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Post by naaaat on Jun 30, 2009 14:34:57 GMT
ALDOUS HUXLEY.
I had to study 'Brave New World' for some A Level Literature coursework and I HATED IT. It started off like it was going to be alright and I thought he set it up quite well, but then he just gave up on any kind of plot and just started describing everything instead, and all the characters were just horrible and... Yeah, not a fan!
Also Grahame Swift (another Lit one) and Philip Pullman; I couldn't get into 'Northern Lights' at all!
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Post by the kalashnikov kid on Jun 30, 2009 19:34:31 GMT
Tolkien is my homeboy man, The Hobbit isn't a struggle at all! It's a children's book, if you can't get through LotR that's allowed, but the Hobbit? It's all just like reading a folk song.
I can't stand Virginia Woolf.... It's too much effort to read. Wordsworth I guess I don't like.
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Post by izzyplastic on Jul 1, 2009 21:38:48 GMT
i just can't stand James Joyce...
never managed to finish a single one of his books, despite numerous attempts to get "into it"
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Post by tarantella on Jul 2, 2009 3:37:26 GMT
Reading Dan Brown has made me so much more forgiving. I'm no longer really bothered by bad fiction.
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Post by wakefromthysleep on Aug 21, 2009 3:15:16 GMT
theodor fontane! only good for those who like a 20 page description of a garden. That's exaggerated but his books are so boring. Effi Briest should have fallen off her swing! and nick hornby was mentioned. I had to read About A Boy for school: I hated the book and the film.. both awful.
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Post by Rosie The Red on Aug 21, 2009 12:53:43 GMT
A had to read Revolver by Marcus Sedgewick {I think that's his name?} recently... I just don't get it - the story is okay, and the characters are bearable, but it feels like it was written by an English professor to showcase similies and metaphors and all that other stuff. Also, I don't remember the authors name, but whoever wrote 'Everlost'. Oh, Neil{?} Shusterman. It just wasn't interesting. It was completely random and uncohesive and the characters bored me to death. Didn't really inspire me to read 'Unwind', which everybody else was also raving about {in an 'ohmygod i loved it' way}
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Post by naaaat on Aug 21, 2009 13:20:26 GMT
^^ I read a Marcus Sedgewick book when it was on the Carnegie Medal and I couldn't get on board with his style of writing either!
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Post by 'm a fragment, but that's okay on Nov 27, 2009 23:25:05 GMT
as for many other people on here, for me it's Tolkien as well. It's just-... ah, i dunno... i simply don't need to know about the life of some small flower, one of thousands of the same kind, which the protagonists of the book (lod of the rings, yea) will never cross anyway. You get what i mean? It's just too much of this description stuff. I know he created an own new world and that, so it was just the thing to do, i know, i know... blabla. I tried to read it long time ago anyhow. and then there was this horrible book of an Geramn satirist. Sharing it with another even greater guy, he got a show on telly which is my favorite one by far (easy - i really dislike German television), but that book...-! he's starting sentences, putting hundreds of subclauses (do you call like that) into it and forgets to close them again. I'm all right with these multi-clause sentence; i like Immanuel Kant alot who's a pro in it for sure and i'm afraid in German I'm doing the very same, but not closing them...?! I can't stand this guy now anymore, I'm soohoo sorry! oh, and don't forget about Charlotte Roche. I wanna hurt her seriously (nah, honestly, I'm pacifistic towards living things). ' was so shocked when I saw her something that they call book in England.
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