Post: #226

The Da Vinci Code immediately comes to mind.

Post: #227

Blood Meridian

I hate to disrespect a great America author, so I won't say it sucked. But a couple years ago I tried reading this and ended up putting it down.

Maybe I'll give it another shot in the future.

Post: #228

(08-31-2018 05:04 PM)Monty_Brogan Wrote:  Blood Meridian

I hate to disrespect a great America author, so I won't say it sucked. But a couple years ago I tried reading this and ended up putting it down.

Maybe I'll give it another shot in the future.

I wouldn't say it sucked but I did find it overrated. Long stretches where nothing happens. Didn't need to be 350 pages. 250-300 would have sufficed. But McCarthy's prose really is something else.

Post: #229

I actually enjoyed Of Sons and Lovers. Only reason I ever picked that book up was Bukowski named off DH Lawrence as an inspiration to his writing. *[Made me think about how shitty men truly have it]

For good books in high school, The Outsiders.

For books I hated And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. The plot wasn’t that great and the book was not at all thrilling.

Post: #230

(08-31-2018 03:07 PM)Jalah Fuy Wrote:  The Da Vinci Chode immediately comes to mind.

There. Fixed that for you. That book was total shyte. The only thing that could've made it suck even more is if they were to make it into a movie starring Tom Han.... erhmmm...

Post: #231

The Catcher in the Rye

Post: #232

(08-31-2018 05:59 PM)HornyRamone Wrote:  The Catcher in the Rye

You've probably just been added to a list on a database... I'd invest in tin foil.

Post: #233

(08-31-2018 07:07 PM)Dulceácido Wrote:  

(08-31-2018 05:59 PM)HornyRamone Wrote:  The Catcher in the Rye

You've probably just been added to a list on a database... I'd invest in tin foil.

I thought it was the other way around; people who obsessed over CITR were crazy.

Post: #234

I was forced to read Hatchet by Gary Paulsen in fifth grade... god that book sucked. It's the only fiction novel I've ever viscerally hated, and that still lingers today on some very subconscious level.

On another note, has anyone ever read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig? It's my dad's favorite book, and he first recommended it to me about 5-6 years ago. Between then and now I've given it a go twice and tried really hard to get into it, but just couldn't. I want to try again at some point, because from what I did read of it (~70 pages) there seemed to be lots of insight on the lifestyle of the truly "free" man.

Post: #235

48 laws of power

I didn't read it, I listened to the audiobook because I read and heard so much about it, thought it sucked, just a lot of garbage sprinkled with a couple of common sense tidbits here and there. I guess people like to think they're in on some secret knowledge that only a selected few are in possession of.

Post: #236

(09-01-2018 11:33 AM)Teutatis Wrote:  48 laws of power

I didn't read it, I listened to the audiobook because I read and heard so much about it, thought it sucked, just a lot of garbage sprinkled with a couple of common sense tidbits here and there. I guess people like to think they're in on some secret knowledge that only a selected few are in possession of.

I thought most of it was true and relevant. I also thought it was essentially a handbook for sociopaths.