It's not the books fault, the text is not understood. Not to mention I've met few teachers that actually know what Communism is, if you ask your likely to get the reply everyone gets paid the same.
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Reactionary...he was living in the 19th century, so context is key in this case. Besides, Hard Times is pro-working class, I believe? As to his writing style, 'badly written' isn't the term I'd use. The first paragraph of The Tale of Two Cities is immortal. It was the best of times; it was the worst of times...His clever use of irony and metaphors was legendary.
It's not the books fault, the text is not understood. Not to mention I've met few teachers that actually know what Communism is, if you ask your likely to get the reply everyone gets paid the same.
"... [E]very one, whatever his grade in the old society, whether strong or weak, capable or incapable, has, before everything, THE RIGHT TO LIVE, and that society is bound to share amongst all, without exception, the means of existence at its disposal." - Peter Kropotkin
"For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism... by confusing a man with what he possesses... The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is." - Oscar Wilde
They've both been mentioned, but A Tale of Two Cities and Lord of the Flies are two that I remember being particularly painful to read.
One of the stupidest criticisms I've ever read.
"The sun shines. To hell with everything else!" - Stephen Fry
"As the world of the spectacle extends its reign it approaches the climax of its offensive, provoking new resistances everywhere. These resistances are very little known precisely because the reigning spectacle is designed to present an omnipresent hypnotic image of unanimous submission. But they do exist and are spreading.", The Bad Days Will End.
"(The) working class exists and struggles in all countries, and has the same enemies in all countries – the police, the army, the unions, nationalism, and the fake ‘socialism’ of the bourgeois left. It shows that the conditions for a worldwide revolution are ripening everywhere today. It shows that workers and revolutionaries are not passive spectators of inter-imperialist conflicts: they have a camp to choose, the camp of the proletarian struggle against all the factions of the bourgeoisie and all imperialisms." -ICC, Nation or Class?
I really don't like Catcher in the Rye, and I think it is because when I picked it up I expected it to be brilliant and it just wasn't. Before I read it I somehow had the impression that everyone else who had read it thought it was great - but I can't think where that idea actually came from specifically.
I tend to like most classics. A lot of them are written very nicely. I couldn't bring myself to get through LOTR though. I found that there was too much description and it felt like the story didn't move quick enough to keep me interested. That was quite a long time ago though.
