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firecatA family member was visiting this week and he, the OH, and I were arguing a lot about various books, TV shows, and movies we liked. Even though we're all SFF fans, we couldn't all three find anything that we'd (a) all read/watched and (b) all liked. (We did agree on Star Trek: TNG and the first two Star Wars movies.) So we flipped it around and tried to find something we all agreed that we hated. That was also hard. It led to this game:
You are a person addicted to reading. You are stranded on a desert island.
On this desert island is also a book, or a series, or the entire ouvre of one author.
What book/series/author, if any, would you REFUSE to read, even if it were the only reading material on the island?
Rules:
1. You have to have some familiarity with the work, set of works, or author you nominate. So, for example, no fair saying "Rush Limbaugh" if you've never at least started to read any of his books.
2. It's OK to diss works, but not other commenters.
You are a person addicted to reading. You are stranded on a desert island.
On this desert island is also a book, or a series, or the entire ouvre of one author.
What book/series/author, if any, would you REFUSE to read, even if it were the only reading material on the island?
Rules:
1. You have to have some familiarity with the work, set of works, or author you nominate. So, for example, no fair saying "Rush Limbaugh" if you've never at least started to read any of his books.
2. It's OK to diss works, but not other commenters.
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Date: 26 Jun 2015 04:44 pm (UTC)* I gave up on Heinlein's "Farnham's Freehold" about halfway through. I also didn't find "Stranger in a Strange Land" to be at all the seminal book that others apparently have found it to be. Which is odd, because his "Expanded Universe" and "Time Enough for Love" are ones that I go back for a reread every so often.
* Ian Slater's "USA vs Militia" series. I so wanted to like this one, seemed like it had an interesting if implausible premise (basically a chronicle of a second US civil war), but the lousy prose and lack of character development lost me quickly.
* I'd put in a different category something like a cache of hate literature - "Turner Diaries" comes to mind - which I see as the literary equivalent of viewing a collection of snuff photos and movies. By which I mean, something that I know would diminish me as a person and shrink my soul if I partook of it.
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Date: 26 Jun 2015 06:17 pm (UTC)