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Wiki's List of Worst Books Sept 13, 2018 8:13:10 GMT

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I never came across this one before. 😂

American Notes - Charles Dickens

Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens

What Is To Be Done? - Nikolai Chernyshevsky

Irene Iddesleigh - Amanda McKittrick Ros

The Lair of the White Worm - Bram Stoker

Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung - Mao Zedong & Lin Bao

Naked Came the Stranger - various

The Eye of Argon - Jim Theis

Paradise Alley: A Novel - Sylvester Stallone

TekWar - William Shatner & Ron Goulart

Worlds of Power: Metal Gear - Alexander Frost

Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days - Tim LaHaye & Jerry B Jenkins

Propeller One-Way Night Coach: A Fable for All Ages - John Travolta

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

Star: A Novel - Pamela Anderson

Fan-Tan - Marlon Brando & Donald Cammell

The Justice Riders - Chuck Norris

Junior - Macauley Culkin

American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville - Bernard-Henri Lévy

Moon People - Dale M. Courtney

Fifty Shades of Grey - E.L. James

Save the Pearls: Revealing Eden - Victoria Hoyt

Die Abenteuer des Stefón Rudel - Stefan Knapp

Actors Anonymous - James Franco

List of the Lost - Morrissey

Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff - Sean Penn

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Marv Elite Member Learn to swim... @pvtleelemon Posts: 11,102 Likes: 7,514	Wiki's List of Worst Books Sept 13, 2018 9:41:08 GMT via mobile progressiveelement and permutojoe like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Marv on Sept 13, 2018 9:41:08 GMT DaVinci Code was fine for what it was.
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Wiki's List of Worst Books Sept 13, 2018 9:46:21 GMT progressiveelement likes this

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Pity is given for free. Envy has to be earned.

My opinion: The makers of this list are jealous, because the authors of these books probably accomplished more than the makers of the list ever will.

Common sense is another word for prejudice.

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Wiki's List of Worst Books Sept 13, 2018 9:51:54 GMT progressiveelement and Morgana like this

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Sept 13, 2018 9:46:21 GMT phludowin said:

Pity is given for free. Envy has to be earned.

My opinion: The makers of this list are jealous, because the authors of these books probably accomplished more than the makers of the list ever will.

To be honest I have not read most of those books but I have read Martin Chuzzlewit and literally no way can I imagine that it can ever stand in a list of worst books. It's just sheer nonsense.

I have read more than 20 works of Dickens. In fact I have read all but 2 novels of Dickens and I don't think Martin Chuzzlewit was in anyway bad. In fact it was good.

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Wiki's List of Worst Books Sept 13, 2018 15:14:17 GMT progressiveelement likes this

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Sept 13, 2018 9:51:54 GMT Aj_June said:

Sept 13, 2018 9:46:21 GMT phludowin said:

Pity is given for free. Envy has to be earned.

My opinion: The makers of this list are jealous, because the authors of these books probably accomplished more than the makers of the list ever will.

To be honest I have not read most of those books

Neither have I.
But some books were pretty successful, and some of the authors were successful in other fields than writing.

So my point still stands.

Common sense is another word for prejudice.

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Wiki's List of Worst Books Sept 13, 2018 15:16:23 GMT progressiveelement and shadrack like this

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Sept 13, 2018 15:14:17 GMT phludowin said:

Sept 13, 2018 9:51:54 GMT Aj_June said:

To be honest I have not read most of those books

Neither have I.
But some books were pretty successful, and some of the authors were successful in other fields than writing.

So my point still stands.

Yeah the list is just capitalising on big names. It's very dishonest list.

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Wiki's List of Worst Books Sept 13, 2018 23:19:51 GMT progressiveelement and rachelcarson1953 like this

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Sept 13, 2018 18:54:59 GMT rachelcarson1953 said:

This belongs on the list, as far as atheists are concerned:

Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days - Tim LaHaye & Jerry B Jenkins

Mainline Christians do not think much of those stories either.

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Sept 13, 2018 23:21:40 GMT Vegas said:

Sept 13, 2018 9:41:08 GMT Marv said:

DaVinci Code was fine for what it was.

I don't know about the book... but, the third movie was just God awful.

I only read Angels and Demons and The DaVinci Code. Both were cut from the same cloth. Very similar in pace and storyline.

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politicidal Exalted Member @politicidal Posts: 82,040 Likes: 57,973	Wiki's List of Worst Books Sept 14, 2018 1:53:28 GMT progressiveelement likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by politicidal on Sept 14, 2018 1:53:28 GMT I'm surprised the ones wrote by actors hadn't been made into vanity projects. Or have they?

progressiveelement Junior Member @progressiveelement Posts: 3,951 Likes: 1,514	Wiki's List of Worst Books Sept 14, 2018 8:36:19 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by progressiveelement on Sept 14, 2018 8:36:19 GMT Sept 14, 2018 1:53:28 GMT politicidal said: I'm surprised the ones wrote by actors hadn't been made into vanity projects. Or have they? I remember there was a TV adaptation of TekWar in the mid-90s.

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Wiki's List of Worst Books Sept 14, 2018 9:02:38 GMT progressiveelement likes this

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Post by OldSamVimes on Sept 14, 2018 9:02:38 GMT

I quite enjoyed The Da Vinci Code and Atlas Shrugged.

The Da Vinci code wasn't long or memorable, but enjoyable.

Atlas Shrugged worked for me, I enjoyed the romance but thought the Galt speech could have been 8 pages shorter.

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Post by progressiveelement on Sept 13, 2018 8:13:10 GMT

Post by Marv on Sept 13, 2018 9:41:08 GMT

Post by phludowin on Sept 13, 2018 9:46:21 GMT

Post by Aj_June on Sept 13, 2018 9:51:54 GMT

Post by Catman on Sept 13, 2018 12:27:51 GMT

Post by phludowin on Sept 13, 2018 15:14:17 GMT

Post by Aj_June on Sept 13, 2018 15:16:23 GMT

Post by rachelcarson1953 on Sept 13, 2018 18:54:59 GMT

Post by clusium on Sept 13, 2018 23:19:51 GMT

Post by Vegas on Sept 13, 2018 23:21:40 GMT

Post by Marv on Sept 13, 2018 23:24:57 GMT

Post by politicidal on Sept 14, 2018 1:53:28 GMT

Post by progressiveelement on Sept 14, 2018 8:36:19 GMT

Post by OldSamVimes on Sept 14, 2018 9:02:38 GMT