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Originally Posted by SmokeAndMirrors
My own personal nightmare of assigned reading? Watership Down. I have never endured such a tedious, pointless novel which was so badly in need of being edited down. It was like having every hair on my head slowly ripped out, one by one. Painful, but simultaneously so tortuously boring that it drove me to near-insanity before the pain even registered.
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Out of curiosity... what age were you when it was assigned? I wasn't thrilled with the novel (much to the dismay of all my classmates) at the time, either. But not because of it's length or tediousness; anthropomorphism just always rubbed me the wrong way. Even as a child (though I didn't know the term for it until much later).