04-24-2008, 10:57 PM | #31 | |
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I would like to see your top 10 though (note that I say "in no particular order", so I agree with your comments about my number 6 ). Try be brief (that's a joke, right. See, you're always brief and...I'll just shut up now) Cheers, Marc |
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04-25-2008, 02:36 AM | #32 |
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So many bad books....So little napalm....<sigh>
If you want to try Hubard's S/F at it's best, read Final Blackout. It was highly acclaimed in the S/F community at the time of publication, 60+ years ago. Still a good (albeit dark) yarn. (and only 60,00 words!) Personally, I'd throw Kate Wilhelm's When Late The Sweet Birds Sang on the pyre... |
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04-25-2008, 04:04 AM | #33 | |
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::spoiler:: whats her names youth and her relationship with the king, father, her dauther or the boy who cleaned her table at lunch one day in the summer of bla bla. Rendezvous with Rama is still one of my favorite books though |
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04-25-2008, 04:37 AM | #34 | |
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I also really liked The Da Vinci Code Anyway, here is my list: 1. Any Russian classics (Pushkin, Lermontov, Dostoevsky, L.Tolstoy, Sholohov, Gogol, Maksim Gorky, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov).....argh.... 2. Thomas Covenant Series by Stephen Donaldson 3. American Gods by Neil Gaiman 4. The Earthsea by Ursula Le Guine 5. The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe 6. The Redemption of Althalus by David Eddings and Leigh Eddings 7. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 8. The Soddit by Adam Roberts 9. The Wind-up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami |
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Arrrrgggghhhh! One of the greatest books ever written. How can you possibly say that! My favourite book by one of my favourite authors. He and Charles Dickens are truly the "masters" of English literature!
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04-25-2008, 05:54 AM | #38 |
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04-25-2008, 06:06 AM | #39 |
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04-25-2008, 06:09 AM | #40 |
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How can we be at page three in this list without having mentioned Norman Mailer? I once tried to read Ancient Evenings a big unbearable lump of a book set in Ancient Egypt. It infuriated me so much I ended up throwing the book at the wall - and dislodged a sizeable chunk of plaster as a result.
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04-25-2008, 06:10 AM | #41 | |
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Sorry,but that just shows your lack of knowledge/inteligence.If you don't like it,fine,but im afraid you haven't the right to say its "the worst".Actualy,the wery idea of this thread is biased and will lead only into conflict,cause someone, who has barely even read something will go on bloody hell for being it "such crap". Mr. whatever your name is,Dunsany,Chambers,Howard,Smith,Merritt-writers who (except of Chambers) all acknowledged Lovecraft.Writers of "modern" horor,like Gaiman,Barker or even King say what a master he is.So if EVERY single authority on horror says it IS good,youre qualified to judge-what?How many sucesfull world spaning books/stories have you writen till today? (sorry for the angry tone,but this is just a syndrom of "tardness",like I had the misfortune of meeting at NF-people saying "Ive never read it,but its sh*t") |
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04-25-2008, 06:23 AM | #42 |
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A bad book, for me, is one I can't bring myself to continue reading.
It's similar to my taste in movies, I am quite easy to please, yet I believe in myself being able to differentiate between really good, okay, bad, and horrible. So, the most horrible books I read since I got started with ebooks (about 5 years ago) were
And before I get my head crushed against a stone by Mr. Lobolover I'd like to add: Those are my worst books I've ever read. Except #6, of course! Last edited by mores; 04-25-2008 at 06:27 AM. Reason: afraid of the guy with the scary avatar |
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I think that this all shows how reading and literary taste is subjective.
Some people really like a plot-driven story and dislike long descriptions (so they won't like Proust). Others prefer the opposite (so probably won't like Dan Brown or Jeffrey Archer). And I think that it's also possible to dislike a book and to agree that it's good by other people's standards. I've never been able to get along with Gabriel Garcia Marquez, though I concede that many other people think that he is a good writer. Doubtless it is my loss. |
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I realy think this should be closed.it'l just bring people to bicker.
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04-25-2008, 06:29 AM | #45 |
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I entirely agree. Look at Asimov's "Foundation" trilogy, for example. It's regarded as one of the all-time classics of SF, but despite that, many people who would consider themselves to be SF fans don't like it because it has almost no "action" in it - virtually the whole of the three books consists of conversations between people. All the "action" happens invisibly in the background.
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