If you were young when you read it, didn’t enjoy it then, WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU COMPLAINING ABOUT IT NOW?
What the hell does that have to do with anything?
Because the book is EMOTIONAL.
And I hate it.
So there.
I LIKE Joe Dirt.
And it doesn’t have an interesting character.
messup.
But it’s funny.
All books are “emotional” as you put it. They all evoke one emotion or another; some make you happy, others sad or angry, some just make you bored. To pit a children’s book because you are unable to experience the emotions it attempts to evoke is a waste of a rant.
Should you become literate enough to discuss literary criticism in terms more intelligent than:
“nonblowingupaliens book” and “I just hate drama, that’s all”
then feel free to revisit this discussion.
Until then maybe you need more ritalin?
(Oh and for someone who hates drama that OP was quite “dramatic”:rolleyes: )
Okay then, it’s just boring.
And so, the title’s wrong.
What the fuck are you reading? Dick and Jane? Did you have a heart attack when the spider died in Charlottes Web(seems about your level)? Nearly every book written is written to make you feel a certain emotion, so any fiction qualifies as “emtional”?
How old are you and how old were you when you read it?
When you read Bridge to Terabithia that is.
So basically you’re saying that you don’t like these books because they don’t have aliens. Lots of books don’t have aliens, and you said that you read these a long time ago. Why are you complaining about them now, exactly?
Please, I’d love to know your motivations for this rant.
I just hate them. It’s a certain intangible quality that arouses a part that acts like the hulk in me.(while being that strong would be nice…) I just hate them. I have no idea why.
And no…
I did not suffer a heart attack when the spider died!
Dude… what is your problem?
Not having read the two books specifically referenced in the OP, I can’t comment on their quality, but I am curious why the OP extended his dislike for two books in particular to disliking “drama books” (and the OP’s semi-literate writing style sure didn’t help get the message across.)
If you refuse to read books in which characters conflict, you have pretty much wiped out virtually all serious fiction. Even “blowing up alines” books have characters in emotional or physical distress.
I suppose the OP could limit him/herself to the comedic works of P.G. Wodehouse and George Macdonald Fraser, but judging by the OP’s writing ability, I suspect he/she might find their novels difficult as well.
No, these books in question are books I hate.
Personally, I wouldn’t mind reading other things, but I absolutely hate these books with a passion that equals the fires of a million suns.
You hate them for being emotional.
And yet nearly every “serious” novel tries to invoke some emotion…
Get it?
I’m starting to think that, maybe, hebesphenomegacorona is long for “hebephrenic.”
Am I the only person who, when I saw the title of the thread, thought that this would be a rant about the not-very-good books that are often used to teach drama classes?
I might be…
I once saw Jesus’s face on the back of a car seat.
Anyways Aslan2, it’s not that I hate emotional books, I just hate these books for some deep reason.
No, you weren’t. I was all prepared to rant about how I got stuck with the damn thing since the textbook went into a new edition.
Well, I read “Bridge…” when I was deep into “drama” books, including Shakespere. I was none too impressed either. Its not that I hated it, just that I felt anything it had to say was better said by half a dozen other, far more interesting, books. I did not find it evocative at all.
But that’s just me, and I do find value in emotional fiction. If you want to try ‘drama’ that includes blowing up aliens, may I sugest Spider Robinson’s Callahan series? Quite good science fiction along with some of the better evocative/emotional searching I’ve read.