Name a popular book you didn't like
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Anonymous
This seems to be a popular opinion here but I also disliked it. |
Anonymous
| Cold Mountain. I have never read so much text without dialogue. The movie was pretty good but that's because I had a crush on Jude Law back then. |
Anonymous
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Time Traveler's Wife. Ugh
Also agree about Kristen Hannah |
Anonymous
Overwritten crap. |
Anonymous
The Goldfinch was compelling in so many ways, but she needed a forceful editor to make her cut at least 1/3 of the book. |
Anonymous
| The Alchemist |
Anonymous
Not the pp you are asking but I also live it. I think it is engrossing and quite funny at times. |
Anonymous
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Where'd you go Bernadette, to me it just had no substance.
To Kill a Mockingbird, I've just never gotten why people love it so much. |
Anonymous
Even Anonymous, I don't want to do too much of criticizing the GOATs. I respect her too much but it just didn't do any thing for me. Same with Color Purple. That did move me more though, like I had hatred for some characters from that book, but not to the extent of some friends who worship that book. Maybe it's that when I'm looking for something uplifting, I can't read a book that has r@pe in it and still be uplifted by it. But that's not the worse about Caged Bird. It's more that the why's of the story don't seem to connect to me. Maybe this is a me problem because they're are certain authors who I gravitate towards and certain ones who confuse me. Baldwin confuses me more than Wright. And Angelou is the same. It seems like there's an expression they want me to get, and I can convince myself to think that way, but my natural reaction is either nah I wouldn't do that or something more confusing. Adventure stories that don't look into the souls of people are much easier to read and interpret because it's either spelled out or not meant to be that deep. |
Anonymous
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A Confederacy of Dunces
It’s been discussed here before but A Little Life |
Anonymous
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The last thing he told me
Harry Potter The book of lost friends |
Anonymous
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Da Vinci Code
I will judge if you like it. |
Anonymous
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Agree with Crawdads, Goldfinch and Hugo.
Disagree with Confederacy of Dunces, I love that book. It is zany and has no point and really gets New Orleans. I’ll add Little Fires Everywhere. I hate it when an author tries to hard to force you to like or dislike certain characters. |
Anonymous
+100.000.000 Brazilians |
Anonymous
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Catcher in the Rye.
As an English major I could stomach most books, but this one really was the hardest one for me to get through. |