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Books to avoid like a bookworm on a diet

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  • #722
    josephineperry
    Registered Users Posts: 30 ✭josephineperry


    Twilight, full moon, and all this stuff by Stephanie Meyer. I tried to read the first book because I had heard so much about it I wanted to give it a try. Awfully written, I don't get all the hype... :/


  • #723
    Kev W
    Registered Users Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭Kev W


    Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. So very very dull and a remarkably slow read for such a relatively short book.


  • #724
    DB Cooper 23
    Registered Users Posts: 47 ✭DB Cooper 23


    Under the Dome by Stephen King. That man doesn't know how to write an ending


  • #725
    Thargor
    Registered Users Posts: 17,862 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Kev W wrote: »
    Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. So very very dull and a remarkably slow read for such a relatively short book.
    Sorry but Jurassic Park is definitely not a book to avoid as the thread says, its pretty much a genre classic.


  • #726
    Kev W
    Registered Users Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭Kev W


    Thargor wrote: »
    Sorry but Jurassic Park is definitely not a book to avoid as the thread says, its pretty much a genre classic.

    But it's SO DULL.


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  • #727
    Thargor
    Registered Users Posts: 17,862 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Would it be dull if you'd never seen the film and didnt know the plot so well because of that though? Thats not the books fault...


  • #728
    Kev W
    Registered Users Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭Kev W


    Thargor wrote: »
    Would it be dull if you'd never seen the film and didnt know the plot so well because of that though? Thats not the books fault...

    It's actually the prose style I found tedious, not the storyline.


  • #729
    Lucena
    Registered Users Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭Lucena


    DB Cooper 23 wrote: »
    Under the Dome by Stephen King. That man doesn't know how to write an ending

    Haven't read that particular book, but I remember reading a lot of his books as a teenager and finding the end to be the hardest part to get through, and thinking exactly the same thing as yourself.

    I read the recent Kennedy book which was an exception i.e. proper ending, and it was an enjoyable read.


  • #730
    The One Doctor
    Registered Users Posts: 2,339 ✭✭✭The One Doctor


    Anything by Margaret Atwood. Both tedious and disturbing.


  • #731
    La_Gordy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,767 ✭✭✭La_Gordy


    The One Doctor wrote: »
    Anything by Margaret Atwood. Both tedious and disturbing.

    I'd disagree with this and say that she has some duds. The Oryx and Crake trilogy is excellent, bar the last book, which is a missed opportunity. Pish.

    On this front I really enjoyed Haruki Murakami right up until IQ84. That was a very lengthy load a baws.


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  • #732
    katydid
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,351 ✭✭✭katydid


    Dades wrote: »
    I found "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova really turgid.
    A lot of words but very little happening.

    Half way through now, I only read it when I can't sleep.

    Funny, I quite liked it. It was turgid in parts, I agree, but I persevered. And re-read it a couple of years later.


  • #733
    katydid
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,351 ✭✭✭katydid


    Anything by Frank McCourt


  • #734
    katydid
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,351 ✭✭✭katydid


    BossArky wrote: »
    Steer well clear of Paulo Coelho's "The Valkyries", a joke of a book..
    All his stuff is crap.


  • #735
    katydid
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,351 ✭✭✭katydid


    Merrick wrote: »
    Amongst Women by John McGahern.
    I had to study it for school. It led to some of the worst English classes I have ever experienced.
    Totally disagree. It is a dismal book. Not great as a school text, but it is a powerful book.


  • #736
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,215 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    katydid wrote: »
    Totally disagree. It is a dismal book. Not great as a school text, but it is a powerful book.

    :confused:


  • #737
    boobar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭boobar


    I'm a big fan of the singer Morrissey, really enjoyed his Autobiography, really well written with the brilliant turn of phrase that you'd expect from this great lyricist.

    However his new offering List of the Lost is like a pothole...to be avoided at all costs.

    Here's a sample of what you will enjoy if you don't heed my advice

    “At this, Eliza and Ezra rolled together into the one giggling snowball of full-figured copulation, screaming and shouting as they playfully bit and puled at each other in a dangerous and clamorous rollercoaster coil of sexually violent rotation with Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it whacked and smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza’s body except for the otherwise central zone.”


  • #738
    Kev W
    Registered Users Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭Kev W


    boobar wrote: »
    I'm a big fan of the singer Morrissey, really enjoyed his Autobiography, really well written with the brilliant turn of phrase that you'd expect from this great lyricist.

    However his new offering List of the Lost is like a pothole...to be avoided at all costs.

    Here's a sample of what you will enjoy if you don't heed my advice

    “At this, Eliza and Ezra rolled together into the one giggling snowball of full-figured copulation, screaming and shouting as they playfully bit and puled at each other in a dangerous and clamorous rollercoaster coil of sexually violent rotation with Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it whacked and smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza’s body except for the otherwise central zone.”

    Wow. I had no idea that Morrissey has never had sex.

    The things you learn, eh?


  • #739
    Censorsh!t
    Registered Users Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭Censorsh!t


    I'm currently struggling through A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me by David Gates. I find all the characters annoying, pretentious arseholes, and so far all the stories appear to be pretty much the same.


  • #740
    ivytwine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭ivytwine


    Kev W wrote: »
    Wow. I had no idea that Morrissey has never had sex.

    The things you learn, eh?

    I dunno about Moz but his description has certainly put me off it for a while!


  • #741
    Qiaonasen
    Registered Users Posts: 220 ✭✭Qiaonasen


    The Expats by Chris Pavone.

    It's not possible to write a book this bad!


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  • #742
    The Young Wan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,398 ✭✭✭The Young Wan


    Us by David Nichols. I tried to get into it, I really did. But my god that story dragged for me, and I had to give up on it.


  • #743
    ivytwine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭ivytwine


    The Young Wan wrote: »
    Us by David Nichols. I tried to get into it, I really did. But my god that story dragged for me, and I had to give up on it.

    Agreed! I thought the wife was an absolute gowl tbh. Lots of things rang really false, also the descriptions of Europe never surpassed a fourth-class "what I did on my holidays" essay.

    I finished it but out of annoyance!


  • #744
    Nemanrio
    Registered Users Posts: 542 ✭✭✭Nemanrio


    Nearly finished All is silence Manual Rivas.

    Translation from Galician is very ropey in places tbh.

    The book is good in parts.


  • #745
    Swiper the fox
    Registered Users Posts: 6,745 ✭✭✭Swiper the fox


    The Young Wan wrote: »
    Us by David Nichols. I tried to get into it, I really did. But my god that story dragged for me, and I had to give up on it.

    I quit on that one as well, I did like One Day though.


  • #746
    heathledgerlove
    Registered Users Posts: 114 ✭✭heathledgerlove


    Chicken Soup for the Soul. White picket fence, apple pie cooling overly-American sentimentalist drivel!


  • #747
    isntlee
    Registered Users Posts: 28 ✭isntlee


    War and Peace

    When I realised that two characters I particularly disliked would probably survive the tale, book got tossed, after 800 pages.


  • #748
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,923 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    isntlee wrote: »
    War and Peace

    When I realised that two characters I particularly disliked would probably survive the tale, book got tossed, after 800 pages.

    Don't start me on W&P. F**king Pierre :mad:


  • #749
    telpis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭telpis


    any jane austen :(


  • #750
    Balf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 667 ✭✭✭Balf


    telpis wrote: »
    any jane austen :(
    "Ah, Miss Dashwood. Would I seem forward if I sat on the toilet seat while it was still warm after you?"


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  • #751
    Sheridan81
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Sheridan81


    C.Bronte-Jane Eyre
    Longeurs alert

    Kipling-Kim
    I read the whole thing without actually becoming absorbed in what the hell it was they were doing.


    Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance
    Zen and the art of complete bollocks.

    The Secret
    The secret is that there's no secret.

    Anything by James Patterson or

    Dean Koontz


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