Books that weren't all that good.
- Thread starter Blindswordmaster
- Start date
Recommended Videos
I saved myself the trouble of reading it and just saw it in the theatre and picked up the same message in about 2 and a half hours.Amethyst Wind said:
The chroni-(WHAT!)-cles of Narnia.
The movies sucked harder.
But the books weren't very good. I read them and kind of liked 'em but they could have been so much more!
The movies sucked harder.
But the books weren't very good. I read them and kind of liked 'em but they could have been so much more!
Faster than the speed of love. horrible book 
Seriously: The Grapes of Wrath. I just dont see whats so great about it.
Seriously: The Grapes of Wrath. I just dont see whats so great about it.
The Catcher in the Rye. I finished it, then realised that so little had happened that I'd already forgotten most of it...
EDIT: Ha! Just read the "classic literature part". Couldn't help myself when I saw a good book-ranting thread. I stand by what I said.
The Infernal City: An Elder Scrolls Novel. God... was this book a piece of shit, and it's so disappointing considering there are a lot of great game-based novels out there. There are only two characters that I can consider to be tolerable, but the rest are just annoying as hell. The concept of a vast city floating through the air with foreign creatures and architectures, it just sounds so awesome, too bad we spent most of the book underneath this incredible city in some kitchens cooking food.
God, all I was thinking about was "When do we get to the city... when do we get to the city... are we ever going above ground? No, I don't care about these petty wars that chefs wage with each other... over fucking food. I want to see the city." It got to the point where I would groan with annoyance every time the book would go back to the stupid annoying girl in the kitchen, which was the only time he would write about the FUCKING MAGICAL FLOATING CITY!!!
The descriptions of people and locations are so vague and brief that I have no vision of what might be going on. I often find myself having to reread sentences just to comprehend his horrible writing style. This is just a badly written story that took a great concept and went in an entirely opposite direction with it. Don't torture yourself thinking you have to read it before the next game comes out. Just look up the summary, and you're good.
The Infernal City: An Elder Scrolls Novel. God... was this book a piece of shit, and it's so disappointing considering there are a lot of great game-based novels out there. There are only two characters that I can consider to be tolerable, but the rest are just annoying as hell. The concept of a vast city floating through the air with foreign creatures and architectures, it just sounds so awesome, too bad we spent most of the book underneath this incredible city in some kitchens cooking food.
God, all I was thinking about was "When do we get to the city... when do we get to the city... are we ever going above ground? No, I don't care about these petty wars that chefs wage with each other... over fucking food. I want to see the city." It got to the point where I would groan with annoyance every time the book would go back to the stupid annoying girl in the kitchen, which was the only time he would write about the FUCKING MAGICAL FLOATING CITY!!!
The descriptions of people and locations are so vague and brief that I have no vision of what might be going on. I often find myself having to reread sentences just to comprehend his horrible writing style. This is just a badly written story that took a great concept and went in an entirely opposite direction with it. Don't torture yourself thinking you have to read it before the next game comes out. Just look up the summary, and you're good.
Jane Eyre. It is definitely better than Wuthering Heights, but that is barely saying anything. Jane Eyre is annoying because practically every other character in Jane Eyre besides Jane and Rochester serves simply to make Jane and Rochester either look better, or make them better. Characters like Brocklehurst and the Reeds are completely flat characters and blatant hypocrites, whilst Helen and St. John serve to improve Jane's philosophical outlook (often before conveniently dying - though that is par for the course in literature of the period).
Also, the ending is rushed, there are lots of contrived coincidences, and the morals seem a little skewed.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall...now that is what people should be reading. That should be the book the Brontes are remembered for. Anne Bronte basically read Charlotte's and Emily's books and decided to undercut the naivety and wish fulfillment that went on in them (the tendency to make bad, anti-hero males into redeemable hunks). She has her own "Rochester" character and makes him a total asshole to his dying day. One of the main characters, Helen, comes off as a naive, but ultimately more empowered and self-confident, character than Jane.
Unfortunately, Charlotte Bronte didn't seem all to fond of Anne taking the piss out of her book. After Emily and Anne died, Charlotte saw to it to "protect" the Bronte legacy. This meant trying to get rid of Wildfell Hall. A terrible shame, because it means the Brontes are better known for two of their far crapper books, whilst the cleverest, cynical, and daring novel got sidelined to this day.
Also, the ending is rushed, there are lots of contrived coincidences, and the morals seem a little skewed.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall...now that is what people should be reading. That should be the book the Brontes are remembered for. Anne Bronte basically read Charlotte's and Emily's books and decided to undercut the naivety and wish fulfillment that went on in them (the tendency to make bad, anti-hero males into redeemable hunks). She has her own "Rochester" character and makes him a total asshole to his dying day. One of the main characters, Helen, comes off as a naive, but ultimately more empowered and self-confident, character than Jane.
Unfortunately, Charlotte Bronte didn't seem all to fond of Anne taking the piss out of her book. After Emily and Anne died, Charlotte saw to it to "protect" the Bronte legacy. This meant trying to get rid of Wildfell Hall. A terrible shame, because it means the Brontes are better known for two of their far crapper books, whilst the cleverest, cynical, and daring novel got sidelined to this day.
Vampire Hunter by Micheal Romkey is a book to avoid at all costs. The main character, a vampire, was trapped in the Titanic until a group of 'Treasure hunters' brings his coffin to the surface, where he goes on a feeding frenzy and kills them all. Following the mini-killing spree he becomes depressed and goes to a psychiatrist.
My brother had all the audio cassettes and cds to the books, and they'd sometimes skip at the weirdest of times. You'd occasionally get Steven Fry (the reader) saying things like "Harry suddenly found himself [glitch] biting the watch of Pansy Parkinson's wrist."RobCoxxy said:
Chuck Panahniuk - i read fight club because i saw the movie, enjoyed that got a few of his other books, invisible monsters, choke, haunted... reading his stuff is like seeing a man being broken down by project due dates, and money needs, his earlier stuff is good, his later stuff seems churned out to get a paycheck.
speaking of paychecks, the twilight series should give every aspiring writer hope, you'll get published if you... know the right people, or suck the right cock, or just write to a specific demographic.
and what everyone is going on about with lovecraft, gods, it's true i love his works, but hate his writing style, he describes cracks in walls, the pattern of wallpaper, the complete freaking history of a lamp on a end table but it's garaunteed that typically the "great evil" will be described at best with "undescribable horror" .... well H.P. you gave all that verbose descriptions of the room, howabout a little more of a tidbit when it comes to the "idescribable horror"?, but likely it was to drive the point of "undescribable" home by using very little description, i see what you did there, mr. lovecraft, lovely usage of contrast .
speaking of paychecks, the twilight series should give every aspiring writer hope, you'll get published if you... know the right people, or suck the right cock, or just write to a specific demographic.
and what everyone is going on about with lovecraft, gods, it's true i love his works, but hate his writing style, he describes cracks in walls, the pattern of wallpaper, the complete freaking history of a lamp on a end table but it's garaunteed that typically the "great evil" will be described at best with "undescribable horror" .... well H.P. you gave all that verbose descriptions of the room, howabout a little more of a tidbit when it comes to the "idescribable horror"?, but likely it was to drive the point of "undescribable" home by using very little description, i see what you did there, mr. lovecraft, lovely usage of contrast .
The Black Pearl, some crap story about a spanish family being so poor that they tried to peg it across the border to sell a pearl, forced to read it in English class.
And Twilight for just being a teen drama dressed in a conundrum of love interests who happen to be werewolves, or sparkley fairies...crap.
And Twilight for just being a teen drama dressed in a conundrum of love interests who happen to be werewolves, or sparkley fairies...crap.
I've seen people mention that they didn't enjoy Frankenstein or Things Fall Apart, and they are two of my favourite books of all time, of course, everyone is entitled to their own opinion and what works for some many not work for everyone else. But when it comes to these types of books I get the feeling that most of you guys read them while in school, and as other people have pointed out, there is no other way to suck all enjoyment out of a book than being made to analyse it and write essays about it, rather than doing so yourself and in your own way and time.
What I'm trying to say is, that maybe you shouldn't let your bad experiences from reading them in school affect your opinion too much.
What I'm trying to say is, that maybe you shouldn't let your bad experiences from reading them in school affect your opinion too much.
