what is your 'emperor in new clothes' book?

[MuchLessTiredNow]

what have you NEVER got, although you keep being told it is a classic, etc?

Couldn't get into LOTR either, I doubt I made it by page 15 never mind 30!

I capture the castle

What a load of shite

LOTR

My mother tried to force it on me when I was about 16. Did I/do I look like someone who has nothing better to do than read a made up story about trolls and goblins?

Yes I thought that too J. But some time after reading the house of spirits I read 100 years of solitude and I understood that that was the original one.
Mind you, I still remember how avidly I read The house of spirits, it gave me lots of pleasure, to be honest.

'The Wind in the Willows'.
LOTR - I finally forced myself to finish it about 2 years ago. What a load of tosh.
'Wuthering Heights'. Drivel.

And loads more. But I actually liked 'Jonathan Strange etc' and loved 'Possession'.

moondog

Anything by the dreaded Martin Amis.

Can't believe no one has mentioned Dickens yet. Is it just me who has started A Tale of Two Cities many many times and never got further than page 7?

Loved Time Traveller's Wife though
Ploughed my way though Jonathan Strange, think it should have been half the length.
Can't be doing with The Lovely Bones, Lucky or (worst of all imho) The Little Friend

MA needs a good seeing to in a dark alley by a couple of trakkie bottom wearing scallies.

I mentioned Dickens!

LMAO!@moondog

Oh he sooooo does!

Oops. Sorry Janeite. So I'm not alone then.

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

... utter dogpoo

Shadow of the Wind. I couldn't get past the third chapter - pretentious shite!

Any more Ian McEwan haters on here? I'm surprised at how few people have mentioned him.

I actually enjoyed MA Night Train.
On the road. I didn't get past page 5, probably

Janeite - I love Ian McEwan, especially his early, really dark stuff. This really is turning into library cards at dawn.

Oops - I'll see you by the bike sheds after school!

The Island - Hislop, waste of a potentially good story
Ulysses - very proud I got to page 340
Dickens - but I am considering giving him another go
Wuthering Heights - spoilt brats being horrid to each other
Pretty well anything on that awful R&J list

How badly written was 'The Island'?! Awful

Of course The Curious Incident etc was supposed to be entertaining, it's not a fucking text book

A Prayer For Owen Meany, I couldn't even finish it.

I've only ever managed to finish the first of the LOTR books, and that was after a fair few attempts. I eventually did it by promising myself that if I did it, I wouldn't have to read the others. For a linguist, that man wrote some of the most dense verbiage ever.

A Prayer For Owen Meany, I couldn't even finish it.

I couldn't even start it. Have tried and tried.
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