What is wrong with Clive Cussler? just wondering because my older brother has read most of the author's work and he left one at my house last time he was visiting, should I read it or be good and recycle it?
I can't really think of anything at the moment except Shakespeare's Richard II, I was absolutely bored with this play when I had to read it at college. Didn't even finish it. I mean we did lovely things like Frankenstein and Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, and then we moved onto Richard II... Didn't actually finish the course so doesn't really matter that I didn't read all of it, bla.
Originally posted by MildPossession
What is wrong with Clive Cussler? just wondering because my older brother has read most of the author's work and he left one at my house last time he was visiting, should I read it or be good and recycle it?
It's utter garbage, but something good should come from it, so I'd say recycle it. Although, whatever it is made from it in its next reincarnation will undoubtebly be stupierererererer for it.
War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
It has no dialogue, it just explains whats happening. Let me demonstrate.
David sat at his computer typing about War of the Worlds. His mother walked in halfway through his post, however, and spoke to him about going to get a permit. He understood the hazards of crashing, but that was apparently not good enough.
URGH! It's like the book is one long paragraph.
I'm currently trying to read 20, 000 leagues under the sea, and it's soooo slow. I can't get through one page without coming across a "brief" and boring history of some species or island that I've never heard of. It really damages the flow of the story. Still, I have to keep going at least until I reach the giant squid.
Great Expectations - Dickens
Putting aside the fact that I don't like the way Dickens writes to begin with, this has to be one of the most boring books I have ever had the displeasure of reading. I hated the main character from the moment the narrator introduced him until the moment the book was through. Sadly, I was forced to read it.
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
Another book I was forced to read. Though shorter than Great Expectations, this was still a horribly painful book to try to get through.
Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
Up until I read this book, I had never actually fallen asleep from boredom while reading. I would really rather not read three pages describing one room that really doesn't have much in it, and I don't need to know that the Prior is riding a mule, not a horse, and that the bridle of said animal has bells on it.