Books You Think Shouldn't Exist

[HK]

I read The Devil Wears Prada. I knew it was awful but I didn't realise how awful it could get.

Yep that's another one where I quite enjoyed the movie (in a light, fluffy sort of way) and decided to read the book, and couldn't believe how different they were.

Thought of another one - I love Gone With The Wind, I've read it several times and will continue to pull it out once a year or so. I've also read the sequel but not as often and the first time I was quite young.... I read it again recently and had to put it down. It wasn't so obvious when I was younger but now I realise how much it is like a sad parody of the original. I like the story, but I can't read it anymore because of the writing.

 

[Abcinthia]

Yep that's another one where I quite enjoyed the movie (in a light, fluffy sort of way) and decided to read the book, and couldn't believe how different they were.

Thought of another one - I love Gone With The Wind, I've read it several times and will continue to pull it out once a year or so. I've also read the sequel but not as often and the first time I was quite young.... I read it again recently and had to put it down. It wasn't so obvious when I was younger but now I realise how much it is like a sad parody of the original. I like the story, but I can't read it anymore because of the writing.

I read Gone With The Wind recently and adored it. I've been in two minds at whether or not I want to read the sequel. I read the plot for it on wikipedia and didn't really like the sound of it and didn't want it to ruin Gone With The Wind. I just want Scarlett and Rhett to be together, I cried at the end of the book. Floods and floods of tears.

 

[HK]

Aw! The second one does continue their story, which is great, but the writing style isn't true to the original - I know this is probably a stupid thing to mind but they didn't bother continuing the way the slaves talked at all, which kind of breaks the mood.

If you do it, leave a decent gap between the original and sequel, because otherwise how good the first one was will be too recent in your head and it'll destroy any chance of you enjoying the second

 

[Abcinthia]

Aw! The second one does continue their story, which is great, but the writing style isn't true to the original - I know this is probably a stupid thing to mind but they didn't bother continuing the way the slaves talked at all, which kind of breaks the mood.

If you do it, leave a decent gap between the original and sequel, because otherwise how good the first one was will be too recent in your head and it'll destroy any chance of you enjoying the second

I don't think it's a stupid thing at all. I thought it really set the scene and reminded me of The Color Purple.

I'll have to read it at some point. I'm the kind of person who just has to read to the end of a series no matter how awful it is... Like The House of Night crap.

 

[Zorak]

We don't wear robes. We wear aprons. There are no women Freemasons, nor any "wenches" as you put it. If you have questions, send me a PM, I'll entertain them.

I have a question but you're not allowed to answer it

 

[Mystic]

all religious and political shyte i'd like to see gone. it might stop all the extremists having something to use as a reason to be shitheads.



Darrell....lmao!! my dad would agree with you and then tell you the Freemasons over here aren't real like the ones in the UK. LMAO!!! Hes one...a guard. I like his pretty white and pale blue apron with sword and white gloves. I used to get told off when ever i opened the case to look at it. He was always very secretive about it all.

 

[Kilobii]

This story ------> http://lpfiction.com/story.php?id=15051

I'm not against slash, but I don't like stories that revolve around it. >_<

Linkin Park is actually my favorite fandom, but there's too much emphasis on bennoda sometimes XP

 

[Johnfromokc]

The bible, koran and torah. Anything by Hannity, Boortz, Limbaugh, Coulter and associated asshats.

 

[JanieDough]

The sweet wouldn't be as sweet without the sour.

Every piece of shit has its place. Even in literature.

 

[Tim]

Just about any book by Stephen King.

Now don't get me wrong, I love his story telling ability but he can't write for shit.
I read just about every one of his books when I was younger and many years later I tried to reread them again... what a mistake. Very poor writing IMO... Maybe I have been spoiled :dunno

 

[cam elle toe]

Just about any book by Stephen King.

Now don't get me wrong, I love his story telling ability but he can't write for shit.
I read just about every one of his books when I was younger and many years later I tried to reread them again... what a mistake. Very poor writing IMO... Maybe I have been spoiled :dunno

Wowza's I agree....well....I didnt mind his books up until The Shining...but they were all downhill from there.

Any of the books Tara Moss has written. She's a "Model/actress/writer":24:...and cant do ANY of the 3 for shit.

 

[Ryder]

The Twilight series.

The author should be damned to lowest ring of hell for ruining vampires!

They aren't supposed to SPARKLE!

*Rage*

 

[retro]

I'm honestly of the opinion that no books should have never been written... everything (as bad as they might be) provides some sort of value to the world. Either for good for for bad.

 

[Panacea]

Dan Brown can eff off, his stories are incredibly stupid in my opinion. Stephenie Meyer (I googled the name lol) too, such rubbish

Aaaaand religious texts, I'd just be interested to see what the world would be like without them, not implying better or worse, just interested.

 

[hart]

mein kampf

 

[Panacea]

^eh very true lol

 

[Abcinthia]

Dan Brown can eff off, his stories are incredibly stupid in my opinion. Stephenie Meyer (I googled the name lol) too, such rubbish

Aaaaand religious texts, I'd just be interested to see what the world would be like without them, not implying better or worse, just interested.

Is Dan Brown the one who wrote The Da Vinci Code?

Cos that book was utter shit too. The world's worst cryptologist and stupidest symbol expert unite to take fucking ages to solve a simple problem that the reader solved 5 chapters ago.

The only problems I couldn't get before the main characters were the anagrams and the numerical formulas but that's because I'm crap at spelling and I'd never heard of the numerical formulas before. Everything else was so obvious and you could see the plot 'twists' coming a mile away.

 

[cam elle toe]

Oh Oh Oh


ALL Patricia Cornwells books. :thumbdown

not just the novels themsleves....but the arrogant looking cover photo of the author.:thumbdown

 

[StripedCat]

--> Charlotte Roche's "Wetlands" (German "Feuchtgebiete" and I think the German title is more obnoxious than it the English title is)

I didn't read the book in a whole. Just heard of it and once got it in my hands, just rushing through the one or other page and, gee, it's so disgusting. :yuk
And till today I'm not able to understand why that book has been sold that often...

 

[Niamh]

hhmmm, the worst book I've read in the last year or so was Play Dead by Harlen Coben. I've never read any of his stuff before (it was for a book group) but apparently it was his very first book and others are better. Basically the story was just ridiculous and unbelievable. Quick run through - famous ex-super model now successful fashion label owner/designer is on her honeymoon with her super star basketballing hubby. She goes away for a few hours to some meeting and when She gets back to the hotel he's vanished, a few months later a mysterious new basket ball player that nobody has ever heard of turns up and stuns everyone with how good he is but his style is very familiar.....................