Date: 2013-01-16 02:50 am (UTC)
yhlee: Alto clef and whole note (middle C). (Default)
From: [personal profile] yhlee
Does it have to be sf/f?

Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Multiple English majors explained to me that it was a wonderful novel, and that may be so, but I feel like the time I spent reading the damn thing could have better been spent burning as many copies as I could find.

I'm trying to think of an sf/f novel I hate as much, but my unreasoning hatred of Tess fails to be outdone.

Date: 2013-01-16 03:39 am (UTC)
kate_nepveu: sleeping cat carved in brown wood (Default)
From: [personal profile] kate_nepveu
Hee! I became known principally for how much I hated _Tess_ (and Tess) in a summer program I did. When I complained about how all the characters were AWFUL, the lead teacher looked surprised and said she'd been focusing so much on the beauty of the landscapes that she hadn't been thinking much about that. I didn't see how she could avoid it.

I read very few books that I hate, fortunately, so I'm definitely going with _Tess_.

Date: 2013-01-16 04:59 am (UTC)
yhlee: Animated icon of sporkiness. (sporks (rilina))
From: [personal profile] yhlee
We share brainz. :-]

Date: 2013-01-16 05:26 am (UTC)
kate_nepveu: sleeping cat carved in brown wood (Default)
From: [personal profile] kate_nepveu
It's not too much to ask, surely.

Date: 2013-01-16 04:33 am (UTC)
mishalak: A fantasy version of myself drawn by Sue Mason (Nice)
From: [personal profile] mishalak
I think I saw part of a PBS production of that... I hated it as much as or more than Downton Abbey if I remember rightly.

Date: 2013-01-16 10:39 am (UTC)
zeborah: Zebra against a barcode background, walking on the word READ (read)
From: [personal profile] zeborah
If we include the classics, Wuthering Heights OMG.

Date: 2013-01-16 11:50 am (UTC)
yhlee: Animated icon of sporkiness. (sporks (rilina))
From: [personal profile] yhlee
I failed to get past p. 5 something like two or three times because I loathed the people, and gave up. My dad bought it for me "because girls like this sort of thing," having somehow forgotten that I inherited his taste in classics (Treasure Island, Les Misérables).

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