Leo Tolstoy
Alexandre Dumas
Jane Austen
George Elliot
Dickens, save Oliver Twist
That should be more than ten books :yawnb:
Also anything by Ayn Rand.
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Leo Tolstoy
Alexandre Dumas
Jane Austen
George Elliot
Dickens, save Oliver Twist
That should be more than ten books :yawnb:
Also anything by Ayn Rand.
Ulysses - James Joyce (pretentious crap of the worst kind)
100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (meh. It wasn't as bad as some of the other books mentioned here, still deserves a place due to its rep which is unwarranted in the extreme)
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky (Dostoevsky is one of the wittiest authors I have ever read and I refuse to believe this piece of cow turd was penned by him)
Silas Marner - George Elliot (I love Mill on the Floss. This book is about as interesting as watching paint dry, needless to say, it's one of the best cures of insomnia out there)
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy (Unlike a lot of others I love reading Hardy's prose. His characters, OTOH, are a totally different kettle of fish)
Crossroads of Twilight - Robert Jordan (self-explainatory, really)
Misery - Stephen King (I love most of King's works - this, IMO is the weakest)
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (This is one of the only of the only two novels, which as a child looking to devour anything and everything I could get my greedy hands on, wasn't able to finish)
Emma - Jane Austen (Seriously, Emma works much better in the movie format. Austen was a wicked satirist but this one is way too surcose ladden even for the likes of me)
i have one and i am sure no one has heard of it...
It is a relief, I guess, that your name won't appear in this thread then! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by cateye515
I was just going to ask about that. I just finished reading it a week ago, and found it absolutely fascinating.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
- The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky (still reading it, but don't actually know why, it's quite boring)
- Die Schachnovelle (Chess) by Stefan Zweig (partly because I had to read it for German class and I'm not good at German, but also the story is awfull. I somehow am not interested in somebody learning complete chess games by heart and playing against himself ("Ich Weiss, Ich Schwarz"))
I can only say that I did not understand the book when I first read it many many moons ago. Yet second time round, I really enjoyed it. I think Faulkner has a twisted sense of humour.Quote:
Originally Posted by davoarid
There is a thread devoted to Faulkner if you would like to check out:
http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=16086
I'm suprised so many people in here have read Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein... It was given to me by a girl I work with, she said it was soooo good, so I read it and absolutely loathed it. I don't think I even finished it. Bleh. I didn't realize it was such a widely read book, I didn't know the author so i thought it was just some random crap book you would find at a used bookstore. (Actually, now that I think about it, it is.)
I also really disliked A Handmaid's Tale by Atwood. IMO, a lot of fuss about nothing.
Let's see... what else... oh yes, Silas Marner put me to sleep on numerous occasions...
It's kind of shocking to read that we can do without "Crime and Punishment", "Idiot" or "A Hundred yeras of solitude". All three are among my favorite books ever.
Yeah, why all the Dostovesky hate? I'd be careful of laying the blame at his door and not the translators.
Topic? Um, The Bible, probably.
The only book I can think of off-hand that I really hated was A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer. I finished it thinking "what a waste of time". I only bought it for 50p, but I still felt cheated.
I couldn't bring myself to finish On the Road, either. I was convinced that I was going to like it, so I ended up very disappointed.
And although I probably haven't read enough to judge, I'm not a fan of Dickens.
I could do without The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. Yep, that's my ten books right there. The world would be a better place without them.
I can't honestly say that I've ever hated a book, to the point of wishing to be rid of it.
I can't really ever say I've hated a book. Yes I found books to be boring in places, but that in my opinion does not make them a bad book, its just means that they require a re-adjustment of my thinking to the point where the book is enjoyable.
If I had to point the finger, then I could quite honestly say that the Dungeon series by Philip Jose Farmer was brilliant, up to the last novel.
Since each novel was wrote differently, by four different authors, (It complicated.)
I was dissapointed with the last authors efforts.
To put it quite bluntly, he tore the story a completely different ***HOLE.
I could not make hide nor hair of it.
The characters in the former books acted completely disconected, things weren't explained at all, they just coasted along, and the ending was complete and utter CRAP!
No I was quite put out when they let the author of the last book completely ruin the series, the story and plot arc that had been so deliciously building since the third book, and even the characters, damned character development was all shot to hell!
Everyone acted like they hadn't spent the last year down in that hell hole of a place, the main character reverted from a clever gentleman to a complete baboon and womanizer. I could go on and on.
Do yourself a favour if you read the dungeon series, stop at book five and make up your own ending. If you want dissapointment in cartloads then read the sixth.
Bradbury is a decent writer, and he seems quite smart, and he has some really good ideas. But does he have to be such a jerk?Quote:
Originally Posted by mono
P.S. I would like to take this oportunity to challenge everybody who said A Tale of Two Cities or Crime and Punishment to a fight.
very interesting thread.. in lots of posts there are books/authors i like, or even love.
I never keep reading a book if I'mm not enjoying it - life is too short, and there are too many books to be read, to waste time on stuff you don't like.
Here's a few that spring to mind:
1. anything by John Grisham
2. "chick lit"
3. A Hundred years of Solitude - and all his others
4. all of Ayn Rand's oeuvre
5. Ulysses - yeah, I did finish that, but only cos I had to
6. The Color Purple