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Post by The Amazing Coffee Man on Nov 2, 2013 0:21:14 GMT -8
Alright, now we have an unpopular opinion thread for books too!
Starting off
- I really don't like Catcher in the Rye. Mainly because of the Main Character. He's pretentious, whiny, overly cynical and abuses the word "goddamn" twenty times a page and I really find it annoying.
- I really can't get into Stephen King's books. It's good to have detail in your stories but there is such a thing as too much detail, I really don't need to read about the history of a desk!
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Post by Kaiskov on Nov 2, 2013 1:51:24 GMT -8
- I don't like reading in general. Don't ask me to read a book because, for some reason, I just can't
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Post by Malcolm Belmont on Nov 2, 2013 6:06:55 GMT -8
"Hides in a corner".. I like Twilight..please don't hurt me
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HotterdanArul
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Post by HotterdanArul on Nov 2, 2013 6:11:17 GMT -8
-The Great Gatsby is a pile of wank in my opinion. The book gets done with it's "smart" metaphor by the end of chapter 3 and after that it tells a boring story with characters I don't care about.
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Post by TXA on Nov 3, 2013 11:40:18 GMT -8
-The Great Gatsby is a pile of wank in my opinion. The book gets done with it's "smart" metaphor by the end of chapter 3 and after that it tells a boring story with characters I don't care about. You're supposed to hate everyone but Nick and Gatsby.
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HotterdanArul
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Post by HotterdanArul on Nov 3, 2013 11:54:04 GMT -8
-The Great Gatsby is a pile of wank in my opinion. The book gets done with it's "smart" metaphor by the end of chapter 3 and after that it tells a boring story with characters I don't care about. You're supposed to hate everyone but Nick and Gatsby. I knew that I was supposed to like them but they also pissed me off to no end.
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AND I'M BACK! BACK IN THE CHAOS GROOVE!
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Post by Flaming Blue on Nov 10, 2013 15:53:26 GMT -8
Brent Weeks is a better author than George R.R. Martin. Yes, I know, their books are not very similar except for their fantasy elements, but I feel Weeks should be more acclaimed and well known then Martin. Love the hell out of both of them, though.
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Post by RavenKingSage on Nov 16, 2013 17:21:13 GMT -8
I can't get into Harry Potter.
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divide
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Post by divide on Nov 17, 2013 18:18:29 GMT -8
It honestly really pisses me off when people hate CitR for the exact reason why Salinger wrote it. If you connect with and like Holden then there's clearly something wrong with you cause you can be sure there's something wrong with him. You're supposed to hate him cause he's a direct image of teenage faults.
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Post by The Amazing Coffee Man on Nov 18, 2013 21:41:58 GMT -8
It honestly really pisses me off when people hate CitR for the exact reason why Salinger wrote it. If you connect with and like Holden then there's clearly something wrong with you cause you can be sure there's something wrong with him. You're supposed to hate him cause he's a direct image of teenage faults. Alight, let me say something here. Catcher in the Rye was a well written book I will give it that. JD Salinger was a talented author, I admit this book is one reason why I hate misanthropy with a passion, he did his job but I can't say I like this book. Whether the Holden was intentionally unlikable or not I didn't enjoy reading about him or his views, I can't reccomend this book to anyone. When something makes you so livid, whether that's the way it's supposed to be or not, how can you not hate it? How can you look someone in the eye and say "I like this book" when you don't enjoy it?
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Post by TXA on Nov 19, 2013 11:48:24 GMT -8
I couldn't finish The Grapes of Wrath due to how boring it was.
I don't get it. This is a good book. How was I able to sit through Poisonwood Bible and not this?
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divide
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Why the fuck am I still here
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Post by divide on Nov 19, 2013 18:19:00 GMT -8
It honestly really pisses me off when people hate CitR for the exact reason why Salinger wrote it. If you connect with and like Holden then there's clearly something wrong with you cause you can be sure there's something wrong with him. You're supposed to hate him cause he's a direct image of teenage faults. Alight, let me say something here. Catcher in the Rye was a well written book I will give it that. JD Salinger was a talented author, I admit this book is one reason why I hate misanthropy with a passion, he did his job but I can't say I like this book. Whether the Holden was intentionally unlikable or not I didn't enjoy reading about him or his views, I can't reccomend this book to anyone. When something makes you so livid, whether that's the way it's supposed to be or not, how can you not hate it? How can you look someone in the eye and say "I like this book" when you don't enjoy it? You can hate it all you want. You just can't call it bad. The thing about literature is that it's probably the most direct interpretation of the human imagination, hence why it's impossible to have any sort of increase in quality as time goes on and all that. These ideas presented through works of fiction, especially those from major works such as CitR essentially transcend a human image and act as a metaphorical figurehead for human thought. Whether or not you say you like the book is irrelevant because it's moreso whether or not the book is important or not. To say you dislike a literary giant such as CitR says a of a lot more about you than it does about the work. Again, I'm not saying you CAN'T hate it, but just remeber that works like it exist not to be critiqued based on enjoyment rather than importance.
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Post by Excalibur Tenno on Nov 19, 2013 20:27:00 GMT -8
Alight, let me say something here. Catcher in the Rye was a well written book I will give it that. JD Salinger was a talented author, I admit this book is one reason why I hate misanthropy with a passion, he did his job but I can't say I like this book. Whether the Holden was intentionally unlikable or not I didn't enjoy reading about him or his views, I can't reccomend this book to anyone. When something makes you so livid, whether that's the way it's supposed to be or not, how can you not hate it? How can you look someone in the eye and say "I like this book" when you don't enjoy it? You can hate it all you want. You just can't call it bad. The thing about literature is that it's probably the most direct interpretation of the human imagination, hence why it's impossible to have any sort of increase in quality as time goes on and all that. These ideas presented through works of fiction, especially those from major works such as CitR essentially transcend a human image and act as a metaphorical figurehead for human thought. Whether or not you say you like the book is irrelevant because it's moreso whether or not the book is important or not. To say you dislike a literary giant such as CitR says a of a lot more about you than it does about the work. Again, I'm not saying you CAN'T hate it, but just remeber that works like it exist not to be critiqued based on enjoyment rather than importance. If you can't enjoy it, then what's the point of reading it?
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Post by higemaru on Nov 23, 2013 15:42:42 GMT -8
You can hate it all you want. You just can't call it bad. The thing about literature is that it's probably the most direct interpretation of the human imagination, hence why it's impossible to have any sort of increase in quality as time goes on and all that. These ideas presented through works of fiction, especially those from major works such as CitR essentially transcend a human image and act as a metaphorical figurehead for human thought. Whether or not you say you like the book is irrelevant because it's moreso whether or not the book is important or not. To say you dislike a literary giant such as CitR says a of a lot more about you than it does about the work. Again, I'm not saying you CAN'T hate it, but just remeber that works like it exist not to be critiqued based on enjoyment rather than importance. If you can't enjoy it, then what's the point of reading it? To learn and to expose yourself to different ideas, viewpoints and values.
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Post by HotterdanArul on Nov 24, 2013 2:33:00 GMT -8
If you can't enjoy it, then what's the point of reading it? To learn and to expose yourself to different ideas, viewpoints and values. I agree with this but one can still call it a bad book for that reason. Multiple stories have been told to almost punish the reader: Funny Games directly calls the audience out on enjoying the brutality being shown. You could call Catcher in the Rye a similar situation: the entire book is the internal monologue of Holden so we hear everything from his assholish point of view so whilst we aren't supposed to sympathise with him or truly enjoy reading about it, it doesn't make it any more worthwhile than a book which you actually enjoyed reading. This is coming from the point of view of someone who quite likes Catcher in the Rye but whilst one can say that it succeeded at making an unlikeable character who represented yuppie disenfranchised and entitled youths at the time, it makes it seem as if it was made to be analysed instead of read.
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