Books I hated
I'm gonna go ahead and agree with jane s. but only because I like her icon.
And here I thought I was majorly stupid for hating 'Catcher In The Rye'. Now I must search for other reasons for my stupidity.
Slander, libel, and completely untrue!
In fact, i am right about almost everything. Especially Jane Austen and Charles Dickens.
"Emergency: This Book Could Save You Life" by Neil Strauss.
Hated it. And what's distressing is that if I ever wrote a book, it would be that one.
Love,
Joe Tonigh
Love,
Joe Tonigh
Hated it. And what's distressing is that if I ever wrote a book, it would be that one.
Love,
Joe Tonigh
I emailed Neil to see if he'd like to do a book discussion. He gets a lot of emails because of the Game I guess. He never got back to me...
So you don't think Rosie is cute and awesome?
Okay, he's wrong about everything EXCEPT Rosie and Charles Dickens.
There is hope, but not for us.
Hated it. And what's distressing is that if I ever wrote a book, it would be that one.
Love,
Joe Tonigh
I emailed Neil to see if he'd like to do a book discussion. He gets a lot of emails because of the Game I guess. He never got back to me...
try again, he's always replied to the ones i sent him, except for one maybe.
i thought 'emergency' was good though. lots of interesting stuff in there. it is a little long-winded though.
Hated it. And what's distressing is that if I ever wrote a book, it would be that one.
Love,
Joe Tonigh
I emailed Neil to see if he'd like to do a book discussion. He gets a lot of emails because of the Game I guess. He never got back to me...
try again, he's always replied to the ones i sent him, except for one maybe.
i thought 'emergency' was good though. lots of interesting stuff in there. it is a little long-winded though.
What email did you use? If you don't want to post it here just PM me with it.
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Great Expectations, a novel by Charles Dickens.
Invisible Monsters
I didn't necessarily hate the book but found Chuck's inability to write a convincing female voice excruciating...fortunately he improved and became one of my favourite authors 
Re:Emergency by Neil Strauss
I take it back. I don't hate any books. Some I enjoy more than others but hate them? No.
Love,
Joe Tonigh
I'm seeing some Catcher in the Ryes and Gatsbys being posted. Crazy.
An old book that I had to read freshmen year in highschool, House on Mango Street is a piece of shit. I wish I could forget it, but I never will. Years after reading it I still can't drive past a travelling carnival, and NOT think back to sour clowns raping hispanic girls.
Perks of Being a Wallflower was recommended to me by a friend. He told me it was similar to Catcher in the Rye from a narating point-of-view, and at the time I was just finishing Catcher, and I really liked it so I checked out Perks. Piece of shit.
Beautiful Boy showed me how a father could cash-in on his son's meth addiction. (a little harsh, maybe)
Kite Runner only made me frown at the majority of best-selling books of this generation.
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Less Than Zero
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"My hopes lay shattered like a mirror on the floor
I see myself and I look really scattered
But I lived my broken dreams"
- Daniel Johnston
i hated 'perks of being a wallflower' so much. i can't understand how so many people said it was their favorite book of all time. maybe if you're a spoiled half gay 15 year old it could be. who wants to read about that?
Finnegan's Wake.
The Awakening.
Step back. Evaluate. Recognize.
I had a roommate once that also claimed Perks as her favorite book of all time. Took me months to read it. Since it's about 25 pages long you can imagine how much I avoided it. I kept saying that I wanted to 'savor it' and shit like that so I could keep putting it off.
"I thought I had mono once for an entire year. Turns out I was just really bored."
Wayne Campbell
You offend me.
This is why we can't have nice things.
You offend me.
Yeah, I tried to ignore that one as well.
"My hopes lay shattered like a mirror on the floor
I see myself and I look really scattered
But I lived my broken dreams"
- Daniel Johnston
Bravo to you two for enjoying that book, I loathed it
Step back. Evaluate. Recognize.
Ayn Rand is a piss-poor author with flatly written characters, no plots to speak of and laughable motifs. Her books are thin romans a clef mired in self-absorption and greed. Her ideology is rooted entirely in fear.
This is why we can't have nice things.
The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged dare both great titles for books though.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Yeah, ok.
Step back. Evaluate. Recognize.
Too bad they're not original.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Yeah, ok.
Oh, that wasn't directed at you.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Don't worry, I'm not taking any offense lol
Step back. Evaluate. Recognize.
I didn't necessarily hate the book but found Chuck's inability to write a convincing female voice excruciating...fortunately he improved and became one of my favourite authors
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Arc of justice, by Kevin Boyle.
His daughter is in my english class, so the teacher was paid to force us to read it. A history book attempting to be a thriller, bad idea if you ask me. I just kept getting lost and lost on the same page and couldnt plow through it. Ok, so it won the national book award and several others. I researched it and there were so many positive reviews, i couldnt count them. I hated it and Everyone loved it. Duh
Atlas Shrugged is one of my favorite titles for a book ever. It always makes me want to read it.
I can't remember if i said this, but On The Road by Kerouac sucks.
Kite Runner only made me frown at the majority of best-selling books of this generation.
Agreed. Though I didn't hate it, I thought it was unoriginal, badly written and predictable. A total waste of time.
Atlas Shrugged is one of my favorite titles for a book ever. It always makes me want to read it.
I can't remember if i said this, but On The Road by Kerouac sucks.
One of these days, I'll read On The Road, like any book, I hope it won't suck.
"My hopes lay shattered like a mirror on the floor
I see myself and I look really scattered
But I lived my broken dreams"
- Daniel Johnston
On the Road doesn't suck. It captures a time perfectly. However, I'm glad I didn't live in that time.
Oh man, I forgot all about "Kite Runner." That was picked as our "One City, One Book" selection in Lincoln in I think 2005. It beat "Life of Pi"!
I hate you, Lincoln.
There is hope, but not for us.
I hate you, Lincoln.
No way! I loved Life of Pi so much that when I finished crying I started reading it all over again.
Speaking of the suck, and an aside to Jane, Griffin is playing the Wizard in the Wizard of Oz in a school play, but he was furious that his first choice Peter Pan wasn't voted in. Then my sister explained that no way would they hook him to cables to fly around in the air on stage in the second grade and he got over it.
I used to not (when I was younger), but now I totally agree. I enjoyed Anthem, though.
On the Road doesn't really suck. It is highly overrated, though. I'd put most of the Beats in that category, too.
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I'm coming to find that I mostly agree with you so far in my tip-toeing about the Beat movement. I haven't dove much deaper than Burrough's Naked Lunch , and a few poems and shorts in this hard back collection of writings from that movement, but I've yet to discover anything I'd call excellent.
Still though, I'll give On the Road a read.
"My hopes lay shattered like a mirror on the floor
I see myself and I look really scattered
But I lived my broken dreams"
- Daniel Johnston
i didn't really like 'jennifer government'. it was too quick and derivative, like he just wrote it to be made into a movie. it could have been such a cool book because the premise was interesting enough.
there are so many books i love here - Moby Dick,The Great Gatsby, Naked Lunch, On the Road. i mean, once you're past 17 there's not much to identify with in Catcher In the Rye, but MOBY DICK??? it was one i felt required to read at some point, but i ended up loving it - it made me chainsmoke and pace and pull my hair.
i HATE Jane Austen. more than i hate Bono, even. she's a prissy Danielle Steele. i hate Dracula, which pisses me off because Stoker can write when he wants to. and i hated The Good Earth.
I don't know if I said this already but Mitch Albom.
i HATE Jane Austen. more than i hate Bono, even. she's a prissy Danielle Steele.
I've never read anything by Bono. I didn't even know he wrote. Maybe you might enjoy Jane Austen with some zombies added? Here: http://www.amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Zombies-Classic-Ultraviolent/dp/15...
it was a passionate hatred comparison rather than a writer comparison
Pride...AND Prejudice...AND Zombies.
What more could one ever ask for?
Has anyone read that? I'm intrigued.
Step back. Evaluate. Recognize.
i haven't, and i don't believe i can - though zombies would definately improve upon jane austen, there would still be jane austen. more than likely i would just shred the book with my teeth and become murderously angry at jane austen all over again for interrupting the zombies with her haughty language and manners.
Yeah, I'm intrigued in an "oh look at that gruesome car crash" way.
Step back. Evaluate. Recognize.
I've mentioned this before, but it cannot be said enough: Remainder by Tom McCarthy, was a boring repetitive book with absolutely no plot. I do not wish that book on anyone.
Also, Futureland by Walter Mosley was a crapsalad of racist prose, encapsulated by horrible writing.
Those are the only two books I can say I hated...and I've read more than half of the Left Behind series (which probably wouldn't have been that bad provided they weren't written as propaganda).
Think for yourself. Question Authority.
thank you for introducing me to the word "crapsalad". i'd never heard it before!
Bono doesn't have to be an author; he can be hated freely in any thread on any forum.
This is why we can't have nice things.
"Seriously guys, why all the hate?"
I like my Bonos singing. Not talking, writing or breathing or existing in general.
I would like to state for the record that Eddy is wrong about everything forever and ever, amen.
There is hope, but not for us.