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I'm adding my voice to the Fifty Shades faction, but also the third Hunger Hames book and the entirety of the Mortal Instruments series. I used to like them but now I don't.
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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.
See, The Eye of the World, Wheel of Time Book #1 is the book I hate that just about everyone around me loved. I tried reading it two different times, and never made it more than 100 pages into the book. I hate the way Jordan writes female characters, and I just couldn't get past it.

I did read all of the books in the Joe Abercombie First Law Trilogy, and think they were incredibly well written, but the way the series ended made me just hate it. The fact that there was no redeeming quality for any character, just felt like the author was flipping us all the bird.

I have not read any of the Song of Fire and Ice books by George RR Martin. For me, there is just no point. I know I don't like dark and dreary and everyone dies, etc. (See above my reaction to The First Law.) So while I have friends who LOVE the books and the show, I have never picked up a single book and really only watched the first season because Sean Bean.
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Growing up, I read the Elsie Dinsmore books, which everyone raved about. Personally, I didn't care for them and felt like the character "Elsie" was much "too good to be true," even for a good little church girl like me.

I still don't get why Christian parents recommend this series so highly. I feel like the stories are riddled with performance-based ideals and holier-than-thou characters. I prefer for my own daughters to read something a little more real and inspiring.
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The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. I never understood the appeal of this book, and it seems that it runs in the family, as my mother, brother, and grandmother can't stand it either.
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Many classics I had to read due to my courses, some extremely popular books that everyone is crazy about (Fifty Shades of Grey, The Twilight Series etc.) I also hate many books of so-called literary geniuses, probably because I can't relate in any way to the characters. It happens.
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Fifty Shades of Grey annoys me to no end. I finished the series hoping that it would improve but the writing style is so cringy at times!
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Just don't like Nora Roberts. Can't get into them, or Danielle Steel. No ty
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The Lovely Bones. It was such a disappointment to me. :( :( :(
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Angi1220 wrote: 12 Jun 2019, 13:13 Just don't like Nora Roberts. Can't get into them, or Danielle Steel. No ty
Same here. I call her "Bora Roberts" because she bores me. Danielle Steel is not my cup of tea either.
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Facennagoss wrote: 27 Aug 2018, 05:11 I’m with everyone who has said Fifty Shades. I didn’t even make it to the end of the first book.
This book should be nominated as the most overrated book. :)
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pricklypurple wrote: 29 Jun 2018, 14:39 Fifty Shades of Grey. I know not everyone loves this, but enough people do to make me wonder.
Fifty Shades of Grey is the first book that popped into my head when I saw this post. It was a terrible book and I couldn't finish it. I don't understand why people were so enamored with it.
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I cannot believe I am saying this in "public" but I cannot, try as I may, make it through any of the Harry Potter books. I would say I'm not into fantasy, but I loved the Chronicles of Narnia...
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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 love that book for so many different reasons. Mainly because the main character is funny and on point.

But when someone else doesn't like it it's cool. I don't go to defend books I like. There's just no way everyone will like the same thing. Just no way.

I do know if I were forced to read it during school I may not have liked it. I read Animal Farm by choice and I loved it, but if I was told I had to read that in high school, I would've hated it.
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Azariah Scott wrote: 04 Jul 2019, 21:55
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 love that book for so many different reasons. Mainly because the main character is funny and on point.

But when someone else doesn't like it it's cool. I don't go to defend books I like. There's just no way everyone will like the same thing. Just no way.

I do know if I were forced to read it during school I may not have liked it. I read Animal Farm by choice and I loved it, but if I was told I had to read that in high school, I would've hated it.
You know, that might actually be the reason I hate it so much. I read it in high school for a class I absolutely detested, and that class might've also been a big factor. Also disliked Animal Farm (for the most part, wasn't too bad) because I read it in high school. Things I read recently in college didn't seem so bad for some reason. It's the high school curse, I guess :lol2: :lol2: Maybe I'll give Catcher in the Rye another try?
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Tamorie21 wrote: 05 Jul 2019, 02:00
Azariah Scott wrote: 04 Jul 2019, 21:55
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 love that book for so many different reasons. Mainly because the main character is funny and on point.

But when someone else doesn't like it it's cool. I don't go to defend books I like. There's just no way everyone will like the same thing. Just no way.

I do know if I were forced to read it during school I may not have liked it. I read Animal Farm by choice and I loved it, but if I was told I had to read that in high school, I would've hated it.
You know, that might actually be the reason I hate it so much. I read it in high school for a class I absolutely detested, and that class might've also been a big factor. Also disliked Animal Farm (for the most part, wasn't too bad) because I read it in high school. Things I read recently in college didn't seem so bad for some reason. It's the high school curse, I guess :lol2: :lol2: Maybe I'll give Catcher in the Rye another try?
Haha.

Maybe. I'm trying to think of a book I couldn't read at all and then tried again later and liked it. For me if I don't like something within the first chapter I juts don't bother with it. I can't keep reading something I don't care for. If I had to read for school (which was rare because I was not in the advance classes that required that) I would most like like get spark notes or whatever for things I couldn't get through.

High Schoolers have a different mindset and so books don't appeal to them in the same way as college students or adults. I don't know why they pick certain books for high schoolers to read. They should just let them read whatever they want (within reason).

I loved reading in high school, but I wasn't into reading what a school would want me to read.
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