brian
Groom
Way,way out West
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Post by brian on Jun 22, 2007 11:15:59 GMT -5
that really suck.
"This is not a book to be tossed aside lightly ; Rather , it should be thrown with great force." - Dorthy Parker
My mother used to give us all the books she had finished reading. Potboilers she had picked up on impulse from drugstores or airport stores while traveling . Sometimes I wonder if she payed any attention to them or just read them and forgot them.
So I'm lying in bed with Brooks and all of a sudden , this book goes flying across the room and slams into the wall WHAM ! . I forget the title. It was by Laurence Saunders . I had read another one of his books once. It was full of weird sex and gratuitous violence . She had read the first paragraph and.........
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Post by Goalie on Jun 22, 2007 14:39:52 GMT -5
I can remember getting the paperback book "Looking For Mr. Goodbar" as a 21 yr. old and reading it and when I got to the end of it I threw it so hard against the wall it bounced and the cover ripped off. I can still remember how much I hated the ending of it. This book sucked.
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Post by HokieThea on Jun 22, 2007 16:47:43 GMT -5
Fern Michaels Kentucky series, anyone?
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Post by Lynne on Jun 23, 2007 6:33:18 GMT -5
The Best Awful by Carrie Fisher
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Post by johnnysauntie on Jun 24, 2007 9:37:26 GMT -5
Cold Mountain. Never managed to throw it, though, b/c I was always asleep after one paragraph.
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Post by adcooper on Jun 24, 2007 13:29:17 GMT -5
Cold Mountain! I DID throw it across the room at the end, because after dragging his readers through all that hideousness...the author owed us something better than that hopeless, horrible ending. I hated it.
Also Bridges of Madison County. What schlock.
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Post by HokieThea on Jun 24, 2007 15:34:28 GMT -5
I'm sorry, but I loved Cold Mountain. I read it while on a trip to see the inlaws, and I sobbed my eyes out at the end. My MIL was shocked, and said it was the first time she had ever seen me cry.
Bridges, what a crock, I have to agree. I refuse to read another book by that author.
Come on, has no one read the Fern Michaels Kentucky books? I want comments, good snarky ones! Those books have to be the worst ever when it comes to horses and horse racing!
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Post by seeuatx on Jun 24, 2007 16:57:32 GMT -5
I'm with hokiethea on the Fern Michaels, though it just brings up the issue of when non-horsey people try to write books with a strong equine related theme. I end up spending the whole book pointing out the flaws.
As for the majority of books that have been thrown in my house, why is it that worse the book is, the greater the need to read it. i.e. The Awakening by Kate Chopin, and 100 years of Solitude, which I had to read (and be able to write 5-10 pg papers on) for lit classes. I was pretty convinced my lit professor purposely chose the worst books ever to make us read.
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Post by adcooper on Jun 24, 2007 21:48:02 GMT -5
No apologies, Hokie T! Johnnys and I are the only two people who ever read that book and hated it. You are comfortably with the majority on Cold Mountain, I am sure.
Seeuatx, I majored in lit and I also wondered why they made us read Kate Chopin. I thought it was just the Readers Digest version of Anna Karenina. Yawn.
Speaking of Lit courses, I took a whole seminar on James Joyce in grad school. Ulysses. Ugh. I think it's a great Irish hoax. However, it did come in handy once years later when a friend wrote a book loosely based on his early life in an orphanage. I was SURE he'd been influenced by Ulysses, and he was astonished, but conceded that it was possible. (Home Boy, by Jimmy Chesire). It was the one and only time reading that book ever came in handy.
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Post by Goalie on Jun 25, 2007 7:21:33 GMT -5
I read Cold Mountain and threw that one also, I felt so depressed after reading it. My sister thought it was one of the best books she had ever read. go figure.
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Post by Rodger on Jun 25, 2007 11:30:48 GMT -5
Another absolute drivel about horse racing has got to be All Hat.
The author is eminently forgettable.
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Post by Bara on Jun 25, 2007 12:13:49 GMT -5
I'm with you, Thea! I loffed Cold Mountain, book and movie.
Now. This throwing thing. Hmmm. Much as I would like to support D Parker (via B Law), I have this AWFUL inability to put a book down, even if I hate it.
I know. I know. This is a failing..
It will take me FOREVER to finish a book I hate. All the time whingeing on about : 'OFERgwasake!' 'Aw- Listen to this drivel...'
But I have to finish it, pre-wall-throwing.
Does anyone else suffer from this affliction? I blame my parents ...
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Post by HokieThea on Jun 25, 2007 13:10:52 GMT -5
Rodger, I read All Hat just recently. Not good. It seemed like at first the author kept remember that she wanted some horses in her book and threw in a few misguided references, and then she just went a bit overboard with the silliness of the scheme. The author made me feel like I was reading about a bunch of trashy losers, and I did not develop any caring for them.
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Post by HokieThea on Jun 25, 2007 13:12:51 GMT -5
Bara, I have trouble putting down a bad book too. At the very least I have to finsh it by very vague skimming, just to see how it ends.
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Post by Rodger on Jun 25, 2007 14:53:54 GMT -5
I used to feel that way too, and have ploughed my way though some real drivel. However now, perhaps since I am older?? I figure that the author has a responsibility to me, which is greater than my responsibility to the book. There fore I am all in favour of the wall fling thing.
Besides I LUFF Dorothy Parker!!
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