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 Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 8:13 am
365 Mondays If it includes vampires, dragons (Eragon killed dragons for me), "magical items", or talking animals, I usually won't touch it... But there's exceptions to every rule. I enjoyed Animal Farm and Firebringer.
I love science fiction, but that love is reserved for sci-fi that uses the future or an alternate universe as a way to reflect on the current real-life world. If it's all "HEY LOOK LASERGUNS" and space ships and aliens, and it's only being used as a way to show off shiny gadgets and pretty robotic women... No. Just no. There are some other decent animal talking books, like Watership Down. That wasn't so bad. Oh, and the Chronicles of Narnia are pretty good too, I hear. I've only seen the movies of those, though. Anyway, I refuse to read the Star Wars books. I just won't do it. *Kicks George Lucas in the face*
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Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 8:53 am
I refuse to read the Star Wars books and the Series of Unfortunate Events books........They have really weird covers.......it scares me eek emo
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Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:47 pm
Anything regarding religion or politics; I hear enough of it in my daily lives and I don't exactly find "pleasure" in reading them.
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 3:32 pm
 I stay away from most "Evil rules the world", Horror, "gory" books. I will not read the golden compass or any book that puts God down.. Other then that I read a little bit f every thing..
Historic romance, historic fiction, fiction, sci fi, fantasy, realistic, love, friendship, romance, mysteries... Ect....
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 3:55 am
the new werson of Sagaen om Isfolket by Margit Sandemo... the person who translated it made the books just horrible... I had read the books like they where translated originaly and I liked it but this new werson is jsut awful....
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 9:28 pm
Quite a few people have said these already, but Harry Potter and Eragon. I read Eragon, and I still have it. It was ok, but not worth reading again, and not worth continuing the series. And, well, anyone who's asked me about Harry Potter knows my feelings on it. I hate the writing, the characters, AND the storyline. The first book was so bad I threw it in the garbage in front of the teacher who wanted me to do a book report on it, and told her to let me do Stephen King instead. That didn't go over too well with her. She kept saying kids my age shouldn't even know who King is (I was in fifth grade, I had been reading King and Rice since third), and those books would give me nightmares. When I told her I had already read a couple she nearly fainted. That was funny.
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 5:53 pm
those movie books! they suck.
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 5:35 pm
I will not read biographies. They're just too boring. Anything that won't spark my interest by my skimming ahead I won't read.
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 6:18 pm
I refuse to read romance and westerns, and any books based on games/movies/tv shows (Star Wars, Dungeons and Dragons, Magic the Gathering, etc). Other than that, its more about how well I like the book. If I can't get into it within the first few chapters, I'll never finish it.
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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 8:22 pm
I refuse to read:
1. Twilight. mad
2. The Chronicles of Narnia, but mostly out of a grudge from 4th grade when I was being forced to read the first one against my will when I was trying to read LotR for the billionth time instead. stare The same thing happened with A Series of Unfortunate Events in 3rd grade, but I came around, read them, and really liked them.
3. Any more Anne Rice past what I've already read. (Most of it was just to see when all the characters finally bite the dust... confused I just really wanted a lot of them to die. Except Marius. I sort of liked him...)
4. Most westerns, romances, and dry books on religion and politics. whee
5. For at least another 4 years, no more Shakespeare or any sort of plays at all!!! I have dealt with him so much this year that I cannot possibly ingest any more. And plays...I don't care what play it is or who wrote it, no more! Please! No more! gonk My English teacher means to drown us in this! I honestly had to stop reading Julius Caesar during English class on Friday and pull out Slaughter-House 5 to save my mind from exploding. burning_eyes
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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 8:39 pm
nontoxicpaint those movie books! they suck. Honestly, I don't really expect them to be that great. Try adapting a book into a screenplay, that can be done and has been done for a while, with mixed results. Try taking a screenplay and making a full fledged substantial book out of it, that's going to be pretty damn hard. Take a great book like LotR and make it into a movie. Okay, good, done. Look at Peter Jackson's film for example. Now, not knowing there was even a book called Lord of the Rings in existence and with no previous knowledge of it, try to take the film(s) and write a book out of it. Look at the movie and read the screenplay, and write a book. Now you magically remember that LotR is a book. Compare your version alongside Tolkien's and see how lacking yours is.
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Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 7:42 pm
I really don't refuse to read anything (a particular genre, I guess) but I kind of don't even look at the books in the romance section due to the whole entire aisle looking exactly the same with the covers.
I know, I know, don't judge a book by it's cover (literally, ha ha) but I can't help it. I mean, a muscular man holding a big breasted lady in some sort of death embrace. WHOAH, great!
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Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:08 pm
XWraith_LordX I refuse to read: 1. Twilight. mad 2. The Chronicles of Narnia, but mostly out of a grudge from 4th grade when I was being forced to read the first one against my will when I was trying to read LotR for the billionth time instead. stare The same thing happened with A Series of Unfortunate Events in 3rd grade, but I came around, read them, and really liked them.
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Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 10:20 pm
TempestRising XWraith_LordX I refuse to read: 1. Twilight. mad 2. The Chronicles of Narnia, but mostly out of a grudge from 4th grade when I was being forced to read the first one against my will when I was trying to read LotR for the billionth time instead. stare The same thing happened with A Series of Unfortunate Events in 3rd grade, but I came around, read them, and really liked them. Will do. Once I've finished reading everything that's sort of...waiting to be read. (Including a nearly thousand page book on Icelandic sagas...)
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Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 11:24 am
bunnyrulerofthemoon I refuse to read romance and westerns, and any books based on games/movies/tv shows (Star Wars, Dungeons and Dragons, Magic the Gathering, etc). Other than that, its more about how well I like the book. If I can't get into it within the first few chapters, I'll never finish it. That pretty much sums it up for me as well smile Tommy Dionysus Quite a fwe people have said these already, but Harry Potter and Eragon. I read Eragon, and I still have it. It was ok, but not worth reading again, and not worth continuing the series. And, well, anyone who's asked me about Harry Potter knows my feelings on it. I hate the writing, the characters, AND the storyline. The first book was so bad I threw it in the garbage in front of the teacher who wanted me to do a book report on it, and told her to let me do Stephen King instead. That didn't go over too well with her. She kept saying kids my age shouldn't even know who King is (I was in fifth grade, I had been reading King and Rice since third), and those books would give me nightmares. When I told her I had already read a couple she nearly fainted. That was funny. That's hilarious! I may be a bookworm, but I don't think I really read that much ahead of my age group when I was younger sweatdrop I really regret that now. faerie-wing-dragon I've found that being forced to read a book, no matter how good it may be, tends to take away from the enjoyment...be it by school, parents, or just 'because everyone else is reading it' Reading books I was forced to read just ruins them for me. Reading them at least a year before I had to helped though! eccentricanomaly Anything by Robert Cormier. I read one, and tried another, but I just can't stand them. Oh come on! No! crying Chocolate Wars was great! Give his books another shot! heart mjross777 i refuse to read redwall or the golden compass series i just despise them redwall is sposed to be a liike YA (young adult) book right well i read at a sophmore in college level and i didn't folow it at all The time to read Redwall ends when you go to high school. Sometimes you can still manage them as an underclassman in high school, but no.. As for Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, why? I thought the books were great! (Of course, I'm in love with anything that involves conspiracies (including religious conspiracies), dystopias, and magic) XWraith_LordX TempestRising XWraith_LordX I refuse to read: 1. Twilight. mad 2. The Chronicles of Narnia, but mostly out of a grudge from 4th grade when I was being forced to read the first one against my will when I was trying to read LotR for the billionth time instead. stare The same thing happened with A Series of Unfortunate Events in 3rd grade, but I came around, read them, and really liked them. Will do. Once I've finished reading everything that's sort of...waiting to be read. (Including a nearly thousand page book on Icelandic sagas...) My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius,
Commander of the Armies of the North,
General of the Felix Legions,
loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius,
I read the Twilight series just because I wanted to know if Meyer could possible redeem herself. I was ready to shoot myself (or her) after I read the last book. I completely understand why you wouldn't read them. She based them off a dream anyway....
The Chronicles of Narnia is really worth the read. Lewis may go off on random tangents frequently, but the stories are interesting nevertheless.
For all those who hate the Twilight series, check these articles out: Washington Post, Cracked, Blast Magazine. Hilarious!
father to a murdered son,
husband to a murdered wife,
and I will have my vengeance -- in this life or the next.
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