Most disappointing popular book

[Remmie]

I found Catch 22 merely alright as I was so frustrated with there being no actual story that it let me get the better of enjoying some of the honetsy and comedy of the book like I ought to have enjoyed.

 

However, that pisses all over the massively dissappointing "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho. It reads like a bad acid flashback and puts the hippy in bad stinking hippy. Anyone like it? What the fuck is he on about?

[Monkeywool]

Lord of the Rings. Makes Aragorn look like a big girl when he sings about swords and Cities instead of being this kick ass king bloke.

[Remmie]

The Hobbit also frustrated me with some until now unmentioned gang of Gandalf's mates forever helping Bilbo out whenever he was in the shit. Still a good book though.

[pepeinthesticks]

Lord Of The Rings / Of Mice And Men , it's like hell on paper

[Plewggs]

Lord Of The Rings / Of Mice And Men , it's like hell on paper

 

*Philistine*

 

Catcher in the Rye.

 

I’m certain it’s only read because of the link with Lennon.

Dire, dated, bitter, nasty and pointless.

 

If Chapman shot Salinger instead of John Lennon, he would be a free man by now and knighted for services to American Literature

[Yerma'satexan!]

*Philistine*

 

Catcher in the Rye.

 

I’m certain it’s only read because of the link with Lennon.

Dire, dated, bitter, nasty and pointless.

 

If Chapman shot Salinger instead of John Lennon, he would be a free man by now and knighted for services to American Literature

 

Wrong!

 

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

 

Too many characters with similar names, couldn't get into it at all, just seemed like a big incestious paedo orgy, much like all of his books actually. Which brought me to the conclusion he is a incestious paedo. And just generally massively overated.

 

Yeah so actually everything by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

[RJ Fan club]

I'm with Rem on this one. catch 22, although I found it hugely funny and profound in places, it was a bloody fustrating read. I couldn't read it as a page turner, I had to read it a few pages or so at time. I like to read fairly quickly but Cathc 22 took me ages to plough through it.

[thisisanfield]

Wrong!

 

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

 

Too many characters with similar names' date=' couldn't get into it at all, just seemed like a big incestious paedo orgy, much like all of his books actually. Which brought me to the conclusion he is a incestious paedo. And just generally massively overated.

 

Yeah so actually everything by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.[/quote']

 

I had to read one of Marquez's books in Spanish for A Level class and it was one of the worst books I have ever read. I forgot I read it until you mentioned the name there. It was about some old man going to collect his war pension but it was never there and he kept returning and didn't get the point it was never gonna be there, the name of the book escapes me now though.

[dennis tooth]

I once bought a book, by a Danny something or other about a man who had to answer 'yes' to every question he was asked. I think it was called 'The man who couldn't say 'no".

 

Anyway I got it on reccomendation from someone in here, ages ago. I should have gone to specsavers or rather I shouldn't have because that would have helped me read it better, it was a terrible, terrible book.

Wished I remembered who it was, nevertheless, I hope the 'reccomender' is conned into buying Duncs book in return for his actions.

[JohnnyH]

"in the begining..." Went down hill from there.

[cochyn]

'Steppenwolf' by Hermann Hesse. Too fucking dry by half (though I guess it loses something intranslation). I was in a nihilst-fiction phase then. Read The Timewaster Letters straight after and never looked back.

[RedKnight]

The singing in LOTR is a bit gay, still good books though.