Yankee Mackem
Striker
What's the worst book you've ever read? Came across these beauties in my collection from the 80s.
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I can't remember the name of the book but it was a family saga type story about Catholic families living in the slums of Liverpool and working in the shipyards and factories. It started off ok but then just got more and more far fetched and ended up with a priest involved in kiddy fiddling and they all plotted against the priest and murdered him. I was expecting the usual rags to riches kind of fluff but it ended up being really sinister and disturbing. Picked it up as a lighthearted holiday sunbed book and wished I'd not bothered.
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Completely agree - meant be a classic and I was bored stiff. I guess it was more shocking back when it was written, but it wouldn’t even be a heavy weekend for some people I know.On the Road
Absolutely shit.
Completely agree - meant be a classic and I was bored stiff. I guess it was more shocking back when it was written, but it wouldn’t even be a heavy weekend for some people I know.
I couldn’t put the Davinci code downI read 2 chapters of The Da Vinci code.
On the Road is a book you read as a teenager. It also was of its time.
Neil Young' s autobiography was stunningly awful. Picked it up in a hotel in Austria. I can't listen to his music anymore he was that loathsome.
I couldn’t put the Davinci code down
It was very popular.I couldn’t put the Davinci code down
Yep, love WB too. OTR is one of the first books I actually thought I might not finish. I did, but thought it was garbage.I love the beat gen stuff - Burroughs especially - but OTR was just unreadable to me.
I didn't know it at the time but it reads just like a boring bastard's blogOn the Road
Absolutely shit.