Books you finished and just thought: "Well...that was shit"
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Earlier in the day I ordered "American Psycho" and "Less Than Zero" both by Brett Easton Ellis. I think I may be getting back to you...
Edit: Sorry I didn't read the title very well, the last thing I read that was utter crap and also finished, seeing as I didn't leave it alone was a book of short horror stories. Waste of time
Edit: Sorry I didn't read the title very well, the last thing I read that was utter crap and also finished, seeing as I didn't leave it alone was a book of short horror stories. Waste of time
Interview with the Vampire. Louise is a boring, boring, character that spends his unlife lamenting things that wronged him. Nothing really happens in the book. It felt like a short story that was padded out into a novel.
Vampire Lestat was much better. I did not like it, but shit happened in it.
Vampire Lestat was much better. I did not like it, but shit happened in it.
Lots of hate for Twilight here. I haven't read it myself, but I've watched this series of videos and that put me off the idea for good. Well worth a look if you can't be bothered wasting valuable watching paint dry time by reading it yourself but are wondering what you're missing (if anything):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L253VLwH3w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L253VLwH3w
...put.... knife... down... don't... stab...SecretNegative said:
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There was this fucking book which my dad once gave me from the library. I'm a huge reader and had basically run out of books. So he started borrowing shit and giving it to me. Anyway, I start reading it and I am wondering what the hell was going on. They don't explain ANYTHING in the story.
The most I made out was that there was a really big tough, scary, black-suit wearing, black and white empire called the New Age or something, and that they went around destroying culture and ruling the world and shit. So of course some kids have apparently formed a resistance group IN A FUCKING SUPER MARKET in PLAIN view of anyone nearby.
The New Age has guns planes boats bombs cars armies cities machine guns rocket launchers and so forth. The kids have energy! Yeah! They beat the New Age by singing and being happy!
I mean, it's bloody stupid the crap that they do. They escape from New Age cars by stopping their van, starting to play music and then floating into the fucking air! They turn a flight of bombers that would clearly blow their shit up into a flight of eagles! How did they do it? By holding hands and chanting and singing.
Just the premise of it is so stupid. Some random kids have like fucking super powers and there is also a Death World where one of the guys girlfriend is and she keeps betraying and then helping them.
Argh. I really could use this knife to kill that fucking stupid writer.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Just awful on every conceivable level. Condescending, preachy, mystical mumbo-jumbo horseshit. Damn, fifteen years later and I'm still angry that I read this fucking worthless crap.
Just what happens in that one cause I'm kinda reading the first one right now. It's alright but for some reason I can wrap my mind around all the horrors and cruelity in the Warhammer 40K verse but the "Hunger Games" just seem's so far fetched to me.The_Lost_King said:
Simpsons writer John Swartzwelder's novel Double Wonderful. His books are little more than absurd jokes chained together to form a flimsy plot. Sometimes the jokes are great and sometimes they aren't. In Double Wonderful, almost all of the jokes suck.
The third Hunger Games book, Mockingjay, seriously read like a poorly written fan fiction. Katniss just whines and dicks around for 2/3rds of the book, with an action sequence, and character deaths that 1)are blown way out of porportion and 2)come out of nowhere and don't make a whole lot of logical sense.
Oh, and The Children of Men. I was intrigued by it's concept, all men on the planet becoming sterile, the end of the human race...and it was pathetically boring. The main character completely changed attitudes abruptly, and the ending...was just, pathetic, I mean, just dumb, and I didn't like any of the characters to boot.
Oh, and The Children of Men. I was intrigued by it's concept, all men on the planet becoming sterile, the end of the human race...and it was pathetically boring. The main character completely changed attitudes abruptly, and the ending...was just, pathetic, I mean, just dumb, and I didn't like any of the characters to boot.
Yup, it's hard to believe that anybody made such a good movie out of the latter, so maybe somebody can salvage a decent movie from the former.Mezmer said:
I am number four, I found it very poorly written and by that I mean every page has at least four "I says" lines after dialogue O.O
Hunger Games trilogy. The thought process and the plot of the last book were good enough, but everyone thinks the last book was the worst (in this *****'s opinion, book three was actually the best)
The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The movie simply takes all the important and interesting parts, compresses them into an action-packed three hours (per movie), and plays it all out in the big screen. The novels were okay, I finished them in... sixth grade? Seventh? (12-13)
A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare. It's just awful and confusing.
Oliver Twist by Dickens. It's just confusing, but I think I read it in sixth grade.
Sold, some award-winning book about underage Nepali prostitutes. The book's presentation was shit, because it wanted to use this 'poetic' thingamaboob. The unique presentation also meant the pacing was horrible, because a one week period can happen in sixty pages (almost a fourth of the whole book) while years can pass in three pages.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The movie simply takes all the important and interesting parts, compresses them into an action-packed three hours (per movie), and plays it all out in the big screen. The novels were okay, I finished them in... sixth grade? Seventh? (12-13)
A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare. It's just awful and confusing.
Oliver Twist by Dickens. It's just confusing, but I think I read it in sixth grade.
Sold, some award-winning book about underage Nepali prostitutes. The book's presentation was shit, because it wanted to use this 'poetic' thingamaboob. The unique presentation also meant the pacing was horrible, because a one week period can happen in sixty pages (almost a fourth of the whole book) while years can pass in three pages.
Whilst I love the books, I agree, I hated the bloody ending.Latenz1134 said:
"There is a very small chance of something that happened last time happening again even though we know to stop it and we would all benefit from the Riders staying here. NOPE! Let's sail away to an unknown land where it may be even more dangerous, find a really big hill and build a castle! This way I get to sit in a castle all day long in a land I don't know AND I get to leave everyone I have ever loved behind! Sounds great!"
Also, the author decided to make up an excuse for EVERYONE in the story so that not one single person he had any connection to (apart from his dragon) could come with him. Maybe they will visit in a few years? NOPE!
