Books that make you yell

[Athena Bast]

Sweet Mary mudder of Gawd

I just finished "The Da Vinci Code". Never have I yelled so much at a book.:mad:

Message to Dan Brown - Try and communicate your moronic characters thought processes because the whole 'I'm stupid, I'm stupid, I'm stupid, I'm SMART' was old after the first go round.

Even I knew at the age of 14 that Da Vinci wrote in backwords. Your characters freaking mention it and then when they come across some of his text they put on their collective dunce caps and say "duh, i dunno. it's jibberish".

BAH!

If the book was loaned to me by a friend I would launch that flaming pile o poo of my balcony right now. I never really had any desire to read the book but I figured, I work in a bookstore now, better know the crap we sell.

I don't know how many times I yelled at that damn book. Thank God I haven't seen the movie because I would have been yelling at the damn screen the whole time.

To borrow a Typo-ism "Feck feck feck feck feck".

Any one else ever yell back at a book?

[Fish Sauce]

Thank God I haven't seen the movie because I would have been yelling at the damn screen the whole time.

Thank God indeed. I did not like that movie at all. I was considering watching Old School on my iPod, but I like seeing the whole of a movie.

[The Mirrorball Man]

Last time I yelled at the book, it was "Dianetics", by L. Ron Hubbard. It's er... not very good.

[Agent Helix]

Those complete Far Side books. I dropped one on my foot.

Ouch.

[Solaris]

I know there's been some books I've yelled at... but thankfully, I've forgotten what they were. :D

[Buzz Dixon]

I haven't yelled at, but I have thrown at least two of Clive Cussler's books across the room when he sprang yet another astounding coicincedence on this reader...

[Puma]

The Historian, the ending just made me scream. If it wasn't a library book I would've thrown it against the wall.

[SMKSPY]

Friedrich Schiller's Letters on Aesthetic Education, I don't care how many people think he is one of the great German Enlightenment thinkers. I still say he word a whole book that said a whole lot of nothing.

[Arvandor]

The only one that's made me do that I think is Bitten, by Kelly Armstrong.

I was howling like a werebeast myself, at the "heroine's" abject stupidity and absolute spinelessness.

Werewolf? Were-amoeba, more like.

[Athena Bast]

I haven't yelled at, but I have thrown at least two of Clive Cussler's books across the room when he sprang yet another astounding coicincedence on this reader...

Oh.. if the book wasn't a friend of mine's I would lit that puppy on fire and tossed it off my balcony.

[Guy1]

You know, back when I was a kid, not sure what grade I was in, I remember reading a book called A Day No Pigs Would Die It was about some stupid Amish kid who gets a stupid pig. IT SUCKED! I hate it to this very day.

[DrewTheXenocide]

I yelled while reading The Sound and the Fury. Not because it's not good, so far at least, but because I couldn't understand what the hell Benjy's talking about. Ever.

[saintjon]

I raised my voice to Wizard's First Rule a couple times. actually right at the start of the book, when Richard is going all apesh!t over how smart Kahlan is, then the pair of them proceed to do a bunch of really stupid things.

"It's probably best if no one sees you Kahlan."

"Good thinking Richard, so what are we going to do?"

"I figure we should go to my brother's hugeass party half the country is going to."

[RickThunderclees]

I yelled at J.R. Tolkien's "Silmarillion" (I think that's how you spell it)....soooooooooo freakin' boring to me. Then again, people I know love it. Eventually I just gave it up...sheesh

[Arvandor]

I raised my voice to Wizard's First Rule a couple times. actually right at the start of the book, when Richard is going all apesh!t over how smart Kahlan is, then the pair of them proceed to do a bunch of really stupid things.

"It's probably best if no one sees you Kahlan."

"Good thinking Richard, so what are we going to do?"

"I figure we should go to my brother's hugeass party half the country is going to."

SHIT!!! How could I forget that.

But not the first book in that series. It's the later books, from about the third book in, when it becomes nothing more than a platform for the writer's sociopolitical bullshit.

I was snarling in exasperation every time Richard went off on YET ANOTHER rant about the evils of socialism. Modern politics has no place in medieval fantasy.

[Greg Hatcher]

I haven't yelled at, but I have thrown at least two of Clive Cussler's books across the room when he sprang yet another astounding coicincedence on this reader...

Sahara was enough for me. I have amazingly low standards for action-adventure books -- see the "Guilty Pleasures" thread -- but even I can't deal with Cussler. It's a nice hardcover so I can't bring myself to throw it away. Thankfully it came from Goodwill and was less than a dollar. I imagine it will go in the pile for the church rummage sale donations. From there I suppose eventually it will make its way to the Goodwill book graveyard again.

[Expletive Deleted]

Sahara was enough for me. I have amazingly low standards for action-adventure books -- see the "Guilty Pleasures" thread -- but even I can't deal with Cussler.I dunno. There's something endearingly batshit about his stuff. Lincoln in Africa, Atlantis, the Library of Alexandria, the US discovering that it bought Canada in the 1890s but lost the receipt, nuclear tidal waves, the Trojan War in England . . . and all without the slightest hint of self-awareness.

The self-insertion is a little much, though.

[Rampaging Rabbit]

I shouted at some of 'The Metastarses of Enjoyment' by Slavoj Zizek, the lacanian bastard makes some really daft assumptions.

[Aaron Kashtan]

I shouted at some of 'The Metastarses of Enjoyment' by Slavoj Zizek, the lacanian bastard makes some really daft assumptions.

I think he does it for shock value. I'm reading Looking Awry now, and I LOLed when I read the line "Richard III proves beyond any doubt that Shakespeare had read Lacan."

(For those who don't realize why this is ridiculous, Lacan was born in 1901.)

[Rampaging Rabbit]

I think he does it for shock value. I'm reading Looking Awry now, and I LOLed when I read the line "Richard III proves beyond any doubt that Shakespeare had read Lacan."


:D I havent read that. Oh yeah I think you're right that he's a bit of a wind up merchant, that's why he's so entertaining. I like shouting at his books as they do make you think, and that's his goal of course.

[Cleric of Hell's Brigade]

Christopher Paolini's Eldest, sequal to Eragon.



Eragon wasn't bad, but Eldest sucked. Not only that, but he stole a lot of ideas from a lot of different authors/writers.




I swear, it was like a game, picking out which author/writer he copied this part of from.



That, and his elevs suck and are Mary Sueish on such a massive scale, it's ridiculous.

[Albert]

Poppy Z. Brite's Exquisite Corpse. I've mentioned it before, but *brrrrrr* that book was simultaneously nauseating and boring... mainly because if you are at all familiar with the Dahmer case, the book will hold no surprises... only morbid salivations over corpses. I love dark fiction, but this was pederastic necroporn with a very thin varnish of "art".

Greg Kihn (yeah, that Greg Kihn) 's Horror Show. I know I shouldn't hold a supermarket paperback up to high standards, but geez.. its the literary equivalent of lightboxing, in this case Ed Wood/Bela Lugosi's life in bad pastiche.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder. It was required reading for a high school English class, and I hated every page. Just. So. Pointless. Maybe its just me, but getting through that novella was harder than reading Naked Lunch backwards. A rope bridge snaps and people die. We are given a thumbnail delve into the lives of the people who died, to see if there is any connection/intersection of why these people had to die. In the end, dumdumdum, there is no connection, "God works in mysterious ways". Gah!