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A while back I was posting in the monthly book thread and I mentioned a book I hated. Nate thought it was the first book I seemed to dislike. Here are a few I really hated and instead of a boring book review I will just say a few bits about it.

The Cardinal Of The Kremlin by Tom Clancy:

I read this about 8 years ago at one of my lowest points of my life, so maybe Im being a bit cruel on Tom Clancy. I was going out with a girl at the time and after acting like an asshole I was faced with a 14 hour bus journey to apologise. My friend gave me thi book to keep me occupied on the trip. I fucking hated it, I think after every few pages I would put it down and curse my dear friend who only meant well. I swore I would kick his ass but he was bigger than me. Damn you Tom Clancy.

Doctor Norrell and Mr Strange by Sussanna Clarke:

I think it was Sniffalotapuss who said he liked this book but honestly it was the worst piece of shit I read last year and possible the longest. I read the first bit and thought Woah this is fairly good but it could be better, unfortunately it didnt improve at all. It was so bad I used pages of it to line Cujos litter tray but he ended up shitting on the floor, nuff said.

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It was so bad I used pages of it to line Cujos litter tray but he ended up shitting on the floor, nuff said.

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hobbit. boring.
geralds game. so boring i didn't finish it.

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I wonder should I post reviews on Amazon? I wonder would they give me Free Postage or something?

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zoth wrote:
hobbit. boring.
geralds game. so boring i didn't finish it.

Gerald's Game is so annoying. On one hand, it's something to learn from, because the first bit of it so intense. I think it's the first or second or the two chapters there, first and second, where the suspense is just unreal. His idea is pretty good here, the girl tied to the bed, the dog outside. It's fucking frightening, but he knows it, King does, he knows he's busted out a perfect scene where he can do anything he wants and the suspense will always be there. What I hate about Stephen King is he never just fucking gives you anything, you have to work through pages and pages of irrelevant prose before the story develops. The sci-fi novels her husband reads, his habits with reading them, the little postcard that comes in his magazine that he was flipping through that he likes to use as a book mark. Anything he can go on about, he goes on about, giving us background information on things that are in no way essential to the story, and then it takes her twenty fucking pages to get a glass of water. She's tipping the shelf, so King has to go on for half a page about how her and her friend used to go on the teeter-totters.

It makes me forget how well he can tell a story when he really wants to, it makes me not ever want to pick up one of his books again.

The Hobbit was decent, I guess. Kind of boring. I can't read Tolkien. Him and his merry fucking hobbits and their being happy and gay and eating all day and finding cozy places to nest in on their journey. There's so many pederasty innuendos that I'm sure the man was in some way a pervert. But his prose is just boring to me. I've tried to read LOTR so many times but it's like every block of text is a wall I have to climb over and there's fuck all on the other side.

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I liked The Hobbit, but gave up on LOTR after the first book. I got sick of Frodo fainting everytime there was a bit of action. (Nightrious see how I added innuendo?).

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Haha, Cujo's so great. Man, Derek, do you have any idea how many books you've read?

I probably haven't read nearly as many books as you guys and I can't say I really hated one either. Back in high school they made you read certain books though, gotta say I always hated those. Maybe partially because they were in Dutch, which just not interests me at all.

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that reminds me of how much i hated 'johnny tremain' in jr high. i bombed on any test about that book.

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My friend and I were in B&N and I was looking for a Rollins book. My friend does not read books; does not have the patience, mental fortitude, or will to read a book. As he's peering through the vast bluff-like shelves of paper packed together with a binding he finds The Canterbury Tales..... he picks it up and takes the next 25 seconds to skim through only to yell out to me:

"Man, I don't know how you do it..."
"Do what?"
"Books."

He obviously didn't understand that I wouldn't even accept a free gift copy of The Canterbury Tales, let alone go out of my way to read it.

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Sup Alex.

Also, I'd like to symbolically burn a copy of "She's Come Undone" by Wally Lamb.

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Sup Jane.

I dont know that book, what is it?

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Nightrious wrote:
zoth wrote:
hobbit. boring.
geralds game. so boring i didn't finish it.

Gerald's Game is so annoying. On one hand, it's something to learn from, because the first bit of it so intense. I think it's the first or second or the two chapters there, first and second, where the suspense is just unreal. His idea is pretty good here, the girl tied to the bed, the dog outside. It's fucking frightening, but he knows it, King does, he knows he's busted out a perfect scene where he can do anything he wants and the suspense will always be there. What I hate about Stephen King is he never just fucking gives you anything, you have to work through pages and pages of irrelevant prose before the story develops. The sci-fi novels her husband reads, his habits with reading them, the little postcard that comes in his magazine that he was flipping through that he likes to use as a book mark. Anything he can go on about, he goes on about, giving us background information on things that are in no way essential to the story, and then it takes her twenty fucking pages to get a glass of water. She's tipping the shelf, so King has to go on for half a page about how her and her friend used to go on the teeter-totters.

It makes me forget how well he can tell a story when he really wants to, it makes me not ever want to pick up one of his books again.

The Hobbit was decent, I guess. Kind of boring. I can't read Tolkien. Him and his merry fucking hobbits and their being happy and gay and eating all day and finding cozy places to nest in on their journey. There's so many pederasty innuendos that I'm sure the man was in some way a pervert. But his prose is just boring to me. I've tried to read LOTR so many times but it's like every block of text is a wall I have to climb over and there's fuck all on the other side.


i couldnt say it better. everything. so i wont.

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thereve been a number of books--abortions--over the years. some i outright hated. there's an elation to flipping that last page and feeling changed. like kiss me, judas for instance. or survivor. or the slim but tortuous in the cut. and then again, there's nothing quite like flipping that last page of a book and hating god for everything.

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I know alot of people liked it and its considered a classic,but I hated catcher and the rye,the only parts I liked was when he got his ass kicked,haha

not a big fan of the stranger either,super boring,then right when it gets kinda good(when hes in jail) it ends

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The Road, Naked Lunch and Catcher in the Rye are the only books I've read that I hated. I only finished them so I could legally shit all over them when I talk about them later.

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You guys are insane. Lord of the Rings is my favorite book(s) of all time.

Ye all shall burn for your evil ways!!

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i don't know i can't hate a book, if it's dull i just quit reading it, you all are freaks.

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nathaniel parker wrote:
The Road, Naked Lunch and Catcher in the Rye are the only books I've read that I hated. I only finished them so I could legally shit all over them when I talk about them later.

I never finished Naked Lunch (I had to give it back when I moved) but I wholeheartedly agree with the other ones.

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the only burroughs book i could read was junkie

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I hated Gatsby...but you all knew that already.

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When this topic comes up, Catcher in the Rye is always at the top of my list. Over time, I've forgotten a lot of details about the story but I refuse to read it again because I DO remember how much I despised it.

Very few details of books stay with me but I can't shake that feeling of slogging through a book only to turn every new page and be greeted with more disappointment.

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Dennis wrote:
You guys are insane. Lord of the Rings is my favorite book(s) of all time.

Ye all shall burn for your evil ways!!

mine too,but the first book of the 3 is long,boring and far too drawn out.The only reason I made it past it,is cause I was in the hospital with nothing else too do.(I was 22,and this was the 1st book I EVER read,I always cheated through school,lol.now I read alot, so this book kinda changed my life)
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tom9d wrote:
I hated Gatsby...but you all knew that already.

I wish I could get Garrick in here to discuss this with you.

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I was not fond of To Kill A Mocking Bird.

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I know someone that named her cat Atticus and would get a tattoo of a mockingbird if she weren't afraid of the pain.

Plus, I think your opinion of this book will spark some debate with Tom.

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completely agree with shitting all over catcher in the rye.

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zoth wrote:

What I hate about Stephen King is he never just fucking gives you anything, you have to work through pages and pages of irrelevant prose before the story develops. Anything he can go on about, he goes on about, giving us background information on things that are in no way essential to the story...
It makes me forget how well he can tell a story when he really wants to...

I completely agree and put The Stand in as a great example of this... it's the only time I read 800 pages of a book and abandoned it because it was that annoying to read. To make it worse, I had the unabridged version... yeah, it was edited for a reason... talk about irrelevant prose.

You're not Jane Austen, Stephen King and I don't read your stuff for literary merit. Just make with the creepy and call it a day.

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I agree with Tom on Great Gatsby.
Also, Moby Dick. I hated reading that book so much.

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i loved gatsby and moby dick. but it wasnt til i was a full adult and read for fun and for writing that i read them. if id have had to read them in school, i'd probably had hated them, fiercely.

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I read them both for an American Literature uni paper.
You may be right Jkabol, I might possibly like them more now that I don't actually have to read them. But I'm not going to try. Espeically Moby Dick, I know that's blasphemy to some of you, but it really was bloody awful.

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morey wrote:
i don't know i can't hate a book, if it's dull i just quit reading it, you all are freaks.

Same here.
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Oh Boy I forgot about Twilight. I read it late last year, I was hearing all these great reviews but this was from local people. I shouldnt have listened. I hated the damn thing. After finishing it I told them in my local bookstore and they thought I was nuts for hating it. BAH! Twilight. I had forgotten all about it until last weeks St Patricks Day parade, there was a Goth Kids float, I wished I had a handgrenade.

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Anything by stephen King. That guys a fucking looser and I care NOTHING for him.

And chucks diary. Fuck was that bad.

and every book recommended by phil has also been shit. That AnnRyan or something, did she loose her Russia husband?

Girls should not write books for men!

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P.S. What is a single man like Barca doing with such love for a cat?

Men have needs you know.

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projcon wrote:
zoth wrote:

What I hate about Stephen King is he never just fucking gives you anything, you have to work through pages and pages of irrelevant prose before the story develops. Anything he can go on about, he goes on about, giving us background information on things that are in no way essential to the story...
It makes me forget how well he can tell a story when he really wants to...

I completely agree and put The Stand in as a great example of this... it's the only time I read 800 pages of a book and abandoned it because it was that annoying to read. To make it worse, I had the unabridged version... yeah, it was edited for a reason... talk about irrelevant prose.

You're not Jane Austen, Stephen King and I don't read your stuff for literary merit. Just make with the creepy and call it a day.

I like you!

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Ironman wrote:
P.S. What is a single man like Barca doing with such love for a cat?

Men have needs you know.

Sometimes we look at the wrong places to satisfy them.


Next time when posting look up at the thread title and then ask yourself - before I hit "Post comment" - how does this relate to the thread?

Can you please grow up? You've already been banned once. Don't start attacking people for no reason.

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projcon wrote:
zoth wrote:

What I hate about Stephen King is he never just fucking gives you anything, you have to work through pages and pages of irrelevant prose before the story develops. Anything he can go on about, he goes on about, giving us background information on things that are in no way essential to the story...
It makes me forget how well he can tell a story when he really wants to...

I completely agree and put The Stand in as a great example of this... it's the only time I read 800 pages of a book and abandoned it because it was that annoying to read. To make it worse, I had the unabridged version... yeah, it was edited for a reason... talk about irrelevant prose.

You're not Jane Austen, Stephen King and I don't read your stuff for literary merit. Just make with the creepy and call it a day.

I like you!

thanks! it's nice to be appreciated Smile

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PGoutis01 wrote:
Ironman wrote:
P.S. What is a single man like Barca doing with such love for a cat?

Men have needs you know.

Sometimes we look at the wrong places to satisfy them.


Next time when posting look up at the thread title and then ask yourself - before I hit "Post comment" - how does this relate to the thread?

Can you please grow up? You've already been banned once. Don't start attacking people for no reason.


I think most of us don't take these things seriously. Leave IRONMAN alone, and, please, don't ban him.

It's really hard for me to not finish a book i start, but Jane Austen and Willa Cather destroy my eyes with every sentence they put on pages. Hate's a strong word, though. The only author i probably actually hate is Charles Dickens and his epic retardity. Though, the Artful Dodger is one of my favorite characters ever, i still can't forgive Dickens for the rest of it, for all of it. Heart of Darkness i think is highly overrated and mostly shit. On the Road, too, just so boring and, well, shit. Oh, and Lady Chatterly's lover. Crash, too, just awful and bizarre.
Yeah, that seems like a good enough start.

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I would say I liked the catcher in the rye,
but this thread is about hated books.

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Espeically Moby Dick, I know that's blasphemy to some of you, but it really was bloody awful.

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A lot of people might say they hated the DaVinci Code but i didn't really hate it as much as I was bewildered at how anybody could like it so much. I think i spent the entire time reading that book with my jaw hanging open in amazement at how bad it was written or how all the "suspenseful" bits weren't really at all.
I facepalmed myself A LOT reading that book.

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Oh Boy I forgot about Twilight. I read it late last year, I was hearing all these great reviews but this was from local people. I shouldnt have listened. I hated the damn thing..
oh, man. you had me freaked for a few quiet moments. it took me more than a year to finally order a copy and it just got in and i'm excited to read it after dark water by joyce carol oats and so, a year in the making and destroyed instantly via a single post. then i kind of laughed. william gay is the author to the only twilight novel i have interest in reading haha ha
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Son of Rosemary by Ira Levin was probably the worst book I've ever read.

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rosiemoonjumper wrote:
Espeically Moby Dick, I know that's blasphemy to some of you, but it really was bloody awful.

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You're lucky you're so cute and awesome, Sarah, or i'd say the same thing.
Now go read it again. And smile, goddammit!

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Oh Boy I forgot about Twilight. I read it late last year, I was hearing all these great reviews but this was from local people. I shouldnt have listened. I hated the damn thing..
oh, man. you had me freaked for a few quiet moments. it took me more than a year to finally order a copy and it just got in and i'm excited to read it after dark water by joyce carol oats and so, a year in the making and destroyed instantly via a single post. then i kind of laughed. william gay is the author to the only twilight novel i have interest in reading haha ha
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Oh Noes Kabol. I should have said Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. I loved Twilight by William Gay, in fact Im going to see if hes got any more books.

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Just read Satan Burger, hated it.
Just immature nonsense.

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The Dreamers by Gilbert Adair. It was so darn boring !

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Halfway Through Knockemstiff. I don't wanna say hate but I really dislike it. It is a chore to read...boring exploitive trash if you ask me.

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I Heard You Paint Houses

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300 pages of that.

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World War Z.

Clever idea weakly executed. Took me months to finish.

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