It was bad because nothing happens. I spent the entire book waiting for something to happen and just when something was about to happn... it didn't. Apparently it was written to be a replacement of the traditional fairytale that didn't have all the violence and such... and it failed... epicly. **edit: Woot! 9000th post!
W.E.B. Griffith's 'The Corps' series. I went in expecting a rousing read of WWII-era Marine Corps action, only to be bored beyond tears.
short list: lolita the hobbit twilight eyes and a book that i grew to hate, then love: the grapes of wrath
salman rushdie's the wind beneath her feet. i can't believe i got sucked into it by the U2 song, fucking bono.
I don't read many books but my wife tells me that Eragon is possibly the biggest piece of shit ever written.
I don't think I have enough of my life left to plough through another of the encyclopedia-sized tomes he produces. Swung hard enough, a copy of The Bear And The Dragon will stun a rhino. Which is much the same effect as you get from reading it.
I don't know why I picked up 'The Five People you Meet in Heaven'. The main guy was good to read about but the rest was feel good mush filler.
American Psycho. Utter shite to read through, but ultimately rewarding, but never again. Even Tolkien didn't bore me as much as that
Heh. I thought TLOTR trilogy wasn't too hard to read. Read it back on my own time in junior high. Yeah a lot of the parts with Sam and Frodo were really SLOW, but that was mainly because they hardly ever ran into anyone so it mainly detailed what they were having for dinner that night. I also think the opposite of the guy that didn't like The Lost World. Absolutely loved the book and read it non stop during a summer along with Jurassic Park. It was even better since the book(Jurassic World) had both Jurassic Park and The Lost World in it. So I finished JP and headed straight into TLW.
Of the novels I've read that are generally considered to be decent or better, I thought Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" was garbage. I get what he was trying to do, it's just that once I got it, I didn't want it. Other than that...I don't know. Probably some throwaway zombie novel.
Two I can think of off the top of my head are George Sand's Leone Leoni and Émile Zola's Thérèse Raquin.
First two books are pretty good but the most recent and third buts flipping sucks big ones. It is very apparent that his fame has gone to his head a bit and the whole I can write what ever and people will eat it up. Lord of the Rings is good if you can get past the first part or the fellowship. Too many time they will be hiking through the country and Frodo will see a flower and it goes on for three pages of how that damn flower came to be and where it came from. But the worst book I've ever read was "The Gods of Aberdeen". About a 16 year old linguistics prodigy thriller story through college life and search for a possible way to find the philosopher's stone with the obsessed guy he met at school. Filled with petty teenage angst and a lackluster ending they end up killing a friend and then after not getting the older woman he wants and sees life sucks he admits to everything and get a slap on the wrist. FAIL. Think the Da Vince Code, a realistic take on Harry Potter, and 16 years old hormones. You can find it on Amazon for $0.01 ouch.
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Predictable, feel-good crap. - The Five People You Meet in Hell - Seemed to be intended as a parody of the above novel, but was virtually incoherent and had a total non-ending. - Bored of the Rings - Attempted parody of LotR, but containing high levels of fail. - The Silmarillion - Only got halfway through before I got bored with Tolkein's descriptions of the landscape and scenery. - The trilogy of DW-universe TF novels from a few years ago that included the aforementioned Hardwired. - Spider-Man 3 Movie novelization - Convinced me not to watch the movie. - Mostly Harmless - I didn't care much for the other four Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books (thought they were OK/tolerable but not great), but this installment was flat-out awful.
