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

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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.

I hated this one so much I quit halfway through.

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Bonfire of the Vanities. Any Tom Wolfe book, really.

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Beloved. I loved Muva Morrison but that book was a no for me.

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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!

Any ideas who should play which character? I don't know much about actors that age.

Here's my attempt (also don't know the younger actors that well) but also a Secret History fan:
Richard: Lucas Hedges from Manchester by the Sea
Henry: Timothee Chalamet
Charles: Tom Holland
Camilla: Sophie Turner or Saoirse Ronan
Bunny: ???
Bunny's gf: Sydney Sweeney from Euphoria
Julian the professor: Bradley Cooper? Is he weird enough? Maybe Adam Driver?

I don’t see Adam Driver or Bradley Cooper as Julian. Cooper isn’t old enough and Adam Driver has the wrong look, I think?

That’s fair, I feel like I’m well overdue for a re-read/I unfortunately read the Maidens last year (do NOT recommend) and there was another weird professor type that I think was younger. I hope Secret History holds up well during my reread though!

There was an interesting thread on The Secret History within the past few months. There seemed a clear pattern that those of us who read it when about college aged loved it, versus those who read it later in life found it insufferable. I'm in the camp of having read it when a college student (right when it came out) and loved it.

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Overstory by Richard Powers. I finished it but, hated every minute! Confusing and depressing!!

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Anonymous wrote:Overstory by Richard Powers. I finished it but, hated every minute! Confusing and depressing!!

Agree! I only read it because a friend was raving about what a great book it is.

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Everything about me points to being a Jane Austen fan.

I can't stand Austen.

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh Jonathan Franzen ugh.

I can read Irving, 100 years of Solitude, but this guy is just awful. I think he has some weird hangups that I'm just not interested in entertaining as a captive audience.

Jonathan Franzen hates women. He doesn't even realize how much he hates women, but every problem for every male character can be traced back to "it's her fault." I just can't read his books anymore.

I don't mind books that have flawed characters, but dig a little under the surface with his books and it's just misogyny, misogyny, misogyny.

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All of them.

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Anonymous wrote:The Bible.

Preach!

Have you read Jefferson’s Bible? He actually use a razor to cut out all references to a supernatural being, and left in the rest. I think this personal copy of his is in the Library of Congress.

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Anonymous wrote:Beloved. I loved Muva Morrison but that book was a no for me.

Yeah, we all love Muva Morrison, lol.

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Anonymous wrote:The entire Outlander series is in need of a good editor.

Yes! She is far too wordy.

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Anonymous wrote:Ulysses by James Joyce

Everybody hates this book; even the people who pretend to love it.

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh Jonathan Franzen ugh.

I can read Irving, 100 years of Solitude, but this guy is just awful. I think he has some weird hangups that I'm just not interested in entertaining as a captive audience.

Jonathan Franzen hates women. He doesn't even realize how much he hates women, but every problem for every male character can be traced back to "it's her fault." I just can't read his books anymore.

I don't mind books that have flawed characters, but dig a little under the surface with his books and it's just misogyny, misogyny, misogyny.

Same with the guy Phillip Roth. and he's an ashle

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh Jonathan Franzen ugh.

I can read Irving, 100 years of Solitude, but this guy is just awful. I think he has some weird hangups that I'm just not interested in entertaining as a captive audience.

Jonathan Franzen hates women. He doesn't even realize how much he hates women, but every problem for every male character can be traced back to "it's her fault." I just can't read his books anymore.

I don't mind books that have flawed characters, but dig a little under the surface with his books and it's just misogyny, misogyny, misogyny.

Same with the guy Phillip Roth. and he's an ashle

Cosign both of these. DH loves Roth and we just agree never to talk about him. Same with Updike.