The main point of the book could have been summarised up in an email. I listened to it as an audio book just to know what it's about and it's just "communism bad" mixed with everything Margaret Thatcher could masturbate to.

i feel like i'm the only person in this thread who never knew anyone dumb enough to read that crap, let alone enjoy it or think it's great.

Here's a condensed version of all the books ...

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.

Holy shit that just sounds like some conservative, gun-toting, military cosplaying wanna-be tough guy's wet dream in the form of a novel.

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Travis McGee is what Reacher and Dirk Pitt dream of being. He lives on a houseboat he won in a poker game, and solves crimes when he finds himself low on cash.

The author died in 1986 and the books are still being published.

I like the part where they figured out the previously undiscovered secret in the race was to drive backwards. I tried that shit in Mario Kart when I was 8, you're telling me NOBODY had tried it in that game before?

Ready Player One isn't event the worst book Ernest Cline has written. lol

I enjoyed it as a fun YA adventure but Armada is so much worse.

Yeah, I was a third of the way through and realized it kinda sucked. I did stick it out to the end though.

One of the plot points has the main character literally act out scenes from classic movies. It's never a good idea to remind the reader that there's better entertainment that they could be enjoying right now.

I thought the movie was kinda fun. Never read the book though.

Did you at least lament tugging your braids wistfully? :)

That's mostly the first chapter, genesis, the begat this stuff.

R crumb, the comics artist, has a fantastic graphic novel of Genesis where he communicates the emotions through his drawings of what the words are trying to communicate. This made genesis, the most boring and pedantic part of the Bible, more interesting.

The Bible has undoubtedly led to incalculable suffering as a cult, but just as a book, it's nowhere near the worst piece of literature I've ever read.

When I was around 20 and looking for purpose in life, I actually really tried to get into Christianity.
I mean, they seemed to have a light guiding them through life, something that takes away the feeling of senselessness and chaos in the world. I especially loved the idea that "you can never fall deeper than into god's hand".
So I prayed to god to show me the way to him, went to the local church every Sunday, and started reading the bible.
All of it. Cause I obviously wanted to know what I was supposed to believe in. And it completely killed my desire to become a Christian.

The only way to make sense of it, for me, was to interprete the old testament as a collection of the stories that goat herders told each other to make sense of world history, followed by a heavily propagandized history of the Israelite people, legitimizing their claim to Israel after displacing and genociding the people who had lived there before.
The new testament is the story of a wandering preacher who tried to establish an early version of peaceful communism.
But when that became too popular, the Roman state embraced and co-opted the message and turned it into the basis of a hierarchical state church, which later turned into Christianity as we know it today.

Since I read God's book while praying to God and that was the interpretation I was left with, I have to assume, it's the one God agrees with ;)

DON’T MAKE FUN OF RENOWNED DAN BROWN

Adolf Hitler was a modern-day edgelord and an incel. He didn't have any original thoughts, he stole the ideas from the magazines he read while he was poor and unemployed

Haha that trilogy might be my favorite of all time but I also TOTALLY get that take. I'm just a big fucking sucker for the second and third books as they get increasingly ridiculous.

I didn't even make it through the first few chapters, Chinese writing style is just terribly convoluted and full of unnecessary pathos. Reminded me of some early 1700s literature from Britain, like Robinson Crusoe.

He was truly a terrible character. I got fed up with the asshat and never finished it.

I noped out about page 3 where the author wrote 'world famous symbologist.'

I knew there was no such word,

Used to be a Catholic, have to say this one as well. Used to get in trouble for asking too many questions.