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 Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 4:56 pm
Even the most bibliophilic (is that word? ^^; ) of bibliophiles have at least ONE book that just...isn't their favorite. Me, I've only ever quit one book. Homeland by R.A. Salvatore. Aside from that one failure to finish, even if I dislike a book a whole lot, I will finish it. What is that one book for you that you just couldn't get into? How did you deal with it?
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Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:05 pm
That rarely happens to me, but when it does I feel bad, like I'm doing something wrong because I couldn't finish whatever it was.
I can't recall what the book was called, but I just couldn't bring myself to finish it. Maybe I'll remember it sometime.
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Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:14 pm
iPumperdiddle
I can't recall what the book was called, but I just couldn't bring myself to finish it.
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Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:28 pm
Haha! That's a good possibility.
I have an idea of the book, but I could probably be shutting painful memories out. blaugh
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Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 8:20 pm
I wish I could forget the one I read. I seriously only made it to chapter 2... *Shudder*
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Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 8:26 pm
Woah, it was that bad? eek
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Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 8:30 pm
Yeah. Instead of people, they were dark elves who rode giant salamanders and lived in this whole alternate earth. And the first chapter was a guy walking into a school, and then just leaving (I honestly don't remember him doing anything), and the second was a bunch of (described as repulsive) women talking about having babies and how their husbands and brothers were to be slain just for someone to usurp the throne, and they didn't mind it.
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Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 8:40 pm
Woooow.
I can see what you didn't finish it. I wouldn't even bother trying to read it. Sounds like a fan fiction or something.
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Romantic Conversationalist
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Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 5:43 am
iPumperdiddle
Sounds like a fan fiction or something.
I do sometimes wonder, though, how some things get published. As an aspiring writer, it hurts me when I pick up a book and see inexcusably bad writing. A friend of a friend of mine published something, so I browsed through a copy. The first line I opened to was a run-on sentence, and the whole thing was like a quickly written fanfic in which all of the characters had the same language patterns (very much like a bad fanfic). I felt like gonk .
Not that I'm not discouraging people from writing ... just asking that they put a little effort into it. (I didn't read the whole book, by the way, and don't remember the title.)
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Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:16 am
I've only found a handful of good fan fictions and the rest are just... bleh. I know that they tried to write them but I just can't go through the one-liners repeatedly. gonk
Haha, it seems that we've, all three of us, forgotten the titles of the bad books, excluding Nicky Cade for looking it up.
I have a brief idea that it dealt with a mirror. Other than that.. it's completely erased.
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Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:31 am
A long time ago I could never read Johnny Tremain. Even though it's a Newbery Award winner, I still can't muster the interest to read it. I know I could, but since I couldn't finish it so long ago, I just don't want to anymore.
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Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 9:43 am
Years ago I used to ALWAYS force myself to finish a book even when I hated it. Now, I only force myself to complete it if it's a novel for school, or an extremely easy read. A poorly done fan fic, however, I simply quit perusing and find a better one...After I leave a comment on it, of course. People that don't leave reviews irritate me. xp
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Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:13 am
That doesn't happen too often...but usually I just rewrite it. When my sister sees me with a book open as I type, she says "Was it that bad?" xd
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Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 12:04 pm
To be honest, I despise the inability to finish a book because it's too awful. I believe firmly in the mindset that everything is worth reading and all knowledge is worth having. If anything, reading a horrible book will teach me that I ought to be on my guard with the writer from then on. Although, one shouldn't ban all books written by a certain author just because one of their works was a disappointment. You might miss out on some very good stuff. I do have one habit when it comes to less than decent writing; I tend to rewrite the bits and pieces of a book that I don't like.
I've never left a book unfinished, ever. I'm quite proud of that fact, actually, even if it isn't much of a thing to be proud of. I'm not sure why, but I've also never been really disappointed with a book. That's strange, especially since I would consider myself pretty well-read and quite a lot of the classics I like have been called abominable by others, even by my own friends. I suppose I've just got a queer taste when it comes to books (among other things). Every book I've read so far has been manageable and at least fairly decent. Sometimes it takes a bit of getting in to it, but that's all.
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Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:05 pm
Hm. That's quite a good attitude, Splendid Cup of Tea. One can gain knowledge from anything, I suppose. I'll try to look at books I dislike that way in the future.
Of course, there is that matter of time .... When there isn't enough time in life to read all of the really good books, it's hard for me to justify reading something I don't like. But, at least, all in all, there are few books I've come across that I don't like.
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