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1. Lord of the Rings. (SUPER DUPER BORING!)
2. The Da Vinci Code (good for fiction and fantasy. The man is uncovering false documents. )

You're going to go to Hell for hating Lord of the Rings. Secondly, you only dislike the Da Vinci Code because it sets theories concerning the truth about God. Get over it.

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.

The bible isn't interesting like The Sun Also Rises is, but it's interesting from a Utopia, Odyssey, Illiad, Aeneid perspective. I read it once purposely trying to view it like the Odyssey. It made some of the stories that I dismiss as parable more relavent to social structure and values at the time.

At the risk of insulting Christians and igniting a blood fued with them, the Bible. It was one of the most tedious books I have ever read. I think it is comparable to some modern fantasy in scope and fails in comparison to some of them. Read it as a book. Then decide if I deserve eternal hate.

To tell the truth here, Harry Potter. I just find them so boring. I don't understand why all my friends go crazy over them.

1. Lord of the Rings. (SUPER DUPER BORING!)
2. The Da Vinci Code (good for fiction and fantasy. The man is uncovering false documents. )

Yeah, I want to vomit every time i see the left behind series on a bookshelf. The only "christian" novels I think are good are by C.S. Lewis.

I don't like hardcore conservative Christian books that masquerade as "logic", "reason", and "science". I also don't like books that falsely show witchcraft to be real (it's not) and conspiracy books with little or no real proof.

Oh, and I don't like David Copperfield. Horrid book.

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Dianetics...

Thats some kookie stuff. I bought a book at a used bookstore by that founder guy- it was the biggest load of pseudo-philosophical bilphism I have ever seen. I want to shoot myself in the face just thinking about it.

Oh, absolutely. It's a Macbeth, but it's set in 1975 at a fast-food restaurant. It's got Christopher Walken..it's hilarious.

It's possibly one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. You should really check it out.

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Me too. Did you ever see the movie Scotland, PA?

No, should I?

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You are so right, Worth. Anne pissed me off a lot, if she was somebody I knew in school I wouldn't have talked to her.

Okay, seriously. When I was in fourth grade, they made us read this book to make us feel guilty, I dunno. (I read Night and Number the Stars later in life. Night was great. And I had read Diary of Anne Frank two years earlier.) My teacher went around the room and asked us how we felt about it, and what we would've done, and would we have been as brave.

When it got to me I stared blankly and went, "Um, that sucked. I don't get how hiding in your attic is brave. That just sucks."

I was shunned for a few days.

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I also hated the Odyssey and the Illiad more than you can imagine. They may be good examples of epics where men go off and do ridiculous things, but if so, I don't enjoy epics.

The Iliad is one of my favorite texts ever, but the Odyssey I'm not too crazy for.

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Lady Macbeth is my definitely one of my favorite Shakespeare charachters.

Me too. Did you ever see the movie Scotland, PA?

Aside from those, I hate Hatchet, The God of Small Things, LoTR, The Adventures of Huck Finn, Mein Kampf, (I read a translation...it's boring and badly written.) Confessions of an Heiress (didn't read it, but it's Paris Hilton), Dianetics...

I have more. When I think of them..

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I thought of one more and you all are going to hate me, probably, but...

The Diary of Anne Frank

You are so right, Worth. Anne pissed me off a lot, if she was somebody I knew in school I wouldn't have talked to her. There are many other accounts of the holocaust that are just better books. I loved Number the Stars and Night, two other holocaust books I had to read for school. Plus, I'm Jewish, so I'm allowed to say stuff like that...


I also hated the Odyssey and the Illiad more than you can imagine. They may be good examples of epics where men go off and do ridiculous things, but if so, I don't enjoy epics.

Lord of the Rings was a snore, both the books and the movies. Again, I just can't bring myself to care that much about extended descriptions of men fighting.

And, finally, Things Fall Apart pissed me off. Chinua Achebe is speaking in my town in a few weeks, and I'm not even gonna go and see him, because his book was annoying! The only good part was the ending.

I have to say, though, I enjoyed Hatchet (although I havn't read it in years), Jane Eyre, Little Women, Call of the Wild, R&J, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Macbeth. Lady Macbeth is my definitely one of my favorite Shakespeare charachters.

And the Giver! I love that book! Lois Lowry is great. I reccomend her essays too, you can find them on her website.

I disliked
The DaVinci code- written like it was for 12 year olds.
Bonfire of the Vanities- Tom Wolfe was trying to outdo Dickens on sheer volume of words.(always was, not specific to this book)
Little Women- I concurr with others
Sense and Sensibility- Like a bad harlequin romance novel from 100 years ago(throw Jane Eyre and Emma in there too)
MacBeth- Just didn't think it was all it's cracked up to be, give me ole Hamlet or King Lear.
The Prince- scarry stuff.
Anna Karenina- You read through this huge frickin book and hope for a happy ending and the dumb jerk goes and throws herself in front of a train.
Crime and Punishment- Couldn't even get past the second chapter, and I finished freakin Anna Karenina! Minus Chekov and Pasternak, I'm not feelin the Ruskie lterary love. Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky can bite me.
Catch-22- You take a mediocre novel about a mildly clever malcontent, and mix up the chapther so it's non-chronological. Movie was better than the book!(Memento- better non-chron)
I could go on for hours/pages but I won't go crazy on ya just yet.

Little Women

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Call of the Wild. I didn't like that the dog got abused like that

It was decent. I didn't hate it, but of course, I don't remember much of it because its been a few years. . .

The Bean Trees.

That book sucked more than any other book I have ever read.

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A tree grows in Brooklyn .

I really really hated that book.

I could'nt agree more! I had to read it for summer homework! Ughh!! My English Teacher should melt in the rain for that one!!!

nikky thats not such a bad book

A tree grows in Brooklyn .

I really really hated that book.