Anonymous
Post 11/22/2022 08:09     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The Overstory. The first part was good, but once the main story started, I lost all interest. My good friend, who reads as much as I do, said exactly the same thing. And yet it spent many weeks on the bestseller list, at least locally. I wonder how many people actually finished it!


I read it for for a book club and it’s one of my favorite books ever. But nobody else in the book club finished it.


I’ll tack on that me loving it but nobody finishing it kinda jibed with the whole theme of the book.
Anonymous
Post 11/22/2022 07:58     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:The Overstory. The first part was good, but once the main story started, I lost all interest. My good friend, who reads as much as I do, said exactly the same thing. And yet it spent many weeks on the bestseller list, at least locally. I wonder how many people actually finished it!


I read it for for a book club and it’s one of my favorite books ever. But nobody else in the book club finished it.
Anonymous
Post 11/21/2022 21:37     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Faites and Furies-great concept for a book, but awful execution.

Flesh man is in Trouble-I usually finish every book I start-just couldn’t with this one, and now it is a miniseries!
Anonymous
Post 11/21/2022 20:06     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:hated the corrections by jonathan franzen - and all other boy wonder books that really just boil down to rotten men behaving badly


LOL. I plowed through it but couldn't understand the hype. I made it through Freedom because I'm a birder like Franzen. Have no interest in his latest trilogy.
Anonymous
Post 11/18/2022 20:35     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:hated the corrections by jonathan franzen - and all other boy wonder books that really just boil down to rotten men behaving badly


Omg, I read that book went it came out 20(?) years ago. I have not hated anything as close to that in the last two decades.
Anonymous
Post 11/18/2022 19:48     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
hated the corrections by jonathan franzen - and all other boy wonder books that really just boil down to rotten men behaving badly
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2022 12:43     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:ooh, I've got one... Ready Player One. That's right I said it, now throw your tomatoes in my general direction.


Is that supposed to be a good book?
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2022 12:39     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
ooh, I've got one... Ready Player One. That's right I said it, now throw your tomatoes in my general direction.
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2022 01:32     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Blood Meridian. Read the whole thing waiting for something to finally happen. Finished it out of obligation.
Anonymous
Post 11/15/2022 19:05     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
The Night Circus. People liked this book. I did not.
Anonymous
Post 11/14/2022 06:58     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Hillbilly Elegy. Felt like the author was just aggressively missing the irony of hating his mother and deifying his grandfather while preaching that everything is about upbringing.
Anonymous
Post 11/13/2022 17:00     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Sally Rooney's "Normal People". It was incredibly boring and I hated the writing style.


+1


+2
I got thorough a quarter of it and gave up. It just felt like a bunch of whining.

I did finish Untamed but cringed a lot through it. I'm happy that she found her true self but it seemed like she either glossed over or kind of ignored the destruction she left in her wake.
Anonymous
Post 11/13/2022 12:32     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
The school for good mothers - could not bear it so I had to stop.
Anonymous
Post 11/13/2022 12:31     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just finished Song of Achilles....wanted to like it but ultimately did not.



NOOOOOO... did you by any chance read Circe? If you did, wondering how they compare.


Personally preferred Ursula La Guin’s Lavinia for the mythic heroes
Anonymous
Post 11/13/2022 12:30     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The Crawdads one. Horrible.


Yes this


Yup


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