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One of the books I failed to finish started off something like, "Zoogy's space pod docked lazily in the sprawling hulk of the mothership..." and I thought 'Oh for feck's...'.
Other people had enjoyed it well enough and so I gave it my best shot (open mind and all that) but after about 200 pages I had to admit defeat.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin. It's shit.
Penelope Cruz does take her clothes off though.
Oh sorry, is this the book thread?...
but you also need to be selective in what you read - there is a lot of shit SF around
Jane Austen altogether (unless Colin Firth is all wet
) and Wuthering Heights. I loved English Lit A-Level but I just couldnt finish it, thank god for those summary books you can buy!
I like S/F, but only parodies like Terry Pratchett. I actually enjoyed the Da Vinci code but then was disgusted to see how evey other book was exactly the same, i swear he copied and pasted...
LOTR was something i couldnt get into, despite having loved the hobbit (am I going to get hatemail now???
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The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
I did finish it but it was boring, self-indulgent and quite depraved rubbish. Poor plot, characters not credible, writing style tedious and verbose, single-story narrative without any subplots .... meandering, pointless arty literary wanking off. I really didn't like it and wondered if I had the same book as all the ecstatic reviewers.
More votes for Atonement & Birdsong (as well as Charlotte Gray by Faulks - I've learned my lesson now though).
Also hated The Corrections, The Secret History, didn't see the point of The Great Gatsby but did like Captain Corelli (well, until the film nearly ruined it for me).
Books can really divide opinion. I'm in the loved it camp for Atonement (including the ending), but, sorry Corky2, thought Vanity Fair was the most boring thing I've ever read. It was an 'O' level text and so kept persisting with it, but by a couple of chapters in couldn't manage more than two or three pages before falling asleep. My classmates had the same problem - we rechristened the author William 'Makesleep' Thackeray. Went back to it a few years ago to check if I was too young for it the first time round, but no, still completely soporific.
catcher in the rye - ordinary
but i am sure it was different reading it in the 60's
i did not like atonement
i love jane austin - i like that it's all little social things - she said herself that she only wrote about a small world - can't remember the exact words - something about a postage stamp
i read sci fi because i love iain banks - but i confess to skim reading all the sci fi bits - lol
what's that author who is associated with cuba, 1st world war time
tried reading him - got bored
and he has a nobel prize
Love Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials and have an overriding attraction to anything by Thomas hardy.
Little women!