Books everyone loves that you hate
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Re: Books everyone loves that you hate
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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.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.
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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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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Same here. I call her "Bora Roberts" because she bores me. Danielle Steel is not my cup of tea either.
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This book should be nominated as the most overrated book.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.
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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.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.
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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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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 Maybe I'll give Catcher in the Rye another try?Azariah Scott wrote: ↑04 Jul 2019, 21:55I 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.
J.K. Rowling - Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban wrote:Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
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Haha.Tamorie21 wrote: ↑05 Jul 2019, 02:00You 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 Maybe I'll give Catcher in the Rye another try?Azariah Scott wrote: ↑04 Jul 2019, 21:55I 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.
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.