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Anonymous wrote:Agree on The Nightingale and add anything by K. Hannah.

Classic category: Catcher in the Rye
Such a spoiled, callow protagonist

You are not alone. My friends and I all hated that book, especially Holden. What a whiner. His sister, Phoebe, was OK, though.

I came here to say this too! Couldn’t stand the book or Holden.

Also agree with the PP who posted about 100 years of Solitude - couldn’t get past 50 pages. I loved Love in the Time of Cholera though.

Another book/ author I couldn’t ever stand was Atlas Shrugged/ Ayn Rand.

Did you hate Holden Caulfield and the book when you were in highschool (or whenever you first read it)?

I loved the book because it was an easier read than some of the other required reading. Pretty quick pace. And while it was outdated, I could relate to the narrator in a way (or at least put myself in his shoes).

I've read it again a few times over the years and can understand why anyone who's read it in the past 15 years might find it obnoxious.

I still love books written in that style of colloquial prose.

Ok add Catcher in the Rye to my list too. Somehow I did not get assigned it in school and read it as an adult. My husband’s theory is that I was too old to relate to it at that time.

Anonymous wrote:Where the Crawdads Sing

Anonymous wrote:Harry Potter

Anonymous wrote:You know those books that everyone raves about .... "must reads". And try as you might, and as intellectually stimulating as they are, you just cannot read one more page.

For me it's A Prayer for Owen Meaney (John Irving). I just found it so tiresome.

What's yours?

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Anonymous wrote:Harry potter series. One case where the movies were much better than the books.

I love Harry Potter in general, but book 5 - Order of the Phoenix was way too long. Should’ve been edited by at least 1/3. The movie was definitely much better.

As a side note, I read HP as the books were coming out in the 2000s, and I think part of the fun was the anticipation of what comes next. I spent a lot of time on discussion forums where people were trying to predict things (some predictions turned out to be more interesting than the actual result). I’ve since reread the series several times and it’s definitely not the same experience when you read it straight through.

Yeeeeesss! This is where I stopped. The books were becoming terribly bloated ... thinking JK Rowling might not have appreciated the editing process at that point. I will stand by #1 and #4 as being very good books. My kids thought I was crazy for stopping ... oh well.

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Anonymous wrote:Harry potter series. One case where the movies were much better than the books.

I love Harry Potter in general, but book 5 - Order of the Phoenix was way too long. Should’ve been edited by at least 1/3. The movie was definitely much better.

As a side note, I read HP as the books were coming out in the 2000s, and I think part of the fun was the anticipation of what comes next. I spent a lot of time on discussion forums where people were trying to predict things (some predictions turned out to be more interesting than the actual result). I’ve since reread the series several times and it’s definitely not the same experience when you read it straight through.

Anonymous wrote:All the Light We Cannot See

Anonymous wrote:Harry Potter - yes! If one more person says "but have you read the books...you won't be able to put it down....I read it in one day..." Okay come one people.

Anonymous wrote:Harry potter series. One case where the movies were much better than the books.