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Great books you don't like??
Moo Cakes:
--- Quote from: Storm Rider on 23 Dec 2006, 09:58 ---I've got a sort of love-hate relationship with Brave New World. I think the points he makes are interesting, and it's especially spooky to see how prophetic his predictions turned out, but the book just drags a lot for me, and the characters just seem flat to me. Maybe it's just because I disagree with him politically, or because I subconsciously compare it to 1984, which is a superior book on every level. But it seems to me when you distill it down to its basic arguments (too much sex, mass production is ruining art, religion is becoming meaningless, etc.), it just seems to be the intellectual equivalent of some guy yelling at the teenagers to get off his lawn. Plus, it's pretty blatantly racist, even for the 30s.
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I'm definitely agreeing with you here. I read Brave New World last weekend and it just didn't hit home for me like 1984 did.
Also, I don't like Harry Potter.
bujiatang:
the Da Vinci code is the second worst book I have ever read. Angels and Demons is the worst. Dan Brown cannot write action; his dialogue is terrible, his characters are flat, and his murder's mystery developed by excluding important details.
keakaha:
--- Quote from: bujiatang on 04 Jan 2007, 03:22 ---the Da Vinci code is the second worst book I have ever read. Angels and Demons is the worst. Dan Brown cannot write action; his dialogue is terrible, his characters are flat, and his murder's mystery developed by excluding important details.
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Dan Brown is a person who 'makes books', not an author.
It's probably not a great per se, but Robin Hobb's Farseer trilogy is tripe. I was pissed off after I finished that I'd wasted so much time reading the whole damn thing.
And awesome as Hemingway is, "The Old Man and the Sea" doesn't do it for me at all.
El Opium:
I'll jump on the Austen hatin' bandwagon too, along with the Hemingway. As far as more recent authors go, I could not get into Paul Auster. I found The New York Trilogy to be by the numbers metafiction with no color or humor. I'll also second the notion that if you've gotten stuck partway through a Pynchon then you should keep slogging. Also, if you like or dislike 1984 and Brave New World, then you should read We by Yevgeny Zamyatin.
Will:
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 03 Jan 2007, 02:19 ---Anyways another one occured to me. Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is a fucking terrible book. Honestly I would say I hate it more than any other book I've ever read.
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I found a copy of that book in a used bookstore for $.50, so I picked it up figuring it would be at least worth reading once. Upon further review, I should have just bought some M&M's from the Jerry's Kids candy machine.
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