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Wikipedia. Read at your own risk. I see one affair described very explicitly in the book was scrapped from the movie, but it seems to have been replaced with an equally... bad one. Last edited by Katsunami; 03-04-2014 at 03:40 PM. |
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"Gone Girl" is the worst thing I've read in a very long time.
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I can't think of a single book I actually regret finishing. If I made it as far as the end, there had to be something that kept me interested. Otherwise I would have quit reading it long before that.
And I've never had a book hold my interest for the entire time and then blow it badly enough (right at the end) for me to regret finishing it. I've read books that I probably didn't really care all that much for, when all was said and done--certainly. But regret ... ? Nah. I'd never let it get that far. Last edited by DiapDealer; 03-04-2014 at 03:51 PM. |
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Anyway, you're certainly entitled to not like the book. I just couldn't resist pointing out that your impression fortified Lem's premise. ![]() |
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I don't think I have ever wished I had not finished a book, but there have been books that I have finished only so I could properly hate it.
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Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49. The longest short novel I've ever read, an exercise in literary masturbation in which stupid names (e.g. Genghis Cohen) are considered brilliant literary satire. I know Pynchon is supposed to be a Great American Novelist, and I was looking forward to reading it (really), but man, I could not find a single thing about that book that I liked or admired.
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It's the constant setting up of theories just to shoot them down by saying "Nope, that's not it either" that I dislike. All through the book I had the feeling we'd finally get an explanation at the end - and then the book just ended. |
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Stephen King's Dark Tower. King even warned me - the last section of the book has him speaking directly to the reader, warning you not to finish - but I ignored the signs.
I honestly wish I could go back in time and tell myself not to even bother with the last three books in the series. The real warning should've been when King wrote himself into one of the books as a major character (it's not even a stand-in for King, the character is literally named Stephen King, and is a writer from Maine). |
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The valley of amazement- Amy Tan.
The authors first book in nearly 10 years. She's my favourite author and God knows when her next book will be. A Dance with Dragons. We all know it will be at least 5 years before the next instalment is out. I really tried to prolong this book. I read it in three sittings over 8 months. |
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I think that's actually the whole point of the book - that there are things that we just can't understand. Leaving the reader frustrated by not understanding is the message of the book.
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Note, I didn't use the words "regret reading." Though I do regret reading a couple in my list, it's more often just a feeling of… dang, I wish I had spent that time reading something better. Kind of like when I finish most movies and think, I want that two hours of my life back. :-) And I just remembered another for my list: Under the Dome by Stephen King Now, "The Stand" I didn't really enjoy either but I don't have that "this was totally pointless" feeling. Fifteen percent is usually my take stock point where if I'm not swept away or already turned off, I have to think about whether to continue a book. I definitely abandon books a lot more now than I used to. But, sometimes one little plot point will grab me and force me to finish, even though I am not really enjoying the book. Like what was the reason for the dome in Under the Dome, and what happened to the painting in The Goldfinch. |
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