School is back in session. Or close to it at least. Now's the time that English teachers pull out pop quizzes and try to lead discussions on the summer's required reading. Please. Why didn't they just break all your new crayons and mock you for having a He-Man lunchbox? Oh, they did that too? Well, don't know what to tell you except to check out our 5 worst required reading books after the jump...
5. Passage to India by E.M. Forster
"You can't remember why books are so boring...just that they are." Co-worker Allison
(Tie) 4. Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway & The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthone.
"Boring." Co-worker Bill
"Snoozefest." Co-worker Bill
3. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
We all knew decapitation was bad, just not this bad.
2. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
"Nothing relates to American high school freshmen quite like the struggles of Okonkwo the African tribesman an the Protestant missionaries who threaten his culture. And there were no Cliffs Notes." My friend, Daniel
1. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Multi-colored highlighters, chainmail making lessons and my Andre the Giant impersonator of a teacher giving sword fighting lessons for two months.
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More after the jump...
