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The Lonesome Dove. I kept thinking it had some potential for getting somewhere (right up to the last paragraph of the last chapter, but it never did. It just finally (thank goodness) ended its rambling. Although it wasn't quite as bad as The Aztec or some of James Fennimore Cooper's stuff.
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Pride and Prejudice
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When I read Pride and Prejudice in High School (for class, of course) I thought it was the stupidest, most boring book I had ever encountered. When I re-read it fifteen years later, I found it to be screamingly funny. Trenchant observations both of the society of the time and also of people-issues that never change. Tastes change. Xenophon |
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Stephen King's books are heavily remaindered - they print a huge amount and what doesn't sell is sold at the chains for (on average) about $4.98. I'm a Stephen King collector, and the titles most collectible by him are his first books published by Doubleday. There was a joke I had with my Stephen King friends when we acquired a new title by him, and it went something like this: "My God, you have a SECOND EDITION title by Stephen King!!!" Don Last edited by Dr. Drib; 03-14-2009 at 01:24 PM. Reason: edited for clarity |
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I tried to read Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson but the start is pretty boring. After about 50 pages where there is much detail expounded on the guy taking his kid to the park all the time rather than describing what the book is actually about I decided to give up.
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I tend to recall _The Last of the Mohegans_ bored my out of my skull when I was made to read it in High School.
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Can I just put forth anything and everything by Tom Clancy. If I wanted to read a technical manual, Tom, I would have purchased a technical manual. Thankyou, very much
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More evidence f the harm done by forcing school children to read books beyond them and so bore them half to death was The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy. I hated it. All those trees rubbing themselves into wounds and whatnot. Had no idea what he was on about. Our trees are miles apart and don't rub each other in that way. What was a school boy to make of the evils of bad marriages and all that?
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There was only one that I was forced to read that I hated -- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller and that was by a temp teacher who took over. Everything else was great, my English Teachers (the only ones I liked while I was briefly at school) were fantastic and inspiring. One introduced me to Steinbeck. The other had us all reading The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul by Dougals Adams. |
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I loved Catch-22, but then I wasn't forced to read it. I was rebellious back then, with long hair and the entire mindset of that time (early '70s). And Harry, like you, I disliked Charles Dickens when I was forced to read him in high school, probably because I was concerned with S-E-X. Now, being older, I'm able to multitask and love both sex (lower case, now...hahaha) AND Charles Dickens. Don |
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