Books you finished and just thought: "Well...that was shit"
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I read the four books and yeah...I freaking hated the fourth book so much. Not only that spoiled bit you mentioned but...hm...krazykidd said:
The introduced what, 2 dozen new characters? Pairing a few of them up too! The thing about the impromptu introduction of those characters is how everyone just kind of shows up once the book is about half over and, that fourth book was planned as the final book of the saga. Why introduce new characters at the END of a freaking saga!?! It's idiotic...like you said though, the end was like an episode of Dragon Ball Z where the good guy and bad guy do nothing but power up and have a dialog.
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The Lord of the Rings. I liked Fellowship and Return of the King was alright too but Two Towers just seemed really unnecessarily long to me...make that completely unnecessary. It took me three or four attempts to get through that freaking book and I couldn't make it through the movie either. It just seemed to drag on and, on. I loved The Hobbit though.
So...Darth Plagius is a no go then? I was looking forward to that one...putowtin said:
So happy someone else said this. The thing that annoyed me even more was how many people got taken in by it. I would have ignored it except for the fact that some friends who's tastes I trusted put it on their favourite book lists (one had it up there with Anna Karrenin, another with East of Eden).tensorproduct said:
There was just a massive entitlement philosophy running through the whole thing. To achieve your dreams, you don't need a mix of hard work, natural talent and a good dose of luck. No, all you need is to REALLY want it. Then "the Universe will conspire to help you". That might be a great message for Oprah, but how about the millions of starving people who REALLY want food? Is their fault they just don't WANT it enough?
Disagreeing with the philosophy is one thing, there are plenty of books which I enjoyed even though I didn't share the authors views. That's because you at least had a good plot or characters or writing style to enjoy. The Alchemist had none of those.
Bah. Grrr.
I did guess that was going to happen, but I just still felt that a bit more effort could have been put into the book's ending than just "They don't like each other now, the end."Korten12 said:
Side note: Is it bad that I'm sitting here with the beta login screen minimised, just to hear the music?
That's interesting, I have my own thoughts on that. Wanna put your reasoning in spoiler tags, and I'll see if they match up?Sober Thal said:
I got it! After a day of soul searching, I think I have the book in mind.
The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander. So here's this book, which is completely like Lord of the Rings but only if LoTR was incredible drivel. It was painful for me to read it. :'D
And I suppose Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and the Mill on the Floss. These were so so very boring. ;~;
The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander. So here's this book, which is completely like Lord of the Rings but only if LoTR was incredible drivel. It was painful for me to read it. :'D
And I suppose Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and the Mill on the Floss. These were so so very boring. ;~;
What?! Why did you have to remind me of the title?! I was so proud of not remembering it!! -_-ForgottenPr0digy said:
S'why I only get the ones written before 2000 (or thereabouts... hell I've only read the Thrawn trilogy... which was fucking awesome... so I'd rather keep my memories of SW novels good...)putowtin said:
And how are you not suicidal?!Shoggoth2588 said:
See, most people I know IRL didn't like Fellowship because of a lot of needless 'poetry'... though there does seem to be a split between LotR=yay/Hobbit=boo or vice versa... odd...
There were two "recent" Halo Novels, Halo:Cryptum and it's sequel (can't remember the names), but they were so god-awful, I am ashamed of what they did to the series. The writing style was horrendous, characterisation was almost non-existent and the settings were rarely ever described in enough detail for me to figure out what the fuck was going on.
I read a few reviews and it seems to be highly praised, but I ask myself what the hell were they reading? It butchers the lore, which I will admit I am fairly well read up on, and is non-sensical at the best of times. I would NOT recommend it to ANYONE.
I read a few reviews and it seems to be highly praised, but I ask myself what the hell were they reading? It butchers the lore, which I will admit I am fairly well read up on, and is non-sensical at the best of times. I would NOT recommend it to ANYONE.
YES. Tale of Two Cites was a book I borrowed, as it was apparently a highly recommended piece of literature. Whoever told me that needs to be shot. I don't think I ever actually finished it, not because it was hard, just fucking boring.mParadox said:
How could you make it past the part with General Pudding or whatever his name was. *shudders* That book was filled with weird and gross. I like odd post modern stuff but yeah... a lot of it was gross.Korolev said:
I usually do my best to forget the names of books I didn't like or finish until I find them during spring cleaning.
One I can remember was the first twilight book. I thought I had something because my friend hyped it up and how it was so great to be getting its own manga...
Boring as fuck. Kept reading believing that SOMETHING interesting just had to occur sometime before the end. I kept thinking, "I'm almost done and nothing is happening. What the shit?"
Then a baseball game comes, the villain comes, the main character ignores all intelligent thought, she gets rescued, they kill the villain and then they go to prom.
My friend lied to me.
One I can remember was the first twilight book. I thought I had something because my friend hyped it up and how it was so great to be getting its own manga...
Boring as fuck. Kept reading believing that SOMETHING interesting just had to occur sometime before the end. I kept thinking, "I'm almost done and nothing is happening. What the shit?"
Then a baseball game comes, the villain comes, the main character ignores all intelligent thought, she gets rescued, they kill the villain and then they go to prom.
My friend lied to me.
Hooray! I went and read through four pages just to see if there was anyone else that hated Cryptum as much as meQuala said:
Bearing in mind, I finished it, and even read the sequel. It doesn't get better -_-
it's one of their novels. i think it's suppose to be about the first war for armageddon. It has a sequel called crusade for armageddon which is the second war for armageddon and therefore yarrick v ghazghkull. it wasn't print on demand or anything, it was just a 40K novel i picked up at B&N one day.dalek sec said:
I just recently finished a book called Zombie Apocalypse. The idea of it is that it's a collection of diary entries, video transcripts, blog posts, chat logs etc. supposedly written by people in the middle of a zombie apocalypse (sort of like a real time World War Z). As an added bonus, each part is actually written by a different writer.
In theory, this sounds pretty good and actually two thirds of it are decent. However, there seems to have been little communication between each writer, which results in ideas never really being expanded on and slight contradictions.
The last third, however, is god-awful. Full of contradictions and awkward tonal shifts (comedy - horror - comedy etc.) and the actual ending was so terrible that I literally threw the book at the wall when I finished (one corner of the cover is still a bit screwed up, and this was about a month ago).
In theory, this sounds pretty good and actually two thirds of it are decent. However, there seems to have been little communication between each writer, which results in ideas never really being expanded on and slight contradictions.
The last third, however, is god-awful. Full of contradictions and awkward tonal shifts (comedy - horror - comedy etc.) and the actual ending was so terrible that I literally threw the book at the wall when I finished (one corner of the cover is still a bit screwed up, and this was about a month ago).
You're not alone on that one, The Two Towers is a very dry book. Fellowship is easier because the narrative is largely focused on (as the title implies) the Fellowship of the Ring. The Two Towers is effectively telling two large stories and one small one: Frodo and Sam (and later Gollum) towards Mordor, Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli with Rohan and Merry and Pippin with the Ents. I found the Ents easy enough to read, the stuff with Rohan was great fun....but Frodo and the trip to Mordor was very bloody dull.Shoggoth2588 said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_novels
The Doom Novels. The first two were fine, but then the last two suffered from what Yahtzee referred to as "Indigo Prophecy Syndrome". It becomes so absolutely silly that it hurts my brain to even think about them. I request that you read the summaries for the last two books if you wish to become a writer, to provide an excellent example of what not to do towards the end of a story.
The Doom Novels. The first two were fine, but then the last two suffered from what Yahtzee referred to as "Indigo Prophecy Syndrome". It becomes so absolutely silly that it hurts my brain to even think about them. I request that you read the summaries for the last two books if you wish to become a writer, to provide an excellent example of what not to do towards the end of a story.