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Dan Brown. Cannot stand the stuff. Makes Larsson look erudite.

"His eyes were as rugged as the topography of the landscape on which he was stationed."

I was disappointed with The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart. For some reason I thought it was going to be funny, but it wasn't.

Warhead wrote:

I was disappointed with The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart. For some reason I thought it was going to be funny, but it wasn't.

Once you get over the initial conceit, it gets tedious pretty quickly.
'Oh, he's written down: 1 - make tea; 2 - make coffee; 3 - hold black mass; 4 - clean the car; 5 - read; 6 - sleep..... [rolls dice]... oooo... a 3! Bring on the virgin!'

I was disappointed with The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart. For some reason I thought it was going to be funny, but it wasn't.

Never having read it before, I am 2/3rds of the way through To Kill A Mockingbird. Jeepees, it is a bit good. Probably one of the best books I have ever read.

MaliA wrote:

Never having read it before, I am 2/3rds of the way through To Kill A Mockingbird. Jeepees, it is a bit good. Probably one of the best books I have ever read.

I can’t believe you lived so long without reading this

Never having read it before, I am 2/3rds of the way through To Kill A Mockingbird. Jeepees, it is a bit good. Probably one of the best books I have ever read.

Author:	Cras [ Mon May 16, 2011 22:33 ]
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You wouldn't appreciate how much field research goes on behind the scenes. Belch

Author:	Rodafowa [ Wed May 18, 2011 9:21 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote: Dan Brown. Cannot stand the stuff. Makes Larsson look erudite. Dan Brown wrote: "His eyes were as rugged as the topography of the landscape on which he was stationed." Seriously. The last book I read that I genuinely hated was Conman, by Richard Asplin. The writing style isn't bad exactly but the main character is almost completely unsympathetic in his selfish stupidity and the surprise ending is head-slappingly predicable from roughly 20 pages in. I wanted to throw the bloody book across the room.

Author:	Warhead [ Wed May 18, 2011 9:33 ]
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I was disappointed with The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart. For some reason I thought it was going to be funny, but it wasn't.

Author:	Kern [ Wed May 18, 2011 9:36 ]
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Warhead wrote: I was disappointed with The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart. For some reason I thought it was going to be funny, but it wasn't. Once you get over the initial conceit, it gets tedious pretty quickly. 'Oh, he's written down: 1 - make tea; 2 - make coffee; 3 - hold black mass; 4 - clean the car; 5 - read; 6 - sleep..... [rolls dice]... oooo... a 3! Bring on the virgin!'

Author:	devilman [ Wed May 18, 2011 12:23 ]
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Kern wrote: Warhead wrote: I was disappointed with The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart. For some reason I thought it was going to be funny, but it wasn't. Once you get over the initial conceit, it gets tedious pretty quickly. 'Oh, he's written down: 1 - make tea; 2 - make coffee; 3 - hold black mass; 4 - clean the car; 5 - read; 6 - sleep..... [rolls dice]... oooo... a 3! Bring on the virgin!' I'd forgotten all about that book... it's one of the few I've read. Not sure if it was because I'm such an infrequent book reader, but I found it really heavy going. I imagine it'd make a decent enough film though.

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Author:	MaliA [ Thu Sep 13, 2018 19:35 ]
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Never having read it before, I am 2/3rds of the way through To Kill A Mockingbird. Jeepees, it is a bit good. Probably one of the best books I have ever read.

Author:	Grim... [ Thu Sep 13, 2018 20:01 ]
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I better have mentioned The Hunger in this thread.

Author:	Grim... [ Thu Sep 13, 2018 20:03 ]
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I did, everything is fine.

Author:	ApplePieOfDestiny [ Thu Sep 13, 2018 20:19 ]
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Warhead wrote: I was disappointed with The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart. For some reason I thought it was going to be funny, but it wasn't. I thought it was quite good although I think I too expected it to be a pure comedy (it was years ago). It’s a damn good job that, like the matrix, he never wrote a sequel.

Author:	MaliA [ Thu Sep 13, 2018 21:43 ]
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ApplePieOfDestiny wrote: MaliA wrote: Never having read it before, I am 2/3rds of the way through To Kill A Mockingbird. Jeepees, it is a bit good. Probably one of the best books I have ever read. I can’t believe you lived so long without reading this Me, neither. Although second born was almost called Scout.

Author:	Pundabaya [ Fri Sep 14, 2018 1:52 ]
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Since this thread was active last, I have tried to read Catch-22. And it is indeed a pile of shite. The writing style is... ugh. And it jumps around too much. I've read a couple of Neal Stephenson books too, I enjoyed The Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon, but anyone else feel that, despite being one of the best at writing action scenes, he seems to avoid them at all costs in his later books?

Author:	Bobbyaro [ Fri Sep 14, 2018 8:32 ]
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MaliA wrote: Never having read it before, I am 2/3rds of the way through To Kill A Mockingbird. Jeepees, it is a bit good. Probably one of the best books I have ever read. I think you might have the wrong thread.

Author:	Sir Taxalot [ Tue Oct 02, 2018 3:12 ]
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When I saw this thread title I thought of Catch 22, and then realised I'd already had a good moan about it some years ago. I too have never read To Kill A Mockingbird. One day I shall get round to it. Other than kids books, I have barely read anything at all for many years, which is something I really should try and rectify.

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