Name a popular book you didn't like

[Anonymous]

HATED Beartown and the series. Read all of Beartown - tried to salvage by reading the sequel... Just seriously the most boring book ever. If you take out "twack" and Beartown is a hockey town...the story is about 5 pages

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gone Girl. Yuck.

+1. Found her so pretentious

So stupid.. I really used this book to help me sleep at night

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

SMe, it I read it in my late 20s. The whole time I was just telling him to grow up in my head.

Maybe that’s my issue with Normal People? I thought the characters were so dumb for not talking with one another.

[Anonymous]

Confederacy of Dunces.
Never saw the appeal.

Most of Dostoyevsky and Zola. Realism is so bleak.

[Anonymous]

--HATED Confederacy of Dunces Yuck!
--The Giving Tree gets on my nerves
--Disliked Crawdads
--Disliked Gone Girl
--Disliked Hillbilly Elegy - from the beginning of the books he seemed like a poseur, pretending that he grew up in Appalachia. By the end, I started to realize his political motivation and ugh, now that I know more about him, Yuck!
--An oldie that I HATED - Smilla's Sense of Snow. Cannot believe they made that into a movie.

[Anonymous]

Dutch House, blah

Really character driven and didn't care for any of the main characters!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Confederacy of Dunces.
Never saw the appeal.

Most of Dostoyevsky and Zola. Realism is so bleak.

Okay, be honest. Did you finish the book or just get turned off by the hot dog flatulence? I think this book the funniest dialogue and the characters were just so incredibly unique and unforgettable.

[Anonymous]

I hated Normal People by Sally Rooney. Despite being written by a woman I found it to be sexist.

[Anonymous]

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.

DaVinci Code

[Anonymous]

Lonesome Dove

[Anonymous]

Horse. I’m about 20% in (on audio) and it just isn’t grabbing me. I was so sure I’d love it based on reviews. I’m hoping it gets better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Crawdads one. Horrible.

Thank you!!’ I despised this one. Couldn’t give it away fast enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

SMe, it I read it in my late 20s. The whole time I was just telling him to grow up in my head.

Maybe that’s my issue with Normal People? I thought the characters were so dumb for not talking with one another.

DP. I watched Normal People for the scenery and clothes. I didn’t read it and maybe that’s the difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

DaVinci Code

Anything by Dan Brown. The hackiest of the hacks.

[Anonymous]

The Rainbow fish! Yikes! I hate that book.

never liked goodnight moon, either.