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Books everyone loves that you hate

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Have you read any well-loved books that you hated? I don't think I have but I'm curious to know if others have.
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I read Beauty and the Beast i loved it but ma kid sister did not like it
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To be honest, I hated Harry Potter. I read the first one this year and had to force myself to finish it. Granted when it came out, I was working on Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.
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Fifty Shades of Grey. I know not everyone loves this, but enough people do to make me wonder.
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The Fifty Shades series and The Notebook.
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Catcher in the Rye. Everyone talks about how amazing it is, but even while I was reading it, my mind was wiping my memory of it clean. I don't even remember it much but I do remember being very much irritated while reading it.
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Tamorie21 wrote: 05 Jul 2018, 16:07 Catcher in the Rye. Everyone talks about how amazing it is, but even while I was reading it, my mind was wiping my memory of it clean. I don't even remember it much but I do remember being very much irritated while reading it.
I'm with you on that. We read it freshman year of high school and I just couldn't get into it. As an adult, I'm surprised at how often people say they liked it. The biggest thing I remember about the novel was how annoying and whiny the main character was.
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JoshuaLF89 wrote: 29 Jun 2018, 09:54 To be honest, I hated Harry Potter. I read the first one this year and had to force myself to finish it. Granted when it came out, I was working on Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.
This is always so surprising for me to hear from another reader. From your perspective, what don't you like about it? Some of the people I know who don't care for Harry Potter also don't like reading, either. So, I never took their disliking serious. But your response has me intrigued. Is it the story? The writing style? The hype?
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Captain Underpants. It's a children's book, I know, but as kids, my sister loved it and I thought it was the worst.
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Nanig83006 wrote: 09 Jul 2018, 11:55
Tamorie21 wrote: 05 Jul 2018, 16:07 Catcher in the Rye. Everyone talks about how amazing it is, but even while I was reading it, my mind was wiping my memory of it clean. I don't even remember it much but I do remember being very much irritated while reading it.
I'm with you on that. We read it freshman year of high school and I just couldn't get into it. As an adult, I'm surprised at how often people say they liked it. The biggest thing I remember about the novel was how annoying and whiny the main character was.
Haha yes! I read it in junior year of high school and I also thought the main character was obnoxious and that his vocabulary was limited to weak curse words. I can't even remember why it was called "Catcher in the Rye" and I'm thinking about rereading it so I can actually remember why I hate the book, and why it was irrelevant to me :lol2:
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Fifty Shades of Grey.
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The Alchemist by Coelho. Everyone around me sang the praises of that book, and I thought it was just meh.
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The entire Twilight series back in high school. I also didn't enjoy Wuthering Heights as much as most of my AP English class seemed to.
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Not hate exactly but I can never get into any book by Sarah Maas. (Please don't shoot me.)
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I don’t think that I have read one of these either, but there are other things like movies and tv shows that are like this.
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