Books you stopped reading . . .
I put it down at page front cover.
One wonders what possessed you to even pick it up in the first place?
he's 12! How does he even have enough of a life for a book? Is it 64 pages long?
Well, I was being sarcastic. Wikipedia says he is 16 though. So both our statements still stand. But instead of his book being 64 pages, now it is 75.
That was The Little Sisters of Eluria, and it was in Everything's Eventual. It's what made me want to read the whole series! I wish y'all would give it another shot. The Gunslinger is the least exciting, but once you get to the rest, OMG, best stories in all the land.
The Little Sisters of Eluria is the only story I stopped reading from Everything's Eventual. I just didn't care for it at all.
Haha, that story is so decisive! It made or broke so many people!
There is hope, but not for us.
Oh, didn't mean I stopped reading Everything's Eventual by the way. 
I loved the rest of the stories in the book.
I should be getting the new SK book delivered from Borders today. w00t!
I stopped reading American Psyhco because it made me feel sick (It was good, though) and Crime and Punishment because it was... Well, poorly written AND boring. I think it was badly translated.
Yo man! Next time, I kick your ass! That'll be that!
Most classics are boring.
Most people are kinda dumb. Still, if you take the time to get to know them, you'll find they're worth your time.
This is why we can't have nice things.
like hell.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
I stopped reading American Psyhco because it made me feel sick (It was good, though) and Crime and Punishment because it was... Well, poorly written AND boring. I think it was badly translated.
It isn't boring at all, nor is it poorly written. It is slow, yes, but it is a very good book with a very powerful message.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
I stopped reading American Psyhco because it made me feel sick (It was good, though) and Crime and Punishment because it was... Well, poorly written AND boring. I think it was badly translated.
It isn't boring at all, nor is it poorly written. It is slow, yes, but it is a very good book with a very powerful message.
She may have a point though if it's a bad translation.
I stopped reading American Psyhco because it made me feel sick (It was good, though) and Crime and Punishment because it was... Well, poorly written AND boring. I think it was badly translated.
It isn't boring at all, nor is it poorly written. It is slow, yes, but it is a very good book with a very powerful message.
I couldn't agree with you more. That is one of the books that has never left my top ten lists since the first one I ever compiled.
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Well that's like your opinion... man...
Ban.
not books, but i was assigned some essays by sheryl strayed about how she cheated on her husband, subsequently divorced him, and somewhere in the middle got addicted to smack.
i think i would have been ok with it, had these essays been fictitious, but since i knew going in that 'mark' was a real dude, and you could see through the essays that he adored her, it just made me think she was kind of a bitch.
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“...There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain. You ought to have some apprehension that the man you see before you was once even younger than you are now and arrived at his present wretchedness by imperceptible degrees.”
-James Baldwin
i think i would have been ok with it, had these essays been fictitious, but since i knew going in that 'mark' was a real dude, and you could see through the essays that he adored her, it just made me think she was kind of a bitch.
Caps?
Sounds like she's the Worst kind of a Bitch.
Controlling douchebags can adore their wives, too.
I've not read the stories in question. I'm just sayin'.
This is why we can't have nice things.
wait, someone called Sheryl Strayed cheated on her husband?
...
here is one of those essays. i cannot find more than excerpts of the other one
the love of my life
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“...There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain. You ought to have some apprehension that the man you see before you was once even younger than you are now and arrived at his present wretchedness by imperceptible degrees.”
-James Baldwin
Demon Theory.
Shit, I feel like I should apologize. Ah well....
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Shit, I feel like I should apologize. Ah well....
Don't let anyone on The Velvet know...unless you want to be tarred and feathered.
I finished Demon Theory, but I'm not sure why...
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
Shit, I feel like I should apologize. Ah well....
i still havent gotten to that one.
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“...There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain. You ought to have some apprehension that the man you see before you was once even younger than you are now and arrived at his present wretchedness by imperceptible degrees.”
-James Baldwin
Shit, I feel like I should apologize. Ah well....
i still havent gotten to that one.
I'll give it another go at some point, and if I just can't get into it.. Hell, I'd send it to you.
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Shit, I feel like I should apologize. Ah well....
i still havent gotten to that one.
I'll give it another go at some point, and if I just can't get into it.. Hell, I'd send it to you.
oh, no i have one. its just that my to read pile is growing faster than im able to read things.
although, you could still send it to me, i could find a home for it. i try to keep spare copies of authors i like for purposes of promotion
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“...There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain. You ought to have some apprehension that the man you see before you was once even younger than you are now and arrived at his present wretchedness by imperceptible degrees.”
-James Baldwin
Shit, I feel like I should apologize. Ah well....
Don't let anyone on The Velvet know...unless you want to be tarred and feathered.
I would think never having started it at all would be worse then only reading half of it.
James Joyce's Ulysses. Man what a piece of garbage that is. James Joyce is a fuckin hack. First off, who begins a novel with "stately"? "Stately" is such a retarded word. And he writes "stately" all big with a big S!
Secondly, he should write more simple. He was just using a thesaurus the whole time and trying to be like Chuck.
I'm sick of writers like James Joyce who try to be all cool by using big words. The thing about literature is that you've got to write simple and just cut out all the detail.
No action and I expected it to be sexy but man it was far from sexy.
I stopped after reading "stately" and couldn't read anymore. Joyce is a has-been whose trying to be hella transgressional. Don't get me started.
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Secondly, he should write more simple. He was just using a thesaurus the whole time and trying to be like Chuck.
I'm sick of writers like James Joyce who try to be all cool by using big words. The thing about literature is that you've got to write simple and just cut out all the detail.
No action and I expected it to be sexy but man it was far from sexy.
I stopped after reading "stately" and couldn't read anymore. Joyce is a has-been whose trying to be hella transgressional. Don't get me started.
Lol.
thanks for sharing.blackhawk tactical pants.
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"I could have done worse!" exultantly cried the murderer Lebret, sentenced at Rouen to hard labor for life. — Félix Fénéon
n scott momaday - house made of dawn - this book wins a pulitzer? for what? for not going anywhere and taking 300 pages to do it? AWESOME
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“...There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain. You ought to have some apprehension that the man you see before you was once even younger than you are now and arrived at his present wretchedness by imperceptible degrees.”
-James Baldwin
seriously though, this is one of the worst things i have read in so long. how it got published i will never know--did he vanity publish? seems like something he would do. the guy loves himself, and it shines through in his narrative, if you could call it that.
fuck-up No.1: he opens the novel with the word "Suddenly". fuck. you shouldn't ever use that retarded word anyway, let alone open your damn book with it.
fuck-up No.2: basically each sentence in the opening chapter is a fucking paragraph of its own. and it doesn't need to be. it's distracting and annoying.
and don't even ge me started on the voice and the language. it's immature and trying to so hard to be trangressive and edgy, and just comes off as "look at me look at me! i'm cool. trust. i am. look at me swearing and being gross!"
UGH!
seriously though, sorry, Chris. i feel bad because the book was a gift from Caligula for the may exchange, but i honestly couldn't let this slide. never buy it ever. it's kindling material, at best.
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"Suddenly" is the lamest word ever and any writer who says "suddenly" is stupid. This is why Suglia is the stupidest author in the world. He also uses the word "impulse" which makes him even more of an idiot. He could of used any other word but he had to use "suddenly" and "impulse" in his stupid book. Total idiot.
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i hate to say this again, so soon after rachie, but why is this asshole still allowed to post here?
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“...There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain. You ought to have some apprehension that the man you see before you was once even younger than you are now and arrived at his present wretchedness by imperceptible degrees.”
-James Baldwin
he's not even amusing.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
I stop reading lots of books till I have about ten books half read...
I didn't care for David Nicholls "one Day" much, so I stopped a fair bit in. Especially after he said he would take a while to get back to me for questions on my website. Also, it is quite romantic, and my heart is a barren wasteland.
You look like the type of guy / gal, who would like:
The Box Man, by Japanese writer Kobo Abe.
Damn, I so wanted to like this book; usually this kind of style (offbeat and whacked-out) is my cuppa tea, but I just felt jilted by the cardboard box fixation.
Andrez Bergen
A couple o' hack novels out, and upcoming noir/pulp/comicbook thing (Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa?)
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Sadly, after reading about 60% of "Kiss Me, Judas", I gave up on it. Not to say it isn't a good book, just not my style. I liked the heavy atmosphere and all the "noir" feeling of it, but it was hard to follow for me. Baer kept juggling with the ideas up to the point of me not being able to concentrate anymore on the big picture of the story.
BLASPHEMY!!
also, i just stopped reading PARIS NOIRE, since i had, up to that point read a good quarter of it, and it had done little other than degrade into a romance novel, and waste pages telling me how pretty people were.
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“...There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain. You ought to have some apprehension that the man you see before you was once even younger than you are now and arrived at his present wretchedness by imperceptible degrees.”
-James Baldwin
Confessions of an English opium eater, not engaging at all.
The Count of Monte Cristo, got about a third of the way through it a while ago, but put it down to start something else and never felt inclined to pick it up again. Wouldn't mind hearing what someone who has actually finished it thinks of it.
I couldn't make it through the Twilight Series. Not only was it highly pants-on-head retarded, it warrants social merit from every angsty hormonal ridden teenage girl who thinks life's all peaches and glittering men to marry and have children with. The modern fairytale with a twist of "vegetarian" vampires. Mother of Pearl! Vegetarian?!?! That felt like a kick-to-the-crotch and spit-on-the-neck. Not to mention, the grammar and punctuation was below par.
Ridiculousness at it's finest, I say.
Look up into the stars and you're gone.
im stalled out on DAMNED, because it's just rambling snot nosed horse shit. i have, other places, mentioned how sometimes you can see the author sitting at the keys smirking at how clever he is, and this is chuck's "lookie me, i think im clever" book
i REALLY hate to say that.
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“...There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain. You ought to have some apprehension that the man you see before you was once even younger than you are now and arrived at his present wretchedness by imperceptible degrees.”
-James Baldwin
A Bend In The River by VS Naipaul.
Extremely boring! I read about a third of the book, and nothing happened. The language wasn't even that good, which you'd expect from a winner of the Nobel prize in literature.
"Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested."
"Jemand musste Josef K. verleumdet haben, denn ohne dass er etwas Böses getan hätte, wurde er eines Morgens verhaftet"
Sometimes not much happens in books, and then you realize a lot happened and you weren't reading.
thanks for sharing.blackhawk tactical pants.
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"I could have done worse!" exultantly cried the murderer Lebret, sentenced at Rouen to hard labor for life. — Félix Fénéon
I mostly read porn these days so when I start a book and don't see any hot skull-fucking by at least the third page I stop.
I stopped reading bonfire of the vanities; Dense book is dense.
I put it down at page front cover.
One wonders what possessed you to even pick it up in the first place?
he's 12! How does he even have enough of a life for a book? Is it 64 pages long?