hard times- charles dickens
despartion-stephin king(I do like some stuff by king the stand is amazing)
naked prey-john sanford
stone angel(not sure the authors name)
kingcon(stephan j cannel)
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hard times- charles dickens
despartion-stephin king(I do like some stuff by king the stand is amazing)
naked prey-john sanford
stone angel(not sure the authors name)
kingcon(stephan j cannel)
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Originally Posted by Beaumains
You really feel that way about V.C. Andrews? Yeah incest is not good but think about it. V.C. Andrews has opened peoples eyes to whats going on in our modern day world and we can't ignore it. I think her books are really good and if you read the rest of the books in the series you might get why the incest is in the first book... Picture being locked away in an attic for four years being a teenage male and a teenage female. Im not saying that if I was in that situation, I'd commit incest... But.... Oh nvm I'll just get repetitive if I keep going. I hope you see my point. But it's just my opinion
--Jenna
Hey yeah.... Im 15 and I love The Da Vinci... It's amazing. Opens your eyes to concets you'd never really think of. And since your 13 and have read it, I've got respect for you. Not very many 13 year olds would have read it. But you got good taste.Quote:
Originally Posted by gumption
I think most of my favourite books have been mentioned in this thread so far :D
I'm struggling to come up with a list for a number of reasons, primarily because even when I don't enjoy a book, I can usually understand why it would be considered a classic/ground breaking etc.
for example, all that i've read of Atwood i've disliked, but I can see how people appreciate how cleverly she writes (not to my tastes however). There are also cultural factors to be taken into consideration, which doesn't make all books travel as well as others.
My only nomination would be Dan Brown, for the poor quality of english.
Leaves of grass (or any poetry by Walt Whitman for that matter)
The Lord of the Rings (apologies)
Great Expectations (Trying to read it was like trudging through quicksand)
But I'm not going to waste valuble time book bashing, for, as the late great Mr. Gunther Grass would say-- "Even bad books are books, and therefore sacred."
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley when it's translated to danish... never have i read anything so crass and poorly translated. it really distressed me while reading, so i ditched it and read the original, i was so relieved that i read it all in one day. :)
Though I have not read the other books in the series, I could not get into the second one (Petals on the wind....was its name probably?) but I will agree with you here that it is very difficult to control yourself when you are locked away in an attic for four years. I will consider Flowers In The Attic a very good novel.Quote:
Originally Posted by poetru_fanatic
I'm sort of dismayed to hear such great works as A Tale Of Two Cities and The Picture Of Dorian Gray denigrated, but to each his own. My personal five are:
1. The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand
2. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
4. Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
5. The Grapes Of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
Oh and may someone calmly explain to Ruth Rendell taht her books are crap, and that she should stop writing them, and that she has no talent, and that her narrative is completely predictable, and that "it's like a mouthfull of something-too-hot-to-swallow". NO!!!
Not literature! (goes away and grumbles in a corner)
The great Gatsby - Fitzgerald (just boring)
anything by Tolkien (In my opinion he is not at all a good narrater)
The catcher in the Rye - Salinger ( nice story , but a 2 years old could have written it way better than Salinger did ! I'm shocked for my live that somebody call that book Literature )
nearly anything by Dickens and Paulo Coelho (Dickens writes so unreal and Coelho thinks he's a great Poet and very sagely when he writes such crab as The Alchimist , sorry , really had to say that)
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"Not very many 13 year olds would have read it."
Oh , really ?! Almost everyone of my circle of acquaintances (and me too) read and loved it and we are nearly all around the age of 13.
I fully agree with Leaves of Grass. I once jokingly referred to it as "The consummate pot-smoker's guide to weed", but I really wonder how dear Old Walt managed to write it without being wasted on something. I couldn't read it under torture! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Jesourirai
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Originally Posted by Manfred
I'm a bit speachless, actually. What's wrong with The Grapes of Wrath?Quote:
Originally Posted by Manfred
It's dull, depressing, wordy, meandering.Quote:
Originally Posted by cuppajoe_9
No problem if you like it, many--even most--people do. But I don't personally care for angst-ridden tales of eternal optimism. This novel sounds hokey and simplistic to me, and it espouses values that feel like conservative propaganda.
I saw the best books but now lets name some of the books you regretted reading...
Mmm...worst books.
Obviously Dan Brown- The Da Vinci Code has to be there (ludicrous plot/poorly written).
Kate Mosse- Labyrinth (see above).
Stephen King- Cell (Characterization was poor, story lost impact about a third of the way through and tailed off to a less than thrilling conclusion).
Patricia Cornwell - Trace (Always something of a hit or miss affair-this novel though was probably her worst-sluggish and drawn out with a poor ending).
And last...but by no means least... 'Industrial Magic' by Kelley Armstrong.
I strongly disagree with dull. Depressing, wordy and meandering are all accurate, but none of them mean 'bad'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Manfred
Conservative propaganda? That's interesting. It reads quite a bit more like anarcho-communist propaganda from where I'm sitting (and I'd know). Grapes is one long critique of capitalism, specifically the divisiveness of the property system. What feels like conservative propaganda to you?
Hope I'm not getting too political for the mod-squad here.