femaleairbender
Blue Spirit
Just a fool to believe I have anything she needs...She's like the wind...
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Post by femaleairbender on Feb 12, 2007 18:41:20 GMT -5
Any books that you don't like and want to rant about them? Feel free to do so here!
Two books I didn't really like:
1. The World Inside by Robert Silverberg. I think it could have been a lot more interesting, like, I don't know, some psycho government is controlling the world or something. *cough1984cough* And when it wasn't being bland, the prose was purple.
2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling. Don't get me wrong, there were some parts of the book I did enjoy, like Spinner's End and Voldemort's past, and the murder of Dumbledore had me on the edge of my seat. But other parts of the book made me feel like I was reading a bad fanfiction. My main pet peeve was Harry/Ginny. Shipping perferences aside, I thought Harry/Ginny was unrealistic. The whole monster thing was abrupt and OOC. I believe wholeheartedly in the love potion theory; there has to be a reason Harry was behaving so...unnaturally.
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Hama
Gran Gran
Hama: Crazier than Rose Nylund
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Post by Hama on Feb 13, 2007 12:03:23 GMT -5
Yeah in the last book it seemed she went all ship crazy...
Anyway, my least favorate book was about a guy who lived in a house for several years until the man of the house died then he walked out into the world and got run over and that lead to him having all kinds of adventures!1 The teacher explained that he supposed to symbolize man walking out of the Garden of Eden into modern times but it was pretty much the stupidest thing I've ever read. The guy was such an oddball that everyone fell in love with him and he got a job in the whitehouse, but all he cared about watching TV. The worst part was this really awful not-s*x scene...
Funny that I can't remember the name. Suppressing bad memories, I suspect.
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Post by Earth King Sunny on Feb 14, 2007 16:56:41 GMT -5
The catcher in the rye, hands down the most boring thing I have ever read. sute there are contenders but catcher was brutal
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ZukosGirl
Bolin
Mad-Eye and Sokka have so much in common
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Post by ZukosGirl on Feb 15, 2007 18:44:07 GMT -5
Anything by Jane Austen. All of the characters in the books I've read of hers are the same, they're aristocrats getting married. Wow, great plot twists there.
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Post by appacatbus on Feb 15, 2007 23:22:11 GMT -5
The catcher in the rye, hands down the most boring thing I have ever read. sute there are contenders but catcher was brutal You obviously dont have much experience with boring books. I dislike: Entire book felt like a bad fanfiction Lengthy and poorly written Disgusting over use of purple prose Empire Strikes Back wants its plot back Shallow characters Tolkien is rolling in his grave
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historyman12
Fugitive Iroh
IS IT JULY 14TH YET?
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Post by historyman12 on Feb 16, 2007 20:35:34 GMT -5
Amelia's War. I ripped my hair out on page 10.
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Hama
Gran Gran
Hama: Crazier than Rose Nylund
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Post by Hama on Feb 18, 2007 14:35:32 GMT -5
Didn't J.D. Salinger just invent teen angst with that book? That's all the book is about. Oh yeah, and Holden swears a lot.
Meh, I like it.
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femaleairbender
Blue Spirit
Just a fool to believe I have anything she needs...She's like the wind...
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Post by femaleairbender on Feb 18, 2007 20:01:15 GMT -5
Amelia's War. I ripped my hair out on page 10. Is that book about some emo chick? I think my friend's reading it.
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Post by Zukosfire5 on Feb 19, 2007 13:19:24 GMT -5
The House on Mango Street. Required reading for school, and it was so boring. There wasn't even a plot!
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Post by avatarspirit on Feb 19, 2007 13:23:51 GMT -5
The House on Mango Street. Required reading for school, and it was so boring. There wasn't even a plot! Amen! The Giver. Boring and you don't even know what happened in the end
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Hama
Gran Gran
Hama: Crazier than Rose Nylund
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Post by Hama on Feb 19, 2007 13:58:41 GMT -5
Just thought of some more!
Quest for a Maid- Now, this book was pretty cool, but there were some things in it that were just severely screwed up. Other things were just written like bad fan fiction. If the plot was only about Inge being a witch and how the sisters became mortal enemies, I would be fine with that. That's a great plot right there. But the other stuff... 1. An entire chapter about how the kids spent a summer playing in a boat. It's rediculous. 2. Whole chapters spent on showing how these two guys are pretty much devoted to the main character. 3. When other little girl died and they laughed about it. Spiteful much? I know she was a little brat but still... 4. The fact that they totally predicted that the peasant woman would rat them out wouldn't have annoyed me so much if it were in a better work. 5. The girl chooses the attractive one, and her betrothed is totally fine with that. 6. The oldest one of them is 14 and they're going to go start a farm somewhere? What the heck?
Flash Foreward- I liked Robert Sawyer's neanderthal series. I dunno, for some reason a cross universe love story involving a neanderthal and a homo sapien really appeals to me. I'm a weird person like that. But this book was just dumb. Even the premise is bad, if you really think of it. Everyone on earth falls asleep for two minutes and get a vision of where they will be in 20 years. So the rest of the book is all about how they are arguing about whether the future can be changed or not, and the main character is angsting because he saw a vision where he was married to a woman who is not the woman he planned to marry, and about how his parents went through a divorce as a kid and how he's so against divorce and stuff, blah, blah, blah. His story was so pointless that most of the book wasn't even about him. It was about this other guy who was trying to prevent his death...anyway, I don't suggest it.
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Post by appacatbus on Feb 20, 2007 2:18:57 GMT -5
The House on Mango Street. Required reading for school, and it was so boring. There wasn't even a plot! I had to read that several years ago. Ugh, i thought i had erased those memories...
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Psera
Joo Dee
Little Kitty
BOW
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Post by Psera on Feb 20, 2007 14:27:28 GMT -5
Grendel. Biggest waste of time EVER.
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Post by darkblood_alchemist on Feb 20, 2007 16:59:43 GMT -5
Great Expectations
What sort of freak teacher tells a sixth-grade student (this was a few years ago) to read that book? I wanted to claw my eyes out after the first few chapters. (although I may be able to tolerate it now, I don't want to try)
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historyman12
Fugitive Iroh
IS IT JULY 14TH YET?
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Post by historyman12 on Feb 20, 2007 20:29:29 GMT -5
The House on Mango Street. Required reading for school, and it was so boring. There wasn't even a plot! Amen! The Giver. Boring and you don't even know what happened in the end how is it boring? Great Expectations is a god book. just you were WAY too young.
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