Anonymous
Post 04/02/2025 08:31     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The Women.
Tragedy porn at it's finest. ANd horrible writing.


Kristin Hannah in general. The Nightingale was awful.


so many people go on and on about her books and how they're the best books they've ever read.
They're awful. I think they illicit emotions and that is conflated with worth. As if.


Yes! Thank you for this. I have read her books and often didn't enjoy them yet felt emotions which made me wonder why I didn't like the book.
Anonymous
Post 04/02/2025 07:28     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:Recently, “The Nightingale” by Kristin Hannah. Oof. Her writing is painful.


It IS painful. I didn’t mind the nightingale but it by no means good. Total meh factor. Her other books are just awful. Her writing style lacks any sort of depth. Wonder why she is so popular.
Anonymous
Post 04/02/2025 06:04     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Midnight Library

Absolute toxic drivel from someone who doesn't understand mental illness.
Anonymous
Post 04/02/2025 05:51     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:Feels like Lessons in Chemistry is The Goldfinch of the 2020s. Massively overhyped disappointment.



I liked The Goldfinch and did not like LIC
Anonymous
Post 04/02/2025 02:14     Subject: Re:Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:The Alchemist


I was waiting for the ending to be totally cool and insightful and then it turned out to be a grownup version of:

"Wherever you go, there you are!"
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2025 22:27     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Wicked
Lessons in Chemistry
Demon Copperhead
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2025 13:36     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Anxious People. Couldn't stand it, but finished it for some reason.

More recently, Three Days in June. Just a festival of whining, unlikeable people.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2025 13:34     Subject: Re:Name a popular book you didn't like
Anything Oprah recommended.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2025 13:32     Subject: Re:Name a popular book you didn't like
Eat Pray Love
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2025 13:29     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
James

I hated the ending and that he changed the time period from the original Huck Finn story.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2025 13:12     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The Women.
Tragedy porn at it's finest. ANd horrible writing.


Kristin Hannah in general. The Nightingale was awful.


so many people go on and on about her books and how they're the best books they've ever read.
They're awful. I think they illicit emotions and that is conflated with worth. As if.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2025 12:39     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Normal People. I hate Sally Rooney. So whiny and navel gazing are her characters.


+1

This was a DNF for me.


I hated normal people as well. Finished it and was just puzzled. Really didn’t like.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2025 12:33     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Anonymous wrote:The Women.
Tragedy porn at it's finest. ANd horrible writing.


Kristin Hannah in general. The Nightingale was awful.
Anonymous
Post 03/31/2025 21:32     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
Feels like Lessons in Chemistry is The Goldfinch of the 2020s. Massively overhyped disappointment.

Anonymous
Post 03/31/2025 13:04     Subject: Name a popular book you didn't like
The Women.
Tragedy porn at it's finest. ANd horrible writing.