I've read this book once and that once was quite enough

Vince W said:
I read that one as well. I agree. While it depicted the absolute horror that was the First World War quite well I'd never return to it.
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Ive never been able to forget Joe Bonham and his horrific predicament. It's the stuff of nightmares.
 
I think the Gor books can be summed up by one bit I remember from the one I tried to wade through.
If a girl/woman runs away from her husband then it's her brothers duty to catch her, strip her naked then beat the living c**p out of her, before dragging her back to her husband!
So if s**t like this floats your boat go for it!!!
Something from the TV series called "Justified" comes to mind, when this art expert claims to have the biggest collection of Adolf Hitler paintings, started by his late father!
Eventually the hero is persuaded to view them, only to find shelf after shelf of glass jars containing ashes!
The expert explains that his father was a Nazi supporter, unlike the expert who hates him, so when he now gets a chance he buys Hitler paintings when they come on the market then burns them!!
Although I hate the idea of burning books, when it comes to Gor I might make an exception!!!!!
 
After the first couple of Gor books, which are pretty unremarkable 1970s adolescent wish-fulfillment sf-fantasy, the series started to become peculiar, even by period standards which often seem mysogenistic nowadays. I think it is an outlier that just happened to have mainstream release rather than via specialist retailers. There is an odd fetish scene based around the Gor stories, and I believe that John Norman has written books about the bondage lifestyle.
 
Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series. I know this series gets good reviews and is loved by many, but I had to muscle through the gag reflex to get to the ones written by Sanderson only to find the first books by him that I'll never read again. They were better than the bile spewed across the page by Jordan, but not by much. Why it took 18 books to tell a story that could have been done, even if still over done, in 8 is beyond me.
 
Sounds like you'd enjoy Adam Roberts' reviews of the Wheel of Time!
 
There's this thread:

Books You Shouldn't Read

OP was Mosaix, back in 2006, and the first post was:
Mosaix said:
OK, recommendations for books that people shouldn't read and the reasons. Any genre not just SF&F.

Now this may seem a strange thread to start on Chronicles and some may say that such a list of books should be discouraged or frowned on (topic for another thread?) and until a few years ago I would have agreed with you. That is until I read American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.

I was diminished as a human being by this book. I was a different person after I had read it and not for the better. That book put things in my head that I wish weren't there.

So top of my list, and the only entry on mine so far, don't read:

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
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I remember Heinlein's Time Enough for Love was a struggle for me at the time (many years ago). Also cannot see me re-reading Stephensons Cryptonomicon. I thought it was good but just cannot imagine undertaking it again.
 
Peter V said:
I remember Heinlein's Time Enough for Love was a struggle for me at the time (many years ago). Also cannot see me re-reading Stephensons Cryptonomicon. I thought it was good but just cannot imagine undertaking it again.
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Ive heard not of good things about that book, but it requires patience.
 
SLOB by Rex Miller

A long time ago, I bought it at a used book store for two bucks. I should have left it on the shelf. A weak serial killer story, that was completely nauseating, and ultimately a huge waste of time, that included a typical ending. It was just another hyped, trash story. Unfortunately since then, I can't get it out of my head. I still think about it, when I overhear someone else chatting about novels they didn't like.


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Starbeast said:
SLOB by Rex Miller

A long time ago, I bought it at a used book store for two bucks. I should have left it on the shelf. A weak serial killer story, that was completely nauseating, and ultimately a huge waste of time, that included a typical ending. It was just another hyped, trash story. Unfortunately since then, I can't get it out of my head. I still think about it, when I overhear someone else chatting about novels they didn't like.


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I almost bought that book. From the sound of it , Im glad I didn't.
 
Islands in the Stream, by Hemmingway - that was hard to read! The man could NOT write a decent love scene!
 
Cathbad said:
Islands in the Stream, by Hemmingway - that was hard to read! The man could NOT write a decent love scene!
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The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway. A book populated by a bunch empty and unlikable characters with no life, purpose or future to speak of.:eek:
 
BAYLOR said:
The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway. A book populated by a bunch empty and unlikable characters with no life, purpose or future to speak of.:eek:
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Yup. And probably the first work by Hemingway not titled The Old Man and the Sea that I truly loved. :cool:
 
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