if you think "american gods" was weird, try "neverwhere". It's better...even more bizar. Or if you want some REALLY WEIRD SHIT, try Brian Lumley's "Necroscope" series. Truly F@##@ up stuff there in the later works.
They're not.A Distant Star said:Yeah this peace of crap right here.
http://www.amazon.com/Wizards-First-Rule-Sword-Truth/dp/0812548051
People tell me the later books are great, and they very well may be right... again.
Totally.Tanzka said:YES. Although I actually managed to finish it, the first half or so of the book is just so goddamn boring.VondeVon said:And Harry Potter, book 7.
YES Rowling, I get that they're in a forest. PLEASE MOVE ON.
But no, more forests, more doing absolutely goddamn nothing.
Oh and angst. That was there too.
But afterthe book actually becomes worthwhile and enjoyable. Too bad though that everything leading up to it is just so.. dull. I know quite a few people who quit reading the book for that same reason.Ron dealt with his angst and came back to save the day
Yes I spoiler tagged that part but if you haven't read the book already you deserve to be tied to a mast and flogged.
This. I found the books to be incredibly dull and drawn out. Maybe it's just not my kind of book (I don't usually enjoy epic fantasies...although I did love the Dark Tower series), or it's age or whatever...but I stopped reading midway through Fellowship.DJDarque said:I will probably catch a lot of shit for this, but Lord of the Rings.
It doesn't. I wasted too long on that book...Last Hugh Alive said:Very recently, I got about halfway through Catcher In The Rye and just couldn't take it anymore.
I am fully aware that the book was written the better part of a century ago and that the language and social attitudes are relative to that time... But my god, nothing happens and the story doesn't seem to have progressed at all after the first couple of chapters where he leaves school.
The protagonist is annoying and often his mind will just wander off in between walking across the street and will spend a page and a half reminiscing on some distant, unrelated memory. Maybe I've missed something but I'm halfway through and as of yet there is no structure in terms of objectives and direction that I can see, other characters simply come and go, and I just don't have any reason to care about whatever the main character is doing, what will happen next or what will happen at the end.
Maybe it gets better, I don't know, but the book has failed to hook me in and gain my interest.
Really?? I loved Great Expectations, I read it over the summer! Dickens' whimsical, almost musical writing style just tickles me I guess. probably why I'm such a fan of PG Wodehouse.Neonbob said:Great Expectations. No other book has managed to put so much drivel on one page. There were insignificant details upon inconsequential observations upon the mind numbingly slow plot movement.
It felt like he put more useless information on one page than the entirety of the Guiness Record book.
I was assigned that book during High School, and it was the only book that I ever hated so much that I actually considered burning. I probably stopped at the third chapter, and just let myself fail that entire section of the class. Thankfully, there were enough other books to make up for me doing so.
To be fair, they are wizards and witches who go to the only magical school in their country... I'm pretty certain everyone they could have married would have gone to Hogwarts, unless they all went for muggles of course. But yeah, the whole naming after special people thing was a bit stupid. I mean Albus Severus Potter? Seriously?VondeVon said:I am utterly convinced that the tacked-on future where everyone marries out of high school and names their kids after people they know is her quiet revenge against us all.