03-18-2009, 07:38 AM | #91 |
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Hey, I loved the Dune books, but that was like 10 years ago.
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03-18-2009, 08:03 AM | #92 |
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There's no doubt that peoples' tastes do change. When I was a teenager, I used to love Asimov's SF. When I read it now, it seems flat and dull, with "two dimensional" characters, rather than "real people" in the stories.
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03-18-2009, 09:11 AM | #93 |
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Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
It had potential but it drifted too much, and I lost interest. The Poe Shadow - Matthew Pearl Urgh, I stopped 30 pages short of the end, that is how awful it was, I couldn't even make it the rest of the way. |
03-18-2009, 09:17 AM | #94 |
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The titles alone should have been a red flag !
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03-18-2009, 10:42 AM | #95 |
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@Xenophon: Can you just check your pulse, please ? It's mandatory for everyone who has finished "Pride and Prejudice" .... I think. For me it was "War and Peace" - I read it in German though so I should say "Krieg und Frieden". cklammer Last edited by cklammer; 03-18-2009 at 11:23 AM. Reason: I am careless about typos |
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As for myself: Until I switched to ebooks I destroyed two paperbacks editions and almost destroyed the third one through avid reading. The next two (or three) times I read it front-to-back on a Nokia 3230 (and that's some feat in itself - trust me). Since I am reading it about once a year on my various PalmOS devices. cklammer |
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03-18-2009, 12:08 PM | #99 |
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Dislike - with extreme prejudice, the Gor books, #5 on.
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The key to getting Norman's story through the rest of the series, which, btw, he does conitune convincingly, is to skip over any page long paragraphs and any chapter that is titled "What occurred..." But it does get to be a bit tiring, at times. Especially when the tale of the Amerind stock humans was told in two longinsh books that should have been one medium sized book, sans the porn.
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03-18-2009, 12:58 PM | #102 |
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For me, the top of the list of "most boring books" would have to be The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan. (er... should the be bottom of the list?) I used it for an insomnia cure throughout Jr. High and High School. Two pages and I would drift off without fail.
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Most boring single book: Tailchaser's Song by Tad Williams
Was when came out, still is today. It just goes on and on and on, Most boring series: Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. Give me a break, just because someone tals of, thinks about or dreams something might happen, it doesn't HAVE to happen in the next book or so, and why go through so many rewrites of a scene, just because you can do so with each (of too many), persons viewpoint? Skip a chapter and you're still in the same spot you were! Slow-paced, and boring, it'll put you to sleep! No wonder I see so many copies showing up in the used book store! (Yes, it was all my friend had while I was on a vacation to visit, but I did read the whole thing-- so give me credit for that, and I got a lot of extra sleep!) |
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My top two boring books: Passage to India by E. M. Forster and Brisingr by Christopher Paolini. The first two books in the Inheritance series weren't bad and the third (Brisingr) isn't a terrible book, just filled with boring scenes in between monotonous fighting and battle sequences. |
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03-18-2009, 06:57 PM | #105 |
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Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon. The uppity-ups in The New Yorker magazine sang the praises of this book to the skies, so I read it during college in the early 1970s, being an English major and all. All I remember now is sitting in the school library with this book in my hands, looking at the clock on the wall and marveling at how slow time was passing. A strange memory, because I can't even remember what the book was about, and I'll be damned if I'm going to google it at this stage in my life...
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