Books you "should" love, but just don't

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I’m embarrassed to admit this, and disappointed, because I love her profiles:

Fleishman Is In Trouble

I will have to try it again.

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Anonymous wrote:A Little Life. I put it down before page 50. I'm detention to read it some time in the future. I just hope my impression of the writing style is wrong (seemed really basic, and I'm no literati.)

Is this the one that felt like tragedy porn? I could not take it :/

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Anonymous wrote:50 Shades. All my friends loved it. I flipped through and what I read made me sick to my stomach. That kind of garbage is why so many women end up in abusive relationships.

Agree. Terrible. Even worse that my mother in law gave me the books and raved about them. I can’t even watch the movies.

For me, anything by Jane Austen or the Brontë sisters. I don’t get how people can read those books over and over.

This is the most fascinating post I have read in years. Your MIL gave you not just one but all the 50 Shades books? Your MIL??? Can you tell us what, do you think, she was intending? Why would she give you these? Was it encouragement? Was her thinking, My son tells me he needs to spice things up a little in the bedroom, or what? This post just made my day! I do hope you’ll follow up.

Ans now you’ve made my day!

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Anonymous wrote:Anything by Taylor Jenkins Reid

I loved The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Did not like Daisy Jones and the Six at all, or Malibu Rising.

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A Confederacy of Dunces is probably one of my favorite books ever! It is laugh out loud funny to me. I also like some Dickens more than others. Pickwick Papers is hilarious, Tale of Two Cities is poignant.

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Anonymous wrote:I really hate everything that I've read by Ian McEwan, including Atonement, Amsterdam, The Comfort of Strangers, and others. It is unfathomable to me that he is a Man Booker winner. His work comes across as a 15 year old trying to be smart and subversive. However I happen to agree with many of his controversial political statements.

The first book of his I read was Sweet Tooth, which I adored. So I tried reading more of him, including a couple you mentioned above. Utter disappointments.

I loved Sweet Tooth too! And then nothing afterward :/

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Ursula K. Le Guin and N.K. Jemisin

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Anonymous wrote:A Confederacy of Dunces is probably one of my favorite books ever! It is laugh out loud funny to me. I also like some Dickens more than others. Pickwick Papers is hilarious, Tale of Two Cities is poignant.

Agreed! I thought it was hysterical.

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Anonymous wrote:Crossing to Safety. I like other Wallace Stegner, and my book club thought I was nuts, but I hated the people in that book so much (which is fine if the author is trying to write people who are unlikeable, but Stegner clearly wanted the couples to be sympathetic). I suppose my strong reaction means the book isn’t bad, though—I certainly want indifferent to it.

Okay, so that was a weird thing. So Sid was supposed to be weak, and Charity domineering, right? But then Sid is prancing around naked and Larry thinks he had completely dominated and satisfied Charity sexually the night before? How does that work? I couldn’t get it.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone read Anxious People?

It really grew on me

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Anonymous wrote:The little Friend - Donna Tartt
I couldn’t finish it. It became apparent at some point that she wasn’t going to give an answer.

okay. I really enjoyed that book, but that bugged the crap out of me.
You can't start a novel with a mystery and then just...never solve it.

That bothered me too :/

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Anonymous wrote:Add me to the list for The Secret History. I couldn't get into, and never finished it.

I've read The Secret History many times. I loved it. I wish they would make a movie out of it. The casting would make or break it.

SAME.

Wish I knew you irl!

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Anonymous wrote:WOLF HALL IS THE WORST BOOK EVER

Most opinions different from mine I can respect, but not this one. You are wrong, my fellow DCUM, so wrong. SO. WRONG.

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grade/middle school stuff:

Harriet the Spy


Curious Incident of the Dog...

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Anonymous wrote:grade/middle school stuff:

Harriet the Spy


Curious Incident of the Dog...

Ooof, that’s another good one I haven’t seen anyone mention here yet! I could not stand that book.