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Worst book of all time
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He is Yahweh
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Sorry meghablonde, its just something you'll have to get used to!meghablonde said:aww :o Shakespeare/s my favorite author ever.
Don't worry I won't get all up in arms.... yet
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Pretty much anyone english will dislike shakespeare, because we are forced to study it at school, and its usually very very very dull! And thats just the way it is unfortunately!
I have to say though, I quite like midsummer night's dream.
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Gulliver's Travels. That book should die. I can understand Gulliver going back on a journey after being shipwrecked once..But then being shipwrecked again, and then going on a 3rd and 4th trip..Getting shipwrecked each time..That's just stupid.
GRR..I get mad thinking about that book. The whole English class hated it so much our teacher is going to go to the curriculum committee and have them change it to another book.
GRR..I get mad thinking about that book. The whole English class hated it so much our teacher is going to go to the curriculum committee and have them change it to another book.
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Piers Anthony's For the love of evil is a book in which the last half is possibly the most rediculous and awful book I have ever read. I am not talking about the basic premise,for the purposes of fiction I will accept that. I am talking about the fact that he had to be on some serious drugs to write what he did. People flying around in a giant invisible fish. Now that might work in a xanth novel, but not in this book.
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Where the Red Fern Grows. Why oh why do they pick the worst books to read at school? oh yeah, and The Call of the Wild.
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I'm English and I looked forward to every single lesson of being forced to study Shakespeare, lol! I'm taking it next semester... *salivates*He is Yahweh said:Sorry meghablonde, its just something you'll have to get used to!
Pretty much anyone english will dislike shakespeare, because we are forced to study it at school, and its usually very very very dull! And thats just the way it is unfortunately!
I have to say though, I quite like midsummer night's dream.
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He is Yahweh
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lol, there's always one!Cordelia said:
Are you an english student or something then?
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I too love Shakespeare! My fave so far has probably been "Much Ado About Nothing", but now I'm really looking forward to "Midsummer Night's Dream" I love that he was such a diverse writer, writing from romantic tragedies such as "Romeo and Juliet", to tragedies with a bit of a horror aspect ("Macbeth", "Hamlet") all the way to comedies like "Much Ado About Nothing". I also love how his style of writing is so different from anything else you're likely to read.
I also love George Orwell!! "1984" is my fave of his, but also enjoyed "Animal Farm".
"Lord of the Flies" is one of my favorite books, so I'm another to add to the list of people who did enjoy it.
I got Hemmingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" for Christmas last year, haven't read it yet though. It certainly sounds like a book I would enjoy (based on the description on the back). I love stories about people down on their luck, who finds the courage overcome it (or at least try), but I guess we'll have to see what I think after I do read it
As far as the worst book I have ever read... I didn't enjoy the "Left Behind" series. It was so badly written that I times I had a hard time even figuring out what was going on (course my mind would also wonder, and I'd realize I've "read" a whole chapter without really reading).
I was disappointed with Stephen King's "Hearts in Atlantis" and Thomas Harris' "Hannibal" was also not very enjoyable.
I loved "Silence of the Lambs" and "Red Dragon" but "Hannibal" was boring. It was poorly written, and just seemed rushed.
I also love George Orwell!! "1984" is my fave of his, but also enjoyed "Animal Farm".
"Lord of the Flies" is one of my favorite books, so I'm another to add to the list of people who did enjoy it.
I got Hemmingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" for Christmas last year, haven't read it yet though. It certainly sounds like a book I would enjoy (based on the description on the back). I love stories about people down on their luck, who finds the courage overcome it (or at least try), but I guess we'll have to see what I think after I do read it
As far as the worst book I have ever read... I didn't enjoy the "Left Behind" series. It was so badly written that I times I had a hard time even figuring out what was going on (course my mind would also wonder, and I'd realize I've "read" a whole chapter without really reading).
I was disappointed with Stephen King's "Hearts in Atlantis" and Thomas Harris' "Hannibal" was also not very enjoyable.
I loved "Silence of the Lambs" and "Red Dragon" but "Hannibal" was boring. It was poorly written, and just seemed rushed.
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Really not fan of animal farm or any shakespeare play..I mean I get stuff out of them but I don't like them that much...
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I didn't really care for Perelandra or Out of the Silent Planet either.Eudaimonist said:
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I like,
Shakespeare
LoTF
Tolkien
C.S. Lewis (both fiction and theology)
I loved Grapes of Wrath
Louis L'Armour
Science-fiction
Fantasy
Books I hated
Gone with the Wind (& the movie was even MORE tedious)
Of Mice and Men
The Left Behind series
Shakespeare
LoTF
Tolkien
C.S. Lewis (both fiction and theology)
I loved Grapes of Wrath
Louis L'Armour
Science-fiction
Fantasy
Books I hated
Gone with the Wind (& the movie was even MORE tedious)
Of Mice and Men
The Left Behind series
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Wee, on we go:
Steinbeck: The only author whose writing has parts I hate so fervently and at the same time like so much. For example, The Grapes of Wrath was way too stretched out for my tastes so that it got monotonous and boring in the middle, but some of my favorite lines ever written by an author are here, such as:
"Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putresence drip down into the earth.
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success...."
Golding - I liked Lord of the Flies, because it was one of the few books that made me uncomfortable in a non-ridiculous/bearable way. I also have a side interest in psychology and the human nature and such, so this fits in perfectly.
Orwell - 1984 is one of my all-time favorites. Animal Farm was good, too; although it's very simple. But 1984, now that was an excellent novel.
C.S. Lewis - Eh, Narnia was a good read when I was in fifth and sixth grade. Though, I haven't read any of the Narnia books since then (although I did re-read all of them throughout fifth and sixth grade several times).
King - I haven't read too much of his books to decide if I really like him or not, but I remember being really proud of finishing It in seventh grade - it was the longest book I'd ever read at the time. Pretty decent, too; but that's from what I remember then. I'd probably get another opinion if I ever get to re-reading it.
Shakespeare - I guess Shakespeare is okay, although I should honestly try harder to "get past the language" before passing judgment. We're starting "Julius Caesar" this school year, so eh.
Hemingway... I remember reading the first few chapters of A Farewell to Arms some years back and laying it down in boredom. However, I was pretty spoiled then, so I think I'll go read it sometime in the near future. I know I've read The Old Man and the Sea, but I don't remember anything about it. Bah.
Hmm... the worst book I've ever read... that's pretty hard, because I'm pretty selective on what I read. And the few bad ones I do read, I usually forget. And I'm not listing the mediocre novels that pop up in my head - after all, this is "worst novels", not "mediocre novels". The problem is that I have a tendency to change my mind about books and how good they were as I age.
Oh! I think I got one - Anthem, by Ayn Rand. I remember that it was really dull prose, if anything.
Steinbeck: The only author whose writing has parts I hate so fervently and at the same time like so much. For example, The Grapes of Wrath was way too stretched out for my tastes so that it got monotonous and boring in the middle, but some of my favorite lines ever written by an author are here, such as:
"Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putresence drip down into the earth.
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success...."
Golding - I liked Lord of the Flies, because it was one of the few books that made me uncomfortable in a non-ridiculous/bearable way. I also have a side interest in psychology and the human nature and such, so this fits in perfectly.
Orwell - 1984 is one of my all-time favorites. Animal Farm was good, too; although it's very simple. But 1984, now that was an excellent novel.
C.S. Lewis - Eh, Narnia was a good read when I was in fifth and sixth grade. Though, I haven't read any of the Narnia books since then (although I did re-read all of them throughout fifth and sixth grade several times).
King - I haven't read too much of his books to decide if I really like him or not, but I remember being really proud of finishing It in seventh grade - it was the longest book I'd ever read at the time. Pretty decent, too; but that's from what I remember then. I'd probably get another opinion if I ever get to re-reading it.
Shakespeare - I guess Shakespeare is okay, although I should honestly try harder to "get past the language" before passing judgment. We're starting "Julius Caesar" this school year, so eh.
Hemingway... I remember reading the first few chapters of A Farewell to Arms some years back and laying it down in boredom. However, I was pretty spoiled then, so I think I'll go read it sometime in the near future. I know I've read The Old Man and the Sea, but I don't remember anything about it. Bah.
Hmm... the worst book I've ever read... that's pretty hard, because I'm pretty selective on what I read. And the few bad ones I do read, I usually forget. And I'm not listing the mediocre novels that pop up in my head - after all, this is "worst novels", not "mediocre novels". The problem is that I have a tendency to change my mind about books and how good they were as I age.
Oh! I think I got one - Anthem, by Ayn Rand. I remember that it was really dull prose, if anything.
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