#to read boring high school books

[dragonpyre]

There's advanced reading group in elementary school and then there's "you and literally one other kid get sent to a study room to read a high school level book" reading group.

And then you wonder why I'm so high achieving...

#yes this actually happened #in 5th grade me and other other kid got sent to a room with three other kids from the WHOLE school #to read boring high school books #they were still too easy btw #but yeah now I have crippling anxiety and am burnt out! #text post #gifted kid syndrome #gifted kid things

[lilnasxvevo]

“The Great Gatsby was so boring why did anyone even like it” THE PROSE!!!! YOU HAVE TO SAVOR IT FOR THE PROSE. IT’S THE PROSE

#yeah nothing fucking happens until the end but you should feel like you’re getting punched in the face by word choice like three times a pg #it’s the journey not the destination!!! #sorry I saw someone call TGG boring earlier today and the last post inspired me to say something #that book rearranged my molecules the first time I read it and it’s the number 1 ‘high school English class book’ that I see people complain #about #usually saying that it was boring or confusing #which I simply cannot understand. like number one it’s so SHORT how did you even have TIME to get bored or confused?? #i think that mmmmaybe it might be a case of like #some readers get bored if ‘nothing happens’ while other readers get bored if like #events aren’t presented in a way they find interesting #like a lot of people like Dracula because it’s jam-packed with action!!! #but I find the way Stoker writes to be so DEADLY boring that I fucking hated having to read that book for school #meanwhile The Great Gatsby is a lot of Nick sitting around in different rooms but Fitzy boy is a masterful writer so to me it’s a real #page turner

[chadsuke]

Books Read in 2023:

Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman (2019)

Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling (1996)

The Last Sun by K.D. Edwards (2018)

The Little Book of Lykke by Meik Wiking (2017)

American Cozy by Stephanie Pederson (2018)

The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian (2021)

The Conscious Closet by Elizabeth L. Cline (2019)

My Happy Marriage Vol. 1 by Akumi Agitogi (2019)

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (1962)

[ID: Covers of the aforementioned books. End ID.]

#2023media #gigi.txt #humankind was a solid book. jsut about like... humanity being good and shit #i def def do not agree with everything that man says politically hes too liberal and if i hear the words homo puppy again i will lose my #GODDAMN mind but overall. solid. #luck in the shadows is a very good start to a gay high fantasy book series from the 90s!!! the writing was rlly good im looking forward #to the rest of the series. gotta get my hands on it wah #the last sun was. so fucking weird. bad weird. i kept sharing screenshots with my discords. do NOT rec #little book of lykke was the shocking info that if u have robust social programs and good transit and etc u will b. happier. SHOCK. #american cozy was a worse version of that just like uwu lets suck denmark's dick for a whole goddamn book #queer principles of kit webb was boring. gonna be real. it was fine it was just fucking boring. #the conscious closet was good in terms of info abt clothes and problems and shit BUT in terms of politics was so fucking capitalistic hell #i might purchase it just to reference like it was quite solid in terms of that #super loving my happy marriage. reading the manga too. mwah. #SILENT SPRING WOULD'VE CHANGED MY WHOLE FUCKING LIFE IF I READ IT IN HIGH SCHOOL GO READ IT GO READ IT #MY TOP BOOK OF THIS YEAR NO QUESTION!!!!

[stevethehairington]

book number 8 of the year = done! very very pleasantly surprised by how much i enjoyed the handmaid's tale! and by how much i loved margaret atwood's writing style omg, it was so good!!

#i immediately ordered the sequel bc i didnt even know there was another book and i gotta read the next one asap fjsksks #the way this one ended!!!!! AHHH #makes me wild #i read this book in 2 days it was that good #(also super short but. still VERY good) #i always thought it would be one of those like 'high school required reading' type books #which is why i never read it and never WANTED to read it #but i was pleasantly surprised to find that its actually GOOD like it was not boring like so many of the other hs required reading books are #mack reads #her style of writing reminds me of my own writing at times honestly. #like shes got a very staccattoed way of writing and she likes to play around with sentence structure #which are both things I like to do in my writing #so it was just cool to see that i felt very validated lol

[cassoneconrosole]

#I want to start reading like I did until high school #but I also need to acknowledge that the maximum amount of pages I can read in one day is 60 #so I’m worried that I would get bored while reading in original language because I would get less enthralled #these days I will get a library card once again #books

[deanmarywinchester]

the further I get from high school the more accurate a depiction of high school I think the raven cycle is. like I know a lot of it relies on unbelievable things like “three high school boys living in an old warehouse” as much as it relies on fantasy but the emotional truth of it is there. you don’t really do anything except go to class and hang out but everything feels deeply important. you make close friends very quickly bc you’re relying on them to survive four years in which you become an adult and have to go out into the world. no one gets a movie romance but you’re in love with all your friends and you start kissing one of them eventually, or you don’t. your friends’ families suck and yours doesn’t understand you. you’re processing the worst thing that ever happened to you while you take a calculus test and then two years later you’re like “neither of those was important actually.” one of your friends is obsessed with finding the tomb of a sleeping undead king,

#‘it’s so pretentious’ do you know how pretentious I was in high school. books that are For Me. #my posts #reading tag #my high school experience was just if the raven cycle were booksmart #yes I’m thinking abt this because I got so bored at work I’m reading heartstopper (which is like slightly TOO adorable) why do you ask #i know I’m not the target audience for heartstopper it just reminds me of my brother saying simon vs the homosapiens was painful to read bc #‘it’s just like being gay in high school except for the part where he becomes super popular and has a romance’ #like it’s all the bad stuff that was happening to him right then except it was cheesy movieified so everything turned out okay

[lesbianpikachu]

Daily Compendium Selections #10

A woman lies unconscious with an interesting shield.

#Dailycompendiumselections #oh god its cold out again which means im procrastinating my lyfee #i love this pic. also thinking ab doing series of photos #this one wouldve gone well w the last one #i could also format them differently #ah. no matter. I'm not sure if this weekend was a good or bad one #i had fun! but oh God i feel like i did no responsible things this weekend #on Friday i got vodka for the first time in a while drank some and promptly fell asleep #Saturday i read and gamed and like i think that's it. i finished a vr game then dicked around in pavlov for waaay too long #and sunday i went grocery shopping and finished the book ive been reading and armored core 6 #it's probably nothing I'm just used to responsibility ramping up in fall bc of high school trauma #and so i get worried when it gets cold #sorry for just talking here that's not the point of the posts I'm just bored #loz totk #totk #tears of the kingdom #whoops early post it is sorry

[maxellminidisc]

I'm rereading Frankenstein for the first time since like idk 8th grade and god I forgot how good a read this was...

#i read a lot of classic horror/monster lit at that age #except Dracula...i waited till high school cause middle school me found it so boring skdkkfgnke #weirdly though i remember dr Jekyll and mr hyde being the one that stuck with me the most #i cant even remember shit from the actual book but i remember being like woooah old timey word books can be good akdnkfnkrkks

[last-laments]

GIVE ME THE STRENGTH TO NOT JUST SKIP TO BOOK 7

#michael talks #GRAAAH #I JUST SAW LILIAS LOOK #EVERY OUNCE OF STRENGTH I HAVE IS HOLDING ME BACK #i never finished books 5 or 6 wahhhhh #i cant help iiiit book 5 is boring #if i wanted mean girls mixed with high school musical i'd go watch heathers again #sorry vil im sure you have every problem #sorrier to epel i KNOW you have every problem #not sorry to whiteboy i feel nothing for you #i wanted to at least read book 6 first because i know ill get spoilers but like #god diasomnia is so important to me

[pnuk-r0ck]

One of my summer reading books is literally volume 1 of Death Note oml

#I have that book. So I’m gonna do that for summer reading #Just so y’all know I am in fact in high school. And they’re letting do a manga book for summer reading?? #The books last year were so boring but the new English teacher knows we all hated the choices last year and she picked some better books #Someone in my class asked me if the show is accurate to the manga but I’ve never finished the show😭 #Victor Speaks

[kazz-brekker]

studying the history of the mongol empire in my silk roads class has made me newly angry about the very bad and stereotypical writing of the dothraki in asoiaf and i feel like i need to fix this by reading some good and well-researched books set in either historical mongolia or fantasy!mongolia. anyway if anyone has recommendations pls hit me up i am busy making a summer reading list.

#i tried reading elizabeth bear's eternal sky books in high school but i didn't finish the first one bc i was bored #saw some very negative reviews by asian readers if the tiger's daughter series by k arsenault rivera so i will not be reading those #i think guy gavriel kay wrote one or two books inspired by mongolia??? #there are lots of books set in fantasy versions of asian countries but they seem to mostly be china or japan #which i am also happy to ready! i really need to finish ken liu's series someday #may turn to looking up historical fiction books when i have some spare time #pie says stuff #pie reads #asoiaf #mongolia

[aquietanarchy]

I just want to do a quick show-and-tell about one of the neatest things on my bookcase:

I found this at a church rummage sale for like two bucks. Look, it says Samuel L. Clemens instead of Mark Twain. No idea why—I'd think that the name Twain would be far more recognizable. Anyways, I just think it's neat. I've done a tiny bit of research and it seems that this edition was published between 1937 and 1940 or roundabouts, and it's in really good condition. Also it has illustrations.

They're kinda boring. I love it.

#mark twain #the adventures of tom sawyer #samuel clemens #bookblr #vintage books #the wood between worlds #dnf mossflower because i got so bored so this is the next thing im reading based on the very autistic System i have for reading books #havent read tom sawyer since high school but i remember loving it and honestly i cant think of a single mark twain story i havent enjoyed

[blorbosexterminator]

What do you think about the compulsory reading discourse: that students should be given easier to read books (ya books ) instead of classics? (the reasoning: because the students will find those classics boring and won't even read them)

I find it ridiculous, to be honest. It sounds exactly like should we only give kids Macdonalds because they won't like actual food? And it's obviously more ridiculous coming from literal adults ruminating on the horrible teachers that dared make them study classics. The idea that teenagers are too dumb to grasp any book slightly more complex than a ya love triangle with each character having one and a half trait with the groundbreaking theme of authority=bad is too demeaning and infantalizing.

Plus, what's a better time to read difficult texts other than when professional adults are literally being paid to help you grapple that text? When you're going to have to write about it (and thus understand it on much deeper level)? And discuss it with other people and get to hear more views into it, under the guidance of professional adults who nudge you in the right directions? I neither understand the insistence of literal adults that they were too stupid as teenagers to understand the Great Gatsby nor current teenagers who are currently crying publicly about it in the same breath as complaining that they should be "given" a voice and no one takes them seriously. I mean, if you can't understand a piece of somewhat complex fiction and insisting on your right to not even try, who would?

During the years of Middle and High school, I read a lot of YA fiction, most of what was popular at the time, John Green, the Dystopian YA genre, those fantasy novels, etc, you name it, I also read a lot of better, more established fiction, as well as, obviously, the compulsory readings I had in school, both established classics from my native country and British/American classics, Shakespeare, Shaw, Dickens, etc. I enjoyed both. I can barely remember anything of the YA fiction I read, honestly speaking, it was fun the moment of its consumption but that's it, there is no substance and at some point, the more better things you read, you'll be done with an author talking down to you, you'll aquire a taste for more refined things. YA fiction isn't the devil on Earth but humoring teenagers' institence that they are too bored by any complexity that requires their attention and curiosity and willngess to understand people that don't belong to their age group nor superficially share the same interests they do, and who are complex beings with complex thoughts and desires that don't easily fall in one group or the other and to dig for depth and profundity where they are sure to find it, then that's a sure way of raising a bunch of entitled empty-headed craps who take pride in their idiocity.

#adults crying on the interent for being given boring bad books with no funny pictures is honestly the only good evidence/argument for their #stand #yeah apparently the schools failed either way #really just-that's so sad? kids who find people supporting their claims that they are too stupid to understand any level of complexity #if you find a text difficult then grapple with it harder #if you find a certain one in your curriculum boring then read it either way! give its chance and time. not everything in life should be #empty entertainment #give it the benfit of the doubt. if it survived for so long and it's choosen by professionals to be taught in schools then it must have #some value. and it's your job to dig for it until you find it #you can come out saying: I undertstand why this piece of writing is in such high regard and I under the skill that went into its making #simultaneously as saying I didn't enjoy the process of reading it so much #not everything has to be sooooo enjoyable and fun!! you're not in kindergarten where you should be amused 24/7. not everything is meant for #that #and certainly not when you're still in school #a time spent on something can still be valuable even if it's not soooooo fun #bottomline is I detest infantalization and specially when people do it to themselves

[harmonizewithechoes]

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#I’ve been using my Libby app to read more from authors I used to read in school #and it has further confirmed that while her writing isn’t terrible I really don’t enjoy Veronica Roth #somehow she manages to make what should be the most action packed scenes boring #on the other hand I’m absolutely in awe once again of Libba Bray #I loved the Great and Terrible Beauty series in high school #and I’m currently listening to the first book in the Diviners series #she has such an amazing talent for writing complex characters #and ramping up tension in just a few lines #I love her so much

[youregay]

it frustrates me to no end that tumblr has read a cumulative 3 poems if I'm speaking generously. yes the tiger poem is very charming, especially since a 6 year old wrote it, but it is not actually better than a majority of published poetry you just haven't read any poetry

on the other hand, tumblr's collective ability to be overly impressed by works of art I find mundane is a testament to the power of art. if you find yourself profoundly moved by snippets of poetry interspersed between drarry gifs or w/e consider going out of your way to read poetry. I think you're the kind of person who could have really life changing experiences with art in ways the more jaded among us may be missing out on

#this is not a dig at that child #this is a dig at grown adults who don't read and then make broad sweeping statements about the state of literature #tag talk #my post #this goes for other forms of media too #we are not in high school anymore #i promise you will stop being bored to tears by classic lit #there are good books out there that will change your life #i use to feel like 'mid' media that i could fantisize about changing was the most engaging to me #until i read/watched stuff that realy resonated with me #and i realized i could peel back the layers infinitely #im doing myself no favors by being a pretencious dick about this #also not saying you have to stop liking/consuming your fave 'bad' comfort media or ajything #i just think its worth engaging with literature genres that terrible teachers have previously put you off of #or made you feel stupid for not liking

[kayayeteae]

Every time I see some sort of discourse on idk the purity of fanfiction, I beg people to read like an actual book and explore themes and subjects in actual edited and published novels.

#like tell me you didn’t do ur high school reading without telling me u didn’t do ur high school reading #half of the books provides themes meant for open discussion!! u simply cannot avoid these topics #also this is off topic but don’t these people get bored reading the most vanilla topics?