Dune is a monumental book in both width and scope. It deals with some HUGE ideas and can be a bit of a chore to get through at first. I found it to be one of the best tales I have ever read. Forget the movie made in the 80's. The book and the movie have only passing similarites. The general plot is the same in that it takes place on the same planet, has the same main characters, and most of the same supporting characters.
LotR wasn't too bad either. Seriously, as much fun as the films were, the story was even better.
Margaret Emmie Mackey Catoe, you are, have been, and always will be my soulmate, and I love you.
Con todo mi corazon, por todo de mis dias. And I always will, in this life and into the next.
August 2, 1947 - September 24, 2010
Lot of Hate on this thread.
Liked alot of these books.
I don't think of this as a hate thread. I think of it as an "I humbly suggest that you do not read this book, for if you do, you will lose a significant number of IQ points" thread.
Thanks for clarifying, razzman.
i enjoyed gatsby for the tragedy that was jay gatsby and the very poetic prose of fitzgerald. LOTR i had trouble with the first time, even taking a year off from it, but i recently reread it and enjoyed it a lot. i geuss i just needed a few more years under my belt to appreciate that book. as far as mokingbird goes, easily one of the top ten novels of all time, imho.
So it goes.
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. "
- Oscar Wilde
I
am
a
hero.
I have finished the Lord of the Flies.
LotF
Roland would have understood.
Bears are very glad to see this title in this thread. Bears hate this book.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It wasn't that bad... moreover. I might give it a try later. There are lots of valuable things in it and I got to love the characters. But I don't think it will become one of my favourites ever.
Roland would have understood.
I was depressed by it. And the movie. Of course, I read it in middle school so the effect it had on me then may not be the same if I read it now.
I really like that book.
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
Vampire$. This was the book that the movie John Carpener made was based off of. Book had typos in it and lead to this massive final battle that was so anti-climatic I thought I didn't even read it.
But, I love vampires, so I read it anyway.
Most of the books mentioned here that I was required to read for school (such as TKaM, Great Gatsby...) were books that I did not enjoy while reading them but appreciated having read them afterward. That includes Huck Finn as well as a few others. Speaking of school reads though... I LOVED Wuthering Heights...
The one thing I could not stomach though was Grapes of Wrath. That book couldn't hold my attention for more than a paragraph.
I agree, which is why you'll like this:
http://www.chroniclebooks.com/index/...e-and-Zombies/
soylent?! holy shit i havent seen u since the old tdt.net days
I have many leather bound books.
I'm kind of a big deal.
Changing the plans that I’ve been setting on, I’m scared by the way that my life is getting gone
I have a big problem with anything that calls itself "romance" and has absolutely no Romans in it.
Any series based on an old book RPG makes me hurl.