I'm with ShadowStalker in his opinion of the so-called classics. I was forced to read Evangaline in school and had to fight to keep my eyes open. I've been put off the classics since and have never tried to read another one. If it's known to be a classic, I have a built in prejudice.
I just finished reading "Mirror Image" by Sandra Brown. It's pretty interesting
but preposterous. The premise was about a woman who was in a plane crash.
She was badly hurt but survived. She was unable to communicate during her first month in the hospital and was mistaken for somebody else. SHe falls in love with the husband of thewoman she was mistaken for and takes her place in her life and gets away with it for months. See what I mean? Preposterous. Could never happen in real life. Good story though.
Earlier in this thread somebody posted that they didn't care for Nora Roberts books and I basically agreed at that time. Since then I picked up on that is pretty interesting. It's called The Birthright. Never thought I would say that about a Nora Roberts book.
Seperate Peace was the worst book I have ever read. The plot was so unreal and the characters made you want to puke because they were so fake. Another horrible book I read is Pickwick papers. The whole book had no inciting incident, climax or any action at all. Just a couple of guys dressed in suits and touring cities and listening to stories.
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'Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo'- H.G Wells
Don't let the NATIONAL BESTSELLER on the cover fool you. This book has it's ups and downs, and downs, and DOWNS. I don't like putting a book down without finishing it, so I gave it a shot. BIG MISTAKE. After reading the last sentence, I took the book, banged it against the wall a couple of times and threw it across the room.
In two words: HATED IT.
"I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love." - Carrie Bradshaw
"The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort" - Paulo Coehlo
Live your life like it's your last day on earth
Life is not how many breaths you take, but how many moments take your breath away.
haha illuminate! That book 'A heartbreaking work of a staggering genius' was the book I most hated. I let my dog chew it up it was so bad.
I give Jane Austen fourteen yawns. She is the most boring writer I have ever read. Her thoughts are too ancient. I mean we know women were not treated equally back in the 1800s, but do not let it influence your work because your work reflects your biased point-of-view. Her plots are basically all the same in each book except for Mansfield Park.
You must turn on, tune in and drop out.
Timothy Leary
I reserve the right to be ignorant. That's the Western way of life. The Spy who came in from the cold
Mama always said life was like a box a chocolates, never know what you're gonna get.
We had to read this book in my 7th grade advanced reading class. It made us all wish we were in a remedial reading class where we got to choose our own books. It sucked.
Another book from that class that I hated was THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS. This book is the most boring, confusing, aggravating book we ever read in that class. Except for the last chapter. That was the only good one.
That class wasn't all bad, though, because we got to read The Fellowship of the Ring and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
I started reading a book a long time ago called INVISIBLE MAN by someone named Ellis. Same guy who wrote Black Like Me. I thought it would be a really good book, and it probably is, but I was never able to get past the first chapter. It was too confusing.
"Man is a marvelous curiosity ... he thinks he is the Creator's pet ... he even believes the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks He listens. Isn't it a quaint idea." Mark Twain
Speaking of school books, was anyone else forced to read Thoreau's Walden? Man, BOOORRRINNGG, I loved Literature but used that time to nap. Our LIT teacher gave up on us trying to read it, let alone understand it, she gave us free time.
Sad.
YAWWWN.
"I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love." - Carrie Bradshaw
"The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort" - Paulo Coehlo
Live your life like it's your last day on earth
Life is not how many breaths you take, but how many moments take your breath away.
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