Worst book you've ever read

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Re: Worst book you've ever read October 11, 2005 at 02:23 PM UTC #

Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon

I didn't finish it. It just didn't "snap my elastic". What can I say? I must be an idiot.

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Re: Worst book you've ever read October 11, 2005 at 02:26 PM UTC #

the one where the parents run a circus sideshow type of thing and they purposefully exposed their kids - while in the womb - to checmicals and radiation so they'd come out weird and sidewshow-y. Never got into it, just sort of made me completely sick.

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Re: Worst book you've ever read October 11, 2005 at 02:28 PM UTC #

Originally posted by clouds RÂ²:
Ender's Game

sorry to have to tell you, friend, but you're completely nuts.

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Re: Worst book you've ever read October 11, 2005 at 02:35 PM UTC #

Originally posted by _Sexy Fitsum_:
sorry to have to tell you, friend, but you're completely nuts.

I know that I'm crazy. ENDERS GAME won all the major awards that year.

I just cannot see why. It was a fucking book for children ferchristsakes!

elj

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Re: Worst book you've ever read October 11, 2005 at 02:47 PM UTC #

Camus' The Stranger.

Dostoyevski's The Idiot is a close second.

I found Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance "ok," not nearly as bad as you all are making out.

Rhett Miller

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Re: Worst book you've ever read October 11, 2005 at 02:50 PM UTC #

I found the Bible exceptionally hard to get through. And some of it is a bit hard to believe.

And never finished "White Teeth" by Zadie Smith. Got to the point where I didn't care about anyone in the book, or what was going on.

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Re: Worst book you've ever read October 11, 2005 at 02:56 PM UTC #

Interesting; didnt know about the awards or that it was for kids. but the fact that the main characters were kids and how insanely resourceful they were for their age (Ender's siblings going on national political message boards and starting shit) was pretty good story-tellin. Check out author Orson Sccott Card's review of everything

Originally posted by clouds RÂ²:

Originally posted by _Sexy Fitsum_:
sorry to have to tell you, friend, but you're completely nuts.
I know that I'm crazy. ENDERS GAME won all the major awards that year.

I just cannot see why. It was a fucking book for children ferchristsakes!

skeeter

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Re: Worst book you've ever read October 11, 2005 at 03:00 PM UTC #

Zen and the Art of Motorcylce Maintenance

I'm surprised everyone seems to hate this one so much. I thought it was pretty good. Maybe a bit long, but good.

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Re: Worst book you've ever read October 11, 2005 at 03:00 PM UTC #

Originally posted by _Sexy Fitsum_:
Interesting; didnt know about the awards or that it was for kids. but the fact that the main characters were kids and how insanely resourceful they were for their age (Ender's siblings going on national political message boards and starting shit) was pretty good story-tellin. Check out author Orson Sccott Card's review of everything

If ENDERS was Orson's best, then I don't want to bother with the chaff.

Another book I hated was Discworld, by Terry Pratchett. I figure that If an author has a successful list of sequels to his/her original title, then the original must, at the very least, be readable. Neither Ender or Discworld was.

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Re: Worst book you've ever read October 11, 2005 at 03:29 PM UTC #

same.
kinda inspirational, even.
almost.

Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:

Zen and the Art of Motorcylce Maintenance
I'm surprised everyone seems to hate this one so much. I thought it was pretty good. Maybe a bit long, but good.

ratioci nation

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Re: Worst book you've ever read October 11, 2005 at 03:31 PM UTC #

Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
I'm surprised everyone seems to hate this one so much. I thought it was pretty good. Maybe a bit long, but good.

i only read it because one of my favorite books was compared to it (The River Why) and just didnt find it nearly as good

Rhett Miller

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Re: Worst book you've ever read October 11, 2005 at 03:35 PM UTC #

I read is because a pseudo-hippie ex-girlfriend recommended it. I guess I'm not pseudo-hippie enough.

Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:

Zen and the Art of Motorcylce Maintenance
I'm surprised everyone seems to hate this one so much. I thought it was pretty good. Maybe a bit long, but good.

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Re: Worst book you've ever read October 11, 2005 at 04:49 PM UTC #

thoughts on Lunar Park?

walkonby
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glamorama by bret e. ellis

what a waste by such a great

Sir HC

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Re: Worst book you've ever read October 11, 2005 at 04:51 PM UTC #

Originally posted by _Sexy Fitsum_:
the one where the parents run a circus sideshow type of thing and they purposefully exposed their kids - while in the womb - to checmicals and radiation so they'd come out weird and sidewshow-y. Never got into it, just sort of made me completely sick.

Geek Love.

jdreagle

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Re: Worst book you've ever read October 11, 2005 at 05:42 PM UTC #

invisible monsters by chuck palahniuk

renton007

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Re: Worst book you've ever read October 11, 2005 at 05:47 PM UTC #

Originally posted by jdr:
invisible monsters by chuck palahniuk

Diary was poor also. I hope Haunted is better.

walkonby

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Re: Worst book you've ever read October 11, 2005 at 06:27 PM UTC #

Originally posted by jhw5g:
thoughts on Lunar Park?

walkonby
Member # 4068 posted 10-10-2005 05:07 PM
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glamorama by bret e. ellis

what a waste by such a great

i haven't given it a spin. your opinion? should i?

smakawhat

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Re: Worst book you've ever read October 11, 2005 at 07:33 PM UTC #

Stay the flying F**K away..
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dogmatic boring diatribe
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no talent hack, who has serious sexual issues
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Waste of trees
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smakawhat

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Re: Worst book you've ever read October 11, 2005 at 07:36 PM UTC #

Originally posted by [username edited by p.c. moderator]:
Camus' The Stranger.

Dostoyevski's The Idiot is a close second.

Dostoyevski is awesome!! The Idiot is not his best though, and I liked The Stranger.

elj

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Re: Worst book you've ever read October 11, 2005 at 07:37 PM UTC #

Originally posted by smakawhat:
Dostoyevski is awesome!!

I agree, if we were talking Crime and Punishment or Brothers Karamazov. The Idiot, however, seems more like a character study in a less fleshed out version of one of his Brothers, however.