Books you regret reading
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Everything I had to read in high school. Let's see...
The Catcher in the Rye. A story about what seems to be a 16 year old pedophile's break from reality. I understand why that one guy went nuts and killed John Lennon after reading this shit. It was REALLY terrible.
Things Fall Apart. A "Tragic" and "Moving" story about the European occupation of Africa in the 1800s. Sucked.
And Frederick Douglass's autobiography ( I forget the exact title ). Don't get me wrong, slavery was horrible but this was just dull.
We translated Commentarii de Bello Gallico in third year Latin (over the course of the year). If it weren't for all the nights and weekends I spent keeping up to date on my translation, I actually might have found that interesting.
And the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. All 6 volumes. Look, it's nice being able to look and act like a smug intellectual, but just stay away unless you absolutely have nothing better to do with about 3 weeks of your life.
The Catcher in the Rye. A story about what seems to be a 16 year old pedophile's break from reality. I understand why that one guy went nuts and killed John Lennon after reading this shit. It was REALLY terrible.
Things Fall Apart. A "Tragic" and "Moving" story about the European occupation of Africa in the 1800s. Sucked.
And Frederick Douglass's autobiography ( I forget the exact title ). Don't get me wrong, slavery was horrible but this was just dull.
We translated Commentarii de Bello Gallico in third year Latin (over the course of the year). If it weren't for all the nights and weekends I spent keeping up to date on my translation, I actually might have found that interesting.
And the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. All 6 volumes. Look, it's nice being able to look and act like a smug intellectual, but just stay away unless you absolutely have nothing better to do with about 3 weeks of your life.
God of Clocks by Alan Campbell, the last book in the Scar Night series, what a massive pile of garbage. That whole series went to shit after the first book.
I also regret reading all of the Dragon Age books because each one somehow managed to top the last one in how bad it was.
I also regret reading all of the Dragon Age books because each one somehow managed to top the last one in how bad it was.
I'm assuming that Twilight is off the list by default,correct? DAMN,thet book sucked. Personally,I regret reading any book that I dislike. Twilight because it looked like it was written by a ninth grader in Locally Developed English. I also regretted reading The Great Gatsby. So dry. So banal. So PREDICTABLE.
Only book I have ever had to force myself to finish is Shadowmancer. Its also the only book that I did not like reading in the least bit.
I'm in agreement with you there pal. We (my class) had to read it for our English Literature GCSE and . . . I just didn't feel it. I get that its supposed to be about humanities' inherent inhumanity, but to me all of the psychotic shit that the hunters do just seems to come out of bloody nowhere. Also, I would have never ever spotted any of the little references and allegories to WW2 and such if our teacher hadn't pointed them out to us.scorptatious said:
It was a couple of years ago mind you, and I only read through it once, so take from that what you will.
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Revan
They took the lore, squiggled around with it, and then fucked up one of the most awesome characters in the Star Wars universe so that they could make a tie in for the shittiest MMO in history.
Yeah, I mad.
They took the lore, squiggled around with it, and then fucked up one of the most awesome characters in the Star Wars universe so that they could make a tie in for the shittiest MMO in history.
Yeah, I mad.
I regret starting the Horus Heresy W40k series because I enjoyed the first two so much I have to buy the other 16 or so that are on the market presently.
That's probably around $100 down the drain. Fucking Warhammer, stop being entertaining.
That's probably around $100 down the drain. Fucking Warhammer, stop being entertaining.
"The Cellar," by Richard Laymon. It started off as a cool story about a house with a killer monster in it, but it featured a lot of sex scenes involving the creature and various women. Another two scenes involved an ex con raping a little girl... Why the hell did I read the whole thing????
The only alien on the planet.
I really, really did not like that one. From the description on the back to the first few chapters gave an incorrect impression of the content of the book which left me very bitter because it implied something far better than it really was. (at least the edition I read)
I really, really did not like that one. From the description on the back to the first few chapters gave an incorrect impression of the content of the book which left me very bitter because it implied something far better than it really was. (at least the edition I read)
Haven't regretted reading many books actually. There's a lot of books I've actively disliked as I was reading it, but at the same time, I love to read. Just the action of my eyes rolling over words and comprehending characters and plots and imagery (whether they be good or bad) relaxes me. So my love for reading usually trumps my disappointment for poorly crafted works.
Also, sometimes a terrible read is a good weapon to have in your arsenal when discussion about books does come up. For example, when I say I hate Twilight, it's not because it's overly hyped, or because the movies are terrible, or because it's everywhere ... it's because I read the books and actively disliked the main character through the entire series (along with a host of other things).
That being said, I might vote Angels and Demons as a regret. Only because Dan Brown has one formula and uses the same twist in every single one of his books, and I had read three of his other before I came upon Angels and Demons. So it was more like I felt foolish for reading it, when I knew EXACTLY how it was going to end (and good ole Dan Brown did not disappoint ... *sigh*)
Also, sometimes a terrible read is a good weapon to have in your arsenal when discussion about books does come up. For example, when I say I hate Twilight, it's not because it's overly hyped, or because the movies are terrible, or because it's everywhere ... it's because I read the books and actively disliked the main character through the entire series (along with a host of other things).
That being said, I might vote Angels and Demons as a regret. Only because Dan Brown has one formula and uses the same twist in every single one of his books, and I had read three of his other before I came upon Angels and Demons. So it was more like I felt foolish for reading it, when I knew EXACTLY how it was going to end (and good ole Dan Brown did not disappoint ... *sigh*)
The Lord of the Rings trilogy. I loved The Hobbit but I hated the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Fellowship was promising and I liked how it set things up well enough. Two Towers though completely lost me and my interest. I tried to get through that thing three or four times before I finally made it through that bastard. Return of the King just wasn't satisfying after Two Towers. I remember wanting to wait until I'd read the books before I watched the movies but since Two Towers was already on DVD before I was even half-way through that book I figured it wasn't going to happen. I made it through the film adaptation of Fellowship but, like the book, Two Towers put me to sleep. I figure if I didn't try to read the books, I wouldn't have gone into the films with the bias I had been carrying and, may have even watched Return of the King.
Couldn't stand that freaking trilogy...
Couldn't stand that freaking trilogy...
Book one of the Anita Blake series.
In it's own trashy endearing way Guilty Pleasures was a real guilty pleasure for me. And yet if it had just been a simply a shitty book then I would've been spared the horror of series's slow descent into Mary-Sue furry necrophilia BDSM fetishism.
In it's own trashy endearing way Guilty Pleasures was a real guilty pleasure for me. And yet if it had just been a simply a shitty book then I would've been spared the horror of series's slow descent into Mary-Sue furry necrophilia BDSM fetishism.
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway.
Everything about the book just bored me to tears. The boring characters, the almost nonexistent plot, the dry writing. . . gah! Just thinking about it makes me want to create a time machine for the sole purpose of making sure Hemingway never writes it, it never gets approved by the school board as mandatory summer reading, and I never have to read it.
Everything about the book just bored me to tears. The boring characters, the almost nonexistent plot, the dry writing. . . gah! Just thinking about it makes me want to create a time machine for the sole purpose of making sure Hemingway never writes it, it never gets approved by the school board as mandatory summer reading, and I never have to read it.
IKR!!! But damn if they aren´t a good bloody read though. 100 Internet Points to you for excellant taste in literature.dancinginfernal said:
I agree, the book was just an angsty teen being angsty. He was a spoiled rich kid who didn't like to go to school. FASCINATING.thebobmaster said:
This is really the only book that I can think that I would have lost nothing if I had not read it.
Haha, I had to read that too in GCSE English Literature (the shit they make us read; I'm doing Language for A-Level). I didn't find it depressing, just some shitty moral Socialist lesson that Priestly was trying to shove down our throats through his high-horse Inspector character.Terratina. said: