Name a popular book you didn't like

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The Girl on the Train. I dislike books with no likeable characters.

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The Push. Truly awful book.

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Anything in Oprah's Book Club but especially She's Come Undone - garbage.

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Anonymous wrote:The Glass Castle. Read it for BC, fiction.

I agree about the book but I enjoyed the movie which surprised me.

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The Goldfinch

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The Tattooist of Auschwitz. I didn't like it because it was written almost entirely from a male perspective, and made the main character seem like the savior of his love interest at all times. We didn't learn much of anything about her from the book.

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A Sarah J Mass book, the first in the crescent city one. I just couldn't with all the lightning coming from the main character which was supposed to be part of his hot alpha appeal. So weird. oh and it's poorly written, ha.

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Anonymous wrote:The Overstory. The first part was good, but once the main story started, I lost all interest. My good friend, who reads as much as I do, said exactly the same thing. And yet it spent many weeks on the bestseller list, at least locally. I wonder how many people actually finished it!

I hated that book. So confusing, depressung

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Anonymous wrote:The Overstory. The first part was good, but once the main story started, I lost all interest. My good friend, who reads as much as I do, said exactly the same thing. And yet it spent many weeks on the bestseller list, at least locally. I wonder how many people actually finished it!

I hated that book. So confusing, depressung

I liked the beginning enough to still think of the book with admiration, but I didn't like the last half that much either.

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I'm a big no on anything by Elizabeth Strout. Really disliked Olive Kitteredge and outright hated My Name is Lucy Barton.

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Atonement. I couldn't even get through a quarter of it. My MIL, who is British and an avid reader, couldn't either.

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Anonymous wrote:Atonement. I couldn't even get through a quarter of it. My MIL, who is British and an avid reader, couldn't either.

My son had to read this book for summer reading for his AP English class. He read the other assigned book with no issues but kept telling me Atonement was awful. I tried to read it myself during our vacation and couldn’t get past the first chapter. Ugh. Then I saw the movie. Super depressing.

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Anonymous wrote:Anything in Oprah's Book Club but especially She's Come Undone - garbage.

Yes I hated this book. Hated! I read a few other terrible Oprah Book Club books, like The Poisonwood Bible, and decided to never read another one because obviously Oprah and I have very different taste in books.

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Anonymous wrote:The Girl on the Train. I dislike books with no likeable characters.

I found it a little relentless but I also found it such a huge page turner (not my normal kind of thing at all). I sort of felt empathy for the main character, for the most part - her drunken situation.

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Anonymous wrote:A Sarah J Mass book, the first in the crescent city one. I just couldn't with all the lightning coming from the main character which was supposed to be part of his hot alpha appeal. So weird. oh and it's poorly written, ha.

That’s my favorite of her books! And the ending to the second had me screaming.