Nexus - The Old Man and the Sea. It's 100 odd pages of this bloke trying to catch a fish. He catches it, then it gets eaten by a fucking shark!
Errantparabola - Tarjei Vesaas's The Ice Palace is supposed to be classic and well-loved Norwegian literature but reading it made me profoundly uncomfortable, although that's not an objective judgment.
Nahdia - A Confederacy of Dunces
Ariel - Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Cheetory6 - Talking to Strangers
McMenno - Lopen voor je leven
lilith2013 - Fifty shades of grey
NotAJumbleOfNumbers - Ecce Romani I
Not_Mafia - Breaking Dawn
GeorgeBailey - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
N - The first two books in the Long Earth series. I love Pratchett, but Baxter must be absolutely terrible and I refuse to ever read anything else he's written.
Equinox - Me Before You, by Jojo Moyes
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2020 7:53 am
by Nexus
lol fail.
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2020 7:54 am
by Cheetory6
Round 19: Formative Figures
Who is someone that you would consider a role model that's influenced who you are as a person?
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2020 7:57 am
by Errantparabola
2 for 2 on GEORGE BAILEY CORRECTNESS!!!!
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2020 7:58 am
by Nahdia
my father insisted a read a litany of Great American Novels as a teen. some decent ones, some stinkers. A Confederacy of Dunces was definitely the most painful.
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2020 8:03 am
by NotAJumbleOfNumbers
Ecce Romani I was a Latin textbook. I regret taking Latin class. Enough said.
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2020 8:05 am
by lilith2013
NotaJumbleofNumber's submission was easy for me to guess - Ecce Romani I is like the classic Latin class book that you get when you first start taking Latin, and they were the closest in age to the time that I imagine they'd encounter it.
pedit: see above
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2020 8:06 am
by Nahdia
i mean i figured out it's a latin textbook but i was just trying to guess blind who might have taken latin. didn't think to guess someone in that age range.
In post 59, Nahdia wrote:i mean i figured out it's a latin textbook but i was just trying to guess blind who might have taken latin. didn't think to guess someone in that age range.
idk I feel like someone who hasn't recently taken Latin wouldn't immediately think of their Latin textbook as the worst book they've ever read, that was my reasoning for looking at ages
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2020 8:08 am
by Nexus
Old Man and the Sea is fucking garbage though fo real
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2020 8:09 am
by lilith2013
I was thrown off by the exclamation point
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2020 8:12 am
by Nahdia
i think my father read me Old Man and the Sea... i remember not disliking it?
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2020 8:28 am
by NotAJumbleOfNumbers
Nexus got mine right and you missed it
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2020 8:29 am
by Not_Mafia
That one classic novel I think is bad is Frankenstien, not like, it's not for me but I can see it's good like Dickens or LOTR, but like, it's just plain bad
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2020 8:40 am
by GeorgeBailey
Atlas Shrugged: Where every socialist is a cold-hearted idiot who hates freedom.
Oh nice Nexus is on the board! Thanks for pointing that out
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2020 8:49 am
by Nexus
hooray not completely shit
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2020 8:56 am
by Equinox
I had some difficulty recalling the worst book I had ever read because I tend to DNF the terrible ones, but
Me Before You
was pretty bad.
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2020 10:19 am
by McMenno
In post 62, Nexus wrote:Old Man and the Sea is fucking garbage though fo real
agreed
In post 67, GeorgeBailey wrote:Atlas Shrugged: Where every socialist is a cold-hearted idiot who hates freedom.
Also 6 chapters talking about railroads. Ty.
yards of linen intensify
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2020 4:51 pm
by N
In post 52, Cheetory6 wrote:-Cheery Dog manages to tie for first and like technically it's like probably easier to do that when you have another submission to guess for but like we'll still give it to him
yeah but he knew I hated those books. I think he's read the whole series though? crazy man
Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2020 3:13 pm
by Cheery Dog
I'm pretty sure EP was giving points for knowing your own identity.
Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2020 3:26 pm
by Errantparabola
probly better this way so ppl r on an even playing field if they dont submit that being said i intentionally didnt provide that in order to incentivize ppl to submit
