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Books You Have Tried to
« on: December 28, 2010, 11:08:32 PM »
What book or books have you tried to get through several times, but just caaaaant do it because they're either so bad or so boring?  You must have tried at least 3 times over a span of a couple of years.

My choice is (horor of horrors) The Hobbit.  Can't do it.  Tried at least 5 times. 
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Re: Books You Have Tried to
« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2010, 11:12:14 PM »
I got through The Hobbit. Got stuck on The Return of the King though and never finished it.
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Re: Books You Have Tried to
« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2010, 11:13:01 PM »
I tried reading "Lost Victories" (the war memiors of Hitler's most brilliant General) by Erich Von Manstein.

Von Manstein is a stratigic genius greater than Rommel, but he's a dreadfully boring writer, unlike Rommel, whose book "Attacks", is actually a pretty interesting read.
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Re: Books You Have Tried to
« Reply #3 on: December 28, 2010, 11:14:48 PM »
Moby Dick, but I only tried to muddle through it once. One that I did muddle through because I told someone I would was The Celestine Prophecies. :poop: If you find yourself reading and liking that pedaco de mierda then please jump off a bridge or move to Berkeley as a favor to non retarded people.
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Re: Books You Have Tried to
« Reply #4 on: December 28, 2010, 11:24:53 PM »
I have read The Celestine Prophecies a long time ago. It was easy to read at first and then it got harder.
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Re: Books You Have Tried to
« Reply #5 on: December 28, 2010, 11:39:53 PM »
Quote from: renaeden on December 28, 2010, 11:24:53 PM
I have read The Celestine Prophecies a long time ago. It was easy to read at first and then it got harder.
I was rooting for the Peruvian cop to put all the automaton celestine douches face down in a ditch. I'd rather read that POS To Kill A Mockingbird again.  :hair:
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Re: Books You Have Tried to
« Reply #6 on: December 28, 2010, 11:47:30 PM »
melville is always a yawn, he is trying to show the lonlieness of a mans soul blah blah boring. " bartley the scrivner" was a great story though, and I read a short story of his where a man got in a barfight and walked out into the alaskan winter to just die because he was embarassed, so I can see what he is reaching for by Moby Dick was dreadful.


Books I couldnt get though... anything by Jf Cooper  :finger: anything about the frontier or  the trancendentalists in general. Whitman just sat in a shed for 6 months. there is nothing special about that

and "the Tommyknockers" was a rare miss. I had to quit that after a hundred pages or so.




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Re: Books You Have Tried to
« Reply #7 on: December 28, 2010, 11:50:08 PM »
 :lol: OMG The Tommyknockers. I muddled through that and I hope Delores Claiborne was the only thing King wrote that was worse.
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Re: Books You Have Tried to
« Reply #8 on: December 29, 2010, 12:00:36 AM »
Yeah,  Delores Claiborne was bad. Geralds Game was the only one of the eclipse books to be any good, but I think I might be a little biased in liking that book

My favorite King books are The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon and The Eyes of the Dragon. Not too well known but his best, imo.




and I cant read any kind of murder mystery, and Im not a big fan of Fitzgerald.
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« Reply #9 on: December 29, 2010, 12:18:18 AM »
One thing I really liked in The Eyes of the Dragon was Randall Flagg being in it. Him and Lloyd Henried were the perfect foil to Mother Abagail's side in The Stand. Miguel Ferrer played Lloyd very well. 
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Re: Books You Have Tried to
« Reply #10 on: December 29, 2010, 12:49:23 AM »
Quote from: PPK on December 28, 2010, 11:14:48 PM
Moby Dick, but I only tried to muddle through it once.

Me, too.
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Re: Books You Have Tried to
« Reply #11 on: December 29, 2010, 12:42:04 PM »
Why is everyone muddling through Moby's Dick??  :zombiefuck:
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Re: Books You Have Tried to
« Reply #12 on: December 29, 2010, 12:46:41 PM »
Because it is the ultimate Big Fucking Peter.  :indeed:
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Re: Books You Have Tried to
« Reply #13 on: December 29, 2010, 12:48:53 PM »
Quote from: Scrap Kinison on December 29, 2010, 12:42:04 PM
Why is everyone muddling through Moby's Dick??  :zombiefuck:

It kept putting me to sleep when I read it.
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Re: Books You Have Tried to
« Reply #14 on: December 30, 2010, 01:50:17 AM »
The Tommyknockers was one I couldn't get through either. God knows I tried.
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