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Best staying up all night reading Frankenstein the first time in high school, or reading treasure Island in a tree stand in a forest during bow deer season.
Worst was probably the second time reading the Lord of the rings trilogy on smaller sized versions; really terrible size and binding or most Dickens I just have a hard time connecting.
Clear and present danger. Only book I’ve ever quit, and 600 pigs in to boot. Shit author, shit book, shit material. The people who enjoy this shit are the same people who jack off to guns and ammo. ‘What’s this author re*arded? Give me back my $15’.
Almost every book I read back when I was a school student.
Each month we had to read a boring book chosen by the school, and at the end of each month we had a annoying test with questions like: "When the protagonist discovered the truth, what was the emotion he felt?" Or "How did the author felt when writing this?" So I had to read 300 pages of a boring book and pay attention to each detail each month.
I don't dislike reading, actually I enjoy good books, but reading something against my will is sickening.
Ive sat on my kindle pw3 on the plane, switch on to find its fucked. This just happened today 😥😥😥😥
Dune, I spent my time flipping to the glossary every 5 minutes. Ulysses by James Joyce was even worse, I had to keep a website open that explained the barrage of references to me for almost every page.
You’re gonna love Gravity’s Rainbow!
House of night when I was in highschool.
Straight up vampire porn that makes twilight look like lotr. Most memorable part was too many pages describing a blow job. No idea why it was in my highschool library.
I love audiobooks. There are some amazing books that are narrated by Wil Wheaton
He sounds like a fucking meme of someone reading a book and trying too hard to inject character. He also sounds like he's chewing marbles when he talks
Book - Warren the squirrel looked in the mirror
Wil - Woaaaarn thu squooooorl lucked in the meeeeeer
The only audio book that I know of that he reads is Ready Player One, Which yeah isn't a good book but I thought he did an okay job reading it. Be put off by him being the narrator of other books.
He's no Nathaniel Parker but I don't think he's as bad as you say.
2071: the third oddesy.
I had heard good things about the first one and happened to just see this one in my high-school library. I had a book report due soon so I binged it.
This is the single most boring Sci fi novel I've ever read. It goes on and on and on about the various technologies of the various vehicles of the future. The most exciting part is a flashback to a previous book in which a character kicks a plant, second most is a relatively relaxed flight through a comet.
Normally I can plow through the couple hundred pages in a night, this one took me a bit longer because of how dry it was. There was a entire section on some kind of spinning windshield design used on boats to make sure visibility was always crystal clear.
2061? The plot looks odd and Clarke's forecast for South Africa really was a swing and a miss. The plot for 3001 is really bad with the painful trope of "We just used a computer virus!".
The red/blue/green mars trilogy. The first book was pretty great and the themes were good throughout but the main characters devolve into this weird privaliged manifest destiny hippy cult that doesn't give a shit about the rest of humanity and acts like they got to mars all by themselves and not on the backs of the billions supporting the economies that made the journey possible.
Its the only serie series I've read where I ended up rooting for the oligarchic corporate overlords because even a mars owned by megacorps works out better for humanity than the mars envisioned by the protagonists at this point who are basically turning into a kind of proto-version of the spacers from asimov.
