Post by mentalmishaps on May 2, 2008 21:16:33 GMT -5
Wow, I'm surprised that people dislike The Giver and To Kill a Mockingbird. I love those.
Lets see:
The Scarlett Letter- I DON'T CARE about all the crowd. Does that have anything to do with the story? No. It's good when Hawthorn actually describes the plot and stuff, but it just gets too descriptive of random crap. Also, I really cannot relate to Hester or Dimmsdale. If it was me, I woulda been on the first boat out of there.
The Awakening- Nothing happens. A billion pages, and nothing happens. (SPOILER) When it does, it's a craptacular kiss. And then she kills herself because she's a weak emo kid. Ew.
The Great Gatsby- I'm surprised no ones mentioned this one yet. I mean was there any good character in there? I couldn't have cared less about any of them. And my English teacher beat the "symbolism" into the ground. "Her name is Daisy because daisies are white (pure) on the outside and yellow (impure) on the inside." What. The. Hell. No. Her name is JUST Daisy. That's it. Lord.
Fast Food Nation- To date, this is the only book assigned to me for a class that I haven't read. I ploughed through a ton of crap, and I couldn't get through this. My favorite part was when he said (quoted from memory) "There are many people in fast food who cannot speak any English. And the percentage of those who cannot speak English is even higher." WTF?
Ethan Frome: Ninety pages of nothing. Their lives suck. Then at the end their lives suck more. The only good part was the hilarious conversation we had about the red pickle dish symbolizing Zeena's lady parts (since it's blocked.) Mattie broke Zeena's sexuality! Lulz.
Things Fall Apart- A novel about Africa. I shall not get started, for I will be bricked by all. I'm just not a big fan of pity Africa stories. He spends the whole time trying to convince us that they have a rich civillized culture, but the main character is a wife beater who drinks out of a human skull on special occasions. They also kill a kid because the oracle says so. And then the British are arse faces. So I really don't like anyone involved.
Eragon- Sweet zombie Jesus no. Just no. About everything. I was reading it for a SciFi-Fantasy Lit class. It was awful, but I struggled through it just to find out what happened. Neg. It turns out there was a trilogy, so I just got a big "To be continued" Nice.
Phantoms in the Brain- Five bucks says no one's read this one! It was for my psych class. Awful, awful, and his experiments were flawed! He showed a drawing of a flower by a neglect patient (someone who, following a stroke, only pays attention to one side of everything. They'll walk around with makeup on one half of their face and everything) and said "Notice how all the petals are on one side." But if you looked at the picture, there was a leaf on both sides of the flower! (/end nerd rant)
I honestly don't know why I like the Twilight series. I hate Bella (a LOT,) Edward is an annoying prude (with some twisted ideas about lots of stuff,) and Jacob is like a lamprey. Dude, let it go! But I still love the books (though I will say that parts of New Moon made me want to claw my eyes out.)
I loved Slaughterhouse Five too. Vonnegut rocks my socks off. Seriously, I want a "So it goes." T-shirt.
And yes, the Deathly Hallows was a big fanfic. Though I lurve Luna. And Bellatrix.
Lets see:
The Scarlett Letter- I DON'T CARE about all the crowd. Does that have anything to do with the story? No. It's good when Hawthorn actually describes the plot and stuff, but it just gets too descriptive of random crap. Also, I really cannot relate to Hester or Dimmsdale. If it was me, I woulda been on the first boat out of there.
The Awakening- Nothing happens. A billion pages, and nothing happens. (SPOILER) When it does, it's a craptacular kiss. And then she kills herself because she's a weak emo kid. Ew.
The Great Gatsby- I'm surprised no ones mentioned this one yet. I mean was there any good character in there? I couldn't have cared less about any of them. And my English teacher beat the "symbolism" into the ground. "Her name is Daisy because daisies are white (pure) on the outside and yellow (impure) on the inside." What. The. Hell. No. Her name is JUST Daisy. That's it. Lord.
Fast Food Nation- To date, this is the only book assigned to me for a class that I haven't read. I ploughed through a ton of crap, and I couldn't get through this. My favorite part was when he said (quoted from memory) "There are many people in fast food who cannot speak any English. And the percentage of those who cannot speak English is even higher." WTF?
Ethan Frome: Ninety pages of nothing. Their lives suck. Then at the end their lives suck more. The only good part was the hilarious conversation we had about the red pickle dish symbolizing Zeena's lady parts (since it's blocked.) Mattie broke Zeena's sexuality! Lulz.
Things Fall Apart- A novel about Africa. I shall not get started, for I will be bricked by all. I'm just not a big fan of pity Africa stories. He spends the whole time trying to convince us that they have a rich civillized culture, but the main character is a wife beater who drinks out of a human skull on special occasions. They also kill a kid because the oracle says so. And then the British are arse faces. So I really don't like anyone involved.
Eragon- Sweet zombie Jesus no. Just no. About everything. I was reading it for a SciFi-Fantasy Lit class. It was awful, but I struggled through it just to find out what happened. Neg. It turns out there was a trilogy, so I just got a big "To be continued" Nice.
Phantoms in the Brain- Five bucks says no one's read this one! It was for my psych class. Awful, awful, and his experiments were flawed! He showed a drawing of a flower by a neglect patient (someone who, following a stroke, only pays attention to one side of everything. They'll walk around with makeup on one half of their face and everything) and said "Notice how all the petals are on one side." But if you looked at the picture, there was a leaf on both sides of the flower! (/end nerd rant)
I honestly don't know why I like the Twilight series. I hate Bella (a LOT,) Edward is an annoying prude (with some twisted ideas about lots of stuff,) and Jacob is like a lamprey. Dude, let it go! But I still love the books (though I will say that parts of New Moon made me want to claw my eyes out.)
I loved Slaughterhouse Five too. Vonnegut rocks my socks off. Seriously, I want a "So it goes." T-shirt.
And yes, the Deathly Hallows was a big fanfic. Though I lurve Luna. And Bellatrix.