Books We Hate - Page 9

Gwaimir Windgem · 03-22-2003, 06:37 AM

He did the originals, but there have been tons of books by other authors since.

Starr Polish · 03-22-2003, 12:32 PM

Basically published fanfiction. Bleearg.

Belle · 04-02-2003, 06:15 AM

'Amsterdam' by Ian McEwan was soooooo pointless I cannot believe I took time out of my life to read it.

sun-star · 04-02-2003, 01:48 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Belle
'Amsterdam' by Ian McEwan was soooooo pointless I cannot believe I took time out of my life to read it.

I haven't read 'Amsterdam' but judging by some of his other books, I agree with you

Belle · 04-02-2003, 03:59 PM

Thank you Sun-star, McEwan is so over-rated. none of his books have been very good.

Ninquelote · 04-05-2003, 10:57 PM

Do you know what books I hate? The Wheel of Time series. They just go on and on. And people even think they're better than LoTR.

BeardofPants · 04-06-2003, 12:02 AM

I read the first one, and gave up on them. I can't believe there are people out there that swear by them!

Gwaimir Windgem · 04-06-2003, 12:14 AM

Damned books!

Willow Oran · 04-12-2003, 09:53 PM

You know what I really hate, Shakespear ADAPTATIONS, not the original plays but horrible manglations of them. In drama right now we are committing the most abonimable atrocity against shakepearian literature that you can possibly imagine. Our teachers are forcing us to put together a... a highschool adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. Admittedly the script has turned out much better than I thought it would, at least it's amusing, but they wrote it using a combination of modern english and shakespeare's words and some of the people in our drama class, are not particularily competent with such things... it's gonna be an interesting production to say the least.

Back on topic: I have decided that David Copperfield is one of the slowest moving books in the history of the world. It's lovely writing but the plot moves at a snail's pace and the characters are either truly annoying, truly boring, both, or trulty loveable but don't have large enough parts to save the story from the other types of characters. Even the most depressing parts of the Sil are easier reading than that book.

Aralyn · 04-12-2003, 10:30 PM

Unicorns of Balinor are kind of annoying.

elf queen · 07-08-2003, 11:15 PM

Stones in Water was the worst book I have ever finished.

Elf Girl · 07-14-2003, 12:11 PM

Never, EVER read the self published 'The kingdoms of the Elves and the Reaches' or 'Ruin Mist'. My god, they are awful. The good reviews on Amazon are the author's friends.

zinnite · 07-19-2003, 09:35 AM

Although I love Clive Barker (or used to, since I don't really read him much these days), I think Galilee is, um... not very good at all. It is silly and boring.

Johnny Tremain - I was forced to read this in 7th & 8th grade. Utterly excrutiating. I remember the only part I liked was, after the bandages had been removed from his burned hand, his fingers had healed together and he had a fin or flipper instead of fingers. I loved that part.

Anything by Dickens or Poe. Blah. And Nathaniel Hawthorne.

LutraMage · 07-20-2003, 01:29 PM

Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy was over hyped and over rated

. I gave up about a third of the way through book three.

At first they seemed quite good, if a little quirky. Then, towards the end of book one, it all seemed to go awry. I perservered with book two, but got more and more agitated as he seemed to just throw things in without any real thought, as if he was making it up as he went along and was just desparate to put something unusual in to keep it moving.

Poor writting, poor story, poor everthing - and yet people raved about it. I think it was 'emperor's clothes' the hype kept saying they were epic and brilliant, so everyone had to keep finding something 'epic and brilliant' in them. Won't touch his stuff again with a barge pole.

Starr Polish · 08-06-2003, 05:24 PM

"The Bluest Eye"...can't remember the author, for some reason. Toni Morrison? That doesn't seem right.

I HATED that book...it switched around without explaining and though I know it was supposed to be sad, it didn't bring any emotion from me at all. Huh..

***IronParrot*** · 08-06-2003, 11:14 PM

I gave up on Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time after Book Seven, when I realized that it wasn't just a coincidence I tended to fall asleep during his several-hundred-pages-long drivel sequences. The more I think back to when I read them, the more I want a refund those weeks upon months of reading time.

Elenka · 08-08-2003, 05:02 PM

My friend's friend's gave her the first Wheel of Time book for her birthday. Over the next two months or something, she read them all. Her friend actually thought she'd like them more than Tolkien!! As if!

Book I hate: Robinson Crusoe. God this, blah blah blah. Thank the Lord that, blah blah blah. My stupid slave worships me, blah blah blah. Urgh.

Sheeana · 08-08-2003, 08:26 PM

I'm so glad I was lucky enough to realise that the first WoT book was complete drivel. I feel for those people who are still waiting for the next books to come out.

Macka · 09-10-2003, 03:51 PM

I hated the Hardy Boys books. Read one(didn't read it all, just lied about.

) , , but I can't remember the name of it. Very very boring, that's all I got out of it.

hectorberlioz · 09-20-2003, 02:29 PM

no. 1. boxcar children.
no.2 harry potter.
no.3 those wierdo authors who try to be romantical by calling thier books things like: "moronic chocolate"

03-22-2003, 06:37 AM	#1
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	He did the originals, but there have been tons of books by other authors since. __________________ 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, 12:32 PM	#2
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	Basically published fanfiction. Bleearg. __________________ “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

04-02-2003, 06:15 AM	#3
Belle Enting Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Essex! Posts: 72	'Amsterdam' by Ian McEwan was soooooo pointless I cannot believe I took time out of my life to read it. __________________ You made me that much stronger Made me work a little bit harder Made me that much wiser So thanks for making me a fighter Made me learn a little bit faster Made my skin a little bit thicker Made me that much smarter So thanks for making me a fighter

04-02-2003, 03:59 PM	#5
Belle Enting Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Essex! Posts: 72	Thank you Sun-star, McEwan is so over-rated. none of his books have been very good. __________________ You made me that much stronger Made me work a little bit harder Made me that much wiser So thanks for making me a fighter Made me learn a little bit faster Made my skin a little bit thicker Made me that much smarter So thanks for making me a fighter

04-05-2003, 10:57 PM	#6
Ninquelote Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Here. For the time being. Posts: 336	Do you know what books I hate? The Wheel of Time series. They just go on and on. And people even think they're better than LoTR. __________________ XIAN- for hating Wiccans. MURDERER- for hating vegetarians. PREP- for hating Goths. These are a few of my favourite things, the hypocritical stylings of the most "liberal" groups.

04-06-2003, 12:02 AM	#7
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	I read the first one, and gave up on them. I can't believe there are people out there that swear by them! __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

04-06-2003, 12:14 AM	#8
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Damned books! __________________ 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

04-12-2003, 09:53 PM	#9
Willow Oran Deus Ex Machina Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Seattle Posts: 1,951	You know what I really hate, Shakespear ADAPTATIONS, not the original plays but horrible manglations of them. In drama right now we are committing the most abonimable atrocity against shakepearian literature that you can possibly imagine. Our teachers are forcing us to put together a... a highschool adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. Admittedly the script has turned out much better than I thought it would, at least it's amusing, but they wrote it using a combination of modern english and shakespeare's words and some of the people in our drama class, are not particularily competent with such things... it's gonna be an interesting production to say the least. Back on topic: I have decided that David Copperfield is one of the slowest moving books in the history of the world. It's lovely writing but the plot moves at a snail's pace and the characters are either truly annoying, truly boring, both, or trulty loveable but don't have large enough parts to save the story from the other types of characters. Even the most depressing parts of the Sil are easier reading than that book. __________________ "5. Plain Rings with RUNES on the inside. Avoid these like the PLAGUE. -Diana Wynne Jones Tough Guide To FantasyLand ...it's not much of a show if somebody doesn't suffer, and preferably at length. Suffering is beautiful in any case, and so is anguish; but as for loathing, and bitterness... I don't think they belong on the stage at all. - Isabella, I Gelosi

04-12-2003, 10:30 PM	#10
Aralyn FloraAzul Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Anywhere as long as there is a library in a one mile radius of here Posts: 751	Unicorns of Balinor are kind of annoying. __________________ 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

07-08-2003, 11:15 PM	#11
elf queen Hobbit Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 33	Stones in Water was the worst book I have ever finished.

07-14-2003, 12:11 PM	#12
Elf Girl Lurker Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Lothlórien Posts: 3,419	Never, EVER read the self published 'The kingdoms of the Elves and the Reaches' or 'Ruin Mist'. My god, they are awful. The good reviews on Amazon are the author's friends. __________________ There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium...

07-19-2003, 09:35 AM	#13
zinnite Elven Warrior Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Lawrence, Kansas, USA Posts: 195	Although I love Clive Barker (or used to, since I don't really read him much these days), I think Galilee is, um... not very good at all. It is silly and boring. Johnny Tremain - I was forced to read this in 7th & 8th grade. Utterly excrutiating. I remember the only part I liked was, after the bandages had been removed from his burned hand, his fingers had healed together and he had a fin or flipper instead of fingers. I loved that part. Anything by Dickens or Poe. Blah. And Nathaniel Hawthorne.

07-20-2003, 01:29 PM	#14
LutraMage Elven Warrior Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Tolkien's England where the tale grew in the telling... Posts: 330	Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy was over hyped and over rated . I gave up about a third of the way through book three. At first they seemed quite good, if a little quirky. Then, towards the end of book one, it all seemed to go awry. I perservered with book two, but got more and more agitated as he seemed to just throw things in without any real thought, as if he was making it up as he went along and was just desparate to put something unusual in to keep it moving. Poor writting, poor story, poor everthing - and yet people raved about it. I think it was 'emperor's clothes' the hype kept saying they were epic and brilliant, so everyone had to keep finding something 'epic and brilliant' in them. Won't touch his stuff again with a barge pole. Last edited by LutraMage : 07-20-2003 at 01:30 PM.

08-06-2003, 05:24 PM	#15
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	"The Bluest Eye"...can't remember the author, for some reason. Toni Morrison? That doesn't seem right. I HATED that book...it switched around without explaining and though I know it was supposed to be sad, it didn't bring any emotion from me at all. Huh.. __________________ “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

08-06-2003, 11:14 PM	#16
*IronParrot* Fowl Administrator Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Calgary or Edmonton, Canada Posts: 53,420	I gave up on Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time after Book Seven, when I realized that it wasn't just a coincidence I tended to fall asleep during his several-hundred-pages-long drivel sequences. The more I think back to when I read them, the more I want a refund those weeks upon months of reading time. __________________ All of IronParrot's posts are guaranteed to be 100% intelligent and/or sarcastic, comprising no genetically modified content and tested on no cute furry little animals unless the SPCA is looking elsewhere. If you observe a failure to uphold this warranty, please contact a forum administrator immediately to receive a full refund on your Entmoot registration. Blog: Nick's Café Canadien

08-08-2003, 05:02 PM	#17
Elenka The Negative Soul of Entmoot Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: The Middle Distance Posts: 651	My friend's friend's gave her the first Wheel of Time book for her birthday. Over the next two months or something, she read them all. Her friend actually thought she'd like them more than Tolkien!! As if! Book I hate: Robinson Crusoe. God this, blah blah blah. Thank the Lord that, blah blah blah. My stupid slave worships me, blah blah blah. Urgh. __________________ W00T for the M00T!! War doesn't determine who is right - war determines who is left.

08-08-2003, 08:26 PM	#18
Sheeana Lord of the Pants Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 1,382	I'm so glad I was lucky enough to realise that the first WoT book was complete drivel. I feel for those people who are still waiting for the next books to come out.

09-10-2003, 03:51 PM	#19
Macka Hobbit Join Date: May 2003 Location: USA Posts: 44	Well... I hated the Hardy Boys books. Read one(didn't read it all, just lied about. ) , , but I can't remember the name of it. Very very boring, that's all I got out of it. __________________ "All the people let me hear you give a holler In God we trust, In God we trust We stamp it on our penny, nickel, dime, quarter, dollar In God we trust, In God we trust The people of the nation let me hear you give a holler In God we trust, In God we trust We stamp it on our penny, nickel, dime, quarter, dollar In God we trust, In God we trust" ~Pillar "Indivisible"

09-20-2003, 02:29 PM	#20
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