Books you are critical of

I tend to criticize the first few chapters of a book more than anything.  I thought the first chapter of HHGTTG was crap, put off reading it for a year, then finished the entire series in a week without bias.  I'm going through the same thing with Harry Potter.

Other books I loathe having finished, such as the Thrawn trilogy of Star Wars novels that were sitting on my shelf for so long.

I didn't like Catcher in the Rye, and hate Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer.  Sorry everyone.

Basically everything Neal Stephenson has ever written is great stuff, but he doesn't write endings. At all. His books just go and go and go, and then they STOP.

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I hated Catcher in the Rye.  It's like EVA in book form.

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If you consider EVA to have an intelligible message that you can't wrap your little head around, then sure.

babar & the ghost

1)The last book of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy serise. I liked Elvis, Arthur as 'The Sandwich Maker', and Ford jumping out of all those windows, but the over all book was crap.

2)The "Book of Unfinished Tales". SHUT UP CHRISTOPHER TOLKEIN. No one fucking cares about what you THINK your grandfather was thinking. No one fucking cares about YOU, you godforsaken attention whore. Why don't you go acomplish something for yourself. And you're damn ugly too.

3) See http://www.world4ch.org/book/#1143652918
Because self fan-ficing is the hight of pretentious self-absorbtion.

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EVA is overrated.  I rather watch Dual since it doesn't leave me with a pissed off feeling.

christopher tolkein is J.R.R's son, but his grandson is christopher's editor, so we can pretty much expect the same commentary shit for another forty or so years

Books I liked in junior high and high school that I've tried to reread I find I am critical of. Especially Piers Anthony and Robert Heinlein for poor character development and dialog.

Also most authors on the best sellers list. Most really famous ones that crank out books nonstop do so because they aren't writing quality (Dean Koontz, James Patterson).

Also any new fantasy books because it has all been done before (Eragon, Harry Potter) and I hate retreads.

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Weird. I always though the first chapter was the best.

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At least HP took some old concepts and did interesting things with them. Eragon just ripped off Tolkien, chucked in some dragons, and threw the whole thing up into the general populace. Yech.

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The only Dean Koontz book I like is 'Mr. Murder' and don't EVER watch the mini-series because it only warps the reader's perception of the book.

A book I'm critical of?  The Bible.  No one ever seems to sell the damned thing in tissue-paper form so that I can give it the treatment it so deeply deserves.

I heard about the concept for the Da Vinci Code and I bust a gut laughing. Then I went to reread Foucault's Pendulum to make sure I wasn't remembering it wrong.

Then I decided that Dan Brown must die. He's spawned a generation of new readers who go I ARE KNOWS CONSPIRACY THEORY, HURRRR who are totally ignorant of the millions of ways it's been done better. Who will, probably, when told to read a superior book by an Italian medievalist, say I READ SOMETHING LIKE THAT BEFORE IT GOT TURNED INTO A MOVIE HURRRRR.