[bookshare-discuss] Re: Just for Fun - Name Five Books You Wish You Hadn't Read
- From: Chela Robles <cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 09:06:17 -0700
Of Mice And Men ending is sad just like the movie, Arabian Knights,
boring in middle school, any Shakespeare because all his books were in
thermoform plastic paper and braille was almost worn out and I got
sweaty after reading a line, Nickel And Dimed, also boring, Bridge To
Teribithia, because his girlfriend died by drowning, The Outsiders and
The great Gatsby and To Kill A Mockingbird, and last of all in this
post, The Omnivore's Dilemma which changed my thinking about food
though it is tempting to not stop eating it, won't go into detail,
just read for yourself and perhaps we can also start a thread baout
what are the five best books you've read or series as well.
On 9/1/11, Chris Hill <hillco@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I don't think I can come up with five, although I used to be willing to
> read about anything back when NLS was al there was and I had no way to
> check out the whole collection.
>
> A Light in August (William Faulkner)
> I read it because I'd never read any Faulkner. The characters were
> awful and I kept reading just to see if someone would come along and
> kill them all to put them out of their misery. It didn't happen.
>
> The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market (George Soros)
> For what little insight it gave, it sure took a long time to read.
>
> Three Against the Witchworld (Andre Norton)
> This one caused me to give up on her. I don't like fantasy where bad
> things happen that you don't even know are possible. That's just
> beating up the reader if you ask me.
>
> From a Buick 8 (Stephen King)
> Good characters, but I really didn't care for it. This one probably
> made me skip the rest of the horror genre.
>
>
> On 9/1/2011 02:37, Judy s. wrote:
>> I read a thread today on the Amazon UK site, where people were listing
>> five books they wished they hadn't ever read, and if they wanted, why. I
>> thought some of us might enjoy doing the same. Here goes for me:
>>
>> Books I Wish I'd Never Read:
>> 1. The Red Pony by John Steinbeck. What a horrible, depressing book!
>> 2. As I Lay Dying by William Falkner. OK, if you haven't read this book,
>> spoiler alert: I had to read this in high school. I remember my teacher
>> asking us about the cultural significance of Jewel getting his broken
>> leg cemented to the coffin. My thoughts: Hello? Where was social
>> services when a parent was using cement to cast his son's broken leg to
>> his dead mother's coffin? Um, apparently that wasn't the right answer
>> that the teacher wanted, by the way. grin.
>> 3. Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time. I want the hours back I've
>> spent trying to read this book. Has anyone actually ever read the book,
>> or is this a case of The Emperor's New Clothes where no one want to be
>> the one to admit that they thought it was just awful, obtuse, and poorly
>> written, even though it is. Yes, Hawking is a genius. No, he doesn't do
>> a good job of explaining the relativistic universe, at least in my
>> biased opinion. smile.
>> 4. Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy. I know this is a
>> favorite of many people, and it is well-written, but I couldn't stand
>> it. I've tried to read it several different times and can't ever get
>> past the first few chapters.
>> 5. And to finish my list, I just don't get the Harry Potter craze. Read
>> the first three, tried the rest, didn't like any of them, and actually
>> thought they were boring, although I love books like the Lord of the
>> Rings Trilogy and the Narnia series. It's not that I think the Harry
>> Potter books are bad books, but they're definitely not my cup of tea.
>>
>> Anyone else want to jump in with their five books they wish they hadn't
>> ever read?
>>
>> Judy s.
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