What's the worst best novel you've ever read?

[littlebabyjesus]

Well, I mean, it is a big sweeping romantic fiction, it is meant to be sensational and fantastical and tragic and doomed, that is what Mills&Boon is all about.

 

[Dillinger4]

You know what I mean though. It is not exactly meant to be realistic.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

You know what I mean though. It is not exactly meant to be realistic.

Yes, I do.

 

[foo]

ha, check you two, superior in your unromantic dryness.

if it's any consolation i don't go anywhere near a Bronte novel and haven't for a long time, and doubt i ever will again. they irritate me - same with Jane Austen.

 

[northeastoipunk]

one of my favorite books as a kid was the bonny pit laddie by fredrick grice , bit like catherine cookson without the love and for kids lol wouldnt mind reading his books again for nostalgia sake

 

[Pieface]

wrong thread love - this one's about books that are supposed to be amazing that you've hated.

 

[sojourner]

if it's any consolation i don't go anywhere near a Bronte novel and haven't for a long time, and doubt i ever will again. they irritate me - same with Jane Austen.

I fucking hate the other two Brontes And Jane Austen. With a passion

 

[northeastoipunk]

just had a text , italian meal cancelled can we just eat in preferably indian with a bottle of wine .
my kinda lady lol saves me a few precious pennies too lol

 

[sojourner]

^ worst derail ever

 

[northeastoipunk]

but lager with indian never wine ??

 

[Orang Utan]

Nowt wrong with wine and a curry

 

[northeastoipunk]

^ worst derail ever

sorry lol but i was chuffed

 

[foo]

just had a text , italian meal cancelled can we just eat in preferably indian with a bottle of wine .
my kinda lady lol saves me a few precious pennies too lol

ok, enjoy

 

[Dillinger4]

^ worst derail ever

yeh.

 

[northeastoipunk]

Nowt wrong with wine and a curry

i love wine gotta be red tho but curry and wine dont mix really gotta be cold lager for me . sorry i will get back to the books
hmmm what do i know by maddur jaffrey

 

[foo]

I fucking hate the other two Brontes And Jane Austen. With a passion

innit.

wankers the lot of em.

 

[Dillinger4]

I fucking hate the other two Brontes And Jane Austen. With a passion

innit.

wankers the lot of em.

Finally. Something I can agree with.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Me too.

 

[sojourner]

oh, and that George whatserface...can't remember the second name


fucking memory's shot

 

[Dillinger4]

oh, and that George whatserface...can't remember the second name


fucking memory's shot

George Eliot?

 

[northeastoipunk]

another good book i read lately from my old collection tho hardly a classic , was
revolt on the clyde by wull gallagher , well worth a read if you wanna know how far a government will go on these isles to surpress an uprising or strike

 

[foo]

ooh the man who was really a woman. middlemarch?

fuck, i can't remember either

edit: yep. Eliot.

while i'm at it, DH Lawrence can fuck right off too.

i'm enjoying this and imagining my english teacher at school's face....it's been a long and hard day.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Eliot.

 

[sojourner]

George Eliot?

Yeh, her

Boring bastard

 

[northeastoipunk]

George Eliot?

bloody tranny want he/she lol

 

[sojourner]

ooh the man who was really a woman. middlemarch?

fuck, i can't remember either

yep. Eliot.

lol

Yeh

Shite!

 

[sojourner]

bloody tranny want he/she lol

It was a pseudonym you ignorant cunt

 

[foo]

bloody tranny want he/she lol

um no.

women weren't allowed to be published authors. they had to have psuedonyms.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

It's not exactly classic material, but I don't get Iain Banks. I've read one (mercifully short) book by him – The Wasp Factory – and it is possibly the worst book in terms of prose style I have ever read.

 

[northeastoipunk]

i was thinking haylee from corrie lol was that a pseudonym