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post #41 of 110
3/18/08 at 10:01am
A lot of books I loved have been mentioned here! I wasn't thrilled with Life of Pi or The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, but I wouldn't go so far as to give them an anti-recommendation.

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post #42 of 110
3/18/08 at 10:41am
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I didn't care for Wicked, after all the hype here I was really disappointed, but I know others loved it. To each their own.
Yes, this.

I found it a compelling story, but parts of it were just disturbing and still bother me a couple of years later. Most of this author's books seem to leave me that way so, as much as I think he has a gift for story telling, I have to walk away from his books or deal with the after images for months.
post #43 of 110
3/18/08 at 3:28pm
American Psycho. It is the only book I ever threw away. The entire time I was reading it, I couldnt stop....and I managed to disturb myself over the fact that I KEPT reading it. I liked the parts that weren't disgusting and horrifying....that involved things I never knew were possible. I think I lost some innocence with that book.
post #44 of 110
3/18/08 at 9:36pm
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Originally Posted by jeannie81 View Post


You didn't like that one???
hated it, actually.
post #45 of 110
3/18/08 at 9:45pm
Don't read anything by David Sedaris if there are other adults nearby who don't appreciate having entire pages read to them with the tacit expectation that they should find the passages as hysterical as you do :
post #46 of 110
3/18/08 at 10:28pm
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Originally Posted by Alkenny View Post
I didn't care for Wicked, after all the hype here I was really disappointed, but I know others loved it. To each their own.
I got through the first page and a half of that. I've been told it's better after the first chapter, but then I would have had to finish the second page.

I have not seen the musical, but the one bit of song I've heard from it makes me think I wouldn't like it.
post #47 of 110
3/18/08 at 10:28pm
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Originally Posted by georgia View Post
Don't read anything by David Sedaris if there are other adults nearby who don't appreciate having entire pages read to them with the tacit expectation that they should find the passages as hysterical as you do :
Off to the library!
post #48 of 110
3/18/08 at 10:48pm

Awful Movie

Eye of the Dolphin. Bleeeecccchhhh! Oh,My.God. They used the stupid FAKE dolphin sounds from FLIPPER fer cryin out loud! Oh and the sanctimonious ending AARRRGGGHHHH.
post #49 of 110
3/18/08 at 11:01pm
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who can't get through Love in the Time of Cholera. I was also disappointed in Wicked.
post #50 of 110
3/18/08 at 11:02pm
* Do NOT read "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood unless you're really into reading about dystopia's and completely, completely restrictive governments. Of course, I tend to internalize everything and think, "What if I live to see this happen." If you're like me in that regard, then don't read it!

That's about all I can think of right now. I try to avoid anything that is to "deep" because I just can't handle it! DH calls it "brain candy," LOL.
post #51 of 110
3/18/08 at 11:38pm
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Originally Posted by Teensy View Post
I do not recommend David Copperfield if you want to stay awake past 9:30. Man, this was our book club selection last month and I fell asleep every, single night I tried to read it. I only made it 300 pages in 6 weeks time. Ugh. At least I didn't have any trouble getting to sleep that month.
Wow, to each her own, right? That book kept me reading into the weeee hours!
post #52 of 110
3/19/08 at 12:41am
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Originally Posted by sapphire_chan View Post
I got through the first page and a half of that. I've been told it's better after the first chapter, but then I would have had to finish the second page.
Me too.

I'd like to add Stephen King's "The Stand" to the Not Recommended list. It's long winded, dull, and depressing.
post #53 of 110
3/19/08 at 2:35am
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Originally Posted by alexsam View Post
The Kite Runner. I'm not too easily upset, but the rape still flashes in my mind and upsets me to this day, years after I've read it. I wish I had not read it and do not recommend it.
I think that scene it the very reason that the film version was not popular, despite being a bestseller. I *LOVED* the book, it was vivid and powerful, so much so that I didn't want to "relive" it by watching the film.

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Originally Posted by georgia View Post
Don't read anything by David Sedaris if there are other adults nearby who don't appreciate having entire pages read to them with the tacit expectation that they should find the passages as hysterical as you do :
I'll meet you somewhere with a big bucket of candy and we can go back and forth reading passages to each other .



The only book I can think of right now that I would not recommend is The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. The book is either poorly translated, or just flat out poorly written. And totally unnecessary to read if you've read Herman Hesse's Siddartha (which is much better written).
post #54 of 110
3/19/08 at 3:07am
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce. The ONLY assigned book in my entire educational career that I did not finish! OMG! It was so totally boring and pointless.
post #55 of 110
3/19/08 at 2:47pm
LOL! Love In The Time of Cholera cracks me up.
Ok...I never read it, but I saw the commercial for the DVD the other day, and I thought it was a joke.
LOVE...In the time of.....Cholera.

All I could think of was LOVE...in the time of...the Black Plague.

Yes, Im easily amused and had 2 glasses of wine in me, but it was hilarious.
post #56 of 110
3/19/08 at 6:21pm
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Originally Posted by lava mama View Post
* Do NOT read "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood unless you're really into reading about dystopia's and completely, completely restrictive governments. Of course, I tend to internalize everything and think, "What if I live to see this happen." If you're like me in that regard, then don't read it!

That's about all I can think of right now. I try to avoid anything that is to "deep" because I just can't handle it! DH calls it "brain candy," LOL.
I love that book. What made it so amazing for me is that it was written in the 1980s and feels like it could be written tomorrow. It is scary because it's possible.
post #57 of 110
3/19/08 at 7:53pm
'Into the Wild'. I know a lot of people loved it but I found it really depressing and didn't like the main character ar all.
post #58 of 110
3/20/08 at 3:29pm
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I'll meet you somewhere with a big bucket of candy and we can go back and forth reading passages to each other
All you had to do was say candy It would be super cool because neither of us would have to give the five-minute-preface-speech to explain just WHY what we were about to read should be so funny A timely explanation of Easter from David's students:

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The Poles led the charge to the best of their ability. "It is," said one, "a party for the little boy of God who call his self Jesus and... oh, s***."
She faltered, and her fellow countryman came to her aid.
"He call his self Jesus, and then he be die one day on two... morsels of... lumber."
The rest of the class jumped in, offering bits of information that would have given the pope an aneurysm.
post #59 of 110
3/22/08 at 4:10am
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Originally Posted by Oriole View Post
* I do NOT recommend Shining by King if you don't like scary books.
I'm actually presenting a paper I wrote from my Contemporary American Literature class last year at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research in April (in Baltimore) titled: "'Haunted Men': Stephen King's The Shining and the Men's Movement of the 1970s"
post #60 of 110
3/22/08 at 4:14am
Jane Eyre BLECH!!!!!!!!!

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