haha i agree with bearhug, Old Man and the Sea was the worst book ever, but u forgot to say that the man catches a fish but then it gets eaten before he gets home, too bad that book was so pointless. I mean i dont always get the in depth meanings of books, but that one was very stupid...

oh and i also agree with bearhug that F451 was a good book, however, while ur reading it, it is very confusing and lame, but when ur done and think about it, its a good book.

Alrighty, books I DISLIKE: Tha Hatchet-or any other gary paulsen book (When they make you do a monthlong project in it in 6th grade, it gets very annoying very fast. Survival isn't all that interesting to read about
LOTR-Everytime I try to watch the movies or read the books, I fall asleep in 15 minutes (and I've tried each about 10 times)
Call of the wild- I'd rather not read about a man who freezes and kicks dogs and about wolves. (Give me some fire and books!)
Old man and the sea-I'll give you the whole plot in one paragraph. A man goes fishing and catches a fish. The end. Oh, and he's old. A plain barrel o' monkeys...

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Originally posted by Brittni07:
i truly despise "obasan" by joy kogawa, and "Fahrenheit 451" has got to be the most boring book i've ever read. had to read both 4 school.

OH MY GOSH??? How can you NOT love Fahrenheit 451? That novel was pure genius!

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Originally posted by faerienite:
However renoened and classic, King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table. I'm not even particularly into very modern books, but Green's novel was so long-winded! Interesting at some moments, but boring overall.

lol- I love King Arthur! Although, I enjoyed Mary Stewart's take on the legend(you should REALLY read those!!)- she made Mordred a victim of circumstance, rather than an evil person-I HATED Maroin Zimmer Bradley's Avalon version though, although, again, I did like that she made Morgaine (i know, i dont spell that right, i havent read it in a while)into an innocnet victim- rather than an evil conniver like she was in the other versions. I like Ivanhoe too lol.
Oh, and I HATED My Antonia, and Dickens and Hemingway are on my wont-read-unless-I-have-no-choice list. I like Fitzgerald and LOTR though.

However renoened and classic, King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table. I'm not even particularly into very modern books, but Green's novel was so long-winded! Interesting at some moments, but boring overall.

-----"""My Antonia. I ****ing hate that book. Her descriptions are good, but that's practically all the book is! And it's done in the most boring way ever."""---

Lol that's one of my favorite books. I loved the ending, and yeah, the descriptions are great. I didn't think it was boring.


-----"""I didn't like Lord of the Rings. Any of them. Especially The Hobbit."""---

The LotR books were so boring and long-winded at times...all those stupid songs. But overall, I think they're great...they're just so epic, I hope they remain a part of literature for many centuries to come. I preferred The Hobbit though.


-----"""Classic for fans of the "lost generation" authors."""---

That's such a cool/interesting section of American literature.


I also find The Bible extremely boring and painful to read. I really didn't like The Death of Artemio Cruz, and was severely dissappointed in The DaVinci Code...wow that has some corny and cliche writing in it. I didn't like Catcher in The Rye all that much either..but it's a great book in some ways.

A Christmas Carol is the only one I would ever read twice.

The only good Dickens book was A Tale of Two Cities.

I didn't mind it. Dickens is a tad too wordy though.

Great Expectations was probably the worst book ever written. It was written by Charles Dickens, who attempted to make a plot unpredictable, but instead made it confusing and bland.

I loved it Blue. It made me read Death in the Afternoon which I regretted. Sun also Rises was his first big book, his "This Side of Paradise" if you will. I found it more interesting from a experiencial study of the lost generation and a beautiful story about Spain. If Fitzgerald is a Best Picture winner, than Hemmingway fells more like best Documentary. When he was fishing, I wanted to be fishing. When he was at a bullfight, he made me want to be at one. When he was drinking wine out of a pouch in pamplona, I wanted to be doing the same. I am a big Hemingway fan though, and I like it the best of all I've read of him. Right now I'm reading True at First Light- By Hemingway. It's like a Fictional Green Hills of Africa.

FML's nerdy Hemingway Ranking:
1.The Sun Also Rises
2.Green Hills of Africa
3.A Farewell to Arms
4.For Whom the Bell Tolls
5.The Snows of Kilimanjaro(short story)
6.Old Man and the Sea
7.A Moveable Feast
8.Death in the Afternoon

Those are the only ones Iv'e read.

FML, what did you think about "the sun also rises". That's the only Hemingway book that I have ever read. I didn't mind it to be honest. Oh, I hated Their Eyes were Watching God and Romeo and Juliet.

You can't expect too much excitement in a non-fiction like that. And yes, Hemingway was very arrogant. But I think Old Man and the Sea shows his arrogance more than A Moveable Feast. Old Man and the Sea is him showing off. You must remeber that A Moveable Feast was published posthumously, so the lies about Fitzgerald and the bravado highlight an inner insecurity which probably isn't to revolutionary of an observation considering the reason it had to be published posthumously. Although I'm sure his insecurities had much less to do with his suicide that his electroshock therapy mixed in with the alchoholism it was supposed to be treating.

I just think that Hemingway was a little bit arrogant. And in a Moveable Feast all he seemed to do was go to lunch. And he would mention the most pointless things. Like at the beginning he mentions a girl with black hair, who is never again heard of in his story.

I just dislike his lies about Fitzgerald. I lost a little respect for Hemingway for that, but you gotta love the first hand accounts of partying in Paris in the 20's with Gertrude Stein, Tom Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald and oh yeah, Ernest Hemmingway. Classic for fans of the "lost generation" authors.

I absolutely hated Moveable Feast by Earnest Hemingway. There was absolutely no plot. I had to read it for AP English this year.

I loved Gatsby. I loved all of Fitzgeralds novels(I've read them all). He is my favorite author. I do preferr This Side of Paradise and Tender is the Night to Gatsby though.

A boring book is Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway. It is a non-fictional technical manual for being a spectator of bullfighting. Very informational but a hard read.

I've always liked The Lord of the Rings, especially the Hobbit, which I read way back in elementary school.

Another book I dislike is The Great Gatsby. Granted, it is good literature and F. Scott Fitzgerald is a wonderful author, but it just could not hold my attention.

I didn't like Lord of the Rings. Any of them. Especially The Hobbit.

The movies were okay, but I usually had to pee and was waiting for it to end. (****ing Return of the King ends 132831 times. I nearly got a bladder infection.)

Never read The Da Vinci Code. Now with school started and my book-heavy AP English class underway, I won't have time. Maybe over a break or next summer.

Jam hates Da Vinci Code because it's over 100 pages long, has no pictures, and doesn't smite us to hell.

Actually, she just hates it because it proves people like me right and Christianity is just an unimaginative sham created by the Romans three centuries after Jesus himself died.

And that's no fiction. It's perfectly true.