Anonymous
Post 05/12/2014 22:07     Subject: Books that let you down
Nothing at all funny about Bernadette.
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2014 21:58     Subject: Books that let you down
Anonymous wrote:Where'd You Go, Bernadette. I read the whole thing hoping it'd get better, but I don't get what all the fuss is about.


Me too.
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2014 21:44     Subject: Books that let you down
The Help.

total dreck.
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2014 21:42     Subject: Books that let you down
Anything by Dave Eggars.
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2014 21:40     Subject: Books that let you down

The Casual Vacancy by Rowling. Difficult subject, good moments, ending somehow unsatisfying.
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2014 21:30     Subject: Books that let you down
+3 on Gone Girl.
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2014 21:20     Subject: Books that let you down
"We Are Water" by Wally Lamb. I love (and have re-read) several of his other books, but I really disliked that one. Too much build-up for the plot payoff and really horrible scenes of child molestation that I wasn't expecting.
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2014 21:18     Subject: Books that let you down
Where'd You Go, Bernadette. I read the whole thing hoping it'd get better, but I don't get what all the fuss is about.
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2014 21:18     Subject: Books that let you down
Don't hate me but I could never ever read Tolkien - that's why I was so happy when the movies came out!
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2014 21:17     Subject: Books that let you down
Anonymous wrote:Jonathan Tropper, This Is Where I Leave You

I had high hopes for this after all the raves here, but it seemed like a TV show.


Same thing for me with "Gone Girl." I finally read it after it was praised here, but it's a trashy POS.
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2014 21:16     Subject: Books that let you down
Jonathan Franzen's Freedom.
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2014 20:54     Subject: Re:Books that let you down
Agree on Gone Girl; I hate hate HATED Forrest Gump.
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2014 15:48     Subject: Books that let you down
Gone Girl... Nothing special and boring.
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2014 15:04     Subject: Books that let you down
I LOVED This Is Where I Leave You!! Still pissed about Donna Tartt's The Little Friend ( it is NOT a mystery!!!!!), although the perfection that is The Goldfinch almost makes up for it.
Anonymous
Post 05/12/2014 14:20     Subject: Books that let you down
Jonathan Tropper, This Is Where I Leave You

I had high hopes for this after all the raves here, but it seemed like a TV show.