Overrated Books

[JJewel]

Their was a time he was everywhere here as a book seller, I mainly bought at jumble sales and he was easy to find. That and Nick Carter, the american superspy if anyone remembers him?

 

[Heather Myst]

It's a book and series that one either loves or hates . There's no middle ground.

You're right Baylor. I know several people who love that series.

 

[BAYLOR]

You're right Baylor. I know several people who love that series.

There are people who gave me rave reviews of The Mist of Avalon by MarionZimmer Bradley I ended up hating the book and not even coming close to finishing it.

 

[MikeAnderson]

Just curious, first of what? There were plenty of vampire novels before Dracula. Not Translyvanian Vlad the impaler-types admitedly, but sexy aristocratic vampire lords appeared at least as far back as 1819 with John Polidori's The Vampyre

I hate those type of vampires. Give me some 30 Days of Night grimy bloodsuckers.

 

[MikeAnderson]

Naked Lunch. It was written by somebody who was almost always stoned and it shows.
It doesn’t make it cool for being so....just a mess.

About the only positive contribution to society from this book was the name taken by that wonderful jazz rock group Steely Dan (Steely Dan III from Yokohama....a strap-on dildo).

Funny thing about Burroughs; his writing is like a Rorschach blot. Everybody seems to see something different. I always thought it was more of a cautionary tale than a glorifications.

 

[BAYLOR]

Funny thing about Burroughs; his writing is like a Rorschach blot. Everybody seems to see something different. I always thought it was more of a cautionary tale than a glorifications.

I got about 40 pages into Naked Lunch and then I threw in the towel.

 

[Bick]

It's a book and series that one either loves or hates . There's no middle ground.

Except... I quite liked it.

 

[BAYLOR]

Except... I quite liked it.

So did I.

 

[BAYLOR]

Dahlgren by Samuel Delany I don't understand the polarity of this book given how incomprehensible it is.