I tried reading two different series from Stephen R. Donaldson, and it seemed to me he was somehow unable to write a book without a horrific rape. I just stopped reading the first book in each case because I felt like they were salacious and hateful.
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Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds. I am usually a huge SciFi fan, but I like the genre for it's ability to reflect on humanity by extrapolating on current technologies/trends or comparing our culture to unique alien ones.
Revelation Space was technobabble and descriptions of weapons for pages upon pages, and it was totally devoid of any philosophy or reflection on humanity. I never DNF a book, but this one I almost gave up on.
A fan translation of the Redo of Healer light novel.
If you know you know.
The third Twilight book ended by dumping everything which was built up to in the previous book out.
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The Pearl by John Steinbeck. Its technically a novella but still. Hated it.
Oh sad face. It is one of my favorite books and also think the movie is a piece of art.
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Tom Sawyer. I don't think i'd hate it as much if I read it today, but having to read it in middle school was a bitch
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The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Profiles in Courage - John F. Kennedy
Should have stuck to being a president… maybe it’d land differently now, but in like 9th grade, it was a total slog.
Timequake. I love Vonnegut but I just remember it being impossible to follow and overall not interesting.
I think I had the same feeling the first time I read Sirens of Titan. Then I read it a few years later, and it just clicked and I was enthralled by the long crazy ride.
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I finished Battlefield Earth.
The thing is, I remember enjoying it. I mean, it wasn't literature, but it was a lot of dumb fun.
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