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Postby Linksquest » Mon Jul 24, 2006 6:07 pm

What are some bestselling books that you ended up not liking after reading them?
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Postby Arnobius » Mon Jul 24, 2006 6:21 pm

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Postby Maledicte » Mon Jul 24, 2006 11:33 pm

The DaVinci Code. Florf.

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Postby bigsleepj » Tue Jul 25, 2006 12:58 am

"The Other Side of the Wind".

Starts out as one of the best books I've read and ends as the worst. That takes some doing. It just goes overboard and goes from nicely gothic to absurdly gothic.
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Postby Authority3000 » Tue Jul 25, 2006 1:17 am

The Left Behind Series - It was much to long in my opinion (12 Full-edition books), rather drawn out at some points, arguably overly detailed in its writing, and primarily focused on extremely dull events. On top of that, some beliefs, (primarily the Rapture) were forced upon you somewhat.

The DaVinci Code -
It's infamously blasphemous plot notwithstanding, the book was terribly written, it contained bountiful blatant grammatical errors that even a group of well educated high schoolers should have been easily able to detect and repair, and had several poorly structured segments and sentences as well. It's name (check the translation) is a perfect example of this.
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Postby Technomancer » Tue Jul 25, 2006 4:09 am

Left Behind (the original book)- Why a book this atrociously written made it on the best seller list I do not know.
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Postby rocklobster » Tue Jul 25, 2006 7:16 am

Authority3000 wrote:The Left Behind Series - It was much to long in my opinion (12 Full-edition books), rather drawn out at some points, arguably overly detailed in its writing, and primarily focused on extremely dull events. On top of that, some beliefs, (primarily the Rapture) were forced upon you somewhat.

Not to mention its anti-Catholic stance. :rant:

Authority3000 wrote:The DaVinci Code - It's infamously blasphemous plot notwithstanding, the book was terribly written, it contained bountiful blatant grammatical errors that even a group of well educated high scholars should have been easily able to detect and repair, and had several poorly structured segments and sentences as well. It's name (check the translation) is a perfect example of this.


Not to mention it even got France's geography wrong. They almost wrote up a more correct version, I hear.
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Postby mechana2015 » Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:04 am

The Left behind series, or what I could read of it with out attempting to throw the book out the window. It came off like an end times (overdoneus genreus) soap opera (overextendedus plotus, idioticus plotticus twisticus).

I would say da Vinci Code, but I never read it and I personally detest the author, which dosn't qualify me for the book.
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Postby Puritan » Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:27 am

Hmm. To avoid belaboring earlier points, I'll mention a couple other books. I really disliked "The Purpose Driven Life" for reasons I will not discuss here, I despised the "The Night's Dawn Trilogy" by Peter Hamilton because it was lewd and strange (although, oddly, recommended by a friend), reading "Demian" by Hermann Hesse made me feel dirty, and I abhored "As I Lay Dying" by Faulkner. Please note I am including a couple books considered "classics", as their sales have almost assuredly reached the bestselling level over time (due to students having to read them)
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Postby Linksquest » Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:35 am

I really loathed The Lovely Bones and only read it because I had heard it was "such a great book!" from my friends and because it was a bestseller.
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Postby mitsuki lover » Wed Jul 26, 2006 2:19 pm

The entire Left Behind series.The only interesting character is Carpathian and he's the villian!
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Postby Rachel » Wed Jul 26, 2006 8:02 pm

I really, really hated The War of the Worlds. It started out great, like really great, and then at the end , I was just like "Well that was a waste of three hours." It had such promise but then it was wasted.
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Postby mitsuki lover » Thu Jul 27, 2006 12:41 pm

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Postby Angel37 » Thu Jul 27, 2006 12:45 pm

mitsuki lover wrote:The entire Left Behind series.The only interesting character is Carpathian and he's the villian!

You know I really liked the beginning of the series but the end got stupid. Carpathia rocked though...which is sad XD.

I HATED the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It was so pointlessly dull!
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Postby Kokhiri Sojourn » Sat Aug 26, 2006 11:27 am

I think I should get rid of this comment... sorry if I offended anyone. It wasn't my goal.
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Postby Mithrandir » Sat Aug 26, 2006 11:35 am

Hmm... This thread is going to be watched carefully. Let's keep the bashing to a minimum and continue on the current path of not descending into bickering.

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Postby rocklobster » Sat Aug 26, 2006 3:44 pm

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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Sun Aug 27, 2006 7:19 am

Redwall. I never understood it
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Postby Mushishi » Sun Aug 27, 2006 11:38 am

Mr. SmartyPants wrote:Redwall. I never understood it


*guffaws*

Was it because they were animals? I kind of grew on Jacques' books. Hehe.


Do 'classics' count? If so, Beyond Good and Evil. Bahah! But that's just because he's...well, Nietzsche. I'm not saying Friedrich wrote total crap (he did, after all, make philosophy popular). It's just hard to get around him being a blithering atheist.

I also can't stand any of Hemingway and Tolstoy. But there really isn't any reason behind that...^_^

Nowadays, The Inheritance Trilogy irritates me somewhat. I read the two books and thought it magnificent...then I sat back and thought about it for a while. Some things that got me was the blatant agnosticism rants Paolini threw in along with some unoriginality. I'm not saying you shouldn't read it! It's a good, average fantasy story. But nowhere near the caliber the critics praise it to be.
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Sun Aug 27, 2006 2:22 pm

Angel37 wrote:I HATED the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It was so pointlessly dull!

I hate it too
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Postby Radical Dreamer » Sun Aug 27, 2006 3:51 pm

I'm not sure if Wuthering Heights was a best-seller or not (it was at least a classic), but I recently read it, and I didn't find anything appealing about it at all. XD
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Postby shojoiscool2 » Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:22 pm

LOTR- I cannot say how much I detest these books. I love the movies, but, the writing is so flowery and overly descriptive that I could not get into it. There was viturally no real interaction with the charactars, as mostly we followed them around in a sort of third person viewpoint. Far too much time was spent telling us about related but unnecessary history.

Perlandra- this is sci-fi allegory written by CS Lewis, it is wordy and hard to follow, love the Narnia books but this was painful to read
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Postby Shao Feng-Li » Wed Aug 30, 2006 5:40 am

Hmm, just about every romance novel I've seen is a best seller and I can say that I hate those XD
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Postby mitsuki lover » Wed Aug 30, 2006 12:50 pm

shojoiscool2 wrote:LOTR- I cannot say how much I detest these books. I love the movies, but, the writing is so flowery and overly descriptive that I could not get into it. There was viturally no real interaction with the charactars, as mostly we followed them around in a sort of third person viewpoint. Far too much time was spent telling us about related but unnecessary history.

Perlandra- this is sci-fi allegory written by CS Lewis, it is wordy and hard to follow, love the Narnia books but this was painful to read


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Postby HisaishiFan » Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:12 pm

DaVinci Code - due to the fact that it is just plain silly and badly written (the mystery shouldn't be that easy to figure out, and all the art and history errors were distracting)

As has been said by many others, the ENTIRE Left Behind Series - due to the badly written one-dimensional characters, anti-Catholic, horrid characterizations of women and minorities, I could go on but I won't - it is just so completely bad!

Cell - I think Stephen King may have just run out of plots
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Postby HisaishiFan » Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:13 pm

Radical Dreamer wrote:I'm not sure if Wuthering Heights was a best-seller or not (it was at least a classic), but I recently read it, and I didn't find anything appealing about it at all. XD


I never did either.
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Postby Animus Seed » Fri Sep 01, 2006 12:29 pm

HisaishiFan wrote:Cell - I think Stephen King may have just run out of plots


Anything with King's name on it I detest. However, with Cell, it's like he's deliberatly exaggerating his stupid best-selling ideas just to taunt me.
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Postby Animus Seed » Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:31 pm

Is it just me, or is that every time I vent my detestation for King, the thread dies?

Interesting choice for a 125th post...
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Postby Technomancer » Wed Sep 06, 2006 7:02 pm

Cell - I think Stephen King may have just run out of plots


This presupposes that any of said plots were actually good to begin with.
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Postby Myoti » Thu Sep 07, 2006 9:38 am

Many of the 'classics' we had to read in class, such as "Of Mice and Men" (aggravated more on all the cussing and sad ending than the actual writing, though) and "The Great Gatsby" (to me, it seemed like pretty much everyone in the book were just psychopaths). Numerous others would fit in, but I can't recall them at the moment.

Redwall. I never understood it

I liked the concept of the books, but his more recent ones are starting to become a bit redundant.

Perlandra- this is sci-fi allegory written by CS Lewis, it is wordy and hard to follow, love the Narnia books but this was painful to read

I liked the Perlandra series, but yes, it was a bit difficult to get through.
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