Oh! Someone sent me La Perdida, which I hated. But she was getting rid of it, so...there must have been a reason. There are several books that were recommended in general that I didn't like, but I guess there aren't many books that people have specifically, personally recommended to me that have been disasters. I didn't really like Tales of the Lost Formicans, so that might count.
'Dear Diary, Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy.' 'Today, we were kidnapped by hill folk never to be seen again. It was the best day ever.'
Jayne ,'Safe'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Polter-Cow - Sep 27, 2012 12:52:37 pm PDT #19836 of 28564
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
erikaj - Sep 27, 2012 1:30:30 pm PDT #19837 of 28564
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
I saw the Kite Runner movie...it was okay. But I can imagine the screenwriter cut out a lot of misery, Cass.
meara - Sep 27, 2012 2:12:52 pm PDT #19838 of 28564
Twilight.
Back in the day a coworker was all "ooh, I just read this awesome book and I know you're a big reader and enjoy vampires and stuff..."
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 27, 2012 2:18:15 pm PDT #19839 of 28564
Oh honey, the mentally unwell people have been in the fanbase since Game Changers was Stucky fanfiction on the internet. The calls have been coming from inside the house the whole time!
Do recommendations you didn't take count? A friend of mine was big into L. Ron Hubbard in school, and tried to get me to read Battlefield Earth. Pass.
erikaj - Sep 27, 2012 2:25:07 pm PDT #19840 of 28564
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Well, I guess, Matt. I think you made the right call. Meara, yeah, that happened to me too. I might have been fine with it if I only read the one, though.
Zenkitty - Sep 27, 2012 2:34:40 pm PDT #19841 of 28564
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Cass, I had the same reaction to Kite Runner. It left a sour taste in my brain that will never go away. From that book I learned the valuable lesson that it really is okay to stop reading and not finish a book.
sj - Sep 27, 2012 2:51:58 pm PDT #19842 of 28564
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I loved the movie version of The Kite Runner. I never read the book, but I'm all about the misery in books.
Cass - Sep 27, 2012 2:53:03 pm PDT #19843 of 28564
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
From that book I learned the valuable lesson that it really is okay to stop reading and not finish a book.
I'm still learning that lesson. I so wish I had just given it up instead of this stupid feeling angry at a book. I mean, that's ridiculous. It's a book, why was I angry at it? Even worse, I am still angry at it. I need to learn to stop reading.
dcp - Sep 27, 2012 3:22:17 pm PDT #19844 of 28564
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
ok, what's the most unfortunate book rec you ever got?
Kite Runner
Absolutely.
Dana - Sep 27, 2012 3:42:51 pm PDT #19845 of 28564
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
My aunt gave me The Celestine Prophecy.