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Great books you don't like??
gargoylekitty:
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--- Quote from: mberan42 on 19 Dec 2006, 20:29 ---I got to part 3 in Gravity's Rainbow before putting it down.
Seriously, Pynchon, what the hell? Why do I need to know that the guy was so constipated he had to stick a spoon up his ass to get the shit out? I don't need to know that, man!
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Because it keeps you off-balance, and pushes the limits as far as what was broadly publishable.
I can totally see how folks would not be able to get through Gravity's Rainbow. I, however, fucking loved it to bits.
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I second the love for Gravity's Rainbow. It took a couple of tries but once I got through it I couldn't not like it. Crying of Lot 49 rocks too....
Back on topic though I ditto Ravenbomb's hating of Things Fall Apart because it was beyond dull, yet I would hardly call it a great book to begin with. Another one I hated on the high school reading list was Animal Farm. I hate it with a passion. Maybe it was the many movies in cartoon and 'RL' form based off it or the text itself though I just can't stand it.
ScrambledGregs:
--- Quote from: Ravenbomb on 20 Dec 2006, 09:05 ---Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. I had to read this in high school and college, and I didn't like it at all either time. I don't care how "important" it is, the book sucks.
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Yeah, there are very few "important" books that I have ever enjoyed.
Will:
--- Quote from: guywithoutsocks on 18 Dec 2006, 19:10 ---Catcher in the Rye. Some people I know really like this book. Not me. Coming-of-age-story my ass, Holden Caulfield was a big baby.
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I really, really hate Holden Caufield. I actually like the book alright, but the character pisses me right the hell off. He's a whining, sniveling little bitch.
camelpimp:
Am I the only one who liked "Things Fall Apart?" I mean, okay, not the number 1 best book in the universe, but it was an interesting exploration of the culture, of the conflict of the early, well, meeting I suppose of the Europeans and Africans. Although, the fact that it was definately a "statement" by Achebe that "Africa had it's own old, storied cultures long before the Europeans came thankyouverymuch" is distracting...
Ravenbomb:
I just think it was flat-out badly written. The characters were uninteresting, the entire first half of the book was boring (okay, I understood what he was going for, but if he wanted to show the culture and all that, he should've done something to make me care about the characters first, because the first half just KILLS the book), and it's frustrating because there COULD be a good story there. It's like he took what could've been a really good, interesting book, murdered it, and Things Fall Apart is just the chalk outline around its body.
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