Worst book you've ever read

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
  I'm surprised everyone seems to hate this one so much.  I thought it was pretty good.  Maybe a bit long, but good.

i only read it because one of my favorite books was compared to it (The River Why) and just didnt find it nearly as good

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I read is because a pseudo-hippie ex-girlfriend recommended it. I guess I'm not pseudo-hippie enough.
 
 

Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
   

Zen and the Art of Motorcylce Maintenance  

I'm surprised everyone seems to hate this one so much.  I thought it was pretty good.  Maybe a bit long, but good. [/b]

[jhw5g]

thoughts on Lunar Park?
 
 
 walkonby
 Member # 4068   posted 10-10-2005 05:07 PM
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 glamorama by bret e. ellis
 
 what a waste by such a great

[Sir HC]

Originally posted by _Sexy Fitsum_:
  the one where the parents run a circus sideshow type of thing and they purposefully exposed their kids - while in the womb - to checmicals and radiation so they'd come out weird  and sidewshow-y. Never got into it, just sort of made me completely sick.

Geek Love.

[yinzer]

invisible monsters by chuck palahniuk

[renton007]

Originally posted by jdr:
  invisible monsters by chuck palahniuk

Diary was poor also. I hope Haunted is better.

[walkonby]

Originally posted by jhw5g:
  thoughts on Lunar Park?
 
 
 walkonby
 Member # 4068   posted 10-10-2005 05:07 PM
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 glamorama by bret e. ellis
 
 what a waste by such a great

i haven't given it a spin.  your opinion?  should i?

[smakawhat]

Stay the flying F**K away..
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 dogmatic boring diatribe
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 no talent hack, who has serious sexual issues
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 Waste of trees
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[smakawhat]

Originally posted by [username edited by p.c. moderator]:
  Camus' The Stranger.
 
 Dostoyevski's The Idiot is a close second.
 
 

Dostoyevski is awesome!!  The Idiot is not his best though, and I liked The Stranger.

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

Originally posted by smakawhat:
  Dostoyevski is awesome!!  

I agree, if we were talking Crime and Punishment or Brothers Karamazov. The Idiot, however, seems more like a character study in a less fleshed out version of one of his Brothers, however.

[Sir HC]

Books I have yet to slog through (3+ tries):
 
 Mason and Dixon - Pynchon -> The talking dog, that is where it ends.  I have read most everything else he has done and loved it.
 
 Lord of the Rings (first one) -> Gads page 100 and they haven't done anything.  It starts slower than a Stanley Steamer.

[blkmetlxhxc]

daughter of time bored the hell outta me!

[muschi]

i agree in the sense that russian writers and russians seem to like to be miserable and write about miserable things [sort of like The Cure of their time]. reading the Brothers Karamozov in college for russian history class was not dissimilar to the brain-numbing effects of narcotic medication. in fact i suspect the trudging chore of reading the book helps or might intentionally make one experience the misery along with the characters. "they all die miserably and tormented. the end. have a nice sleep sweetie". hav the cyanide handy when reading any russian author. no wonder all the russians i met in va beach this summer seem like they are friggin robots or they had a lobotomy. man, i swear i wouldnt be able to get it up for a russian chick despite how good looking they can be. Da!  
 
 but it was well written i'd give it 7 miserable smiley faces       :confused:                :confused:                :confused:                :confused:                :confused:                :confused:                :confused:               :confused:      
 
 [russian funeral dirge music heard in background]
 
       

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
  anna karinina
 i really don't care about each blade of grass in czarist russia

[smakawhat]

Originally posted by [username edited by p.c. moderator]:
   

Originally posted by smakawhat:
  Dostoyevski is awesome!!  

I agree, if we were talking Crime and Punishment or Brothers Karamazov. The Idiot, however, seems more like a character study in a less fleshed out version of one of his Brothers, however. [/b]

The Idiot wasn't a bad atempt to show the i guess "denoument" of a Christ like figure, but there isn't too much of a story (the party scenes are fantastic, and it has also one of the best duel scenes I've read right up there with Lermontov and Chekhov).
 
 Notes from Underground, Demons, even some of his short stories are really fantastic.  Brothers K.  is easily the best book I have ever read in my life.

[smakawhat]

Originally posted by muschi:
  i agree in the sense that russian writers and russians seem to like to be miserable and write about miserable things [sort of like The Cure of their time]. reading the Brothers Karamozov in college for russian history class was not dissimilar to the brain-numbing effects of narcotic medication. in fact i suspect the trudging chore of reading the book helps or might intentionally make one experience the misery along with the characters. "they all die miserably and tormented. the end. have a nice sleep sweetie". hav the cyanide handy when reading any russian author. no wonder all the russians i met in va beach this summer seem like they are friggin robots or they had a lobotomy. man, i swear i wouldnt be able to get it up for a russian chick despite how good looking they can be. Da!  
 
 but it was well written i'd give it 7 miserable smiley faces        :confused:                  :confused:                  :confused:                  :confused:                  :confused:                  :confused:                  :confused:                 :confused:        
 
 [russian funeral dirge music heard in background]
 
         

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
  anna karinina
 i really don't care about each blade of grass in czarist russia

[/b]

Ha ha.  I always say you know you are reading a Russian novel when:
 
 Some serf is getting beaten to death
 Someone has consumption
 Someone gets murdered
 Someone gets killed in a duel
 There's a good chance some antisemtic remarks will be made
 There is plenty of Kvass, pepper vodka, and samovars to go around
 
 Na zdorovje!!!