What book(s) did you finish even though you didn't like it? - Page 6

dragonbone · 03-06-2009, 09:28 PM

This is an interesting thread! I absolutely loved Angela's Ashes (and 'Tis) by Frank mcCourt, one of my all time favorites. I have read it several times and laugh out loud and cry so much, I have to stop reading, haha. This can be a bit embarrassing during a crowded but deathly silent Tokyo morning commute, when you just can't get the tears to stop rolling or the snorts and chuckles to go away.
I also loved Gone with the Wind and cried my eyes out in the end.
Yes, you are right Astra. That is just ONE of the reasons I hate Stephen King and The Dark Tower series. he borrowed and stole characters from everywhere, even from some of his own books, making obvious references to them, even using his book names over and over and over, as a sales pitch as 'part of the story' IN the Dark Tower books for goodness sakes! At one time I stopped reading and started counting the times he mentions his OWN name in the book. 'Stephen King the famous author', the 'best seller' ' I got to about 80 in a chapter or two until stopping in disgust. And what started off as a brilliant fantasy series disintegrated into..... well... trashy horror and an autobiography (of his brilliant self saving the world and his oh so terrible accident) all hodgepodge and higgledy-piggledy thrown together and stretched out to bleed his fans of every last penny.
Sorry, just my opinion, which you can obviously totally ignore.

HarryT · 03-07-2009, 05:11 AM

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Originally Posted by pshrynk

Isn't _There Will Be Dragons_ one of Ringo's novels that he claims he only writes because he sells copies, but is disgusted with the story and character? I remember reading an interview about that. He has a series that started with him writing something to get the "Shit" out of his brain so he could write something else, shelved it as a bad go, and only brought it out because he mentioned he had something at a conference and everyone wanted to read it. Then everyone bought it . Then everyone demanded a replay. If you read it as parody and like a "Colbert Report" take on the world, maby it wouldn't be as grim.

That's "Ghost". Why "everyone would buy it" is beyond me; "sick" is the only word I can use to describe it. Avoid!

strangeseraph · 03-07-2009, 06:47 AM

The Lord of the Flies. I had to read it in high school and I hated every inch of that book. Waste of time, because we ended up watching the movie too. Eurgh!

Didn't much care for The Chrysalids either. Why do they make kids read these books?

astra · 03-07-2009, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by CCLady

As an English major, I had to slog through a lot of books I hated. However, the absolute all-time worst that I did force myself to finish is Gone With The Wind. The writing is sappy, the characters are repugnant. . .and I have encountered waaaaaay too many people who seem to think it's non-fiction!

I absolutely loved the book. I believe I read it when I was 17....

catsittingstill · 03-10-2009, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by pshrynk

Isn't _There Will Be Dragons_ one of Ringo's novels that he claims he only writes because he sells copies, but is disgusted with the story and character? I remember reading an interview about that. He has a series that started with him writing something to get the "Shit" out of his brain so he could write something else, shelved it as a bad go, and only brought it out because he mentioned he had something at a conference and everyone wanted to read it. Then everyone bought it . Then everyone demanded a replay. If you read it as parody and like a "Colbert Report" take on the world, maby it wouldn't be as grim.

I hadn't heard that story about _There Will Be Dragons_.

However I had read a couple of other books of his. One I slogged through; unimpressed but not as violently disgusted. The other I read about four pages into, realized he'd named a woman soldier "Ima Hooker" wondered aloud why he hadn't given her the middle name "Justa" or perhaps two middle names, "Justa" and "No 'Count" and set the book down, never to pick it up again.

*Then* I read _There Will Be Dragons_. Sigh. Death called; he'd like that four hours of my life back please.

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03-06-2009, 09:28 PM	#76
dragonbone must love dogs Posts: 480 Karma: 1079 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Tokyo Device: Sony PRS-700, iPhone 32GB 3GS, iPad 64GB WiFi	This is an interesting thread! I absolutely loved Angela's Ashes (and 'Tis) by Frank mcCourt, one of my all time favorites. I have read it several times and laugh out loud and cry so much, I have to stop reading, haha. This can be a bit embarrassing during a crowded but deathly silent Tokyo morning commute, when you just can't get the tears to stop rolling or the snorts and chuckles to go away. I also loved Gone with the Wind and cried my eyes out in the end. Yes, you are right Astra. That is just ONE of the reasons I hate Stephen King and The Dark Tower series. he borrowed and stole characters from everywhere, even from some of his own books, making obvious references to them, even using his book names over and over and over, as a sales pitch as 'part of the story' IN the Dark Tower books for goodness sakes! At one time I stopped reading and started counting the times he mentions his OWN name in the book. 'Stephen King the famous author', the 'best seller' ' I got to about 80 in a chapter or two until stopping in disgust. And what started off as a brilliant fantasy series disintegrated into..... well... trashy horror and an autobiography (of his brilliant self saving the world and his oh so terrible accident) all hodgepodge and higgledy-piggledy thrown together and stretched out to bleed his fans of every last penny. Sorry, just my opinion, which you can obviously totally ignore.

03-07-2009, 06:47 AM	#78
strangeseraph Connoisseur Posts: 53 Karma: 592 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Canada Device: Amazon Kindle 3	The Lord of the Flies. I had to read it in high school and I hated every inch of that book. Waste of time, because we ended up watching the movie too. Eurgh! Didn't much care for The Chrysalids either. Why do they make kids read these books?

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