tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post7030466580357501129..comments2024-03-14T00:16:32.077-07:00Comments on 50 Books: Stupid Books That I Have Read and Forgotten but Would Totally Read Again (Despite the Fact That They Are, As I've Already Mentioned, Stupid)Tammyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16613804843380827691noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-81970692841639661502019-08-26T04:18:55.216-07:002019-08-26T04:18:55.216-07:00We usually provide custom essays, Buy Academic Pa...We usually provide custom essays, <a href="https://www.meldaresearch.com/buy-academic-papers-online/" rel="nofollow"> Buy Academic Papers Online</a>, dissertations, thesis, and term paper for inspirational and also learning purposes. All our papers are written by professional writers who have sufficient experience in completing <a href="https://www.meldaresearch.com/research-paper-writing-services-2/" rel="nofollow"> Research Paper Writing Services</a> in any field of study. Ivymeldahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13404456546908182415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-68249071338144738412018-12-24T02:14:08.262-08:002018-12-24T02:14:08.262-08:00Nice article, I loved your post. Keep it up! Also,...Nice article, I loved your post. Keep it up! Also, check <a href="https://apkholic.com/yowhatsapp-apk-download/" rel="nofollow">YoWhatsApp</a> shared by <a href="https://apkholic.com" rel="nofollow">Apkholic</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-84890424247832535732010-03-06T12:58:00.129-08:002010-03-06T12:58:00.129-08:00You have to check The Great Horse Ride. This is th...You have to check <a href="http://www.greathorseride.com/" rel="nofollow">The Great Horse Ride</a>. This is the dumbest book in the world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-76024283173467825812009-11-27T18:22:42.142-08:002009-11-27T18:22:42.142-08:00I would like to recommend "Tim Drove" as...I would like to recommend "Tim Drove" as one of the stupidest books ever written. You can find it here: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/tim-drove/465094Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-40794437883976488652008-02-13T13:33:00.000-08:002008-02-13T13:33:00.000-08:00Hey there, don't even think of being embarrassed. ...Hey there, don't even think of being embarrassed. I meant it, it's nice to be remembered.<BR/>The book is long,long out of print. Some copies available online from used booksellers, but the ones I've gotten have been pretty mutilated, and/or the book club edition, which is wretched. First editions are available, but horrendously expensive. <BR/>You can get a readable paper back for a few bucks...<BR/>One of these day, I might avail myself of the Authors Guild back- in-print; then it would be available from IUniverse, print on demand, but so far, haven't gotten it up to fill out what seems like a hundred pages of forms.<BR/>But thanks for asking...<BR/>Best to you,<BR/>BariAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-32509311499086375502008-02-10T23:59:00.000-08:002008-02-10T23:59:00.000-08:00Oh, no! Every book blogger's worst fear realized! ...Oh, no! Every book blogger's worst fear realized! How embarrassing!<BR/><BR/>Bari, I must tell you that I first read your book when I was around ten or eleven years old and "borrowed" it from my grandma's huge library of paranormal psychological thrillers. And I found it so compelling that I probably re-read it about twelve times. And as I said in my original post, I'd happily read it again. I don't know if that mitigates anything else I wrote, but there you go.<BR/><BR/>I'm a little bit embarrassed to be caught out here... but not too embarrassed to ask you if you know where I can find a copy of your book.Doppelgangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12725922601661788402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-37489539088626216212008-02-09T11:20:00.000-08:002008-02-09T11:20:00.000-08:00I'm not sure how to feel about a book I wrote many...I'm not sure how to feel about a book I wrote many, many years ago, being number 2 on your 'stupid' list.<BR/>Kind'a complimented, I guess, since you do say you'd read them again.<BR/>After so many years...33 of them I think...it's really fun even to see its name mentioned.<BR/>Thank you...I think,<BR/>Bari WoodAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-91647669227688783382007-10-25T16:51:00.000-07:002007-10-25T16:51:00.000-07:00I love this topic! I found your blog when I was ac...I love this topic! I found your blog when I was actually searching to find an old book of my own; with no memory of title or author. It was a mystery book back in the 80's- possibly late 70's about a woman who starts getting threatening phone calls from someone who is supposed to be dead. I think it the woman then goes on a road trip and somehow it takes place in the desert. There's a big twist at the end, which is what makes me want to read it again! If anyone can help me out that would be great!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-49719425652610756572007-05-05T21:25:00.000-07:002007-05-05T21:25:00.000-07:00I'm so glad I'm not the only one who has this expe...I'm so glad I'm not the only one who has this experience. For the last 3 years or so I've been trying to find a book I read as a camp counselor for a Girl Scout camp in the 1980s (like being trapped in a B&B only much more "rustic!"). It wasn't in the horror/trash genre, but it was about a cross country running race during the Great Depression. There were 2 main male characters and one woman with the mandetory romantic tension, and other issues thrown in (troubles with weather, inadequate equipment -- they were poor and the prize was great). <BR/><BR/>Loved the "shout out" to PS I Love You. I went to the book shelf to see if I had it. Nope -- I've got "the Pigman" and "My Darling, My Hamburger" instead. :)<BR/><BR/>Love the blog. Thanks so much for sharing!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-54401780650018157522007-05-04T17:23:00.000-07:002007-05-04T17:23:00.000-07:00The book mentioned up-thread with the endless stai...The book mentioned up-thread with the endless stairs and food pellets is a YA fiction book by the master of this genre for the YA set, William Sleator. The book, for anyone who needs to waste a stupid hour or 3 is House of Stairs. He had another really great one about playing a deadly board game with evil aliens that I remember loving at the time.<BR/><BR/>per Amazon:<BR/>"One by one, five sixteen-year-old orphans are brought to a strange<BR/>building. It is not a prison, not a hospital; it has no walls, no<BR/>ceiling, no floor. Nothing but endless flights of stairs leading<BR/>nowhere - except back to a strange red machine. The five must learn to<BR/>love the machine and let it rule their lives. But will they let it<BR/>kill their souls?"<BR/><BR/>Amazon: House of Stairs<BR/>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140345809Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-8303244119960125502007-05-04T17:03:00.000-07:002007-05-04T17:03:00.000-07:00Hee. I haven't read any of these, but I suddenly f...Hee. I haven't read any of these, but I suddenly feel the need to go reread <I>The Funhouse</I> by Dean Koontz. Yes, it is COMPLETE crap, but for some reason I feel the need to read it again every time it randomly resurfaces from... wherever books go to hide in my house. <BR/><BR/>Actually, I've begun to suspect that bad books have some sort of primitive sentience. It causes them to disappear until you have forgotten how awful they were, at which point they allow themselves to be found and then lure you into reading them again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-62316223961663700042007-05-04T08:15:00.000-07:002007-05-04T08:15:00.000-07:00My link is below, in case anyone is feeling extra-...My link is <A HREF="http://othershoeblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/batshit-lit-101.html" REL="nofollow">below</A>, in case anyone is feeling extra-helpful...?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1555810294528503842007-05-03T15:46:00.000-07:002007-05-03T15:46:00.000-07:00Wow, you guys sure know your crap literature. And ...Wow, you guys sure know your crap literature. And my ruse worked! I got all my fellow horror-schlock fans out of the closet with me. BWA-hahaha!<BR/><BR/>Y'all are correct. After chasing the suggestions you mentioned, Stupid Book #2 did in fact turn out to be <I>The Killing Gift</I> by Bari Wood, and Stupid Book #3 is <I>The Mask</I> by Dean Koontz. And someone else emailed me to suggest that Stupid Book #1 is <I>The Sendai</I> by William Woolfolk, and they were right! So thank you! Now, what to do with this dangerous information. I'm almost afraid...<BR/><BR/>Man, this was fun. I've got a few more plots I may throw out to you soon. And also I obviously need to read <I>The Grounding of Group Six</I>. HOW HAVE I NOT READ THIS ALREADY?Tammyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16613804843380827691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1479812897390984362007-05-03T15:29:00.000-07:002007-05-03T15:29:00.000-07:00This is Germany speaking (in fact, one small part ...This is Germany speaking (in fact, one small part of it...) - :<BR/><BR/>In Vienna (which is the capital of Germany's beloved little sister, Austria), every café and pub maintains a bookshelf which usually features books like the described ones. Grazing through a single city quarter for semi-public rejects of gastronomes' inheritages is worth several weeks of holiday.<BR/><BR/>Trashure island...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-43185311538512136542007-05-03T14:27:00.000-07:002007-05-03T14:27:00.000-07:00I wish I was reading a stupid book right now inste...I wish I was reading a stupid book right now instead of the one I am reading which I will most likely decide is stupid after I'm done. But it's taking way longer than 4 hours. So maybe it's in a different category. Maybe I should be reading the Grounding of Group Six, huh?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-89338545820903333872007-05-03T11:42:00.000-07:002007-05-03T11:42:00.000-07:00Hey, I not only read The Grounding of Group Six, I...Hey, I not only read The Grounding of Group Six, I shared it with all my friends. (Hey, it had sex.) Can't help with the nameless ones.RandomRanterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06147261564775917270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-38959048589871318482007-05-03T05:47:00.000-07:002007-05-03T05:47:00.000-07:00I, sadly, can clearly remember reading both The Gr...I, sadly, can clearly remember reading both The Grounding of Group Six and Lace. I've always loved crap books, but not usually in the horrorschlock genre, so I'm afraid I can't shed any light on those mystery books.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-85340986400848661742007-05-02T21:01:00.000-07:002007-05-02T21:01:00.000-07:00Because stupid books come in all languages - La Li...Because stupid books come in all languages - La Licorne et les Trois Courones, ridiculously romantic, borrowed from my sister and read over a couple days when I was a teenager on vacation in Bali. I would definitely re-read it, and 11 years later am still waiting for the 3rd of the trilogy to know how it all ends... Incidentally, the small hotel where we were had a surprising collection of harlequin novels in French. A few of those also found their way in the bookshelf of the 'fully-furnished' house I'm now sharing in New Zealand, along with some German horror literature that would certainly qualify for your stupid-but-would-read-again category.<BR/><BR/>Your blog is fabulous - thanks to the DNTO podcast for sending me here! - your writing intelligent and entertaining and much more funny than Kant's Theory of Perpetual Peace (which I should really get back to).Frédériquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04003116910366855585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1847349840574292002007-05-02T16:27:00.000-07:002007-05-02T16:27:00.000-07:00Last year I read a book about a Japanese conspirac...Last year I read a book about a Japanese conspiracy to nuke the US in a B&B in New Hampshire. I didn't get to finish it and it has been bugging me ever since. I stare randomly at the shelves in Chapters willing it to jump off the shelf and into my arms so I can find out how it ended. There was also a sub-plot romance between the main character (tortured former military intelligence type) and a sexy read-headed Senator(?).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-75053962460180274682007-05-02T15:26:00.000-07:002007-05-02T15:26:00.000-07:00Oooh, I remember Lace. Awesome. Thanks for the rem...Oooh, I remember Lace. Awesome. Thanks for the reminding me.raidergirl3https://www.blogger.com/profile/03629915042716259349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-41768185901240424842007-05-02T13:19:00.000-07:002007-05-02T13:19:00.000-07:00I have no idea what any of those are, but I do sud...I have no idea what any of those are, but I do suddenly feel the need to reread Lace, which was about four girls at finishing school in Sweden. One of them gets knocked up, and all four give up the baby but pretend it. . . belongs to all of them? And the baby becomes a famous actress and hunts them down to find out who her mother is? There's also a Saudi prince involved in the plot, and some incest, and they once made a movie out of it starring Phoebe Cates. It's my all-time favorite book I never would have read if it hadn't been lying around at my B+B.Coryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14441162435521737044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-47245543343437729652007-05-02T12:47:00.000-07:002007-05-02T12:47:00.000-07:00That last one, as others have pointed out, is defi...That last one, as others have pointed out, is definitely "The Mask" by Dean Koontz (originally published under the pen name Owen West) and while it was a stupid book, I have to admit the killer cat that kept attacking the elderly lady scared the heck out of me.Heather B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06796852014625052317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-71571249427746933422007-05-02T10:55:00.000-07:002007-05-02T10:55:00.000-07:00The Grounding of Group Six sounds like Battle Roya...The Grounding of Group Six sounds like <A HREF="http://imdb.com/title/tt0266308/" REL="nofollow">Battle Royale</A>. Which was an amazing movie. These books all sound too scary for me - I read Cloud Atlas a couple of weeks ago and I'm still having (actually, awesome) dreams about it.Kristinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03271639716537209096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-29767126863507232522007-05-02T09:45:00.000-07:002007-05-02T09:45:00.000-07:00First one I'd also bet on John Saul. I've read it...First one I'd also bet on John Saul. I've read it, I know, and I think it was him.<BR/><BR/>Second one is definitely "The Mask" by Dean "Less Wordy than Stephen King" Koontz. Girl forced to go to the basement, which she's scared of, by mean mother and is killed down there when there is a fire. Spirit keeps coming back in different reincarnations to kill the mother's reincarnation. If I remember correctly, usually with an axe.Mariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12031494785961978671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-21499792466114285382007-05-02T09:43:00.000-07:002007-05-02T09:43:00.000-07:00excellent topic! The last one sounds vaguely fami...excellent topic! The last one sounds vaguely familiar to me; I may have read that in the distant past also.<BR/>However, I CAN tell you the identity of the second book. It's "The Killing Gift", by Bari Wood. (I remembered the author, but had to check the title on Amazon). She wrote several shlocky horror type books, including one about the creepy twin drug abusing gynecologists and another about a golem (golum? sp?). <BR/>I swear I read good books, too.<BR/>JenLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com