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Old 04-30-2011, 04:47 AM   #61
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"The Vampire Lestat" by Anne Rice. I'd enjoyed "Interview With the Vampire" and had read it several times, also seeing the film, so it seemed natural to read the sequel. But it was so heavily macabre that I couldn't get past the first 100 pages. Too dark and bloody. And I was a goth!
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Old 04-30-2011, 01:06 PM   #62
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Anne Rice has written a Sleeping Beauty series under the name Anne de Roquelaure. I read a review somewhere that touted it as politically correct feminist erotica, unlike that nasty male pornography stuff. It was well written, but holy cats it freaked me out, I couldn't finish it. I was expecting consciousness raising, but it was just hair raising. I'm sticking to porn, sorry.
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Old 04-30-2011, 05:37 PM   #63
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Anne Rice has written a Sleeping Beauty series under the name Anne de Roquelaure. I read a review somewhere that touted it as politically correct feminist erotica, unlike that nasty male pornography stuff. It was well written, but holy cats it freaked me out, I couldn't finish it. I was expecting consciousness raising, but it was just hair raising. I'm sticking to porn, sorry.
Further confirming that as a species us men should never try and look into the minds of da wimmens because, well, it's very skeery and complicated in there and if you fall in, you might never find your way back!!
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Old 04-30-2011, 06:19 PM   #64
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Old 04-30-2011, 06:53 PM   #65
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"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
After being recommended by a friend this book accompanied me to a vacation in Greece. Boy, that was not what I had in mind when I had asked for "something nice for the beach". After about a hundred pages worth of travelling between cozy summer sun and hopeless postapocalyptic madness I had to give up as soon as
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the main characters discovered some half eaten but living people locked up in a basement as food supply.

The language is really concise and conjures up extremely vivid images - I totally admire the craftsmanship. But since my girlfriend had to cuddle me out of a semicatatonic state after I had dropped the book, I can't really recommend this book to overly sensitive people (like myself).

Edit: Reading this book is very much like watching a movie by Michael Haneke: It's good stuff but it makes you feel utterly miserable about everything.

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Old 05-01-2011, 08:32 AM   #66
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"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
After being recommended by a friend this book accompanied me to a vacation in Greece. Boy, that was not what I had in mind when I had asked for "something nice for the beach". After about a hundred pages worth of travelling between cozy summer sun and hopeless postapocalyptic madness I had to give up as soon as
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the main characters discovered some half eaten but living people locked up in a basement as food supply.

The language is really concise and conjures up extremely vivid images - I totally admire the craftsmanship. But since my girlfriend had to cuddle me out of a semicatatonic state after I had dropped the book, I can't really recommend this book to overly sensitive people (like myself).

Edit: Reading this book is very much like watching a movie by Michael Haneke: It's good stuff but it makes you feel utterly miserable about everything.
The Road is one of those books I wish I could get into, but I just can't. For me, it wasn't the subject matter. It was the writing style. Something about never using quotation marks really gets to me, for some reason. For me, it made the story too hard to follow.
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Old 05-01-2011, 01:10 PM   #67
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You know, I remember stopping reading Anne Rice's _The Witching Hour_ at one point way past midnight because it was really creeping me out, but I don't know if that would qualify as "good" because I was kind of skimming it as well.
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Old 05-01-2011, 01:24 PM   #68
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The Romance of Lust, or Early Experiences came very close to being the first book that I put down due to disgust. The detailed synopsis on GoodReads explains why. It was particularly disturbing once the main character became a father.

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When I found this book on Project Gutenberg I thought, oh it will probably be a quaint Victorian book - there was no detailed description of the book. I only got partway through when I had to put it down, it was just WAY too creepy and disturbing for me.
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Old 05-01-2011, 04:28 PM   #69
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The only book that has truly bothered me was "We the Living" by Ayn Rand. The whole idea of socialism carried to the extreme and destroying peoples hope was extremely depressing. I found it very hard to finish, but did and then re-read it about twenty years later with the same result. A great book but disturbing.
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Old 05-01-2011, 10:18 PM   #70
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I almost stopped reading "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" because of it's anti-religion, anti-God leanings. I state this not to start a discussion on religion or spirituality, it is just how I feel. I am a Christian and I found his anti-God comments disturbing to me. It was a good book otherwise.
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I almost stopped reading "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" because of it's anti-religion, anti-God leanings. I state this not to start a discussion on religion or spirituality, it is just how I feel. I am a Christian and I found his anti-God comments disturbing to me. It was a good book otherwise.
hey, nothing wrong in stating your opinion in this area. You did it very well and it's a valid observation. So I hope nobody takes you to task for it. I don't subscribe to your beliefs but you are darned well entitled to express them with worry of being abused for doing so.

In reality the comment you made might make the book more interesting to people like myself. So see, you helped either way.
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Old 05-02-2011, 07:02 AM   #72
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I almost stopped reading "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" because of it's anti-religion, anti-God leanings. I state this not to start a discussion on religion or spirituality, it is just how I feel. I am a Christian and I found his anti-God comments disturbing to me. It was a good book otherwise.
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hey, nothing wrong in stating your opinion in this area. You did it very well and it's a valid observation. So I hope nobody takes you to task for it. I don't subscribe to your beliefs but you are darned well entitled to express them with worry of being abused for doing so.

In reality the comment you made might make the book more interesting to people like myself. So see, you helped either way.

I'm pretty sure grumpy meant "with OUT worry" of being abused. He is right. There is noting wrong with expressing your opinions as to why you did not like the book; and it was well put. We are just asked to keep all detailed discussions about religion and politics in the appropriate section of the forum.
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I almost did it with Absurdistan: A Novel by Gary Shteyngart The hero of the story is really repulsive but it was a great read.
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