Most hated books

[bac0n]

The book I had for the Discreet Math class I took. The concepts were poorly presented, and the examples skipped so many intermediary steps it was impossible to determine how they got from point A to point B.

I ceremoniously burned that book after the semester was through.

[Mysterious Dude]

I don't know that I hated it, but I did not find Death Comes for the Archbishop to be very enjoyable.

[SirNewt]

The book I had for the Discreet Math class I took. The concepts were poorly presented, and the examples skipped so many intermediary steps it was impossible to determine how they got from point A to point B.

I ceremoniously burned that book after the semester was through.

It didn't happen to be this one did it?

[ledfloyd]

First one that comes to mind is American Pastoral by Philip Roth.

Catcher in the Rye
Invisible Man

you guys named 3 of my favorite books... *tear*

[Malickfan]

You don't think this.

Ohhhhh yes I do. Thankfully it was so short, I read it in one sitting.

[SirNewt]

Ohhhhh yes I do. Thankfully it was so short, I read it in one sitting.

Impossible I say! :|

[Malickfan]

Was just...well...bored. And the prose, the prose. Hemingway, you fucking journalist.

[SirNewt]

Was just...well...bored. And the prose, the prose. Hemingway, you fucking journalist.

Did you read "A Farewell to Arms"?

[Mara]

you guys named 3 of my favorite books... *tear*

This thread contains so many of my favorite books that I'm just pretending it doesn't exist.

[Kurosawa Fan]

I actually disagree with every book listed (that I've read) aside from my own post.

[Mara]

I actually disagree with every book listed (that I've read) aside from my own post.

Checking.... yes. Exactly the same.

Except "Billy Budd," which while not great, was still pretty good.

[Raiders]

Emily "I hate love" Bronte's Wuthering Heights
Palahniuk's Diary

[Kurosawa Fan]

Emily "I hate love" Bronte's Wuthering Heights
Palahniuk's Diary

Diary sucked sooooooo bad. You just made my post above null and void.

[Mara]

Emily "I hate love" Bronte's Wuthering Heights

Ironically enough, I have a love/hate relationship with this book.

Spooky.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Checking.... yes. Exactly the same.

Except "Billy Budd," which while not great, was still pretty good.

Wait... does this mean you hate American Pastoral too? Please say yes so I'll have someone else on my side.

[Mara]

I don't generally finish books that I hate, or else I forget them, so I'm not sure what to post here.

The last book I threw against the wall (which happens, sometimes) was Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure. I didn't finish it.

[Mara]

Wait... does this mean you hate American Pastoral too? Please say yes so I'll have someone else on my side.

Haven't read it. It doesn't particularly look like something I'd pick up, either.

[Duncan]

Definitely didn't hate it, but finishing Anna Karenina was a real chore because of its length. The number of books I have time to read is so limited that I usually choose books I'm fairly certain I'll be interested in even if the prose isn't great.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Haven't read it. It doesn't particularly look like something I'd pick up, either.

Ah. Well, that's something. I'll take it.

I don't generally finish books that I hate, or else I forget them, so I'm not sure what to post here.

The last book I threw against the wall (which happens, sometimes) was Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure. I didn't finish it.

I won't read a book after 150 pages if I don't like it. However, Jude the Obscure was high on my list of books to read soon. What did you dislike so much about it? Just the story itself?

[Mara]

What did you dislike so much about it? Just the story itself?

Well, there's depressing, and then there's Hardy. I really find his prose beautiful, and Tess of the D'Urbervilles was lovely despite being a blow-by-blow torturing of our heroine.

But with Jude the Obscure I felt like he just hated his reader, and wanted to torture us for no good reason.

If you've read it, or don't mind a couple spoilers, I stopped reading when

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Jude's child, who I think was about ten years old, murders his two younger siblings and then commits suicide.

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At that point, I was done.

[Ezee E]

Emily "I hate love" Bronte's Wuthering Heights
Palahniuk's Diary

I never even finished it. I heard it gets pretty crazy at the end, but it was a pretty horribly written book.

[bac0n]

It didn't happen to be this one did it?

I don't remember that cover, but it certainly could have been a different edition of the same book.

[SirNewt]

I don't remember that cover, but it certainly could have been a different edition of the same book.

Maybe just all Discrete Math books are evil in principle. This book, while demonstrating a problem would jump several steps and it was loaded with vague psuedo-code.

[Mysterious Dude]

But with Jude the Obscure I felt like he just hated his reader, and wanted to torture us for no good reason.

If you've read it, or don't mind a couple spoilers, I stopped reading when

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Show Spoiler

Jude's child, who I think was about ten years old, murders his two younger siblings and then commits suicide.

]

At that point, I was done.

Oh man. I am totally going to read that next.

[SirNewt]

Brave New World

reading this now, lame.

Orwell owns Huxley