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Ok, y'all can crucify me, but I LIKED The Da Vinci Code. I liked Angels and Demons, too.
I forced myself to finish The Hobbit. I know, it's brilliant and a classic but I had to force myself to finish it. I was glad I did, though. |
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I battled through both "The Turner Diaries" by William Pierce and "Left Behind #1" by Tim La Haye.
I was hoping to learn about the mindset of terrorist/supremacists in the first book and the Christian Rapture in the second. Both books were a huge disappointment. I guess I was treating them as "Dummies Guides" to those subjects. But they were badly written duds. I had to force myself to work through them. I learned nothing. |
03-01-2009, 02:57 AM | #19 |
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Every Book Read in HighSchool
The Doomsday book by connie willis Saturns Children by Charles Stross, though, I didnt think it too bad, I took a long break, it takes a long time to digest this, after a 2 month break i finished the book in less than a day from the midpoint Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Slaugterhouse 5 |
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Kate Elliot's "Kings Dragon".
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The Sea, The Sea, by Iris Murdoch. I believe I managed a cold, apathetic loathing of every miserable, whining character (that is, all of them) in that book, and finished it with exasperation that no redemption was forthcoming for the effort.
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I forced myself through:
1. Earthsea 5 books by Ursula Le Guin - horribly borring 2. Although I liked some of books in Crown of Star series by Kate Elliott, the last two books were so lame that I believe it was a big waste of time on my part to read the series, waaaaaaaay too much of religious rant and horrible ending 3. The Book of the New Sun 1 - The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe. I even read half of the The Claw of the Conciliator before I gave up 4. American Gods by Neil Gaiman 5. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville (I have an excuse here. I loved the book, until I reached the horrible ending.....) 6. The Redemption of Althalus by D&L Eddings, parody on fantasy 7. Any Russian classics I had to read in school, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Chekhov, Sholokhov. Absolutely hated them. Stupid books. 8. The Secret History of Moscow by Ekaterina Sedia 9. Lord of Light by R. Zelazny 10. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 11. The Wind-up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami 12. The first 2 out of 4 Hyperion books by Dan Simmons. I liked the last two though. Hey, I am learning from my mistakes. I don't force myself anymore. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller and The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco are the latest examples. No more than 1/3 of each, then off they went to Recyle bin. |
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I had a hard time getting through "The name of the rose", too, but then I was only 17, and I ended up skipping much of the pholiospy/theology. I think if I read it today, I'd get more out of it, and I do like Eco. |
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May I ask what it was about "The Name of the Rose" that you didn't like? I found it one of the most absorbing books that I've ever read!
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Ah, yes, here they are:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Le_Guin#Fiction Never read the last one, and I'd consider the first three to be the 'orignal' trilogy. |
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03-01-2009, 09:45 AM | #30 |
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For me, I can say that I found the philosphy and theology sections were tough to read, so I skimmed and skipped them. I was 17 and I think that I just knew too little and was too immature to digest it. I woudl guess that those sections could be stumbling blocks.
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