12-26-2008, 03:35 PM | #376 |
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And I remember Catch-22 as a very good book and if I remember correctly a very funny book.
Some book I have read and for some reasons disliked a lot are _Forever Peace_ (Joe Haldeman) and The Dirk Gently Books by Douglas Adams. I have probably read too little mainstream books to really have 10 worst books. A genre books usually have a plot so you usually got something from reading it even if the rest of the components are bad. |
12-26-2008, 05:23 PM | #377 |
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I totally agree with you, tompe....about your assessment of Catch-22.
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Here are some of the worst that I have read!
Angels & Demons by Dan Brown read it for a book club and no one liked it! The Magic Circle by Katherine Neville The Eight was good but she fell flat on her face with this one. Harry Potter past #4 Wheel of Time Series Sword of Truth Series maybe I'm not as big a fantasy fan as I thought I was.......... Ten-Four on The Gor! Anything Shannara |
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I'm going to have to go with the Chronicles of Narnia.
I find them poorly written, and the way they've been hijacked to be the "Anti-Potter" has just pushed me away from them. The sad thing is, CS Lewis wrote them to reach out to all.. but now I can't read them without feeling sick to my stomach. |
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12-28-2008, 08:25 AM | #381 |
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The only thing I can think of is that the religious nuts who refuse to read Harry Potter because there is witchcraft can read Chronicles because it was written by a known Christian author with Christian themes.
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Down here, in DA SOUTH, they held book burnings of Harry Potter, where if you burned your complete set of Harry Potter books, you were given a set of Narnia books.
It's regularly preached against as a conversion tool, and it's unsafe to read it if you're not a christian, because you'll get someone randomly coming up to you and bashing potter. |
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12-28-2008, 11:46 AM | #388 |
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no no........please don't judge us by some remote, religious nuts who choose to interpret the bible by their own narrow versions.
We live in a country where anyone is free to think and do mostly as they please. This is both a wonderful thing, and a dangerous thing. You are free here to rant and rave against a government who allows you to do so without restraint or fear of retribution. Go figure. |
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I've always wondered just what these religious extremists believe is going to happen to people who read HP? ie what exactly is the "danger" in it?
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