Name a popular book you didn't like

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Anonymous wrote:The Midnight Library. The protagonist was one of the most unlikeable characters I’ve ever read. So many other books with the same theme have done it so much better.

Ditto, The Midnight Library

I finally decided to give up and DNF. What are some of the other books you enjoyed w/ the same theme?

Also hated the midnight library. It was an interesting premise but the author did the most boring and predictable things with it. Of course she ends up liking and choosing her original life by the end. Snoozefest.

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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.

Confederacy of Dunces really captures New Orleans. Or at least what it used to be. I used to live there and just felt the spirit of the residents in that book.

Loved this book and it did capture NO for its time. O’toole’s life ended in such a tragedy but thankfully his mother persisted and got the book published.

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Anonymous wrote:The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. I just…couldn’t. Maybe I gave up too early, idk.

SAME

Although I listened to it and part of me wonders if it was the narrator's voice that I didn't like. The way she spoke irked me.

I did read City of Girls, which has been compared to Hugo but that one I liked a lot.

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Anonymous wrote:The last thing he told me

Harry Potter

The book of lost friends

This book was SO STUPID

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Beach Read. Recommended by so many friends! I didn't finish it. I meant to but I decided to "take a break" when I was still just not into it by halfway through, and then forgot to ever pick it back up. People still recommend it to me and I'm like, oh already read it, thanks.

I still don't understand what it was people liked about it. It felt like it was trying to be clever but was actually just a classic example of bad romance -- tedious protagonist and wooden, two-dimensional love interest.

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Anonymous wrote:Crawdads, Nightingale, Seven Husbands all so underwhelming.

Super pretentious - The Fates and the Furies.

+1

I forced myself to finish that but hated it

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Anonymous wrote:I’m slogging through Lessons in Chemistry now and am about to abandon it. Came so highly rated, but I hate it. Worst kind of character stereotyping. I hate that the main character is a brilliant female chemist who is obliviously gorgeous and has more than “a touch of the tism.”

I loved that book but I listened to it and really liked the narrator and I do think that helps.

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Anonymous wrote:Verity -so predictable and I hated the main character

Anything recent by Emily Giffen. I feel like she's just mailing it in.

The last one was SO bad. I agree, I'm giving up on her. I never thought she was a quality writer but her books used to be fine for beach reads and now they make me angry that I've wasted my time.

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Anonymous wrote:Firefly Lane. Whew. One huge cliche. Only made it about two chapters in, had to bail.

+1

I hated that book. The friendship was basically abusive.

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The Hobbit.

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Anonymous wrote:Heartburn by Nora Ephron. Insufferable characters, totally unreadable.

I know you're entitled to your opinion, but your opinion is wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:White Teeth - I thought it was clumsy and badly written

Hated this also. And Bear Town AND Beach Read (which other PP’s mentioned in separate comments)

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Firefly Lane. My mom had raved about it and I just found it meh and way too long. I probably would not have even picked up Nightingale, which I enjoyed, if I had realized it was written by the same author, lol.

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Anonymous wrote:The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. I just…couldn’t. Maybe I gave up too early, idk.

I did it all, but it was painful.

Agreed! (And I really like all her other books so it’s weird to be people like this one and not the others).

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Where the crawdads sing.


I tried. Multiple times. I could couldn’t get into it.