Books to Avoid

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2003-01-26 10:39pm

Counter to book recommendations thread.
'Canon Law.'

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2003-01-26 10:47pm

Black Fleet Crisis

The Approaching Storm.

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2003-01-26 10:49pm

Can I answer on behalf of a very large percentage of SD.net's community?

The Bible.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-01-26 10:51pm

theodor fontane: unterm birnbaum *shudder*

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2003-01-26 10:51pm

IRG CommandoJoe wrote:Can I answer on behalf of a very large percentage of SD.net's community?

The Bible.

LOL! Now actually, the Bible DOES teach some good lessons, has some good mythology attached to it. There are some good stories in that book you know, and although I don't believe in God, I've read the Bible because its just a good read.

Reading is one thing, believing is another.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2003-01-26 10:53pm

The bible's fine as long as you treat it like the fairytale it is. As soon as you start trying to use it for morals, science, or other stuff like that it goes to shit.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-01-26 10:57pm

The Woman Warrior, Beloved (requisite PC literature for many college courses)

Dark Journey

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-01-26 11:00pm

Far from the Maddening Crowd.

Had to read it this year for Acedemic Decathlon. SHITTY SHITTY SHITTY BOOK. I stopped about 100 pages from the end.

Still got 4th place in Language and Lit.

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2003-01-26 11:06pm

Having never really gotten biblical myself, I still know a few stories that are interesting. I was pretty interested in biblical stories when I was younger, still am mildly. But a lot of that has been evaporated after coming to SD.net's forums and reading Mike's analysis of the Bible. There were a lot of things I always thought were wrong with God's treatment of humanity that I sort of put in the back of my mind when I heard about them and when my parents couldn't really give an answer as to why God killed people instead of saving them when he had the power to.

I've changed a LOT since I've started reading these forums. They've made me realize all of the faults in religion and scrapped most of my old views on Christianity.

Temjin · Post by **Temjin** » 2003-01-26 11:10pm

Jurasic Park: The only instance that I remember of a movie actually being better than the book.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-01-26 11:14pm

Don't read Ragtime...

DO NOT EVER READ THAT FUCKING BOOK

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2003-01-26 11:14pm

Is it anything to do with the music? If so, maybe I would like it. lol

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-01-26 11:15pm

Anything by Ian Slater.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-01-26 11:17pm

IRG CommandoJoe wrote:Is it anything to do with the music? If so, maybe I would like it. lol

It has absolutely NOTHING to do with music. One character is a ragtime pianist, but that's fucking it.

It's a perverted bastardization of history (bigger emphasis on "bastardization"). It pissed me off so much that I didn't even read the last group of chapters, and it was an assigned book in high school.

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-01-26 11:17pm

Fade. To date, only one book has earned the dubious honor of being thrown in the trash, and that POS is it.

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2003-01-26 11:21pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:
IRG CommandoJoe wrote:Is it anything to do with the music? If so, maybe I would like it. lol
It has absolutely NOTHING to do with music. One character is a ragtime pianist, but that's fucking it.

It's a perverted bastardization of history (bigger emphasis on "bastardization"). It pissed me off so much that I didn't even read the last group of chapters, and it was an assigned book in high school.

But...but...what's it ABOUT? lol

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-01-26 11:22pm

Well, Utsanomiko might be able to describe it better, as I've been trying to erase it from my brain...

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-01-26 11:36pm

Temjin wrote:Jurasic Park: The only instance that I remember of a movie actually being better than the book.

Infidel! You must burn!

Anyways...

Worst book I ever read: "Out of Nowhere". It was assigned reading for seventh-grade language arts. Horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible book. The supposed 'climax' of the story I had to read about nine times over just so I could sort out what the hell was happening. And even once I figured it out, I was like 'eh', since the characters had in no way made themselves three-dimensional to me.

Temjin · Post by **Temjin** » 2003-01-26 11:39pm

DPDarkPrimus wrote:
Temjin wrote:Jurasic Park: The only instance that I remember of a movie actually being better than the book.
Infidel! You must burn!

I would have enjoyed the book a little more if the author didn't make us sit through Malcom's long-ass "holier-than-thou" speeches. That's one of the reasons why the movie was better.

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2003-01-26 11:42pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Well, Utsanomiko might be able to describe it better, as I've been trying to erase it from my brain...

Hmm...here's a useful tool:
(Hands Spanky the tape Bart used to erase the Spanish language from his brain.)
*tap tap tap*
There, all gone!

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2003-01-26 11:43pm

Farewell to Manzanar...had to read it for freshman English in HS. Makes sense...the teacher was a hippie radical feminist

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Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-01-26 11:44pm

Sorry, I'm afraid that Ragtime was able to burn its way to my very soul...

I'll never be able to truly forget it. *sobs*

Seriously, it's that fucking bad. Don't read it.

ArmorPierce · Post by **ArmorPierce** » 2003-01-26 11:47pm

One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Wow, that was a great book, just wish that it didn't end so abruptly, but then again most good books ends abruptly instead of string along saying exactly what happens next. Great read, I loved that book.

Perinquus · Post by **Perinquus** » 2003-01-26 11:51pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Sorry, I'm afraid that Ragtime was able to burn its way to my very soul...

I'll never be able to truly forget it. *sobs*

Seriously, it's that fucking bad. Don't read it.

They made a movie about it you know. Back in 1981 James Cagney came out of a 20 year retirement from the movies to be in it.

Sonnenburg · Post by **Sonnenburg** » 2003-01-26 11:52pm

Towing Jehovah. Man that was incredibly boring....