some books are uplifting, others make you feel sad, some informative, life-changing even, some make you laugh, but which ones really made you angry and why? Did you ever throw it across the room for instance?
2006-10-25 11:42:23 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
wow, several good answers here, makes it difficult. Some books I recognise, others I dont but have made a note to look out for them.
2006-10-26 11:10:19 · update #1
THE BIBLE
2006-10-25 11:44:38 · answer #1 · answered by thundergnome 3 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince made me very angry and sad. I didn't throw it across the room, however I cried so hard I couldn't read the words. JK Rowling did such a wonderful job creating bad and good characters. The death in the story was huge because of the loss of the person in the story, however it was such a bigger loss because of the person causing the death. Even though this was such a well written story, I don't think I can read it again for longer than I want to wait.
2006-10-25 11:51:30 · answer #2 · answered by r_gallegos74 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro. It make me angry that I had to read it. Totally false about children, false about society, totally contrived, and when any difficulty comes up he just says there was some "unspoken rule" that they said nothing about it.
Angry about the contents: The Rise and Fall of the PLO by Gillian Becker. You need a strong stomach to read this one. The worst bit was the Christian girl in Lebanon back from college in the USA. They raped her every way they could, and then cut her arms, legs and breasts off. She survived.
It made me sick to read how these vile, sadistic bastards have been cosseted by the Europeans, the UN and the media. Unfortunately the title was premature.
2006-10-25 19:57:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-25 20:40:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Clique (by Lisi Harrison). While I loved it in a way, it just took me back to middle/high school and all the jealousy and spite. It was depressing to go back to such a unhappy time in life for so many teenagers. It was well written though, and I try not to throw books, unless it is entirely necessary.
2006-10-25 11:54:53 · answer #5 · answered by Courtlyn 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I read a book called Killing Mr. Griffin a few years ago. Lois Duncan is the author. Basic summary: a bunch of high-schoolers don't like their English teacher, and decide to give him a scare by kidnapping him. They take him out to a secluded location, and Mark (I always hated that character... from chapter two!) crushes Brian Griffin's pills, because it says nitroglycerin, and he wanted to know if they would explode. The group leaves Griffin tied up alone, and he dies because he needed to take a pill and couldn't. The whole story is built on rotten characters with awful personalities. The author wanted you to feel bad for Susan, the main character, but I didn't. The only one of the kids I felt bad for was David, because he was the most responsible of all of them. At least he was upset for Brian Griffin for having died like that, and he wasn't just worried about getting in trouble like everyone else. And yet in the end he is going to get the exact same punishment as the rest of the group. Not to mention Mrs. Griffin was pregnant at the time, and stressing about what happened to her husband could have hurt the baby.
Maybe she did a good job by making me hate almost all of her characters, but it just wasn't my kind of story.
2006-10-25 12:22:49 · answer #6 · answered by Teresa 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
George Orwell's .....1984 (yes this is the book name)
i just agreed with the main character so much then he was tortured for half the book... timeless
China Mieville's .... Iron Council
Another great book that really tortures its characters
I use the word torture as a word for putting the characters through hard times
2006-10-25 13:05:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
there are 2, a boy called it, and sleepers... both made me really angry with the world, and sleepers is the only book that made me cry... i actually had to put the book down in a corner, cry for a bit, and then come back to it later cos it made me too upset... and im not normally an emotional kinda' gal!
2006-10-25 20:30:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee' by Dee Brown. This is the true story of the founding of America, the history based on blood and attempted racial extermination - the treaties blatantly ignored, such exchanges as 'blankets for land' where the indiginous population were given blankets in exchange for land - blankets straight from smallpox hospitals..........oh yes, this one made me angry alright!
2006-10-26 04:39:37 · answer #9 · answered by twentieth_century_refugee 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Someone Else's Daughter : The Life and Death of Anita Cobby
The story of a young australian woman horribly raped and murdered by a gang of boys 'with nothing better to do'.....Her murder has been remembered as one of the most horrifying and violent crimes ever committed in Australia.
I was shocked, disgusted and furious reading this book...
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A Boy called IT! Magicalle reminded me of this book also.....these kind of books stagger me at the cruel nature and utter lack of humanity in some people.
2006-10-25 11:53:35 · answer #10 · answered by mildly_adiktiv 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Drug War Facts - by Common Sense for Drug Policy 2006 edition
2006-10-25 12:38:37 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋