Books We Hate - Page 8

Wayfarer · 12-16-2002, 03:36 PM

I really hated all frank herberts books.

BeardofPants · 12-17-2002, 01:53 AM

Boo Hiss. Heathen.

I can now safely say that I hate "Fingerprints of the Gods." Ai. Moronic co-workers lending me flaky tomes to read. Argh!

Diaxion · 01-04-2003, 08:04 PM

Well these are books that they made me read at school so If your woundering why I read these is because they were for school and I did not want to fail.
In order of most hated throughout grade school and eary high school.
1. Red Keep
2. A Door in the Wall
3. I heard the Owl call my name
4. April morning
5. The Last Silk Dress
6. Tuck Everlasting
7. A house on Mango Street
8. Walking across Egypt.

durin's bane · 01-22-2003, 07:44 PM

"Cowboys Don't Cry" by Marilyn...i forget: A very weird and a bit graphic book. Discriptions of wounds and stuff... It's about this boy who's mother's dead, his father is out of work and is an alchoholic...and it mainly just goes through the kid's life being 14. Not really much plot or a certain problem...just a bunch of everyday life scenes thrown together and called a book.

"Deltora Quest" by Emily Rodda: Well, not exactly a "hate" but a "dislike". A bit of a rip-off for Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. A bit boring after a while and cheesy endings. No real character develope meant and after a while, you can't even tell what's going on because either there's too much description or too little, and plenty of corny violence. Their not one of those books that you'd enjoy reading over again.

Evenstar1400 · 02-03-2003, 10:28 PM

where the red fern grows.... it was too sad.... and i love dogs.... so i couldnt stop crying!

durin's bane · 02-13-2003, 07:44 PM

Barney's Manners...

Aralyn · 02-23-2003, 03:13 PM

Oh Brother Barney's manners?

I don't like Madeliene L'engle's book at all but I won't say anything bad about them because my whole family likes them.

Admiral Ackbar · 02-23-2003, 07:45 PM

1) Dune: House Harkonnen. Possibly the second worst book I've EVER had the displeasure of reading. He died? Wow. I saw it coming FIVE FRIGGIN CHAPTERS AGO.

2) Anything by Marianne Brandis, particularly Fire Ship. This woman is not a Canadian author, she is a literary abomination.

3) Most Star Wars EU novels, particularly the X-wing series and New Jedi Order. This crap isin't cheese--its Lindberger cheese.

4) The Chrysalids--don't even try to defend this one.

5) The Pearl, by Steinbeck. Not all that bad, but a boring and relatively flat/depressing book.

Ackbar

Aralyn · 02-26-2003, 10:27 AM

The last Silk Dress is a GOOD book. I love Rinaldi's writings.

Baby-K · 02-27-2003, 08:39 AM

Setting Free the Bears & The Water Method Man - both by John Irving, I was very disappointed as I loved the World According to Garp & A Prayer for Owen Meany (both of these rate in my top 10)

Silverleaf · 03-09-2003, 01:08 PM

I didn't like Izzy Willy Nilly (or however you spell it) nor Ransom by Lois Duncan

wahine · 03-14-2003, 11:06 PM

Anything by Hubbard. His books got SOME rave reviews, so I suppose I'm a heartless bashturd.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Not a book, but it might as well be!! Surely the Grateful Dead of literature—goes on for far too long and only sounds good when you’re stoned.

Robert James Waller - The Bridges of Madison County
OK, an obvious choice. But it truly is one of the worst things I’ve ever read.

Margaret Laurence - The Stone Angel
This “classic” of Canadian literature is about a cranky old woman named Hagar who is dying. She hates everybody and everybody hates her. Thinking back on her life she realizes she’s treated everyone who ever cared about her like ****. She feels bad about it, but not really. She especially regrets lying there like a dead trout during sex with her husband because, although she pretended she didn’t like it, she really did! Back in the present she runs away and hides in some seaside shack. A seagull dies, which is, like, heavy symbolism dude. Eventually she dies. The reader rejoices.

Octavia Butler's -Clay's Ark
The book is set in the not-too-distant sorta-apocalyptic future. An interstellar probe called Clay’s Ark returns from its mission to a faraway planet only to bring with it a terrible plague which turns people into super bad-ass freaks. At first the plague is contained to a small ranch on the outskirts of L.A. But because the infected feel the need to pass on the virus (preferably through sexual intercourse) the residents kidnap a doctor and his two teenaged daughters. Things quickly deteriorate and the book concludes with some a 30-something getting it on with a 15 year-old, some gang-rapes, gun fights and a be-heading. And oh, yeah...then the world is consumed by the plague. Marvelous!! If Butler wasn’t a woman you might accuse the book of being misogynist. But she is, so I guess we’ll just have to settle with calling her a talentless hack.

That's it for me.

Fili · 03-16-2003, 07:13 PM

Mabye Many Waters by Madlen L'engle

elvendrummer87 · 03-18-2003, 11:37 PM

i think madeline lengle had alot of off days. i loved a wrinkle in time and that series, but all her other books stink!!!

sounder by i-forget-who: it was terrible! i was made to read it in fourth AND sixth grade! the dog gets hurt, the humans are mistreated... terrible...

the old man and the sea: how in the world did THAT thing get to be a classic?! he's fishing;he's eating;he's fishing'there he goes fishing again; hmmm, let's catch some more fish 'cause i don't think we've described FISHING enough already! Geez!!!

across five aprils: yuck! it was SO BORING!!!! and what is with the grammer?!

grapes of wrath: .............snore...............zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzz...............................

Eruviel Greenleaf · 03-21-2003, 09:41 PM

Definitely agree on the Grapes of Wrath! ych!

Right now I'm really not liking Democratization and Expansionism. . .so very dry, I'm afraid. . .this be the problem with big research projects. . .*sigh*

Aeryn · 03-22-2003, 04:02 AM

Nearly anything by Shakespeare, he was an ill-tongued fiend.

Can't understand the SoB.

Starr Polish · 03-22-2003, 04:11 AM

Thou speaketh blasphemy! This maiden doth profess her love of the Old Bard.

Aeryn · 03-22-2003, 04:13 AM

Thou shutteth upeth or though must dieth at the handseth of me-eth...like. ^_^

Gwaimir Windgem · 03-22-2003, 04:16 AM

I can only think of one book I really hated. "The Crystal Star". Don't remember the authors name. One of the Star Wars books. It was awful.

Aeryn · 03-22-2003, 05:53 AM

I thought George Lucas did Star Wars...could be wrong....

12-16-2002, 03:36 PM	#141
Wayfarer The Insufferable Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,333	I really hated all frank herberts books. __________________ Disgraced he may be, yet is not dethroned, and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned

12-17-2002, 01:53 AM	#142
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	Boo Hiss. Heathen. I can now safely say that I hate "Fingerprints of the Gods." Ai. Moronic co-workers lending me flaky tomes to read. Argh! __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

01-04-2003, 08:04 PM	#143
Diaxion Elven Warrior Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 112	Well these are books that they made me read at school so If your woundering why I read these is because they were for school and I did not want to fail. In order of most hated throughout grade school and eary high school. 1. Red Keep 2. A Door in the Wall 3. I heard the Owl call my name 4. April morning 5. The Last Silk Dress 6. Tuck Everlasting 7. A house on Mango Street 8. Walking across Egypt. __________________ good day

01-22-2003, 07:44 PM	#144
durin's bane Lady of Westernesse Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Canada (Help! Our parliament building is melting!) Posts: 761	"Cowboys Don't Cry" by Marilyn...i forget: A very weird and a bit graphic book. Discriptions of wounds and stuff... It's about this boy who's mother's dead, his father is out of work and is an alchoholic...and it mainly just goes through the kid's life being 14. Not really much plot or a certain problem...just a bunch of everyday life scenes thrown together and called a book. "Deltora Quest" by Emily Rodda: Well, not exactly a "hate" but a "dislike". A bit of a rip-off for Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. A bit boring after a while and cheesy endings. No real character develope meant and after a while, you can't even tell what's going on because either there's too much description or too little, and plenty of corny violence. Their not one of those books that you'd enjoy reading over again. __________________ Yada, yada, yada

02-03-2003, 10:28 PM	#145
Evenstar1400 Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: In the inner depths of my lair. Posts: 421	where the red fern grows.... it was too sad.... and i love dogs.... so i couldnt stop crying! __________________ Treebeard: Hmm, you look like hobbits, smell like hobbits, feel like hobbits and sound like hobbits. You must be orcs!

02-13-2003, 07:44 PM	#146
durin's bane Lady of Westernesse Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Canada (Help! Our parliament building is melting!) Posts: 761	Barney's Manners... __________________ Yada, yada, yada

02-23-2003, 03:13 PM	#147
Aralyn FloraAzul Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Anywhere as long as there is a library in a one mile radius of here Posts: 751	Oh Brother Barney's manners? I don't like Madeliene L'engle's book at all but I won't say anything bad about them because my whole family likes them. __________________ Atheism: A Non-Prophet Organization Yet many shall be amazed when they see Him-yes even far off foreign nations and thier kings; they shall stand dumb-founded, speechless in his prescence. For they shall see and understand what they had not seen before-Isaiah 52:15a Civil War- 498,332 dead WWI-116,708 dead WWII-407,316 dead Korean War-54,246 dead Vietnam War-58,665 dead Persian Gulf-372 dead War on The Unborn=35,000,000 dead and counting

02-23-2003, 07:45 PM	#148
Admiral Ackbar Hobbit Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Canada Posts: 30	re 1) Dune: House Harkonnen. Possibly the second worst book I've EVER had the displeasure of reading. He died? Wow. I saw it coming FIVE FRIGGIN CHAPTERS AGO. 2) Anything by Marianne Brandis, particularly Fire Ship. This woman is not a Canadian author, she is a literary abomination. 3) Most Star Wars EU novels, particularly the X-wing series and New Jedi Order. This crap isin't cheese--its Lindberger cheese. 4) The Chrysalids--don't even try to defend this one. 5) The Pearl, by Steinbeck. Not all that bad, but a boring and relatively flat/depressing book. Ackbar __________________ "We've got to give those fighters more time! Concentrate all firepower on that Super Star Destroyer!"--Admiral Ackbar

02-26-2003, 10:27 AM	#149
Aralyn FloraAzul Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Anywhere as long as there is a library in a one mile radius of here Posts: 751	The last Silk Dress is a GOOD book. I love Rinaldi's writings. __________________ Atheism: A Non-Prophet Organization Yet many shall be amazed when they see Him-yes even far off foreign nations and thier kings; they shall stand dumb-founded, speechless in his prescence. For they shall see and understand what they had not seen before-Isaiah 52:15a Civil War- 498,332 dead WWI-116,708 dead WWII-407,316 dead Korean War-54,246 dead Vietnam War-58,665 dead Persian Gulf-372 dead War on The Unborn=35,000,000 dead and counting

02-27-2003, 08:39 AM	#150
Baby-K Corruptor Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Jozi SA Posts: 1,885	Setting Free the Bears & The Water Method Man - both by John Irving, I was very disappointed as I loved the World According to Garp & A Prayer for Owen Meany (both of these rate in my top 10) __________________ Don't wet yourself with excitement.

03-09-2003, 01:08 PM	#151
Silverleaf Hobbit Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Mirkwood Posts: 29	I didn't like Izzy Willy Nilly (or however you spell it) nor Ransom by Lois Duncan __________________ May it be an evening star Shines down upon you May it be when darkness falls Your heart will be true You walk a lonely road Oh! How are you are from home Mornie utulie Believe and you will find your way Mornie alantie A promise lives within you now May it be shadows call Will fly away May it be your journey on To light the day When the night is overcome You may rise to find the sun Mornie utulie Believe and you will find your way Mornie alantie A promise lives within you now A promise lives within you now

03-14-2003, 11:06 PM	#152
wahine The Original Amazonian Coconut Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Answering no questions, telling no lies. Posts: 753	Anything by Hubbard. His books got SOME rave reviews, so I suppose I'm a heartless bashturd. Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Not a book, but it might as well be!! Surely the Grateful Dead of literature—goes on for far too long and only sounds good when you’re stoned. Robert James Waller - The Bridges of Madison County OK, an obvious choice. But it truly is one of the worst things I’ve ever read. Margaret Laurence - The Stone Angel This “classic” of Canadian literature is about a cranky old woman named Hagar who is dying. She hates everybody and everybody hates her. Thinking back on her life she realizes she’s treated everyone who ever cared about her like ***. She feels bad about it, but not really. She especially regrets lying there like a dead trout during sex with her husband because, although she pretended she didn’t like it, she really did! Back in the present she runs away and hides in some seaside shack. A seagull dies, which is, like, heavy symbolism dude. Eventually she dies. The reader rejoices. Octavia Butler's -Clay's Ark The book is set in the not-too-distant sorta-apocalyptic future. An interstellar probe called Clay’s Ark returns from its mission to a faraway planet only to bring with it a terrible plague which turns people into super bad-ass freaks. At first the plague is contained to a small ranch on the outskirts of L.A. But because the infected feel the need to pass on the virus (preferably through sexual intercourse) the residents kidnap a doctor and his two teenaged daughters. Things quickly deteriorate and the book concludes with some a 30-something getting it on with a 15 year-old, some gang-rapes, gun fights and a be-heading. And oh, yeah...then the world is consumed by the plague. Marvelous!! If Butler wasn’t a woman you might accuse the book of being misogynist. But she is, so I guess we’ll just have to settle with calling her a talentless hack. That's it for me. __________________ Hem, hem*

03-16-2003, 07:13 PM	#153
Fili Enting Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Hiding in my head... Posts: 57	Mabye Many Waters by Madlen L'engle __________________ When the Dark comes rising; Six shall turn it back; Three from the circle; Three from the track; Wood, bronze, iron; Fire, water stone; Five shall return and one will go alone. Iron for the birthday, bronze carried long; Wood from the burning, stone out of song; Fire from the candle ring, water out of thaw; Six signs the Circle and the grail gone before. Fire on the mountian shall find the Harp of Gold; Played to wake the Sleepers, oldest of the Old; Power of the green witch, lost beneath the sea; All shall find the light at last, silver on the tree.

03-18-2003, 11:37 PM	#154
elvendrummer87 Enting Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: new jersey Posts: 80	i think madeline lengle had alot of off days. i loved a wrinkle in time and that series, but all her other books stink!!! sounder by i-forget-who: it was terrible! i was made to read it in fourth AND sixth grade! the dog gets hurt, the humans are mistreated... terrible... the old man and the sea: how in the world did THAT thing get to be a classic?! he's fishing;he's eating;he's fishing'there he goes fishing again; hmmm, let's catch some more fish 'cause i don't think we've described FISHING enough already! Geez!!! across five aprils: yuck! it was SO BORING!!!! and what is with the grammer?! grapes of wrath: .............snore...............zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzz...............................

03-21-2003, 09:41 PM	#155
Eruviel Greenleaf Alcoholic Villain-Fancying Elf Pirate Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Lyonesse Posts: 4,547	Definitely agree on the Grapes of Wrath! ych! Right now I'm really not liking Democratization and Expansionism. . .so very dry, I'm afraid. . .this be the problem with big research projects. . .sigh __________________ Eruviel Greenleaf in a past life. "Whoever has come to understand the world has found only a corpse, and whoever has found a corpse is superior to the world." -The Gospel of Thomas SQUAWK!

03-22-2003, 04:02 AM	#156
Aeryn Bank'ress of Sith Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: In a hot-hot place, heh Posts: 913	Nearly anything by Shakespeare, he was an ill-tongued fiend. Can't understand the SoB. __________________ my new account name feigndeath. This one is deactivated, I think.

03-22-2003, 04:11 AM	#157
Starr Polish Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill Posts: 2,389	Thou speaketh blasphemy! This maiden doth profess her love of the Old Bard. __________________ “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” –Bertrand Russell

03-22-2003, 04:13 AM	#158
Aeryn Bank'ress of Sith Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: In a hot-hot place, heh Posts: 913	Thou shutteth upeth or though must dieth at the handseth of me-eth...like. ^_^ __________________ my new account name feigndeath. This one is deactivated, I think.

03-22-2003, 04:16 AM	#159
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	I can only think of one book I really hated. "The Crystal Star". Don't remember the authors name. One of the Star Wars books. It was awful. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

03-22-2003, 05:53 AM	#160
Aeryn Bank'ress of Sith Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: In a hot-hot place, heh Posts: 913	I thought George Lucas did Star Wars...could be wrong.... __________________ my new account name feigndeath. This one is deactivated, I think.

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