Name a popular book you didn't like

[Anonymous]

N.K. Jemison would typically be my style, but The Fifth Season just went over my head. I couldn’t follow the story and thought the characters were forgettable.

[Anonymous]

Hillbilly Elegy

I only got about 2/3 through it before I stopped wasting my time.

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

Same

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Anonymous wrote:Hillbilly Elegy

I only got about 2/3 through it before I stopped wasting my time.

That’s interesting. I thought that the first half or so was reasonably well-written and compelling. I thought the parts that covered the time after he went to law school were much less detailed, much less insightful, and descended into a polemic screed.

[Anonymous]

The Elena Ferrante novels , starting with My Brilliant Friend. I tried to read the first one, glanced at the others, and never got into any of them.
With novels that have been translated, I often wonder if I’d have different impressions of the works if I had the language skills to read them as they were originally written.

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Anonymous wrote:Time Traveler's Wife. Ugh

Also agree about Kristen Hannah

I hated TTW, too! Also The Invisible Life of Addie Larue. I was so frustrated by Addie, and her seven freckles.

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Anonymous wrote:The last thing he told me

Harry Potter

The book of lost friends

The Last Thing He Told Me was TERRIBLE. I do not understand why that book was such a huge success!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hillbilly Elegy

I only got about 2/3 through it before I stopped wasting my time.

That’s interesting. I thought that the first half or so was reasonably well-written and compelling. I thought the parts that covered the time after he went to law school were much less detailed, much less insightful, and descended into a polemic screed.

Yes, and also Educated.

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Anonymous wrote:The Elena Ferrante novels , starting with My Brilliant Friend. I tried to read the first one, glanced at the others, and never got into any of them.
With novels that have been translated, I often wonder if I’d have different impressions of the works if I had the language skills to read them as they were originally written.

Agreed. I read the first one and then didn't continue on. They sounded like they should be perfect for me.

[Anonymous]

Kite Runner

[Anonymous]

Bear Town. What a yawn. It took forever for anything interesting to happen. I wish I could get that time back.

[Anonymous]

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

I totally agree. It took me a while to catch on that I hate every Oprah book recommendation. They are sapping sucky lame stories.

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Anonymous wrote:Goldfinch, ugh was it every going to end. Also The Giving Tree, yeah the kid's book.

The Goldfinch was compelling in so many ways, but she needed a forceful editor to make her cut at least 1/3 of the book.

I loved The Goldfinch just the way it was!

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

Same

Hated seven husbands of Evelyn hugo

[Anonymous]

Anxious people, malibu rising, a gentleman in moscow.

The second 2 I didn’t finish (read a half or a third) Because they were so slow