I will admit, the book seemed to go by too damn fast, but I did enjoy the simple philosophy that it portrayed.grue wrote:The Alchemist
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What's the worst book you have ever read?
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My friend, that echoes my sentiments *exactly*shimeril wrote:The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. Read the first 3 books, then handed all 6 that I was given to a guy at workto sell at a school fete. I hated all of the characters so much I didn't want to read ti anymore.
Closely followed by the Da Vinci Code. What utter, utter, utter tripe.
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
The Mayor Of Casterbridge.
Not only was it a lengthly dull-as-dishwater novel about some Victorian people trying to overcome their repressed natures sufficiently to go out with each other (I think that was supposed to be the point) but it was stretched over an entire school year and endlessly dissected by our English Lit. teacher who fucking loved it. And we had to write many, many essays about it. Oh, the torture, the torture! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...!
Not only was it a lengthly dull-as-dishwater novel about some Victorian people trying to overcome their repressed natures sufficiently to go out with each other (I think that was supposed to be the point) but it was stretched over an entire school year and endlessly dissected by our English Lit. teacher who fucking loved it. And we had to write many, many essays about it. Oh, the torture, the torture! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...!
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The Bible.
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Time Flies like a rotten alarm clock.
Time Flies like a rotten alarm clock.
The Catcher in the Rye. Utter droning uneventful bollocks.
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas. It could have been a fun read when it was first published, but reading about some blokes doing too many drugs isn't really entertaining these days.
Anything by Stephen Donaldson. What a tiresome tosser he was. He must've been paid by the word....
I really liked da Vinci Code; if only for the fact that it introduced me to Fibonacci numbers
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas. It could have been a fun read when it was first published, but reading about some blokes doing too many drugs isn't really entertaining these days.
Anything by Stephen Donaldson. What a tiresome tosser he was. He must've been paid by the word....
I really liked da Vinci Code; if only for the fact that it introduced me to Fibonacci numbers
On The Road by Jack Kerouac.
Pointless, boring, self-obsessed drivel.
I got up and made a sandwich and went down to the jazz bar and took some drugs and went to another jazz bar and met Dean and then we got into the car and drove to Mexico and then I got scared and drove back again and made a sandwich and drove to Chicago and Dean ate a sandwich and I went to sleep and woke up and Dean was still awake and...
Pointless, boring, self-obsessed drivel.
I got up and made a sandwich and went down to the jazz bar and took some drugs and went to another jazz bar and met Dean and then we got into the car and drove to Mexico and then I got scared and drove back again and made a sandwich and drove to Chicago and Dean ate a sandwich and I went to sleep and woke up and Dean was still awake and...
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NOOOOOOEESSS - you released repressed memories of studying that drivel at school...Firefox wrote:The Mayor Of Casterbridge.
Not only was it a lengthly dull-as-dishwater novel about some Victorian people trying to overcome their repressed natures sufficiently to go out with each other (I think that was supposed to be the point) but it was stretched over an entire school year and endlessly dissected by our English Lit. teacher who fucking loved it. And we had to write many, many essays about it. Oh, the torture, the torture! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...!
Add The daVinci Code, the Bible (doesn't seem to get anywhere, nice apocalyptic ending though), the Dictionary (still waiting for the sequel, where we apparently find out what actually happens to the Aardwolf and the Aardvark), most of Eddings's stuff (sorry, but they all seem about the same and the characters all seem to fall for each other...), and you're starting to get there.
Read a book called Sidetracked (author I can't remember) recently. That one's crap as well.
Trouble is, I read too much. I went throught the latest HP in less than a day (it's not bad, but it's not ace), I have read LotR in under a week, read a book called Orcs on Saturday (all three novels in one volume plus an additional story, quite an entertaining romp, especially if you're into Fantasy stuff)... So I eventually see most of the good, with a fair amount of the bad.
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TBH some of the first series wasn't too bad, until you realise that since their basically using god powers they can't actually lose.Oaf wrote:I quite liked the first series of David Eddings (the Belgariad, yeah?), but I got partway through the first book of the second series and realised he was telling the same story all over again!
And the way characters get ressurected...
"I say we take off and nuke the drive from orbit..."
Da Vinci code just because some of the Boy's Own action sequences were knuckle-chewingly bad. And the conspiracy theory stuff was worse.
Prozac Nation made me want to beat on Elizabeth Wurtzel and smack the whiny out of her until there was nothing left but an empty husk. Seeing the film get shelved gave me some small schaudenfreude.
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley was a fucking awful read as well, and since it was so bloody long, it was a like pulling teeth finishing it. Pisspoor feminism combined with a (yawn) rancid reworking of the Arthurian legend.
There's several bad books that I've never finished - I'm reasonably obsessive once I've started a book in terms of exhaustively reading through the night if I'm hooked. If I give up on a book, it's usually a bad sign. In this pile we can toss Gormenghast and Interview With A Vampire.
Prozac Nation made me want to beat on Elizabeth Wurtzel and smack the whiny out of her until there was nothing left but an empty husk. Seeing the film get shelved gave me some small schaudenfreude.
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley was a fucking awful read as well, and since it was so bloody long, it was a like pulling teeth finishing it. Pisspoor feminism combined with a (yawn) rancid reworking of the Arthurian legend.
There's several bad books that I've never finished - I'm reasonably obsessive once I've started a book in terms of exhaustively reading through the night if I'm hooked. If I give up on a book, it's usually a bad sign. In this pile we can toss Gormenghast and Interview With A Vampire.
