custom36 5 Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 The Picture of Dorian Gray bored the hell out of me. Link to post Share on other sites
BigDMcGee 3,355 Posted January 15, 2006 Author Share Posted January 15, 2006 so you liked wheel of time but its on the list just cuz they wrote 8 books too many?i got through like 4 books and it was definitely tailing away, buti enjoyed the 4 i read......barbara kingsolver = worst author evermy female english teacher in 10th grade would cry while reading parts of her books outloud to us. censored that censored. she wrote books for lonely 35 year old single women. blehWhen I was a kid I liked wheel of time. I wouldn't go back and read the first books if you paid me now ( well, I would, but it would have to be 100 bucks a book) I don't hink you understand how unreadible and insufferable I have found each book after the first couple. It's hard to b elieve I find any book worse than these piles of dung, but I do. Link to post Share on other sites
BigDMcGee 3,355 Posted January 15, 2006 Author Share Posted January 15, 2006 Also, I had to read Faust last year. It's supposed to be good, I just couldn't stand it.was ist das mephestophelis sie werden sturben die komfrombonnhoffer!Longshanks speaks german, there's a shock. Link to post Share on other sites
BigDMcGee 3,355 Posted January 15, 2006 Author Share Posted January 15, 2006 The Picture of Dorian Gray bored the hell out of me.philistine. Link to post Share on other sites
matthew r 0 Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 play poker like the pros ?? Link to post Share on other sites
BigDMcGee 3,355 Posted January 15, 2006 Author Share Posted January 15, 2006 play poker like the pros ??hahahahahahahahahah How on either could I forget that.. I was kinda thinking novels, but man, that book is garbage. Link to post Share on other sites
BigDMcGee 3,355 Posted January 15, 2006 Author Share Posted January 15, 2006 Readers of this thread should notice that the OP has been edited to reflesh 3 books that I hate, Play poker like the pros, the Divinci Code, and The Celestine prophecy. Also, if there was a book that I could put in my top five best AND worst lists, it would be Atlas Shrugged. I really, really really like the philsophy of Objectivism, it's the first thing I've ever read that describes the way I veiw the world ( with some modification, of course. I think people are WAY more a product of their envirnoment than rand believes) Rational Selfishness is me in a nutshell. How ever, The book is horribly written. It's like a bad romance novel, with philosophical airs. It's about 1000 pages too long, the plot is obvious, the writing style is long winded without saying anything, the characters are absurd, both good guys and bad guys. When some writes a novel with an obvious philosophical ( as opposed to artistic) ax to grind, very rarely does the art not suffer. I think Rand Crusified art in the book in favor of pimping here philosophy. Anyone who has not read it, I DEFINATLY recomend you reading the chapter " John Galt Speaks." Rand's philsophy is completely spelled out in this chapter ( as a piece of art, the chapter is completely god in teh machine. A terrble, terrible artistic device.) Spare your self the agony of reading the rest of the book. Link to post Share on other sites
JBradburn6 0 Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 Readers of this thread should notice that the OP has been edited to reflesh 3 books that I hate, Play poker like the pros, the Divinci Code, and The Celestine prophecy. Also, if there was a book that I could put in my top five best AND worst lists, it would be Atlas Shrugged. I really, really really like the philsophy of Objectivism, it's the first thing I've ever read that describes the way I veiw the world ( with some modification, of course. I think people are WAY more a product of their envirnoment than rand believes) Rational Selfishness is me in a nutshell. How ever, The book is horribly written. It's like a bad romance novel, with philosophical airs. It's about 1000 pages too long, the plot is obvious, the writing style is long winded without saying anything, the characters are absurd, both good guys and bad guys. When some writes a novel with an obvious philosophical ( as opposed to artistic) ax to grind, very rarely does the art not suffer. I think Rand Crusified art in the book in favor of pimping here philosophy. Anyone who has not read it, I DEFINATLY recomend you reading the chapter " John Galt Speaks." Rand's philsophy is completely spelled out in this chapter ( as a piece of art, the chapter is completely god in teh machine. A terrble, terrible artistic device.) Spare your self the agony of reading the rest of the book.Read the whole book once. Why didn't you like the Da Vinci Code? Link to post Share on other sites
BigDMcGee 3,355 Posted January 15, 2006 Author Share Posted January 15, 2006 The Divinci code is cheesey, abusrd, terrible, terrible tripe,. Terrible dialouge, terrible character development, terrible history, terrible plot, Just bad bad bad. .That doesn't answer your question? Link to post Share on other sites
JBradburn6 0 Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 Hadn't read the edit. Link to post Share on other sites
RonBurgundy 0 Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 Also, I had to read Faust last year. It's supposed to be good, I just couldn't stand it.was ist das mephestophelis sie werden sturben die komfrombonnhoffer!Longshanks speaks german, there's a shock.hahahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahhahahahaPOTYyoure far too subtle for forum humor mcgee Link to post Share on other sites
BigDMcGee 3,355 Posted January 15, 2006 Author Share Posted January 15, 2006 Also, I had to read Faust last year. It's supposed to be good, I just couldn't stand it.was ist das mephestophelis sie werden sturben die komfrombonnhoffer!Longshanks speaks german, there's a shock.hahahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahhahahahaPOTYyoure far too subtle for forum humor mcgeeYeah, I know. But I when some one gets it, it makes it all the more worth it. Link to post Share on other sites
MDXS 0 Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 The Picture of Dorian Gray bored the hell out of me.philistine.Excellent book. I fully expected it to suck, but it didn't. Now, On the Road bored the hell out of me. Link to post Share on other sites
Oziumrules 0 Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 play poker like the pros ??Pick football games like a newb? Link to post Share on other sites
Swift_Psycho 1 Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 The Scarlet Letter Link to post Share on other sites
Dirtydutch 8 Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 The Scarlet Letter**eetheheheheh** Link to post Share on other sites
Hobbes 1 Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 1) "Lord of the Flies"2) "A Tale of Two Cities"3) Anything by Tom Clancy4) Anything written after 1975 by Phillip K Dick. This is when he went crazy.5) "State of Fear" Easily Micheal Crichton's worst book. And I'm a huge Crichton fan.Jurassic Park was probably the first book I read just for fun (I think I was a freshman in high school when it came out). And still one of my favorite books, but I think most of his other stuff sucks. I recently read Prey and found myself skimming through a lot of it.Debt of Honor by Tom Clancy is another one of my favorites.I don't think I really have an all-time list of worst books, but I recently read Pipsqueak, or I should say I started Pipsqueak, and it was one of the least entertaining books I've read. I picked it up at an airport book store because it was one of the employee recommendation books and it was described as a bizarre, quirky mystery. Except that the story revolved around a stuffed squirrel, it wasn't all that odd of a story. Link to post Share on other sites
matthew r 0 Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 play poker like the pros ??Pick football games like a newb?wow, get a life dude Link to post Share on other sites
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