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[Idiom]

Nearly any fad book or book series written by wannabe authors.

IE: Harry Potter, Twilight, Eragon etc.

[corvvs]

Anything by Ayn Rand.

ESPECIALLY Atlas Shrugged. The six-hundred page monologue (you think I'm exaggerating? find a copy of the book.) near the end is only a taste of the idiocy. I can't STAND the author's philosophy, and especially the hamfisted way she shoves it down the reader's throat. You know the main character's brother is the villain of the story because in the first conversation he says "There are things more important than money."

Anthem is the most readable of her tripe. Probably because it's the only thing she wrote with a coherent plot all the way through instead of breaking down into an attempt to force her uber-capitalism into the reader's head.

[bhelyer]

A part of me will never forgive Stephen King for killing Nick Andros. Not just killing him, but essentially disintegrating him!

 

I still like The Stand, but damn.

[mendonca]

And anything by  Kurt Vonnegut.

Come on, surely not ANYTHING .. what was that book .. about tramalfadore (sp.)? That was highly enjoyable.

If not just for the name 'Montana Wildhack'.

I can't remember the name of the book ...

[Gigalith]

And anything by  Kurt Vonnegut.

Come on, surely not ANYTHING .. what was that book .. about tramalfadore (sp.)? That was highly enjoyable.

If not just for the name 'Montana Wildhack'.

I can't remember the name of the book ...

You're probably thinking of Slaughterhouse Five.

[Awayfarer]

On Vonnegut: I can't say I'm a huge fan, but there's nothing he's done that I've really hated. He's one of those types that everybody makes a big deal about, but I can't see why.

[MrWiggles]

Slaterhouse five and Sirens of Titans. both had the forth deminsional aliens.

In Sirens, all of human great accomplishment, was directed by aliens forces.. blah blah... It really annoyed me, and then the ending. Its shit.

His books annoy me.

[KaelGotDwarves]

Anything the author of Ender's Game wrote after Ender's Game.

Seriously atrocious. Almost on par with the rape done to Frank Herbert's Dune after Frank passed away, but only worse because the original author is still living and putting out shit.

[viskaslietuvai]

Anything the author of Ender's Game wrote after Ender's Game.

Seriously atrocious. Almost on par with the rape done to Frank Herbert's Dune after Frank passed away, but only worse because the original author is still living and putting out shit.

The thing that kills me is Orson Scott Card said that the Speaker of the Dead, Xenocide etc. stuff was his originally intended series and Ender's Game was just supposed to be a set up. And what's with the goddamn Portuguese?!

[viskaslietuvai]

Lord of the Rings.
Everyone says, oh the detail, oh the epic nature of the tale. The most epic thing about the characters? How epicly (not a real world) bland they are. They act like they're in Victorian England. I was expecting some level of excitement and not the driest dialogue ever.
These days I pretty much read non-fiction.
In that realm, I was recently given a book called American Fascists I think, about crazy Christers. But here's the thing, when you start saying that an idea needs to be stamped out, you too are a fascist. Only got about 50 pages into that one.

[Jackrabbit]

It's an interesting thought. How else does one deal with facisim? Ignoring it would be a good way, but what if it's actually a major problem?

[Dragooble]

The Jews were people too and they had a difficult time while Hitler was murdering them and so on? YOU DONT SAY.

this. I'm starting to dislike all those books about WWII. mainly because it's just the same old story after another. some Jewish kid gets kidnapped by Nazis gets sent to a concentration camp and everybody has a fun time. MEANWHILE you go back to playing resident evil 4 there's a lot more than just Jews getting slaughtered in WWII. for example: a book i read recently called "Someone Named Eva" is about a Czech girl who gets taken away from her home. not because she's Jewish, but because her appearance fits Hitler's standards for the "perfect human". so this girl gets sent to a special school in Poland where she gets re-educated into the Nazi philosophy, forbidden to use any language other than German, told her parents died in an allied air raid and is forced to do the Nazi salute every day for 2 years untill she is adopted by a German family. this was interesting because i had never even seen this touched upon before. but thats probably because if i remember correctly there were very little survivors of this, and thus very few witness acounts to go on.

[Cecilff2]

Wuthering Heights.  I hate that book with a passion.  Everyone is so horrible.  The entire book consisted of me hoping Heathcliffe would finally snap and just kill everyone.  But nothing ever happens.  It's just a bunch of pointless banter.  I will never read this book again, and vow to burn any copies I find.

[Strife26]

I liked Ender's Shadow, thank you very much.
Although it is just Ender's game by a different view point, so it may not count. I liked some of the other Bean books to (although the last one ends badly).


Also, I'd like to add the Awakening to the list of REALLY annoying books. It was required reading for me. Stay the hell away from anything by Kate Chopin, her books suck.

[Fossaman]

I liked Ender's Shadow, thank you very much.

Yes. Ender's Shadow was almost as much fun as Ender's Game. The sequels to it were okay. Kinda meh.