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Yeah, I'm actually a pretty big Palahniuk fan and I basically have to agree. Social outcast is cynical, does crazy and disturbing things, absurd plot twist, existentialist ending message. It's just that he does it so well, it hooks me. His recent books though have kind of shook things up a bit...sort of.The Bandit said:
By todays standards yes, but during his time he was very inventive and original. He was also a playwrite not an author. All of his contents are meant to be acted out on stage and observed, not read in a book. He also did many wonders for the English language as far as literature in concerned.NoMoreSanity said:
Adolf Hitler. My serious answer though is Nathaniel Hawthorn because of The Scarlet Letter. Let's take an interesting story idea and throw it out the window to instead spend three pages describing what the letter looks like and what kind of frock Hester decided to wear today. I always try to give a book a fair shot and read at least half of it, but if I wasn't required for class to read this book, I would have stopped after the fucking Custom House. Also, since I love jumping on bandwagons, Stephanie Meyer.
Yeah reading Shakespeare sucks, it's like watching a movie on your ipod or psp. Not what it was meant for.NoMoreSanity said:
Kuchinawa212 said:
Great Expectations was utter shit. I quit out of boredom halfway in. Its a 400 page book. I wasted two and a half hours.
I'm one of those people who doesnt mind unoriginality. So I like Paolini. I can take a rehashed Star Wars plot if it's in a shiny new wrapper. I dont mind unoriginality in anything except music.
But I HATE Charles Dickens quite a lot.
Not one of the other 10 or 15 people that have named her have had any kind of fan reaction, so I think you're safe.TheLeetMuffin said:
Your avatar kicks ass.DasAShinyGolash said:
OT: The only author I truly hate is Zora Neale Hurston. I read "Their Eyes Were Watching God" in English class, and all it was was a way for her to vent on how much she hates men. It was so damn annoying. They do nothing in the book except wander to different towns and talk, although there is a hurricane at one point (boring) and one chick has to shoot a guy (meh).
I'm sorry.....you hated 1984 and GEORGE ORWELL....MY AVATAR'S CREATOR!!!That piece of golden literature is insightful and relative still today more than ever.What did you dislike about it?HT_Black said:
Also, whoever says Knaak or Weis and Hickman gets a fork in their throat.
Okay, seeing as no one has gone on a proper rant about Twilight, I shall do so.
Stephanie Meyer can blow me. She has taken a million young women and convinced hem that the only true love is an abusive relationship, which I cannot in any way condone. I have read all of those... things, and can safely say that not only is her idea of love flawed beyond belief, they're trash. Absolute trash. I can think of only on character in these wonderful specimens of shiterature who is believable and likable. And that's Jacob. He has emotions, he is a great guy, he looks out for Bella's wellfare. they shouldn't have been written. they are horrid horrid pieces of filth and I long for the day when they are forgotten.
ALSO VAMPIRES DO NOT FUCKING SPARKLE. *RAWR*
So yes, I don't like Meyer.
Also Poalini. Really, I wish he had waited to write the Eragon books. Given them time to fester and flower. But no. No, of course not, he had to just go ahead and write the things. Also, I know someone who named their child Eragon, which offends my deeply.
Ayn Rand. She writes dry, dry, boring books. I agree with her ideas about socialism and so on, but she's a misogynist, and boring. Boring like whoa.
Dan Brown. Dude writes sub-par, pathetic excuses for books. There is a sexy albino in one of them, but that doesn't rectify the issue. They're just bad.
The End
Stephanie Meyer can blow me. She has taken a million young women and convinced hem that the only true love is an abusive relationship, which I cannot in any way condone. I have read all of those... things, and can safely say that not only is her idea of love flawed beyond belief, they're trash. Absolute trash. I can think of only on character in these wonderful specimens of shiterature who is believable and likable. And that's Jacob. He has emotions, he is a great guy, he looks out for Bella's wellfare. they shouldn't have been written. they are horrid horrid pieces of filth and I long for the day when they are forgotten.
ALSO VAMPIRES DO NOT FUCKING SPARKLE. *RAWR*
So yes, I don't like Meyer.
Also Poalini. Really, I wish he had waited to write the Eragon books. Given them time to fester and flower. But no. No, of course not, he had to just go ahead and write the things. Also, I know someone who named their child Eragon, which offends my deeply.
Ayn Rand. She writes dry, dry, boring books. I agree with her ideas about socialism and so on, but she's a misogynist, and boring. Boring like whoa.
Dan Brown. Dude writes sub-par, pathetic excuses for books. There is a sexy albino in one of them, but that doesn't rectify the issue. They're just bad.
The End
J.D. Salinger for writing Catcher in the Rye. Just some asshole complaining and feeling sorry for himself because his kid brother dies. Couldn't finish it but I can understand why so many mass killers loved it so much, only a psycho would read that blank [http://www.artinfo.com/media/image/106478/PaulMcCarthy_ComplexShit.jpg]!
I personally like Shakespeare and think the fact that they force people to read him is why he gets so much hate from kids.
Shakespeare's works were meant for the stage and loses a lot if you read it like a regular book.
They best way to read Shakespeare is to imagine your favorite actor or just people you know reading the lines to each other while you sit back like a director at a theater or film set, telling them what to do.
Who's Shapkephese? Do you mean Shakespeare?jad4400 said:
I personally like Shakespeare and think the fact that they force people to read him is why he gets so much hate from kids.
Shakespeare's works were meant for the stage and loses a lot if you read it like a regular book.
They best way to read Shakespeare is to imagine your favorite actor or just people you know reading the lines to each other while you sit back like a director at a theater or film set, telling them what to do.
Ditto Jane Austen. Most of the authors forced on us in school I can sort of understand what the fuss was about, but not this time.
As a big fan of Star Wars books, with most of the high-profile authors I can now recognize for their unique individual styles, and few of them ever annoy me enough to put down an SW book before finishing it (though it seems Timothy Zahn did eventually elevate his 'pet character', Thrawn, to Gary-Stu levels of awesome).
Legacy of the Force: Revelation by Karen Traviss changed this. Look up the user 'YodaKenobi' and the book title and you should be able to find a massive rant by him explaining all the various reasons why it was so bad. At least the Bantam era's worst material such as 'The Crystal Star' and 'Shield of Lies' were 'closed circuit' books that like the rest of Bantam had no real lasting effects on continuity, but in this case everything in Revelation must now be taken into account by future authors (the following book Invincible jokingly referred to as 'Damage Control' by some).
But more than just that one bad book, it's the fact that KT was well aware of other author/reader's concerns of her favoritism towards a certain faction/character following her prior two outings in that series... and then proceeded to blow those concerns into FAR greater flaws and admit to having always wanted to do so... and THEN proceed to chew out some readers who called her on it, which irks me. Almost like a book version of Uwe Boll.
As a big fan of Star Wars books, with most of the high-profile authors I can now recognize for their unique individual styles, and few of them ever annoy me enough to put down an SW book before finishing it (though it seems Timothy Zahn did eventually elevate his 'pet character', Thrawn, to Gary-Stu levels of awesome).
Legacy of the Force: Revelation by Karen Traviss changed this. Look up the user 'YodaKenobi' and the book title and you should be able to find a massive rant by him explaining all the various reasons why it was so bad. At least the Bantam era's worst material such as 'The Crystal Star' and 'Shield of Lies' were 'closed circuit' books that like the rest of Bantam had no real lasting effects on continuity, but in this case everything in Revelation must now be taken into account by future authors (the following book Invincible jokingly referred to as 'Damage Control' by some).
But more than just that one bad book, it's the fact that KT was well aware of other author/reader's concerns of her favoritism towards a certain faction/character following her prior two outings in that series... and then proceeded to blow those concerns into FAR greater flaws and admit to having always wanted to do so... and THEN proceed to chew out some readers who called her on it, which irks me. Almost like a book version of Uwe Boll.
Stephanie Meyer. Not just because of Twilight, but because she put MUSE on the movie soundtrack, and now every girl says they love Muse, and they only like Supermassive Black Hole.
It brings my piss to a boil.
It brings my piss to a boil.