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I agree. Seriana Sedai Send a noteboard - 06/09/2009 05:49:28 AM


And the one I expect to get shit about....

The Silmarillion by Tolkien
I'm sorry, but about all this book has going for it in my opinion is the name of the author and the fact that it's set in middle earth. Tolkien tried writing something of a bible for his world, and I guess he succeeded, because like the bible I found it to be boring, and barely worth opening. In all honesty I have pretty much nothing nice to say about this book. I spent months studying it in a class dedicated to Tolkien, and even studying and "understanding" where he was coming from and what he was doing didn't make me like it more, if anything it made my disdain all the more powerful.

I keep starting it and not making it even halfway, and Tolkien is by far one of my favorite authors. That's a book he wrote for himself more than for the public from what I've heard.

And frankly...I'm apparently not smart enough to get Dune. I've read it a bunch of times trying to love it and I can't point to any reasons I don't when everyone else thinks it's one of the most brilliant things ever, but I just don't enjoy it.
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So...what books DON'T you like? Сталин - 06/09/2009 04:57:28 AM 2056 Views
I have a couple I really disliked Brian - 06/09/2009 05:28:38 AM 1434 Views
I agree. Seriana Sedai - 06/09/2009 05:49:28 AM 1451 Views
Ohhhh quotefail! Brian - 06/09/2009 05:54:02 AM 1525 Views
I saw that. Seriana Sedai - 06/09/2009 06:03:29 AM 1340 Views
You actually read Monkey Bridge? Сталин - 06/09/2009 02:47:39 PM 1343 Views
Haha, I'm surprised anyone has heard of it here Brian - 06/09/2009 04:43:59 PM 1328 Views
Some examples Ellestra - 07/09/2009 08:25:37 PM 1263 Views
You think Battlefield Earth is bad, try reading his Mission Earth series. *NM* Brian - 08/09/2009 02:09:22 AM 723 Views
I read those in high school. I liked them. Stupid comic escapism. *NM* TaskmasterJack - 08/09/2009 02:18:31 AM 771 Views
I read them when I was in high school too...at least the first 3 or 4 Brian - 08/09/2009 02:47:12 AM 1369 Views
Re: I read them when I was in high school too...at least the first 3 or 4 TaskmasterJack - 08/09/2009 04:18:07 PM 1483 Views
Re: I read them when I was in high school too...at least the first 3 or 4 Brian - 08/09/2009 06:26:00 PM 1326 Views
No, thanks. I think all my masochism got spent on Terry Goodkind *NM* Ellestra - 08/09/2009 07:25:41 PM 749 Views
Political polemics, for one. Utopian novels, for another. Haggard - 06/09/2009 05:29:54 AM 1281 Views
People always recommend I read Ayn Rand Сталин - 06/09/2009 02:51:25 PM 1432 Views
I started The Fountainhead. It was pretty dreadful. *NM* Ghavrel - 06/09/2009 08:44:31 PM 756 Views
I don't have enough hours in the day to detail this or something even worse Larry - 06/09/2009 05:45:35 AM 1416 Views
The Wanderer's Tale by David Bilsborough. Craig - 06/09/2009 06:24:49 AM 1412 Views
YES! Jessie - 07/09/2009 06:10:29 AM 1282 Views
Oh, a lot of things. But I wonder. rebelaessedai - 06/09/2009 07:00:34 AM 1417 Views
Re: Oh, a lot of things. But I wonder. Brian - 06/09/2009 07:05:51 AM 1372 Views
! rebelaessedai - 06/09/2009 06:50:42 PM 1363 Views
Re: ! Brian - 06/09/2009 07:22:43 PM 1246 Views
Well, I do plan on reading it. rebelaessedai - 07/09/2009 03:38:26 AM 1345 Views
In fantasy, Vellum and Ink were terrible Сталин - 06/09/2009 02:54:05 PM 1328 Views
Duly noted! rebelaessedai - 06/09/2009 06:51:22 PM 1326 Views
Oh plenty Geoff - 06/09/2009 09:37:23 AM 1382 Views
I hated Wuthering Heights more than Jane Eyre, but I hated Jane Eyre, too. *NM* Сталин - 06/09/2009 02:54:49 PM 805 Views
I was never forced to read Wuthering heights Geoff - 06/09/2009 03:44:59 PM 1437 Views
I disliked both as well... more than disliked. *NM* Jacob - 09/09/2009 08:59:37 PM 804 Views
Well... Jacob - 09/09/2009 09:01:18 PM 1339 Views
I like all books I have ever read. jh - 06/09/2009 12:09:51 PM 1421 Views
You hated The Brothers Karamazov? Сталин - 06/09/2009 02:59:16 PM 1386 Views
Umm, yeah. jh - 06/09/2009 03:28:30 PM 1520 Views
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer. In Ye Olde English, it's harder to translate than ancient Greek. *NM* IndigoAjah - 06/09/2009 05:07:49 PM 771 Views
Oh man, the prologue to the Wife of Bath was horrible. Brian - 06/09/2009 05:11:39 PM 1276 Views
The Canterbury Tales are not Old English. They are Middle English. Сталин - 06/09/2009 05:59:59 PM 1445 Views
Indeed, translating old english, and reading middle english are very very different Brian - 06/09/2009 07:11:13 PM 1352 Views
Edit: ignore this, what I had before was blatantly untrue *NM* IndigoAjah - 07/09/2009 12:11:37 AM 782 Views
As I'm translating some ancient Greek right now, I call bullshit on that. *NM* Ghavrel - 06/09/2009 08:45:46 PM 719 Views
EDIT: Last post was basically equally bullsh*t IndigoAjah - 07/09/2009 12:17:01 AM 1330 Views
I was going to, but I felt I had already been pedantic enough. *NM* Сталин - 07/09/2009 02:34:04 AM 782 Views
Jane Eyre. Chas - 06/09/2009 05:13:27 PM 1384 Views
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel AgentOrange - 06/09/2009 05:58:39 PM 1364 Views
Must remember this. *NM* rebelaessedai - 06/09/2009 06:53:08 PM 753 Views
What do you mean? *NM* AgentOrange - 07/09/2009 10:43:58 AM 789 Views
Re: The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel Nolan - 06/09/2009 08:08:21 PM 1355 Views
well it was the best book in the series *NM* random thoughts - 14/09/2009 04:37:27 PM 717 Views
Catcher in the Rye and Heart of Darkness, among the "classics." *NM* Master Radishes - 06/09/2009 08:15:12 PM 771 Views
Ooh! I second Catcher and the Rye. What a piece of garbage. everynametaken - 06/09/2009 08:20:00 PM 1218 Views
I couldn't finish Heart of Darkness random thoughts - 14/09/2009 04:39:00 PM 1388 Views
Vellum by Hal Duncan and The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson everynametaken - 06/09/2009 08:16:12 PM 1424 Views
Hm. Novo - 06/09/2009 11:20:40 PM 1331 Views
Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Vodalus - 06/09/2009 08:24:07 PM 1314 Views
I liked a Portrait of the Artist, personally, though the (lack of real) punctuation grated *NM* IndigoAjah - 07/09/2009 12:18:50 AM 693 Views
I didn't mind Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog...I mean Man Сталин - 07/09/2009 02:40:14 AM 1311 Views
Shame on you. Those books are truly Great. Especially Portrait. Joker - 12/09/2009 10:52:40 PM 1348 Views
What? Handel - 06/09/2009 08:28:17 PM 1502 Views
My problem with Wuthering Heights was the characters. Darth_Katie - 06/09/2009 09:40:24 PM 1331 Views
Re: My problem with Wuthering Heights was the characters. Handel - 07/09/2009 12:27:44 AM 1368 Views
Wait...you're a guy? Сталин - 07/09/2009 02:44:27 AM 1352 Views
Indeed. Handel - 07/09/2009 03:01:59 AM 1350 Views
Stars in His Pocket Like Grains of Sand random thoughts - 14/09/2009 04:41:16 PM 1545 Views
Oh, and maybe it was lost on me, but I never got much joy out of War and Peace IndigoAjah - 07/09/2009 12:22:48 AM 1236 Views
War and Peace is pretty straightforward Сталин - 07/09/2009 02:43:25 AM 1372 Views
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell. Danu - 07/09/2009 12:54:41 AM 1374 Views
Shame! Shaaaaame! *NM* Craig - 07/09/2009 03:06:55 AM 723 Views
Jessie - 07/09/2009 06:13:26 AM 1265 Views
I'm not sure. Danu - 20/09/2009 04:19:52 PM 1626 Views
It probably doesn't help but Craig - 20/09/2009 06:17:34 PM 1715 Views
Don't flame me for saying it.... Erith - 07/09/2009 04:49:40 AM 1426 Views
Nah. rebelaessedai - 07/09/2009 05:18:23 AM 1278 Views
For me it was the other way around. jh - 07/09/2009 07:38:35 AM 1285 Views
You know, I kind of feel that way, too. Erith - 08/09/2009 03:40:58 AM 1297 Views
One last one: Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley *NM* Brian - 07/09/2009 07:44:48 AM 766 Views
*NM* Novo - 07/09/2009 10:33:08 AM 746 Views
Awww man, I thought we got rid of you! *NM* Brian - 07/09/2009 06:05:30 PM 699 Views
Have you ever seen the mini-series? Darth_Katie - 07/09/2009 05:42:45 PM 1375 Views
Never have I seen such good acting in such a dreadful movie/mini-series. Legolas - 07/09/2009 05:44:47 PM 1283 Views
I love really really bad TV movies sometimes....they make for lots of laughter Brian - 07/09/2009 06:06:38 PM 1240 Views
Actually, you might like it. As in, think it's good. Legolas - 07/09/2009 06:11:14 PM 1278 Views
I had a couple of issues with the book that I could easily see being removed from the movie Brian - 07/09/2009 07:01:40 PM 1226 Views
Yeah, you might like it then. Legolas - 07/09/2009 07:20:04 PM 1288 Views
A Confederacy of Dunces. nossy - 08/09/2009 06:13:59 AM 1363 Views
Crap. That's two people now. Chas - 09/09/2009 01:42:40 AM 1240 Views
Don't go by what I say. nossy - 09/09/2009 03:11:17 AM 1322 Views
Anyone with more than half a brain wouldn't. *NM* Brian - 09/09/2009 03:49:34 AM 773 Views
This sounds like a redshirt mission. *NM* Chas - 14/09/2009 01:12:17 AM 759 Views
Re: Hardy Cockatiel of Doom - 09/09/2009 02:42:39 AM 1193 Views
Aw. I liked Confederacy. *NM* Ghavrel - 09/09/2009 06:15:10 AM 740 Views
That probably makes sense for someone from the area though. nossy - 09/09/2009 08:02:23 PM 1376 Views
Oh, I forgot to mention Brave New World. Craig - 08/09/2009 06:26:29 AM 1213 Views
Wha? nossy - 08/09/2009 03:26:29 PM 1385 Views
Wha. Craig - 08/09/2009 06:43:12 PM 1207 Views
*stands and applauds * Here here *NM* M & M Maddy - 08/09/2009 08:19:53 PM 782 Views
The Road andOld Man and the Sea bme - 08/09/2009 04:16:11 PM 1281 Views
Time to give up your man card. *NM* Joker - 12/09/2009 10:53:56 PM 733 Views
The great Gatsby and Romeo and Juliett. M & M Maddy - 08/09/2009 08:24:23 PM 1298 Views
Word! Geoff - 08/09/2009 08:41:27 PM 1441 Views
Hitchickers guide to the galaxy and The Good earth by Pearl S. Buck Murtach74 - 09/09/2009 01:07:01 AM 1336 Views
Ah, man. I love both those books. *NM* nossy - 09/09/2009 08:08:00 PM 779 Views
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