Bad Books
I am in a particular mood of talking about books that i do not approve of, books that were bestsellers. I can not start without mentioning oh so torturous The Fountain Head by Ayn Rand....i have never ever taken three months to finish any other book...no matter how bad it was. I hated it...yet read through the book. There was no brilliance in the plot, neither the way she wrote it. You just can not begin to say anything nice about the book. The character reminded me of a vertain conceited person who does not live on this planet, the female was...what to say...some deluded head she was. Somehow, the whole book was nothing but a painful experience and i ended up deciding that critics had said it was good because they were too shallow. To concur with the writer was the only way out for them, not to be categorised as one of them...It was brilliantly disgusting and for some reason i could never really understand just why the hell people like it? Are they too scared? Everybody have different needs and live life n order to fullfill it. Everybody is a slave to some desire...Who gave the Howard Roarke the authority to call everybody enslaved when he too was enslaved by this strange desire to have it his way........he wanted to make him name, be known as a worthwhile architect.....was he inspiring...not in the least.
The other i do not like much is Jeffrey Archer's Kane and Abel....i simply love his writing style, the plot and the story is brilliant and it is a very nice book. But, but but...it became predictable and maybe that is the reason i do not like it. It is not that i do not like reading predictable books...its just that i was a tad disappointed by Jeff Arch....he is way too brilliant to become so lame towards the end of the book. Not a book i hate...just a book i do not agree with.
That would be it for now as i have to rush. And thankfully the list is not that big.
The other i do not like much is Jeffrey Archer's Kane and Abel....i simply love his writing style, the plot and the story is brilliant and it is a very nice book. But, but but...it became predictable and maybe that is the reason i do not like it. It is not that i do not like reading predictable books...its just that i was a tad disappointed by Jeff Arch....he is way too brilliant to become so lame towards the end of the book. Not a book i hate...just a book i do not agree with.
That would be it for now as i have to rush. And thankfully the list is not that big.
posted by Kanika at 9:24 PM
4 Comments:
I find booker prize winning and shortlisted books painful in particular (Or it is just a strange coincidence that every bad book I read has somehow won a booker). I really mean no offence to the authors and jury, as it may be that I have a different taste or an immature shallow thinking (as the critics may say).
The "bad books" I am talking about is
1. Fasting Feasting
2. Blind Assasin( was not able to finish it!)
Thankfully, there is an exception in the form of Cloud Atlas, though it is another matter that I wasn't able to understand the ending...
What I really can read is a good pageturner (whatever may the theme may be), something like a Dan Brown etc. But that's the matter of a "good books" post.
I agree...totally. I remember i started reading that torturous...God of Small Things....oh the misery and agony of reading the first three pages....
I honestly believe a Booker Prize stands for pieces of literature that are particularly bad.
I tried reading Salman Rushdie once. :(
Bad. The only book that I thought I felt like going through was his "Midnight's Children", but time constraints are every bibliophile's personal demon.
god of small things i can agree on....but fountainhead of all the books as bad book.....
dont think so....u have to look at the context in which book was written.....1930's....the time of scientific management.......objectivism at its best..........
writing style mite bores any1...thats why every1 recommends reading atlas shrugged first and then fountainhead.....
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