wasn't that great, although for some bizarre reason, most of my class enjoyed it.. Loses 10 000 000 points for resulting in my having to watch that egotistical abortion of an 'adaption' in class.. Stretched on for hours.)
There were more than these (Including poor works such as 'Firestorm' and 'Playing Beattie Bow'.), but the memories of some have again been blocked out, temporarily, possibly waiting to give me PTBD (Post-Terrible Book Disorder).
But yes, what are your personal selections for this list of textual infamy?
Easy on the brain.