20 books considered the worst

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I'm not sure why there are classics on the list. Making teens read them isn't really a reason cause we were forced to read a lot of classics that could be on there if that was the reason. Maybe it was the ones the author of the list didn't like.

Any damn Jane Austen book should be on there. I hate her stuff. I seriously wanted to throw Emma and I Pride and Prejudice was just as childish that I couldn't get one chapter in.

I appreciate Jane Austen’s elegant and minutely observant writing style even if the stories bore me. But literature is not all about the story.

I greatly enjoy Patrick O’brien’s Aubrey Maturin series of napoleonic nautical adventure novels both for the story and the writing style.  Despite the radically different stories and settings I can see how Patrick o’brien Imitated Jane austen’s Writing style.  The writing style absolutely converted the obrey maturin novels from run-of-the-mill swashbuckling paperbacks unlikely to be read more than 5-10 years after publication to richly textured historical novels that probably will remain classics of the genera for a very long time.