Hate is probably too strong for most books but I really disliked House of Leaves.
everynametaken Send a noteboard - 24/10/2010 02:15:39 AM
I read about half of it and was so bored and uninterested that I took it back to the library (to avoid fines) and have never bothered to check it out again to finish - and I HATE not finishing something I've started. I didn't even find the concept of a story within a story withing a story to be anything special. I laughed my ass off when I found out it took him ten years to write it. I would never recommend it to anyone.
I thirded Catcher in the Rye above. An utter waste of time; I cannot figure out why people love that book or think Salinger was a good author.
I've slammed Years of Salt and Rice a few times here and on Wotmania. Just boring. So boring I couldn't even finish it. Oh, did I mention how I hate not finishing something I've started? that's how bad this book and House are.
Can't think of anything else right now.
I thirded Catcher in the Rye above. An utter waste of time; I cannot figure out why people love that book or think Salinger was a good author.
I've slammed Years of Salt and Rice a few times here and on Wotmania. Just boring. So boring I couldn't even finish it. Oh, did I mention how I hate not finishing something I've started? that's how bad this book and House are.
Can't think of anything else right now.
But wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety...
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
OK, Rafonauts: name some books you hated.
- 23/10/2010 09:31:22 PM
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Catcher in the Rye-JD Salinger *NM*
- 23/10/2010 09:43:40 PM
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Yeah. I didn't hate that, but found it too mediocre to continue reading it. *NM*
- 23/10/2010 10:10:04 PM
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I third this book. Time spent in my life I can never get back. 
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- 24/10/2010 02:06:17 AM
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- 24/10/2010 02:06:17 AM
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I honestly can't think of a single one.
- 23/10/2010 10:46:44 PM
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I am envious. I would like not to have wasted my time on those books I hated.
- 23/10/2010 11:30:57 PM
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I got tricked by my boss's recommendation into reading Twilight before it got huge.
- 23/10/2010 11:06:34 PM
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Oh, my deepest sympathy! Is your boss an evil person?
- 23/10/2010 11:32:16 PM
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She's not and normally has great taste in books. I don't know wtf was up with her liking it so much. *NM*
- 23/10/2010 11:35:37 PM
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I didn't hate The Name of the Wind
- 23/10/2010 11:08:44 PM
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I'm so full of hate I hated Eragon without even reading it. 
- 23/10/2010 11:18:42 PM
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- 23/10/2010 11:18:42 PM
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You mean "promoted because kid wrote it and parents were publishers".
- 23/10/2010 11:56:50 PM
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It's a decent book, but not anything great, you fuckin' Soc. 
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- 24/10/2010 12:00:12 AM
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- 24/10/2010 12:00:12 AM
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Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse *NM*
- 24/10/2010 12:08:24 AM
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Agreed. Could barely get through it, have apparently blocked most of it from my mind. *NM*
- 25/10/2010 03:28:29 AM
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- 25/10/2010 03:28:29 AM
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Hatred, thy name is Bronte.
- 24/10/2010 01:32:58 AM
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I'm very surprised about the Chekhov... not his plays, but other works, then? *NM*
- 24/10/2010 01:49:24 AM
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Vellum was one of the most overrated pieces of garbage I've ever read.
- 24/10/2010 02:09:15 AM
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Hate is probably too strong for most books but I really disliked House of Leaves.
- 24/10/2010 02:15:39 AM
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Heart of Darkness. Only book I've fallen asleep while reading.
- 24/10/2010 09:50:26 AM
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I actually loved that - though Apocalypse Now! is definitely a(n even) better version. 
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- 25/10/2010 02:11:23 PM
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- 25/10/2010 02:11:23 PM
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Everything by Stephen King
- 24/10/2010 10:35:36 AM
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He changed drastically after he 1) sobered up and 2) got hit by that drunk driver.
- 26/10/2010 11:03:04 PM
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The Magic of Recluce - L.E. Modesitt
- 24/10/2010 01:10:39 PM
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
- 24/10/2010 03:07:10 PM
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That's because it was written by an 18-year-old girl who, like Paolini, ...
- 24/10/2010 03:10:27 PM
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I assume when you say "affair," you mean "marriage?" *NM*
- 25/10/2010 02:40:46 AM
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Not at that point. The marriage came later, after his first wife died. *NM*
- 25/10/2010 07:59:00 AM
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Terry Goodkind
- 24/10/2010 03:46:16 PM
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Y YU HATE TARY??! YU TROLL!!....... *NM*
- 24/10/2010 04:43:08 PM
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- 24/10/2010 04:43:08 PM
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Just to be contrary, mostly
- 24/10/2010 05:01:50 PM
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tary loves you even tho you h8 him. he'll kick your teeth in if you taunt him tho.
- 24/10/2010 05:28:43 PM
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moby dick and madame bovary. couldn't read more than like ten pages of either.
- 25/10/2010 05:24:36 AM
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To Kill a Mockingbird. Only book that's ever actually put me to sleep. Never even finished Ch1. *NM*
- 25/10/2010 07:03:25 PM
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Anything By Faulkner
- 26/10/2010 06:37:35 PM
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The difference being that Faulkner was evocative, and Jordan horrifically, stultifyingly mundane.
- 27/10/2010 03:44:18 AM
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My Antonia, The Color Purple, and The Grapes of Wrath come to mind. *NM*
- 28/10/2010 02:21:02 PM
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