Anonymous
Post 01/08/2023 21:07     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.




Oh god, me too.

Also anything Faulkner or Steinbeck. Yuck.


+100

I cannot stand Steinbeck. I read several of his books when I took a HS elective about him and Hemingway. Terrible mistake. I feel the same way about Vonnegut.
Anonymous
Post 01/05/2023 21:15     Subject: Re:Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:100 years of solitude, Less, all of Michael Chabon’s books, Everything is Illuminated



I loved Chabon’s The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys, but I read them when they came out years ago. I haven’t been able to get through any of his subsequent novels and I am not sure if it is because I am older and jaded. I used to love John Irving, too.
Anonymous
Post 01/05/2023 20:04     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
"Salvage the Bones"
Anonymous
Post 01/05/2023 14:07     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.




Oh god, me too.

Also anything Faulkner or Steinbeck. Yuck.
Anonymous
Post 01/05/2023 13:48     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Who are these people that didn’t like The Kite Runner and The Da Vinci Code???? I was profoundly affected by The Kite Runner. I thought about it for weeks. The Da Vinci Code was such a great blend of history and fiction to tell a fascinating story. The movie couldn’t hold a candle to the book.

I hated Eat Pray Love. She was so lacking in self awareness and was not likeable at all.


The Da Vinci Code read as if written by a high schooler and the "history" has been solidly debunked. I'm not Catholic, and I'm also open to the possibility that Jesus was married, even to Mary Magdalene. But the idea that Jesus and Mary sailed off into the sunset and France and founded dynasty/bloodline there crumbled when the supposed modern head of that dynasty, Pierre Plantard, admitted it was an elaborate hoax. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Plantard

I'm 100% with you on loving The Kite Runner and hating Eat Pray Love. When she arrived in India and walked past impoverished people on her way into her luxurious ashram, paid for by her publisher, I wanted to throw the book.


Haha same- I cried reading the Kite Runner. But disliked DaVinci Coda and Eat Pray Love.


Cried buckets over the Kite Runner.

Eat Pray Love was sh--.
Anonymous
Post 01/05/2023 13:47     Subject: Re:Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:Goldfinch, ugh was it every going to end. Also The Giving Tree, yeah the kid's book.


1000000 times over re: Goldfinch. I just kept reading, and reading, and reading and asking "when will get good", and ultimately, "when will it end." Just horrible.
Anonymous
Post 01/05/2023 08:59     Subject: Re:Name a popular book you didn't like
100 years of solitude, Less, all of Michael Chabon’s books, Everything is Illuminated
Anonymous
Post 01/02/2023 20:10     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


Wow, this surprises me. So many characters to love.
Anonymous
Post 01/02/2023 19:01     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:The Rainbow fish! Yikes! I hate that book.

never liked goodnight moon, either.



The illustrations in Good Night Moon are not good enough. Margaret Wise Brown was hot, though.

Crawdads Dings (I’ll keep the typo) also lousy. In the movie her art was garbage. Could they not even get a good illustrator to make me believe the stupid idea was possible?
Anonymous
Post 01/02/2023 08:26     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Gone Girl

It Ends With Us (Also Is Starts with us, and Verity) crap storytelling + crap writing

East Pray Love
Anonymous
Post 12/29/2022 12:55     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:Trust.

Great premise. But it reads like someone is speaking in monotone for hours on end.


That's how I felt about "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari". Good book. But reads more like a self help lecture than a novel. I could say the same thing about "The Way of the Peaceful Warrior" but it had a better story.
Anonymous
Post 12/26/2022 23:32     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Trust.

Great premise. But it reads like someone is speaking in monotone for hours on end.
Anonymous
Post 12/26/2022 23:29     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The Crawdads one. Horrible.


Yes this


YES. I’m a huge reader of all genres and could not get past the first 1/4 of this book.
Anonymous
Post 12/24/2022 21:19     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:
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.


My daughter gave it to me so I gave it a good try but just couldn't. Same with Carrie Soto is Back. Next!
Anonymous
Post 12/23/2022 09:15     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Who are these people that didn’t like The Kite Runner and The Da Vinci Code???? I was profoundly affected by The Kite Runner. I thought about it for weeks. The Da Vinci Code was such a great blend of history and fiction to tell a fascinating story. The movie couldn’t hold a candle to the book.

I hated Eat Pray Love. She was so lacking in self awareness and was not likeable at all.


The Da Vinci Code read as if written by a high schooler and the "history" has been solidly debunked. I'm not Catholic, and I'm also open to the possibility that Jesus was married, even to Mary Magdalene. But the idea that Jesus and Mary sailed off into the sunset and France and founded dynasty/bloodline there crumbled when the supposed modern head of that dynasty, Pierre Plantard, admitted it was an elaborate hoax. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Plantard

I'm 100% with you on loving The Kite Runner and hating Eat Pray Love. When she arrived in India and walked past impoverished people on her way into her luxurious ashram, paid for by her publisher, I wanted to throw the book.


Haha same- I cried reading the Kite Runner. But disliked DaVinci Coda and Eat Pray Love.