Name a popular book you didn't like

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The Women by Kristin Hannah. I won't read anything by her every again.

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Anonymous wrote:Educated

I can't believe this book was so popular. I've read many better memoirs. I also hated her family and found them awful to read about.

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Anonymous wrote:The Women by Kristin Hannah. I won't read anything by her every again.

Kristin Hannah’s Great Depression book was the last straw for me. I’m glad I got off the train before The Women because it seems many don’t like it!

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Anonymous wrote:Hillbilly Elegy was the most astroturfed and fakest bullshit I've ever read. I couldn't eye roll hard enough when NY Times and CNN nitwits pretended it was the most profound crap they've ever read. Everything in it was so clearly fake. Of course it was all a ruse to lay the political foundation for this neocon tech puppet they were going to make a young president.

Yeah, it could not have been more clear that it was manufactured to support a political run. Gross.

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“Babel, or the Necessity or Violence” by RF Kuang. It is overwritten, and its characters often make inexplicable choices. But the biggest problem is that it commits the cardinal sin of constant “telling not showing” such that the entire book is deeply patronizing to the reader. Too bad, because it’s an interesting concept. Really, it would be a fine YA book, but the author and/or the publisher don’t seem to know it’s YA.

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The Silent Patient. Anything by Colleen Hoover

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Anonymous wrote:Midnight Library

Absolute toxic drivel from someone who doesn't understand mental illness.

odd, because he suffers from it.

LOL, my bookclub is reading this one right now. I'm not very far into it, but I am not loving it at all

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Throne of Glass. Almost unreadable

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Girl on the Train

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#1. The help

#2.) Hunger Games

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Anonymous wrote:Girl on the Train

Agreed.

I remember reading an interview with the author in which she said she had written it very quickly, and she feels that contributed to the pacing and sense of dread in the book itself. But I think the novel could have benefited from some extra time and revision.

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Anonymous wrote:Girl on the Train

Yeah, bad.

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Bridgerton - made it to the third book. Couldn't take how toxic all the men were. At least Netflix/Shondaland changed the characters significantly so they weren't such jerks.

Dorothy Sayers' Peter Wimsey books - people say you have to get to the 8th book to like the series? Sorry, no.

The Maid by Nita Prose - offensive, terrible neurodivergent rep, the police investigation was something out of the 1800s, not fit for a contemporary story.

Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody books - maybe I'll try again, but I find romantic leads who snipe at each other constantly to be really upsetting to read. I need affection. Banter is good, but I remember thinking they didn't like each other at all.

Finlay Donovan by Elle Cosmino (sp?) - I thought it would be fun to read something set locally (takes place in Loudoun), but the first book was horrific. Main characters uses duck tape to "fix" her kid's hair when they cut it off by accident. She and her soon-to-be ex husband are immature, jerks to each other. It's supposed to be funny and a lot of people love the books, but I found Finlay annoying.

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Caraval by Stephanie Garber - people are feral for the Caraval books and I thought the world-building was complete nonsense. Barely made it through the first book.

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Anonymous wrote:Girl on the Train

Yeah, bad.

I actually liked that one!

Strongly disliked The Last Thing He Told Me