Writer's Block: Three Books
Nov. 29th, 2009 12:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I have no doubt in my mind that this will be tough, but as a bookworm, I feel it can't hurt to try. Keep in mind that I see this list as ever-changing as I continue to read more and more books.
What are the three best books you have ever read and what are the three worst? What made them so good or bad?
Best:
1. Matilda by Roald Dahl. He was one of my favorite authors as a kid. And this story was clever and funny and a bit disturbing all at the same time. In a way, I wanted to be Matilda because she read all the books in the library!
2. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Piccoult. I know the standard favorite for her is My Sister's Keeper, but the impact this one brings hits a little bit closer to my heart.
3.Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk. I remember finding this one more intensely palpable than Fight Club. And it was wonderfully descriptive too.
Honorable Mention:
Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska. We got this assigned to us in one of my classes and I couldn't put it down for a second. A great coming of age story!
How To Make Love Like A Porn Star by Jenna Jameson. It was captivating, sexy, heartbreaking, and funny. Definitely an easy read.
Worst:
1. I've seen this on other lists, but I think it bears repeating. Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer is easily one of the worsts. As much as I hate the sparkling vampires, the attitudes she portrays in this book just make everything worse.
2. Taste of Salt by Frances Temple. It was a book we had to read for my freshman English class and it bored me to tears.
3. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. It may be a classic, but it just didn't do it for me. I like to be captured when I pick up a book, and this book just made me feel like I was trudging through quick sand.
Honorable Mention:
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory McGuire. I love Oz stories but this did not capture my interest at all.
What are the three best books you have ever read and what are the three worst? What made them so good or bad?
Best:
1. Matilda by Roald Dahl. He was one of my favorite authors as a kid. And this story was clever and funny and a bit disturbing all at the same time. In a way, I wanted to be Matilda because she read all the books in the library!
2. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Piccoult. I know the standard favorite for her is My Sister's Keeper, but the impact this one brings hits a little bit closer to my heart.
3.Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk. I remember finding this one more intensely palpable than Fight Club. And it was wonderfully descriptive too.
Honorable Mention:
Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska. We got this assigned to us in one of my classes and I couldn't put it down for a second. A great coming of age story!
How To Make Love Like A Porn Star by Jenna Jameson. It was captivating, sexy, heartbreaking, and funny. Definitely an easy read.
Worst:
1. I've seen this on other lists, but I think it bears repeating. Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer is easily one of the worsts. As much as I hate the sparkling vampires, the attitudes she portrays in this book just make everything worse.
2. Taste of Salt by Frances Temple. It was a book we had to read for my freshman English class and it bored me to tears.
3. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. It may be a classic, but it just didn't do it for me. I like to be captured when I pick up a book, and this book just made me feel like I was trudging through quick sand.
Honorable Mention:
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory McGuire. I love Oz stories but this did not capture my interest at all.
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on 2009-11-29 06:39 am (UTC)If I'm not wrong, I think Jodi Piccoult is also the author who wrote Tenth Circle? I absolutely loved that novel (I kinda sorta half admit that I read it after I saw the Lifetime version of the novel... :D)
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on 2009-11-29 03:12 pm (UTC)And yep, Jodi was the one who wrote Tenth Circle :)
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on 2009-11-29 07:21 am (UTC)no subject
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on 2009-11-29 07:24 am (UTC)Atlas Shrugged makes a marvelous doorstop, but Ayn Rand redeemed herself with Anthem. Oh how I love that book.
Gabrielle
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on 2009-11-29 03:13 pm (UTC)And it's good to know that Ayn Rand has some redeeming qualities.
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on 2009-11-29 07:58 am (UTC)no subject
on 2009-11-29 03:14 pm (UTC)I'm so glad there are other people out there who know that book :)
And most of all, I'm glad you're one of 'em!
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on 2009-11-29 10:43 am (UTC)no subject
on 2009-11-29 03:14 pm (UTC)