I love Alice in Wonderland and Just So Stories, they just have werid ideas and a lot of people I know don't like them because they find it confusing and hard to read.
Those are brilliant books...I loved them to bits when I was younger. Alice in Wonderland is so so great. And I can't wait for the Marylin Manson movie, which is going to be based around Alice in Wonderland. It's going to be awesome!
1) Jaqueline Wilson books - They tend to get repetative after a while, the dad is always a wife-beater and the mum is a ... so and so.
2) Philip(?) Pullman - I read Sally Lockhart and had to force myself to finish it, I didn't bother with the others.
3) The Cheerleader/ The Vampire or someother title - Don't know her name but the idea was nice, pity she didn't keep me interested after the first few victims.
4) Eragon - The first chapter wasn't so bad but again I had to force myself to actually finish this.
5) Forgot the title - Don't know what happened but I remember wanting to burn it. Probably by one of the Bronte sisters or someother lady.
In all the time we have
There is never enough time
To show what is in our heart.
5) Fiends from Outer Space - Really, the name says it all, doesn't it? Badly writen, boring story, and horribly flawed and illogical science.
4) Alex Rider - My god, how have these done so well? Alex Rider seems to magically know EVERYTHING there is to know.
3) The Atlantis series - Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
2) The Voice of Blood - I got these from my local library, expecting at least a half decent vampire action/horror. But no. This is more erotica than anything else. The main character (a girl) goes through series a sexual encounters with four different men (two of them vampires). Expect to read about drugs, adultry, casual sex, necrophilia (yes), bum sex (both hetero and homosexual) and many other such things. Only two of the men in the book are straight. We get to read about the rest having sex with men. Also, there is no plot at all. None. (the real irony came when I look at the back page a saw that the author was an innocent 20-something year old women, whom I half suspect is a virgin)
God didn't write the Bible even if you ARE a Christian. He only wrote it if you're ignorant about its history and compilation. But the Bible IS a nice book. Lots of poetry and violence and history.
"And I am a writer
writer of fiction
I am the heart that you call home
And I've written pages upon pages
Trying to rid you from my bones...
Let me go if you don't love me" ~The Decembrists "Engine Driver"
I'm sure the Bible was perversed here and there, just as the Papal states were, what with the Inquisitions. But I don't want to go and badnaming my religion, and publicly nonetheless.
Lets see, from the plethora of books I read, I here conjure 5 of the worst I've read in their entirety which I can remember:
1. Eragon- If your badnaming Rowling and Harry Potter just read this, and your views will be adjusted somewhat.
2. The Chrysalids- After 2 minutes of contemplating a proper rant, I remain speechless.
3. To Kill A Mockingbird- As stated by Homer "I never learnt how to kill a mockingbird"
Unfortunately my list runs short there. Currently I can only remember recent, and enjoyable books I've read in the past-would I want to remember books I did no enjoy. The last two were read last year, grade 9, and recently this year (technically last) in grade 10-I've enjoyed many past books read 'in-school' but these two I just did not get into, and the Chrysalids, at all.
Killing For Peace Is Like F#@%ing For Chastity Revolucija Je Sada! Revolucija Je Stobom I Svima! Revolucija Je Uvijek-Zivi Uz Revolucije I Budite Slobodni!
1) Shadowmancer by GP Taylor (anything else by this fellow; good intentions - blandly deadly execution)
2) White Midnight by Dia Calhoun
3) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (right author, yes?)
4) The Stranger by Albert Camus (...endless cynical despair? no variation)
5) Bill Clinton's Biography ...whatever it's called...
These aren't the worst books ever...only some not so brilliant ones more recently perused. I can't recall the worst I've ever read. I try to forget them
(And the Bible was...perversed? Does that mean twisted?)
ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem
"There is adventure in simply being among those we love, and among the things we love -- and beauty, too."
1. Eragon... (and now they are making a movie...) but the book was...shudders...horible
also Sureal, did you know they are making a movie about the Alex Rider books as well...
Let's see...the following in no particular order...
2. The Scarlet Letter - I read it for english junior year, yes the whole thing and not cliff notes like everyone else did. Hated it with a passion. Got a lovely grade on my analysis, but hated it.
3. The Grapes of Wrath - hmm lets see only good thing about this book in my opinion was the movie with Henry Fonda and that my friend Sam nicknamed himself Rose of Sam because we had to read it in english. Okay, some people out there like it, but come on, there is a whole effin chapter about a turtle crossing the road.... yeah did not like the book at all, although I liked East of Eden.
4. Paradise Lost - Okay Milton is a genius, he wrote over 500 pages (or atleast that's my version) of blank verse explaining God decisions to us humble mortals. It also was so time consuming, and most of it was rather boring. I don't actually hate it, but I didn't like it either. The only good part was when he describes Hell, Satan, and Satan's cronies.
5. Waldon - Henry Thoreau is undoubtly intelligent, writes some good poetry...but this well, to put it lightly was a snooze I almost couldn't get past the first few pages. Also he rambles on about everything and anything, it's rather annoying. Native American's who weave baskets...huh?
Fraser: Stop stealing the blanket. [Diefenbaker whines] Fraser: You're an Arctic Wolf, for God's sake. (Due South)
Hatter: Do I need a reason to help a pretty girl in a very wet dress? (Alice)
