Clair Posted November 17, 2010 Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 [center]So, I know you've read some good books. However, I'll bet that nearly everyone here has read a [b]bad book[/b], whether it be for school or recreation. My question is, which books have disappointed you, YCM? As for me, I'd have to say [u]The Giver[/u]. Bear in mind that this is all opinion. oh, and inb4twilight. ;D[/center] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake Posted November 17, 2010 Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 The Giver was crap, IMO. Worst book ever, for me, is the Old Man and the Sea. -Old Man goes out to sea -Old Man Catches fish -Old man heads home -Sharks eat fish -Old man is sad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smesh Posted November 17, 2010 Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was disappointing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowyash Posted November 17, 2010 Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 Hannibal Rising (movie and book) ruined Lecter for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brinolovania Posted November 17, 2010 Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 Harry Potter book 5. WHAT WAS THE EDITOR THINKING?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted November 17, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 [quote name='!' timestamp='1289964998' post='4790557'] Harry Potter book 5. WHAT WAS THE EDITOR THINKING?! [/quote] Oooh. What do you find wrong with it? Just curious. o: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smesh Posted November 17, 2010 Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 [quote name='!' timestamp='1289964998' post='4790557'] Harry Potter book 5. WHAT WAS THE EDITOR THINKING?! [/quote] That one is one of my favs D: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catterjune Posted November 17, 2010 Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 I liked The Giver. =( ... I disliked... ugh, I can't remember the title but it's famous. The protagonist is named Holden Caufield or something like that. Guy acts like a pretentious dick the whole time. "Oh, but that was the author's point! He was supposed to act like a pretentious dick!" Congrats, you succeeded in making your protagonist a dick. That doesn't mean I'm supposed to like it just because that was the goal of the author. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Requiem Posted November 17, 2010 Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 The book you are thinking of is the one I just finished was Catcher in the Rye. Simply just horrible the character wasn't really doing anything except complain and b**** about everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Roxas Posted November 17, 2010 Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 [quote name='PikaPerson01' timestamp='1289966503' post='4790595'] ... I disliked... ugh, I can't remember the title but it's famous. The protagonist is named Holden Caufield or something like that. Guy acts like a pretentious dick the whole time. "Oh, but that was the author's point! He was supposed to act like a pretentious dick!" Congrats, you succeeded in making your protagonist a dick. That doesn't mean I'm supposed to like it just because that was the goal of the author. [/quote] Like Izanagi said, Catcher in the Rye. They even made that same point in Family Guy of all things. For me, it's "Like Water for Chocolate". Magic realism and symbolism can only take you so far, and that novel really knew how to push it. Granted, I don't really bother with books for English class, but there was hardly anything in it I liked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrabHelmet Posted November 17, 2010 Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 One Hundred Years of Solitude was awful. It's twenty chapters long and the main theme is obvious by chapter three, but instead it drags on and on through the same characters doing the same things over and over again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tentacruel Posted November 17, 2010 Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 The Giver was utter garbage, I agree. I was also disappointed with all of the later Harry Potter books, where the titular character turns into a British Shinji Ikari. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrabHelmet Posted November 17, 2010 Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 [quote name='ADHD-Guitar' timestamp='1289976010' post='4790757'] The Giver was utter garbage, I agree. I was also disappointed with all of the later Harry Potter books, where the titular character turns into a British Shinji Ikari. [/quote] Shinji was a well-written interesting character whose personality flaws were justified by more than "HE'S AN ANGSTY TEEN". Harry's just an idiot who randomly decided that sports and relationships were more important than "FANTASY!HITLER IS TRYING TO KILL EVERYONE". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GenzoTheHarpist Posted November 17, 2010 Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 The Catcher in the Rye. I've never read a more overrated book in my life. How in god's name did that ever get considered to be a classic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brinolovania Posted November 17, 2010 Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 [quote name='Clair' timestamp='1289965053' post='4790559'] Oooh. What do you find wrong with it? Just curious. o: [/quote] It's too long. They spend too much time in class. There are too many hyphens and... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makο Posted November 17, 2010 Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 I, personally, hated A Tale of Two Cities. But thats just me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoon Posted November 17, 2010 Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 PopCo, from Scarlett Thomas. I have to admit, Troposphere was pretty imaginative, had some interesting ideas, though it was pretty scientific, it was still a solid fantasy story, with tension and nice characters. PopCo... was utter garbage. It wasn't written badly or anything, it was just godsh*t [i]boring![/i] 500 pages with nothing but...no, NOTHING on it. Another really bad book? Well, Probably nobody knows it outside of Germany, but "Effi Briest" was amazingly boring as well... but it was for the school, so you could forgive that. The sad thing about PopCo: I bought it, because I thought it was good... I wasted 10€ on that thing... so gruesome :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted November 17, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 [quote name='!' timestamp='1290012153' post='4791180'] It's too long. They spend too much time in class. There are too many hyphens and... [/quote] Oh. xD I'll agree that it was a tad long, but I never got bored with it. My least favorite book was Deathly Hallows... JK Rowling rushed things and decided to kill off everybody. >< [quote name='Mako109' timestamp='1290016806' post='4791289'] I, personally, hated A Tale of Two Cities. But thats just me... [/quote] The first 100 pages were hell to read. Then it gets more interesting, IMO. ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amethyst Phoenix Posted November 17, 2010 Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 I hated The Kite Runner. I think the worst part though, was that the teacher of that class decided we needed a muslim literature unit to "Diversify us, because your parents are probably too white bread" and screwed us out of reading 1984 like all the other classes got to read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headmaster Monokuma Posted November 17, 2010 Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 [quote name='Clair' timestamp='1289962173' post='4790453'] [u]The Giver[/u] [/quote] Exactly. The book was just bad. I regret reading it even now. D: Other then that, I haven't really read any truly [i]awful[/i] books. I try to avoid them as much as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tentacruel Posted November 17, 2010 Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 [quote name='Crab Helmet' timestamp='1290010088' post='4791133'] Shinji was a well-written interesting character whose personality flaws were justified by more than "HE'S AN ANGSTY TEEN". Harry's just an idiot who randomly decided that sports and relationships were more important than "FANTASY!HITLER IS TRYING TO KILL EVERYONE". [/quote] You're right, I was actually giving Harry too much credit comparing him to Shinji. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Starrk Posted November 17, 2010 Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 TommyKnockers by Stephen King. What the Christmas cream f*** was that s***? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrabHelmet Posted November 18, 2010 Report Share Posted November 18, 2010 [quote name='Revolver Amethyst' timestamp='1290033330' post='4791944'] I hated The Kite Runner. [/quote] Thanks for reminding about that. The protagonist crossed the Moral Event Horizon for me when he decided that the best thing to do in response to feeling bad he didn't help his friend was to frame his friend for robbery so that his family would be fired and evicted; after that, I spent the rest of the book wishing he would just go ahead and die. And then there was the insanely contrived last section, which relied on a hundred ridiculous coincidences and which had all the subtlety of a blunt axe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yankee Posted November 18, 2010 Report Share Posted November 18, 2010 Obligatory Twilight rant ftw? Obligatory Bible rant ftw? Ha. I kid. Anyway, Kite Runner was meh. I've never really liked most Harry Potter books - aside from the first two. Strangely, I'm not too keen of Beowulf...I know...sad... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice. Posted November 19, 2010 Report Share Posted November 19, 2010 I liked The Giver. =/ I didn't like this one book about this girl who changes her name from Frankie to F. Jasmine to Francine. I forget the name. We had to read it in school It was a TERRIBLE book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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