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Big Red Started conversation Oct 17, 2003
Patricia Cornwell. I bought two of her books (used, thank God) because I heard nothing but how great they were, but I thought they were awful. Badly written, with unbelivable characters and stilted dialogue. I thought I'd enjoy them because I love medical stuff. Nahhhh.
The plots themselves are fine, so they'd make good movies.
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Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" Posted Oct 18, 2003
I just know I'm going to get hate mail for posting this, but I think The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (spit, hiss) belong in this category too. Here's why (stop if you honestly and truly want to read that book):
1. It's 279 pages of a lousy first-person narrative book, in which all but some 50 of those pages are about a runaway slave who's trying to make it to the "Free States" while he's already free the entire time. In my opinion an ending like that makes the book worse than The Education of Little Tree. (Yes I know I'm getting hate mail about that too.)
So until the shouts of disapproval arrive 
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Thin Lizzy Posted Oct 18, 2003
I've never read Huckleberry Finn, and so far I have had no real inclination to do so, so I'm not going to dispute it.
I went to a boot sale once and saw a book there that had been nominated for the Booker Prize- it was the third in a trilogy of first world war novels called "The Ghost Road" by Pat Barker(I try not to read books in the wrong order generally but this one looked fairly interesting). I managed to scrape my way through it, and felt like it was scraping through me as well.
I don't mind the odd bit of sex in a book, or swearing, or even a bit of downright grit- It's all OK in moderation... but this was grit from end to end- nothing but raucous swearing, mucky sexual descriptions, and nothing seemed to happen. There were odd flashbacks that I couldn't understand at all, periods of complete nothingness and I spent the entire story waiting for a climax, or something better than the current plot that never came. Determination to wait and see if it got better was the only thing that stopped me putting it down. It was just filth and bilge and boredom all through it.
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Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" Posted Oct 19, 2003
Well so was World War 1.
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Thin Lizzy Posted Oct 20, 2003
Lol! Hey, have any of you read "Birdsong"? I'm thinking of reading it, so what's it like?
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Thin Lizzy Posted Oct 20, 2003
Lol I know. But then, so's Wuthering Heights. Sorry, but I detested that damn book.
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