Any book that starts with "The Girl on the....." "The Woman in the....." "The Girl with the...." ETC...

Anonymous wrote:Catcher in the Rye.

As an English major I could stomach most books, but this one really was the hardest one for me to get through.

Me too! I also didn't like Ayn Rand.

Anonymous wrote:Kristin Hannah books are so cringe and my book club is completely horny for them. Winter Garden - you mean to tell me you couldn't figure out your beautiful, tragic, detached, abusive Russian mom was maaaaaybe somehow traumatized during WWII and that's her big dark secret? So shocking! I would have never guessed she had to eat book paste to survive the siege of Leningrad! The plot holes and watery characterization are just too much for me. And I'm really not a snob, I watch Hallmark and Lifetime movies. I think I take issue with the fact that these books want you to think they are well-crafted lit and they are just not.

I also hated, hated, hated A Little Life but could at least acknowledge the writing was beautiful.

This is a great observation. It’s definitely my problem with The Goldfinch, which was heralded as Donna Tart’s long-awaited return to literary fiction.

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Anonymous wrote:Da Vinci Code


I will judge if you like it.

Terrible book, certainly one of the worst that I've read that I actually made it through.

Probably not controversial at all, but I tried reading 50 Shades of Gray and just couldn't do it. I'm curious if the dialog from the book is what's used in the movie, but I'm not interested enough in seeing the movie to find out.

LOl. I made it through 50 Shades but have zero interest in the sequels. Also zero interest in Dakota Johnson or whoever the male lead was, so won’t be watching the movie 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.

your poor kid. I saw the movie, too, and while it was depressing, it was fairly well done.

-pp

Anonymous wrote:Anything by J.R.R. Tolkien - the Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, etc. Just couldn't get into these books and never understood why people are so obsessed with them.

you have to love fantasy/scifi genre to appreciate them.

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Anonymous wrote:Da Vinci Code


I will judge if you like it.

Terrible book, certainly one of the worst that I've read that I actually made it through.

Probably not controversial at all, but I tried reading 50 Shades of Gray and just couldn't do it. I'm curious if the dialog from the book is what's used in the movie, but I'm not interested enough in seeing the movie to find out.

move is goofy.

You don't read 50 shades for the great writing. It's erotica.

Kristin Hannah books are so cringe and my book club is completely horny for them. Winter Garden - you mean to tell me you couldn't figure out your beautiful, tragic, detached, abusive Russian mom was maaaaaybe somehow traumatized during WWII and that's her big dark secret? So shocking! I would have never guessed she had to eat book paste to survive the siege of Leningrad! The plot holes and watery characterization are just too much for me. And I'm really not a snob, I watch Hallmark and Lifetime movies. I think I take issue with the fact that these books want you to think they are well-crafted lit and they are just not.

I also hated, hated, hated A Little Life but could at least acknowledge the writing was beautiful.

Anonymous wrote:Da Vinci Code


I will judge if you like it.

Terrible book, certainly one of the worst that I've read that I actually made it through.

Probably not controversial at all, but I tried reading 50 Shades of Gray and just couldn't do it. I'm curious if the dialog from the book is what's used in the movie, but I'm not interested enough in seeing the movie to find out.

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Thirteen Reasons Why
The Shack
In the Woods - I threw this one away because I was so angry at the end
We Need to Talk About Kevin
The Dinner
Defending Jacob
Wild
The Silent Patient
Imaginary Friend
A Man Called Ove

the Silent Patient and A Man called Ove... HATED them both. So stupid. After those I thought - Well shoot - I can be an author.

A Gentleman in Moscow. I couldn't finish it

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else really dislike The Maid? good gravy. I cannot understand why that book is so popular. I wanted to throw it across the room at certain points because the characters were so obnoxious.

Thanks to this list, I can cross off certain titles from my "To Read" list. The Alchemist has been on there forever... always meant to start it, then never got around to it. Well, now I don't have to!

I wouldn't go that far. I got one love the Alchemist. To each their own and I understand people not looking it. I also read The Way of the Peaceful Warrior and I can see both books being good but not great. But they have their intended audiences and have been well recieved.

I compare them to self help or philosophy books that can be a bunch of BS or just what you need to hear of you read them at the right times.

Thirteen Reasons Why
The Shack
In the Woods - I threw this one away because I was so angry at the end
We Need to Talk About Kevin
The Dinner
Defending Jacob
Wild
The Silent Patient
Imaginary Friend
A Man Called Ove

Anyone else really dislike The Maid? good gravy. I cannot understand why that book is so popular. I wanted to throw it across the room at certain points because the characters were so obnoxious.

Thanks to this list, I can cross off certain titles from my "To Read" list. The Alchemist has been on there forever... always meant to start it, then never got around to it. Well, now I don't have to!

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Anonymous wrote:Catcher in the Rye.

As an English major I could stomach most books, but this one really was the hardest one for me to get through.

SMe, it I read it in my late 20s. The whole time I was just telling him to grow up in my head.

I think it's written for teens. I loved it as a teenager. I don't know how I would feel about it now.