Awful Books You've Read

[kmunster]

i'm a big John Grisham fan but i have to agree with Ira, The Runaway Jury sucked big time. i placed that book on the top most shelf so i wouldn't think of reading it ever again. i also hated "Palm Beach" by Pat Booth : all sex, no story

[Ada]

List the awful books you’ve read so you can spare the PEx bookworms from making the big mistake of reading, worse, buying them.

My list:

Lasher by Anne Rice – it was so awful I swore I’d never read any of Rice’ books again.

The Hellfire Club by Peter Straub – A supposedly exciting novel, I couldn’t wait to finish it so I could banish it to my shelf to be forgotten forever.

Bloodline by Sidney Sheldon – I like most of his works, but this one is the pits (among his older works, that is.) Most of the books Sheldon’s come out with for the last 5 years are really awful too. Makes me wonder if someone’s ghost-writing for him (he’s really old, right?)

V.C. Andrew’s books (I forgot the titles of the ones I’ve read) – Intriguing plot but distorted sense of values.

Danielle Steele’s novels – same plot, different characters. No wonder she writes books by the zillion.

I’ll just add to my list if I think of some more.

[asterisk]

"The Celestine Prophecy" by James Redfield. And also its sequels. Real Awful! I blamed the cosmic forces that I found and read this one.

[bunny]

Land of Plenty by Tim Pears...nice plot but he's ssssssssoooo detailed....the story gets so dragging...i didnt finish the book na lang...

[Mister Dean]

You know what's surprisingly boring? Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children." Ugh.

[Ira]

The Runaway Jury by John Grisham- this book was so @#%$)^&$ awful I was cheering for the bad guys and praying that the good guys would get killed somehow.

Slow Waltz on Cedar Bend and Bridges of Madison County by Robert Walker - 'nuff said.

Anything by Danielle Steele and Sidney Sheldon.

[blurredstar]

i do agree w/ ada. i've read some and yes, the plot may have a lot of twist--who's who and what did who did to whom--but then most of them (the ones i've read) were purely about incest.

[Ada]

I'll add Grisham's The Chamber to my list. It's soooo dragging. I wanted to burn the book after I read it.

Who were the bad guys in Runaway Jury? The tobacco people or that "person X" in the jury? Seems to me like all the characters were bad.

[kmunster]

Ada : i think yung tobacco ppl yung bad guys. logical naman di ba?
i haven't read Grisham's The Chamber . i watched the movie instead...ang panget!!! well maybe it's because all of the books-turned-into-movies are bad. i have yet to get a copy of The Chamber. Hey don't burn your copy...just throw it here in my direction...careful not to hit me :)

[emilie]

I just bought Grisham's latest "The Testament". Will let you know if it's any good.

[Ada]

kmunster: In The Chamber's case, both the book and the movie were awful. If you still want to read it, I can lend you the book. Don't say I didn't warn you, though.

[Ira]

The tobacco people are the bad guys, and the woman (whatever her name is, ugh! I don't even want to open the book to check the name) and her accomplice, the good guys. But geez, I wanted the tobacco people to succeed so badly, kasi NAKAKAINIS talaga ang libro! To those who haven't read this book, if the bookstores ever decide to put this on sale and sell it at PhP1.00, SAVE YOUR MONEY!

[Kamatayan]

All of Grisham's books sucks (except for The Firm) I've stopped reading his books and watching his movies... Yung Streetlawyer (the one with Danny De Vito - tama ba ?) had a good ending but was boring as hell...

[Kamatayan]

Peps: I think "A Time To Kill" was Grisham's first novel... So I guess tama pa rin ako lahat ng novels niya pangit...

[Ada]

I heard the Harry Potter books are overrated. Comments?

[Angeli]

Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates is an awful book. by habit, i finish a book the day i start it but this book, i got rid of after about 3 years without finishing it!

[uptowngirl]

wAgKaNgMaKuLiT, medyo dragging nga yung story nung The Notebook pero naappreciate ko naman yung theme. :)

Grisham uses the same formula again and again and again...nakakasawa na. Yung Runaway Jury di mo malaman kung san ka kakampi!

And I have to agree twisted yung values nung books ni V.C. Andrews.

[NEWYORKER363]

I once read a book that I really could not hold up no matter what I did.

The title? "Everything You've Always Wanted to Know About Gravity" by an author who fell down on his face in shame. :D


NewYorker363

[sampaguita]

Rice & Andrews are too creepy for me. Was once obsessed with them, but never again. Steele, I don't think I'll even go there. The movies are bad enough.

I like Grisham's work, though and actually rate "The Runway Jury" as one of my faves of his. I thought it had an interesting twist. As well as "The Chamber", though long & dragging, actually let me think about what I would do in his shoes, made me question my moral character.

Let's see... the worse books I must've read were the R.L Stein books. Can we say "pot-boiler"? They sucked so bad, so predictable at the end. Awful, really awful.

That's all I can think of right now.

[wAgKaNgMaKuLiT]

The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks...
ZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZz http://www.tekkenzaibatsu.com/ubb/smilies/snooze.gif

[NEWYORKER363]

.
Awful books?

Has anyone here read any work by that "much-awarded" writer SAUL BELLOW?

Gee, for instance, his Henderson, The Rain King, I had to re-read every para 3-4 times -- and still couldn't get anything!

Poster Boy of Awful Books/Writings, this fellow Bellow.


NewYorker363

[wAgKaNgMaKuLiT]

hey, not all John Grisham books sucked.
i happen to like "A Time to Kill" and the movie version of that book.

[bing2x]

'gone baby gone' by dennis lehane
'the judgement' by william j. coughlin

i know i'm alone on this one, but, i find
'the wuthering heights' boring.. :o
i'm having a hard time understanding the supposed
'dialogue' of the joseph character.
reading it out loud doesn't help either.. :(



[This message has been edited by bing2x (edited 04-11-2000).]

[tequilapj]

wow, this is a really interesting thread.

i used to like john grisham, probably because he was the first "adult" author i learned to appreciate. the only book of his that i hated was "the street lawyer." i thought it tried too hard to be "moralistic," like it was hammering us with its theme of homelessness and urban poverty.

i wouldn't say "the runaway jury" was bad, although i will admit that by the time he wrote it, his ideas have started to become old and tired.

ada and peps: i totally agree with you on sidney sheldon. "the stars shine down" and "bloodline" were downright awful!

anne rice never never appealed to me, ever. period.

ira: i only read Robert James Waller's "Slow Waltz on Cedar Bend" and it was enough to make me wonder what people saw in him!

Peace! :cool:

[|ostsou|]

i didn't like steinback's the pearl. it took me months to finish interview with the vampire. reading it was a chore.

[maxine]

GAI-JIN by James Clavell. such a boring, boring book. i've read a lot of clavell's works and i liked them. but this particular book just bored me to tears. i stopped reading halfway through it. i was expecting it to pick up, and for a book this thick, it really was an effort. anyway, i found some other use for it--as a door stopper!!

THE VAMPIRE ARMAND by anne rice. i know her works often include homosexuality. i am not homophobic, mind you, but i think this is just too much for me. i didn't even bother to finish it.

[darby]

all danielle steele novels:bop:
The Notebook:zzz:
The girl who loved tom gordon by stephen king!!!

[Mister Dean]

Originally posted by tequilapj
ira: i only read Robert James Waller's "Slow Waltz on Cedar Bend" and it was enough to make me wonder what people saw in him!

Peace! :cool:

I totally agree! This novel was totally boring and incomprehensible!

[harry potter]

ok naman si Grisham a. pero baka kasi The Firm and Pelican Brief lang ang nabasa ko. why don't you guys try The Painted House, it seems very sentimental to me, but it is an American rural book so I'd pick NVM Gonzales' books anytime. as for Harry Potter, is it overrated or overhyped? watch out for the deluge of Harry Potter items this coming November (when the movie is shown).

as for the awful books that I have read, I think disgusting should be the right word. I've read F. Sionil Jose's Sin and I was disgusted by the situations. maybe because I was still non-liberal or watchamacallit then. and yes, Anne Rice's Vampire Armand is too different from the other Vampire Chronicles.

off topic: I have watched something from Alas Singko Y Media that says that J.K. Rowling copied ideas from this other author. from the word Muggles to how Harry Potter looks like.

[nadesico]

the ones by harold robbins.

[Yoshi]

Slightly off topic: I happen to like John Grisham, it's just that his books just have the same basic plot with different circumstances, such that every book just seems to be boring. But if you're interested in legasles and stuff, you might just like it.

Okay, The Testament by John Grisham must have been the worst Grisham book I've read. Grisham tries to deviate from his old writing style and instead tries to go descriptive narrative instead of his usual courtroom drama style. He just sucks at the former that I didn't believe I had wanted to buy this book (I borrowed from a friend).

Almost all of Sidney Sheldon's books were crap; there were only around 3 or 4 which I found acceptable but were quite forgettable (I can't even remember the names). His latest one, whose title escapes me at the moment, is about this girl with multiple personalities and it's just a bad read.

[Ada]

An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears. I usually finish reading a book no matter how dragging it is but I had to give up on this one. It was just awfully, awfully boring. It's about a murder from the point of view of four different characters. I gave up on the fourth perspective 'cause I felt I had had enough. I guess the writing style didn't appeal to me either. Too much narration for my taste.

[neth_row]

scott turow's books...a poor man's john grisham...he's just awful

[walangdila]

john grisham's runaway jury sucks.. :silly:
i also hate tom clancy's executive orders.. yucch..
inis din ako sa pride and prejudice.. sarap batukan mga characters.. :lol: hehehe.. i know it's good but i'm not into kind of that thing.. kainis ginawa pang required reading sa english lit class ko.. :silly:

[angelicDAW]

Originally posted by asterisk
"The Celestine Prophecy" by James Redfield. And also its sequels. Real Awful! I blamed the cosmic forces that I found and read this one.

hahaha!!!! i totally agree! i got so bored. he can actually condense the entire book to several theses statements. nag-kwento pa siya eh wala namang plot.

[*happy*phantom*]

Originally posted by angelicDAW
Originally posted by asterisk
"The Celestine Prophecy" by James Redfield. And also its sequels. Real Awful! I blamed the cosmic forces that I found and read this one.

hahaha!!!! i totally agree! i got so bored. he can actually condense the entire book to several theses statements. nag-kwento pa siya eh wala namang plot.

I agree too. I tried to finish this book for so long but it's just so boring. I just don't get why there was such a big hype about it.

[varrus]

AZTEC

(i forgot the author's name, 'twas the black book with a pic of the sun at front)...

This book was sooo gooood it sucks. Big Time. Almost every chapter there's a tragedy and its long so you kinda get to know the chracters and they die horribly. And the worst is when the Damn Spaniards conquered Tenochtitlan with only a handful of men. I hated the book but loved it. Funny thing is, I don't have the courage to read it again. :p

Gai-Jin by Clavell and the Recluse Series. Books that made me waste my time because I thought there will be a good ending.

[cooling]

i actually liked wuthering heights, and hans brinker, hehe. i think the worst book i've read was "the horse whisperer"

eek!

[bugsbunny]

awful book?

False Memory by Dean Koontz

haba na, liit pa ng font! dang ang boring!

[Bellarine]

SCARLETT by Alexandra Ripley was just AWFUL! I was young and stupid when i bought this book. really stupid to think that anyone can write a sequel to Margaret Mitchell's GONE WITH THE WIND.

[NinaAusten]

the sky is falling by sydney sheldon
a waste of perfectly good paper is what it is.

the witching hour by anne rice
man, is she verbose or what??? a fourth into the book and all i wanted to shout was "SHUT UP!!!"

imho, the harry potter series deserves the accolades it got!

[mintymalone]

Any Johanna Lindsey book. I also bought a book called Charmed Lives. What a waste of money. And of course the book I dislike the most... Hunchbank of Notre Dame.

[g0d]

I can't believe some of you would list The Runaway Jury here.
I kinda liked it.
hehe

Grisham books I didn't like were The Street Lawyer and The Chamber.

Other books I dont like would include all Dean Koontz books ( except Strangers ) and White Ninja by Erik Van Lastbader.

scott turow's books...a poor man's john grisham...he's just awful

I agree on Scott Turow too.

[Joules]

Originally posted by cooling
i actually liked wuthering heights, and hans brinker, hehe. i think the worst book i've read was "the horse whisperer"

eek!


cooling, i certainly agree with you about the horse whisperer. bought it on an airport for a long flight thinking this "bestseller" contains insightful details about horses and their owners or even wonderful passages about the rugged montana. wrong, wrong, wrong. in retrospect, i really regret and am ashamed i had read it; but felt compelled then to waste time since i chose it over cafe latte and a cinnabon. i kept on reading hoping it would improve. big no. the prose is plain laughable, the characters contrived, the whole book nauseating. but on the plus side, since then i learned how to scrutinize books first before buying them. wasted time spent for this awful book made me appreciate other novels with "substance".

[severin_severin]

Bad Books by authors I don't particularly care for:
John Grisham - The Testament :vomit:

Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere and Stardust. It's too bad. The concepts are pretty interesting....but the storytelling and the character development is just plain NOT GOOD. In my opinion. I felt like I was reading romance novels! He should just stick to writing short stories.

Nicholas Sparks - The Notebook

Bad books by authors I usually love :o :
Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions

Tom Robbins - Skinny Legs and All

And god knows I love Stephen King to death, but The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon was pretty damn terrible from start to finish. Dreamcatcher started out promisingly but ended badly also.




Hmm, what else...I didn't like Tuesdays with Morrie but I wouldn't say it was awful.

[hAzEd_02]

ninaAusten: yeah..witching hour kinda sucked. i used to like anne rice..now i now better.

ei..im about to read "a walk to remember" by nicholas sparks. any comments 'bout the book pls..? tnx :)


*paw*

[Woodbine]

Dreamcatcher by Stephen King ... I have read Christine for one and a half week, Thinner for one week and Carrie for two days; and I have finished them all. Unfortunately, not with this one of the newest novels by King. It has been three months and I haven't even reached the climax yet. Either because the novel is too long with a lot of unnecessary detailed narration, or because I simply got tired of the getting-more-boring-each-chapter plot.

[hcL3]

Yesterday's Men By George Turner

[melie]

the god of small things by arundhati roy
the runaway jury by john grisham

i just got bored with these two books that i never got around to finishing them. these two took me months to finish about one-third of their contents. ugh. what a waste of time and effort.

[sadirmata]

oh i don't find arundhati roy's the god of small things boring but entertaining, very light and cool.

i have yet to read a boring book.

[d3viL]

Originally posted by hcL3
Yesterday's Men By George Turner

:bleh:

[melie]

i also hated the gangster of love. i forgot who the author was.

[Tigger]

Bloodlines by Sidney Sheldon sucked bigged time. Didn't even bother finishing the book.

The Brethren by John Grisham was an ok read until the ending, after reading it I felt cheated, it was a total waste of time.

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice BOOORRRING!!!

[vinta18]

Hah!

You should try reading "Embryo of the Sun" by Badon. It claims (correctly) to be the first Science Fiction book written by Pinoys to be published in the US. Self-published naman.

You wouldn't even get past the bad grammar. No wonder it's self-published. I lent it to someone and never asked for it back. Hell, I didn't even take it when she was returning it to me. I think she passed it to someone else.

It's that bad.

[ceri]

earth's children series by jean auel how these became bestsellers is beyond me :curly:

the girl who loved tom gordon :sleep:

lasher and taltos by anne rice reading witching hour at this point is completely useless :redsmile:

[VioletJersey]

i've noticed that some of you find Nicholas Spark's The Notebook boring... when i actually totally think it's his best work ever!!! i remember reading that the night before my Algebra final... and i couldn't put it down!!! i think i slept at around 2 am... and end up flunking my Algebra exam!!! hehehe... but the whole reading experience was worth it!!!

... but then again, that's my own opinion on the book! :D

oh my gawd! it's a good thing i didn't read the book, Bloodlines!!! my brother (who has no taste in books AT ALL!!!) bought it for me for Christmas... hehehe, i guess i'll just lock it up in my closet for sentimental reasons :wink:

... as for me, RL Stine's novels suck!!! patatakutin ka lang sa umpisa... tapos wa na!!! it's totally lame... read Christopher Pike na lang... now that guy's a genius!!! :bounce2:


:p :belat: :p

[dreaminsomniac]

Originally posted by Mister Dean
You know what's surprisingly boring? Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children." Ugh.

Have you read his The Ground Beneath Her Feet?

k naman. I remember borrowing midnight's children from the lib, gosh, i didn't even try finishing the book...

[dreaminsomniac]

Originally posted by severin_severin
Bad Books by authors I don't particularly care for:
John Grisham - The Testament :vomit:

Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere and Stardust. It's too bad. The concepts are pretty interesting....but the storytelling and the character development is just plain NOT GOOD. In my opinion. I felt like I was reading romance novels! He should just stick to writing short stories.

Nicholas Sparks - The Notebook

Bad books by authors I usually love :o :
Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions

Tom Robbins - Skinny Legs and All

And god knows I love Stephen King to death, but The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon was pretty damn terrible from start to finish. Dreamcatcher started out promisingly but ended badly also.




Hmm, what else...I didn't like Tuesdays with Morrie but I wouldn't say it was awful.

i actually liked the testament, among the grisham books...the setting esp.

[saywhat]

Originally posted by Ada
List the awful books you’ve read so you can spare the PEx bookworms from making the big mistake of reading, worse, buying them.

My list:
V.C. Andrew’s books (I forgot the titles of the ones I’ve read) – Intriguing plot but distorted sense of values.

I agree. But Flowers In The Attic is a very engaging book, though really disturbing. :D

[saywhat]

Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison :bigyawn:

[Idiosyncratic]

The Bridges of Madison County sucked bigtime for me

[kesibi]

Ang mga aklat na inyong napaghinayangang nabili.

The Pitchers - (by: John Mallack) Ang daming typographical errors

[mintymalone]

The Pollen Room
It was so bad.

[bugsbunny]

This book by Dean Koontz. Tingnan niyo? It's so bad I forgot it's name. It was so boring. Read about a 3rd lang ata. Sobrang yuck.

[ooooooooooooooo]

The man who ate the 747

di masyadong maganda. excited pa naman ako at the start.

[delano]

yung k bob ong, "abakada..."
Ang corny sobra.

[CoolCucumber]

the map of the world by jane hamilton

the bridges of madison country (or was it county? basta bleah!)

[kesibi]

Ang pabalat ay parang logo ng "Tide".

Sayang yung time ko sa pagbasa. Tinapos ko pa rin, pamatay oras lang.

[Pitchshifter]

CLIVE BARKER'S IMAJICA
....i tried...twice...pero di ko talaga matapos... walang nangyayari...

[ShowMeTheMoney]

Spencerville by Nelson DeMille.

After enjoying The Generals Daughter, this was definitely a waste of money.

[Marc_Chagall]

recuerdo ni cristina pantoja-hidalgo. cant believe i bought that...m still wondering why it won the palanca for novel in 1996. one of the greatest mysteries unsolved...

[mirror_image]

the scarlett letter. sobrang ugh! boring!!

[tina11]

this hardbound peanuts book i bought in fully booked... sobrang mahal and when i got home and excitedly opened it, there were hardly any pictures, it was mostly a script of the charlie brown christmas special... :down:
next time i buy anything at fully booked, i'll ask them to unwrap it muna so i can check out the contents.

[sentiments]

the missing piece.....

naintriga lang kc ako dun sa book, di ko alam na super konti lang pala nakasulat dun at mas malaki pa *** drawing kesa sa mga nakasulat.............. bawal kasing buksan eh (nakaplastic pa sya) kaya di ko nasilip na mababasa pala un ng w/in 15 minutes lang......... ang mahal pa pu, 500++ ..... tsk tsk...sayang ang moolah! buti na lang medyo insightful sya....

[annielise]

Sorry to her fans, but Danielle Steel's Mirror Image. I couldn't sustain it.

[lady_watcher]

edi manghiram na lang kasi kayo!

[fredda]

hahaha delano baka mabasa ng mga nasa BOb Ong thread yan ay magalit sa yo!

corny ng konti si Bob Ong pero katulad ni Jun Cruz Reyes ang gusto ko sa kanya/kanila ay ang pagsusulat na madaling maintindihan ng kahit sino. as in hindi mo na kailangang maging lover of literature para magustuhan sila.

for me, ang redeeming value ng AB NKKBS N PL A-KO ay ang last chapter or part nya, yung essay ni BOb Bong about education. that's just beautiful.

i respect the guy.

sa mga pinanghinayangan kong nabili, so far wala naman. =)

lucky for me.;)

[grobanite]

memoirs of a geisha - hindi ko matapos-tapos

neverwhere - i love this book pero my sister bought the same copy for around P100 less!! sayang yung pera ko...

[seeker89]

message in a bottle by nicholas sparks. sappy and crappy.

[CrazyBoutShady]

the snows of kilimanjaro and other short stories - ernest hemingway

i usually skip stories kase sobrang nakakabore at hindi makaya ng utak ko.

[amaw]

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept. Grabe! As in super boring talaga ( para sa akin). Binili ko lang to kasi sabi ng ibang pexers dito ay maganda daw pero I didn't find it maganda naman. Iba iba lang talaga ang gusto natin. Tiniis ko lang talagang tapusin ang book na 'to kasi nasasayangan ako sa perang pinangbili ko.

[Mickey2000]

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-7/268834/Mickey2000.jpg
:imu: The River (sort of suspense pero sobrang bagal ng story. :yawn: )

[kesibi]

So tragic. Sayang 289pesos. Disaster! ~Grrr!

[miss_d]

The Alchemist.

I soooo hated it. Hindi ko magawang matapos. Alam ko maraming magagalit dahil love na love nila 'tong librong 'to, pero sorry... sobrang na-corny-han ako.

But I loved Veronika Decides to Die. :)

[bagel]

Originally posted by miss_d
The Alchemist.

I soooo hated it. Hindi ko magawang matapos. Alam ko maraming magagalit dahil love na love nila 'tong librong 'to, pero sorry... sobrang na-corny-han ako.

But I loved Veronika Decides to Die. :)

I agree. I'm a lover pa naman of all things geeky and i thought he would have tried to explain how lead turns to gold (maski imbentong computations lang), but no, sobrang *supot* yung explanation. hehe

And he used too much hocus-pocus to explain the goings-on nung naipit na yung protagonist, corny.

[PnoloP]

Erich Segal's "The Class"

Ay **** kapeng mainit talaga oo...

[gorgeous]

how to lose friends and alienate people by toby young

P454 down the drain....what's up w/ all the footnotes anyway?

[miss_d]

Originally posted by bagel
I agree. I'm a lover pa naman of all things geeky and i thought he would have tried to explain how lead turns to gold (maski imbentong computations lang), but no, sobrang *supot* yung explanation. hehe

And he used too much hocus-pocus to explain the goings-on nung naipit na yung protagonist, corny.

i don't think i even got as far as his explanation... after a few chapters, ayoko na! pinipilit ko talaga tapusin, inisip ko it might turn out okay in the end, but i just couldn't do it. i gave up 3/4 into the book.

[quickbrwnfox]

books i bought na indi ko tlaga natapos basahin dahil i found it so boring!

100 yrs of solitude
god of small things
yesterday i cried ba un? by ivana something
sophies world

bad trip! sayang sobra ng peraaaaaaa. kala ko kasi maganda. kaasar tlaga.

[trizcie]

The Devil Wears Prada

parang...hah?! yun na yun?
And-re-ah ended her professional relationship with Miran-duh through a resounding 'F*ck you!'
sayang first few chapters. tsk.

masyadong hyped-up :rolleyes:
dapat kasi makinig pag bad ang reviews sa book, makibasa na lang sa Powerbooks.:glee:

[tahn_58]

conversations with god...nevr got arnd to actually read even half of the buk...

[baileys979]

paintedhouse ni j.grisham.. basta natatamad akong absahin yung book na yun.. binili ko p nmn ng bnew

[OliverWood21]

Eto.. Maraming magagalit ha..

Pero I really regret buying the HOBBIT by Tolkien..

Nakakaantok, sobra!! :(

[baileys979]

ayyy!! ako din nd ko natapos yung hobbit ko na book... :(

[Little Wolf]

The Hobbit?! buti na lang at hindi ko naisipang bilhin at yung 3 books lang binili ko. :)

[McMah0n]

the dreamcatcher- stephen king (i read somewhere na he was stoned when he was writing this)

ang paboritong libro ni hudas- bob ong (sorry sa mga bob ong fans. i loved him in abnkkbsa... pero nacornihan na ako sa aplnh)

[kesibi]

Hobbit, Antok! :-(

[PnoloP]

Originally posted by quickbrwnfox
books i bought na indi ko tlaga natapos basahin dahil i found it so boring!

100 yrs of solitude
god of small things
yesterday i cried ba un? by ivana something
sophies world

bad trip! sayang sobra ng peraaaaaaa. kala ko kasi maganda. kaasar tlaga.

Tiyagain mo ang 100 years of Solitude. It is a good book!

[Econ_major]

*** book ni Amy Tan na The HUndred Secret Senses

[kesibi]

Originally posted by PnoloP
Erich Segal's "The Class"

Ay **** kapeng mainit talaga oo...

I saw this book... mukhang interesting naman. :-)

[haponesa]

abankkbsnplk, didnt like it too. sorry to bob ong's fans. para kasing isang essay ng high school student yung book nya eh. pinamigay ko na lang yung book.

[Lolita]

Grobanite - super fave book ko yung Memoirs of a Geisha. I recommend it to all of my friends. Try reading up to 1/4 of the book, that might get you going.

delano - nagandahan din ako sa ABNKKBSNPLAKO by Bob Ong. Private school kasi ako all my life so I got to see a glimpse of how it feels like in a public school.

Agree with the people who hated "The Alchemist". I hated it also. Wala masyadong sense. Sabi nila parang Little Prince daw. Na-insulto naman ang Little Prince.

Left Behind talaga ang di ko natapos-tapos na libro.

[CaRaMBa]

Trading Up by Candace Bushnell. I read 4 Blondes and found it okay, so I bought Trading Up. Pathetic. I didn't even finish it, I think I have around 20 or 30 pages to go. Ugh.

[eomer_rohirrim]

Originally posted by OliverWood21
Eto.. Maraming magagalit ha..

Pero I really regret buying the HOBBIT by Tolkien..

Nakakaantok, sobra!! :(

Pambata kasi....

I'm a fan of Tolkien pero once ko lang binasa yung book. Kakatamad talaga. Binasa ko lang para malaman ang story ni Bilbo.

[IceAngel]

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. 125 pesos lang ang bili ko sa kanya, nilagyan ko pa ng plastic cover before reading it because I thought it was really good! Super disappointed ako from the first few lines pa lang. What a freaking waste of money!

There was also this poetry book, I bought for 200 pesos. The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance by Audre Lorde. I loved reading an excerpt from it online, so I bought the book. I just found out later on that the rest of the poems just aren't my cup of tea. *sigh*

[bugsbunny]

Extra Virgin by Annie Hawes. Sobrang booooooooooooooooooring.

[sofia_02]

How To Kill a Mockingbird, Catcher in the Rye
at sangkaterbang local chick-lits. *blech* feeling pa-sexy and the city

[hugs]

yup, sayang *** Ang Paboritong Libro ni Hudas..parang wala lang, un na un?..mas may sense pa *** ABNKKBSNPLAKo, at least natuwa pa ko dito..pero etong isang to, hudas talaga..hehe..oh well..

[Cloudwatcher]

Originally posted by IceAngel
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

I will have to disagree. The Catcher in the Rye has been hailed as The Novel of the 20th century. Hemingway did it for the Lost Generation, and Salinger did it for ours. TCinR was (and probably still is) considered as the voice of the adolescent mind in our generation. It's literary style was unsurpassed (unless, of course ,you're one to fancy formal-speaking-grammatically-and-politically-correct characters). But you're probably right. It probably depends on one's choice of mattresses...

The book that I regret that I read is .... crap, I can't even remember the book title and author. It had a nice cover (but it costs P3++) so I thought it was going to be a mystical story. Turns out, it was "loosely based" on the Scooby Doo Gang mixed with The Twelve Apostles!!! What the?!?
I sometimes regret reading Pat Barker's The Ghost Road, but when I remember that it was based on Wilfred Owens' poetry, I just have to take it back...

[kesibi]

Originally posted by CaRaMBa
Trading Up by Candace Bushnell. I read 4 Blondes and found it okay, so I bought Trading Up. Pathetic. I didn't even finish it, I think I have around 20 or 30 pages to go. Ugh.

Biktima din ako ng aklat na ito!!! :mad:

[CoolCucumber]

Originally posted by sofia_02
How To Kill a Mockingbird, Catcher in the Rye
at sangkaterbang local chick-lits. *blech* feeling pa-sexy and the city

hehe i like to kill a mockingbird :) i really enjoyed it... tsaka 100 years of solitude. ang bagaaal ng storya but i really liked it too.

here's mine:

christine by stephen king

hobbit by tolkien

for whom the bell tolls by hemingway

[ilovenikolai]

What? to kill a mockingbird and catcher in the rye..Awful?

no way. try reading it again or you'll miss half of your lit life.


Awful read??? this is weird but the notebook is so boring.

[altec]

Originally posted by CoolCucumber


here's mine:

for whom the bell tolls by hemingway

Awww, hindi niya nagustuhan :~(. Matipid si EH sa description and explanations (which is not a bad trait.) A lot is implied and have to be read between the lines...

Hemmingways, (sorry for the pun ) 'tago mo lang siya, someday you'll get in the mood to read it. :)


I kinda regret buying wuthering heights; i only bought it due to references in some sionil jose stories... err bloody english, might as well have been written in arabic :rolleyes:

[altec]

OT: whoa deja vu...

[tina11]

some books that other people raved about, but i found disappointing:
* anne rice's later works
* american gods by neil gaiman
* one hundred years of solitude (but i think i was 12 or 13 when i tried to read this, so maybe i would appreciate it more if i reread it now)

i think the book that disappointed me the most was:

Originally posted by miss_d
The Alchemist.

I soooo hated it. Hindi ko magawang matapos. Alam ko maraming magagalit dahil love na love nila 'tong librong 'to, pero sorry... sobrang na-corny-han ako.
my sentiments exactly... it wasn't awful, but i found it corny and it sure didn't live up to all the hype. i couldn't understand why so many people thought it was the best book they had ever read, when it was just a story that had been told a thousand times before, and in better ways too.

[baileys979]

- Grisham's painted house and street lawyer.. parehong nd ko natapos... nababagalan ako sa pacing... :-/

- yaw ko din ng tolkien... :( i have hobbit... but never finished it so i didn't buy any of series..

[Tessaria]

Angels and Demonsby Dan Brown. Bleh.

[kpax5]

yung book of dreams ni neil gaiman na collection of short stories. pinilit ko lang mangalahati, but i have to stop there. ok sana yung first few stories, pagdating dun sa iba kadiri na. i'm reading 100 yrs of solitude now. i have to agree na medyo tedious syang basahin, sometimes boring, pero i swear to finish this book. at saka may mga memorable lines and characters dun na ok! asa kalahati palang ako.

[starfish826]

ako naman, i found the last half of return of the king boring...when they got back to the shire.

another was about a boy by nick hornby

[razzp]

Originally posted by asterisk
"The Celestine Prophecy" by James Redfield. And also its sequels. Real Awful! I blamed the cosmic forces that I found and read this one.

Ditto. Pero may good points din naman. Tinapos ko lang yung book out of respect sa nagpahiram sa'kin.

[shanks24]

i have to agree with runaway jury! i also hated the good guys i wanted them to get killed ..what's worse they even made a movie out of it....anyway there's also this book my friend checked out from the library and it's not completely awful but it sucked big time coz it was so incomplete...i dont even know if there's a sequel....the title is brain dead i forgot the author....there's this doctor who was on the verge to discover the cure for brain dead & in the end he got himself into an accident and oh what a coincidence he got brain dead too then 'the end'....what an idiot!

[starfish826]

le divorce...it's le boring!

[indigo24]

t shirt and genes
anna maxted books
candace bushnell's sex and the city and 4 blondes

some brit lit is really bad.

[sofia_02]

100 years of solitude

... 100 years of boredom. bleh!

[melusine]

Sorry to their fans (and they must have a lot, or else their books wouldn't be bestsellers and they wouldn't be continuously churning out this crap) but after one book, I will never read anything written by V.C. Andrews and Danielle Steel again.

For some reason, I have no desire to read Sidney Sheldon. Ever.

I've read some Johanna Lindsey, mostly during those moments when I was tired, wanted a quick love story fix and didn't want something that actually required thought processes. Yeah, shame, shame on me--but I got worse than I deserved. Her writing is REALLY BAD--and my expectations for romance authors are really low as it is.

In high school, I had to pick 2 books written in English by Pinoy authors, and do a book report on them. I unfortunately read Without Seeing the Dawn and To Be Free. Ugh.

I bought The Testament as a gift for a friend (who's a Grisham fanatic) tapos binasa ko muna (hehe). B-O-R-I-N-G.

Frank Herbert's sequels after Dune just got steadily worse. But I still read them anyway, like a bad habit.

The Alchemist is okay--I don't see what the fuss is all about though. I'm puzzled why people are raving about it like it's the greatest book of all time. It is SO not.

Nicholas Sparks is way overrated. IMO Notebook was his best, but I just don't like him. A guy who writes mush that's sappier than most chick books *cringe*

I know it's supposedly one of literature's great novels, but ayoko talaga ng Wuthering Heights. Wala akong simpatiya kay Heathcliff.

I love The English Patient, so I looked forward to Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion. I borrowed it from a friend, started reading it, stopped, started again, stopped, and 2 years and countless books later, I still haven't finished it. Maganda yung metaphors, pero sobrang dragging. Gusto ko parin tapusin though; I've never given up on a book, no matter how bad it is.

I read through the whole thread and to each his own talaga 'no? Ako, The Catcher in the Rye is my all-time favorite book, plus I loved Pride and Prejudice, About a Boy and To Kill a Mockingbird. And I still want to read 100 Years of Solitude and see for myself.

[godwine]

Hey... I actually liked Rice's Witching Hour series :P What I didn't like was Merrick. I've probably tried reading this 4 times already, but can't seem to get past the 5th chapter. And the Vampire Lestat. Rambling much?

Never got to finish God of Small Things either, but I was an ambitious little 11 year-old when I picked it up. Needless to say, it's gone now.

Like Water for Chocolate: Bleh. Too weird and campy. Twas a long time ago, but I remember it being a little to heavy on the literary devices. Or something.

I liked Without Seeing the Dawn! :)

Sophie's World was a bore and a half. :P

The Artemis Fowl series was a bad investment.

The Pilgrimage by Coelho. Zonked out by page 5.

Urgh, I remember reading this Lisa Jackson book. Twas all about incest and adultery... talk about screwed up families.

Neil Gaiman books... (except for his children's books) interesting premises, but too dragging.

Grisham's Painted House wasn't that bad. Seriously boring and stagnant, yes, but not a total waste of time.

Prodigal Summer by B. Kingsolver. I did not get this at all.

Ditto on Nicholas Sparks' books. A Walk to Remember was actually fairly tolerable in a what-the-heck-just-go-with-the-flow kind of way, but The Notebook was just terrible.

To each his own, nga naman... :)

[purplelightning]

Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses
Anne Rice's Cry to Heaven

[daphine]

Thank you so much for bringing up 100 years of solitude as a boring book...as well as the alchemist...the way these books were receiving rave reviews,i thought there was something wrong with me.

Nowadays, i only read magazines,journals and newspapers kasi ilang beses na akong bumili ng libro na i just got disappointed with...aside from the two i've mentioned:
John Grisham books
Sidney Sheldon books
Artemis Fowl series
Chronicles of Narnia(i've actually only read book one-THe Magician's Nephew...but it was disappointing)
Patricia Cornwell books(i used to like them as well but now...)
Mary Higgins Clark books(i used to like them as well,but once you've read one or two parang you've read it all)
Maeve Binchy(Circle of Friends ,Silver Wedding)-hindi ko matapos

Para tuloy ayoko nang bumili,sayang lang...uulit-ulitin ko na lang yung Harry Potter series(nung nauuso pa lang ito,i was skeptical at first so i just borrowed book 1...pero after that,i'm hooked) at yung Agatha Christie books ko(Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple series):)

[CoolCucumber]

Originally posted by altec
Awww, hindi niya nagustuhan :~(. Matipid si EH sa description and explanations (which is not a bad trait.) A lot is implied and have to be read between the lines...

Hemmingways, (sorry for the pun ) 'tago mo lang siya, someday you'll get in the mood to read it. :)


of course nakatago pa rin :) babasahin ko some other time... 'pag wala sigurong nakapending na librong babasahin------->para mapilitan akong tapusin :)

[melusine]

@ CoolCucumber

I don't like Hemingway either--the too-spare prose isn't my cup of tea, I guess. But he does have his moments, the talent and profundity is there. So I don't regret reading him and in the future, will still read his stuff.

@ altec

Gusto kong mabasa yung A Moveable Feast. Maganda ba?

@ godwine

I didn't hate it, but I also found Like Water for Chocolate overrated. I'd rather read Isabel Allende, she does magical realism better.

Next to The Notebook, A Walk to Remember is the only Nicholas Sparks book that I could tolerate. But then you hated The Notebook diba? Haha, at least we both agree that we don't like Nicholas Sparks.

Not that we HAVE to agree. Ang dapat nga na motto ng thread na ito ay: To each his own! To each his own!

And going against the spirit of that same tagline... :laugh:

Originally posted by daphine
Chronicles of Narnia(i've actually only read book one-THe Magician's Nephew...but it was disappointing)


Uy, don't give up on Chronicles of Narnia. Suggestion ko start with "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe." I promise you, it's worth it. :)

[Ms Cynical]

awful books?

wuthering heights - i can't see what's so special about it. the title itself is boring. Who would want to read a book whose title is a name of a house? it's supposed to be one of the classics of english lit but i just don't get what is so special about it. the character, joseph is annoying..i have to read the back part of the book just to understand what he is saying. Emily Bronte sure knows hot to make a reader mad..

A walk to remember - too sappy.. the ending is quite predictable..

[badasschick]

I love Wuthering Heights, To Kill a Mockingbird (lalo na 'to!), and Cather in the Rye, pati Erich Segal's The Class.

What I don't like are:

All books, especially The Gift, by Danielle Steel --> You read one, you've read 'em all. All melodramatic and sappy

The Door to December by Dean Koontz --> One-dimesnional characters, predictable plot

The Shining by Stephen King --> Like, wtf? This is King's scariest book according to critics and many fans? Well, then, it's so overrated.

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides--> Not that it's an awful book; it's actually engaging and written beautifully. I'm just annoyed with it because we never get to find out why the Lisbon sisters committed suicide, which any normal reader would like to know.

A Walk To Remeber by Nicholas Sparks --> Sappy, sickeningly romantic

The Diary of a Mad Bride by Laura Wolf --> The lead character is one of the worst creations in the fictional world.

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown--> Good book in general, even enlightening, but it's so obvious who the Teacher was.

And all those Cosmopolitan books. The writers are all trying hard to jump into the Sex-and-the-City bandwagon, and failing miserably.

[gurlaloo]

doomsday conspiracy by sidney sheldon
veronika decides to die by paulo coelho

[MiLhOuSe83]

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho - I know a lot of people just love this book and even go as far as saying it changed their life!! Well, i read this book and IT DIDNT DO JACK SH!T FOR ME! The believing in omens bit was too preachy for me. Good thing the book isnt that long and I didnt waste a lot of time reading it.

[mullah]

all books by rosamunde pilcher (and believe me, i got a complete set :rolleyes: because a friend got it in her head that i liked her books and kept giving me those...and i didn't have the heart to tell her :lol: ). and please don't react...but i don't like nicholas sparks, his books are just too cheesy for my taste. :D

[moonshine]

hindi naman awful, but parang overrated yung paolo coelho books

didn't like the "series of unfortunate events" books...too bad i bought 4 books agad (kala ko maganda) only to struggle finishing the first book, and give up reading halfway into the second book...some people might like the "darkness" and find it amusing... i don't

agree with the observation about mary higgins clark books: parepareho nalang when you've read 2 or 3... but still, ok lang siya pag maulan tapos walang magawa sa house and theres nothing good on tv

artemis fowl books---hindi ko lang dig yung character ni artemis fowl. never transported me into the world he inhabited, not like the potter series or the LOTR (but of course it's not fair to compare with LOTR :D)

[moonshine]

mullah...yoko rin yung nicholas sparks books...

daphine... kahit na "lion, witch, wardrobe" lang basahin mo sa narnia series. (but i also liked the "last battle")... 11 lang ako nung napanood ko yung "lion, witch, wardrobe" animated sa tv...that made me a cs lewis fan up to now.

foucault's pendulum... many years ago, i was stuck on page 3 ... now am still stuck in the first few pages. it's not an awful book...pero mahirap siyang basahin. i will keep trying...!

[miss_d]

hahaha, this thread is so funny. talagang iba-iba talaga ang tastes ng mga tao.

i've said it time and again, i HATE the alchemist... i can't get over how bad this book is. blech.

i actually liked the artemist fowl series, even though i have to put myself in mababaw mode every time i read it. i liked the first few series of unfortunate events books, but after 3 books of misery, nagsawa din ako. :)

i've never read nicholas sparks, but i have a strong feeling that i won't like his writing... (after all, mandy moore starred in the movie version!)

i bought this brit book, i can't even remember the exact title... something about snogging i think. haaated it.

to each his own! :)

[mullah]

yup, to each his own. :D

i remember now, as much as i love Gabriel Garcia Marquez...i hated 100 years of solitude. it's been ages now and i've yet to finish the book :lol: which is so unlike me. :teehee:

badasschick i don't read Danielle Steel as a rule, but my sister made me read the clone and i and admittedly, it was refreshingly different from her usual blah. :D

[Kay_Noah]

Veronika Decides to Die--- a bit disappointing

Adrian Mole -The Capuccino Years ---too dragging

The Alchemist --- Little Princ Wannabe

[drizzt3]

Originally posted by daphine
Chronicles of Narnia(i've actually only read book one-THe Magician's Nephew...but it was disappointing)

try reading Lion, Witch, Wardrobe and starting from there instead coz in my case, I only found out about Magician's Nephew long after I read the Narnia series

worth a shot if you really like fantasy books
medyo light/kiddy nga lang

Bad books:
Dune Messiah - i really should try and finish this book (not!)
How to be Good - Nick Hornby (depressing and disappointing)

[crescent]

middlemarch - george elliot
looonnnggg and boring

nanny diaries - overrated, boring, lousy ending.

can't buy me love - francesca clementis
minadali yung ending.

worst book of all time: death of ivan ilych - leo tolstoy
i wanted to kill my english teacher who assigned to me this book when i was in highschool.

[siervamaria]

Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas by james patterson
sorry but I found it sooooo corny...
tragic and corny. bad combination.

[pagan]

Candy by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg(?)

walang kwenta.

[Introvert_S]

1. Wuthering Heights
2. 100 years of Solitude - di ba pwedeng Jose1, Jose2 ang pangalan nila para di nakakalito? nakakapagod magpabalik-balik sa Family Tree
3. The Alchemist - no impact whatsoever

[oblique_tease]

yup, inantok ako sa alchemist but the other book of coehllo yung by the river piedra, MAGANDA! i also hated chronicles of narnia. i wonder how the movie will come out. the first installment was pretty ok. the fifth book is awfully boring grabe!

[mistyEyed_girl]

i thought i was the only one who didn't appreciate the alchemist. i have to agree with kay_noah that it's a little prince wannabe.

other books i hated include: da vinci code and artemis fowl

[Tessaria]

I always wondered if I was a freak for not liking The Alchemist. :) It's nice-nice, but I don't get why people are so floored by it. It doesn't appeal to me, and yeah, it feels like a Little Prince wannabe.

Can't stand Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. The two books are enough to put me off his writing entirely. He writes too much like expecting a screenplay to come out of it, and the chapter endings feel like film editing cuts. Not to mention his research is quite disappointing.

I agree with people regarding Wuthering Heights. I don't get what the fuss was about Heathcliff. :)

[tsokolat]

four blondes by candace bushnell
-grabe, cant stand this book..page 2 pa *** ako, d n kinaya ng powers ko

drama queen
-isa pa to..

:sunnysmile:

[mistyEyed_girl]

Originally posted by tsokolat
drama queen
-isa pa to..

:sunnysmile:

there's something bout this one na parang ewan ko.. trying hard?

[allthatsnazz]

books na you thought were great reads, but fell short...what are they???
mine would be (no offense sa mga may gusto): lovely bones, eleven minutes, by the river piedra, the notebook, the 5 ppl you meet in heaven, bridges of madison county, cracking the da vinci code, jonathan livingston seagull

[synchondrosis]

i would have to agree with "lovely bones".

[b_trayed]

ako din, i didnt like lovely bones. it's just so weird.

pro biggest let down sa kin is *** eleven minutes..

isa pang book na nadisappoint ako is ng 'UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING'.. Its really unbearable for me.. until now di ko pa tapos basahin.. tinamad na ko ituloy..


but i liked 5 ppl u meet in heaven and by the river piedra and bridges of madison county =)

[synchondrosis]

i think i didn't like the gods of small things...pero i'm not sure. i'm reading it again just to make sure.

[lupin]

disappointed with eleven minutes :(

[neth_row]

I can't bring myself to finish Rule of Four. I've read the first few chapters...and it's a complete bore. I try to read one chapter, and it will be days before I read the next chapter again.

[mastercat]

Off the top of my head, my list would be:

1. The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (Sharyn McCrumb) - What was the point of this book??!?
2. Airframe (Michael Crichton) - I like Crichton, but I just didn't seem to find any reason to get to the halfway point with this book.
3. House of the Seven Gables - I don't even remember who the author is. I don't think I ever even got past chapter 2! This thing has been shelved for more than 10 years now.
4. any book by Robin Cook - Read one book by Cook and you've read them all.



Ada: I actually found "The Instance of the Fingerpost" kinda interesting. True, it could sometimes bog you down with its narrative, but I found the story, as a whole, kinda intruiging.

[tahn_58]

i agree! i ddnt find the Lovely Bones all dat. a lot of people sed it was tear jerking. i found it kinda weird.

Im currently reading sex and the city but i cant seem to finish it. is der smething wrong with me? its suposed to be hilarious and all

[gastrixia]

The Purpose Driven Life

Books like this one are surely not my cup of tea. I thought it can break the mold but I was wrong. Expecting too much is a bad thing.

PS I Love You

Touching but sappy and predictable

The Alchemist

Too simplistic just like the rest of Coelho's books

Getting Over It

One Bridget Jones is enough, thank you

Wonder When you'll miss me

Dragging ... blah ... weird story twist

[CaRaMBa]

I wouldn't really call it awful but I got disappointed after reading Milan Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.

I absolutely HATED Trading Up.

[Introvert_S]

I dunno pero mukhang mas may impact sa akin ang mga chicken soup books kaysa sa Purpose Driven Life

[allthatsnazz]

yay!! finally!!! people who think "the notebook" sucked!!! mas interesting (if you could call it that) yung alzheimer's part kesa yung love story eh...

[pink_tianak]

danielle steele books. those mills n boon paperbacks.

i used to be a big sidney sheldon fan when i was in high school. i've read all his books and thought that man was truly a master storyteller. but i just finished rereading WINDMILLS OF THE GODS today--back then he had me totally convinced of that world, but now it just seemed so far from reality.

in sheldon's world, you are either evil or good, brilliant or dumb, beautiful or ugly. and the writer sometimes makes his characters do really outrageous unnecessary things to get their goals...all for the sake of drama.

but if it's escapist entertainment, sheldon's one of the best for me. his straightforward storytelling will work best for the movies. very cinematic!

[synchondrosis]

speaking of sheldon, i stopped reading his books after high school, but there was one book in recent memory that i read out of sheer boredom...and it was horrible!!! i can't remember the title anymore, but it's about this woman who has multiple-personality disorder, and it was ugh. trying so hard to forget i ever read it.

[tahn_58]

i still cant seem to finish sex and the city sheesh! hehe

[weasley]

Last summer I was reading the Fountainhead, ni Ayn Rand. Okay na sana yung start pro in the middle of the book d na **** ako makarelate sa main characters lalo na kay Roark and the girl (forgot her name, was it veronica?) I have to put it down... ayoko na basahin ulit.

[synchondrosis]

i'm reading atlas shrugged right now...at parang buhat ko ang mundo!!! ang hirap...i have to force myself to read it which is a bad thing.:(

[CoolCucumber]

about the alchemist:

i felt weird because after finishing the book i was like "duh?" and everyone who read it was raving about it and stuff. pero yeah, i "tried" liking it hehe but... i don't talaga :D pa-profound epek na ewan.

[mikka]

One Hundred Years of Solitude..

I tried to read it several times... I couldn't seem to finish it. I guess it would take me 100 years to finish this.

[sadirmata]

meron bang nag-attempt sa inyo ng "finnegans wake" ni joyce? natapos niyo ba?

[iluvpink]

Originally posted by allthatsnazz
yay!! finally!!! people who think "the notebook" sucked!!! mas interesting (if you could call it that) yung alzheimer's part kesa yung love story eh...

I thought i tsucked too finally some people agreed with me hahaha... ang weird nung connection nung alzheimers sa love story parang forced...

[b_trayed]

just finished reading "im not scared" by nicollo amanti...

sobranggg pangit ng ending.. sayang .. sayang talga coz the story line was very interesting.. and i was really curious what will happen in the end.. tpos ganun lang yun?!!!

dont know if its just the translation .. baka may dating *** original italian version..
and its now a motion picture by miramax daw.. haay.. sbrang pangit ng ending tlaga

[purple_mage]

Originally posted by daphine

Chronicles of Narnia(i've actually only read book one-THe Magician's Nephew...but it was disappointing)

I liked the Chronicles of Narnia... one of the few series that changed my views in life. It fed my naivete well. :) I also liked Sandman: The Book of Dreams... probably beacuse I loved the Endless family too much. :D

Sidney Sheldon and Danielle Steele were really bad....

Purpose-Driven Life was boring.

[leeney_b]

- The Client by John Grisham
- Intensity by Dean Koontz
- the sequel to The Other Side of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon (forgot the title..yes, it's THAT bad)
- Fellowship of the Ring by Tolkien (sorry to LOTR fans..but I couldnt take it...sooo boring)
- books by Candace Bushnell
- books by Danielle Steele
- Pink Slip by Rita Ciresi
- Sally by Freya North
- Black Notice by Patrica Cornwell (she used to wriite really well during the start of her career. Her work has been spiralling down)

and lastly, I dont like most of Oprah's book selections...at least, those that I bought, namely:
- Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
- I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
- She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb (just so-so, for me)

Oprah books r way too touchy-feely for me. Corny:D

[fiona-pangit]

the hobbit, the lord of the rings (book 1) di ko na tinapos kasi inaantok ako tuwing binabasa ko. baka patayin ako dito.

[synchondrosis]

HUWHAT!!!!

Well...anyway...to each his own. :)

[mionenoelle]

inantok ako sa anna karenina. it's tooo *zzzzzzzzz* ditto ivan ilych

but hey, ganda nung the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe. try nyo.

is nicholas sparks gay? i mean, his novels are way too sappier than female romance writer's novels.

i think jonathan livingstone seagull sucked. i just couldn't place myself as a seagull.

i liked da vinci code and angels and demons! maybe because i love history so much, i could relate with robert langdon! dan brown's research is quite impressive. ni research ko talaga yung pinaglalagay nya dun sa buks, and it's true! well, except for the location of the grail. no one knows where it is naman eh.

the alchemist was a good read but it didn't change me. parang purpose driven life. wa impact sa akin. maybe it's bcoz i'm not really very spiritual.

d pa ko nakakabasa ng danielle steel, pero sabi ng friend ko, pangit daw.

hey, has anyone read gossip girl? nanghiram ako sa friend ko (thinking it was a bit lyk the wonderful princess diaries), pero d ako makarelate! mga sosi nandoon, lalo na si gossip girl! ugh! needless to say, d ko na sya tinapos.

[dekadence]

di ko rin nagustuhan catcher in the rye. sorry :D

[HiPPiEcHiC]

One Hundred Years Of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[cluelessss8]

i read gossip girls na.. ok **** sila.. medyo mga upper class peepz nga *** yung mga characters.. hehehe

well, i believe sidney sheldon has written some bad ones, like for me, i find stranger in the mirror not good and also tell me your dreams -->about the girl with 3 personalities...

medyo ndi ko ganu type si anne rice.. i have her sleeping beauty series.. parang ndi ko maisip yung mga sinasabi nya dun.. maybe i was trying to find some parts na mas makarelate ako.. well, that's juz me.. :)

[skybar]

american gods- gaiman
the god of small things - roy
atonement - ian mcewan
for whom the bell tolls - hemingway
lady chatterly's lover - lawrence
the screwtape letters - lewis

[juan_hustler]

LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA - this is really boooring... buti na lang at hiniram ko lang sa library at hindi ko binili. :bookworm2:

I was reading rave reviews about this book, and eventually giving me high expectations; but I was truly disappointed. After page 30, I surrendered. :rolleyes: I haven't even gone to the main "love" story yet. It was full of nonsensical details. :bored:
I'm not that kind of reader who easily gives up, matiyaga **** akong magbasa, but this one is INTOLERABLE.:no:

Before reading it, I thought this will be one of favorite books of all
time with a really eye-catching cover (1989 version) and a really
unique title. Sorry to all Gabriel Garcia Marquez fans... :shrug:

[Idiotechque]

HAROun anD THE SEA OF STORIES..

sEA OF ****

[ercole]

Originally posted by juan_hustler
LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA -
I was reading rave reviews about this book, and eventually giving me high expectations; but I was truly disappointed. After page 30, I surrendered. :rolleyes: I haven't even gone to the main "love" story yet. It was full of nonsensical details. :bored:
I'm not that kind of reader who easily gives up, matiyaga **** akong magbasa, but this one is INTOLERABLE.:no:


sad, the good parts are way past page 30. I encourage you to read it in the future, maybe, several years from now when you've grown as a reader and when you've already experienced the many hardships of loving and living. love in the time of cholera is quite an astonishing and extraordinary book. I've only read a hundred plus of books in my short reading life, but this novel really stood out. Florentino Ariza and Fernanda Daza would always reside a special place in my bookshelf.

As Florentino declared his immortal love to F. Daza:
"I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love."
I could plead to y'awl that this novel is too special to let go. It's a beautiful piece of art, and if you cannot see why it is, oh what a loss indeed.

[maris_blaise]

started to read shadowmancer, got halfway through it (with much hardship and boredom) and finally gave up.

[doolfreak_bige]

These are classic books for great authors...pero sorry...di ko talaga nagustuhan...

David Copperfield- Charles Dickens
Moby ****- Herman Melville

[doolfreak_bige]

Fifth Mountain by Paolo Coelho...di ko pa rin natatapos ang book na ito till now

Chronicles of a death foretold---creepy book...had to read it twice to get it... :D- by Gabriel Garcia Marquez....

Purpose Driven life----sorry...to preachy and holier-than-thou attitude book for me...

[doolfreak_bige]

I like Celestine Prophecy...

[vanillaicecream]

Summer Sisters. And this is supposedly a best seller? Wasted my time on it.

[illumina]

I enjoyed Sidney Sheldon when I was...what, in elementary? :glee: When I tried reading them again when I was older, they were all childish. And he follows the same old pattern every time anyway (the closest ally is always the bad guy).

The Da Vinci Code. Bleh. Seems like a Sheldon-esque novel to me. I guess most people liked it for all the symbology notes and the Priory of Sion introduction, but...I knew all about those prior to even reading this book. I won't even bother to read Dan Brown's other books.

Franz Kafka's The Castle - struggled to read through it for class; resorted to Cliff's Notes instead

Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses - I actually enjoyed The Ground Beneath Her Feet, but I barely even reached 1/8th of TSV

Alistair Crowley's The Book of Lies - Bought it for 900+ at Tower Records. Saw it in PowerBooks a few years later for about 300+. I won't even buy it at 50 bucks.

[eydryth]

I was experimenting with different genres/authors and i learned an AWFUL lot!!!

historical romance muna tayo...i'm used to witty and romantic ones bu Judith McNaught and Jude Deveraux I tried this one author...was bored to tears with Claire Delacroix...can't remember the title pero the name stuck...just to warn other readers... :)

grisham and company....robert tanenbaum, urgh...i read one book of forgettable title and that's it.

I know there are a lot but the titles and authors escape me at this time. siguro kasi nga awful! hehehe

[lostcrayon]

She came undone, (forgot the unathor's name).

That book's overhyped, over sensationalized, overpriced!!! lol
damn Oprah's book club and her disciples!!! :P

[Chase_Meridian]

No Boyfriend Since Birth by Claire Betita

[pink_moon]

there was this book i read back in first year college ata. it was entitled "a woman of the century" and it really, really sucked! i cn't even remember who wrote it.

basta puros description ng mga damit ng characters and the food they ate ang andoon sa libro. i was so pissed off reading it pero tinapos ko pa rin. nye!

anne rice's beauty series... hindi ko kaya!

[morrissey_05]

Windmills of the Gods - managed to finish it but as soon as i read the last page, i promptly threw it into the trash bin. bad plot, bad characters, not my cup of tea totally.

Chicken Soup. corny.

The Firm - never finished it and i never touched another John Grisham book again.

Da Vinci Code - mildly entertaining.


books i liked but others didn't - interview with the vampire. neil gaiman's books. god of small things. catcher in the rye. to kill a mockingbird. books ni ernest hemingway (sorry i'm an English lit major hehe). the Lord of the Rings trilogy. John Steinbeck's books. Ivan Ilych, because i love Russian authors. American gothic books like 7 Gables, etc.

i think Wuthering Heights is the best romance i have read, and i don't read a lot of romances.

About A Boy? Pwede. didn't like it as much as High Fidelity. But i love Hornby's style.

Foucault's Pendulum? Try using am encyclopedia while reading this. Or better, try "The Name of the Rose" first.

btw, books by Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie and Gabriel Garcia Marquez are considered contemporary classics. and i agree. also, they each have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Kaya siguro mahirap sila basahin is because they are very very philosophical and political. maski ako nahirapan din hehehe

also btw, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children won the Booker of Bookers. The Booker Prize is the UK's version of the Pulitzer Prize.

oh well, to each his own then. cheers!

[flygurl]

I hate all of Nicolas Sparks' books. Parang gusto kong mag-gag everytime makakabasa ko ng mga ultra sappy dialogues. Grabe, feeling ko, English version lang nito yung mga tagalog na romance novels na nabibili na tig-fifteen pesos sa mga palengke.

[yojan17]

Woah... buti pala at hindi ko pa nabibili yung mga librong sinabi nyo... hehe!

I liked To Kill a Mockingbird... (grabe, feeling ko talaga si Gregory Peck si Atticus... ang guapo! Haha!)

The Alchemist... so-so

Yung Crime and Punishment, nangangalahati pa lang ako... last year ko pa binili yun eh... mas nauna ko pang natapos yung Volumes 1 and 2 ng Sherlock Holmes at To Kill a Mockingbird... paborito kasi ni Andrea Corr kaya akala ko sobrang ganda... hehe!

Purpose-Driven Life... hanggang day 12 lang ako, kakaantok.

Wuthering Heights- balak ko sanang bilhin... wag na nga lang

A Walk to Remember- grabe.. yung movie nga nakatulog ako eh, yung novel pa kaya?!

[Cougar]

angels and demons - grabe, everytime i read this book eh nakakatulog ako after! no exaggeration! talagang this book bores me! i dunno, it's action-filled, pero :zzz: talaga me! :shrug2:

da vinci code stands out talaga among dan brown's books!

[denhaag]

I have read "war and peace" and sorry sa fans ni tolstoy, nakakacomatose to...

Second, *** "the last juror" ni grisham...same old grisham, u can see the twist from the cover pa lang.

third, "the digital fortress" ni dan brown..dont ever dare read it...kahit grade 6 alam na mali *** ibang tech stuffs and and butas sa plot parang butas ng ozone.

fourth, all coelho books...sobrang sappy and preaching.

fifth, 'foucault's pendulum" by umberto eco...na-constipate ako sa sobrang wordy. dapat me katabi kang latin, greek, english-english, ecoisms dictionaries.

[Kolmogorov]

some books by V.C. Andrews

although I suspect na lahat ng books niya ay may incestuous themes

[pinklover]

A Painted House by John Grisham was such a bore...di ko na nga tinapos eh...first chapter pa lang yta bored na ko...I'm a fan of Grisham pero this one really bored me to death... :rolleyes:

[SiOMs]

HAROun anD THE SEA OF STORIES..

sEA OF ****

ok naman to ah :D parang pambata :bungi:


---

catcher in the rye - nung binasa ko 'to i just didnt get it. truly. :bop:
i might read it again though baka it just needs the right mood :p

trading up by candace bushnell

super haba nung book and it's really for the cynical.
everybody's using everbody tapos puro lait-an and backstabbing pa ang nangyayari.

im an optimist kaya id rather not read depressing books like this :D

[Lil_sis]

five people you meet in heaven

UGH! AWFUL!

[pink_mist]

crime and punishment. i don't know why a lot of people say it's a great read. sobrang napilitan na lang akong tapusin siyang basahin for the sake of having read it.

the premise is good, but not the way it was written.

[the_seller29]

Hmmm a lot....

the catcher in the rye- heard so mch about it. My aunt gave it to me and told me it was a good book. Well i guess it's insightful. Think i need to read it once more. Ddnt really like it

Same goes for To kill a mockingbird and 5 people you meet in heaven (was expecting something good coz i love tuesdays with morrie)

oprah's book club buks- found jewel by bret lott and wally ;amb's she's come undone weird

lovely bones was weird too

ddnt really like memoirs of a geisha

got really bored by paulo coelho's veronika decides to die and the valkyries. felt like i was on the brink of insanity haha. read by the river and loved it though. still hav my alchemist from my bf. so cant sell it. its hardbound and illustrated p nmn

a painted house by joh grisham. its not what i expected. But like sidney sheldon, john grisham only knows how to write one kind of plot., initially ul love their buks but after that it gets old. but i still collect their buks:)

sex and the city yuck! finished it but it took me 3 long months

[LaDY_DaWN]

1. Scott Turrow(?) Personal Injury... or something to that sort.. its was a good thing i bought it at booksale... (ganda kasi nung blurb.. pero nung binasa ko yung book... :bleh: )

2. Danielle Steele : The Castle (ata) basta grey yung cover tapos may bahay... jeez, borrowed it froma friend.. kala ko maganda.. sayang oras ko...

3. Lasher & Taltos: saw interview with the vampire... kala ko maganda yung books... darnit.. wasted money with this.. sabay ko pa sila binili sa NB. whats with all the "sex" scenes..." jeez...

4. Judith Krantz/Johanna LIndsey: dunno why they become "best sellers" read only one of their books (each) sex and weird plots...

[samantha_jones]

Lord of the Rings book 2: Grabe dragging hehe pinilit ko nalang siya tapusin!

[Soccer_6]

Catcher in the Rye--I read it coz my brother was raving about it big time...but i have to read it again coz I was a lot younger when I first did..

[melusine]

Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas by james patterson
sorry but I found it sooooo corny...
tragic and corny. bad combination.

Agree!

And would someone pls explain to me why Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a huge bestseller and supposedly a "classic"? On second thought, never mind; I won't change my opinion of it anyway. Too simplistic and the writing sucks.

[three.calamansi]

the notebook- i dont like this particular book of nicholas sparks.

[SiOMs]

kurt vonnegut's slapstick

[cybernaut]

salinger's catcher in the rye = i cannot take all the whining and teen angst

ian caldwell's rule of four = rule of bore!

dean koontz' hideaway and intensity = bored me

james patterson's roses are red, big bad wolf = just awful

elmore leonard's get shorty = threw it in the trash bin after a few chapters

[bleh]

One Hundred Years of Solitude = latino soap opera sh1t

i'm allergic to most fiction books.

[kabitNIshaider]

-Da Vinci's Code
-The Notebook
-11 Minutes
-John Grisham
-Mushy Novels *yawn*

[eydryth]

can i say, Half Blood Prince?
Half-baked, half-sane, half the worth of all HP books combined?
(don't mind me, I'm a H/Hr shipper. :D)

seriously:

rule of four (too much hype, left me snoring)
message in a bottle

[GeRaLd_19]

James Patterson novels. - I don't know why, pero parang di nabuibuild yung momentum ko sa mga works niya kasi ang iiksi ng mga chapters.

To Kill a Mocking Bird and Po-on by F. Sionil Jose- I've attempted to finish them so many times, but they really just bore me.

[paenggoy]

How is it a soap opera?

Also, isn't almost everything in entertainment and art fiction?

One Hundred Years of Solitude = latino soap opera sh1t

i'm allergic to most fiction books.

[fortun3]

I really found John Grisham's "The Summons" incredibly boring. Parang... where's the climax? I got it at Book Sale. Ganun siya kaboring na pinakawalan na ng dating may-ari.. Hehe.

I just finished "The Pelican Brief" too. It's not as nice as I expected. I did appreciate "The Client" and "The Rainmaker" though. :)

Another book that I had to struggle to finish?? Tolkien's "The Hobbit". Hahaha It was soooo long and dragging and there were too many songs! Hay. I find it amazing how some people can really really enjoy it. :P

[fortun3]

salinger's catcher in the rye = i cannot take all the whining and teen angst

ian caldwell's rule of four = rule of bore!

dean koontz' hideaway and intensity = bored me

james patterson's roses are red, big bad wolf = just awful

elmore leonard's get shorty = threw it in the trash bin after a few chapters

Yes. I agree. Rule of Four was overhyped. They were touting it as the next Da Vinci Code... Err... I think not.

But I disagree with you on Catcher in the Rye. I find it amazing how an old man could think like a teenager... and write something that I could relate with in some way. ;)

[fortun3]

five people you meet in heaven

UGH! AWFUL!

not SO awful for me... but tuesdays with morrie was a LOT better. :)

[sleepmonster]

The Rule of Four. ack! had a hard time finishing it. sobrang elusive sa details.

[pepperprone]

i abhor all that supposed "chick lit" that summit publishing churns out. they all have the same plot [dating, sex, boyfriends, exes, jobs, hang-ups...]

i also dislike sidney sheldon, danielle steel, v.c. andrews, and those historical romances.

one book by john grisham that i liked is the rainmaker. it's the only one i like up to now.

found purpose-driven life boring [baka multuhin ako ng nanay ko nito!]. but i like chicken soup for the soul.

never liked anne rice.

never succumbed to all those "bandwagon" books that everybody was raving about - paolo coelho, chick lit, anne rice, tom clancy, etc.

ugh.

[C.I.C.C.I]

sleeping beauty trilogy - anne rice....i wouldnt really say it's awful it's just not a book for the fainthearted.....

[r3dguy]

.author: David Eddings.
.book: The Redemption of Althalus.
.sobrang nget-pa. nanghihinayang ako dun sa perang pinambili ko, sana dinagdagan ko na lang ng kaunti nakuha ko na yung sword of shannara trilogy. huhuhu.

[skybar]

american gods by neil gaiman

[the_seller29]

good in bed by jennifer weiner. not good!

[C.I.C.C.I]

Bump.................

[smilette]

Funny...The Catcher in the Rye is my all-time favorite book.

Maybe it's the writing style that's hard to like or the way adolescent (horny and crazy) thoughts are the medium of storytelling, but I really really love this book.

Hmmm....I have Tom Robbin's Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas and I like it. It was really quite a shock then when I bought his "even cowgirls get the blues"...it was really really really (cannot stress enough really) awful. Sometimes you read a very strange book, and you keep on hoping that maybe somewhere in the middle you'd see the point, but you reach the end page and NADA! You asked yourself, "That's IT??!"

:flwrface:

[KahitAnoNalang]

Portrait of A Lady by Henry James. I expected more from a so-called classic and "masterpiece."
All erotica by Anne Rice though ok naman yung Vampire Chronicles.
The latter works of John Grisham.
I literally threw "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" across the room after I read it.

I should learn not to read through a bad book kaya lang you want to give the author the benefit of the doubt. Baka ma-redeem niya sarili niya at the end.

[legolass]

Dan Brown's books - all of them!!! What a hack!!

I admit, The Da Vinci Code was readable, cinematic and I finished it in one sitting. But even then I noticed na walang meat yung writing niya at puro caricatures yung characters niya.

That should've warned me but I still read his other books.

Angels and Demons - (through audiobook) - Believe me, it sounds more ludicrous if you listen to the audiobook.

Digital Fortress and Deception Point - Didn't finish both. If they weren't borrowed, I would've thrown them in the trash or shredded them.

Chick lit - any kind -- cannot stand them.

[QT II]

Terry Brooks' "The Sword of Shannara"

Blatant LOTR rip-off (and I don't even like Tolkien - though I've seen all 3 films from Peter Jackson)

Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson's "Dune: House Corrino"

Unnecessary prequels lacking the detail and subtlety of Frank's work. If Frank Herbert's Dune heptalogy are the pure spice melange, Brian/ Kevin's prequels/sequels are amal

[QT II]

I feel like adding...though not necessarily bad, but some (or many) would find rather objectionable:

1) Samuel R. Delany's "Dhalgren" - too long and pretentious in some places, the pace sags when Delany loves luxuriating on his descriptions of gay sex

2) Joan Vinge's "The Snow Queen" - poorly written characters with shallow motivations

[spacesamba]

self-help books like the secret or a purpose driven life. ugh.

[baby_07]

This thread is funny. :lol: I mean, the people's frustration with books is just entertaining. But I love how we can be all intensely passionate with our love for reading.

First, different strokes for different folks. But I'm amazed that most posters here think classics and contemporary classics are boring. Well, yes, they are written in such a way that most people would have to read them so many times before they actually understand them. But that's the beauty of it. If everything is relayed to you in such a way that you'd never have to take a moment to digest it, there's really no fun in that.

But I have to agree with bestsellers. More often, these books are just overhyped.

However, people who abhorred One Hundred Years of Solitude, Catcher in the Rye and Foucault's Pendulum need mental maturity. *peace*

Anyway, I never read "awful" books. First and foremost, awful is such a heavy word. Maybe they're boring, too incomprehensible, too long, too overrated or too disappointing but never awful for me. I think it's because I've always found something enjoyable with it.

Besides, I always make sure that I buy books that are really interesting and not just because somebody says so. You have to dig a little deeper and research harder so you'll know that the books that you want to buy are worth every penny. We all have to be wary of the nitty-gritty anyway since sobrang mahal na ng mga libro ngayon! Unless of course, there's the warehouse and Booksale.

BTW, I used to love Sidney Sheldon. His books were my first "adult" novel during my pre-teen and teenage years (along with courtroom extraordinaire John Grisham's.) I've read all of his books. But most people here are right. His books do not age well. When I reread one of his books, I already find it utterly corny. :D

[yapin]

I know a lot of people love it, but I am one of the people who hated the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. I read them because it was recommended by someone and now I question the taste and intelligence of that person. I literally wanted to burn the book after reading the it. I have read up to the third book. But because of my love for books, I just decided to sell them to recover the money I wasted on buying it.

[zerglings]

The Convergence of Voice, Video and Network Data.

[aicheekz]

However, people who abhorred One Hundred Years of Solitude, Catcher in the Rye and Foucault's Pendulum need mental maturity. *peace*



Oh my...they call these awful? These books are recognized as modern classics...correct me if I'm wrong but those who consider these as crap are those who can't comprehend the depth these novels had to offer. But then everyone's entitled to their opinion. :bashful:

[aicheekz]

Coelho books are a drag...sorry, but after I read The Zahir, Eleven Minutes and that best-seller The Alchemist...I changed my mind...he didn't get to me at all...I just can't stand finishing a chapter or two. I just doze off...

Same with Rule of Four. Good thing I bought mine on a book sale.

[bent_33]

Books that I bought and I ended up regretting buying because its just a waste of time and money..

Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
Rule of Four by by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
The Nanny Diaries: A Novel by Emma Mclaughlin and Nicola Kraus
The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession by Paulo Coelho
The Romanov Prophecy: A Novel by Steve Berry

and the list just goes on and on....

[dragontooth]

Books I HATED:
Catcher in the Rye
- didn't live up to the hype, in my opinion. i guess i was too distracted by the language. i hated his language. just because it's a classic doesn't mean i have to immediately like it, or profess my liking it just to appear mature. in all honesty, it seemed to me that caulfield was just ranting and whining all throughout the book. and if someone ranted and whined to you about something for that long, it gets on your nerves.
Any LOTR book
- while i applaud Tolkien for his attention to detail, i don't think he needs to extend the narration of a simple act of opening a door to thirty pages.
Any Coelho book
- sorry, i just can't stand the guy. i thought i would like The Valkyries, since it's about angels and stuff, but man, i couldn't stomach the pseudo-spiritual blah. style was too simplistic as well. i read another Coelho book (By the River Piedra...) same issues.
Norwegian Wood
- a lot of Murakami fans would disagree with me, but i found this book the worst.

while i do not categorize American Gods as awful, i was very VERY disappointed in it. it had such a wonderful premise, but the twist and the character development was just... sad.

similarly, i was kind of disappointed with Stardust. this is the only cause where i found the movie to be better than the book.

the above observations made me sad, because i love Neil Gaiman to bits. i personally found his Neverwhere an excellent piece of fiction.

Some comments on books mentioned above:
Harry Potter
- after reading Narnia, i found HP to be sorely lacking in depth and majesty.
Memoirs of a Geisha
- i actually found this book excellent.
Foucault's Pendulum
- still summoning enough mental discipline to follow Eco's highly intellectualized narration.
Any book my Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- he's actually one of my favorite authors. i love how the reader can delve readily into the culture he presents.

again, to each his/her own. *peace*

[dragontooth]

oh, and i almost forget the ultimate "so bad, it's good" novel: The Fireless Inferno by Arnel Salgado.

awful to the nth degree that you wouldn't even have the energy to be disgusted anymore. rather, it just cracks you up. the perfect example of how NOT to write a narrative.

[alley]

All of Grisham's books sucks (except for The Firm) I've stopped reading his books and watching his movies... Yung Streetlawyer (the one with Danny De Vito - tama ba ?) had a good ending but was boring as hell...

I think I will not agree. Grisham is my fave author and he never disappoints me so far.

Try to read The Client, and A time to kill. Though I did not completely like The Street Lawyer.

[alley]

can i say, Half Blood Prince?
Half-baked, half-sane, half the worth of all HP books combined?
(don't mind me, I'm a H/Hr shipper. :D)

seriously:

rule of four (too much hype, left me snoring)
message in a bottle

I would agree that Half Blood Prince is not so impressive like other Potter books. It was so serious and focused on Voldemort young days.

[wonder_chaser]

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera - unbearable my @ss, grabe sumakit ulo ko after reading this book. kung di lang nakakahiya sa boss ko di ko talaga 'to babasahin :bop: but i told him naman na hindi ko talaga siya nagustuhan.

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho - i know na maraming may gusto sa book na to pero di ko siya ganung gusto. yeah it's nice pero marami kasi ang nagsasabi na napaka-influential ng book na to sa buhay nila pero sakin wala lang, i just read it tapos.

The Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte - di ko siya matapos-tapos. sobrang booooooring :(

For One More Day by Mitch Albom - di ako na-touch sa book, unlike sa Tuesdays with Morrie at Five People you Meet in Heaven. di naman siya ganun ka-awful pero if im going to compare it dun sa 2 mas naunang books ni Albom di siya pumantay.

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nights in rodanthe - booringg!

[liyan]

Digital Fortress by Dan Brown - para akong nagbasa tungkol sa comsci :(

[BadAssGoddess]

[b][i]The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho - i know na maraming may gusto sa book na to pero di ko siya ganung gusto. yeah it's nice pero marami kasi ang nagsasabi na napaka-influential ng book na to sa buhay nila pero sakin wala lang, i just read it tapos.


same here.. i dont like it.. I dont even remember anything after I read it... like? what? ano daw? yun na yun?

i dont like 5 people you meet in heaven by mitch albom.. sorry but i personally dont like it... soooo boriing... :yawn:..

[BadAssGoddess]

self-help books like the secret or a purpose driven life. ugh.


I disagree.. This book is fantastic. you just need to read it one chapter a day.. :) but anyway, I'll respect your opinion. :)

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LOTR BOOKS
kalahatian ng THE HOBBIT di ko na talaga kinayang tapusin...
parang feeling ko tinotorture ko sarili ko..

so i gave away my books 1-3 of the LOTR trilogy to my friend...gusto raw nya nun e... favorite daw nya

i love my book collection & hindi ako nagpapahiram ng books, pero simula nung ipinamigay ko yung LOTR... naging masaya ang collection ko! hehehe...

[smarterprince]

[QUOTE=ceri;2197073]earth's children series by jean auel how these became bestsellers is beyond me :curly:



I was backreading and found this post. I didnt like jean Auel's novels at first. I just bought it because it was cheap. but God, what a revelation. Auel's novels were well-researched and detailed, the settings and time as well as the plots and conflicts were things that have happened thousands of years ago, and were realistically described. Sometimes, you get drowned with these details and it could bore you. But if you read the entire series, you will appreciate the story, which is really an epic, a long story of journeys and adventures.

I have a keen interest in anthropology and her novels so inspired me I will try to take up Anthro when I finished my undergraduate. I have all of her 5 books (from Booksale lahat, asteg!) and I've been looking for the 6th novel. I hope the author is still alive, her websites are kind of not updated e:)