not a lot of really bad ones anyway

Well, I certainly hated the way it ended It was very difficult for me to read this book, but I did it in highschool because it was either that or If This Is a Man... and honestly I didn't think I could read that one from what I'd heard of it.

Oh lol, almost forgot about that. Marx has no concept of sentence structures, and drones on in a giant train of thought without ever saying much. Feels like he's just trying to sound smart, rather than getting to the point and actually explain what the hell he's trying to say. Seriously, I've read books by other economic writers, whose theories and views range from total free market economies to total government controlled economies, and every single one of them writes VASTLY better than Marx.

Otherwise, anything that seems to be a book about how to describe a painting, rather than what is going on, annoys the living hell out of me. If it really has no relevance, and the stage setting is too much, I get bored extremely quickly and throw the book away from my sight.

Well I do Auel a bit of a disservice. She does write those sections well, and they're about nothing other than the minutiae of day to day survival, of one isolated person, who knows no vocal language. It's well written, it's just that nothing really happens, for five years.

And yeah, I don't like books that are obviously just some nerd's roleplaying with a thinly disguised DnD clone.


I don't know how many people have read the TEs novels, but a teaser was released of a chapter, written with some of the most awful, turgid and cliched prose outside of a dark and stormy night. The actual book was pretty good, and the second one I really liked. That chapter was still awful though, I've no idea what Keyes was thinking when he wrote that. It's like the books were written by a professional writer, but that one chapter was written by a high school student.

Mein Kampf, that book is awful.

Same for me. That's why I hate most fantasy. I couldn't get through any Tolkein because it's so overly descriptive and way too slow.

Meh, the Silmarillion wasn't that bad. Definitely cut to the chase much more than Lord of the Rings, which was two books of riding on horses.

My favorite is still the 1st book. Valley of Horses wasn't bad, but it went on too long and I found it less interesting. Mammoth Hunters would probably be the next one I like after Cave Bear...it had a lot more characters and dynamics going on. I loved most of the characters. Plains of Passage felt more like Valley of the Horses, even if there were more encounters/stuff to tell.

My problem with Shelters of Stone was not the story...that was probably about the same as it always was (minimal). It's the actual writing. It's horrible. Auel was never what I'd call a great writer, structurally, but it did "flow" ok which, at least for me, allowed me to mostly ignore the ugly stuff (too much repetition, say). But Shelters of Stone was more like....a 10 year old wrote it. I was constantly thrown out of the narrative with horrible and stilted sentence structure. I think I re-read Shelters once, years later, and it didn't seem quite as horrid as before, but it's still terrible.

I haven't read the last book in the series. Stopped caring. I still re-read Cave Bear/Mammoth Hunters now and then tho.

I love him..

I can't believe I forgot about Lord of the Flies. I had to read it for an English class years ago and I was just not interested at all. I respect the book for the cultural icon that it is, but I found very little to enjoy in it.

I found Lord of the Flies to be interesting, but not really well written as well.

Like I said, I don't think anyone cares whether or not you liked what you read of the book. I know I don't...you don't seem to like much of anything (no offense). I think it's that you're being so aggressively condescending about it. I also kind of wonder if you'd think it was "OMG the worst book evar" if the HBO series hadn't made it popular. I'll admit that it's been years since I read it, but I remember liking it. Perhaps not as much as the second and third books in the series, but certainly less cliche than most fantasy fiction out there.

IT WAS AN EPIC ADVENTURE ACROSS THE GREATEST FANTASY WORLD EVER CREATED OKAY!!!

I got like 40 pages through the Hobbit and I couldn't read any further. It dragged on for me.

Hey, I love Tolkein's work, but I got bored as hell plenty of times in LotR. Silmarillion was much better, enough so that even Tolkein engraved "Beren" on his stone and "Luthien" on his wife's stone.