West
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Post by West on Sept 3, 2008 17:30:48 GMT -5
Maybe this one doesn't reall count, but Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. It took me a total of 4 tries to read the book. I would start it a the beginning of each summer, then I would just like stop reading it for some reason. I never got past the end of the Yule Ball. Eventually, however, I did finish it, because I had to so I could read the ones that followed to that I could read the final book.
Another one that I didn't get to finish was The Golem's Eye. I think that I had maybe 50 pages left of it, but I just completely lost interest in it, and didn't finish it.
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Post by username on Sept 3, 2008 18:58:05 GMT -5
Speaking of which, what was with Nathan's decision somewhere between books 1 and 2 that the best possible course of action to take in his life was to be a total twig?
I wouldn't have minded so much actually if it weren't for the fact that the new secondary protagonist, Kitty, sucked hard.
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Post by West on Sept 3, 2008 19:06:35 GMT -5
Sometimes that those books just confused me. The whole switching of characters was interesting at first, but by the end, I just found it old, and didn't really like it that much.
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Post by syarafire on Sept 3, 2008 19:15:50 GMT -5
Aww, I loved the Bartimaeus trilogy.
I didn't find Kitty a terrible protagonist, just kind of...awkward, I guess. I liked her by the end of the series. And I liked the POV-switching, and that's coming from someone who normally hates anything that switches POV.
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Post by username on Sept 3, 2008 19:18:19 GMT -5
I love POV switching. It's great in A Song of Ice and Fire, it's sort of kind of in Watchmen which is like the best book ever, and it was done pretty good in the Bartimaeus Trilogy. The main problem with it in the Bartimaeus trilogy was how the Bartimaeus chapters were noticeably more interesting.
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Post by syarafire on Sept 3, 2008 19:51:12 GMT -5
I meant POV switching to mean more like...first-person POV to third-person POV and vice versa. If it switches between multiple first-person or third-person, I don't really mind.
For a book that switches between third-person and first-person POV, the third-person POV parts tried their best to be interesting. By their nature they couldn't be as interesting as the Bartimaeus chapters because those were funnier, more entertaining, and had more personality.
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Post by zukofan22 on Sept 6, 2008 5:35:47 GMT -5
Brave New World= It's basically an utopian society like Ba-Sing-Se...only I'd rather watch the Ba-Sing-Se segments over and over again than read this book again. I mean, the only person I really cared about was...noone.
"We brainwash our children by scaring the hell out of them as babies" "We support erotica by having our children run around with no clothing!"
It was just very sickning to me.
Just what was the point?
The Giver=Basically, everyone's pratically color-blinded. Everyone sees in just black and white and the Giver is an old man who apparently likes to put a random boy through as much pain as possible in order for him to to...do....something!
I swear, I would have read Ty-Lee's dairy (and she's quite the Mary Stu....no flaws...always happy...Sure she has the Mommy-Don't-Love-Me issue, but does that really affect the storyline at all? She may as well have cried about breaking a fingernail) than this!
Anyways...what were the other books I never finished?
Oh yes, Eragon/Eldest Completly flat, one-dimensional characters and heavily "borrowed" from Star Wars and Lord of the Rings.
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