Anonymous
Post 05/14/2014 08:20     Subject: Books that let you down
Anonymous wrote:Funny, Middlesex is one of the best books I've ever read!


To me it seemed trying too hard to be trendy and "transgressive" (hate that term, but reviewers and authors love to apply it to books). I'm super liberal, so it wasn't the subject matter, which I'm fine with.
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2014 22:20     Subject: Books that let you down
Anonymous wrote:Glass Castle.

I picked it up based on so many favorable comments on DCUM and was so disappointed in the end. There were small parts that were compelling It is supposed to be a memoir, but I couldn't shake the feeling that the whole thing was a self-absorbed lie.


I adored Glass Castle!!!!

Eat, Love, Pray was overhyped.
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2014 22:19     Subject: Re:Books that let you down
Anonymous wrote:Little Bee. Whoever wrote the back summary was genius though. They actually made it sound interesting.


I loved Little Bee.
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2014 21:56     Subject: Books that let you down
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Glass Castle.

I picked it up based on so many favorable comments on DCUM and was so disappointed in the end. There were small parts that were compelling It is supposed to be a memoir, but I couldn't shake the feeling that the whole thing was a self-absorbed lie.


I thought this book was excellent and so much of it reminded me of my childhood. Thank your lucky stars that you cannot imagine it being a memoir.


+1
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2014 21:53     Subject: Books that let you down
Anonymous wrote:Glass Castle.

I picked it up based on so many favorable comments on DCUM and was so disappointed in the end. There were small parts that were compelling It is supposed to be a memoir, but I couldn't shake the feeling that the whole thing was a self-absorbed lie.


I thought this book was excellent and so much of it reminded me of my childhood. Thank your lucky stars that you cannot imagine it being a memoir.
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2014 21:49     Subject: Books that let you down
Rebecca's Tale

Most Tad Williams.

The Princes of Ireland.
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2014 21:44     Subject: Books that let you down
Funny, Middlesex is one of the best books I've ever read!
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2014 21:37     Subject: Books that let you down
Anonymous wrote:Anything by Dave Eggars.


Except a Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. So good.
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2014 21:32     Subject: Re:Books that let you down
The Interestings and Middlesex
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2014 21:06     Subject: Books that let you down
Anonymous wrote:Nothing at all funny about Bernadette.

Hated it.
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2014 21:03     Subject: Books that let you down
Prodigal Summer....I was so freaking bored. The mating rituals of moths? Really?
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2014 20:58     Subject: Books that let you down
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is old but I didn't get why the Girl with Dragon Tatoo was so popular. Didn't enjoy it at all, and the ending was dissapointng.


I HATED this book. I couldn't understand why it was popular. I tossed it in the recycling when I was done. I didn't even want to donate it b/c I thought it was junk.


I thought it was OK. But I HATED the second book in this trilogy. Any time the author resorts to giant albino thugs (I'm looking at you, Dan Brown, too), you know they've run out of other ideas.
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2014 20:42     Subject: Books that let you down
Glass Castle.

I picked it up based on so many favorable comments on DCUM and was so disappointed in the end. There were small parts that were compelling It is supposed to be a memoir, but I couldn't shake the feeling that the whole thing was a self-absorbed lie.
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2014 13:16     Subject: Books that let you down
Anonymous wrote:The Help.

total dreck.


+1.
Tried hard, but couldn't finish it.
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2014 13:12     Subject: Books that let you down
Anonymous wrote:This is old but I didn't get why the Girl with Dragon Tatoo was so popular. Didn't enjoy it at all, and the ending was dissapointng.


I HATED this book. I couldn't understand why it was popular. I tossed it in the recycling when I was done. I didn't even want to donate it b/c I thought it was junk.