Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen

Have you ever read a book that’s just too long to read because it was confusing or dull? Well I have! I have to say that Lies My Teacher Told Me holds the number one spot of the most boring book I have ever read in the fifteen years of my life. Anyways let’s move on to the essay! There are three topics I will be discussing to explain why I didn’t like Lies My Teacher Told Me. Dull, dull, dull that’s what I think about this book. It talked about boring subjects. The book took too long to read. Each chapter had thirty pages and above. Throughout the whole book I never stopped being confused. It took too long to explain one word. So here we go!

The first reason why I didn’t like Lies My Teacher Told Me it’s just too dull for me. I like excitement and adventure, and this book had none of that. It talked about things that just didn’t make sense. In the first chapter the first sentence says, ‘This chapter is about herofication…’ I looked up the word herofication and it doesn’t exist, so why put something in a book that doesn’t make sense or exist. The book also talked about people with boring lives. In chapter 1 it talks about Helen Keller, a famous woman, whose deaf and blindness didn’t stop her from learning how to read, write and speak. That was the only exciting thing that occurred in her life. And as the book went on I got even more bored and tired. In my opinion only three words can explain this book, Dull, Dull, Dull!!

The second reason why I didn’t like, Lies My Teacher Told Me it’s to long. This book just had too much to read. If you ever read this book you will see what I’m talking about. One subject took to long to explain. Normally, a chapter ranges from six to twenty pages. But chapter four, Red Eyes, just didn’t want to follow that range. It wanted to take up thirty-nine pages to finish the topic of historically. That went over nineteen pages. If I had a say this book would be band on that reason along with many others.

Lastly, the reason why I didn’t like, Lies My Teacher Told Me it’s just to confusing to me. Whenever the book would be explaining a topic less than two seconds later another topic would just come out of nowhere. In chapter 1 the book explains Helen Keller’s life and the next thing I know Woodrow Wilson’s life comes up. When I read a book I want to understand the words that I am reading but this book was filled with advanced words that I didn’t understand. Now that can be a good and a bad thing for me. Good things can come out of this by me learning new words. Bad things can come out of this by me having to figure out what this words mean and then trying to understand them. And that will take up more time that I could be using to finish the book. I came across the word ‘degenerative’ in the book and I didn’t understand it so I looked it up. Then looked up synonyms for it. Then I finally found a word that I could understand that still meant degenerative. This book’s full of long drawn out unclear chapters.

I have one last thing to say to you, I didn’t like Lies My Teacher Told Me and I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone to read because it just made me want to take a nap. It took to long to read because of the long explanations. And it made me confused. I felt like this book should have never been published because it’s horrible!!