Crawdads, Nightingale, Seven Husbands all so underwhelming.

Super pretentious - The Fates and the Furies.

The Testaments was a snooze fest.

Anonymous wrote:Hillbilly Elegy - I grew up in Appalachia but it did not resonate with my experience.

Same here. It was pandering to people who'd never been to Appalachia, so they could pat themselves on back for reading how a redneck boy pulled himself up by his bootstraps thanks to generous tax payers and university scholarship donors like themselves. Probably the first part of the author's political campaign to get his name out there.

Anything by J.R.R. Tolkien - the Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, etc. Just couldn't get into these books and never understood why people are so obsessed with them.

Eat, Pray, Love. I read a couple of chapters and could not get past her selfishness.

And I didn’t love Nickel and Dimed. It just seemed to be missing the next step. There was no analysis to it. Being poor is hard and it sucks. I feel like I already knew that. I still don’t understand why it was such a big book. I don’t want to denigrate the author, as it’s not her fault it caught traction. But something was definitely missing and I don’t think it deserved the attention it got.

The Maidens, ugh.

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Anonymous wrote:Anxious people, malibu rising, a gentleman in moscow.

The second 2 I didn’t finish (read a half or a third) Because they were so slow

I even tried the audiobook, still couldn't get through it.

What? Shut your mouth; I loved Anxious People (but agree on the other two).

Also hated Ethan Frome!

And Anxious People, and Where the Crawdads Sing.

I liked Educated and The Goldfinch, though.

Ethan Frome. Red it in high school and hated it. Tried it as an adult again and same. Either leave your wife or don’t but make up your mind and if you can’t, then stop whining! The man was so useless he couldn’t do anything properly.

I genuinely don’t like anything by Wharton though as most of her books involve clueless rich people and I want to scream that before they wallow they should perhaps think of all the people starving in the streets or having to send their children to work in mines. I am fine with other novels with rich protagonists but these are so self-pitying and self-absorbed, I can’t!

Catcher in the Rye. Like PP, I just wanted to yell at him to grow up (and I read it in high school.)

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Anonymous wrote:Anxious people, malibu rising, a gentleman in moscow.

The second 2 I didn’t finish (read a half or a third) Because they were so slow

I even tried the audiobook, still couldn't get through it.

Op of that post. It was so. Slow. Part of me enjoyed and appreciated the writing but it was just too slow for me
To get through

Hillbilly Elegy - I grew up in Appalachia but it did not resonate with my experience.

Anonymous wrote:Anxious people, malibu rising, a gentleman in moscow.

The second 2 I didn’t finish (read a half or a third) Because they were so slow

I even tried the audiobook, still couldn't get through it.

I have had four people gift or try to loan me Educated, saying that I'll love it but I HATED it.
I found it tedious and unrelatable, and maybe not entirely honest.

Bridges of Madison County

Anonymous wrote:Bear Town. What a yawn. It took forever for anything interesting to happen. I wish I could get that time back.

I listened to audiobook, still hear, "Bear town was a hockey town" in my sleep. It was said, what at least 50 times?