Books you Hate

i totally agree with that! lol

 

My class read Holes. I didn't think it was too bad.

 

Two years ago i was passing in a book store,and i saw a book called Isaura,the Slave. Its a classic book,so i decided to buy and take a look.
My God,i hated the book! Its not common i say that a book is boring,but this one i just read until the end because i had spent my money on it. The problem is the style of the book,its a kind of romantic novel,and Isaura (the heroin) is so dramatic,she cryes the whole story.

Other book that i cant say i hate,but i dont like,is Chariots of the Gods?. Yeah,its a famous book,and my father talk about it like it was brilliant. The ideas in the book are interesting indeed,i just didnt like the way we read it,i think the author wrote it in a way that we feel tired in the 3rd page. its not the kind of book that i cant stop reading because i need to know what comes later. Well,at least this is my opinion,but i want to see the film too,people say its good.

 

One that was on my reading list in high school: Giants in the Earth, by Rolvaag. Jeeze all that woman did was cry through out the entire book. Maybe if I tried reading it now it would have some redeeming value. But it sure didn't when I was 16.

The Great Gatsby, by Fitzgerald. It's pretentious twaddle.

Johnathan Livingston Seagull, by Bach. It's crap, but he made a mint off it, selling it as a meaninful hip fable about life and freedom.

For those of you that hate Steinbeck, bet you've never tried Sweet Thursday, Tortilla Flat or Cannery Row?

Faulkner is an acquired taste. He writes with a unique rhythm.

Never liked Hemingway much, but wouldn't say I hated his stuff.

 

I hated every minute of The Great Gatsby, it's just not a book I can get in to. I remember having to read A Separate Peace by John Knowles back in school and hating that one was well. Lately, I've been hating the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton a bit, but I keep reading them hoping they'll go back to what they were.

 

One recent thing I read for fun, because a friend lent it to me, and I love old Hollywood, was Anthony Quinn's biography. I used to like him, but after weeding my way through all his sexual exploits and the sad story of his poor beginnings...I have trouble watching his films now. What an egotist!

 

I know these have been given "classic" status and stood the test of time, but I
really hate all of Thomas Hardy's work and Don Quixote.

 

A Separate Peace and The Great Gatsby are the two most atrocious contributions to literature and american culture. I even hate giving this post because it puts spotlights on these "novels".

 

Anything by Jane Austin or George Elliot. I even tried listening to Middlemarch on tape while at work and nearly drowned dozing off over a washing machine (I worked in the laundry room at a drug rehab once upon a time). I don't have to like the characters in a book but they should at least be interesting. I couldn't give a rat's ass about the marital aspirations of a group of pretentious English gentry.

One of my literature professors opined that there are two types of readers - those who love Hemingway and those who love Faulker. I fall into the latter group. Most of Hemingway's work (save for the Nick Adams stories) bores me to tears; though the plots and characters are interesting, those short, plain sentences read like stage directions.

Moby Dick was so boring when I read it in HS that I haven't been able to pick it up again, though most works I loathed in my teens I came to love in my thirties.

I too cannot stand The Little Prince. What a lot of twaddle.

I hated The Bell Jar; I'm depressed enough - I hardly need to read about someone else's solipsistic take on a depressive episode that spiraled downward.

Though I think Steinbeck's use of descriptive language was amazing and I love East of Eden, I couldn't stand The Grapes of Wrath or Of Mice and Men. The former is a thesis novel and as such, the "bad guys" are flat and two dimensional whereas the depiction of the Joads is sentimental. The latter I disliked for its sentimentality.

 

Also, "Lord of the flies" and "Animal farm".

 

I was suprised to see a couple of my favorites (The Bell Jar, 1984) on this list. I love books. Seriously, it's gotten so bad that it's almost an addiction. Oh well, good addiction to have I guess. But anyway, my point was that it takes a lot for me to hate a book. But I loathe Frankenstein. I would rather straddle a banister of razorblades and slide down it into a pool of alcohol than read that book ever again. I'm also not a big fan of Tolkein. I don't hate his books, exactly. They are just really really hard for me to get into.

 

Anything by Thomas Hardy.. had to do Far from the Madding Crowd for English and it was dire. fifty-seven chapters of description (not even poetic description like Tolkien) and one paragraph of action, consisting of basically "he shot him".
Also The game-players of Titan by Phillip k Dick.. and his books generally. Confusing, moralistic and just plain unenjoyable.

 

Johnny Tremain. Now I would say its a good book, but its waaaayyy boring especially when you read it in 5th or 6th grade.

I myself love The Odyssey. I'm excited to read The Illiad this year.
I also like John Steinbeck's The Pearl and Where the Red Fern Grows. My teacher read the latter in fourth grade and when we finished it I had to hide my tears...I wanted to mail the author asking if I could re-write it with a happy ending.

 

The Da Vinci Code!! All that hype for a big load of disappointment

 

Oh my god! Helll yes. That book was a fucking chore to read. God damn!

 

I guess I can't really say I hated the book, but I hated it enough to not finish it.
The Memory Keeper's Daughter

 

the great GATSBY. AGH.*rips out hair*.

 

Red Badge of Courage was the most confusing, pointless book I've ever been forced to read.

 

I can't believe someone hated The Memory Keeper's Daughter! I loved that book so much.

 

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Walden, The Stand, Pet Sematary...I'm sure there are many others but books I don't enjoy I forget all about them due to my lack of interest in them.

But those four books I absolutely hated. Especially the first three. And The Stand was the biggest waste of my time...that book is so corny. I mean it starts off good but it goes further and further downhill as it goes on.