Books you can't bloody stand...

Hated that book... just ugh. Story was terrible, characters boring - I didn't care for any of them, never rooted for any or sympathized with any. Predictable ending. I kept saying - no way, it won't end like this. Yup. There could have been more to the book but it felt so unpolished and like more of a rough draft/skeleton of a story.

Yes, terrible book.  I couldn't help wanting her to get into the twins applying for British passports -- it all seemed too easy a transition for them.  But it was rubbish anyway.

Steinbeck's "The Pearl".   I had vague memories of disliking it in school so I read it again last year.   What a thoroughly depressing story.

Fifty Shades of Grey - E.L. James
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence

I'm sure there's more, but that's what comes to mind at the moment. Don't get me started on 50...

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

It's hard to like....

on the road-- jack kerouac

on the road-- jack kerouac

I read a quote from, I think, Stephen Stills on Jerry Garcia's guitar playing. It was something like, "I don't mind hearing a guy noodling around on guitar....I just don't want to have to pay for it."

I've been to several Grateful Dead shows but I always got bored during the noodling bits.

I've been to several Grateful Dead shows but I always got bored during the noodling bits.

I have heard - but cannot verify - that with the right aid, the noodling took on a higher meaning.