Books You Hated (4 Viewers)

[Donkey OJ]

aaaiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

fucking kids these days don't know they're born, not having to read this auld bitches excuse for a life story.

Today Peig would be mad into blogging, I reckon. 'feach me ar an caca milis agus ta me ag robbing it from an siopa, ghadi is anim dom! Sin a bhfuil chuaigh me go dti an blaskets agus ta se ufasach'

the end.

orm. turnip. fucking turnip orm.
i love the word orm. and ribathaisneis (pronounced ree-ba-hawsh-naysh) means autobiography. its meant to represent onamatapaeically walking backwards through your life.
jesus i'm in leaving cert mode. a mode where any interpretation is valid if it takes up a few lines of your page.

 

[Bluto]

the Da Vinci Code was the biggest pile of shite I've read in a long time! Predictable and drawn out to the last

I also thought Vernon God Little was very mediocre. I couldn't figure out the praise for this book at all.

 

[Deleted member 3435]

I was just about to say that.

Never cared for anything by James Joyce either.

i liked on the road in parts.

it may have made an interesting short story or two but generally it's tedious enough.

james joyce is fucking great, though. portrait is fantastic and dubliners (which can kinda be read as a novel in its entirety) is great apart from that sitting around talking politics yawn-o story the name of which escapes me, skip over it. The dead is incredible.

Ulysses is brilliant. I loved it. I have to say that i picked it up once out of passing interest and put it back down pretty quickly but when i returned to it to "study" it and really worked through it i loved it. Mayybe its not a good book if it needs this kind of attention? Joyce is a genius though.

also FAO egg: am i way off the mark here or are the lyrics from your "Dame Street" song lifted from Joyce? they sounded instantly familiar to me, like remembering a dream or something and i've been meaning to ask...

 

[shidheat]

Of the ones mentioned... 'Dharma Bums' and 'Catch 22' I hated. Dharma bums just seemed pretentious. Catch 22... I don't know what people find funny about this. Loved 'On the road' though, and 'Catcher in the rye' for that matter.

'The Trial' by Franz Kafka has put me off ever reading any other Kafka. It was just a pain in the arse reading this book.

I used to like some of Iain Banks books. He has a couple of alright books, but 'song of stone' was the final nail in the coffin for me. It's a piece of shit.

Also, Paul Auster is a writer I like a lot, but steer away from 'In the country of last things'.

 

[krystal]

catch 22 - ah here. I tried to read it about 3 times and gave up. Don't be getting it at all now.

Iain Banks basically writes 3 types of books - the good ones (crow road, wasp factory, complicity etc), the dodgy-bordering-on fantasy-AS Bayatt-does-it-much-better stuff like walking on glass and song of stone etc, and then all the sci-fi crap. I still like the good ones though.

Of the ones mentioned... 'Dharma Bums' and 'Catch 22' I hated. Dharma bums just seemed pretentious. Catch 22... I don't know what people find funny about this. Loved 'On the road' though, and 'Catcher in the rye' for that matter.

'The Trial' by Franz Kafka has put me off ever reading any other Kafka. It was just a pain in the arse reading this book.

I used to like some of Iain Banks books. He has a couple of alright books, but 'song of stone' was the final nail in the coffin for me. It's a piece of shit.

Also, Paul Auster is a writer I like a lot, but steer away from 'In the country of last things'.

 

[BC]

i tried to read catch 22, didnt get past about twenty pages of it, put it down and never bothered again. glad to see i am not the only one, i know alot of people who praise it.

dickens' hard times i also found horribly dull. i have never been able to finish any book of his in fact.

re: joyce. i loved portrait of the artist. i also enjoyed finnegans wake, although i found it farily impenetrable. the amount of references and meanings that can be attributed to the first page alone is pretty mind-boggeling. havent tried dubliners or ulysses though.

re: w s burroughs. i am a big fan of his work, though i must admit i find his ideas more interesting than his stories. my favorite book of his is "the job", which is a collection of interviews with excerpts from his writings to illustrate what he is talking about. really inspiring stuff to me, alas it is rather hard to get hold of. i also absolutely love his voice, hearing his spoken word stuff makes his text come alive.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

dickens' hard times i also found horribly dull. i have never been able to finish any book of his in fact.

i read it when i did my leaving the second time and found it a lot less hateful than silas mariner which i kicked into flitters after finishing the exam the first time round. i didnt actually read all of it though and i think silas is a cool name to have.

 

[Audiodelic]

fucking kids these days don't know they're born, not having to read this auld bitches excuse for a life story.

All I can remember about that feckin book 'Peig' was the expression "go bhora (sp) dia" which meant 'it's the will of God'. It was the answer to everything. Life's shit and we're starving? "Go bhora Dia". My kids are all dying? "Go bhora dia" I have my own theory on her kids falling off cliffs and dying.
I personally think they were all chucking themselves off, lemming-like, to get away from her incessent whinging.

 

[righteous harmony]

yeah, peig was rotten. not a chance i would've finished it if i didn't have to. just as a matter of interest, who here speaks irish other than when they're drunk and emotional?

 

[chickenham]

Catch-22: fuggin awesome .... you people!

Kerouac / Burroughs: I always thought that the point of their work was the form of it rather than any conventional qualities one might be looking for in a booook.
I enjoy 'On the road' as a speedy free-form romp, and very beautiful for it. Like the jazz.
I read burroughs in order to destroy all rational thought
Also his writing is a time machine and probably also an orgone accumulator... and a lucky charm.

 

[rampz]

all of 'em. im a total palistine.

unless pornos count. liked razzle, hated club international.

 

[Richie]

Iain Banks basically writes 3 types of books - the good ones (crow road, wasp factory, complicity etc), the dodgy-bordering-on fantasy-AS Bayatt-does-it-much-better stuff like walking on glass and song of stone etc, and then all the sci-fi crap. I still like the good ones though.

I read The Bridge a couple of years back and thought it was fantastic, then went through most of his stuff looking for another one as good.. if you want one of his you'll really hate, try Dead Air. It's narrated from the point of view of a shock-jock radio DJ who I wanted to kill from about five pages in... at the point when it finally looks like he's finally going to get the shit deservedly beaten out of him Banks wimps out and gives him a happy ending. I'd also like to add to the Kerouac hating with 'Desolation Angels'.. he spends the first 150 pages or so on his own in a shack on top of a mountain, which is almost as exciting to read as it sounds, then hangs around with his hippy mates for a while, and.... that's it. I was told 'On the Road' is better but think I might give it a miss based on the other opinions here.

 

[Unicron]

yeah, peig was rotten. not a chance i would've finished it if i didn't have to. just as a matter of interest, who here speaks irish other than when they're drunk and emotional?

When I'm abroad I tend to break out the gaelige, I always find that it's more important for me to feel Irish when I'm not here whereas when I am I don't think about it.

I can get where the Catch 22 people are coming from, the first time I read it I stopped a third of the way through, just hated it. The second time I had a go at it I loved it.

 

[Rogue]

I've a mental bloc about russian authors (see what i did there, see! see!)


seriously though, have never finished a book written by a russian, tried dostoevsky and a few others, they're just too slow: i like chekhov but only i think i've only read other people's interpretations of his shorts.

 

[Rogue]

catch 22 is one of my favourite books, never got the beat writers though, 'cept bukowski and steinbeck (do they count?)

 

[nlgbbbblth]

I like Catch 22 but think Heller's Something Happened and Good As Gold are way better

 

[IFF]

i found "no logo" by Naomi Klein to be very boring and i didn't like it. the subject is very intersting and somehow she made the book dull

 

[glen]

and then all the sci-fi crap. I still like the good ones though.

Some of the sci-fi ones are great - player of games and feersum enjin.

And I hate sci-fi.

 

[chutneyfarmer]

My most hated books are...

Learn to Count with Noddy 1965
Learn to Go Shopping with Noddy 1965
Learn to Read About Animals with Noddy 1965
Learn to Tell the Time with Noddy 1965

They were written during what has been dubbed "Enid's Skag Phase". They were only written to fund her habit and to cover court costs after she attacked a Nigerian when he objected to being compared to one of her "Gollywog" characters. The daft racist.

Anyway, very disappointing. Sup-par plots, half-arsed animations, and the colours aren't very nice. I give these...

!bog !bog !bog !bog !bog /.|..| .|..| .|..| .|..| .|..|

which equals 0/5 btw.

 

[coraline]

i couldnt stand austerlitz by sebald or the tin drum by hermann hesse.
badly written, dull, !bog