Random Books that you just didn't 'get'...

[Melanie]

We've all had them - the wtf books - tell us about any you've come across....

[Melanie]

This thread was inspired by a post on - it made me laugh and say wtf, just from the title and cover :)

[Michael]

The Dark Tower book(s) by Stephen King.

It just bored me.

Weird as I love his stuff for the most part.

[Emily V, Head Mod]

- she's kidnapped by a vamp and then there's loads of random fights which I have no clue what was about. Pointless really.
- what was the fight at the end about???

[Melanie]

Emily wrote: " - she's kidnapped by a vamp and then there's loads of random fights which I have no clue what was about. Pointless really.
- what was the fight at the end ab..."

I'd have put that book back on the shelf when i saw a character named sunshine, I can just about handle that kind of thing in glee world, but nowhere else :)

[Christi]

I didn't get it....they take in a cuz who is mean. Teach her to be good and then return her. Or keep her? (I don't remember this book very well. It was that bad.)

[Emily V, Head Mod]

Melanie wrote: "Emily wrote: " - she's kidnapped by a vamp and then there's loads of random fights which I have no clue what was about. Pointless really.
- what was the figh..."

It was actually a really disturbing book, misleading title! My friend gave me a stack of books Sunshine included with the instruction to read them and who was I to argue?

[Michael]

I remember reading about the Zombicorn book on someone's blog - http://booksnobbery.wordpress.com/201...

There are no unicorns in it!

[Emily V, Head Mod]

Well that's stupid

[Melanie]

I just read the review - book sounds nuts (or corn-cultivating-crazy) and tbh the reviewer hankering after a zombie-unicorn might be a few cobs short...

I love the idea of seeing you review this on your blog Emily:

Overall: 0/5
Cover: 2/5



Review: It's stupid

[Emily V, Head Mod]

Haha that looks like it would be hilarious to rant about!

[Hayley]

Zombicorns was confusing but I just loved it because I couldn't take it seriously!

[Tony]

Took me half the book to discover it was the same story told from multiple viewpoints, all slightly overlapping. By then, I didn't care.

[Melanie]

Ahhh - my hat goes off to you as at least you've read it - I've read the first 50 pages every couple of years since I was 19 and always give up - you must be more sympathetic than me as I gave up caring very quickly :)

Although I do like the idea of randomly editing work reports people submit to me by removing all the adjectives or words beginning with 't' - just to make the day go faster ;)

[Tony]

Although I do like the idea of randomly editing work reports people submit to me by removing all the adjectives or words beginning with 't' - just to make the day go faster ;)

..that's part of the plot of Misery :-) - the captured writers typewriter keeps dropping letters.

He has o edi work ha looks like his.

[Melanie]

lol - I'd forgotten about it in Misery

I was thinking about the hospital at the start of C22 when they get to edit the letters...I may have to suck it up and finish it this year - I can do it!

One of my biggest wtf books was Ulysses - I don't care how many times people tell me about the brilliance of it - I just couldn't get interested in anything much to do with it and it didn't even get more interesting when they hit the beach...

[Tony]

I had problems with



...first grade grammar errors and in places nothing more than random sentences strung together: "The snow fell, nor did it cease to fall."

Must do better.

[Melanie]

That sounds pants - is it intentional or just rubbish?

[Tony]

I think it's supposed to be intentional, but it's really just rubbish. How anyone can give such a terribly written story a good review is beyond me.

[Tony]

I also had trouble with



There were four pages - at least - of nothing but numbers and nothing in the book worked for me at all until the last twenty pages.

[Christi]

Another...



I got to page 1....then I stopped and thought, Can a book bore you into not reading it? Apparently. I should read it for school. (We do a Battle of the Books, where we play Jeopardy until one team wins. My team was victorious last year! Somehow this book made it onto the List.)

[Lucy Qhuay]

This book was so boring!! :S
There was a lot to explain and Mr Sparks didn't do it. I hate when I am left like "What was going on here?"
Another boring book.

[Emily V, Head Mod]

I've heard good things about all of those, sorry they were disapointing

[Melanie]

I quite liked Memoirs of a Geisha - but then I usually like historical fiction. Off to try watching Inception - perhaps it will be a wtf film?

[Emily V, Head Mod]

Melanie wrote: "I quite liked Memoirs of a Geisha - but then I usually like historical fiction. Off to try watching Inception - perhaps it will be a wtf film?"

Ooo I loved that film but it was most definitely a very confusing film!

[L]

Zombicorns??!! x

[Tony]

Melanie wrote: "I quite liked Memoirs of a Geisha - but then I usually like historical fiction. Off to try watching Inception - perhaps it will be a wtf film?"

Inception is great. I love films that leave you guessing and don't always answer all of your questions!

[Kirsteen]

Anyone read The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana? Too weird. Shame cause it had a lot of potential but it just completely lost the plot towards the end...