Well i quite liked bridget jones, but then i liked the Pride and Predjudice analoge.

And a book that i personally couldn't stand is Catch 22-Joseph Heller, which i may have mentioned before. It and Dharma Bums-Jack Kerouc have been the only 2 books i have actually wanted to enflict physical violence upon.

Oh and any of Jean Auel books after Clan of the cave bear particularly the last one Shelters of stone, honestly they are just getting ridiculous, even the sex scenes are getting boring.

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Originally posted by St.Barbarella:
I enjoyed a lot Heinlein's shorter stories, and Stranger in a Strange land...

But I'd suggest avoid: The Lives and Loves of Maureen Long (can't remember the actual main title) which was a bunch of boring insestual tat.

Lazarus Long?

i'd avoid Time Enough for Love, which started interesting and then... got boring

and despite what Hal says, i need to pick up Catch 22 and any Kerouac

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and despite what Hal says, i need to pick up Catch 22 and any Kerouac

rasum frasum malecentric writers, okay i know kerouac was gay but what about heller? not that thats a bad thing it's just that what i found so offensive was the objectification of women in both books, they aren't characters or people just a part of the scenery.

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Originally posted by Tlön:
Lazarus Long?

i'd avoid Time Enough for Love, which started interesting and then... got boring

and despite what Hal says, i need to pick up Catch 22 and any Kerouac

Maureen Long, Lazarus's mother.

It's a very confusing plot, where she sleeps with a lot of people including Lazarus and various family members.

I gave up during a long conversation she was having with her son and daughter as to why they could shag but not marry. I mean, kinky sex is all very well, but not when it's so boring!!

1. war and peace...it just wasn't worth the effort

2. Little Nell...i thinkk...by dickens...just BLAH

3. the Ender book's after Ender's game...all the shadow books are fine though

4. anything by Foucault, pretentious asshole.

Bleak House by Dickens.

Unless books about endless, dry, probate legal battles over old English estates are your thing.

Huh. I really liked Their Eyes Were Watching God. I had a black literature class in college and liked everything we read except Banjo by an author whose name escapes me. The subtitle of the book is A Novel Without a Plot and it's pretty fitting although the author should have added ...or Anything Else Interesting.

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and despite what Hal says, i need to pick up Catch 22 and any Kerouac

rasum frasum malecentric writers, okay i know kerouac was gay but what about heller? not that thats a bad thing it's just that what i found so offensive was the objectification of women in both books, they aren't characters or people just a part of the scenery.

i think Kerouac has a poem i read yesterday about how it sucks that women are neccesary to the human race reproducing

but yeah, the scene was pretty mysogonistic... Burroughs was big into the women-hating

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Oh and any of Jean Auel books after Clan of the cave bear particularly the last one Shelters of stone, honestly they are just getting ridiculous, even the sex scenes are getting boring.

See, it was the sex scenes that put me off them...
Even at 13, I was pret-ty sure that that wasn't what it was like...specially in prehistoric times.

Oh, also, do not touch anything by Cecilia Aherne. Just cause daddy's Taoiseach doesn't mean you can write worth a damn honey. Or Marian Keyes.

I really want to hurt those two.

Thought of a book that I was required to read and HATED: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.

Yawwwwwwn. We even watched the movie in class. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwn.

But, my teacher also assigned PERFUME by Patrick Suskind, so I forgave her.

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Originally posted by Her Mighty Silly Punkiness:
3. the Ender book's after Ender's game...all the shadow books are fine though

Personally I hated the shadow series as well. Orson Scott Card has one of the worst cases of S.A.S. I have ever seen.

i liked Xenocide... all the alien customs were neat, and mmmm Teddies

when i got my iPod, i named her Jane after (among other things) Ender's AI. neat series, though it got a bit stuid as it went on

never read Ender's Shadow

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even the sex scenes are getting boring.

See, it was the sex scenes that put me off them...
Even at 13, I was pret-ty sure that that wasn't what it was like...specially in prehistoric times.

Yeah gotta admit i wasn't overly fond of them, but they amused me, though in all honesty putting those sex scenes in context with the author pics on the back of the book grossed me out, i mean no offence to Jean but she is sorta repulsive.

WHOA. Some of you really need to evalute standards of literature. Such as, not everything exists for entertainment purposes. Some pieces exist as works of art and records of human brilliance.

James Joyce may be terribly difficult to read and tough to battle through for a casual read, but just examine what he did in Potrait of an Artist as a Young Man. The progression of the character through the use of imagery is just flat out amazing.

All I'm saying is maybe you should reconsider the books you've all said are worthless. Even trashy romances have their place.

if somebody has read Joyce and dosen't appreciate Joyce... *shakes his head sadly*


I haven't done 'Portrait' yet... i'm still trapped in the web of brilliance that is 'Ulysses'

how brilliant is it? there's one sentence in Proteus: 'Beauty is not here, nor in the stagnant bays of Marsh's library where you once read the fading prophecies of Joachim Abbas' that i LOVE... and i don't know why. i just do. there's hundreds of them


i dunno... people have different tastes, i guess. alot of people say that to me, so it might be true

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wait... i can't judge people because they've read all the Clan of the Cave Bear books and don't like William S Burroughs? welcome to theb board and all that, but c'mon


alright, confession: i got squicked out by Naked Lunch, so i wouldn't recomend it. but don't tell people!

I honestly can't think of a book I would never recommend to anyone. I find I usually enjoy some part of whatever books i read..

That said, I've been increasingly disappointed in Robert Jordan (like everyone else I see)...so I'm holding off on recommending him to anyone until I take a look at the upcoming Knife of Dreams...if nothing but filler has happened in that book, then he'll be tossed from my list..

I don't seem to have time to recommend books to anyone, I'm too busy getting through the ones thrust one me!