Books that let you down

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Anonymous wrote:This is old but I didn't get why the Girl with Dragon Tatoo was so popular. Didn't enjoy it at all, and the ending was dissapointng.

Very hard to get into. I thought it was ok after about midway, but it was so hard to get into it that I still haven't brought myself to read the second or third, which someone gave me.

I had to start with the second book. It is the author's first novel and the first book of the series is kind of convoluted and draggy.

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Caleb's Crossing (was that the name?) Nantucket, Native American, Harvard? I really love books of this genre but this one. What a disappointment.

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Anonymous wrote:Agree on Gone Girl; I hate hate HATED Forrest Gump.

the movie or the book?

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Anonymous wrote:Glass Castle.

I picked it up based on so many favorable comments on DCUM and was so disappointed in the end. There were small parts that were compelling It is supposed to be a memoir, but I couldn't shake the feeling that the whole thing was a self-absorbed lie.

I thought this book was excellent and so much of it reminded me of my childhood. Thank your lucky stars that you cannot imagine it being a memoir.

+1

I like it, too, and had no problem believing it.

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Anonymous wrote:Agree on Gone Girl; I hate hate HATED Forrest Gump.

the movie or the book?

I loved the movie. Deserved its win for Best Picture and Best Actor.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree on Gone Girl; I hate hate HATED Forrest Gump.

the movie or the book?

I loved the movie. Deserved its win for Best Picture and Best Actor.

Hated the movie. Thought it was so undeserving of the accolades and am not just saying that to be disagreeable. Still cannot believe it beat out The Shawshank Redemption!! (or even Pulp Fiction for that matter).

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Anonymous wrote:Agree on Gone Girl; I hate hate HATED Forrest Gump.

the movie or the book?

I loved the movie. Deserved its win for Best Picture and Best Actor.

We might need another thread for that. It beat Pulp Fiction: ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:Agree on Gone Girl; I hate hate HATED Forrest Gump.

the movie or the book?

I loved the movie. Deserved its win for Best Picture and Best Actor.

Hated the movie. Thought it was so undeserving of the accolades and am not just saying that to be disagreeable. Still cannot believe it beat out The Shawshank Redemption!! (or even Pulp Fiction for that matter).

+1

Forrest Gump felt like conservative propaganda to me.

Just believe in God and country and mosey your little ol' way through life, and everything will work out!!

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Anonymous wrote:The Interestings and Middlesex

I liked the interestings but anything by Eugenides makes me run screaming

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree on Gone Girl; I hate hate HATED Forrest Gump.

the movie or the book?

I loved the movie. Deserved its win for Best Picture and Best Actor.

Hated the movie. Thought it was so undeserving of the accolades and am not just saying that to be disagreeable. Still cannot believe it beat out The Shawshank Redemption!! (or even Pulp Fiction for that matter).

I thought it was one of the best movies ever and Hanks deserved best actor - what did you not like about it?

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Anonymous wrote:The Interestings and Middlesex

I liked the interestings but anything by Eugenides makes me run screaming

Loved The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex. The Marriage Plot filled me with rage.

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there was one person on here who didn't like Casablanca either, so ...

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Anonymous wrote:there was one person on here who didn't like Casablanca either, so ...

So...what?

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Anonymous wrote:there was one person on here who didn't like Casablanca either, so ...

So...what?

shows what level of credence to give some of the opinions around here.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree on Gone Girl; I hate hate HATED Forrest Gump.

the movie or the book?

I loved the movie. Deserved its win for Best Picture and Best Actor.

Hated the movie. Thought it was so undeserving of the accolades and am not just saying that to be disagreeable. Still cannot believe it beat out The Shawshank Redemption!! (or even Pulp Fiction for that matter).

I thought it was one of the best movies ever and Hanks deserved best actor - what did you not like about it?

I'm not that PP, but I think Forrest Gump is just plain silly and cheesy. Hokey.