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    Counterpart of "Favourite books" thread. Exclude cheap literature here.

    Lord of the Rings all the way. I hated it from the end of Part 1 (about half way through Book 1, i.e. when they arrive at the village of Bree), which was actually very good.

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    Fellowship of the Ring was exceedingly boring but I managed to get through it.

    I hate Timeline by Micheal Crichton. IT SUCKED HORRIBLY. It was one of those miracle instances where the movie proved better than the book. Seriously, it was way too slow pace.


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    Weaveworld by (i think Clive Barker), i did not enjoy that at all, and a sci fi by Piers Anthony that i cannot remember the title of.
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    McNae's Essential Law for Journalists

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    Oh god. So many of the books they made me read at school.

    Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman stands out the most. God I hated that book.

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    life is the crummiest book i ever read; there isn't a hook, just a lot of cheap shots, pictures to shock, and characters an amateur would never dream up.

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    A Tale of Two Cities. My God. I don't understand how anyone could make a bunch of 13-year olds read Charles Dickens. :(
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    Death on the Ice by... I don't remember. It's a stupid book about a bunch of stupid sealers who are too stupid to survive when their boat quits working. They're also too stupid to bring a freaking radio with them. I will forever hate my grade 10 Canadian Literature course for making me read that book. It's actually a true story. That's what you call Natural Selection right there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roto13 View Post
    Death on the Ice by... I don't remember. It's a stupid book about a bunch of stupid sealers who are too stupid to survive when their boat quits working. They're also too stupid to bring a freaking radio with them. I will forever hate my grade 10 Canadian Literature course for making me read that book. It's actually a true story. That's what you call Natural Selection right there.
    It's probably only half as boring as the "Old Pathegonian Express"... ZZZ... I had to read it for my graduation exams... well, I still haven't finished it.

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    The Two Towers. I loved The Hobbit and found Fellowship pretty enjoyable, but The Two Towers was incredibly slow. Soooo slow. And 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Boring as .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Azar View Post
    The Two Towers. I loved The Hobbit and found Fellowship pretty enjoyable, but The Two Towers was incredibly slow. Soooo slow.
    That would be when I ditched The Lord of the Rings. Beside, reading a book isn't a whole lot of fun when a friend has already told you everything that happens in explicit detail.

    I might catch hell for this, but Wizard's First Rule, the first novel in Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series is pretty terrible. It makes The Two Towers look engaging and fast-paced. I mean, seriously, the first hundred pages take place over like... three days, describing things in excruciating detail. I mean, I'm all for good imagery, but this book is flippin' ridiculous.

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    Pretty much everything we were forced to read in school sucked.
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    Lord of the Flies by William Golding. It might have some nice subtext and symbolism in it, but it's terribly, terribly boring. Maybe if I wasn't forced to read it in high school, I might have enjoyed it a bit more.

    In addition, anything by John Steinbeck also makes my head hurt.

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    Gulliver's Travels.

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    I've read so many books! And try to read the classics...But I greatly dislike The Great Gatsby blah dumb love triangles. I hate all books that have dumb endings that disappoint me. One I just read being Diary by Chuck Palahniuk his other books are so wonderful why did this one have to fail!

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