Name a popular book you didn't like

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Let Them. Mel Robbins is insufferable!

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Anonymous wrote:I wish I could unread Olive Kitteridge. It really depressed me and made life seem small, sad and meaningless.

This is fascinating to me. I wrote a paper on it in grad school about how creating empathy is the highest function of fiction and Olive Kitteridge exemplifies that. I thought it was the ultimate story of hope.

DP. I just finished it last week, and found it incredibly touching. I felt for Olive.

Yep. That is the point of the book -- to make you feel for Olive. Even though she's a big PITA. It's brilliant.

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Anonymous wrote:Let Them. Mel Robbins is insufferable!

I really hate all these grifters and their platitutes and it makes me sad it's such an industry.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish I could unread Olive Kitteridge. It really depressed me and made life seem small, sad and meaningless.

This is fascinating to me. I wrote a paper on it in grad school about how creating empathy is the highest function of fiction and Olive Kitteridge exemplifies that. I thought it was the ultimate story of hope.

Oh I felt no hope. It was all loneliness and quiet despair to me, with a bunch of characters going through ordinary struggles big and small. I didn't really feel the empathy at all, just the sadness of life's little upsets.

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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.

+1 totally agree. Wasn’t written well and frankly unbelievable. Like relevant detail left out. Had such high hopes.

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DNF's Tom Lake by Ann Patchett. I like some of her other books (esp her first one) but was so bored by Tom Lake.

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The entire Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings series.

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Anonymous wrote:The Crawdads one. Horrible.

I loved that book. I love nature, and she did a wonderful job with those descriptions. Loved the quiet, ethereal feeling in the story.
I also love Kristin Hannah’s books.
A popular book I hated is The Secret History by Donna Tart.

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Anonymous wrote:The Crawdads one. Horrible.

I loved that book. I love nature, and she did a wonderful job with those descriptions. Loved the quiet, ethereal feeling in the story.
I also love Kristin Hannah’s books.
A popular book I hated is The Secret History by Donna Tart.

I also didn’t like the secret history!

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

What is the appeal of Kristin Hannah.

Is she a good writer?
Are historical facts accurate?

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Anonymous wrote:DNF's Tom Lake by Ann Patchett. I like some of her other books (esp her first one) but was so bored by Tom Lake.

Tom Lake was a DNF for me as well.

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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.

+1 totally agree. Wasn’t written well and frankly unbelievable. Like relevant detail left out. Had such high hopes.

I think it was unbelievable because that’s her actual story. I don’t think anyone in her (very numerous) family has disputed it factually, not even the very abusive older brother.

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Anonymous wrote:Lessons in Chemistry

Agreed. The writing is so stilted and the premise is awful and exaggerated. I feel embarrassed for people when they rave about it.

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

You know when she wrote that and about whom, right ? That explains a lot

DP! No, do tell!

you read Heartburn with none of the historical background?

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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.

+1 totally agree. Wasn’t written well and frankly unbelievable. Like relevant detail left out. Had such high hopes.

I think it was unbelievable because that’s her actual story. I don’t think anyone in her (very numerous) family has disputed it factually, not even the very abusive older brother.

They were still hateable.