badger
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Post by badger on Jul 10, 2011 1:26:36 GMT -5
Trainspotting. Goddamn that book was hard to read. It wasn't the characters, it wasn't the accent at least 80% of the book was written in, I just couldn't tell whose point of view I was seeing half the time. I spent most of the book wondering if it was Spud, Renton or Sick Boy I was supposed to be reading. I've been told the movie is easier to understand, but I don't think I could stomach watching most of the things they do in the book (Renton sticking his hand into a dirty toilet to get his suppository comes to mind).
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Alis
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Post by Alis on Jul 11, 2011 9:05:14 GMT -5
I too was let down by the Hunger Games. My roommate loved it, but I just couldn't get into it. I think it's because I hate survival books. (Let us never speak of the teacher who made me read Gary Paulsen, for she was an evil woman.) Into the Wild is another one, though that book also has a side of: "This kid is a stupid bitch! Why am I supposed to be inspired by this?"
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Post by Minimanic on Jul 20, 2011 22:45:13 GMT -5
Trainspotting. Goddamn that book was hard to read. It wasn't the characters, it wasn't the accent at least 80% of the book was written in, I just couldn't tell whose point of view I was seeing half the time. I spent most of the book wondering if it was Spud, Renton or Sick Boy I was supposed to be reading. I've been told the movie is easier to understand, but I don't think I could stomach watching most of the things they do in the book (Renton sticking his hand into a dirty toilet to get his suppository comes to mind). You should give the movie a shot. It's told from a single point of view so that should make things less confusing and trust me while the more unpleasant things still happen (toilet diving for instance) it is handled tastefully or at least creatively. I couldn't get into the book either but the film is one of my favorites. To stay on topic I couldn't get through American Psycho, not because it was too gruesome but because when it wasn't gruesome it was boring. I usually like Bret Easton Ellis too so it was all the more disappointing. |
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Post by Inquisitive White Rabbit on Jul 22, 2011 10:07:58 GMT -5
I have been told by a professor that anyone claiming to have thoroughly read and understood Ulysses is lying. And he's right. |
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Post by Inquisitive White Rabbit on Jul 22, 2011 10:20:58 GMT -5
Wicked. I hated it. It was way too political for my taste, especially for being a retelling from a villains point of view. Most people were reading it because of the Broadway show, which I hear is radically different from the book anyway. Dear God I hated that book. I brought it with me on a flight because a friend of mine suggested it. I made it as far as the 6th chapter before getting bored with it and tossing it back into my bag. Haven't touched the damn thing ever since. |
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rayyychul
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Post by rayyychul on Aug 2, 2011 20:55:58 GMT -5
The Book Thief. I heard nothing but good things about it and when it came time to read it, well, I disagreed. I read the first page and knew that it just wasn't for me. I do enjoy a good WWII/Nazi Germany story, but this one didn't do anything for me.
It just didn't grab me. I think a lot of it had to do with who it was narrated by, which made the other characters seem pretty shallow. I didn't have any emotional reaction to this novel because there wasn't really room for one. I knew squat about the characters, so there wasn't any reason for me to feel anything.
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Post by mallory on Jan 2, 2012 20:19:31 GMT -5
Pride and Prejudice. It's my best friends favorite book, and for the past 3 years she's been begging me to read it. I was hesitant, but then my favorite English teacher mentioned how Pride and Prejudice was her favorite book too. So I finally sat down and read it. They gave me such high hopes, but I was honestly bored throughout the entire thing.
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Post by sammybluejay on Jan 3, 2012 22:04:10 GMT -5
I definitely have to agree with the earlier mention of Frankenstein. I was so excited for that book because really, the story is a great one, but the novel was AWFUL in my opinion. I was so horribly disappointed by it, mainly because of Victor. The monster was kind of hilarious in a really caricatured, sadistic way, though, if that makes sense.
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Tanith
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Post by Tanith on Jan 5, 2012 13:00:48 GMT -5
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. I rarely read a book that I end up feeling almost completely neutral towards, but this was one. I was looking forward to reading it based on good reviews, but I was mostly bored by the writing and couldn't care about any of the characters. (Which I suppose was the point considering the narrator was supposed to be emotionally restrained and cold, but it still didn't make for an engaging read.) I also read An Artist of the Floating World and at the end had the same feeling of "Well, all right then." Ishiguro's writing just doesn't do it for me, I guess.
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