Name a popular book you didn't like

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Sally Rooney's "Normal People". It was incredibly boring and I hated the writing style.

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Anonymous wrote:Sally Rooney's "Normal People". It was incredibly boring and I hated the writing style.

+1 hated it. I think I was too old for it.

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Anonymous wrote:Kristin Hannah books are so cringe and my book club is completely horny for them. Winter Garden - you mean to tell me you couldn't figure out your beautiful, tragic, detached, abusive Russian mom was maaaaaybe somehow traumatized during WWII and that's her big dark secret? So shocking! I would have never guessed she had to eat book paste to survive the siege of Leningrad! The plot holes and watery characterization are just too much for me. And I'm really not a snob, I watch Hallmark and Lifetime movies. I think I take issue with the fact that these books want you to think they are well-crafted lit and they are just not.

I also hated, hated, hated A Little Life but could at least acknowledge the writing was beautiful.

This is a great observation. It’s definitely my problem with The Goldfinch, which was heralded as Donna Tart’s long-awaited return to literary fiction.

Yes to this. Her writing is so cringe but my book club friends love Hannah, and think it’s literary fiction.

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Tried multiple books by Kristin Hannah and Sally Rooney trying to understand what people loved so much, and hated them all. Couldn't even finish Educated, it was so bad.

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Thirteen Reasons Why
The Shack
In the Woods - I threw this one away because I was so angry at the end
We Need to Talk About Kevin
The Dinner
Defending Jacob
Wild
The Silent Patient
Imaginary Friend
A Man Called Ove

The Shack - Im so glad folks stopped talking about that rag. And the Silent Patient - sooooo lame.

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Anonymous wrote:Da Vinci Code


I will judge if you like it.

Terrible book, certainly one of the worst that I've read that I actually made it through.

Probably not controversial at all, but I tried reading 50 Shades of Gray and just couldn't do it. I'm curious if the dialog from the book is what's used in the movie, but I'm not interested enough in seeing the movie to find out.

move is goofy.

You don't read 50 shades for the great writing. It's erotica.

I tried just reading those parts, but they were still so badly written that there was truly nothing erotic about them. The romance books with Fabio on the cover have hotter sex scenes than 50 shades.

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Anything by Sally Rooney.

A Place For Us.

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Anonymous wrote:Da Vinci Code


I will judge if you like it.

Terrible book, certainly one of the worst that I've read that I actually made it through.

Probably not controversial at all, but I tried reading 50 Shades of Gray and just couldn't do it. I'm curious if the dialog from the book is what's used in the movie, but I'm not interested enough in seeing the movie to find out.

I feel the same way. In fact, he is one of those authors whose popularity I just do not understand. Dan Brown writes TERRIBLY. Another is Anne Rice. Even her erotica was so, SO bad; how do you make sex seem so incredibly boring?

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Anonymous wrote:I wanted this forum created so that I could talk about books I didn't like. Maybe I'm just not understanding some of these books and maybe they're not written for me but there are still he popular books I really don't like. I won't make them all because that would likely give my identity away.

One I haven't mentioned to anybody is Maya Angelou's 'i know why the caged bird sings". Not to trivialize what she went through but I really finished the book like seemed like what did I just read. How critical can I be of an autobiography? Especially if it made her who she is? But seeing this put in the same leagues or above invisible man, black boy, native son. I just don't see it.

They're are several others and I hope this doesn't turn into a bash me or bash Maya because I love her other works (especially poetry) but I'm not a fan of that book.

I don't mind her fiction, but I think her poetry is cringy.

What fiction have you read by Maya Angelou that you might recommend? I’ve only read her autobiographies — and didn’t realize that she had written any fiction for adults.

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Anonymous wrote:Sally Rooney's "Normal People". It was incredibly boring and I hated the writing style.

+1 hated it. I think I was too old for it.

Oh, but the scenery and clothing in the Netflix (?) version

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Anonymous wrote:Sally Rooney's "Normal People". It was incredibly boring and I hated the writing style.

+1 hated it. I think I was too old for it.

Oh, but the scenery and clothing in the Netflix (?) version

Forgot to mention Paul Mescal. Worth it for him alone.

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Anonymous wrote:The Crawdads one. Horrible.

Yes this

Damn, I loved it.

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Anonymous wrote:The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. I just…couldn’t. Maybe I gave up too early, idk.

I really liked this one.

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Anonymous wrote:Da Vinci Code


I will judge if you like it.

Judge me. I loved it.

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Anonymous wrote:Tried multiple books by Kristin Hannah and Sally Rooney trying to understand what people loved so much, and hated them all. Couldn't even finish Educated, it was so bad.

A one of the Hannah Haters upthread I was initially dismayed to see my beloved Sally lumped in with Kristin’s schlock but upon further consideration they do share tragic but quietly beautiful and long-suffering protagonists with shameful, dirty secrets, examinations of class, slang you need to use kindle’s dictionary feature for…is Sally Rooney the Irish Kristin Hannah?!??