Acclaimed Works You Didn't Like

[fire_of_avalon]

I am leaving this thread forever. All the hate for Salinger. He's my homeboy. Weren't you ever angsty teenagers?

Rye, I dunno how you feel about my taste, but if you want some serious good Vonnegut read Breakfast of Champions. People talk about how books save their lives, but that one totally would for me.

[NorthernChaosGod]

No, I was never an angsty teenager. I don't hate Catcher in the Rye though.

[demondude]

I was an angsty teenager and I liked it. :riiight:

[sharkythesharkdogg]

I haven't actually read it. It just sounds like it panders to teen angst, and well, I'm not really in that target demographic. Thanksbutno.


Stephen King has plenty of works I found to be lame. He has some very good books, but I'd say the majority I've read are not. Needful Things comes to mind.....bleh

[Slothy]

I read it when I was a bit of an angsty teenager and I didn't care for it at all. I didn't mind the very last few chapters as much as the rest of the book. It was probably about ten years ago that I read it so I can't remember specifics, but I recall it being the point in the book where Holden stopped seeming like a stupid kid to me and actually grew up a bit. Sadly whatever good I managed to find in those last few chapters didn't lessen the fact that I was bored senseless for 90% of the book.

[Pheesh]

I read it about 4 times when I was 11-12, and I haven't read it since. Looking back I don't really even remember what made it appeal to me at the time. I'll have to get a copy and re-read it again.

[Madame Adequate]

The Catcher in the Rye is a great book and you are all plebeians if you disagree. Okay seriously, I suppose I would liken it to the Citizen Kane discussion - it may not be something particularly enjoyable, but it is supremely important.

I agree with Rye, Vonnegut is nowhere near the genius people seem to think he is. Cat's Cradle is fairly good, but I don't like Timequake, Breakfast of Champions, or Slaughterhouse-Five much at all. He has good ideas, but I can't stand how he writes. (This does not apply to Harrison Bergeron, which is a tremendous little story.)

[Araciel]

Rye, I dunno how you feel about my taste, but if you want some serious good Vonnegut read Breakfast of Champions. People talk about how books save their lives, but that one totally would for me.

My favourite.

[I Took the Red Pill]

Actually most Shakespeare is annoying too, at least the non-dummed down versions. The plots themselves are interesting. Basically anything written in prose is annoying.

I think you mean anything not written in prose. Shakespeare's plays were metered in unrhyming iambic pentameter (though there were small sections written in prose, but it would be strange if you were specifically calling those parts annoying).

Prose - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I really disliked the movie Gran Torino.

[Shiny]

I also disliked that movie and I didn't like Million Dollar Baby either.

[Madame Adequate]

What.

[NeoCracker]

Lady Gaga, Bob Dylan, Titanic, FLCL, Blue Seed, Blue Gender, GodFather, Good Fella's, Gundam Wing, Gundam Seed, Gundam Seed Destiny, Inuyasha, Owl City, Godsmack, Elder Scrolls, Assassin's Creed, Resident Evil, Megaman 1-7, Final Fantasy II, VII, VIII, and X, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 1 &2, L. A. Noir, and Halo.

That tlist should cut it for now.

[Laddy]

LOL @ Lady Gaga, Owl City, Inuyasha, Gundam, and Godsmack.

at Bob Dylan, Titanic, FFVII and IV.

[NeoCracker]

FF IV isn't on my list, but for some reason XII is, which is horribly wrong. I should change that to VIII, whixh is what it was suppose to be.

[Pike]

This whole thread reminds me of the time I told Hux that I thought Warcraft 3 had fairly mediocre gameplay and he refused to talk to me for like twenty minutes