[komodo_117]

Originally Posted by undirected

This can't be the worst book ever, James Patterson didn't write it.

I lol'd.

[Captain A v2.0]

Why so much hate for Brave New World?

Originally Posted by meyaht

i hated The Prince by Makiavelli (spell check me here)

tiny pieces of cleverness hidden in dry redundant chunks of summarized history.

Eh, I think perhaps you missed the point or context maybe?

[Strawberryblonde.]

http://www.amazon.com/Electromagneti.../dp/0976522810

We have a copy of this book at my library, it's so bad that it's awesome. I highly recommend reading just because it's so damn funny.

[Bking2]

The Great Gatsby. I hated that ****** book we had to read in 11th grade.

[Bill The Butcher]

Originally Posted by Jack of Blades 2

The Iliad. Not a fan.

You must be a woman.
Mine is Gandhi: His Life and Message for the world. But then again I've been fortunate enough not to read Jane Eyre and the other emotional chick reads.

[paintthower05]

Originally Posted by Bking2

The Great Gatsby. I hated that ****** book we had to read in 11th grade.

I enjoyed Gatsby. I think it really captured the essence of the death of the roaring twenties(with Gatsby's death symbolizing it of course). But I hated Catcher in the Rye.

[Fromage_redux]

Originally Posted by paintthower05

I enjoyed Gatsby. I think it really captured the essence of the death of the roaring twenties(with Gatsby's death symbolizing it of course). But I hated Catcher in the Rye.

Both Gatsby and Catcher are decent books. Holden from Catcher was very annoying at times, how he acted and spoke, sometimes it struck a nerve. My least favorite book I have ever read was easily When Heaven and Earth Changed Places. Read it for school, it may be a good film, but i couldnt read the book.


(Idk if it actually has been made into a film, im just saying it might be better as a film, and not a boring *** book.)

[KyPaintBawler II]

I enjoyed A Brave New World...

But Sula was a pile of ****.

[jps332]

At the time I absolutely hated Lord of the Flies. We had to read it in 10th grade and my retarded teacher completely ruined it for us. I'm sure if I read it now I would like it but I still don't know.

[Mike.Sen]

Originally Posted by jps332

At the time I absolutely hated Lord of the Flies. We had to read it in 10th grade and my retarded teacher completely ruined it for us. I'm sure if I read it now I would like it but I still don't know.

You won't. I read it two years ago. Hated it. But backed it up with reasons why. It's stupid, dry, and ****ing flat-out wrong.

Originally Posted by Jack of Blades 2

The Iliad. Not a fan.

Yeah, Like the guy above me... Wha..?

I'm reading the **** in Greek this summer. The opening mother ****ing line. I mean, c'mon.

What translation did you read?

[meyaht]

Originally Posted by Captain A v2.0

Why so much hate for Brave New World?



Eh, I think perhaps you missed the point or context maybe?

maybe i did, i wouldnt mind you explaining it to me, honestly, i really couldnt get into it.

[Strawberryblonde.]

Originally Posted by Mike.Sen

Yeah, Like the guy above me... Wha..?

I'm reading the **** in Greek this summer. The opening mother ****ing line. I mean, c'mon.

Rage.

[Mike.Sen]

Originally Posted by Strawberryblonde.

Rage.

...—Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles.

Yes.Yes.Yes. Fagles' translation is beautiful just for that reason. Strange, it may be, but―I have the first line memorized in Fagles' translation and Greek (not that it's that hard to 'memorize'.).

Not sure about the accents, but

μήνιν ἄειδε, θεά, Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχίλληος,

It's translated that way because μήνιν means rage, but ἄειδε is the verb telling θεά (Muse/Goddess) to Sing about the rage of Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχίλληος (the Son of Peleus, Achilles).

So it's one of the more apparent issues we have with literary translation.

And second, μήνιν is pronounced manin (long a, as in tame), and it's feminine. The word isn't as cut throat as Rage. So, even though Fagle's translation is so much more gripping for it's opening line, it's kind of innaccurate. (you know, cuz it's Achilles' childish rage that costs lives and all.)

[Bill The Butcher]

You are a man after my own heart. I too, have a big hard on for the Iliad.

[penguin_style25]

A Seperate Piece.


Most.Homo.Book......ever

[WVprankster]

Our Town, followed ever-so-closely by Gatsby. Both of these books suck on a level that the movie Gigli could only hope to kinda-almost-maybe one day aspire to.

[oshkosh011]

Originally Posted by Mr. Bush

Old Man and the Sea.

**** you, that **** was dank. Definitely the glass menagerie. No point whatsoever

[Drunk_Vader]

I don't read bad books.

If I can't appreciate and respect the authors work after about 5 chapters into the book then I do NOT continue reading it.

[DayoftheGreek]

I really didn't like The Kite Runner.


I can't say I have read many books in my life that I though were worse.

[snwbrdr913]

Originally Posted by paintball_shaman

And I don't know who couldn't love Catch-22.

Catch-22 is a one trick pony that keeps on telling you what it's trick is, over and over until it ends.

[paintthower05]

Originally Posted by penguin_style25

A Seperate Piece.


Most.Homo.Book......ever

I'm pretty sure its A Seperate Peace, but yes, there is clearly some homosexual undertones there. I didn't care for it either.