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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
The book was "Dahlgren." I know I can not get those painfully wasted hours I spent reading that "book" back again ... but oh, how I wish I could.
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Originally Posted by montsnmags
[tee hee] I laugh (not at you) because it was a favourite book of mine, though I was early- to mid-teens when I read it. It was somewhat...liberating for me (as you can imagine), though I need to reread it with a mind that might have developed at least some connections that will help me "get" more of it.
It's what I love about this thread. That we can post our own designated "worst" books regardless of any positive or negative popular or critical opinion.
I'm still waiting for someone to post Bliss by Peter Carey, or Cultural Amnesia by Clive James, or Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig or If This Is A Man/The Truce by Primo Levi. They'd be up their as my all-time favourites, though I've no inclination, nor even feel any necessity, to defend them here. If people dislike them enough to consider them their "worst", I'm far more fascinated by and enchanted to listen to the "Why?".
Cheers,
Marc
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The thing is .... a few years later, I picked up a book, I "think" it was called, "Titan" or something like that. Read it ... loved it ... turns out it was by the same author.
That taught me one big lesson. Even though you read something by someone and hate it (and I reeeeeeealy hated "Dahlgren"), that doesn't mean you are going to hate everything that author writes. I'm not certain how long ago it was that I read either of those books ... but I would hazard a guess that it's been at least thirty ... maybe thirty five years.
But, yes, and it's the same way with movies. I'll see something and love it, only to walk out of the theater with my friends and hear that they all absolutely hated it. That's what makes life fun.
