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    is a very dirty girl Athena Bast's Avatar
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    Sweet Mary mudder of Gawd

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

    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?
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    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.
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    Last time I yelled at the book, it was "Dianetics", by L. Ron Hubbard. It's er... not very good.
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    Those complete Far Side books. I dropped one on my foot.

    Ouch.

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

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    The Historian, the ending just made me scream. If it wasn't a library book I would've thrown it against the wall.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 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...
    Oh.. if the book wasn't a friend of mine's I would lit that puppy on fire and tossed it off my balcony.
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    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.
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    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.

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    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."

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    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
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    Quote Originally Posted by 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."
    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.
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