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 Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 12:33 am
In light of a conversation I was having elsewhere with phantomkitsune...
I want to ask you all, has there been a book that when you've been reading you have had to stop?
Not because it's bad, but because it makes you too scared/sad/freaked out etc to continue?
(Think of Joey from friends putting his novel in the freezer).
Mine was reading Misery by Steven King and getting to the part where the oogey Annie Wilkes goes to chop off Paul Sheldon's foot off with an axe for his c**k-a-doodi antics.
I knew what was going to happen but I just couldn't bring myself to read on at that time. I tried to reason with myself that it was just a book, he might escape, someone might turn up, he might suddenly realise he has superhuman strength and over power her putting the axe between her eyes like she deserves.
In the end though, I had to continue reading despite the fact that I knew he was going to lose his foot (poor paulie).
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Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 5:16 am
When Harry Potter died, I had to stop for a while. I think I might have cried a little, too.
In (I think it was) The Two Towers, I had to stop when that Orc brought out Frodo's mithril armor--I would have thought he was dead if I hadn't seen the movies first.
There's this other part of The Hunted by Jerry Kennealy where the girl's about to get raped. I read that when I was maybe fourteen? Yeah, had to stop there, too.
I have to say, though, books don't usually freak me out unless I'm really attached to the characters. But some movie previews have done this to me. I had to decide not to see certain movies because they looked so sick and twisted, though not necessarily "bad." Like, this one movie preview--I'm not going to tell you which one unless someone asks; it's that disgusting--made me decide that even The Human Centipede isn't that bad. And for those who don't know what it is, don't Google it on a full stomach.
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Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 5:35 am
Scraps 2-point-0 When Harry Potter died, I had to stop for a while. I think I might have cried a little, too. In (I think it was) The Two Towers, I had to stop when that Orc brought out Frodo's mithril armor--I would have thought he was dead if I hadn't seen the movies first. There's this other part of The Hunted by Jerry Kennealy where the girl's about to get raped. I read that when I was maybe fourteen? Yeah, had to stop there, too. I have to say, though, books don't usually freak me out unless I'm really attached to the characters. But some movie previews have done this to me. I had to decide not to see certain movies because they looked so sick and twisted, though not necessarily "bad." Like, this one movie preview--I'm not going to tell you which one unless someone asks; it's that disgusting--made me decide that even The Human Centipede isn't that bad. And for those who don't know what it is, don't Google it on a full stomach. When the hell did Harry Potter die? eek Did I read a different version? Just googled the human centipede. It sounds very bizarre. :S What is the purpose of training people to be like centipedes? I don't get the motive. Odd. Very odd. There are several books that I've been close to stopping but yes it's all about being attached to the characters. I love that Paul Sheldon isn't perfect (and he admits that) but he grows on you.
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Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 5:58 am
Well, almost died, but I didn't want to spoil it for anyone who somehow may not have read the whole thing yet. As far as I knew at the time, he was dead as a doornail. XD And then Dumbledore to the rescue. Again. Yay!And there is really no point to The Human Centipede other than to make movie theater janitors' lives more miserable. At least I first got introduced to it via satire, but I have found more disgusting things in the media. o_O I have movies downloaded that I won't dare watch. I don't really know why I even have them. Maybe for writing research, I don't know.
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Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 6:16 am
In the Vladmir Tod books in like maybe the second one, Vlad figures out that the new teacher in school, Otis Otis, is actaully his uncle. Well later in one of the book Otis is capture and Vlad has to go save his uncle it was pretty good.
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Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 6:38 am
redheadsrule13 In the Vladmir Tod books in like maybe the second one, Vlad figures out that the new teacher in school, Otis Otis, is actaully his uncle. Well later in one of the book Otis is capture and Vlad has to go save his uncle it was pretty good. did him being captured make you not want to continue reading for a while? @Scraps: so you'd make people believe he was dead instead? lol. I'm not a fan of massively crude content like that. I remember seeing some details for "teeth" and I just cringed at the awful idea.
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Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 10:07 am
When I read the fourth Harry Potter book, I had to stop during Cedric's eulogy because I was crying. XD
I stop reading far more often out of boredom than out of emotional impact, with the exception of the first time I read through Orson Scott Card's Ender series; I stopped to cry, to plot world takeovers, and to rant about how much I hated whiny little Ender (though that was mostly during Xenocide) and how much I wanted to be a Hive Queen.
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Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 2:59 pm
I'm afraid of spoiling the books for people. burning_eyes
Well, in the Traitor Game when the main character (apparently he wasn't important enough for me to remember) and Francis got into a fight and they weren't going to be friends anymore, I had to put the book down. It just made me so sad because they were like...two peas in a pod! (excuse my old geezer phrase!)
And sometimes I stop reading when my favorite character dies. (And, for anyone who doesn't know, I have a curse. My favorite character ALWAYS dies. I got lucky when Legolas lived. eek )
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Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 4:02 pm
I have never genuinely haaaad to stop. I somehow force myself to keep reading a story, even if it's god awful and boring. One book that would have been the first one I completely stopped reading if it wasn't a school assignment would have been "A Separate Peace" though. Dear god, I wanted to kill myself. It was so boring and the plot line is this.
Gene becomes friends with his roommate Finny.
Gene thinks Finny is competing with him.
Gene pushes Finny out a tree, causing Finny to shatter his leg.
The two separate.
Finny doesn't come back to school at first and thinks Gene is joking when, during a visit he tries to tell him that he pushed him out of the tree.
A kid interested in nature goes to war.
Top of the class starts to rebel.
Finny returns and forces Gene to train for the Olympics even though Gene competes in no sport.
The naturalist kid goes crazy and runs back home.
The top-of-the-class-turned-rebel kid holds a trial to try to make Gene confess again that he pushed Finny out of the tree.
Finny runs out of the room, falls down a flight of stairs and dies.
The end.
For most of it, it was just boring and then it had a really freaking depressing ending. It's the first book that I've disliked with a passion and I do not recommend it to anyone.
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Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 4:35 pm
I've stopped many, uninteresting, annoying books.
But as for the GOOD ones that made me want to stop reading, there was only one: LOLITA. That book was just disturbingly sick. I felt like stopping many times, but I did keep going because.. I just had to.
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Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 10:08 pm
Most people will probably linch me for this but I had to stop reading Hitchhiker's Guide. I managed to battle my way to the middle of the second part but in the end I had to just give it up. It bored me so much with all the jargon and flitting from one place to another. In the end, I just couldn't take anymore.
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Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 10:12 pm
What? Blasphemy! I adored the whole thing, though I concede that you need to be in a certain mindset to enjoy it (like Tolkein, but funnier >.>).
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Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 12:44 am
Scraps 2-point-0 Well, almost died, but I didn't want to spoil it for anyone who somehow may not have read the whole thing yet. As far as I knew at the time, he was dead as a doornail. XD And then Dumbledore to the rescue. Again. Yay!And there is really no point to The Human Centipede other than to make movie theater janitors' lives more miserable. At least I first got introduced to it via satire, but I have found more disgusting things in the media. o_O I have movies downloaded that I won't dare watch. I don't really know why I even have them. Maybe for writing research, I don't know. As much as I'm curious I really really don't want to watch it.
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Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:37 pm
I remember reading twilight and stopping because It made me want to throw up?
Uh, lol, I don't really think so...wait, no, It was a christopher rice book, it was a weird sex scene and I had to stop reading it half way through because I was like...O-O
I'm okay usually with scenes and book
And every harry potter book made me stop part way through
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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 7:59 am
phantomkitsune What? Blasphemy! I adored the whole thing, though I concede that you need to be in a certain mindset to enjoy it (like Tolkein, but funnier >.>). I'm sorry, I really couldn't take anymore. xS
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