ok, what's the most unfortunate book rec you ever got?
The Book of Ruth. Hello, bleakness, how are you?
Simon: You are my beautiful sister. River: I threw up on your bed. Simon: Yep. Definitely my sister.
'War Stories'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
juliana - Sep 27, 2012 12:29:50 pm PDT #19835 of 28344
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Polter-Cow - Sep 27, 2012 12:52:37 pm PDT #19836 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh! Someone sent me La Perdida, which I hated. But she was getting rid of it, so...there must have been a reason. There are several books that were recommended in general that I didn't like, but I guess there aren't many books that people have specifically, personally recommended to me that have been disasters. I didn't really like Tales of the Lost Formicans, so that might count.
erikaj - Sep 27, 2012 1:30:30 pm PDT #19837 of 28344
Always Anti-fascist!
I saw the Kite Runner movie...it was okay. But I can imagine the screenwriter cut out a lot of misery, Cass.
meara - Sep 27, 2012 2:12:52 pm PDT #19838 of 28344
Twilight.
Back in the day a coworker was all "ooh, I just read this awesome book and I know you're a big reader and enjoy vampires and stuff..."
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 27, 2012 2:18:15 pm PDT #19839 of 28344
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Do recommendations you didn't take count? A friend of mine was big into L. Ron Hubbard in school, and tried to get me to read Battlefield Earth. Pass.
erikaj - Sep 27, 2012 2:25:07 pm PDT #19840 of 28344
Always Anti-fascist!
Well, I guess, Matt. I think you made the right call. Meara, yeah, that happened to me too. I might have been fine with it if I only read the one, though.
Zenkitty - Sep 27, 2012 2:34:40 pm PDT #19841 of 28344
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Cass, I had the same reaction to Kite Runner. It left a sour taste in my brain that will never go away. From that book I learned the valuable lesson that it really is okay to stop reading and not finish a book.
sj - Sep 27, 2012 2:51:58 pm PDT #19842 of 28344
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I loved the movie version of The Kite Runner. I never read the book, but I'm all about the misery in books.
Cass - Sep 27, 2012 2:53:03 pm PDT #19843 of 28344
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
From that book I learned the valuable lesson that it really is okay to stop reading and not finish a book.
I'm still learning that lesson. I so wish I had just given it up instead of this stupid feeling angry at a book. I mean, that's ridiculous. It's a book, why was I angry at it? Even worse, I am still angry at it. I need to learn to stop reading.
dcp - Sep 27, 2012 3:22:17 pm PDT #19844 of 28344
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
ok, what's the most unfortunate book rec you ever got?
Kite Runner
Absolutely.