Take Five

[jazzy_dave]

What’s the worst book you’ve ever read, and why?

Which genre  do you read the most?

Which genre(s) don’t you read? Why not?

What  book you found overhyped, and why?

What is the book you read when you’re stuck in bed sick?




Dave Brubeck - Take Five

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[seawasp]

1) Probably _Lord of the Flies_, by Golding. It was the book that taught me "it's okay to stop reading books that suck". I did not *apply* that lesson to that book, unfortunately, but upon finishing the book I made that resolution.

2) SF/F is my preferred genre.

3) Several, but probably the primary obvious one is general romance novels; they usually have a formula and modern ones tend to be racier than i'm comfortable with. I don't mind Austenian romances, though. I don't read much war-focused fiction or most apocalyptica. I'm not usually interested in detailed history-based stuff, either, though a good Alt-Hist can work.

4) The ultimate example might be Moby-Dick, which is a long-term classic that I found frustratingly dull. It's basically two books in one: a tale of an obsessed captain and how his obsession leads to his destruction, and a long detailed treatise on whaling and the world in which whaling was occurring during the period of the novel. Combining the two leads to a frustrating snoozefest. Separating them would probably yield a couple decent books.

5) I've read literally hundreds of books that way, so I couldn't say "the book".

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

What’s the worst book you’ve ever read, and why? The Beans of Egypt, Maine. It was assigned in college, and I got seventy pages into it before I finally realized that nothing was going to happen/

Which genre do you read the most? I don't confine myself to a genre; I read material that covers all universes that could ever exist, from origin to ending. I read SF/F. :)

Which genre(s) don’t you read? Why not? Anything where the same people do the same thing and never learn; which is most of them.

What [is the most extreme case of a] book you found overhyped, and why? Wow. Spoiled for choice, really. But I guess Without a Doubt, which in the interests of honesty should have been titled Without A Shred.

What is the book you read when you’re stuck in bed sick? The only time I've found myself so much sicker than normal that I had to stay in bed all the time was when my kidney stones put me in the hospital, and I forgot to take a book to the emergency room with me. The book I wish I'd had then would be Cryptonomicon, which generally takes me four days to get through; just right.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I would have to say the Autobiography by Diana Ross.
Talk about conceited. :o

Is fiction specific enough? lol...

What would you classify Stephen King as? Horror?
Not a fan. :o

Does it count if I haven't read them?
I would say 50 Shades of Grey and/or the Twilight series. :o

I guess I would say whatever I am reading at the time. I don't really have a go to book.
Hugs, Jon

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

I always that Ross had an inflated ego of herself.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

The only reason I finished the book was because it was a gift and felt I had to read it. :o

[ron-broxted.livejournal.com]

Nostromo (bored me shitless).
One hundred years of solitude (for reasons I won't go into here as there is a crazee mulatto reading this).
American Psycho.

[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

How about one I just couldn't make it through- 'Billy Budd' by Melville. Like that whale book, it's half novel and half book on sailing. I gave up after the huge chapter on tying knots.

Mostly literary fiction and historical fiction. Bonus points for historical fantasy. But I read all sorts of things.

Romances and westerns.

'The Magicians'' by Lev Grossman. I disliked every single person in that book. And yet I still may someday read the rest of the trilogy, just to see if they manage to grow up.

Whatever is next on the pile! I'm sick a LOT so I just keep on with what's next. Sometimes I *do* slip one ahead in the queue if I've got a bad fever, and read, say, a fantasy instead of a nonfiction opus.

[pigshitpoet.livejournal.com]

i need to take five

thanks!

[deborahw37.livejournal.com]

Worst Book; Twilight

I read lots of genres

Don't do sword and sorcery books ( post Tolkein) because it all tends to be a bit silly . Also no Chick Lit. Ever because I find it insulting patronising and just no,

Overhyped, Bloody Bridget Jones and bloody Dan Brown


I am almost never in bed sick, if I am I'm too ill to be awake. But when I broke my leg I read old bound copies of The Girls Own Paper from the 1890s and Miss Read novels.

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

*HUGS*

Can't think of a thing (my brain doesn't work lately, lol!)

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

Worst book I can remember - The Vesuvius Club by Mark Gatiss. I wrote a full complaint (http://londonkds.dreamwidth.org/398921.html#cutid1) at the time.

Genre: a lot of SF/fantasy and crime.

Genres I don't read: romance, which I've never really tried, and books which are about showing off writing quality rather than anything else.

Most over-hyped book: I really bounced off Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow, but I think I was just surprised by the genre shift into SF.

Book I read when I'm feeling ill for comfort: usually something to do with railways or tramways.

[soundofsunlight]

What’s the worst book you’ve ever read, and why? - I can't pick one.

Which genre do you read the most? - Fantasy, especially fairy tale retellings and Discworld.

Which genre(s) don’t you read? Why not? - Romance, because it feels pointless to me.

What book you found overhyped, and why? - Lord of the Rings. I just found it really boring.

What is the book you read when you’re stuck in bed sick? - Watership Down.

[kabuldur.livejournal.com]

1. I can't remember. They were all pretty forgettable and I don't want the yucky memories anyway.

2. Hmm...umm...some memoirs, historical fiction...many genres...so long as it's well written!

3. I don't like romances or Westerns or anything badly written.

4. The Da Vinci Code. I can't see what anybody sees in it. And how anybody can actually believe in it is beyond my comprehension.

5. Whatever book(s) I am reading at the time!

[internet-sampo.livejournal.com]

Which genre do you read the most?
Science Fiction

Which genre(s) don’t you read? Why not?
Romance. Why?



What is the book you read when you’re stuck in bed sick?
Vance's "Demon Princes" series