<p>Stephen King…</p>
<p>His books vary wildly in quality…</p>
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Even more epic lulz.</p>
<p>Do you seriously have to ask?</p>
<p>But don’t seem so mad. ;)</p>
<p>I hated Trickster’s Choice too. Protector of the Small and Lioness Rampant quartets are near and dear to my heart, though. Kel is my favorite. :)</p>
<p>I was also rather fond of the Circle of Magic books, but the Wild Mage ones didn’t really do it for me.</p>
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Harry Potter 2 really was a bad book…the others were decent.</p>
<p>omg, the wild mage, i couldn’t even pick that one up..i think what disgusted me was that the little heroine married a guy who was like 40 years her senior or something.</p>
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<p>Yes, bad as in boring and tedious. You’re probably the first person under 40 I’ve met who liked The Grapes of Wrath :P.</p>
<p>I HATED Protector of the Small books. They were so boring, and Kel was reallyyyyyyyyyyy annoying.</p>
<p>I love the Alanna, Trickster’s, and Wild Mage books, though. Especially Wild Mage.</p>
<p>Yes, I have to ask, Invoyable, apparently your exceeding cleverness is just too far above me for comprehension.</p>
<p>Schritzo: And yet you liked “East of Eden…?” Weird. </p>
<p>How can you call what is considered perhaps the best American novel of all time a “bad book?” You can say you didn’t like it (for example, I personally really disliked Jane Eyre) but…bad book? That’s just ignorant.</p>
<p>Re: Lemony Snicket, I agree that “The End” didn’t end well, but I thought the writing was the best of the series. Will we ever get more??</p>
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<p>You’re taking the label of “bad” too seriously. I used the good/bad label as a contrast. I believe that compared to East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath wasn’t as good. Having read both, I like East of Eden much better.</p>
<p>Really, what did you like about Grapes of Wrath that made you get so offended? Just because a book is considered a “classic” doesn’t mean disliking it is complete blasphemy.</p>
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Nah, I never thought that I’d actually say this seriously (I thought you were kidding the pat 3 times so my posts were accordingly facetious), but it simply involves common sense: it’s a matter of personal taste.</p>
<p>To him it’s a bad book. Boo hoo? And whatever Jane Eyre is, it can sure as hell be a bad book. I consider Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet a terrible book (read 3 chapters for class last year, required, then quit). OH SHOCKERZ.</p>
<p>Really I’d never thought that I’d have to type out 20 seconds of common sense.</p>
<p>BACK ON TOPIC, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. Someone brought up Stephen King earlier, so…</p>
<p>Stephen King
Good: Carrie (it was his FIRST novel and he managed to pull off an incredibly out-of-his-territory main character in a shocking-for-the-70s original plot. I’m very protective of Carrie), Cell (I’m a sucker for zombie flicks, even if they’re books), Cujo (even though he wrote it in an alcoholic haze and doesn’t remember anything about writing it), Salem’s Lot (again, only his second novel, radically different from the work he’d done before, and he paid fantastic attention to the in-between minor character scenes), and It (because it’s It. Come on. It had a werewolf chase scene and a nightmare leper.) I REALLY want to read Christine, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet. </p>
<p>Bad: A lot of his work whenever he tried to step out of what he’s good at (horror sci-fi/fantasy. In other words, nightmare-of-the-week). Rose Madder, Bag of Bones, Dreamcatcher; there’s a reason that none of his non “scary movie” type books made it big (although I did like Hearts in Atlantis, which I found in the Free pile in my school library). When King’s not writing about horribly inventive monsters and nightmare halluicinations, he’s just not that interesting. What irks me about King is that he can be incredibly vain; I’ve read at least five of his books which star male writers (or, in the case of It, writers-to-be), and I’m sure there must be more. That’s why I didn’t like The Shining (I know, I know, Jack Nicholson made it famous and it’s blasphemy to not like it) - it’s basically just an account of what a drunken Stephen King would do if he were in a haunted hotel. It didn’t require any stretch of writing because the main character was King himself under a different name; it was also repetetious (it didn’t NEED to be that long) and not as well-made as his work usually is (a lot of loose ends like Tony and cheap gimmicks like REDRUM which didn’t add to the plot). I don’t like self-insert character novels, and The Shining is the madonna of all self-inserts; every two out of three pages follow Jack, even though there’s two other main characters.</p>
<p>I was wrong about the title after all. I checked, it was actually A Farewell to Arms that I didn’t like (haven’t read the other one don’t know where it came from lol) And I liked it until the romance, like I said.</p>
<p>^Yeah, A Farewell to Arms was NOT my favorite… can’t say that it was a bad book, but that kind of writing [the whole Hemingway style smothered with war war war pseudo romance and more war] is just not my thing.. lol.</p>
<p>What I was saying, Invoyable, is that there’s a difference between a “bad book” and a “book I didn’t like.” While I recognize that Jane Eyre is a classic, I also don’t like it, but I would never be as bold or arrogant as to say it’s a “bad book,” because it’s clearly not. Just as, while “The Grapes of Wrath” may not fit your personal taste, it must be acknowledged that it is far from a bad book–some might say, one of the best books.</p>
<p>Good - Huckleberry Finn
Obscure and a waste of time - everything else by Twain</p>
<p>Good - The Sun Also Rises
Waste of time - Old Man and the Sea.</p>
<p>Omg the dude going fishing, the end.</p>
<p>Hey, I like everything by Joseph Conrad! :]</p>
<p>^ What a coincidence! I like everything by Kurt Vonnegut!</p>
<p>… Now that I think about what I just said, it’s not a coincidence. LOL!</p>
<p>^Lolololol, I haven’t read much by Vonnegut, but I liked what I did read :]</p>
<p>He’s brilliant. I aspire to write like him. I highly recommend Mother Night to EVERYONE because it’s amazing (not that his other stuff isn’t either).</p>