Books You Finally Got Around to Reading - And Wish You Hadn't

[pwalker8]

Originally Posted by Greg Anos

pwalker8, maybe we should start a Heinlein thread.

By all mean. Or even an old masters thread. That could be interesting. Why don't you start it.

[doubleshuffle]

Originally Posted by Pajamaman

I also read Foucault's Pendulum. Great first chapter, rest of the book was a slog, though an interesting idea. Not recommended.

Rushdie...massively overrated IMO.

It's been a long time, but I remember enjoying Foucault's Pendulum very much. Was bored out of my skull, still a few years earlier, by The Name of the Rose, but that could have been because I was just too young then.

Incidentally, Rushdie hated Foucault's Pendulum and wrote a scathing review.

Rushdie is a bit hit and miss, IMO. I really liked Midnight's Children, The Moor's Last Sigh, Shalimar the Clown and Fury. And his children's book, Haroun and the Sea of Stories. There was an audiobook of Rushdie himself reading it at the time, which was brilliant. (Only audiobook I've tried that I didn't fall asleep to.)

[Greg Anos]

Originally Posted by pwalker8

By all mean. Or even an old masters thread. That could be interesting. Why don't you start it.

Done!

[mbovenka]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

I feel that way about Ayn Rand. I read The Fountainhead in my late teens. I disagreed with her philosophy, but felt like the book was IMPORTANT.

Then, a few years later I attempted Atlas Shrugged. It didn't go well.

The golden age of science fiction might be thirteen. But I'd say Ayn Rand isn't too far distant from that.

Same here. I read Rand at roughly the same age you did, and felt much the same about her books.

[mbovenka]

Originally Posted by Fbone

On Basilisk Station by Weber

Perdido Street Station by Mieville

The Honor Harrington books are Horatio Hornblower in space, and meant to be. It's fun to figure out the parallels . And you must like infodumps (as I happen to). But I can see someone not liking them.


Same with Miéville, which is one of my favourite authors, but a bit of an acquired taste.

[ratinox]

Originally Posted by mbovenka

The Honor Harrington books are Horatio Hornblower in space, and meant to be. It's fun to figure out the parallels . And you must like infodumps (as I happen to). But I can see someone not liking them.

Also Starfire:
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