Anonymous
12/06/2022 11:13
Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
The Rainbow fish! Yikes! I hate that book.
never liked goodnight moon, either.
never liked goodnight moon, either.
Anonymous
12/06/2022 10:51
Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I wanted this forum created so that I could talk about books I didn't like. Maybe I'm just not understanding some of these books and maybe they're not written for me but there are still he popular books I really don't like. I won't make them all because that would likely give my identity away.
One I haven't mentioned to anybody is Maya Angelou's 'i know why the caged bird sings". Not to trivialize what she went through but I really finished the book like seemed like what did I just read. How critical can I be of an autobiography? Especially if it made her who she is? But seeing this put in the same leagues or above invisible man, black boy, native son. I just don't see it.
They're are several others and I hope this doesn't turn into a bash me or bash Maya because I love her other works (especially poetry) but I'm not a fan of that book.
DaVinci Code
Anything by Dan Brown. The hackiest of the hacks.
Anonymous
12/05/2022 16:14
Subject: Re:Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Maybe that’s my issue with Normal People? I thought the characters were so dumb for not talking with one another.
DP. I watched Normal People for the scenery and clothes. I didn’t read it and maybe that’s the difference.
Anonymous
12/04/2022 21:48
Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:The Crawdads one. Horrible.
Thank you!!’ I despised this one. Couldn’t give it away fast enough.
Anonymous
12/04/2022 20:30
Subject: Re:Name a popular book you didn't like
Horse. I’m about 20% in (on audio) and it just isn’t grabbing me. I was so sure I’d love it based on reviews. I’m hoping it gets better.
Anonymous
12/03/2022 16:42
Subject: Re:Name a popular book you didn't like
Lonesome Dove
Anonymous
12/03/2022 16:41
Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:I wanted this forum created so that I could talk about books I didn't like. Maybe I'm just not understanding some of these books and maybe they're not written for me but there are still he popular books I really don't like. I won't make them all because that would likely give my identity away.
One I haven't mentioned to anybody is Maya Angelou's 'i know why the caged bird sings". Not to trivialize what she went through but I really finished the book like seemed like what did I just read. How critical can I be of an autobiography? Especially if it made her who she is? But seeing this put in the same leagues or above invisible man, black boy, native son. I just don't see it.
They're are several others and I hope this doesn't turn into a bash me or bash Maya because I love her other works (especially poetry) but I'm not a fan of that book.
DaVinci Code
Anonymous
12/03/2022 16:40
Subject: Re:Name a popular book you didn't like
I hated Normal People by Sally Rooney. Despite being written by a woman I found it to be sexist.
Anonymous
12/02/2022 23:52
Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:Confederacy of Dunces.
Never saw the appeal.
Most of Dostoyevsky and Zola. Realism is so bleak.
Okay, be honest. Did you finish the book or just get turned off by the hot dog flatulence? I think this book the funniest dialogue and the characters were just so incredibly unique and unforgettable.
Anonymous
12/01/2022 07:51
Subject: Re:Name a popular book you didn't like
Dutch House, blah
Really character driven and didn't care for any of the main characters!
Really character driven and didn't care for any of the main characters!
Anonymous
11/29/2022 17:15
Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
--HATED Confederacy of Dunces Yuck!
--The Giving Tree gets on my nerves
--Disliked Crawdads
--Disliked Gone Girl
--Disliked Hillbilly Elegy - from the beginning of the books he seemed like a poseur, pretending that he grew up in Appalachia. By the end, I started to realize his political motivation and ugh, now that I know more about him, Yuck!
--An oldie that I HATED - Smilla's Sense of Snow. Cannot believe they made that into a movie.
--The Giving Tree gets on my nerves
--Disliked Crawdads
--Disliked Gone Girl
--Disliked Hillbilly Elegy - from the beginning of the books he seemed like a poseur, pretending that he grew up in Appalachia. By the end, I started to realize his political motivation and ugh, now that I know more about him, Yuck!
--An oldie that I HATED - Smilla's Sense of Snow. Cannot believe they made that into a movie.
Anonymous
11/28/2022 07:21
Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Confederacy of Dunces.
Never saw the appeal.
Most of Dostoyevsky and Zola. Realism is so bleak.
Never saw the appeal.
Most of Dostoyevsky and Zola. Realism is so bleak.
Anonymous
11/28/2022 07:16
Subject: Re:Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote: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.
Maybe that’s my issue with Normal People? I thought the characters were so dumb for not talking with one another.
Anonymous
11/28/2022 06:48
Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Gone Girl. Yuck.
+1. Found her so pretentious
So stupid.. I really used this book to help me sleep at night
Anonymous
11/28/2022 06:47
Subject: Re:Name a popular book you didn't like
HATED Beartown and the series. Read all of Beartown - tried to salvage by reading the sequel... Just seriously the most boring book ever. If you take out "twack" and Beartown is a hockey town...the story is about 5 pages