You know what? I don't read Christmas books. I also don't watch Christmas movies (except for Scrooged) or Christmas T.V shows special episode. Better yet, I work this year on Christmas. So I'm not happy. Here are ten book that will make you miserable.
1-120 Days Of Sodom by Marquis de Sade: Great book if you're ever interested in the different uses of feces to get off.
2-Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce: Everything's been said. If you get out of this one alive, better yet, enlightened. I give you a blog award. But you have to explain it to me.
3-Far From Medina by Assia Djebar: One of the most painful reads ever (for school, of course). It's supposed to be about women in Islam and it's just a very pretentious book written for the academy.
4-The Year Of The Death Of Ricardo Reis by Jose Saramago: Apparently, you need to be a Fernando Pessoa scholar to understand this book. Josie is the biggest Pessoa fan and still couldn't make it through the first chapter. Another academy-aimed book.
5-Veronika Decides To Die by Paolo Coelho: If you ever feel not qualified enough to take decisions for yourself, you might find this book helpful.If you're a normal person, it will give your mind gonorrhea.
6-Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson: Great book, but it's going to pummel you with information so hard you're going to need an IV and a 24/7 paramedic to finish it.
7-Hygiene And The Assassin by Amelie Nothomb: It wants to be feminist, but it's just...it's just a very bad story about a girl with emotional problems.
8-Ice People by René Barjavel: Starts good, great even. Then it's like watching a train run through an elementary school. It's a masturbatory tale of greater insignificance.
9-La Révolution Des Fourmis by Bernard Werber: "The Revolution Of The Ants". So bad it was never translated. The first two ants books were great, but this one has been written for pedophiles. I never forgave him this book.
10-In Search Of Lost Time by Marcel Proust: For every point of literary cred you get reading this book, you also get a brain aneurysm and and months of counselling. It's not worth it. Technique can only be that interesting before the boring memories drive you insane.
