Amethyst Phoenix Posted November 30, 2010 Report Share Posted November 30, 2010 Eh, true. My favorite book series manages to make almost everything previously mentioned in all of it's 11 books relevant to the main plot at some point or another. It's atypical though XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grunt Issun Posted November 30, 2010 Report Share Posted November 30, 2010 correction, it may have been 13 books, but there was #14 at the end of #13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grunt Issun Posted November 30, 2010 Report Share Posted November 30, 2010 correction, it may have been 13 books, but there was #14 at the end of #13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Posted December 1, 2010 Report Share Posted December 1, 2010 The "fourteenth" book never really was a book. It was moreso an epilogue at the end of the thirteenth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embittered Moon Posted December 1, 2010 Report Share Posted December 1, 2010 i hated Twilight. Could never finish the first chapter, so boring Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magician lily Posted December 1, 2010 Report Share Posted December 1, 2010 The giver was a bad book. Only one other book I thought was worst than it. A Touch of Evil. This book is the worst I have read to date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seattleite Posted December 3, 2010 Report Share Posted December 3, 2010 The Good Earth, a book we were forced to read in English :/ Worst ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmegaWave Posted December 4, 2010 Report Share Posted December 4, 2010 [img]http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2009/6/30/128908462740759252.jpg[/img] Says it all. Horray for the required Twilight hate post! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tourmaline Posted December 4, 2010 Report Share Posted December 4, 2010 [quote name='Izanagi' timestamp='1289966901' post='4790602'] 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. [/quote] That's because you don't understand how to read properly. Just try rereading it when you properly can. Anyways, there was this book about this kid and these group of insects in a giant apple. I was much younger when we read it, and it was probably designed in a way that is supposed to appeal to children, but I still hated it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Posted December 4, 2010 Report Share Posted December 4, 2010 I'm probably going to get a large amount of hate for this, but I absolutely abhor [u]A Tree Grows in Brooklynn[/u]. That book was, personally, so stupid, and really had no point. I was young when I read it, granted, but even if I re-read it I'd probably form a similar opinion. The first few chapters were okay, but it went downhill- and quick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrystalCyae Posted December 5, 2010 Report Share Posted December 5, 2010 I have two books that I don't like. First, Moonshadow:Eye of the Beast. True, I never finished it, but that's because I hate it. SO boring. Nothing happens. All Moonshadow does i eavesdrop a conversation. Yeah, the first chapter, THAT was pretty cool, but when you realise nothing is really going to happen, it gets dull. Another bad story is Blood Money, by Chris Ryan. God, I hated that book. I like the way he writes, so that's not the problem, but the TOPIC just....ughhh...... It was all about kidney transplants, and kidnapping innocent people JUST to supply kidneys for rich, greedy people who generally don't deserve it. As soon as you mention "kidney transplant" you lose me. Yeah, and I never finished that either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GenzoTheHarpist Posted December 6, 2010 Report Share Posted December 6, 2010 [quote name='seattleite' timestamp='1291416817' post='4826788'] The Good Earth, a book we were forced to read in English :/ Worst ever. [/quote] The Good Earth was fantastic. What's your problem with it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teh ZWOOTS Posted December 6, 2010 Report Share Posted December 6, 2010 Firegirl. I can't even describe how badly this book made me want claw my ******* eyes out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admiral Tim Posted December 6, 2010 Report Share Posted December 6, 2010 [quote name='Paranoia Infinite' timestamp='1291433645' post='4827418'] That's because you don't understand how to read properly. Just try rereading it when you properly can. Anyways, there was this book about this kid and these group of insects in a giant apple. I was much younger when we read it, and it was probably designed in a way that is supposed to appeal to children, but I still hated it. [/quote] James and the giant peach? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tourmaline Posted December 8, 2010 Report Share Posted December 8, 2010 [quote name='Commander Tim' timestamp='1291664195' post='4834184'] James and the giant peach? [/quote] Yes! That book was terrible. It made me cry... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GenzoTheHarpist Posted December 8, 2010 Report Share Posted December 8, 2010 That book sucked. It was confusing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~ P O L A R I S ~ Posted December 8, 2010 Report Share Posted December 8, 2010 ITT: kids rave about how much they hate decent books which they were forced to read because they only ever read books they were forced to read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTW (For The Wynn) Posted December 8, 2010 Report Share Posted December 8, 2010 [quote name='Petrosian' timestamp='1291791751' post='4837512'] ITT: kids rave about how much they hate decent books which they were forced to read because they only ever read books they were forced to read. [/quote] This is far too true. Most of the people I know tell me openly that they hate to read. I enjoy reading because there is nothing quite as thought-provoking as a well-written story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake Posted December 8, 2010 Report Share Posted December 8, 2010 [quote name='Petrosian' timestamp='1291791751' post='4837512'] ITT: kids rave about how much they hate decent books which they were forced to read because they only ever read books they were forced to read. [/quote] I've read plenty of books on my own =/ In fact, I love reading, and I'm not even complaining about the Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, etc. Books I was forced to read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zack Blaze Posted December 8, 2010 Report Share Posted December 8, 2010 The Giver wasn't so bad, as much as it was hard to follow what was going on. I really didn't get it, but then again, that may have been because I was in 5th grade. XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GenzoTheHarpist Posted December 10, 2010 Report Share Posted December 10, 2010 [quote name='Fading Black' timestamp='1291808823' post='4837648'] I've read plenty of books on my own =/ In fact, I love reading, and I'm not even complaining about the Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, etc. Books I was forced to read. [/quote] I didn't like Catcher in the Rye, but the Great Gatsby was the [i]best[/i] book I was forced to read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake Posted December 10, 2010 Report Share Posted December 10, 2010 The BEST I've been forced to read would probably be... Lord of the Flies, then To Kill a Mockingbird. Worst... Definitely the Old Man and the Sea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sliver King Posted December 10, 2010 Report Share Posted December 10, 2010 Is it too late for me to say twilight?[quote name="OmegaWave" timestamp='1291431258' post='4827352'] [img]http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2009/6/30/128908462740759252.jpg[/img] Says it all. Horray for the required Twilight hate post! [/quote] OH MY GOD! My 10th grade lit teacher was Snape? Good thing I slept through most of that class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Revan of the Sith Posted December 10, 2010 Report Share Posted December 10, 2010 As much as i dont find a problem with a muslim literature class (wish I had one) As much as i want to rant on the entire series of Twilight, Id have to say though The final Book was the worst of them all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Posted December 10, 2010 Report Share Posted December 10, 2010 Forced reading isn't that bad; a few things I was forced to read were quite good: [i]The Giver, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Crucible, [/i]et cetera. Just because it's forced and most likely mandated by your district doesn't give you any reason to lash out against it. And it's a blatant assumption (and incorrect, for that matter) to say that we have only ever read books we were forced to read. For the majority of YCM, this sadly probably holds true, but let's not lump the mediocre people with the genuinely shitty people. Thank you very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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