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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 6/16/2009 2:45:49 PM
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everythingat
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And to throw in my curve ball, I hated The Great Gatsby.
I agree. However, Tender is the Night from Fitzgerald is fantastic. Which is his least popular book, so go figure. I never understood why they made people read that one.
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 6/16/2009 5:32:36 PM
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Anything by:
John S. Spong
John D. Crossan
Marcus Borg
Robert Schular
Joel Osteen
Richard Dawkins
Christopher Hitchens
Brian McLaren
Kenneth Copeland
Benny Hinn
TD Jakes
There are too many to list
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 6/17/2009 3:25:34 PM
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Ruthie
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D.H. Lawrence (Sons and Lovers. What a horrendous piece of boring garbage!)
John Varley (I couldn't finish his wretched grotesque Gaia trilogy.)
Guy Gavriel Kaye (I will never forgive him for that absurdly moronic plot element in the Fionavar Tapestry. Never.)
Now, Orson Scott Card I do recommend. That man can write the pants off a blue jay. Ender's Game was genius.
Funnily enough, I won't read the sequels. The original book was just so perfect ending the way it did. Anything else spoils it for me. Just as I'll never read the novel version of Nightfall by Isaac Asimov. Some things just shouldn't be touched.
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 6/17/2009 9:59:22 PM
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The Shack
Anything to do with warlocks, witches and the like
Books describing unmarried sexual relationships no matter how "clean" or non-descriptive.
Books with cuss words and/or vulgar language.
Shall I go on?
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 6/18/2009 5:03:03 PM
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The Shack
Anything to do with warlocks, witches and the like
Books describing unmarried sexual relationships no matter how "clean" or non-descriptive.
Books with cuss words and/or vulgar language.
Shall I go on?
I agree with you Grannyofsix, I wouldn't recommend the shack either, or anything with witches, warlocks, and so on and so on.
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 7/2/2009 11:14:37 PM
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I second Love Story, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Shack, The Oath, and Left Behind.
I had read the first five Left Behind books before I turned 13, and I did finish the series, but I refuse to read the prequels. I was a whole lot less discriminating back then..... My main issue with them is the violence. Corniness I can handle, but I trace a desensitization to violence back to reading those books. I remember watching TV on 9/11 and my first reaction being, "Wow, just like Left Behind, here we go."
I would add 1984 (gave me a nightmare, at age 19), Tess of the D'Urbervilles (well-written, totally engrossing, extremely disturbing), and, which few people will probably agree with, anything by Francine Rivers (stirred up emotions best left dormant).
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 7/5/2009 12:24:35 AM
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The Harry Potter series because it teaches kids about witchcraft
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 7/5/2009 1:28:53 PM
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I second Harry Potter because of the deeper issues with the world-view. Have a problem? There's a magical solution to everything, and no way to know ahead of time what that is. There's no real way to know what is true, because magic can not only change the appearance, but the reality. That boils down to the impression that there IS no reality (though I don't think many people mentally follow what they read in Harry Potter to its logical conclusion). All right, there are some rules (such as time limits on spells and no bringing the dead alive again), but there is no higher authority setting the rules. A world with no God, where humans have grossly exaggerated powers but are still subject to their own imperfect nature, is not a place I want to spend much time reading about.
I have read the whole series, so I think I am fairly qualified to make a judgment on it.
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 7/6/2009 1:54:47 PM
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Now, Orson Scott Card I do recommend. That man can write the pants off a blue jay. Ender's Game was genius.
Funnily enough, I won't read the sequels. The original book was just so perfect ending the way it did. Anything else spoils it for me. Just as I'll never read the novel version of Nightfall by Isaac Asimov. Some things just shouldn't be touched.
That's funny because I thought the next 2 sequels of Ender's Game were pretty interesting, but in an entirely different way.
Before Harry Potter, Orson Scott Card wrote the Ender's series and you have to grow up along with Ender. Ender's Game is a youth novel. Speaker for the Dead is an adult novel and Xenocide is one of the most complex moral issues novel I've ever read. Card does an amazing job bringing out the ambiguity of moral decisions and how religion effects the entire process. Not easy stuff, but good stuff.
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 7/9/2009 8:51:36 AM
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Now, Orson Scott Card I do recommend. That man can write the pants off a blue jay. Ender's Game was genius.
Funnily enough, I won't read the sequels. The original book was just so perfect ending the way it did. Anything else spoils it for me. Just as I'll never read the novel version of Nightfall by Isaac Asimov. Some things just shouldn't be touched. That's precisely why I could never bring myself to read the novelization of Ender's Game. The short story was just too good. As you said some things just shouldn't be touched.
I didn't even know that there was a novel version of Nightfall coming out, but I'm sure I'll never read it.
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 7/9/2009 6:06:37 PM
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The novel-length Nightfall has been out for a decade or more. I have it, but haven't read it.
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 7/13/2009 5:15:18 PM
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The novel-length Nightfall has been out for a decade or more. I have it, but haven't read it.
Don't bother! Waste of time. The original ended perfectly, with terror and insanity in the face of awe.
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 7/13/2009 6:40:19 PM
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Do you mean books I have read and enjoyed... but I wouldn't recommend?
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Do you mean books or authors I have read and disliked?
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Do you mean books or authors I have read and don't want to spread their ideology/viewpoint, etc.?
I asked these questions because some of you are saying you would not recommend books I have read which I thoroughly enjoyed. Many of you are not indicating why you wouldn't recommend them.
For example, I liked The Shack. It's not for everyone, but there are some Christians who could handle it and some who can't. Of my bookish friends who share titles/authors and even the occasional hand off... I know to whom I would say, "Hey, have you read this yet?" and others who I would warn away from it. KWIM?
Some writing is just so bad, why bother? Some subjects are taboo to some people but not to others. Seeing no pattern among the lists of books which are not recommended, I guess I just need more information, why not?
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 7/14/2009 3:23:51 PM
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WholeHeart
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Jude the Obscure.
There are others but I thought that threw just the right note into the discussion. 
When I told a favorite English professor how traumatized I was by reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles, I was warned never to read Jude the Obscure. So, I haven't read it, but I've definitely heard it not recommended.
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 7/14/2009 11:55:45 PM
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The Harry Potter series because it teaches kids about witchcraft
I agree and don't think kids should watch the movies either
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 7/16/2009 3:51:46 PM
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I second Harry Potter because of the deeper issues with the world-view. Have a problem? There's a magical solution to everything, and no way to know ahead of time what that is.
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Huh? There were a number of important characters (at least three I can think of off the top of my head, loved by the main characters, in fact) that died towards the later part of the series; if there had been a "magical solution to everything" in the HP books, they wouldn't have died or magic would have brought them back to life.
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There's no real way to know what is true, because magic can not only change the appearance, but the reality. That boils down to the impression that there IS no reality (though I don't think many people mentally follow what they read in Harry Potter to its logical conclusion). All right, there are some rules (such as time limits on spells and no bringing the dead alive again), but there is no higher authority setting the rules.
No explicit highter authority. There are some rules, as you admit, and they have to come from somewhere.
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 7/16/2009 6:58:17 PM
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I wouldn't recommend books with
- Too much cussing
- Sexual content
- Lousy plots
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 7/16/2009 9:58:49 PM
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Jane Austen because she's just terrible. Herman Melville is another one that drags every story out, like Charles Dickens.
Oh dear, but I must disagree. Both Dickens and Austen are brilliant authors. True, "Pride & Prejudice" was exceedingly ridiculous but "Sense & Sensibility" and "Persuasion" are both excellent reads, particularly the latter because it teaches patience. Dickens is just brilliant, period. As many people will attest.
As for books that I would not recommend, for whatever reason it's only one set of books that I can think of at the moment:
The Twilight series by Stephanie Meyers (not only is the writing childlike and immature, but the lessons to be learned are not really lessons at all and devalue the worth of the heroine outside of the hero)
For those objecting to "Harry Potter", what makes this series so much worse than anything written by Tolkien or Lewis? The last time I checked, there is an obvious Christian allegory to the final book and a definite Christian stance taken by the author.
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 7/22/2009 6:21:06 PM
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um there r lots of books i wouldn't recommend. such as hunger games. please don't read it it is so awful! why would anybody teach teens about killing each other for fun?
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 7/22/2009 6:22:30 PM
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do u like harry potter? and if so why?
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 8/8/2009 4:43:13 AM
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I like the "Harry Potter" books. They start out simple to read and follow along, and as you read them the writing and the storylines get more advanced. They are wonderful, IMO, for young readers who are trying to discover if reading is indeed for them.
I think too many people get all upset for nothing regarding the whole "magic" idea, and they end up trying to ruin it for everyone else. It is a fantasy/fiction book series. It is not real. Any child who would think otherwise would probably also believe that any car could also be a "Transformer". And those kids should probably not be allowed to play outside.
But then this thread is not about what we would recommend, but about the books we would not. So I would not recommend any book that has negative things to say about the "Harry Potter" books.
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RE: Books You Wouldn't Recommend - 8/11/2009 8:58:20 AM
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After trying and trying to get through so many of her books and finding out that they're utterly boring by the end, I'd have to say don't read anything by Sara Douglass. Ugh.
Also, I couldn't even get through the first Twilight book. I just set it down one day and forgot about it- I think it's still lingering under my bed with a bookmark in it.
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