Books that weren't all that good.

[Blindswordmaster]

I have been reading Bran Stoker's Dracula lately and I really don't like it at all. It's very dry, slow, and I get what's going on chapters before the actual characters do. Has this ever happened to you? Have you ever read a piece of classic work of literature and found it to be very bad?
Aside: Please don't focus your posts on my opinion on Dracula, just give your own.

 

[RobCoxxy]

The bloody Harry Potter series.
"...Harry said cooly"

 

[Kryzantine]

I'm sure every single HS student will attest to The Scarlet Letter, but to avoid redundancy, I hated Shelley's Frankenstein. It was just a headache to read.

 

[ribonuge]

I liked the beginning of Dracula but as it went on it just got to soppy and boring. So you're not alone on that front. Usually I make it a rule to finish every book I begin but in that case I just couldn't do it.

I don't think there is many others that I can think of currently because I usually research my books beforehand to make sure I have an interest in whatever it is I am investing my time in.

 

[reg42]

Um... I got a book from Germany, which I was excited about because it looked really new, interesting, and edgy. It wasn't. It's just really generic, not bad, but very generic. Quite disappointing.
EDIT: I forgot the name. It's called the malice box.

 

[slightly evil]

twilight got way too much hype for what it was, yeah it's a good romance but why mix that with a completely unrelated attack by a completely unrelated vampire? then again, i prefer werewolves and using jacob as practice painted Bel as a fasist b*tch

 

[Looking For Alaska]

Frankenstein. Ugh.

Also I enjoy a good Lovecraft story as good as any but sometimes he just gets tiringly verbose.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens was the worst piece of shit I've ever had the displeasure of reading. It was long-winded, excruciatingly dull, and insultingly pompous.

 

[Tartarga]

Twilight. How could such a cool word be the title for a crappy book.

 

[Blindswordmaster]

I liked the beginning of Dracula but as it went on it just got to soppy and boring. So you're not alone on that front. Usually I make it a rule to finish every book I begin but in that case I just couldn't do it.

I don't think there is many others that I can think of currently because I usually research my books beforehand to make sure I have an interest in whatever it is I am investing my time in.

I agree with you completely, Dracula started out really good and I liked the slow buildup of suspense. Then I realized that there was no climax and was pissed. I really don't want to finish this book, but I feel that I must on principle. Seriously the Great Illustrated Classics version of Dracula was much better.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck. 400 pages of tedium.

 

[Nemu]

Moby-fsking-Dick

GOD
AWFUL

And I say that having successfully avoided reading it until I was 28 (I'd made a vow to myself to read certain books by age 30).

I've never wanted to eat a RPG more than I did after reading that POS "masterpiece".

 

[Hiphophippo]

Also I enjoy a good Lovecraft story as good as any but sometimes he just gets tiringly verbose.

Yea, this is what I was going to say. It's weird, I feel comfortable saying he's my favorite author but I don't really enjoy reading his books. His themes and ideas remain unparalleled (I can only imagine how weird they were in his day) and are some of my favorite concepts ever. But outside of "The Colour out of Space" I have a hard time wading through his pages long descriptions.

I guess I just like reading ABOUT his stuff.

 

[AntiAntagonist]

The Divine Comedy

Got through Inferno and loved it. Got half-way through Purgatario and couldn't be bothered to get through it or Paradiso (pretty boring after going through Hell).

 

[Ophiuchus]

I know it's meant to be a modern classic, but I really didn't like The Catcher In The Rye. For the whole book, I kept thinking "shut up shut up shut up SHUT UP you whiny little bastard". It took an unprecedented show of self-discipline to see it through to the end. Interestingly enough, my brother borrowed it afterwards and had exactly the same opinion.

 

[psychic psycho]

Basically everything I had to read for English. The ones I can list at the top of my head are On Photography, An American Childhood, Emma, and Things Fall Apart. There are a bunch more just can't remember them now.

 

[Hiphophippo]

I know it's meant to be a modern classic, but I really didn't like The Catcher In The Rye. For the whole book, I kept thinking "shut up shut up shut up SHUT UP you whiny little bastard". It took an unprecedented show of self-discipline to see it through to the end. Interestingly enough, my brother borrowed it afterwards and had exactly the same opinion.

In a roundabout way, that's sort of the point of it though. I think it's an amazing book myself though I certainly understand your reaction.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

Hmmm... The only ones I can think of are ones I read at school, but they don't count as there is no better way to suck the enjoyment out of a book is to analyse it as you go along, and assign homework to it. Reading a book is a personal experience. It is meant to be analysed only after it is read.

 

[Robert632]

Inkdeath is a giant peice of shit. Not only is the main character a whiny hypocritical ***** that is about as useful to the plot as a wet towel, but it all ends with the stupidest deus ex machina ever. I mean, essentially one of death's angels just comes down, gives the main character the solution to the plot, and leaves, never exlaining why it came then, or why it came at all.