What are some books that have little to no literary value, that you have enjoyed reading?
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Anonymous2006-04-19 23:35
The Bible.
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Anonymous2006-04-20 1:16
gossip girl
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Anonymous2006-04-20 8:20
babar and the ghost
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Anonymous2006-04-20 21:27
Harry Potter. >.< I had to know who snape was and why he killed the dumbledor ok?!? ...Now I'm one of those Snape fan-girly things that haunt the dark corners of AdultFanFiction.net
Also there's a book, I can't remeber the title, (and I lent it to someone who never returned it >.<) which, starting in ancient Egypt and moving up to 1995, catalogs perverted historical texts, rumors, and mythology. (The story of how Egyptian goddess Isis got pregnant by having sex with the corpse of her husband, Anything involving greek gods, the homo-sexual tendencies of Julius Ceasar, King Henry the 8th's wives, pages from records of witch-trials where people describe having sex with satan, J. Edgar Hoover, etc)
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Anonymous2006-04-21 0:16
>>5
oh dear god. i think you just renewed my interest in books.
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Anonymous2006-04-21 8:37
Al-Quran!
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Anonymous2006-04-21 14:56
Al means The lol
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Anonymous2006-04-21 20:29
Dan Brown's books. I can't speak for the Da Vinci code particularly, but if it's like his other books (Digital Fortress in particular) than it only sounds intillectual to those completley clueless about the subject. Luckily not many people are experts on Da Vinci's artwork or religious symbology.
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Anonymous2006-04-22 20:48
>>6
I've tried finding another copy everywhere too. Amazon.com everywhere.. The illustration on the front is this row of books and the book-ends are asses, and there are arms and legs coming out from between the pages of the books at all angles with the arms grabing the ass book-ends and the ankles of the legs.
The BEST chapter is the one on the witches because they go into incredible detail, an it's quoted from an actuall document made at the trial. They said that the devil turned into animals like a dog, horse, stag, etc and had sex with them, that he had sex with 10-15 of them one after the other, that in his "human" from his dick was as long as him forearm, and that when he came there was gallons of juzz that streched out their bellies, that his jizz was icecold, that they were gang raped by monsters while he watched. It's just like anything you can find in hentai manga today, only it's a historical document. And if anyone questions "what the fuck is this?!?!" ... it's a history lesson, bitches.
I should have put it down when I got to "swimsuit model with a doctorate".
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Anonymous2006-05-12 23:42
i read chick lit. there's absolutely nothing prosaic about these books, but in my defense it's not that different from watching lame teen shows like the oc (i watch that too) or brainless action movies.
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i'd rather be a man who read chick lit than a woman. trust me.
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Anonymous2006-05-14 4:32
Some of that chick lit is HARDCORE.
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Anonymous2006-05-25 21:34
Anyone remember a book called "Weapon"? It involved an android protaganist named Solo. Damned action-packed fluff, but fun all the same.
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Anonymous2006-05-25 22:25
i read... animorphs
O GOD DONT LOOK AT ME :(
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Anonymous2006-05-26 19:24
>>21
No one wants to. Now go back to reading RL Stien. Teenybooper.
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Anonymous2006-05-27 16:30
Anything by Harry Turtledove. Massive repetition(if I read once more about Sam Carsten's zinc ointment/some losers blown off penis/whatever, I'll shoot somebody), horrible sex scenes(oh boy, now that nazi-type got a raging hard-on from a political rally, let's see him rape his slutty wife), and "maybe he did, maybe he didn't" crud. Really, the man could write blindfolded and probably does. Still, I chow down his material like a lunatic.
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Anonymous2006-05-30 15:56
Why do all of Harry Turtledove's (I swear that's a pseudonym) books have an important looking cover? I mean, the cover just looks like the book is an instant classic, a respected work of fiction, with a timeless sounding title that will be remembered for ages, and then the reviews are like "what the hell."
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Anonymous2006-06-04 16:23
http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/turtledove.html
(notice the hippie in the middle - that's him)
His pseydonym was Eric Iverson. I read somewhere he used it because people wouldn't believe Turtledove was his real name.
Why did you write Wereblood and Werenight under a pseudonym?
Turtledove: My publisher gave me that pseudonym on the grounds that no one would believe that Turtledove—which is my real name—was my real name. I had no choice in the matter.
I was just starting to be known under my pseudonym of Eric Iverson. I kept the pen name for a while. I was also publishing academic nonfiction. I thought it might be useful to have one name for the fiction and one name for the nonfiction.
When I sold the four books of the Videssos Cycle to Lester del Rey [of Del Rey Books], Lester said, "I'm going to give you your real name back, because people will remember it."
I may be the only writer around who has both his pen name and his own name opposed on him by force [laughs].
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Anonymous2006-06-05 20:38
ptobably the stupidest books i like are terry pratchett's... it's like candy for the brain.
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Anonymous2006-06-05 21:07
>>27
If by "stupidest" you mean "most amusing" then yes. How are Pratchett's books stupid?
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Anonymous2006-06-05 21:57
Well, they're kinda stupid if you don't get the references, I guess. And if you have the attention span of an American President.
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You don't have to get the references, everything is purely logical either way.
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Anonymous2006-06-18 3:06
>>20
You know they made a movie of the book (called "Solo") and it had Mario Van Peebles as Solo.
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Anonymous2006-06-18 4:56
I like the Koran, cuz it allows me to behead people I don't like, fly airplanes into buildings and rape little girls like Mohammed did. ALLAHU AKBAR!
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Anonymous2006-06-24 3:10
>>5
I was going to say that. T_T
Except I'm not a girly-fan whatever.
However, I add the Claremont/Lucas Shadow trilogy as a series of stupid books that I like. Shadow Moon, Shadow Dawn, Shadow Star. These books continue the story of Willow.