It was about this really awful family that this woman married into and her and her abusive husband had to move into her in-laws house and it's totally miserable. All she does through the whole thing is bitch about him and the in-laws and you think she's gonna leave but she never does. It's just one long bitter bitchfest. It sucked.

i hated the book too, and for the same reason. like you, i enjoyed the movie more.
i love the great gatsby, lord of the flies and catcher in the rye.

thats shitty to hear that white teeth is so bad, but i'll still give it a half-assed try.

Cell-Stephen King
It sucked from beginning to end.

I skipped the stupid prologue. I hate skipping over parts, but it lasted thirty something pages and seemed to have very little to do with the rest of the novel. Once I got past that I enjoyed the book.

I thought Memoirs of a Geisha was a piece of shit. I kept thinking it had to get better, but really just whimpered on towards the ending. The plot totally fell apart under it's own weight at the end and it seemed like the author just wanted to finish the bloody thing.

And he wrote like a man who has studied geisha culture, not an authentic woman, geisha, three dimensional character.

On The Road by Jack Kerouac was another bad one. It just went on aimlessly, which was maybe the point. It certainly wasn't enjoyable to read though.

fuck i hated that book. i tried to read it when i thought i was a counter-culture poet in high school. it sucked even then....maybe thats what saved me from being a post-modern hippie. i also hated hunter s. thompson's fear and loathing in las vegas. i hated the book and the movie. i couldnt finish either. i gave both of them a fair try too.

i hate putting books down quite a bit, but if the book is terrible enough, i will.

If you like the Great Gatsby - You'll also like;
Death of a Salesman
The Go-Between
Silas Marner

and other Penguin classics...

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On the Road is more about creation than reading the substance of the book. Out of most beat literature I prefer the poetry rather than the novels but one novel that stood out is 'Been down so long it looks like up to me' which is kinda another book that breezes through life following the directions of the wind.

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Just reading the blurb on the back cover had me rolling my eyes.

Another book that sucked was Ring by Koji Suzuki. The movies were way better. Spiral isn't so bad though.

I'm supposed to read this for English but even the film bored me senseless. I kind of liked bits of it, but overall, yawn.

in the grand scheme of things, catcher in the rye isn't that bad, but since so many people go on about it being SOOOO amazing, when i read it i thought it was so boring & disappointing.

i have problems reading plays. ive tried before and i just cant do it. i liked being in them in high school and i like watching them, but i cant read them.

But they're not plays?

As for plays: I think Who's afraid of Virginia Wolf is abosolutely fabulous.

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ooooh, saw that on the road has been mentioned; what can i say i read that book when i was 14 and i thought it was a master piece/just totally fucking amazing. about a year later i tried to re-read a few passages from somewhere in the middle & couldn't as i thought i simply [i]had to start from the begining/

The point is, i've read LOADS of novels before & since on the road and still to this day insist that its my favourite .
ive read a few other of his novels.

sortta lost i really dont know what i should be reading....suggestions?


* i hated Snow Falling on Ceders worst. ever

The Red and the Black by Stendhal... ewwwwww!

Man, I completely forgot about Paoulo Coehlo. Veronika Decides to Die, THAT is the worst book I've read. Such a load of 'feel-good' tripe, that just leaves you feeling completly embarassed it was ever written. Urrrghh. It scares me that his other books can be rated so highly.

their eyes were watching god. & great gatsby. had to read both in school.

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so why does that book inspire angsty teens and serial killers?

'A Fortunate Life' by Albert Facey was a fucking nightmare.
I would add anything by Jane Austen too, but I have to be honest and admit this is unfair. It's not her actual writing, but all the reverential movies and made-for-TV versions of her books that I'm "exposed" to, and it is these I'm pissed off by. Rich girls whisper and snigger at hapless guys, who are desperately in love with them. Whoopie.
I'm aware there are people who adore her writing, and say it contains subtle wit, brilliant satire and even positive hilarity - I've yet to come across it though.