Name a popular book you didn't like

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

I did it all, but it was painful.

I gave up. Also gave up on Where the Crawdads Sing.

Glad to know I'm not the only one.

I did love Daisy Jones and the Six though. .

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Heartburn by Nora Ephron. Insufferable characters, totally unreadable.

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Anonymous wrote:The Crawdads one. Horrible.

Same- way too far fetched

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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 get what you didn't like about it. Be more specific. I didnt like Invisible man. I couldn't even finish it while I know why a caged bird sings was very engaging.

It's supposed to be inspiring but she trivializes sex, gets pregnant by a seemingly random dude didn't really talk about loving the baby or hot that changed her or anything. I just felt no love for her character at that point.

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Anonymous wrote:Heartburn by Nora Ephron. Insufferable characters, totally unreadable.

How about the salad dressing recipe

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The Poisonwood Bible. I really like Kingsolver’s earlier fiction, but I couldn’t get through this one.
Ditto for the Crawdads book and The Goldfinch — which was disappointing, since I really liked reading the Secret History.

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Anonymous wrote:Great Expectations. In what way is this a good book? I read it twice because it came so highly recommended. I see zero highs in this book. Even 1984 had a cool concept. I hated this book.

I love Great Expectations. I re read it often.

Have you also watched the movie version with Gweneth Paltrow? I just love it too.

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Anonymous wrote:Great Expectations. In what way is this a good book? I read it twice because it came so highly recommended. I see zero highs in this book. Even 1984 had a cool concept. I hated this book.

I love Great Expectations. I re read it often.

Have you also watched the movie version with Gweneth Paltrow? I just love it too.

No disrespect but why? I could see the love for Oliver Twist, but it's too wordy. I could find nothing to love about Great Expectations

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Anonymous wrote:Goldfinch, ugh was it every going to end. Also The Giving Tree, yeah the kid's book.

I really liked The Goldfinch, but was similarly wondering if it was ever going to end.

I really checked out by the epilogue. I don't really care what fictional characters learn in a fictional story. Just end it at the end.

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The Overstory. The first part was good, but once the main story started, I lost all interest. My good friend, who reads as much as I do, said exactly the same thing. And yet it spent many weeks on the bestseller list, at least locally. I wonder how many people actually finished it!

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All of Glennon Doyle’s memoirs.

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The Bridges of Madison County. I literally threw that book across the room.

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Wild by Cheryl Strayed. She sure thinks she is special.

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The Family, by Naomi Krupitsky. I had to wait forever to get this book from the library because there were so many holds in front of me. Didn't care for it and found it a chore to read.

+1 for The Goldfinch. If ever there was a book in need of an editor, that'd be it.

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Anonymous wrote:The Family, by Naomi Krupitsky. I had to wait forever to get this book from the library because there were so many holds in front of me. Didn't care for it and found it a chore to read.

+1 for The Goldfinch. If ever there was a book in need of an editor, that'd be it.

That was me. Maybe it has Stephen King's editor. Someone needs to tell that man to chop 100 pages.