Anonymous
Post 11/05/2022 16:32     Subject: Re:Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:Rock Paper Scissors...boring and predictable


The children's picture book?
Anonymous
Post 11/05/2022 13:54     Subject: Re:Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:Rock Paper Scissors...boring and predictable


oof. Yeah, this one was pretty bad.
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2022 14:16     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Just finished Song of Achilles....wanted to like it but ultimately did not.
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2022 13:56     Subject: Re:Name a popular book you didn't like
I really disliked the new sci-fi book Babel, which has gotten rave reviews. It's all identity politics, which sounds like something an internet troll would say, but I am a POC and a woman. It was just ... alot.
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2022 13:15     Subject: Re:Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:
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.


Same. I pushed through My Brilliant Friend and didn't touch the rest.


I couldn't get through the book or the mini series.
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2022 13:15     Subject: Re:Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote: I did not particularly like Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. I was told by so many people that this book was amazing and it just didn’t resonate with me


I first tried reading Lonesome Dove after I had my first child almost 20 years ago during maternity leave. I have since tried to pick it up numerous times. I cannot get through the first 1/3 of the book and have given up at this point. I cannot get into the book.
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2022 11:24     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
The Dutch House
Today Will Be Different
American Pastoral
The Road
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2022 11:16     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:Sally Rooney's "Normal People". It was incredibly boring and I hated the writing style.


+1
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2022 11:12     Subject: Re:Name a popular book you didn't like
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.


Same. I pushed through My Brilliant Friend and didn't touch the rest.
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2022 11:08     Subject: Re:Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:Where'd you go Bernadette, to me it just had no substance.

To Kill a Mockingbird, I've just never gotten why people love it so much.


I liked Where'd You Go, Bernadette but couldn't get into her Today Will Be Different at all.
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2022 08:31     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
The Maid

If felt exploitative and the investigation into a present-day murder was basically "oh, you're near the body, so off you go to jail."
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2022 08:26     Subject: Re:Name a popular book you didn't like
I did not particularly like Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. I was told by so many people that this book was amazing and it just didn’t resonate with me
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2022 08:26     Subject: Re:Name a popular book you didn't like
The Dutch house was terrible. I just don't get the popularity. I even listened to is since Tom Hanks narrated it. I hated it.
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2022 08:23     Subject: Re:Name a popular book you didn't like
Rock Paper Scissors...boring and predictable
Anonymous
Post 11/04/2022 08:23     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The Devil in the White City. I skipped every chapter about the pervert, it seemed a blatant effort to get a wider audience that enjoys salacious sensationalism. I'm sure the movie will dwell heavily on that plotline.


The serial killer? That’s…what the whole book is about. The serial killer and the World’s Fair. So yes, I’d imagine both of those things will feature prominently in the movie.