Worst book ever written..
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twilight or stargirl both are exceedingly horrible... i never read twilight, but i started to, and it was terrible... its nothing but cheesy vampire love for horny 9 year old girls.
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Putanesca wrote:Over the years I have read many hundreds, possibly even thousands of books, only once have I failed to finish one.
The offending tome? George Elliots - Middlemarch.
Most of you will never have heard of it. To which I say "Lucky you".
To those of you who, like me, suffered a 'clasic' English education it was a requirement if we wished to accumulate those brownie points known as exam passes.
I struggled through Shakespeare,
Suffered Satre,
Wandered with Wordsworth
and
Battled Byron
Believe me it wasn't worth it.
I agree, Middlemarch was completely unreadable, like wading through peanut butter.
I, too, have been a bibliophile for decades, and probably have a total in the thousands. My most recent worst book ever was regifted to me by my mother, on the occasion of my last pilgrimage to The Home, down south in that other state. The Golden Buddha, by Clive Cussler, is supposedly some kind of best-seller, but I can't imagine why. I couldn't make it to the second chapter. And this is someone who read Leaves of Grass from cover to cover, just because I wanted to. The writing is redundant, contradictory, and incoherent. And that's just the first chapter.
Mrs T, an English Literature major, votes for anything by Faulkner.
"Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens."
("Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.")
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K Dick
OK, now let's look at four dimensions on the blackboard.
-- Dr. Joy
English isn't much of a language for swearing. When I studied Ancient Greek I was delighted to discover a single word - Rhaphanidosthai - which translates roughly as "Be thou thrust up the fundament with a radish for adultery."
("Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.")
-- Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K Dick
OK, now let's look at four dimensions on the blackboard.
-- Dr. Joy
English isn't much of a language for swearing. When I studied Ancient Greek I was delighted to discover a single word - Rhaphanidosthai - which translates roughly as "Be thou thrust up the fundament with a radish for adultery."
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wobastax wrote:twilight or stargirl both are exceedingly horrible... i never read twilight, but i started to, and it was terrible... its nothing but cheesy vampire love for horny 9 year old girls.
Twilight is not horrible. It is far from "amazing", and barely qualifies as "good", but it is not "horrible"!
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-Albert Einstein
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Zankou 2.0 wrote:wobastax wrote:twilight or stargirl both are exceedingly horrible... i never read twilight, but i started to, and it was terrible... its nothing but cheesy vampire love for horny 9 year old girls.
Twilight is not horrible. It is far from "amazing", and barely qualifies as "good", but it is not "horrible"!
Twilight is about as enjoyable as being force-fed used Mormon underpants.
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Used Mormons have underpants?
"Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens."
("Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.")
-- Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K Dick
OK, now let's look at four dimensions on the blackboard.
-- Dr. Joy
English isn't much of a language for swearing. When I studied Ancient Greek I was delighted to discover a single word - Rhaphanidosthai - which translates roughly as "Be thou thrust up the fundament with a radish for adultery."
("Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.")
-- Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K Dick
OK, now let's look at four dimensions on the blackboard.
-- Dr. Joy
English isn't much of a language for swearing. When I studied Ancient Greek I was delighted to discover a single word - Rhaphanidosthai - which translates roughly as "Be thou thrust up the fundament with a radish for adultery."
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Moral Minority wrote:Zankou 2.0 wrote:wobastax wrote:twilight or stargirl both are exceedingly horrible... i never read twilight, but i started to, and it was terrible... its nothing but cheesy vampire love for horny 9 year old girls.
Twilight is not horrible. It is far from "amazing", and barely qualifies as "good", but it is not "horrible"!
Twilight is about as enjoyable as being force-fed used Mormon underpants.
You're exaggerating heavily.
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"Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish."
--Pope John Paul II
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-Albert Einstein
The thin line between genius and insanity is less of a border than a union.
"Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish."
--Pope John Paul II
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-Albert Einstein
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Zankou 2.0 wrote:Moral Minority wrote:
Twilight is about as enjoyable as being force-fed used Mormon underpants.
You're exaggerating heavily.
No, dude. I am being nice.
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I just failed to finish Ulysses by James Joyce again. It's so boring I actually prefer doing dishes to reading it. I think I'll just give it to a charity shop.
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Roy Hunter wrote:I just failed to finish Ulysses by James Joyce again. It's so boring I actually prefer doing dishes to reading it. I think I'll just give it to a charity shop.
Agreed.
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Moral Minority wrote:Roy Hunter wrote:I just failed to finish Ulysses by James Joyce again. It's so boring I actually prefer doing dishes to reading it. I think I'll just give it to a charity shop.
Agreed.
And again, it seems that of my circle of associates, I am the only one who likes Joyce. Curses. I suppose I shouldn't recommend Finnegan's Wake, then?
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fueledbycoffee wrote:Moral Minority wrote:Roy Hunter wrote:I just failed to finish Ulysses by James Joyce again. It's so boring I actually prefer doing dishes to reading it. I think I'll just give it to a charity shop.
Agreed.
And again, it seems that of my circle of associates, I am the only one who likes Joyce. Curses. I suppose I shouldn't recommend Finnegan's Wake, then?
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wobastax wrote:twilight or stargirl both are exceedingly horrible... i never read twilight, but i started to, and it was terrible... its nothing but cheesy vampire love for horny 9 year old girls.
No, it isn't. It's actually pretty well written, and Twilight is the way I met my boyfriend. We met in the bookstore where we bought the book. I think it's attractive when boys read good literature. lol.
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Cabbage wrote:wobastax wrote:twilight or stargirl both are exceedingly horrible... i never read twilight, but i started to, and it was terrible... its nothing but cheesy vampire love for horny 9 year old girls.
No, it isn't. It's actually pretty well written, and Twilight is the way I met my boyfriend. We met in the bookstore where we bought the book. I think it's attractive when boys read good literature. lol.
Your attract-o-meter must be off. Whether it's entertaining or not, Twilight is not literature. Twilight is a pretty popular book. Literature is something that will go down in history, and bore the ever loving shit out of English classes for hundreds of years.
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Oh. I think that 50 years from now, children will study Twilight in schools as a paioneering example of horror romance fiction. I think that it's even better than Shakespeare.
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Blasphemy! I'm going to cry over my already tear-stained copy of King Lear for a few hours.
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