DonnaWanna Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 QUOTE (lerxt1990 @ Jun 20 2006, 02:58 PM) QUOTE (Mrs. Huck Rogers @ Jun 20 2006, 10:26 AM) QUOTE (DonnaWanna @ Jun 20 2006, 04:25 PM) The Bible **keep ur comments to urself Plz tyvFm i must concur Burn in hell, both of you. Muhahahahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lerxt1990 Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 QUOTE (GeddyRulz @ Jun 20 2006, 03:24 PM) QUOTE the supposed "puzzles" irked to me to extremes, as i figured them out immediately and wanted to throw the book across the room for all their beating around the bush about the solutions. they're the kind of simple games that the smart kids did in math class in third grade. thanks, but i took cryptography classes in college and well, encyclopedia brown came to mind several times regarding the supposedly difficult puzzles in davinci. I can appreciate the simpleness of the puzzles for someone like you (or Langdon), who took Cryptography. But for the rest of us Encyclopedia Browns, the answers weren't so easy. Sure, if I knew I should be looking for anagrams, I may have figured out a couple. But I wasn't looking for anagrams, I was trying to figure out the riddles on their face. And I'd never heard of the Fibonacci Sequence as a smart third-grade math student, so that came as a suprise solution as well. (Gee... I may be blowing this for future readers.) Not your cup of tea; fine. But some of us readers are both mentally astute AND surprised by the solutions. Agreed here - I found it fun. Although I thought Angels and Demons was better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bastille Night Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 QUOTE (lerxt1990 @ Jun 20 2006, 11:07 AM) The Grapes o Wrath. Boring garbage. Agreed!! I loved East of Eden, then picked up Grapes of Wrath assuming that it would also be great......classic novel and all. Didn't make it through. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/bastillenight/Smileys/22db5ffa.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fridge Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 Hmmm.... Since when was the Da Vinci Code regarded as a "classic"? I always found Tomas hardys books excruciatingly dull, and I think i would rasther be dipped feet first in a vat of boiling oil than read Tess Of The D'urbervilles again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dweezil Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 QUOTE (Fridge @ Jun 22 2006, 02:59 PM) Hmmm.... Since when was the Da Vinci Code regarded as a "classic"? Exactly. The guy had some great ideas but when it comes to writing he's horrible. The only reason the book was so popular IMO is that he brought up some interesting ideas/theories, nothing else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feelingwithyourskin Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 QUOTE (pixey @ Jun 19 2006, 01:11 PM) ... very famous well loved book... So what Books do you Hate that everyone else Loves? since when did the topic or first post say anything about "classic" books? i see the words "well loved" and "famous" http://67.18.37.15/1234/187/emo/rolleyes2.gif ironic, in a thread about reading Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dweezil Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 When I quoted Fridge, I assumed someone called it classic in a previous thread. My mistake. However, it doesn't change the fact that the book is poorly written. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feelingwithyourskin Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 QUOTE (Mrs. Huck Rogers @ Jun 22 2006, 11:02 AM) However, it doesn't change the fact that the book is poorly written. nothing could change that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fridge Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 QUOTE (feelingwithyourskin @ Jun 22 2006, 03:27 PM) since when did the topic or first post say anything about "classic" books? i see the words "well loved" and "famous" http://67.18.37.15/1234/187/emo/rolleyes2.gif ironic, in a thread about reading Actually, someone did mention the word "classics" earlier. Besides, it could be argued that "Well Loved" and "famous" could meet the criteria for a book to be called "Classic"..........Or is that splitting hairs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feelingwithyourskin Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 when you bitch about my suggestions not following your strict definition? yes neither the original poster, nor the topic suggested this was limited to classics only. someone mentioning classics does not exclude non-classics. i named a book that fits quite well under the categories of well loved and famous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeddyRulz Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 I brought up the "classics" in one of my posts, and defended "DaVinci Code" in another, but the two never met. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alien Girl Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 ^^^And never the twain shall meet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeddyRulz Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 QUOTE (Alien Girl @ Jun 22 2006, 02:25 PM) ^^^And never the twain shall meet. Right! I was gonna say it that way, too! (Or is it "never the dickens shall meet"?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fridge Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 QUOTE (feelingwithyourskin @ Jun 22 2006, 07:18 PM) when you bitch about my suggestions not following your strict definition? yes Easy Tiger You have a strange notion of "bitching". I honestly don't care enough about this to "bitch" about it. If I had been "bitching", then the content of my post would have been entirely different. And I don't think I made any "strict definitions", I merely explained my thinking behind a previous post Never mind..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feelingwithyourskin Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 sorry, i don't have a setting for "easy" try a wussier model for that option Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KublaKhan Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 QUOTE (pixey @ Jun 19 2006, 01:11 PM) I am going to get alot of slack, more in likely. But I just read a very famous well loved book and I thought it was boring, long winded and just plain difficult to endure. I pressed on but by the time I got to around page 800 I just began to skim to get to the good parts if there were any. Lord Of The Rings! I just couldnt do it! I lost interest early on, it was very slow moving, not alot of action, but most of all it was BORING. So what Books do you Hate that everyone else Loves? You made it to page 800? I couldnt make it past the first chapter! Boringness. I actually really wanted to read the series (Anyone know why? *Coughnecromancercough*), but I couldnt make it past chapter 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fridge Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 QUOTE (feelingwithyourskin @ Jun 22 2006, 09:59 PM) sorry, i don't have a setting for "easy" try a wussier model for that option And if I was concerned enough to do so, I probably would..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
callmejim Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 Aye,that Divinci Code thing-I read the last couple of pages in a shop(thought I'd save time and money)and in the last paragraph it says something like:"but I'll answer all these puzzles and questions in the sequel".Now that's what I call taking people for fools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeddyRulz Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 QUOTE I read the last couple of pages in a shop(thought I'd save time and money)and in the last paragraph it says something like:"but I'll answer all these puzzles and questions in the sequel". I don't know what kind of kooky copy of "DaVinci" they sell in Swanzy, but that paragraph never appeared in MY copy, and the story was entirely self-contained; it needs no sequel (though it likely will get one). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
callmejim Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 QUOTE (GeddyRulz @ Jun 27 2006, 03:38 PM) QUOTE I read the last couple of pages in a shop(thought I'd save time and money)and in the last paragraph it says something like:"but I'll answer all these puzzles and questions in the sequel". I don't know what kind of kooky copy of "DaVinci" they sell in Swanzy, but that paragraph never appeared in MY copy, and the story was entirely self-contained; it needs no sequel (though it likely will get one). Ah yes."The Bible Code"I was thinking of.Came out about 8/9 years ago,the gist of it being all the historical events were foretold in The Book and by reading the letters in a certain sequence they would be discovered. I don't usually read the last pages of books but I really didn't want to buy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sullysue Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 QUOTE (DonnaWanna @ Jun 20 2006, 10:25 AM) The Bible **keep ur comments to urself Plz tyvFm I disagree. It's a great story. All epic and stuff. The characters may seem a bit contrived at times, but that Jesus dude is something else! Turning water into wine and all. He'd be great to have around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slime Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 Here's another vote for the Da Vinci code. REALLY dull book. The romance between the two leads was barely hinted at, and yet by the end of the book we're supposed to believe it. The history behind the book has been debunked by pretty much everybody. The novel contains no characters that interested me. It was a page turner, but only because you want it to be over. I doubt I'll ever read it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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