Anonymous wrote:Firefly Lane. Whew. One huge cliche. Only made it about two chapters in, had to bail.

Oh gosh yeah I didn't like this one either. I felt like I had to keep reading it as my mom had given it to me but it was sooooo long.

Me Before You. I don't know why exactly, it just grated on me. I had previously read one of her other books (The Girl You Let Behind) and liked it.

I agree with a lot of the opinions posted here!

Normal People - ugh, put in some GD quotation marks. Also nothing happens for the entire book.

Crawdads - this one has been ranted about enough.

Dutch House - oh, woe is me, I got 'kicked out' of a fancy house by an evil stepmother and then went to a lot of $$$$ schools and was super rich despite "losing" inheritance money.

I'll add one to the list - Hamnet. I saw that one recommended a lot on this site. Couldn't get past the first chapter.

also Song of Achilles. Plot and characterizations are not plausible (and I'm willing to be generous on both points given the novel is based on a historical work).

Hillbilly Elegy

Anonymous wrote:Lonesome Dove

+1
Plodding, sad, boring.

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Anonymous wrote:the Bible

fair enough. But there are actually 39 books in the OT and 27 books in the NT, and some of them are pretty good

+1
Proverbs, Psalms and Ecclesiastes are profound, funny, beautiful and there are great stories in the other books, as well.

I hated a Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.
I didn't read wild but I tried to read something else by the author, blah, blah,blah what a droner.

Firefly Lane. Whew. One huge cliche. Only made it about two chapters in, had to bail.

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Anonymous wrote:--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.

I loved Smilla's Sense of Snow.

I may have already posted this upthread but I hate "Atonement" and pretty much everything that I have read by Ian McEwan.

Have you read The Daydreamer? I loved it, as did my son who at the time had a strong dislike for reading - he read it right after I finished it.

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine- I only read this book because it was raved about. I was stunned that this was the book getting so much hype. Not well written.

Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends and Normal People. One was awful, the other only, can’t remember which was which. Again, stunned these were raved about.

I’m working my way through 1,000 Years of Joys and Sorrows - which got much acclaim - but it’s really not holding my interest. I listened to “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” and didn’t like it at all. I wonder if it would have held up better on the page?

Anonymous wrote:--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.

I loved Smilla's Sense of Snow.

I may have already posted this upthread but I hate "Atonement" and pretty much everything that I have read by Ian McEwan.

Anonymous wrote:The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. I just…couldn’t. Maybe I gave up too early, idk.

This one was fine for me but very surprised that it got so much praise.

Pachinko 🫣

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Anonymous wrote:The Vanishing Half. But, I dislike the often cold and remkoved narrators of litfic.

Ugh totally agree. Only got the press because of the race and LGBTQ themes. Was not nearly as engaging as other books in the same genre...

I didn't like this book at all. I kept reading and wondering what I was missing.

Anonymous wrote: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

I posted about "Beartown is a hockey town" as well. Not exaggerating, it must have been repeated 50 times, right?