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Post by andreaisabbbw on Jun 11, 2011 2:12:26 GMT -5
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. I think I got about a quarter of the way through before I threw the book out and called it bullshit. And then I found out Clare was accused of plagiarism and I hated it more.
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Post by Marina on Jun 11, 2011 15:26:05 GMT -5
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. I think I got about a quarter of the way through before I threw the book out and called it bullshit. And then I found out Clare was accused of plagiarism and I hated it more. Oh, really? Darn, I shouldn't have bought those books. |
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Post by devilishlybookish on Jun 11, 2011 16:14:33 GMT -5
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. I think I got about a quarter of the way through before I threw the book out and called it bullshit. And then I found out Clare was accused of plagiarism and I hated it more. Oh, really? Darn, I shouldn't have bought those books.
I wouldn't read her books because of that (that and the fact that she was a HUGE brat when she was called out for plagiarizing), but sources say she plagiarizes herself in her novels, taking from her old fanfic.
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Post by Zeffy on Jun 11, 2011 16:34:41 GMT -5
The Fountainhead. I don't care if this makes me a bad English major. I just think if you want to write a philosophical book, write one. Don't try to make a novel out of it. Especially not when you admit that your character is Gary Stu, even when he rapes a woman.
Oh, sorry, he didn't rape her. She wanted it because she looked at him and he knew.
God damn it.
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Annie Ozone
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Post by Annie Ozone on Jun 12, 2011 19:51:13 GMT -5
Second the Ayn Rand so hard. I have to forcibly stop myself from rolling my eyes anytime a business major is like "Have you read Atlas Shrugged? Because that is the greatest." For one thing, it hurts my pinko commie liberal heart, and for another, that is not how you book.
Also, I had a terrible time with Cold Mountain. The prose was just impossible to get through, for some reason. Anyone else gonna back me up on this?
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Post by cyanea on Jun 13, 2011 0:47:24 GMT -5
Dracula.
Heavy, incomprehensible dialect is bad.
Making one of your main characters speak in stilted baby English and spend half a page telling Mina what a treasure she is several times is not how you book.
And the ending is the most anti-climactic piece of garbage ever.
I love the mythos, and everything that's spawned from Dracula. I just hate that book.
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Post by Vergissmeinnicht on Jun 13, 2011 12:01:37 GMT -5
So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld. I'd read a lot of his other books and that one just...I dunno. I really didn't enjoy it at all.
Also, there was some joint science fiction book Orson Scott Card wrote with another author...something about DNA or a virus or something...it was disappointing after being such an avid fan of the Ender series.
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Post by Olive on Jun 13, 2011 12:10:33 GMT -5
So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld. I'd read a lot of his other books and that one just...I dunno. I really didn't enjoy it at all. Also, there was some joint science fiction book Orson Scott Card wrote with another author...something about DNA or a virus or something...it was disappointing after being such an avid fan of the Ender series. Your description immediately brought Speaker for the Dead to mind... but since that wasn't a collab, and part of the Ender series, I assume that's not what you're talking about... Meaning, I have no clue, sorry :-P |
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Post by alligator on Jun 13, 2011 12:16:16 GMT -5
I'm sad that a lot of people didn't like the Hunger Games. I know they weren't the greatest ever, but I thought they were well done for being young adult novels. I definitely feel the same way about Dracula as cyanea. I was so excited to read it and then I found the language was very difficult to muddle through. I did enjoy the format, though, in that it wasn't told as a straight piece of literature, but rather through diaries, etc. And also Ayn Rand. You guys basically all have the same feelings I do.  I absolutely hated Frankenstein. It might not have been so terrible if Victor weren't such a whiny and irritating "protagonist". I can't even put into words what else about it I didn't like; I just couldn't stomach it. |
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Post by Vergissmeinnicht on Jun 13, 2011 12:18:10 GMT -5
No, I actually love Speaker. I don't think it was a really popular book, I just picked it up and...no. Hang on, let me look it up actually...
Card co-wrote a novel published in 2007 called Invasive Procedures with Aaron Johnston. Yeah. That's it.
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Post by Olive on Jun 13, 2011 12:25:54 GMT -5
No, I actually love Speaker. I don't think it was a really popular book, I just picked it up and...no. Hang on, let me look it up actually... Card co-wrote a novel published in 2007 called Invasive Procedures with Aaron Johnston. Yeah. That's it. Ah. Yeah, haven't heard a single word about that. |
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Post by KatjevanLoon on Jun 16, 2011 3:20:33 GMT -5
Oh, really? Darn, I shouldn't have bought those books.
I wouldn't read her books because of that (that and the fact that she was a HUGE brat when she was called out for plagiarizing), but sources say she plagiarizes herself in her novels, taking from her old fanfic.
Either way, I'm not gonna touch that with a 50ft pole.I used to read her Very Secret Diaries and laugh myself silly, years ago. Recently (a few months ago) I read a very large series of JournalFen posts outlining the plagiarism debacle, and was saddened. I still find VSD funny, however. |
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Post by Pencils on Jun 16, 2011 16:07:34 GMT -5
I'm sad that a lot of people didn't like the Hunger Games. I know they weren't the greatest ever, but I thought they were well done for being young adult novels. I made it through half of The Hunger Games before quitting because I just wasn't that interested. I mean, it was okay, but as the original poster said, it was painfully predictable and honestly I didn't find the characters that interesting. I can't blame some young people for not enjoying something that's 'well done for a young adult novel'. I personally demand something that's just, well, a well done novel. Why should the age group it's written for matter? |
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Post by inarikins on Jun 16, 2011 16:23:05 GMT -5
I personally didn't want to read The Hunger Games. I thought it was kinda silly, but everybody around me was talking about how good they are. I was at the library and found the audiobook so I checked it out, figuring that I could listen to it in my car while I'm driving. I found that I actually like the books. I'm done with Catching Fire, but I'm not on Mockingjay yet. I definitely think the first one is the best, but that's almost always the case.
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alyoshka
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Post by alyoshka on Jun 16, 2011 16:37:32 GMT -5
I was extremely disappointed with Slaughterhouse-five. I remember being so excited and happy to read it.
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