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Re: Books you have hated [Re: ]
#667942 - 06/07/02 06:14 PM (20 years, 9 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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Re: Books you have hated [Re: ]
#673344 - 06/11/02 02:13 PM (20 years, 9 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 (20 years, 9 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 (20 years, 9 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 (20 years, 9 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 (20 years, 8 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 (20 years, 8 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 (20 years, 8 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 (20 years, 8 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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