What's your least favorite peice of literature?

[bedub1]

Large parts of the bible, especially numbers and exodus. And ...... begat..... who begat..... yawn

you are SO right. Thanks for agreeing with me. That book sucks. Some of the stories and parables are okay....but most of it blows.

And Shakespeare. That guy can't even write. His stories might be good, but the words he uses blow.

[e_i_pi]

Anything ...and that's not a title, so don't bother looking it up. Honestly, anything that contains words is yawntastic. When I pick up a book, it's like one foot in the grave. Reading posts on this forum kinda makes me wanna die.

[Falkomagno]

The naked lunch.

tbh, I can't say it's my least favorite, but I didn't understand so much. i think that I like it actually, but I don't know why.

[jonesthecurl]

Large parts of the bible, especially numbers and exodus. And ...... begat..... who begat..... yawn

you are SO right. Thanks for agreeing with me. That book sucks. Some of the stories and parables are okay....but most of it blows.

And Shakespeare. That guy can't even write. His stories might be good, but the words he uses blow.

I have to disagree, though I should point out that he stole,(almost?) all the stories from existing ones.

[b.k. barunt]

The most overrated is surely The brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky.

Einstein and Freud thought it was one of the best novels ever. Many critics say it´s his best.
I must have read fifteen other novels by Fyodor but none of them are as boring as that one.

maybe not my least favourite but definitely the biggest disappointment

I disagree. I found his insight into the human psyche to be profoundly moving, but if you're not into that i guess it could be boring.

My top 5:

"Sometimes a Great Notion" - Ken Kesey
"The Light In August" - William Faulkner
"All the King's Men" - Robert Penn Warren
"The Witching Hour" and (the second half) "Lasher" - Anne Rice
"The Lord of the Rings" - J. R. R. Tolkien


Honibaz

[Lucarilover240]

The most overrated is surely The brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky.

Einstein and Freud thought it was one of the best novels ever. Many critics say it´s his best.
I must have read fifteen other novels by Fyodor but none of them are as boring as that one.

maybe not my least favourite but definitely the biggest disappointment

I disagree. I found his insight into the human psyche to be profoundly moving, but if you're not into that i guess it could be boring.

My top 5:

"Sometimes a Great Notion" - Ken Kesey
"The Light In August" - William Faulkner
"All the King's Men" - Robert Penn Warren
"The Witching Hour" and (the second half) "Lasher" - Anne Rice
"The Lord of the Rings" - J. R. R. Tolkien


Honibaz

Yeah, the book version of LOTR did suck balls. The movie was WAY better.

[nagerous]

The most overrated is surely The brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky.

Einstein and Freud thought it was one of the best novels ever. Many critics say it´s his best.
I must have read fifteen other novels by Fyodor but none of them are as boring as that one.

maybe not my least favourite but definitely the biggest disappointment

I disagree. I found his insight into the human psyche to be profoundly moving, but if you're not into that i guess it could be boring.

My top 5:

"Sometimes a Great Notion" - Ken Kesey
"The Light In August" - William Faulkner
"All the King's Men" - Robert Penn Warren
"The Witching Hour" and (the second half) "Lasher" - Anne Rice
"The Lord of the Rings" - J. R. R. Tolkien


Honibaz

Yeah, the book version of LOTR did suck balls. The movie was WAY better.

Hell no!

I think Barunt might be saying these are his favourite 5 books but I'm not sure.

[b.k. barunt]

Oh shit. Ok, my bad - here's my bottom 5:

"Catcher In the Rye" - J. D. Salinger - Yeah yeah i know, but to me Holden Caufield was an aggravating whiny bitch. 2 thumbs down.

"The Aeneid" - Virgil - A cheap rip off of Homer's works, and a Gawdawful boring tome. 3 thumbs down.

"The Da Vinci Code" - Dan Brown - Gimmeafucking break. If i was an atheist before reading this i would've converted to Catholicism to get as far from that moron as possible. 4 thumbs up Brown's arse.

The final two books of the "Gunslinger" saga ("Song of Susannah" and "The Dark Tower") - Stephen King - The first one ("The Gunslinger") sucked, but the second and third were awesome, so i wait almost 20 years for that wanker to finish the series and what do i get? That's right, a steaming pile of shit.

"Gerald's Game" - Stephen King - The absolute, uncontested, mind numbingly boring, can'tseemtoscrapeitoffmyshoe worst fooking book in the history of literature. He had to have written this on a bet as to how bad a book he could write and still sell it to an unsuspecting public. I mean, the premise is this woman gets handcuffed (willingly) to the bed in this remote cabin by her husband for some fun and games, and her husband drops dead of a heart attack. This happens in the first 4 pages - the rest of the book is about her being stuck there handcuffed to the bed with nothing to do, nowhere to go, and nothing remotely interesting in her thoughts. Being a fan of King's, and not having read the final pieces of the Gunslinger yet, i kept reading and hoping for something to materialize in the way of a . . . well . . . story or something. No such luck. The whole fooking book is just that - a woman handcuffed to the bed with no key to the damn handcuffs. Cruel and unusual punishment on your Christmas list? Read it.


Honibaz

[Ulsfark]

The most overrated is surely The brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky.

Einstein and Freud thought it was one of the best novels ever. Many critics say it´s his best.
I must have read fifteen other novels by Fyodor but none of them are as boring as that one.

maybe not my least favourite but definitely the biggest disappointment

Einstein and freud would think that as they are both semetically challenged, as well as this dostoyevsky fellow.

A big one to miss is 'The god delusion' by yet another semetically challenged individual - Richard Dawkins. It's probably something that most of you half-assed pansy, scrotum sucking fag-boys would love though.

[Iliad]

The most overrated is surely The brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky.

Einstein and Freud thought it was one of the best novels ever. Many critics say it´s his best.
I must have read fifteen other novels by Fyodor but none of them are as boring as that one.

maybe not my least favourite but definitely the biggest disappointment

I disagree. I found his insight into the human psyche to be profoundly moving, but if you're not into that i guess it could be boring.

My top 5:

"Sometimes a Great Notion" - Ken Kesey
"The Light In August" - William Faulkner
"All the King's Men" - Robert Penn Warren
"The Witching Hour" and (the second half) "Lasher" - Anne Rice
"The Lord of the Rings" - J. R. R. Tolkien


Honibaz

Yeah, the book version of LOTR did suck balls. The movie was WAY better.

Hell no!

I think Barunt might be saying these are his favourite 5 books but I'm not sure.

Word.

Though it would be best if this thread didn't degenerate into arguments, no matter how wrong lucar is.

[SultanOfSurreal]

"The Da Vinci Code" - Dan Brown - Gimmeafucking break. If i was an atheist before reading this i would've converted to Catholicism to get as far from that moron as possible. 4 thumbs up Brown's arse.

whoa hey don't put that asshole in our camp, the da vinci code was given to ridiculous jesus mysticism more than anything else, just the kind of mysticism that also says the catholic church is bad.

[Ulsfark]

"The Da Vinci Code" - Dan Brown - Gimmeafucking break. If i was an atheist before reading this i would've converted to Catholicism to get as far from that moron as possible. 4 thumbs up Brown's arse.

whoa hey don't put that asshole in our camp, the da vinci code was given to ridiculous jesus mysticism more than anything else, just the kind of mysticism that also says the catholic church is bad.

You insufferable prick - I'm no catholic.. not even a christian - or religous at all for that matter, but you dissmiss any kind of relevance that 'religous mysticism' may have to modern day religion? I'm certainly not saying either of these 2 stooopid fooking books are in anyway accurate as to the reality of the situation -I would even go as far as to say that they are entirely inaccurate, but you seem to dismiss anything that may oppose this newly found phenomenon of faggoty 16 year old atheist liberals who know nothing of any historical significance just because there is no homo-sex, funny hair-do's and 'sooooper-fabulous' dressware involved with it.

To summarise: You are a faggot.

[SultanOfSurreal]

You insufferable prick - I'm no catholic.. not even a christian - or religous at all for that matter, but you dissmiss any kind of relevance that 'religous mysticism' may have to modern day religion? I'm certainly not saying either of these 2 stooopid fooking books are in anyway accurate as to the reality of the situation -I would even go as far as to say that they are entirely inaccurate, but you seem to dismiss anything that may oppose this newly found phenomenon of faggoty 16 year old atheist liberals who know nothing of any historical significance just because there is no homo-sex, funny hair-do's and 'sooooper-fabulous' dressware involved with it.

To summarise: You are a faggot.

wow that's great, really, but i have no clue what you're talking about

you should probably start taking your meds again

[SultanOfSurreal]

That's because you nice

ok so whose alt are you

...bk barunt?

[e_i_pi]

What's your least favorite peice of literature?

[thegreekdog]

What's your least favorite peice of literature?

Probably explains the reason he hates Gatsby... it's hard to read a classic novel when one can barely read.

[nagerous]

"The Da Vinci Code" - Dan Brown - Gimmeafucking break. If i was an atheist before reading this i would've converted to Catholicism to get as far from that moron as possible. 4 thumbs up Brown's arse.

whoa hey don't put that asshole in our camp, the da vinci code was given to ridiculous jesus mysticism more than anything else, just the kind of mysticism that also says the catholic church is bad.

You insufferable prick - I'm no catholic.. not even a christian - or religous at all for that matter, but you dissmiss any kind of relevance that 'religous mysticism' may have to modern day religion? I'm certainly not saying either of these 2 stooopid fooking books are in anyway accurate as to the reality of the situation -I would even go as far as to say that they are entirely inaccurate, but you seem to dismiss anything that may oppose this newly found phenomenon of faggoty 16 year old atheist liberals who know nothing of any historical significance just because there is no homo-sex, funny hair-do's and 'sooooper-fabulous' dressware involved with it.

To summarise: You are a faggot.

f*ck off multi.

[b.k. barunt]

That's because you are a flambouyant father-fiddling faggot fucker.

ok so whose alt are you

...bk barunt?

Sure thing genius, i've got a multi who outranks me. But hey, if that will help get you through the day, rather than the harsh realization that you project a certain swishy something to the community at large, far be it from me to burst your bubble.


Honibaz

[SultanOfSurreal]

That's because you are a flambouyant father-fiddling faggot fucker.

ok so whose alt are you

...bk barunt?

Sure thing genius, i've got a multi who outranks me. But hey, if that will help get you through the day, rather than the harsh realization that you project a certain swishy something to the community at large, far be it from me to burst your bubble.


Honibaz

the guy was clearly aping you, unless you're suggesting that there are other mouthbreathers out there who, despite being older than 12, say "fooking" and "stoopid" unironically

[b.k. barunt]

Heh heh, sounds like someone got poked in the gootchie, again.


Honibaz

[Frigidus]

Jane Eyre. <shudders>

What a miserable experience reading that was.

[sully800]

That was Norse popping in for anyone concerned.

I really hated Things Fall Apart. I don't know if the book was actually bad, but my teacher insisted on renaming all the characters by American names. The main character became Unk, but the rest were Dave, and Vince and Charlie and such. We did all of our in class analysis using these translated names which really made reading the book hard, so I quit. I thought I understood the in class analysis quite well. Then when we had a test he used all of the African names instead of the ones we discussed together for weeks.

One of my favorites is A Clockwork Orange. Yes, its a struggle to read, but once I get into it I love it every time. And for weeks after I fluently think in some made up language, though none of my droogs can understand.

[strike wolf]

I think mine would be The Great Gatsby. I read it recently for my english class. It might be one of the classics, but I just don't see what's so great about it. For the most part, it's pretty much just some guy talking about what he did over the weekend. The only two somewhat exciting events in the book were when Mrs. Wilson got hit by the car, and when Gatsby got killed. Other that that, I just wasn't able to enjoy it.

I actually quite enjoyed that book. I just don't get anything by Shakespeare to be honest...