Books that you found overrated
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Anonymous
+1. I deleted it off my Kindle after 50 pages. I was expecting trash, but it was so badly written I couldn't even enjoy it for what it was. |
Anonymous
I loved both of these! |
Anonymous
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Hillbilly elegy
The Corrections |
Anonymous
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Hillbilly Elegy. JD Vance is a fraudulent hack - basically a smarter Paul Ryan. The town he lived in was and is actually pretty solid, his grandparents made really good money, and his mom was the valedictorian of her high school (and later became a nurse). Chapter after chapter of republican establishment cliches.
And he didn't go to the military to pay for college. He wasn't that poor! His grades would have netted him great scholarships anywhere. I would bet anything he wanted to enter politics from an early age and wanted military bonafides. |
Anonymous
I love him. Why don’t you like him? Who do you like? |
Anonymous
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50 Shades
Hillbilly Elegy Anything by Gretchen Rubin: I do get some good ideas here and there from her books, but really dislike her writing. |
Anonymous
| Haha, I loved Fate and Furies and like the older Jonathan Franzen books. I don't like what I consider "literary" chick lit (like hugely popular Jodi Picoult) because I find that all the unrealistic plot twists do not go well with the serious, overly emotional tone of the books. But l like unashamedly kitschy, fun books like Charlene Harris. Also like sci-fi if I am in the mood. |
Anonymous
| Nicholas Sparks books |
Anonymous
| Eat Pray Love. God, what a load that was. I heard the author interviewed on Diane Rehm years ago, walked in the room as the radio was playing the interview, not knowing who the subject was, and was repelled immediately by her then trying-to-sound like a 22 year old voice among other things. I just can't stand her, or the book. |
Anonymous
That's so funny, I almost got fired from my lifeguarding job in college because I literally couldn't put it down! |
Anonymous
Yep. He was only poor because his mother was an unstable drug addict. |
Anonymous
Totally with you. And I hated the main character... |
Anonymous
| Interview with the Vampire. Have never been able to get more than a chapter or two into it. Liked the movie though (and usually I like a book much more than its movie adaptation). |
Anonymous
| Michael Chabon books |
Anonymous
| The Nest |