Authors or Books that are Torturous, Tedious, or downright Boring

[chuckman]

Oh god it was terrible. Come on.

Yes, I know what it is about, my parents are avid readers and have an extensive library. They have read every classic piece of literature and encouraged me to do the same. Even they hate War and Peace and they read it in it's native Russian when it was called correctly, War and the World. The word "myr" in Russians can mean either "peace" or "world". Anyway, Anna Karenina was shit as well. Everything Tolstoy wrote was dreck.

Similarly I hated Remarques All Quiet On The Western Front and A Time to Love and a Time to Die. Holy shit. Talk about depressing!

Lol. I get it, you're no fan. Me, I enjoyed it. In Russian, and English (which often reads as two separate books). Though when I read it in Russian it was a very slow go, had the English translation in my lap.

[Firefly]

Oh god it was terrible. Come on.

Yes, I know what it is about, my parents are avid readers and have an extensive library. They have read every classic piece of literature and encouraged me to do the same. Even they hate War and Peace and they read it in it's native Russian when it was called correctly, War and the World. The word "myr" in Russians can mean either "peace" or "world". Anyway, Anna Karenina was shit as well. Everything Tolstoy wrote was dreck.

Similarly I hated Remarques All Quiet On The Western Front and A Time to Love and a Time to Die. Holy shit. Talk about depressing!

Yeah well thats just like your opinion, man.

I got into it. It took me away from my problems to a world of fornicators and bastards. Its not my fault Russia sucks. I am a professional Sartrarian, Pessimist, and Fatalist and even sometimes I wish I could go to Tsarist Russia and blast "Cheer Up Emo Kid".

I tried watching Game of Thrones and it was boring. They made screwing and beheadings boring. I'd sooner watch Conan or them hair metal music videos where the singers let their D&D flag fly like Dio and Savatage.

[SteyrAUG]

Loved "The Fountianhead", never got through "Atlas Shrugged". Like most women she needed to tighten up her stories a bit..

I'm a huge fan of Ayn Rand politically, but my god she needed an editor desperately. I also think she would have been more effective writing political philosophy than fiction.

I think everyone with a libertarian viewpoint needs to read "Atlas Shrugged" but it's definitely a litmus test to see how devoted you are to your political views. I didn't get through it the first time. Took me about 2 years to finish the book and I read two or three other books in the interim.

[chuckman]

Adolf Hitler.

Yes. Awful. Had to read Mein Kampf in poli sci, it was not well-written, at all.

[Doc Safari]

Yes. Awful. Had to read Mein Kampf in poli sci, it was not well-written, at all.

I've actually heard people joke that "Mein Kampf", or "My Struggle" refers to the reader's experience.

[Firefly]

Atlas Shrugged was a page turner for me.

It had this noirish Dieselpunk feel....I always pictured Ragnar Danneskjold as being this burly bearded redheaded dude with a Thompson M1 and three mags jungle taped together. And Francisco D'Anconia as Antonio Banderas. And Dagny Taggart as the chick who played Mandy from 24

[Alex V]

Yeah well thats just like your opinion, man.

Should my opinion count more since I am from the region? I dunno lol

Whether or not War and Peace was a good book or not, your posts still make me smile every time I read 'em.

[SteyrAUG]

Atlas Shrugged was a page turner for me.

It had this noirish Dieselpunk feel....I always pictured Ragnar Danneskjold as being this burly bearded redheaded dude with a Thompson M1 and three mags jungle taped together. And Francisco D'Anconia as Antonio Banderas. And Dagny Taggart as the chick who played Mandy from 24

You definitely get bonus points for imagination. It's a shame what they did with the film version.

[Firefly]

You definitely get bonus points for imagination. It's a shame what they did with the film version.

I bought all three....but it had Teller in it. I saw first one in theatres and it wasnt bad. The DTV ones welllll..........


Meh I just got weird tastes.

To be fair, John Galt wasn't exactly a good character. He was just a bum who convinced rich people to abscond with their stuff and hide out in the woods like Reactionary hippies. Dagny wasnt so great either. She got passed around like a pack of cigarettes by all the main dudes. We get it. Ayn Rand wanted a devil's threesome but the 1950s wasn't open to it. And the Taggart brother was so P whipped it was kinda sad.

Per Mein Kampf blah blah Teh Jooz blah blah muh Nationalisms blah blah Teh Furriners blah blah I rode a bicycle in WWI and a British dude almost shot me blah blah Jail sucks. I've honestly read teenage girls' diaries with more political and philosophical merit.

Mein Kampf is like the Bible for Nazis. Like literally.....they all quote a few lines and act like they read it, then make up shit as they go along.

Also all these dudes and Catcher in the Rye. I guess taking the Lord's name in vain every paragraph was edgy back then but it glorifies someone being a POS. How they book inspired anyone to shoot John Lennon is beyond me.

How could all these writers living in an agr of cocaine in soda pop, OTC morphine, OTC full auto, and slutty flapper chicks churn out such square books?

The REAL literature of the day was Pulp. Kinky sex, weird old gods from space that live underwater, revenge tales with .38 Super 1911s dual wielded, screwing chinese chicks and murdering Fu Man Chu, and being worshiped as a god emperor in the darkest wilds of Africa all because you brought a boomstick and beat one of their warriors at leg wrestling and taking tall Nubian Queens as brides, and thats not counting all the barbarian stories and stories about aliens that are made of tungsten and eat brains.

I tell ya.....we were all focused on the wrong books back then.

[MistWolf]

William Shakespeare- Every time I've read on of his scripts or watched one his plays, I want to shout "SHUT UP AND TELL THE STORY, ALREADY!"

James Fenimore Cooper- Spent far too much time trying to describe every last little detail. I finally gave up less than a quarter of the way through the book

Terry Brookes- There's a reason the rule is don't tell the readers what's going on, show them

Edgar Rice Burroughs- Great stories. Lousy story teller

Patrick McMurtry- I don't know what it is about his writing style, but I don't like his Westerns. I tried to read Lonesome Dove, but couldn't get past the first couple of chapters, and I love Westerns

Christopher Paolini- He might have been a kid when he wrote Eragon, but that's not a reason to publish a book with such an immature writing voice