Book you read that you got riddiculed for?

[cryogeist]

Well i was reading Redwall for a while there
(really good book series BTW)
but with pretty silly covers and every character being some form of Woodland animal...wellll I'm pretty sure you can come up with a few insults
but yeah...The books are so good it's worth being made fun of over

 

[ThePerfectionist]

Well i was reading Redwall for a while there
(really good book series BTW)
but with pretty silly covers and every character being some form of Woodland animal...wellll I'm pretty sure you can come up with a few insults
but yeah...The books are so good it's worth being made fun of over

I own the entire Redwall series as of a week ago so *high five*

Well, leaving aside the obvious here (Twilight, because my otherwise extremely intelligent best female friend said I should read it), I've been poked fun at because of my incredible love of Redwall, as the chap above, as well as my devotion to the Animorphs series. Call them kiddy if you like, but they deal with real emotion and have an incredibly serious and dark tone that is rarely found in most adult novels, forget ones that also feature a teenager who has changed into a gorilla so he is capable of driving a truck.

EDIT:
Oh yeah, forgot a couple of other big ones. Narnia (the sixth book in that series stands proudly in my list of top ten books ever) and Wuthering Heights, a book I read on a dare (my female friend claimed that no male had actually ever understood it) and didn't hate at all, actually.

 

[SilentCom]

gotta be the satanic bible

The satanic bible: It's like the bible except with more Satan in it. =D

Actually I was hoping someone was going to say the regular bible... Of course I haven't read the whole thing, it's way too long and stuff. I think I'll stick to textbooks and novels for now.

 

[pixiejedi]

Pretty much just Twilight. That's the only one I can remember anyway. Didn't much like it, just wanted to see what the fuss was about. Most of the people I spend time with read alot anyway, and if it ever comes up in conversation with others then generally it's because they also read and want to pass on a good title.

Kind of why I tried to read Pride & Prejudice. I don't read a lot anyway, so finishing that book just didn't really happen.

I read it just so I would have some idea why some girls love it.

I still don't really know why, lol.

I could write pages on why girls love that book.

I like vampires so I read the Twilight series. Seriously its like a drug. I put it down and say I'll not read it and then I feel forced against my will to come back. I feel crappy about myself while reading it but I couldn't help it.

So really I was making fun of myself as much as everyone else was for it.

 

[Kiefer13]

Mine would be "The Prince" by Machiavelli everyone said it was dry and boring but I found it very interesting for a read.

I enjoyed The Prince too.

As for myself, I can't say I recall being made fun of for reading any one specific book, but I've been made fun of for the act of reading itself before. I've been asked derisively "Why are you reading?", as though I needed a reason to sit down and enjoy a good book, and been told that "Reading is for nerds/geeks". My usual response to which is merely just "Well, I suppose I'm a nerd/geek then.", which usually shut them up.

I don't very much care what other people spend their free time doing, or whether they read much (or at all) themselves, but that kind of idiotic anti-intellectualism really annoys me.

 

[ThisIsSnake]

gotta be the satanic bible

The satanic bible: It's like the bible except with more Satan in it. =D

Actually I was hoping someone was going to say the regular bible... Of course I haven't read the whole thing, it's way too long and stuff. I think I'll stick to textbooks and novels for now.

Actually the Satanic Bible isn't about worshipping Satan, it's more a philosophy of rejecting christianity, caring about yourself (in Satanism you are God) and embracing human nature. It was written by a Carnie

 

[DustyDrB]

Definitely this one:

Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste

It's really more of a case against elitism, especially over one's tastes in music. I actually reviewed it here in the User Reviews section a few months ago. There were a lot of good points in the book, and a lot of it was directed to people like me (indie music snobs). So it was pretty self-condemning.

But yeah, my roommates just thought I was reading a biography of Celine Dion. I don't know how many times I had to explain them what the book really was. And, given the real nature of the book, I felt guilty for being embarrassed about people thinking I was really into Celine.

 

[gritch]

Well, not a book, but The Inferno. You know, the poem that a decent game was based off of?

For some reason, people think it is funny that I read that, and call me a bookworm for it.

I myself have read The Inferno, and I really enjoyed it. Even decided to continue onward with Dante's epic Comedia, though Purgatorio and Paradiso (which I still need to finish) I didn't find nearly as interesting.

I don't recall anyone ridiculing me for it. Maybe they were just being polite or maybe it had just become expected of me. I had just the prior semester carried around a rather large gold-leaf trimmed book containing the complete works of William Shakespeare. I definitely think they made fun of me for that one, but I was too engrossed to notice.

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

Well, not a book, but The Inferno. You know, the poem that a decent game was based off of?

For some reason, people think it is funny that I read that, and call me a bookworm for it.

I myself have read The Inferno, and I really enjoyed it. Even decided to continue onward with Dante's epic Comedia, though Purgatorio and Paradiso (which I still need to finish) I didn't find nearly as interesting.

I don't recall anyone ridiculing me for it. Maybe they were just being polite or maybe it had just become expected of me. I had just the prior semester carried around a rather large gold-leaf trimmed book containing the complete works of William Shakespeare. I definitely think they made fun of me for that one, but I was too engrossed to notice.

I will say this. They are weaker story wise than the first part. But still good

Again, people may have mocked me for the fact that I was asked the question if I believed it. I said no, but that I believed in hell. That got some people to mock me.

 

[Icehearted]

Occasionally, the bible.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

"Narnia is for kids!"

...

So? I can't read it because it was written for children? Wow, I guess I can't read Redwall books now either huh?

 

[marfin_]

The bible, I guess reading the text from my practiced religion is ... funny looking?

 

[Gaiseric]

Well, not a book, but The Inferno. You know, the poem that a decent game was based off of?

For some reason, people think it is funny that I read that, and call me a bookworm for it.

Happened to me as well when I read the Divine Comedy.

 

[loc978]

It's funny, but when I was in high school I read two translations of the Bible. King James and NIV. People assumed I was a bible-thumper, but I was really just curious about the basis of what my mom was trying to force on me. I was also ridiculed at her church during those same years when I was reading The Fires of Heaven [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fires_of_Heaven] for the first time.

 

[_Depression]

Made an account just to post this:

Every book in the Redwall series. Apparently whenever someone hears about a fantasy story including anthropomorphic woodland creatures, it has to be for children. No one listens to me when I warn them not to read the books on an empty stomach, and that there is more blood shed in a single Redwall book than in a Tony Hawk game with the extra blood cheat code on.

 

[gritch]

Well, not a book, but The Inferno. You know, the poem that a decent game was based off of?

For some reason, people think it is funny that I read that, and call me a bookworm for it.

I myself have read The Inferno, and I really enjoyed it. Even decided to continue onward with Dante's epic Comedia, though Purgatorio and Paradiso (which I still need to finish) I didn't find nearly as interesting.

I don't recall anyone ridiculing me for it. Maybe they were just being polite or maybe it had just become expected of me. I had just the prior semester carried around a rather large gold-leaf trimmed book containing the complete works of William Shakespeare. I definitely think they made fun of me for that one, but I was too engrossed to notice.

I will say this. They are weaker story wise than the first part. But still good

Again, people may have mocked me for the fact that I was asked the question if I believed it. I said no, but that I believed in hell. That got some people to mock me.

Perhaps switching translators after the Inferno might not have helped, Longfellow maybe a lovely poet but his translations are a tad difficult to read.

Fear not that other people mock you for - they simply don't understand what they're talking about. The Inferno is one man's envisionment of hell. It by no means is the absolute definition of what hell is. One can very simply not believe the Inferno while still believing in hell.

I for one am actually more fond of the system of afterlife and tartarus outlined in the Aeneid.

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

Well, not a book, but The Inferno. You know, the poem that a decent game was based off of?

For some reason, people think it is funny that I read that, and call me a bookworm for it.

I myself have read The Inferno, and I really enjoyed it. Even decided to continue onward with Dante's epic Comedia, though Purgatorio and Paradiso (which I still need to finish) I didn't find nearly as interesting.

I don't recall anyone ridiculing me for it. Maybe they were just being polite or maybe it had just become expected of me. I had just the prior semester carried around a rather large gold-leaf trimmed book containing the complete works of William Shakespeare. I definitely think they made fun of me for that one, but I was too engrossed to notice.

I will say this. They are weaker story wise than the first part. But still good

Again, people may have mocked me for the fact that I was asked the question if I believed it. I said no, but that I believed in hell. That got some people to mock me.

Perhaps switching translators after the Inferno might not have helped, Longfellow maybe a lovely poet but his translations are a tad difficult to read.

Fear not that other people mock you for - they simply don't understand what they're talking about. The Inferno is one man's envisionment of hell. It by no means is the absolute definition of what hell is. One can very simply not believe the Inferno while still believing in hell.

I for one am actually more fond of the system of afterlife and tartarus outlined in the Aeneid.

I read a book version, and it had little tidbits on the explanation.

I like the idea of a Dante-like hell. I just don't think it exists.

 

[Swny Nerdgasm]

I've never been ridiculed for reading a specific book. I was, however, once ridiculed for reading in general. I then beat the offender unconscious with the copy of "A Clash of Kings" that I was reading. Hard-back, of course. Haven't had any trouble since then.

Jesus that's a big book did you at least call the ambulance after you knocked him the fuck out?

 

[Sniper Team 4]

An English teacher from college walked in to class five minutes early once (I know this, because I was checking the time to see how much longer I had) and I was reading Star Wars X-Wing: Wedge's Gamble. The look in her eyes. "Okay (name removed for my protection), time to put the Star Wars book away."
She was one of those teachers that believed if a book didn't have at LEAST three levels of meaning to it, it should never have been put into print. Needless to say, I never showed a Star Wars book in her class again, but I certainly didn't stop reading them. Currently on Fate of the Jedi: Conviction.

 

[_Depression]

An English teacher from college walked in to class five minutes early once (I know this, because I was checking the time to see how much longer I had) and I was reading Star Wars X-Wing: Wedge's Gamble. The look in her eyes. "Okay (name removed for my protection), time to put the Star Wars book away."
She was one of those teachers that believed if a book didn't have at LEAST three levels of meaning to it, it should never have been put into print. Needless to say, I never showed a Star Wars book in her class again, but I certainly didn't stop reading them. Currently on Fate of the Jedi: Conviction.

Better than my teacher's reaction, he had never heard of the expanded universe and guess how he felt about that whole

Spoiler

Luke thing...