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 Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:08 pm
Lauren Weisberger - Everyone Worth Knowing
There's nothing to read in that book. I mean, yeah, there's writing to be read, but it's just NOT WORTH READING. The Devil Wears Prada is great, but this book is just ... I don't have a word for it.
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:27 pm
I read the summary for that book, keep in mind just after reading "Devil Wears Prada", and just had an instinct that I should just find something else. Glad to see that that decision was a good one.
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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:07 am
Lucky you. I got a hunch too.. but, as usual... I ignored it.
Mental note: Follow your heart.
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 2:32 pm
Why is the Wheel of Time series on this list? Masterfully written, like-able characters and a plot that will keep you up until the wee hours of the morning?
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 8:34 am
Vampire Kisses 3: Vampireville- Ellen Schreiber
While I've only read this one, I'm failry certain that the rest of the series sucked just a** badly.
One of the biggest mistakes I think a serious author can do is drop label names in their stories. All it does is stereotype your character and make it unreadable for further generations. For example, the main character in the forementioned book has an 'Edward Scissorhands lamp'. One, how the heck would they make a lamp out of that? I suppose the shade of the lamp could be decorated with scenes from the movie, but I doubt it. Anyway, all the author is doing there with mentioning that it's an 'Edward Scissorhands' lamp is stereotyping her character in with all the other little gothic children, and she's dragging a fairly good movie along with her. How difficult is it to just say, "lamp"? Is it so undynamic that she absolutely HAS to drop a label? Leave my culture ALONE. Not only does it make the story unbearable to read, it makes the whole book sound like terrible Quizilla fanfiction, which by the way, was how the entire story seemed to be written. This book is an insult to people who enjoy vampire novels, gothic people, and the literary world in general.
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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 8:37 am
Wow... Quite a few of the books and authors on the first page I love. I feel so... Hurt... xp
An unreadable book would be: anything by Tanya Huff. She fails as a fantasy author...
@ HERO: Vampire Kisses 1 was great. The next two sucked.
@ MissRoxy: I hate you. (Just kidding). But really. Blood and Chocolate was the most amazing book ever. I loved it!!
Eragon is.. whatever. Too many ideas stolen from everything else.
Atonement: I have to read this book sometime. I adored the movie though.
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Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:05 pm
I generally have never disliked a book Ive decided to read, I'm very careful choosing them, they're is only one book I can think of that I didn't read which I must profess was such dire and boring drivel that I scarcely read more than a few pages before I put it down, it was so bad I could not even care to remember its name it was so worthless.
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Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 10:33 am
Moby d**k had to be, without a doubt, the worse book I remember reading.
I also have it on good authority that As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner) is the most hated novel on the planet (at least among english majors). You can see an english majors' eyes turn red the minute someone mentions the title. It's usually followed by a long rant and the uncontrollable urge to throw things.
Animal Farm is an excellent book, and frighteningly accurate in regards to political philosophies and world views.
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