View Full Version : Authors or Books that are Torturous, Tedious, or downright Boring
Doc Safari
04-26-17, 11:06
My list:
Arthur C. Clarke
Manages to make science fiction as exciting as reading a technical manual. B-O-R-I-N-G
Tom Horn and Cris Putnam
As religious books go, their subject matter is really cutting edge and controversial. Too bad they put you to sleep in a few pages.
Ernest Hemingway
"The water was wet." "Really wet." "Want to get wet?" "Are you sure it's wet?" He tested the water. It was wet. "Told you it was wet."
Could not sit through a single novel of his.
Charles Dickens
Depressing author. Best to read one of his books if all firearms, razor blades, and poisons are securely locked up.
Kevin Trudeau
Okay, cheap shot: he's not a real writer. He's an infomercial goon and convicted fraudster, but he's "written" several books. I tried to read one of his books once that I found in a used book store. I could not put my finger on a coherent thought or comprehensible sentence in the few pages I read. His writing is more on the order of random thoughts typed in any order on a page.
My list:
Ernest Hemingway
"The water was wet." "Really wet." "Want to get wet?" "Are you sure it's wet?" He tested the water. It was wet. "Told you it was wet."
Could not sit through a single novel of his.
Unfortunately I had to parse several to write papers on them. But I agree.
FromMyColdDeadHand
04-26-17, 11:34
Loved "The Fountianhead", never got through "Atlas Shrugged". Like most women she needed to tighten up her stories a bit.. ;)
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After non one had read "Grapes of Wrath" over Christmas, my English teacher in HS admitted that even he had a hard time getting through the book.
I like Hemingway and Steinbeck. A couple of my faves.
My problem authors:
Dickens, Edith Wharton, Herman Melville.
Ever tried to read War and Peace? Holy hell, I gave up after about 20 pages.
Ever tried to read War and Peace? Holy hell, I gave up after about 20 pages.
Lol. Great book.
I had to read it, along with books/short stories/plays by Chekhov, Gogol, Turkenev, Dostoyevsky, and Chernychevsky in college--in freaking summer school. I managed, but I was a big fan of Cliff Notes. I still have some of those floating around.
Well, War and Peace, I read in a different class, not summer school, the only book we had to read in that class that semester.
Ever tried to read War and Peace? Holy hell, I gave up after about 20 pages.
Actually, having done Russian Lit. I have.
The stories were published over several years. You aren't supposed to read it all at once. It gets interesting as you go along.
The basic gist is everyone is a bastard. Like really. Everyone is someone else's kid. Its messed up.
Adolf Hitler.
I have an attraction to anything subversive or dangerous, basically if a book is considered a threat to society I have probably read it. People make fun of his art work and I don't know why, if you wanted to criticize him for something other than war crimes his book is the perfect place to start.
Never have I read anything where the author says the same things over and over with the belief that he has expressed dozens of different ideas. Now I know a lot of things don't translate well over decades and from other cultures and you have to remember time and place as well as the circumstances in which they were written.
But even still I amazed that anyone other than the most brainwashed, non critical thinker who is absolutely devoted to the idea of national socialism could read this book and come away with anything good to say. It's hundreds of pages of a kid complaining why life isn't fair and how he'd fix things if he was made "king for a day." And of course, everything is somebody else's fault. Were it not for the swastika typically put on the cover of every english translation I might think I was reading another book by Marx.
Lol. Great book.
I had to read it, along with books/short stories/plays by Chekhov, Gogol, Turkenev, Dostoyevsky, and Chernychevsky in college--in freaking summer school. I managed, but I was a big fan of Cliff Notes. I still have some of those floating around.
Well, War and Peace, I read in a different class, not summer school, the only book we had to read in that class that semester.
Actually, having done Russian Lit. I have.
The stories were published over several years. You aren't supposed to read it all at once. It gets interesting as you go along.
The basic gist is everyone is a bastard. Like really. Everyone is someone else's kid. Its messed up.
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!
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.
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.
:p
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.
Adolf Hitler.
Yes. Awful. Had to read Mein Kampf in poli sci, it was not well-written, at all.
Doc Safari
04-26-17, 15:25
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. :jester:
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
Yeah well thats just like your opinion, man.
:p
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.
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.
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.
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
Edith Wharton
Charles Dickens.
Tom Clancy. - sorry. Loved the first one, 2nd was a repeat(same story), third was burned me out, it's like listening to that really excited guy at the gun store talk about his Cia secret Nam days that never happed... but your reading it.
I gave up on reading anything that's not educational. If I want a story, I want to watch a movie, which is like 3 time a year.
Brad thor was good (1 book).
Catcher in the rye and Great Gatsby were probably the only books I read in school that weren't aweful. I'm not a "reader" though.
Catcher in the rye was probably the book I read in school that wasn't aweful.
OMG. Probably the worst book ever written.
Doc Safari
04-26-17, 17:19
OMG. Probably the worst book ever written.
LOL. I've never read it but please give us your detailed critique for our viewing enjoyment!
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.
Honestly, I have very little time for fiction. If I'm going to read, 90% of it is going to be history or related. I love sci fi, but it's been a long time since I read anything great. I wouldn't voluntarily read anything I was required to read in school, the only thing I remember reading that wasn't terrible is stuff by Jack London and Rudyard Kipling.
Even Mark Twain is boring to me. Good writer, but I just don't care. Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn might have been relevant until the 1950s but it had little or nothing to offer me. Catcher in the Rye was even more pointless, a story about somebody I don't care about crying because he laments the loss of his childhood and how he doesn't seem to fit in. Salinger might as well have called it "Mein Kampf."
The only classical literature that did anything meaningful for me was Greek / Roman mythology. The Iliad and Odyssey and the other classics were more useful to me than anything I read later in high school.
Mein Kempf was brutally dry IMO.
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Kevin Trudeau
Okay, cheap shot: he's not a real writer. He's an infomercial goon and convicted fraudster, but he's "written" several books. I tried to read one of his books once that I found in a used book store. I could not put my finger on a coherent thought or comprehensible sentence in the few pages I read. His writing is more on the order of random thoughts typed in any order on a page.
That's because he's an idiot. Like the man Mencken said "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public” and no one proves that better than Trudeau.
Of the well known authors, mine would have to be Tom Clancy. Talk about boring. When his books made into movies, GTG. His books, couldn't get through any of them. Only one I finished was the first Ghost Recon and I was totally unimpressed with it.
Admitting Hemingway was boring is like saying Picasso and a stoned 5th grader were hard to tell apart. Both true...
Per Tom Clancy, I'm still waiting on my MP-10, Beretta 92 in .45, and WA-2000 in .300 Win Mag as general issue.
polydeuces
04-26-17, 18:36
Y'all are pussies.
Try reading James Joyce.
Makes watching paint dry a hi-speed exercise. And all them gloom n doom Russians like fluff
MINDNUMBING and truly amazing how litererati's mutual masturbation society seem to elevate it as the pinnacle of all that is culture.
polydeuces
04-26-17, 18:43
Admitting Hemingway was boring is like saying Picasso and a stoned 5th grader were hard to tell apart. Both true...
Do some research and see what Pablo Picasso was producing before he was a teenager.
Some people truly function on a level that is different from us mere mortals.
Not getting it is not a measurement of quality.
Inkslinger
04-26-17, 18:48
Immanuel Kant. The critique of pure reason.
Of the well known authors, mine would have to be Tom Clancy. Talk about boring. When his books made into movies, GTG. His books, couldn't get through any of them. Only one I finished was the first Ghost Recon and I was totally unimpressed with it.
Were you reading stuff written by Clancy or stuff written under his name? I ask because those two things would be vastly different things, even though I will admit that Clancy did have a perchance for going into detail of tech that might cause some people mind's to explode. Without Remorse is still one of the books I consider of to among the best that I ever read. Kind of like a reader like myself comparing Robert Ludlum's Bourne Identity, Bourne Supremacy, and Bournce Ultimatum to the Polish abortion of the Bourne Legacy and the ones that followed by Eric Van masturbater. The books written by the original mastermind were well written, engaging, and complex. Anything that followed after his death to cash in on the movies and the LCD readers was complete, utter, vomit, that masqueraded as actual stories which held no ****ing concept of the psychology of the main character or how the supporting characters actually weighed on him emotionally or psychologically.
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.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!:mad:
Yeah, well... that's just your opinion man....
*humphs mein-kampf-ily away*
Yes. Awful. Had to read Mein Kampf in poli sci, it was not well-written, at all.
I have heard the quality of the read is somewhat subject to the interpretation version you get?
Kind of like Art of War.
Edith Wharton
Charles Dickens.
Tom Clancy. - sorry. Loved the first one, 2nd was a repeat(same story), third was burned me out, it's like listening to that really excited guy at the gun store talk about his Cia secret Nam days that never happed... but your reading it.
I gave up on reading anything that's not educational. If I want a story, I want to watch a movie, which is like 3 time a year.
Brad thor was good (1 book).
Catcher in the rye and Great Gatsby were probably the only books I read in school that weren't aweful. I'm not a "reader" though.
Gonna dogpile on Clancy for this one.
Read Rainbow Six and Cardinal of the Kremlin- interesting premises for the stories, just.... bleh.
Also, Brad Thor is mediocre too. Read Lions of Lucerne and Full Black. Neither were as interesting as the writeup sounded, storylines/characters/writing were pretty generic, and I kept waiting for the story to kick off, and... it never does. Kind of like a song that builds and builds... and then ends.
Melville - get to the point already, Herman!
Moose-Knuckle
04-27-17, 05:38
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
One of my favorite South Park episodes is where the doctor test the town's children for ADHD, by reading to them aloud the The Great Gatsby in it's entirety. Everyone get's put on Ritalin!
Charles Dickens
Depressing author. Best to read one of his books if all firearms, razor blades, and poisons are securely locked up.
I'll have to disagree with you here, not only is he one of my favorite authors but he is considered to be by many THE greatest.
Do some research and see what Pablo Picasso was producing before he was a teenager.
Some people truly function on a level that is different from us mere mortals.
Not getting it is not a measurement of quality.
You mean before he went all Cubism ? Yes, some beautiful stuff but of course that's not what he's known for.
http://www.pablopicasso.org/images/paintings/acrobat.jpg
Cormac McCarthy "Blood Meridian"- just a hard read. Toughed through it, but was glad when I was through.
Took me half a dozen attempts to get past 1st couple of chapters of Frank Herbert "Dune". Though once I did, it clicked and was very good. But about the 3rd book I gave up.
Hemingway is hit or miss, either very good or just a pain to read. And sometimes in the same book. One has what I feel to be the best opening I've ever read, followed by a very tedious hemingwayesque exchange that stopped me in my tracks repeatedly. One time I finally just speed read past it, and the rest of the book was good.
I will say I had the advantage of reading Hemingway without English teachers and cliff notes overinterpreting every nuance.
I'm more inclined to believe Ernie would write the fishing tale to end them all than he would sit at the bar and say: "hmmm, I'll take a fishing story and make it allegory for Christ's last days".
"Catcher in the Rye" was horrible, and horribly overrated. Mellville, could never get into it.
I give Dickens a bit of a pass as the novel was still young, they were still learning. "Great Expectations" had a creepy aspect that was fascinating.
Same for "Count of Monte Cristo", I willingly overlooked it's wordiness as it was an epic tale and very early novel.
Tom Clancy is one of my favorite authors. I had trouble with only one if his books. The Sum of all fears. It was way too technical for me.
If were throwing in certain books, J.R.R. Tolkien when he wrote the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The Hobbit was great. Lord of the Rings was a grind
I have to agree with Tolkien and Dickens. Great Expectations is by far the worst book I've ever read. I couldn't stand it in the 9th grade, and I love reading.
Doc Safari
04-27-17, 14:04
Great Expectations is by far the worst book I've ever read. I couldn't stand it in the 9th grade, and I love reading.
You had to read that in the ninth grade too? I'm in New Mexico and I'm guessing that's not where you attended the ninth grade?
I wonder why the school systems picked that book? Maybe the fact that it was public domain and they could reprint it in a textbook without paying royalties?
Hated every second of reading that book. I was actually a pretty busy reader at the time, mostly non-fiction, so Great Expectations was like the turd in the punch bowl.
polydeuces
04-27-17, 18:06
[QUOTE=WillBrink;2485705]You mean before he went all Cubism ? Yes, some beautiful stuff but of course that's not what he's known for.
[img]http://www.pablopicasso.org/images/paintings/acrobat.jpg[/img
He was good at deconstructing, clearly :cool:
At least wasnt selling soup-can labels as art. And got some great ass....whoooo....
Which i truly believe was his motivation.
I'd paint blue cubes all day too. Fer sure.
Doc Safari
04-28-17, 09:05
I need to add an author to my list:
Ann Coulter
I read exactly ONE of her books. Her vocabulary tends to be above PhD level. I have a college degree and I found myself pausing every few pages to look up a word most people just don't use every day. Like one of my college English profs used to say: "Don't use a thirty dollar word if a three dollar word will do." Take heed, Ann.
Were you reading stuff written by Clancy or stuff written under his name? I ask because those two things would be vastly different things, even though I will admit that Clancy did have a perchance for going into detail of tech that might cause some people mind's to explode. Without Remorse is still one of the books I consider of to among the best that I ever read. Kind of like a reader like myself comparing Robert Ludlum's Bourne Identity, Bourne Supremacy, and Bournce Ultimatum to the Polish abortion of the Bourne Legacy and the ones that followed by Eric Van masturbater. The books written by the original mastermind were well written, engaging, and complex. Anything that followed after his death to cash in on the movies and the LCD readers was complete, utter, vomit, that masqueraded as actual stories which held no ****ing concept of the psychology of the main character or how the supporting characters actually weighed on him emotionally or psychologically.
At this point, can't say. Been a long time, but I think they were some of his best known stuff. Other than Rainbow Six, which didn't impress me at all, I couldn't get through any of them before I realized i didn't wanna spend additional time on it. Some great authors can be quite slow to get going for sure, but some don't grab me at all enough to wait until they do. I have heard good things about Without Remorse but my interest in anything Clancy not there enough to try it at this point.
An author who tends to write huge novels, like 1000 pages +, that can take a long time to really get going, but worth it, is Neal Stephenson. When ever I think I'm a real writer, I just read something by him to be put back in my place and humility restored.
Another is Stephen King. Talk about overrated. I read a few of his books as a kid and thought they were nothing special nor scary in the least even then. Maybe he got better, but what I read was something a high school kid could write.
I need to add an author to my list:
Ann Coulter
I read exactly ONE of her books. Her vocabulary tends to be above PhD level. I have a college degree and I found myself pausing every few pages to look up a word most people just don't use every day. Like one of my college English profs used to say: "Don't use a thirty dollar word if a three dollar word will do." Take heed, Ann.
Or her editor(s)...
I need to add an author to my list:
Ann Coulter
I read exactly ONE of her books. Her vocabulary tends to be above PhD level. I have a college degree and I found myself pausing every few pages to look up a word most people just don't use every day. Like one of my college English profs used to say: "Don't use a thirty dollar word if a three dollar word will do." Take heed, Ann.
I have heard that. I don't like books that are written like tech manuals.
Clancy, I like most of. A couple of his books I did not care for. Debt of Honor, once it got past the first 50 pages of describing economics and Wall Street, it got good. Some of his intros can be hard to get past. I love, love, Red Storm Rising and Hunt for Red October.
Dr. Seuss.
Poor Sensei doesnt like Dr. Seuss
Poor Sensei has a screw loose
He wont read them at home nor hospital.
He wont read them, no not at all.
One could argue it was a result of church camp.
Or that time his folks left him at the off ramp.
No lover is he, of amusing rhymes.
No enjoyer is he of good times!
No tales of cats with hats, nor loraxes, nor hoos
All because he doesnt like Dr. Seuss.
But perhaps one day his mind shall expand.
After all, the have funny pictures unlike Ayn Rand.
:D :p
#comeatmebro
#LitAF.
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Poor Sensei doesnt like Dr. Seuss
Poor Sensei has a screw loose
He wont read them at home nor hospital.
He wont read them, no not at all.
One could argue it was a result of church camp.
Or that time his folks left him at the off ramp.
No lover is he, of amusing rhymes.
No enjoyer is he of good times!
No tales of cats with hats, nor loraxes, nor hoos
All because he doesnt like Dr. Seuss.
But perhaps one day his mind shall expand.
After all, the have funny pictures unlike Ayn Rand.
:D :p
#comeatmebro
Nicely played.
Pick Wick Papers, Great Expectations by Dickens
I love Dr Seuss. He taught me to hear the music in the words
My list:
Arthur C. Clarke
Manages to make science fiction as exciting as reading a technical manual. B-O-R-I-N-G
Tom Horn and Cris Putnam
As religious books go, their subject matter is really cutting edge and controversial. Too bad they put you to sleep in a few pages.
Ernest Hemingway
"The water was wet." "Really wet." "Want to get wet?" "Are you sure it's wet?" He tested the water. It was wet. "Told you it was wet."
Could not sit through a single novel of his.
Charles Dickens
Depressing author. Best to read one of his books if all firearms, razor blades, and poisons are securely locked up.
Kevin Trudeau
Okay, cheap shot: he's not a real writer. He's an infomercial goon and convicted fraudster, but he's "written" several books. I tried to read one of his books once that I found in a used book store. I could not put my finger on a coherent thought or comprehensible sentence in the few pages I read. His writing is more on the order of random thoughts typed in any order on a page.
Hemingway? Seriously? I LOVE reading Hemingway.
LowSpeed_HighDrag
04-30-17, 21:49
Tom Clancy is THE WORST.
I hate to say it, but sometimes Stephen Ambrose books would bore me to death, despite my LOVE for the subject matter.
Tom Clancy is THE WORST.
I hate to say it, but sometimes Stephen Ambrose books would bore me to death, despite my LOVE for the subject matter.
Trying to think of a regular historian I like more.
Tom Clancy is THE WORST.
I hate to say it, but sometimes Stephen Ambrose books would bore me to death, despite my LOVE for the subject matter.
Give Rick Atkinson a try:
http://liberationtrilogy.com/books/army-at-dawn/
I think he is a good historian. The type of books (I've read the entire Trilogy) that I would read for an hour or so, go do something and want to get back to them.
Hemingway? Seriously? I LOVE reading Hemingway.
Love and War was heavy
(I know it was based on Hemingway, but I must admit; he was an interesting and troubled man)
BoringGuy45
05-01-17, 00:08
I hated reading Hawthorne when I was in high school. I can't believe that The Scarlet Letter is considered arguably the greatest work in American literature. I literally, literally, couldn't read more than 5 pages of that book it was so boring. I did Sparknotes for almost the entire book, and even THAT was almost too boring to study.
Moose-Knuckle
05-01-17, 04:28
I hated reading Hawthorne when I was in high school. I can't believe that The Scarlet Letter is considered arguably the greatest work in American literature. I literally, literally, couldn't read more than 5 pages of that book it was so boring. I did Sparknotes for almost the entire book, and even THAT was almost too boring to study.
Loved it and the Demi Moore film adaptation. In HS we would read a novel or play then watch the film version afterwards.
“Pious Master Dimmesdale! can this be you? Well, well, indeed! We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straitly looked after!
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LowSpeed_HighDrag
05-01-17, 08:22
Give Rick Atkinson a try:
http://liberationtrilogy.com/books/army-at-dawn/
I think he is a good historian. The type of books (I've read the entire Trilogy) that I would read for an hour or so, go do something and want to get back to them.
Thanks for the heads up. I have ordered An Army at Dawn and once I finish All Quiet on the Western Front I'll give it a shot.
Trying to think of a regular historian I like more.
He is great, but sometimes I find his work to be boring. Try Bing West sometime, mainly No True Glory.
Thanks for the heads up. I have ordered An Army at Dawn and once I finish All Quiet on the Western Front I'll give it a shot.
Let me know how you like it.
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