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05-13-2010, 08:37 AM
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That's kind of the point. But that's sort of the reason I fucking hate Catcher in the Rye.
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You fucking people [war veterans] are only a step below entitled rich kids, the only difference being you had to do and witness horrible things, instead of being given everything.
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real classy
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05-13-2010, 04:33 PM
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Join Date: May 2010
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The entire Twilight series.
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05-13-2010, 04:49 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Not sure...can't see thru all this eyeliner....
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Originally Posted by Alan
That's kind of the point.
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Well, duh.
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05-13-2010, 11:39 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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Originally Posted by Black&Blue
Well, duh.
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You've just hated on one of the greatest novels of the last century, giving the crux of the book - the capacity in which the author SUCCEEDED - as the reason. Condescending is not a good look for you right now.
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05-14-2010, 02:27 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Not sure...can't see thru all this eyeliner....
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A good look??
You should see what I'm wearing.
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05-14-2010, 04:10 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
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... I guess if you're the kind of person who hates The Stranger, that qualifies as a good comeback. *reshapes own copy into dildo*
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05-21-2010, 12:06 PM
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: W4
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I try to avoid books I think I will hate, so I only have one.
J-Pod by Douglass Coupland. I think I just hate Douglass Coupland though. I hate an author who writes himself into a fiction novel and builds himself up so much. I only read it because it had lots of random things about Ronald McDonald killing people and Mandarin script in huge letters and 5 pages of numbers and another five pages of just '0's....it looked so promising while flipping through it. At least I didnt have to pay for it..
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07-08-2010, 10:07 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: A medieval monarch's cadaver underneath your bed amongst the oh so poetic-tongued dust bunnies
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The whole Twilight series is a total put-down of the vampire world. I hate it with a passion. Practically any young-adult novel one could find in a library/book store. I'm very picky with what I read. All the reads that are worth it can be found in the classical section or modern stories with the most unusual of writers.
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07-27-2010, 06:09 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: In your trash can
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Originally Posted by humandeathdoll
What book do you hate to read.
for me it's "The Vampire Diaries" series i fucking hate those books they even had the balls to make a show out of them.
I like twilight(yes i do) but i don't like the movies that much only the books because the movies fuck up some parts.
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Reading the Vamp diaries is like extracting teeth. I did like twilight because she did something different with her vampires.
Danielle Steel - same old same old
Jodie Picoult - tried to read one of her books, but found it predictable.
The time traveller's wife - Audrey ??? - got bored 3/4 of the way through.
Dan Brown - please no. I read the first chapter and forgot to read the rest of the book (husband suffered through 3 or 4 of them and said they were all the same).
The Immortal series - the lead character does stupid things.
If I wasn't writing YA, I would stop reading it.
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07-27-2010, 10:02 AM
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#35
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Originally Posted by Fruitbat
Reading the Vamp diaries is like extracting teeth. I did like twilight because she did something different with her vampires.
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Read Dark Gold, take out all the sex and you have Twilight.
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07-27-2010, 03:09 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: In your trash can
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Originally Posted by Saya
Read Dark Gold, take out all the sex and you have Twilight.
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thanks for the recommendation. 
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07-27-2010, 03:19 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Georgia
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there was a psudo payche book on satanism stating and i quote " most teenagers who get into satanism are poor and have nothing better to do" wanted to find that guy and killhim in a ritualistic fashion not for claiming satanist are poor, but for claiming poor people are satanists.
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By thy unfathom'd gulfs of guile,
By that most seeming virtuous eye,
By thy shut soul's hypocrisy;
By the perfection of thine art
Which pass'd for human thine own heart;
By thy delight in others' pain,
And by thy brotherhood of Cain,
I call upon thee! and compel
Thyself to be thy proper Hell!
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07-27-2010, 04:32 PM
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#38
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: rave heaven.
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those really boring, drawn-out fantasy books involving the Drow and shit
now you get me something involving the Dro, and we're talkin 
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07-30-2010, 03:40 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 634
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Gothic Charm School: a guide you goths and those who love them
by jillan veterns
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07-30-2010, 03:41 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 634
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And twilight
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07-30-2010, 04:02 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
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Seriously, if you say Twilight as the book you hate, I can't respect the books you love.
I'm not saying I like Twilight. I'm saying your knowledge of literature is fucking petty that you can't think of an actual important work you just happen to hate, so you go with the easy choice; no different than saying you like Edgar AllEn Poe.
(I'm not talking directly at you, OnyxBat. I'm talking to everyone that said Twilight.)
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Originally Posted by KissMeDeadly
You fucking people [war veterans] are only a step below entitled rich kids, the only difference being you had to do and witness horrible things, instead of being given everything.
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real classy
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07-30-2010, 04:20 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 634
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It's alright but I can tell you why ever one says twilight...
You turn on your damn tv and you see TWILIGHT!
You go to your local book store and you see TWLIGHT!
You have a book disscuion and a brainless bimbo compares everything to TWLIGHT!
So that's why,
but I can tell you one classic that I hate, the scarlet letter
and All of Homers work.
I'm just a big fan of classic books I really love most of them.
And just for a fact my knowledge of literature is not petty at all it's rather bigger and open
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07-30-2010, 04:52 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
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Originally Posted by OnyxBat
but I can tell you one classic that I hate, the scarlet letter
and All of Homers work.
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There you go, that's way better. And I'm with you on the Scarlet Letter.
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Originally Posted by KissMeDeadly
You fucking people [war veterans] are only a step below entitled rich kids, the only difference being you had to do and witness horrible things, instead of being given everything.
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real classy
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07-30-2010, 09:50 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: victoria british columbia
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I cannot recall the titles because I have repressed them
from memory. But many a day I have spent tearing up books while screaming you thief of time!!!! one comes to mind: Robert frosts work. I hated him! although i read one of his poems the other day, and I cryed...I think I must have been feeling quaint and overly emotional
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07-31-2010, 06:58 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2010
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Thx alan, it's such a big waste of time to read that book! It just drones on about Hester Prinne!
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07-31-2010, 06:28 PM
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#46
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: The United States
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Originally Posted by Black&Blue
The Stranger by Albert Camus. The main character was so obnoxius, he was so cold and unemotional and so not-there. He didn't give a damn about anything. I just wanted to punch him in the face so that he could feel something, anything. The story ended bad for him and I was so happy.
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How could you hate The Stranger? That was the one and only enjoyable book in my AP English Lit class. His lack of heart and emotional failure made him a very interesting person, in my opinion.
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07-31-2010, 06:33 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: The United States
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Originally Posted by Saya
Read Dark Gold, take out all the sex and you have Twilight.
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Are you referring to Christine Feehan books? I personally thought that her books weren't all that bad. At least she gave her characters a measure of depth, unlike the drivel from Stephanie Meyer.
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07-31-2010, 06:35 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gallifrey
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I didn't really like Dorian Gray. The plot was cool, I just don't give enough of a shit about ancient fancy tapestries to want to read three chapters describing it. Also, I came to hate Lord Henry. Which I guess is a sign of good writing, considering I've invested emotions into a character, but I just thought it was boring.
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07-31-2010, 06:53 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: In your trash can
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Originally Posted by Lethe
Are you referring to Christine Feehan books? I personally thought that her books weren't all that bad. At least she gave her characters a measure of depth, unlike the drivel from Stephanie Meyer.
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Meyer did a good job of writing a book while looking after three kids, one which wasn't sleeping through the night. I admire her for that.
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07-31-2010, 07:43 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Originally Posted by Lethe
Are you referring to Christine Feehan books? I personally thought that her books weren't all that bad. At least she gave her characters a measure of depth, unlike the drivel from Stephanie Meyer.
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I'll level with you, I thought it was crap, I know it was crap, but hey, I actually finished that book. I wish I could shut my brain off sometimes and enjoy something stupid and smutty, but I just can't and I give up on books halfway through, I did this with the True Blood book (Dead Until Dark?) and I hated Bitten too much to pick up any more Kelly Armstrong books.
But I think if I ever found more of Feehan's books, I might actually read them. Its painful but its entertaining, and not totally in a "its so bad its funny" way. So, yeah, I agree with you that her characters had more, well, character, but when Twilight came out it just reminded me of that, just an even shittier version.
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