also didn't like a little life or shuggie bain

currently reading lessons in chem and feeling just okay about it

I hated A Little Life

Anonymous wrote:I’m having a difficult time making my way through Lessons in Chemistry. I haven’t abandoned it yet, but I might. Same with The Paris Apartment. I’m trying to get through both of them now.

+1 on Lessons in Chemistry. I kept waiting for it get better, but it didn’t.

I’m having a difficult time making my way through Lessons in Chemistry. I haven’t abandoned it yet, but I might. Same with The Paris Apartment. I’m trying to get through both of them now.

Anonymous wrote:Mad Honey

Hated it.

Two authors felt like two separate books. As usual, the ending was predictable Jody Picult stinks at the endings that was her idea.

The honey bee tie-in could have been good but failed.

Grammer was attrocsious. Character development lacking.

I loved the idea of this book but is was awful I wasted time reading it I will never get back.

I am never the grammar police and I know it’s spelling, not grammar, but I have to laugh that your complaint about the grammar is a 3 word sentence that contains two misspelled words.

Water for elephants. The back story is OK, but I hated the flash back/flash forward writing style, and hated the malcontent old man in the nursing home part. Totally irrelevant and uninteresting. Even the narrator himself said so. It got to the point that I was skipping all the "current" chapters.

Generally I find the current fashion of fictions flashing back and forth so annoying. Just tell the damn story. The Nightingale is guilty of this as well.

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Anonymous wrote:The Help. I can’t believe they made it into a movie (which was also terrible).

+1

I don't even think I finished the book I hated it so much.

Wow I loved this book still do.

Mad Honey

Hated it.

Two authors felt like two separate books. As usual, the ending was predictable Jody Picult stinks at the endings that was her idea.

The honey bee tie-in could have been good but failed.

Grammer was attrocsious. Character development lacking.

I loved the idea of this book but is was awful I wasted time reading it I will never get back.

Anonymous wrote:The Hobbit.

I like it a lot. A great children's book.

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Anonymous wrote:Crawdads, Nightingale, Seven Husbands all so underwhelming.

Super pretentious - The Fates and the Furies.

+1

I forced myself to finish that but hated it

Glad I'm not alone in Fates and Furies! I was just angry reading the second half and probably should have just stopped

Crawdad sings here too. I did finish but it disliked at least 7 things about it.

Gentleman in Moscow too. But, maybe I was being lazy and wanted more story and less observation and insight.

Anonymous wrote:Normal People. I hate Sally Rooney. So whiny and navel gazing are her characters.

+1

This was a DNF for me.

Anonymous wrote:The Help. I can’t believe they made it into a movie (which was also terrible).

+1

I don't even think I finished the book I hated it so much.

Harry Potter- couldn't even get through the first book

A Little Life

Chains which was assigned to my kids in middle school. Brilliant strategy to write a woke book for kids which will be bought by the boatloads by school districts. Commerce it was, but art it is not. The writing was flat and not believable.
I really dislike Amy Tan's works - trauma lit. Flat too. There are so many good Asian writers that have come about since her - thanks G-d.
Really disliked the Harry Potter books. Couldn't get thru the first chapter. It was a screenplay, not a book.
I think that's it - these books are meant to be screenplays, not crafted literary work.