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Some books can be incredibly annoying, while others can be tummdiddly-astic.This is the least-favorite book thread. I have to say one of my least-favorites is Missouri Homestead, byT. L. Tedrow, the first book in the series The Days of Laura Ingalls Wilder. The series is basically the author's idea of what happend after Manly and Laura had Rose. The reason I checked this out from the library, is because I had often wondered, what did happen after Laura and Manly had Rose, and before Rose was like 9? Well that book was awful. I disliked it because Laura and Manly talked really wrongly, and made all these rude comments about rich people. It was so not the Laura Ingalls I knew.
submitted by Claire H.
(May 4, 2012 - 12:02 pm)
(May 4, 2012 - 12:02 pm)
I had to read this book called Sunrise Over Fallujah once for school. I didn't like it that much. It was a story that took place in one of the wars that is going on now. I don't really like combat stories unless there's something special in them (mythology, magic).
(May 5, 2012 - 8:32 am)
Elijah of Buxton. We've been reading it in English for the past few months and I'm sick of it. I fall asleep whenever we read it (the first 10-20 minutes of class every school day).
(May 5, 2012 - 4:43 pm)
We read elijah of buxton too! It was not my favorite book, but it was not awful either.
(May 15, 2012 - 1:49 pm)
I really would hate that kind of book...I love Laura Ingalls Wilder's books and would hate if anyone changed the true Laura.
I could say my least favorite book is A Wrinkle in Time. I really think it is the strangest fantasy book I've ever read.
(May 5, 2012 - 4:58 pm)
I loved a wrinkle in time. Just because something is strange does not mean it is bad. Laura Ingalls Wilder made her life fiction to write the Little House books.
(May 15, 2012 - 1:51 pm)
How Green Was My Valley. Worst. Book. Ever. And I had to read it for school and write ten million papers over it. Ick.
That was probably the one moment I hated my homschool curriculum. :(
But now I get to read Around the World in 80 Days! Yayayayay!!!
(May 5, 2012 - 7:53 pm)
I'm reading Around the World in 80 Days for (home)school, myself!
(May 8, 2012 - 10:49 am)
Books I Dislike:
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Eldest (Inheritance Cycle)
Heidi*
Moccasin Trail
The Grapes of Wrath*
Daughter of the Mountains
The Sign of the Beaver (That's the one about the kid who gets kidnapped by Native Americans, right?)
By the Great Horned Spoon
* I don't actually dislike it, but I have used it as a cure for insomnia.
(May 7, 2012 - 12:37 am)
Totally agree with you about Eldest. *thinks to self "Eragon, will you quit putting your foot in your mouth around Arya! She doesn't want you chasing her!"* Plus I think Roran is boring. He likes to smash things. Joy.
Inheritance is much better. :D
(May 7, 2012 - 10:41 am)
I have read all of those books, exept The Grapes of Wrath (I think I've read By the Great Horn Spoon but I'm not really sure) and I love them!!!! I am sorta mellow about Heidi though. How can you not like them??? I am a serious fan of the Inheritance cycle.
(May 7, 2012 - 2:43 pm)
Oops! There wasn't supposed to be a star by Grapes of Wrath! DX
I dislike Eldest due to that being the point where the atheistic agenda of the series really emerges... they could have been okay books.
(May 8, 2012 - 12:41 am)
Yeah, that's another thing I disliked about it.
But that's my only problem with that series...apart from the fact that it's copying Star Wars left and right...
:)
(May 8, 2012 - 7:31 pm)
I don't that the main character in the Sign of the Beaver gets kidnapped, although he does befriend them. Are you thinking about Indian Captive by Lois Lenski?
(May 15, 2012 - 1:57 pm)
Maybe, but I doubt it.
(May 25, 2012 - 1:57 pm)
The Golden Goblet. Worst. Book. I've. Ever. Had. To. Read. Ever. I had to read it for school and do all kinds of stupid stuff on it. It takes place in Ancient Egypt. The whole story's about some kid slaking his older brother because his older brother's a theif. Guess what he stole? That's right! The Golden Goblet. I never, ever, EVER want to go anywhere near that thing again.
(May 7, 2012 - 3:14 pm)