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05-06-2010, 03:19 PM
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: where you cant get to me
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what book do you hate
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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05-06-2010, 03:22 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Georgia
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I hate The Bible. 
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05-07-2010, 09:07 PM
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: where you cant get to me
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 lots of people hate the bible
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05-07-2010, 09:51 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 2,932
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The Fountainhead.
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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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05-08-2010, 10:50 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
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Any book expounding Scientology.
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05-08-2010, 10:53 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Sweden
Posts: 79
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Odysseus.
The new long and boring, not the Greek masterpiece with similar name,
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05-08-2010, 11:16 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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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.
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05-09-2010, 03:34 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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Koontz is shit, I'll never understand his appeal.
I hated The Portrait of a Lady.
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05-09-2010, 10:18 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NoVA
Posts: 5,290
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Nora Roberts books. My mother keeps trying to get me to read them.. the summaries on the back covers are bad enough. >_<
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05-09-2010, 02:44 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gallifrey
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^ any Nora Roberts, any Nicholas Sparks, Atlas Shrugged, The Da Vinci Code, Pride and Prejudice, Cry to Heaven, Haunted, Diary...
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05-09-2010, 05:13 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NoVA
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Danielle Steele is particularly distasteful, too. I don't even know why my mom bothers reading if that's the only shit she reads.
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05-09-2010, 09:26 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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My mom is a romance novel reader too, but she never tried to get me to read any. My sister did try to get me to read Petals on the River by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, which I couldn't finish. To be fair to mom she does read poetry books more often nowadays, I just wish I could get her to read better novels. I lent her Night by Elie Wiesel years ago and she still hasn't read it, and once while I was watching the movie To Kill A Mockingbird she dropped the bomb on me that she never read the book, and she had to leave so she was like "so what happens to the black guy?" How did she get through life without knowing about To Kill A Mockingbird?
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05-10-2010, 08:59 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NoVA
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I tried to get my mom to read Chocolat, and she said "why should I bother reading it if they made it into a movie?"
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05-10-2010, 02:46 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: United States.
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The Fountainhead.
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Couldn't agree more.
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05-10-2010, 03:03 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Saya
I've been curious to read The Fountainhead just to see what all the disgust is about.
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It's available online with a little googleism. Personally I love it, as well as Atlas Shrugged. I'm interested too in seeing what it is that people hate about those books.
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05-10-2010, 04:16 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NoVA
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Hey, let's go with the obvious: Twilight.
A Dog's Tale, by Mark Twain. I read it as a little kid, and it still makes me upset.
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05-10-2010, 04:33 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Minnesota, USA
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Originally Posted by blindNsect
I hate The Bible. |
Just out of curiosity, do you hate in just on general principle, or did you read it and dislike what you found in it?
For me, I absolutely hated The Alienist by Caleb Carr.
This hack essentially ate Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, went on a CSI bender, then shat out a steaming pile many people apparently mistook for a work of literature. It received lots of acclaim a number years ago. How this happened, I have no idea.
- Heretic
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05-10-2010, 04:46 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith was a piece of shit. Now, I hate Pride And Prejudice, so I'm biased towards Austen clones anyway, but its so blatant, even the characters in the story are like "I'm like a Jane Austen character!" What, you're in love with your sister's fiance who she doesn't even like but its tearing you apart? DO GO ON.
I'll remember more eventually, I just remembered that one because I found out that it had a movie.
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05-11-2010, 01:55 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Dirty South
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Originally Posted by Saya
I also really hated The Bad Place by Dean Koontz.
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Ugh, I had almost forgotten about that book.
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05-11-2010, 02:57 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Posts: 49
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Any free market utopian literature.
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05-11-2010, 03:11 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Yorkshire, UK
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The Dan Brown collection just winds me up. Aside from that there are many books I've started and never finished and many thousands of books I've seen and thought oh god no (danielle Steele I'm thinking of you) but none others that arouse the level of hatred and contempt that a Dan Brown novel does in my soul.
And the people who have come to me in seriousness and said the Catholic Church is part of a huge conspiracy, its in Dan Brown... I want you to know I have no respect for you as human beings and you are dragging the rest of the world down into a pit of blandness and mediocrity.
I feel better for that.
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05-11-2010, 05:17 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
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Quote:
Originally Posted by donmara
Any free market utopian literature.
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Fuck yeah. Remind me to answer your questions on Marxism next week.
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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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05-11-2010, 05:29 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Augusta
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Twilight and Pride and Prejudice. Twilight for obvious reasons. As for Pride and Prejudice, I hate that it's so slow, has little detail, and is all tell and little show.
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05-11-2010, 11:42 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Sheffield UK.
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Anything by Dan Brown is almost certainly plagiarised, badly written and will have large plot holes in the otherwise boring storyline...
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05-13-2010, 03:13 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Not sure...can't see thru all this eyeliner....
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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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