Awful, awful, awful books....

[Jimbob]

if anyone is thinking of getting gary glitter anything for xmas, see the above post for inspiration.

[HonaloochieB]

Jimbob Wrote:

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> if anyone is thinking of getting gary glitter

> anything for xmas, see the above post for

> inspiration.

Seriously, JimBob I'd keep it quiet about wanting to buy a present for Gary Glitter.

It tends to be controversial, no matter which way you go.

But drag the Bunty annual into it, and you enter a minefield.

Let it lie, is my advice.

[Sue]

HonaloochieB Wrote:

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> Sue Wrote:

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> > Bunty Annual.

>

> Are you sure? If it featured any adventures of The

> Four Marys, then have a care, for you toy with my

> juvenile sexuality.

> Which Mary? Cotter? Raleigh? I couldn't make my

> mind up.

> Probably bacause on the back cover of each 'Bunty'

> there was Bunty, disporting herself in her

> underwear.

> Distracting me from the wholesomeness of the the

> Marys, and enticing me into the whole 'cutting out

> the Bunty figure, the clothes, ensuring you

> include the 'tabs' so that you can press them over

> Bunty's compliant body'

> Think again, Sue.

xxxxxx

:))

[flapjackdavey]

couldnt finish Cloud Atlas .... but I know others enjoyed it , maybe I'll give it another try one day .

[Kells]

I couldn't get into The Simillarion, but I loved LOTR, and The Hobbit.

I'd like to defend Emily Bronte as well (somebody has too!). I remember having to try and plough through Emma for English GCSE. Don't think I ever made it.

[bignumber5]

Have just seen "American Psycho" on the great books thread, and would like to propose a motion to have it shifted to here - anyone in favour?

[Moos]

Aye - but Pthhhhhhhhhhh to you re: Donna Tartt.

[bignumber5]

How exciting - my first cross-thread arguement!

[Moos]

Mine too, good innit - it's 'cos you're doubly wrong, you see.

[bignumber5]

Oh, that's fine, that is, you use your words and your clever...

[Cassius]

Tried and failed "The Simillarion" and "War and Peace".

Took several weeks to force myself through "The Brothers Karamazov"

But the worst one has to be a book by Marion Keynes that was so dreadful that I can't even remember what it was called - my brain has blanked it out to save me from embarrassment.

[Bellenden Belle]

I remember a friend giving me a book to take on holiday... John O'Farrell's A Best a Man Can Get - omigod! A long time ago I had read his memoir Things Can Only Get Better and enjoyed it so thought he could at least write. But it was hellish.... chick lit written from a male perspective, full of "witty" but ultimately mundane observations.

[giggirl]

A long time ago (I was a teenager) a read Lord of the Rings. When I started to read it I hadn't understood that it stretched to 3 volumes so I just bought the one book. As I was nearing the end of volume 1, maybe 15-20 pages from the end, I remember having a little flick through to the back page and thinking to myself (I kid you not); "he's got a lot of loose ends to tie up in the next few pages". Bless.

[charliecharlie]

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

don't know what happened here, normally such a good writer, it was SO bad that I thought he might written it as some strange kind of joke, or to see what the critics said (to see if they fell for it... Emperor's Clothes syndrome, etc)

[capt_birdseye]

Saturday by Ian McEwan - what a load of old sh*t. The lowest point was the 14 page description of a squash match.

[indiepanda]

charliecharlie Wrote:

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> On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

>

> don't know what happened here, normally such a

> good writer, it was SO bad that I thought he might

> written it as some strange kind of joke, or to see

> what the critics said (to see if they fell for

> it... Emperor's Clothes syndrome, etc)

Ah, that is the only one of his I have read - I did feel distinctly underwhelmed and didn't intend to read any others by him, but perhaps that is too hasty a decision.

[capt_birdseye]

It's not. I read Enduring Love, hated it, gave him another chance with Saturday, hated it too. I won't be going back for more.

[EDOldie]

Did I mention Little Dorrit? Possibly the worst Dickens known to man. Did it for my 'O' level english, yuk.

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

I hated Thomas Hardy at school - what a load of flowery old crap.

[Moos]

Have you read, Tess, CWALD? I love that book, you really burn with rage at the unfair way that women living in poverty are treated, Hardy writes it brilliantly.

[Cassius]

If you want to read Hardy - then what about Jude the Obscure to cheer you up - I was totally traumatised!

[SeanMacGabhann]

Hardy? Flowery?

methinks you were rebelling too much CWALD

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

I hated it - don't know why. Loved Shakespear so it's not a fear of dusty old writers, I just couldn't stand all the long descriptions in Hardy. Put me to sleep and made me lose interest in the story.

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

Another eye closer was the poems of Robert Frost (I think that was the boring Yank poet's name) which I had to read for my English Lit O'Level.

We did Merchant of Venice and Lord of the Flies too - but I loved them!! Eng Lit's equivallent of slasher films!

Also with Hardy I hated the whole weak stupid female crap. I would have preferred the heroine (can't remember what book it was - is there one with a woman called Bessy?) to stick a pitchfork through the rich abusuer dude's throat.

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