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Anyone regret reading a book?

  • 28-01-2019 7:31pm
    #1
    mariaalice
    Registered Users Posts: 12,356 ✭✭✭✭


    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: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Atlas Shrugged, which now functions as a doorstop.


  • #4
    mariaalice
    Registered Users Posts: 12,356 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    brilou23 wrote: »
    The Bible

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


  • #5
    Day Lewin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,601 ✭✭✭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 Posts: 4,601 ✭✭✭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 Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


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


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[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 Posts: 16,109 ✭✭✭✭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 Posts: 12,196 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol.


    Fcuk you Dan Brown...fcuk you.

    Fcuk Putin. Glory to Ukraine!



  • #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 Posts: 21,418 ✭✭✭✭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 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 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 Posts: 24,257 ✭✭✭✭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 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 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 Posts: 8,354 ✭✭✭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 Posts: 2,932 ✭✭✭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


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