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Books to avoid

This page was updated on Fri Nov 5 00:44:24 IST 2004
This is a list of books which i recommend to skip, not to read, to avoid, not to buy, to sell... I think you get the idea. For a more optimistic list see books to read. Technical books:
  1. Chaos - the making of a new science - waste of time.
  2. Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the making of Microsoft Empire by J. Wallace and J. Erickson - dumped
    I didn't finish this book. I've got bored and annoyed by this book quite quickly. As you can understand i don't have a good things to say about this book, so i'd better say nothing.
General category:
  1. Lolita by Nabokov - hhmmm, i don't know , i know its chosen to be one of the 100 books of century but it looks funny to me. As one of my friend said ( she understands more than i) : "it is written by clever man who wanted to be famous and rich, so he chooses scandal theme in order to make censor forbid the book and make him know this way." You can argue about it but facts is stubborn thing : he is famous due to "Lolita" and i, i tend to agree with my friend thought not completely.
    In tree words: can be skipped.
  2. King and Emperor by Harry Harisson - December 2001
    This is a shiny example of the old saying "do what you do best!". Or in other words, "don't do other people work". SF writer tries to say his thoughts on a subject of religion. Give me a break.
  3. Wilderness by Roger Zelazny - September 2002
    This is a story about two men, each one of them desperately trying to escape death. One is crawling home after a death-match with a bear and another is trying to outrun an indian tribe. The story has a Jack London style, only that London does it better. So if you want to read this type of stories, read London and not Zelazny.
  4. The five biggest ideas in science by Charles M. Wynn Arthur W. Wiggins and cartoons by Sidney Harris - October 2002
    Let me put it straight: this is a nice book, but its for either children or for science illiterate persons. The cartoons are great. The material is very shallow and high-level. Don't read it, unless you're a kid or do not know much about general science facts.
  5. Let it be morning or Veihehe Boker by Said Kishu - September 2004
    While this book touches a very interesting subject of israeli arabs. It touches the subject very gently and shalow. While the book is written in a simple and straightforward language, it falls short of building and making the reader to fill the problems of the israeli arabs settlements.
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