books you couldn't be fucked to start
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Catch 22. It just seemed so wanky I couldn't be bothered.
That's quite good, although I have no desire to re-read it.
quimcunx
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Possibly but it's too fat to fit in my handbag.
Obnoxiousness
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Any of the Harry Potter Books - other people can read them for me and let me know what happens to the boy wizard!
To be fair, JK Rowling is a good writer... I measure authors by the frequency of which I say to myself, "That sentence could have been composed better!"
If you don't notice the writing itself, what is left is the story. And your attention should be on the story, not the writers need to show you their arsenal of vocab. and cliche.
Some of it is cheesy... but regardless of her commercial success, Rowling will be remembered as a great writer.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
she's no style. And then and then and then.
Tosh
Tosh
Obnoxiousness
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Do you think so? I'll go back and see if I can spot the "and thens". 
Come to think of it I noticed excessive use of the word "besides".
Come to think of it I noticed excessive use of the word "besides".
Books I can't be fucked to start are legion. Usually books that people give me and ram down my throat about how life changing/affirming they are.
The almost religious zeal puts my back up, so I've probably missed out on some gems which had they been presented in a different manner may well have been life changing/affirming.
Three that spring to mind are "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", "Gravity's Rainbow" and "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept".
I am almost certain that if I had read these books I would be a very different person.
The almost religious zeal puts my back up, so I've probably missed out on some gems which had they been presented in a different manner may well have been life changing/affirming.
Three that spring to mind are "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", "Gravity's Rainbow" and "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept".
I am almost certain that if I had read these books I would be a very different person.
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
Obnoxiousness
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Characterisation, plotting, and creation of a real sense of
a consistent other world?
How does she fail in these? I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm just interested to get your thoughts.
a consistent other world?
How does she fail in these? I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm just interested to get your thoughts.
Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
you're being generous, el jefe
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
that's my favourite Dickens, I read it over a weekend
not-bono-ever
meh
skinhead
quimcunx
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QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
soonplus
@ autodespair
ditto on that
i want to try... i really do.. it's just intimidatingly fat.. it grins and smirks at me like fat people do before they eat you
Hmmm...I love all of Jane Austen.I've read most of her books several times so it's interesting to find she is mentioned a few times here.I actually find her work thrilling. I also adored Anna Karenina by Tolstoy too .
BUT like several others here I loathed Harry Potter .I was gagging with annoyance and boredom after the first 3 pages . Moby Dick is just as mentally irritating as a continually dripping tap and Ulysses had me wanting to eat my own legs as an alternative.Even though I am actually related to James Joyce I found this book as appealing as observing the slow tepid pooling of drool on a lunatics lip .
BUT like several others here I loathed Harry Potter .I was gagging with annoyance and boredom after the first 3 pages . Moby Dick is just as mentally irritating as a continually dripping tap and Ulysses had me wanting to eat my own legs as an alternative.Even though I am actually related to James Joyce I found this book as appealing as observing the slow tepid pooling of drool on a lunatics lip .
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
Give it a chance. You'll be hooked by the end of the first chapter.
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
As a book it is worth reading, but there is no doubt it would benefit from a great deal of editing.
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
Well how is a girl meant to choose which of the many books out there to read?
I would have thought there was a handbag suitable (and available) for any book!
quimcunx
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i like small handbags and books to match.
I think you have your priorities all wrong.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Woody Allen said if he could live his life over again he wouldn't bother reading Moby Dick.
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
So could pretty much any 19th century novel -- if we wanted to turn them into lean, smart, sharp 250-page novels of the kind we read today. But they didn't write them like that then, nor did readers want them.
Mungy
i haz boobz
not so much a can't be fucked to read, but more a case of I find it hard work - Ragged trousered philanthorpists. I want to finish it, I really do. It's depressing. I've read Hanged at Auschwitz and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich both desolate reads, but ragged trousered just goes on and on. The other two are short
Gavin Bl
terrible awful baaad
I can sympathise with that, there are some incredible bits, particularly around the mechanics of hunting and rendering the whale, but its does 'go on'.
For me it was Das Kapital/Capital, just couldn't face it.
Don Quixote too, I read the first 60 pages, he tilted at windmills and I couldn't face 900 pages more of it.
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" is great, you should give it another go, Dot Com.
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