Fuschia
A Little Odd
How can you say that?
Worst Book.
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How can you say that?
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
Yeah, what was so bad about the guide?
Jawz II
Oh Dear
Really? I'm not alone?
I thought there was way too much irony in it. Every single line just dripping with sharp wit and sarcasm.
There is such a thing as too much of a good thing, I feel. Got old fast.
Exact same thing with the hitchhikers guide.
Maybe I shouldn't have tried to read these 2 during the same month.
Julian Delphiki
Anton's key
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Erik Mesoy
Core Tester / Intern
Thus Spake Zarathustra. It's like being rebellious, only with no direction, but instead this poorly defined "will" thingy and the "overman".
superisis
His Highness' dog at Kew
I liked all four (though I admit that I didn't laugh much from Toole's book., cept the anonymous letter to his professor).
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sirdanilot
BBcode owns in sigs!
When I read a book, and I don't like it, I simply don't read it all through and I don't remember it afterwards.
But I heard that Mein Kampf from a German writer named "A. Hitler" was of very low quality...
But I heard that Mein Kampf from a German writer named "A. Hitler" was of very low quality...
Fifty
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It's regarded as one of Nietzsche's most overwrought and atypical works. I hope you didn't stop reading Nietzsche based on that one work!
Japanrocks12
tired of being a man
I absolutely hated Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
I once made the mistake of reading the first Left Behind book. By a wide margin it's the worst thing I've ever read. The basic premise is dumb enough and the theology is offensive, but they're awful writers and so they made the apocalypse boring and filled the book with all this creepy christo-patriarchal misogynist nonsense as well.
Harbringer
Your A One Flower Garden
I cant remember which one I read, white fang or call of the wild, but either one was absolutely horrible, so damn boring. That and "to kill a mocking bird" sucked to, and we had to read it in hi school, there was some other forced reading book to, I think it was called "night" and that one also sucked bad.
Fuschia
A Little Odd
Another good book. Seems as though I have either very strange taste or I'm not reading very much into anything...
Atlas Shrugged
innonimatu
the resident Cassandra
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James Joyce's Ulysses, for starting a 20th century literature fashion of pedantic writers.
Harbringer
Your A One Flower Garden
That was the one I forgot to mention.
Yeah, his later works sure went downhill fast. I stopped reading Clancy after that horrible 'The Bear and the Dragon' (or the other way around)
the worst book I ever read though was "Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß" by Robert Musil. Maybe it had to do with having to read it, but I thought it was utter crap.
They are very age-sensitive, I didn't like Catcher in a rhye that much, but it dodn't exactly suck either. Hitchiker's guide I read when I was 24 or something like that, and it isn't very amusing at that age. Actually I enjoyed more people telling stories from it than reading it.
I think Billy Bathgate, by E. L. Doctorov sucked big time. "If novels like this are written, I don't want to read anything anymore", I thought while reading it. Another terrible one was Moderato Cantabile by Marguerite Duras, boring French fake art ("French" meaning that it's fake artness was very typically French: nothing happens, there's no idea, people are bored and dialogues are mostly two simultaneous monolgues).
Fifty
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I haven't read Atlas Shrugged but Peikoff's book on Objectivism is the worst work of attempted philosophy I've ever read.
