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Great books you don't like??
ItsAShameAboutRay:
I love Catch-22 yet have never been able to finish the last half of it. Not due to dislike but more the fact it get's too depressing to me the further into the book I got. Another book I didn't dislike but had trouble making it through was Naked Lunch.
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--- Quote from: Stayc on 22 Feb 2007, 03:46 ---Ayn Rand. I couldn't get into her novels.
Ray Bradbury. He haunted my highschool years.
Zora Neale Hurston. No thank you. Very much.
Mark Twain.
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Totally agreed on Ayn Rand - her books are just kind of like a hammer banging away at your head while you read. OKAY OKAY OKAY ALREADY!!! I get it! I got it in the first damn sentence!!!
If you hated Bradbury in high school, I'd recommend trying him one more time without all of the forced analyzation (high school SUCKS for making people hate otherwise great books). Of course, you may just not like him, or you may just not like sci fi, and that's okay too, but he's one of my favorites and I hate seeing him dismissed for a bad HS experience.
I'm really glad this thread seems to have gotten over the whole, "I can't stand books not written in the last 30 years" thing - I'm a literature nerd, so I start to get all twitchy when I hear crap like that (ie, just because you can't read the book in 6 hours doesn't make it BAD).
On to my contribution, which is one I haven't seen mentioned yet, and that is Melville. I cannot STAND Moby Dick. It drives me insane with boredom. I get the allegory and the white whale bit and all that jazz, but I'd rather just know and never ever ever have to read that book again. Ever. Also, ditto to whomever said The Old Man and the Sea. Now, I'm a Hemingway fanatic; I think his style of writing was just brilliant because he knew exactly how to say all sorts of things without ever saying them (and if you think his style was easy, go try and write like him - it's crazy hard), but TOMATS generally bored me to tears. Thank god it's so short.
johns320:
The Scarlett Letter and Heart of Darkness
The Scarlett Letter could have been written in 30 pages and it would have still been a dull story.
Heart of Darkness is just a drag with heaps of boredom on top of it. Lord of the Flies is a better case study of a group of people going mad plus it is far more entertaining because while there is internal conflict, it manifest itself as external hunting.
Though I wouldn't call it a great book Andromeda Strain is another book I could have gone my entire life without reading.
Joseph:
--- Quote from: johns320 on 08 Apr 2007, 21:20 ---Lord of the Flies is a better case study of a group of people going mad plus it is far more entertaining because while there is internal conflict, it manifest itself as external hunting.
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And then it ends in a pile of shit.
Liz:
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--- Quote from: Misconception on 24 Feb 2007, 10:03 ---Of Mice and Men- Just flat out gag me. Ish.
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I LOVED Of Mice And Men, even if we did study it for a whole year for English Lit!! What aspects do people dislike, just out of interest?
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I think the main point was that I found it dull, and I flat-out dislike Steinbeck's writing style. The Red Pony was also a terrible book for me.
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