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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 2073 Views
I have a couple I really disliked - 06/09/2009 05:28:38 AM 1454 Views
I agree. - 06/09/2009 05:49:28 AM 1467 Views
Ohhhh quotefail! - 06/09/2009 05:54:02 AM 1546 Views
I saw that. - 06/09/2009 06:03:29 AM 1357 Views
You actually read Monkey Bridge? - 06/09/2009 02:47:39 PM 1361 Views
Haha, I'm surprised anyone has heard of it here - 06/09/2009 04:43:59 PM 1345 Views
Some examples - 07/09/2009 08:25:37 PM 1280 Views
Political polemics, for one. Utopian novels, for another. - 06/09/2009 05:29:54 AM 1302 Views
People always recommend I read Ayn Rand - 06/09/2009 02:51:25 PM 1455 Views
I started The Fountainhead. It was pretty dreadful. *NM* - 06/09/2009 08:44:31 PM 765 Views
The Wanderer's Tale by David Bilsborough. - 06/09/2009 06:24:49 AM 1442 Views
YES! - 07/09/2009 06:10:29 AM 1299 Views
Oh, a lot of things. But I wonder. - 06/09/2009 07:00:34 AM 1437 Views
Re: Oh, a lot of things. But I wonder. - 06/09/2009 07:05:51 AM 1396 Views
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Re: ! - 06/09/2009 07:22:43 PM 1263 Views
Well, I do plan on reading it. - 07/09/2009 03:38:26 AM 1364 Views
In fantasy, Vellum and Ink were terrible - 06/09/2009 02:54:05 PM 1346 Views
Duly noted! - 06/09/2009 06:51:22 PM 1342 Views
Oh plenty - 06/09/2009 09:37:23 AM 1404 Views
I hated Wuthering Heights more than Jane Eyre, but I hated Jane Eyre, too. *NM* - 06/09/2009 02:54:49 PM 814 Views
I was never forced to read Wuthering heights - 06/09/2009 03:44:59 PM 1459 Views
I disliked both as well... more than disliked. *NM* - 09/09/2009 08:59:37 PM 812 Views
Well... - 09/09/2009 09:01:18 PM 1361 Views
I like all books I have ever read. - 06/09/2009 12:09:51 PM 1441 Views
You hated The Brothers Karamazov? - 06/09/2009 02:59:16 PM 1406 Views
Umm, yeah. - 06/09/2009 03:28:30 PM 1542 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 778 Views
Oh man, the prologue to the Wife of Bath was horrible. - 06/09/2009 05:11:39 PM 1299 Views
The Canterbury Tales are not Old English. They are Middle English. - 06/09/2009 05:59:59 PM 1468 Views
Edit: ignore this, what I had before was blatantly untrue *NM* - 07/09/2009 12:11:37 AM 791 Views
As I'm translating some ancient Greek right now, I call bullshit on that. *NM* - 06/09/2009 08:45:46 PM 727 Views
EDIT: Last post was basically equally bullsh*t - 07/09/2009 12:17:01 AM 1350 Views
I was going to, but I felt I had already been pedantic enough. *NM* - 07/09/2009 02:34:04 AM 790 Views
Jane Eyre. - 06/09/2009 05:13:27 PM 1403 Views
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel - 06/09/2009 05:58:39 PM 1382 Views
Must remember this. *NM* - 06/09/2009 06:53:08 PM 762 Views
What do you mean? *NM* - 07/09/2009 10:43:58 AM 795 Views
Re: The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel - 06/09/2009 08:08:21 PM 1374 Views
well it was the best book in the series *NM* - 14/09/2009 04:37:27 PM 725 Views
Catcher in the Rye and Heart of Darkness, among the "classics." *NM* - 06/09/2009 08:15:12 PM 780 Views
Ooh! I second Catcher and the Rye. What a piece of garbage. - 06/09/2009 08:20:00 PM 1240 Views
I couldn't finish Heart of Darkness - 14/09/2009 04:39:00 PM 1413 Views
Vellum by Hal Duncan and The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson - 06/09/2009 08:16:12 PM 1445 Views
Hm. - 06/09/2009 11:20:40 PM 1355 Views
Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - 06/09/2009 08:24:07 PM 1345 Views
I didn't mind Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog...I mean Man - 07/09/2009 02:40:14 AM 1333 Views
Shame on you. Those books are truly Great. Especially Portrait. - 12/09/2009 10:52:40 PM 1370 Views
What? - 06/09/2009 08:28:17 PM 1519 Views
My problem with Wuthering Heights was the characters. - 06/09/2009 09:40:24 PM 1348 Views
Re: My problem with Wuthering Heights was the characters. - 07/09/2009 12:27:44 AM 1388 Views
Wait...you're a guy? - 07/09/2009 02:44:27 AM 1371 Views
Indeed. - 07/09/2009 03:01:59 AM 1371 Views
Stars in His Pocket Like Grains of Sand - 14/09/2009 04:41:16 PM 1561 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 1249 Views
War and Peace is pretty straightforward - 07/09/2009 02:43:25 AM 1387 Views
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell. - 07/09/2009 12:54:41 AM 1391 Views
Shame! Shaaaaame! *NM* - 07/09/2009 03:06:55 AM 731 Views
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I'm not sure. - 20/09/2009 04:19:52 PM 1644 Views
It probably doesn't help but - 20/09/2009 06:17:34 PM 1731 Views
Don't flame me for saying it.... - 07/09/2009 04:49:40 AM 1447 Views
Nah. - 07/09/2009 05:18:23 AM 1300 Views
For me it was the other way around. - 07/09/2009 07:38:35 AM 1308 Views
You know, I kind of feel that way, too. - 08/09/2009 03:40:58 AM 1315 Views
One last one: Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley *NM* - 07/09/2009 07:44:48 AM 771 Views
*NM* - 07/09/2009 10:33:08 AM 754 Views
Awww man, I thought we got rid of you! *NM* - 07/09/2009 06:05:30 PM 707 Views
Have you ever seen the mini-series? - 07/09/2009 05:42:45 PM 1395 Views
I love really really bad TV movies sometimes....they make for lots of laughter - 07/09/2009 06:06:38 PM 1263 Views
Actually, you might like it. As in, think it's good. - 07/09/2009 06:11:14 PM 1298 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 1249 Views
Yeah, you might like it then. - 07/09/2009 07:20:04 PM 1308 Views
A Confederacy of Dunces. - 08/09/2009 06:13:59 AM 1387 Views
Crap. That's two people now. - 09/09/2009 01:42:40 AM 1269 Views
Don't go by what I say. - 09/09/2009 03:11:17 AM 1341 Views
Anyone with more than half a brain wouldn't. *NM* - 09/09/2009 03:49:34 AM 793 Views
This sounds like a redshirt mission. *NM* - 14/09/2009 01:12:17 AM 769 Views
Re: Hardy - 09/09/2009 02:42:39 AM 1217 Views
Aw. I liked Confederacy. *NM* - 09/09/2009 06:15:10 AM 753 Views
That probably makes sense for someone from the area though. - 09/09/2009 08:02:23 PM 1390 Views
Oh, I forgot to mention Brave New World. - 08/09/2009 06:26:29 AM 1236 Views
Wha? - 08/09/2009 03:26:29 PM 1409 Views
Wha. - 08/09/2009 06:43:12 PM 1228 Views
*stands and applauds * Here here *NM* - 08/09/2009 08:19:53 PM 792 Views
The Road andOld Man and the Sea - 08/09/2009 04:16:11 PM 1303 Views
Time to give up your man card. *NM* - 12/09/2009 10:53:56 PM 741 Views
The great Gatsby and Romeo and Juliett. - 08/09/2009 08:24:23 PM 1318 Views
Word! - 08/09/2009 08:41:27 PM 1469 Views
Hitchickers guide to the galaxy and The Good earth by Pearl S. Buck - 09/09/2009 01:07:01 AM 1358 Views
Ah, man. I love both those books. *NM* - 09/09/2009 08:08:00 PM 788 Views

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