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[james_davis_nicoll]

The best book you hate?

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[pperiwinkle.livejournal.com]

As an adult, Tigana. I wanted so much to like it, but, no. And I felt so cheated for wasting my time reading it

As a child/young adult, *spit!* Rebecca. When the librarians were trying to convince me I didn't really like science fiction, Rebecca was one of the books they were always shoving at me. I tried more than once, but I never made it through the horrible thing.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Rebecca was assigned reading for the summer before I entered high school (there was a list of worthy volumes, most of which I have forgotten, and I have no idea what du Maurier was doing on there with Profiles in Courage and The Boys of Summer). We never talked about the books in class, either.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Tigana did nothing to convince me that what I had felt about Kay's writing for some time wasn't still true: some things he does pretty well; some things he is just not very good at. I did finish it, but I remember thinking his dialog was pretty bad (groaningly bad in spots) and that his portrayal of certain kinds of human interaction was stilted and not at all genuine. That said, I finished the book, and I didn't think it was nearly bad enough to hate.

[avram]

I read it so long ago that all I remember is that there was one guy who I felt had wandered in from a Heinlein novel.