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So glad to see others felt the same as I did on Hamilton. Liked the first couple then it became - what is this? Anita gets laid? Yuk.
CJ Box's latest - Blood Trail - I just put it down a little over 1/3 of the way through. His plot lines and characters have gone so far over the top from a little ax grinding to caricature.
I'm not really sure you can call Stephen King a "literary genius." Perhaps, after his first published works, you could. But anything after that (approx. Dark Tower Series) I'd call him a "financial genius." Someone took Zola seriously...
Anne Rice, the books, Violin, and Memnoch the Devil, were excellent reads.
My candidate for a truly irritating piece of tripe is the very, very popular (loved by many) "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho. IMO: a bunch of mystical nonsense--trite reiterations about how one must follow their dream.
Coelho says his dream has always been "to be a writer." I personally do not consider him one.
I just don't know how it got published, but then it has been on the NYT best sellers list for years!???
My candidate for a truly irritating piece of tripe is "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho. I just don't know how it got published, but then it has been on the NYT best sellers list for years!?
Where I live, it's required reading in school. That's probably part of the reason why it's always on the NYT list. I started it, forced myself to get to the halfway point, and then just couldn't finish it. (Which is terrible! It's a thin volume! I should have more perseverence.)
Then again, I only really like genre fiction or non-fiction, so my enjoyment of the book -- or lack thereof -- was probably predetermined.
I'm ready to be lambasted for this, though it's not that I found it the "worst" book I've ever read: Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth. Maybe it's because after decades of that sort of neurotic character being fictionalized, I could not find anything engaging, penetrating or fresh about this novel.
I'm sure I'll get blasted with hate-mail for this, but I find Stephan King terribly overrated as a writer. I enjoyed his work when I was, say, 10 years old, but I find him repetitive and dull now. A great deal of his stories seem to be the same one churned out over and over, with minor details changed and the basic plot the same.
Just finished the most awful book I've ever forced myself to finish!
The Ghostwriter by John Harwood
Simply awful.....I didn't find any spine tingling, hair raising passages at all...BORING
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