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Saya · 05-08-2010, 11:16 AM

I've been curious to read The Fountainhead just to see what all the disgust is about.

I've read a lot of crap, but out of books I've read that were supposed to be good, I hated Random Passage (synopsis: People come to Newfoundland, they fuck, breed, commit genocide and then die in anticlimactic ways. Except for the guy who was killed by a polar bear.) Blood Red Ochre (synopsis: The Beothuk, the native group of Newfoundland that the people in Random Passage murdered, time travel to the future and bring a useless angsty teenager back with them just so he can fail to save them.), No Man's Land, which is by the same guy who wrote Blood Red Ochre, only its about the Battle Of The Somme, which was better but still poorly written and the actual battle isn't until the very end and its so very brief, he might as well just have written "AND A LOT OF PEOPLE DIED THE END." All three of those I had to read in high school, and I know there are a lot better books about Newfoundland. I'm pretty sure they only got us to read Random Passage because the CBC was airing the miniseries at the time, most people watched it instead and just checked with me to see what the differences were (no polar bear.)

I also really hated The Bad Place by Dean Koontz. I pretty much hate Koontz for that book alone, Odd Thomas couldn't make up for it.

05-08-2010, 11:16 AM	#7
Saya Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 9,548	I've been curious to read The Fountainhead just to see what all the disgust is about. I've read a lot of crap, but out of books I've read that were supposed to be good, I hated Random Passage (synopsis: People come to Newfoundland, they fuck, breed, commit genocide and then die in anticlimactic ways. Except for the guy who was killed by a polar bear.) Blood Red Ochre (synopsis: The Beothuk, the native group of Newfoundland that the people in Random Passage murdered, time travel to the future and bring a useless angsty teenager back with them just so he can fail to save them.), No Man's Land, which is by the same guy who wrote Blood Red Ochre, only its about the Battle Of The Somme, which was better but still poorly written and the actual battle isn't until the very end and its so very brief, he might as well just have written "AND A LOT OF PEOPLE DIED THE END." All three of those I had to read in high school, and I know there are a lot better books about Newfoundland. I'm pretty sure they only got us to read Random Passage because the CBC was airing the miniseries at the time, most people watched it instead and just checked with me to see what the differences were (no polar bear.) I also really hated The Bad Place by Dean Koontz. I pretty much hate Koontz for that book alone, Odd Thomas couldn't make up for it.