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27 Jan 2008, 3:16 pm

I'd have to say Portnoy's Complaint. The main character is a navel-gazing, whiny, immature, pathetic, narcissistic, misogynist excuse for a human being, and the entire book is him bitching to his psychoanalyst.

In second place would be Huckleberry Finn.

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27 Jan 2008, 3:47 pm

I don't like books by Guy N. Smith (maybe the "Sabat" series is a bit better).

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27 Jan 2008, 3:59 pm

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27 Jan 2008, 4:12 pm

Mine would have to be either Hawthorne's The Scarlett Letter or even worse - Melville's Moby Dick! UGGGH!

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27 Jan 2008, 4:23 pm

Carrie, by Stephen King.

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27 Jan 2008, 5:07 pm

Sybil. It was well written, but the vivid tourture descriptions were so horrible...... I threw it away. (About a woman with multiple personalities.)

And this is from someone who reads mostly horror.

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27 Jan 2008, 5:19 pm

I try not to read horrible books. The vivid descriptions in Moby Dick made me want to stop eating meat for a while, though. I know I will probably get a lot of flak for this, but I really did not enjoy the Harry Potter series. Rowling's writing style was inelegant, and her explanations didn't make sense. Granted, it's a different kind of fantasy than most of us are used to. I still think it should have been a comic book instead of a novel series.

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27 Jan 2008, 5:33 pm

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I don't like Harry Potter either, you're not alone!

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27 Jan 2008, 5:35 pm

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I don't like Harry Potter either, you're not alone!

AWESOME. You give me hope

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27 Jan 2008, 6:03 pm

singularitymadam wrote:

zee wrote:

I don't like Harry Potter either, you're not alone!

AWESOME. You give me hope

COUNT ME IN!

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27 Jan 2008, 6:06 pm

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I really did not enjoy the Harry Potter series.

I loved them. Come on, they're kids books... how deep do you expect them to be?

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27 Jan 2008, 6:09 pm

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I loved them. Come on, they're kids books... how deep do you expect them to be?

I didn't expect anything profound or epic, but based upon the way the world has treated it, Rowling is the new Tolkien. And that is a mistake. As kids books, yeah, they're fun. But when adults say "oh my god my child is reading again because of this amazing series," I become concerned.

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27 Jan 2008, 6:11 pm

The Road. Completely pretentious, cliche BS.

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27 Jan 2008, 6:14 pm

Watership Down

(Right now) The Grapes of Wrath - I can't stand the bad spelling.

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27 Jan 2008, 6:35 pm

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zghost wrote:

I loved them. Come on, they're kids books... how deep do you expect them to be?

I totally agree, of course a lot of kids will like them, as they have nothing to compare it to. But comparing Rowling to Tolkien is sacrelige! She is a good story teller, but has no imagination of her own.

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27 Jan 2008, 7:04 pm

Some books I would burn if it meant such venomous ideas would burn also topic

Mein Kampf, by a hitler (vile sieg heil)
Being and Time, by m heidegger (junk pile)
The China Cat, author unknown (juvenile)
Scientology, by l ron hubbard (puerile)

Any literature/art that sanctions genocide/mass murder/racism/other illogical crap I burn at the stake in my mind.

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