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Anyone regret reading a book?

  • 28-01-2019 7:31pm
    #1
    mariaalice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,615 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    Not because it was dreadful but because it was disturbing, toying with reading If This Is a Man Survival in Auschwitz) is a memoir by Italian Jewish writer Primo Levi.


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  • #2
    brilou23
    Registered Users Posts: 1,048 ✭✭✭brilou23


    The Bible


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Atlas Shrugged, which now functions as a doorstop.


  • #4
    mariaalice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,615 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    brilou23 wrote: »
    The Bible

    The bible is a very interesting book full of allegory and myth.


  • #5
    Day Lewin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,688 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    "That they may face the rising sun" by John Mc Gahern. Don't read it, it's dreadful.


  • #6
    ArchXStanton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭ArchXStanton


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Atlas Shrugged, which now functions as a doorstop.

    That bad? I was going to give it a read at some stage


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  • #7
    Day Lewin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,688 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    "Fifty shades of Grey" - illiterate, ignorant, and far, far too long.


  • #8
    judeboy101
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,246 ✭✭✭judeboy101


    1984

    I realised then that people are c@nts when they are afraid.


  • #9
    alchemist33
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    American Psycho. Sadistic as f*ck and not quite as clever as it thinks it is.


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ArchXStanton wrote: »
    That bad? I was going to give it a read at some stage

    It collapses under the weight of its own contradictions. I laboured through 1,100 pages so you don't have to.


  • #11
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,190 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    mariaalice wrote: »
    Not because it was dreadful but because it was disturbing, toying with reading If This Is a Man Survival in Auschwitz) is a memoir by Italian Jewish writer Primo Levi.

    I read that. You should read it, disturbing or not.


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  • #12
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,728 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol.


    Fcuk you Dan Brown...fcuk you.

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



  • #13
    PingTing comes for Fire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 81 ✭✭PingTing comes for Fire


    Day Lewin wrote: »
    "That they may face the rising sun" by John Mc Gahern. Don't read it, it's dreadful.

    dougle don't press the button meme


  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    An Erotic Life, by Dennis Reynolds.

    Terrible.


  • #15
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,487 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Any book that requires you to read another book to explain what the first one was trying, obviously unsuccessfully, to say.


  • #16
    PingTing comes for Fire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 81 ✭✭PingTing comes for Fire


    alchemist33 wrote: »
    American Psycho. Sadistic as f*ck and not quite as clever as it thinks it is.


    There is humor in it. And it will your improve your knowledge of 80's
    pop music. And men's fashions.


  • #17
    meeeeh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,624 ✭✭✭✭meeeeh


    Dante's Divine Comedy. Because the translation was excellent and therefore complete nightmare to decipher. On every page there were half a page of citations and explanations.

    Only later I discovered a more basic translation that was 10 times easier to read.


  • #18
    Irreverent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 141 ✭✭Irreverent


    Someone recommended The Shack to me before by William Paul Young. Offensively awful book.

    BTW I thought That they may face the rising sun was a superb book. Different strokes I suppose...


  • #19
    Worn Out
    Registered Users Posts: 150 ✭✭Worn Out


    Day Lewin wrote: »
    "That they may face the rising sun" by John Mc Gahern. Don't read it, it's dreadful.

    Ditto.


  • #20
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Tried Atlas Shrugged as well. Complete claptrap and borderline unreadable.

    Communist Manifesto by Marx was complete scutter as well. Boring bastard.


  • #21
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    “Does God Love Michael’s Two Daddies?” by Sheila K. Butt.

    Almost funny but sadly just homophobic.


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  • #22
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,457 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    alchemist33 wrote: »
    American Psycho. Sadistic as f*ck and not quite as clever as it thinks it is.

    That's a great book...


  • #23
    LirW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,825 ✭✭✭LirW


    I read 1984 at the wrong time in my life, I wasn't in a good place then.
    Now I just don't think it's a great book.


  • #24
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk. I never want to see that book again.

    Healter Skelter was disturbing too but a cracking read.


  • #25
    WinnyThePoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,417 ✭✭✭WinnyThePoo


    PingTing comes for Fire wrote: »
    alchemist33 wrote: »
    American Psycho. Sadistic as f*ck and not quite as clever as it thinks it is.


    There is humor in it. And it will your improve your knowledge of 80's
    pop music. And men's fashions.
    The chapter when he tries to cook I found laugh out loud.


  • #26
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,409 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    eviltwin wrote: »
    Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk. I never want to see that book again.

    Healter Skelter was disturbing too but a cracking read.

    I read Helter Skelter too , pretty disturbing stuff.

    "Peig" never again.


  • #27
    Eggs For Dinner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,004 ✭✭✭Eggs For Dinner


    John Grisham's An Innocent Man. Like reading a shopping list. I know it is non-fiction but there wasn't any flow to it.


  • #28
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Cormac McCarthy's Child of God a relentlessly grim disturbing read.


  • #29
    Lackey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Lackey


    A Mother’s Reckoning by Sue Klebold

    (Mother of Dylan Klebold Columbine school shooter)

    Don’t know what I was expecting but not stories of a regular kid who had spent hours the week of the shooting with his dad going through the measurements of the dorm rooms at the college he wanted to go to...working out where he’d have the most space because he was so tall.

    It unsettled me.


  • #30
    beveragelady
    Registered Users Posts: 854 ✭✭✭beveragelady


    "Go Set a Watchman" by Harper Lee. Poor, poor Jem. It felt like I had lost a real friend when I read that. I wish I could get it erased from my memory.

    "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. Just relentlessly grim.


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  • #31
    Muckka
    Registered Users Posts: 498 ✭✭Muckka


    Anything by Deepak Chopra


  • #32
    WinnyThePoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,417 ✭✭✭WinnyThePoo


    beveragelady wrote: »
    "Go Set a Watchman" by Harper Lee. Poor, poor Jem. It felt like I had lost a real friend when I read that. I wish I could get it erased from my memory.

    "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. Just relentlessly grim.
    No chapters in the road aswell.


  • #33
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,585 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Genuinely never read a book in my life. I've tried, but never succeeded. I prefer them moving books


  • #34
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    No.


  • #35
    alchemist33
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    lawred2 wrote: »
    That's a great book...

    There was some good satire, but my overwhelming thought afterwards was just "why?" I was also hoping for a bit of a story but it was essentially a collection of loosely collected chapters. And I know this makes me sound like a philistine!


  • #36
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,580 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    I regretted reading Filth by Ervine Welsh. It left me with imagery I didn't.need in my life.


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  • #37
    Yoghurt87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 460 ✭✭Yoghurt87


    The Time Traveller’s Wife with its horrible miscarriage scenes

    The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer when I was 13. Anne Frank’s was more uplifting.


  • #38
    PingTing comes for Fire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 81 ✭✭PingTing comes for Fire


    antodeco wrote: »
    I prefer them moving books



    Pop Ups


    I like them also.

    But they insist on putting them in the children's section.


  • #39
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,849 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    "Gallows Thief" by Bernard Cornwell. Not the book in its entirety just the beginning which contains a horrific description of a public hanging. Gave me nightmares for a week after.


  • #40
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,382 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    Day Lewin wrote: »
    "That they may face the rising sun" by John Mc Gahern. Don't read it, it's dreadful.

    Haven't read it in years but I enjoyed it.
    alchemist33 wrote: »
    American Psycho. Sadistic as f*ck and not quite as clever as it thinks it is.

    Yeah, I loved the film but couldn't finish the book.


  • #41
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,353 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    mariaalice wrote: »
    The bible is a very interesting book full of allegory and myth.

    A lot of it is a very long list of ‘begats’. Much of the rest is contradiction.

    The useful bit could have been a pamphlet.


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  • #42
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Muckka wrote: »
    Anything by Deepak Chopra

    Sound like someone need to get their Chakras aligned with their epigenetic quantum consciousness.


  • #43
    by_the_book
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭by_the_book


    Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn. I had read Gone Girl and Dark Places and liked them but this was just horrible.

    Lurid descriptions of self mutilation and a creepy creepy mother-daughter relationship. Just ugh


  • #44
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    corner of hells wrote: »

    "Peig" never again.
    Noooooo! Please, don't mention that 'book'. Who da fug thought that tripe would be a good language teaching tool?

    'Jude the Obscure' is the one book I truly regretted reading. That ending. ..


  • #45
    mariaalice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,615 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    by_the_book wrote: »
    Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn. I had read Gone Girl and Dark Places and liked them but this was just horrible.

    Lurid descriptions of self mutilation and a creepy creepy mother-daughter relationship. Just ugh

    I thought Gone girl was quite a nasty book a lot of projectionism going on by the author I would think.


  • #46
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,654 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Something that makes me sound clever.

    I regret reading it for a reason that makes me sound more clever.


  • #47
    The Pheasant2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭The Pheasant2


    Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet

    Was initially absorbed by the premise and the setting. Over a thousand pages later and the whole thing was poorly written with predictable plot and paper thin characters.

    May have to revise my rule of always seeing a book out to the end for tomes >1000 pages in the future.


  • #48
    Gravelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,119 ✭✭✭Gravelly


    I have to disagree with those who dismiss Atlas Shrugged - yes it's heavy going and contradictory, but worth it in the end in my opinion, and I think, like A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Leviathan, and The Theory of Justice (and abou 10 other books I could name), it's a book that helps you get a more rounded understanding of differing political philosophies.

    As a father, I found The Road extremely depressing.


  • #49
    buried
    Registered Users Posts: 9,841 ✭✭✭buried


    Born in Blood by John J Robinson. Not because its a bad book, it's a fascinating read, but it sent me down a freemasonic conspiracy rabbithole I've been unable to shake now for years. Robinson makes the case the Freemason brotherhood is the legacy of the Knights Templar's who were exterminated at the stake by the then King of France and the Pope back in the 14th century. Claims the English peasant revolt of 1381 was organised by the Templar descendants who went underground, then set up Freemasonry guilds later and attracted revolutionaries such as Washington and Houston in America, Jaurez in Mexico, Garibaldi in Italy and Bolivar in South America. All of them generals hell bent on revolution. Read it or don't but if ya do could end up like me now stuck down an occult conspiracy rabbit hole with no light at either end of the hoor

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



  • #50
    Gravelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,119 ✭✭✭Gravelly


    The Pheasant2 wrote: »
    Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet

    Was initially absorbed by the premise and the setting. Over a thousand pages later and the whole thing was poorly written with predictable plot and paper thin characters.

    May have to revise my rule of always seeing a book out to the end for tomes >1000 pages in the future.

    I really liked Pillars of The Earth!


  • #51
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,635 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Not really. There's been many I didn't really enjoy or others I didn't think were much good, but I can't honestly say I've regretted reading them.


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