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Oh, a lot of things. But I wonder. rebelaessedai Send a noteboard - 06/09/2009 07:00:34 AM
There are things I haven't finished, a LOT. I pick up a book and try to read it and just can't get into it. That doesn't mean it's not worth reading. So I can't honestly name those books, I suppose unless I've gotten at least halfway through them.

That being said, there are some that I've finished or almost finished that were awful.
The Jewels of Aptor by Samuel Delaney was horrible. I don't even know what the damn thing was supposed to be about. It seemed so random. Maybe I just didn't get it.
Altered Carbon, which I read solely because of its popularity and reputation as a genre-builder. I've come to realize, though, that cyberpunk just isn't my thing. It was good in that I could see its worth in that respect, but that's as far as it went.
And speaking of genres that are turn-offs, urban fantasy is pretty dull for me as well. Angel of Darkness by de Lint was one of those for me. It was meh, I read it all, but it didn't capture me the way I'd hoped it would.
Classics also very rarely interest me. There are a lot I won't even attempt to read. Some things I couldn't finish despite them having been assigned in classes, like The Metamorphosis and Heart of Darkness. In fact, the latter is probably my least favorite book ever. I have it on my to-read shelf because I just feel like I have to force myself through it one of these days.
Let's not forget the pile of crap that was Crossroads of Twilight. As much as I love Jordan, that book was obviously written for one reason- to make money. More happened in the prologue of the next book than the entirety of that one.

There are tons more, but those are the first things that come to mind. A lot, huh.
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So...what books DON'T you like? - 06/09/2009 04:57:28 AM 1941 Views
I have a couple I really disliked - 06/09/2009 05:28:38 AM 1339 Views
I agree. - 06/09/2009 05:49:28 AM 1338 Views
Ohhhh quotefail! - 06/09/2009 05:54:02 AM 1385 Views
I saw that. - 06/09/2009 06:03:29 AM 1227 Views
You actually read Monkey Bridge? - 06/09/2009 02:47:39 PM 1238 Views
Haha, I'm surprised anyone has heard of it here - 06/09/2009 04:43:59 PM 1221 Views
Some examples - 07/09/2009 08:25:37 PM 1140 Views
Political polemics, for one. Utopian novels, for another. - 06/09/2009 05:29:54 AM 1153 Views
People always recommend I read Ayn Rand - 06/09/2009 02:51:25 PM 1322 Views
I started The Fountainhead. It was pretty dreadful. *NM* - 06/09/2009 08:44:31 PM 706 Views
The Wanderer's Tale by David Bilsborough. - 06/09/2009 06:24:49 AM 1271 Views
YES! - 07/09/2009 06:10:29 AM 1158 Views
Oh, a lot of things. But I wonder. - 06/09/2009 07:00:34 AM 1295 Views
Re: Oh, a lot of things. But I wonder. - 06/09/2009 07:05:51 AM 1240 Views
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Re: ! - 06/09/2009 07:22:43 PM 1138 Views
Well, I do plan on reading it. - 07/09/2009 03:38:26 AM 1208 Views
In fantasy, Vellum and Ink were terrible - 06/09/2009 02:54:05 PM 1230 Views
Duly noted! - 06/09/2009 06:51:22 PM 1206 Views
Oh plenty - 06/09/2009 09:37:23 AM 1269 Views
I hated Wuthering Heights more than Jane Eyre, but I hated Jane Eyre, too. *NM* - 06/09/2009 02:54:49 PM 742 Views
I was never forced to read Wuthering heights - 06/09/2009 03:44:59 PM 1319 Views
I disliked both as well... more than disliked. *NM* - 09/09/2009 08:59:37 PM 752 Views
Well... - 09/09/2009 09:01:18 PM 1234 Views
I like all books I have ever read. - 06/09/2009 12:09:51 PM 1315 Views
You hated The Brothers Karamazov? - 06/09/2009 02:59:16 PM 1236 Views
Umm, yeah. - 06/09/2009 03:28:30 PM 1406 Views
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer. In Ye Olde English, it's harder to translate than ancient Greek. *NM* - 06/09/2009 05:07:49 PM 711 Views
Oh man, the prologue to the Wife of Bath was horrible. - 06/09/2009 05:11:39 PM 1168 Views
The Canterbury Tales are not Old English. They are Middle English. - 06/09/2009 05:59:59 PM 1328 Views
Edit: ignore this, what I had before was blatantly untrue *NM* - 07/09/2009 12:11:37 AM 724 Views
As I'm translating some ancient Greek right now, I call bullshit on that. *NM* - 06/09/2009 08:45:46 PM 668 Views
EDIT: Last post was basically equally bullsh*t - 07/09/2009 12:17:01 AM 1222 Views
I was going to, but I felt I had already been pedantic enough. *NM* - 07/09/2009 02:34:04 AM 731 Views
Jane Eyre. - 06/09/2009 05:13:27 PM 1238 Views
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel - 06/09/2009 05:58:39 PM 1249 Views
Must remember this. *NM* - 06/09/2009 06:53:08 PM 696 Views
What do you mean? *NM* - 07/09/2009 10:43:58 AM 724 Views
Re: The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel - 06/09/2009 08:08:21 PM 1245 Views
well it was the best book in the series *NM* - 14/09/2009 04:37:27 PM 644 Views
Catcher in the Rye and Heart of Darkness, among the "classics." *NM* - 06/09/2009 08:15:12 PM 706 Views
Ooh! I second Catcher and the Rye. What a piece of garbage. - 06/09/2009 08:20:00 PM 1093 Views
I couldn't finish Heart of Darkness - 14/09/2009 04:39:00 PM 1274 Views
Vellum by Hal Duncan and The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson - 06/09/2009 08:16:12 PM 1291 Views
Hm. - 06/09/2009 11:20:40 PM 1211 Views
Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - 06/09/2009 08:24:07 PM 1205 Views
I didn't mind Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog...I mean Man - 07/09/2009 02:40:14 AM 1190 Views
Shame on you. Those books are truly Great. Especially Portrait. - 12/09/2009 10:52:40 PM 1237 Views
What? - 06/09/2009 08:28:17 PM 1373 Views
My problem with Wuthering Heights was the characters. - 06/09/2009 09:40:24 PM 1196 Views
Re: My problem with Wuthering Heights was the characters. - 07/09/2009 12:27:44 AM 1243 Views
Wait...you're a guy? - 07/09/2009 02:44:27 AM 1242 Views
Indeed. - 07/09/2009 03:01:59 AM 1247 Views
Stars in His Pocket Like Grains of Sand - 14/09/2009 04:41:16 PM 1418 Views
Oh, and maybe it was lost on me, but I never got much joy out of War and Peace - 07/09/2009 12:22:48 AM 1126 Views
War and Peace is pretty straightforward - 07/09/2009 02:43:25 AM 1256 Views
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell. - 07/09/2009 12:54:41 AM 1267 Views
Shame! Shaaaaame! *NM* - 07/09/2009 03:06:55 AM 658 Views
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I'm not sure. - 20/09/2009 04:19:52 PM 1506 Views
It probably doesn't help but - 20/09/2009 06:17:34 PM 1592 Views
Don't flame me for saying it.... - 07/09/2009 04:49:40 AM 1319 Views
Nah. - 07/09/2009 05:18:23 AM 1172 Views
For me it was the other way around. - 07/09/2009 07:38:35 AM 1177 Views
You know, I kind of feel that way, too. - 08/09/2009 03:40:58 AM 1201 Views
One last one: Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley *NM* - 07/09/2009 07:44:48 AM 708 Views
*NM* - 07/09/2009 10:33:08 AM 680 Views
Awww man, I thought we got rid of you! *NM* - 07/09/2009 06:05:30 PM 646 Views
Have you ever seen the mini-series? - 07/09/2009 05:42:45 PM 1248 Views
I love really really bad TV movies sometimes....they make for lots of laughter - 07/09/2009 06:06:38 PM 1125 Views
Actually, you might like it. As in, think it's good. - 07/09/2009 06:11:14 PM 1173 Views
I had a couple of issues with the book that I could easily see being removed from the movie - 07/09/2009 07:01:40 PM 1112 Views
Yeah, you might like it then. - 07/09/2009 07:20:04 PM 1169 Views
A Confederacy of Dunces. - 08/09/2009 06:13:59 AM 1257 Views
Crap. That's two people now. - 09/09/2009 01:42:40 AM 1125 Views
Don't go by what I say. - 09/09/2009 03:11:17 AM 1211 Views
Anyone with more than half a brain wouldn't. *NM* - 09/09/2009 03:49:34 AM 710 Views
This sounds like a redshirt mission. *NM* - 14/09/2009 01:12:17 AM 701 Views
Re: Hardy - 09/09/2009 02:42:39 AM 1092 Views
Aw. I liked Confederacy. *NM* - 09/09/2009 06:15:10 AM 684 Views
That probably makes sense for someone from the area though. - 09/09/2009 08:02:23 PM 1219 Views
Oh, I forgot to mention Brave New World. - 08/09/2009 06:26:29 AM 1115 Views
Wha? - 08/09/2009 03:26:29 PM 1268 Views
Wha. - 08/09/2009 06:43:12 PM 1105 Views
*stands and applauds * Here here *NM* - 08/09/2009 08:19:53 PM 729 Views
The Road andOld Man and the Sea - 08/09/2009 04:16:11 PM 1150 Views
Time to give up your man card. *NM* - 12/09/2009 10:53:56 PM 678 Views
The great Gatsby and Romeo and Juliett. - 08/09/2009 08:24:23 PM 1182 Views
Word! - 08/09/2009 08:41:27 PM 1324 Views
Hitchickers guide to the galaxy and The Good earth by Pearl S. Buck - 09/09/2009 01:07:01 AM 1220 Views
Ah, man. I love both those books. *NM* - 09/09/2009 08:08:00 PM 716 Views

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