Finally.... The End. (books)
What are some books/movies you've trucked through out of determination, but you haaaated?
For me, I can definitely think of both Everything is Illuminated (the book) and Infinite Jest. I only finished them because I started. I was able to force myself to finish Fellowship of the Ring, but couldn't finish The Lord of the Rings.
Last edited by Shorty; 09-18-2012 at 09:30 PM. Reason: double double trouble trouble
Originally Posted by Fynn
I think you need to change your title to something that doesn't share it's title with another thread
a calm sea never made a skillful sailor | MILLIEGOESBEEP
That was kind of the whole point, Millie. Multiple threads with the same title pop up from time to time.
Twilight.
I read all four of the books because I wanted to understand what the big deal was. I guess I didn't hate them so much as I thought they were absolutely the most hilariously bad things ever.
Obviously you haven't read 50 Shades, Buny.
If I wanted to read bad porn I'd just go to literotica.
Pride and Prejudice. I had to study it in English. Forcing myself to read every page of that book was akin to being stabbed in the eyes with read hot pokers. Either that or having to read Fifty Shades twice. Both are as badly written after all..
I've never dedicated myself to a book I hated. I do have a few books that I've found far too descriptive to read easily and take me forever to read. I even have two or three or four in which I'm bookmarked somewhere in the middle, but have never managed to finish them. One of them is the only romance novel I've ever read. It's old and reminds of Gone With the Wind but with the twist that the lady of the novel is constantly being abused by the man she loves.
It took a while to get through Legend of Nightfall and I still haven't finished Wars of Light and Shadow novels of which I own three.
Jack: How do you know?
Will: It's more of a feeling really.
Jack: Well, that's not scientific. Feeling isn't knowing. Feeling is believing. If you believe it, you can't know because there's no knowing what you believe. Then again, no one should believe what they know either. Once you know anything that anything becomes unbelievable if only by virtue of the fact you now... know it. You know?
Will: No.
If Demolition Man were remade today
Huxley: What's wrong? You broke contact.
Spartan: Contact? I didn't even touch you.
Huxley: Don't you want to make love?
Spartan: Is that what you call this? Why don't we just do it the old-fashioned way?
Huxley: NO!
Spartan: Whoa! Okay, calm down.
Huxley: Don't tell me to calm down!
Spartan: What's gotten into you? 'Cause it sure as hell wasn't me.
Huxley: Physical relations in the way of intercourse are no longer acceptable John Spartan.
Spartan: What? Why the hell not?
Huxley: It's the law, John. And for your information, the very idea that you suggested it makes me feel personally violated.
Spartan: Wait a minute... violated? Huxley what the hell are you accusing me of here?
Huxley: You need to leave, John.
Spartan: But Huxley.
Huxley: Get out!
Moments later Spartan is arrested for "violating" Huxley.
By the way, that's called satire. Get over it.
Crime and Punishment. I did that as an English project. Not a fun book. Very hard to get through.
I borrowed War and Peace from a friend once. I read like four chapters. I remember it fairly well. I liked it, but I couldn't finish it. I'm pretty sure I gave it back.
Jack: How do you know?
Will: It's more of a feeling really.
Jack: Well, that's not scientific. Feeling isn't knowing. Feeling is believing. If you believe it, you can't know because there's no knowing what you believe. Then again, no one should believe what they know either. Once you know anything that anything becomes unbelievable if only by virtue of the fact you now... know it. You know?
Will: No.
If Demolition Man were remade today
Huxley: What's wrong? You broke contact.
Spartan: Contact? I didn't even touch you.
Huxley: Don't you want to make love?
Spartan: Is that what you call this? Why don't we just do it the old-fashioned way?
Huxley: NO!
Spartan: Whoa! Okay, calm down.
Huxley: Don't tell me to calm down!
Spartan: What's gotten into you? 'Cause it sure as hell wasn't me.
Huxley: Physical relations in the way of intercourse are no longer acceptable John Spartan.
Spartan: What? Why the hell not?
Huxley: It's the law, John. And for your information, the very idea that you suggested it makes me feel personally violated.
Spartan: Wait a minute... violated? Huxley what the hell are you accusing me of here?
Huxley: You need to leave, John.
Spartan: But Huxley.
Huxley: Get out!
Moments later Spartan is arrested for "violating" Huxley.
By the way, that's called satire. Get over it.
We can never be friends.
The only example I can think of right now is White Noise by Don DeLillo. If I'm not enjoying a novel, I have no problem abandoning it.
For me it was the Engineer Trilogy by KJ Parker. There were several things set up in the first book that had me really excited, but after that I hated it all the way to the end outside of a few short portions of the text.
Infinite Jest is pretentious, and As I Lay Dying...well, Faulkner needs to learn how to use a smurfing comma.We can never be friends.
The only example I can think of right now is White Noise by Don DeLillo. If I'm not enjoying a novel, I have no problem abandoning it.
I have White Noise, but I never read it.
I couldn't make it through Xenocide by Orson Scott Card because by the third chapter I was hurling the book out the window. Then in a year or so I'd buy another one to give it a chance and the cycle would repeat.
I found Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs to have a disappointing ending. It's a memoir and isn't supposed to have an elaborate made up climax, but the rest of the book was so crazy that I thought the ending would be the cherry on top somehow. Not so.
I think I am the only person ever who liked Xenocide.
Although I do think OSC is pretty overrated (not just saying this because he's a dick), so it's not like I think Xenocide is the best book ever or anything, but I don't think it was any worse than OSC's other stuff.
I LOVE THAT BOOK! One of my all time favorites
Last edited by Rantz; 09-20-2012 at 06:27 PM. Reason: Shorty is a bum
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