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Anno
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TheShroomHermit
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Re: Books you have hated [Re: ]
#652912 - 05/30/02 07:45 AM (22 years, 5 months ago) |
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the last book in that "enders game" series. The first book was cool. but each book after that got progessively worse untill i just stopped. they made enders shadow, which is supposed to be the first book from a different persons perspective, people have been saying thats cool... so i might read it.
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#653064 - 05/30/02 08:32 AM (22 years, 5 months ago) |
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I've already mentioned it but The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, oh man its was just written so bad. I couldn't finish it, i dunno if Wolfe always writes like that but i'm not willing to spend the money to find out.
Some other books thats didn;t live up to Expatations, The Thin Red Line, Battlefield Earth, Blade Runner 2: The edge of Human. Although that last one was kinda my fault. I never read the first one so i had no reference point but thats my fault for being born after it was popular. peace
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superpimp
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Re: Books you have hated [Re: ]
#653151 - 05/30/02 09:19 AM (22 years, 5 months ago) |
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Anything by John Grisham. That stuff is just garbage.
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#653618 - 05/30/02 12:57 PM (22 years, 5 months ago) |
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Rushdie's "Satanic Verses" disapointed.....I thought it would be more of a challenge......it was good, but not quite what I expected.......
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Anno
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PGF
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#654087 - 05/30/02 04:32 PM (22 years, 5 months ago) |
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Stick with it....I have not read East, West....was it good?
have you seen that post modern page?
http://www.themodernword.com/themodword.cfm
check it oot....some neat stuff in there...
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Re: Books you have hated [Re: PGF]
#654184 - 05/30/02 05:23 PM (22 years, 5 months ago) |
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I dislike the later Stephen King novels. The first few were GREAT...then he just started pouring them out like 10 a year...fuck that!
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Re: Books you have hated [Re: ]
#654286 - 05/30/02 06:17 PM (22 years, 5 months ago) |
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Jack Kerouak's (sp?) On The Road... A few of my friends read it and told me that I had to read it... One even claimed it changed her life. I couldn't get past the first page. But, to each his own
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Anno
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Re: Books you have hated [Re: ]
#654381 - 05/30/02 07:11 PM (22 years, 5 months ago) |
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If you take a contemporary lit class and they assign you a short story book with many different authors....let me know the name so i can order it. I love those things...they come out with new ones each year and I haven't kept up in years...so i've missed a few and am not around a college book store to grab any.....you get the picture.
I like the short story as much as, if not a little better than the novel. It is a bit harder to craft a short fiction story, afterall.....
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JonnyOnTheSpot
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Re: Books you have hated [Re: Anonymous]
#656279 - 05/31/02 04:39 PM (22 years, 5 months ago) |
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a wrinkle in time when i was in third grade....that book is for honkeys
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I disliked Huxleys Doors of Perception - Heaven and Hell. It wasn't what I expected from the book. I thought he was full of crap pretty much.
One flew over the Koo Koo's Nest.. Just didn't catch my attention was to slow.
On the Road was a great book! I wish I could have an adventure like that man.. They are all mad bastards in that book!
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Re: Books you have hated [Re: nezshoo]
#661083 - 06/03/02 05:08 PM (22 years, 5 months ago) |
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Raptor Red Bored of the Rings Franny and Zooey Anna Karina
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Re: Books you have hated [Re: ]
#665194 - 06/06/02 02:58 AM (22 years, 5 months ago) |
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War and Peace.
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Re: Books you have hated [Re: ]
#666123 - 06/06/02 01:28 PM (22 years, 5 months ago) |
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Least favorite book ever - drumroll, please...
Pride & Prejudice, by Jane Austen
Had to read it for school - wound up using it as a soporific - 3 minutes of reading, and I was asleep...
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TheShroomHermit
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Re: Books you have hated [Re: Dr_Stupid]
#666134 - 06/06/02 01:33 PM (22 years, 5 months ago) |
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Well, becuase of the title "Pride & Prejudice" and the fact you had to read it in highschool, I'm guessing it's about black people.
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#666660 - 06/06/02 07:53 PM (22 years, 5 months ago) |
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I would have to say, "Violin" by anne rice. I love her, but that book sucked ass and I couldn't finish it. Also war and peace. big disappointment.
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No, not at all - in fact, IIRC, it is a victorian era novel - look up the title on any search engine...
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Re: Books you have hated [Re: ]
#667942 - 06/07/02 06:14 PM (22 years, 5 months ago) |
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On The Road. If I don't finish it in one sitting I won't finish it at all.
Catcher In The Rye. It's a good novel, but not worth the hype.
The Kama Sutra. Interesting, but again not worth the hype.
Red Mars, Blue Mars, Green Mars, ect... I can't remember the name of the series. The concept sounded cool, but man is that shit is long winded.
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#673344 - 06/11/02 02:13 PM (22 years, 4 months ago) |
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Dune. Maybe I was pretty young but I just couldn't get into it at all. Mein Kampf. Ditto.
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Re: Books you have hated [Re: Just a Punk]
#682992 - 06/16/02 11:32 PM (22 years, 4 months ago) |
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Ugh. War and Peace is utter crud. On page 200 or so now, in over half a year.
So far all I know it's a bunch of rich families that are afraid of the war because it could make them less rich. Give me a story I can care about a bit.
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Re: Books you have hated [Re: ]
#685062 - 06/18/02 01:51 AM (22 years, 4 months ago) |
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Hemingway`s, A Farewell To Arms.
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Jenny
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Re: Books you have hated [Re: ]
#694300 - 06/22/02 12:42 PM (22 years, 4 months ago) |
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I remember in High School we had to read Grapes of Wrath. I remember upperclassmen saying it was a really good book. I read a lot and I thought it was horrible..
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Re: Books you have hated [Re: Jenny]
#762130 - 07/20/02 11:35 AM (22 years, 3 months ago) |
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Catcher in the Rye
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Re: Books you have hated [Re: puscle]
#762297 - 07/20/02 12:58 PM (22 years, 3 months ago) |
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Wow, that's probably my 2nd favorite book. The Stranger by Albert Camus being my favorite book.
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Re: Books you have hated [Re: ]
#763892 - 07/21/02 05:17 AM (22 years, 3 months ago) |
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Ok, I have no idea how someone can not like Catcher in the Rye, but whatever. I hated: The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields, Great Expectations by Charles Sickens; Who Has Seen the Wind by W.O. Mitchell.
I wouldn't have liked the Doors of Perception so much if I didn't have a dictionary beside me to look up his big words, but man that essay explains EXACTLY what it feels like (at least to me) to be high on a psychedelic drug.
PS yes I know I typed Charles Sickens but I thought it looked cool so I left it.
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Re: Books you have hated [Re: WhiskeyClone]
#765681 - 07/21/02 06:36 PM (22 years, 3 months ago) |
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Albion's Seeds. A book about the british folkways that migrated to colonial america and the background behind them. Sounds interesting doesn't it?
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