The farseer trilogy – I found it the storyline great. The characters great. But the lack of action, the slow slow slow pace, it bored me. I wish it didn’t because I could have loved it.
I know. I just met someone here before that was literally cursing me bout same topic. WE are good. ? no worries. We [readers] all have our own opinions. ?
I think they will change your mind. I don’t know what happened to her writing but it just got epically better. Honestly the throne of glass series I was like ‘meh it’s good. Ok’ about but acotar and acowar are miles apart from it and the best YA/Na books out at the moment. I promise you won’t read anything better. It’s odd how different the books are but how similar in a way that she took the good from ToG and left out the bad and then slapped in a bunch of omg ?
But I already gave away my ACOMAF copy. I do that when I’m angry at a book or author. ?? Maybe I’ll be able to give sjm another chance, but I can’t see doing it right now. Or the next few years, there are tons of amazing books that keeps on popping nowadays.
@Nana I totally agree with @Stephanie ACOTAR/ACOMAF are so different from tog and soo much better I’d definitely recommend them over tog and I hope you decide to give sjm another chance 🙂 but if you decide not too I totally understand 🙂
@Nana I barely made it through Empire of Storms, I’m sorry to say? The very end made me willing to read the last one, but after how much I loved the beginning of the series (and Heir of Fire was my favorite—partly because finally there was a platonic, brotherly relationship, but mostly because of Manon) I forced myself to finish. I fully admit to skimming though…
@Nana like you said we all have our opinions and I appreciate that you actually tried it and found it lacking rather than just deciding off hand (if that makes sense?) but my saying is, ‘whatever floats your boat, as long as it doesn’t sink mine’ 🙂 and having differing opinions makes interesting discussions 🙂
@Nana I agree— the way she does romance is not at all to my liking. Definitely. I’m trying to get over it, tell myself it’s not a romantic story, but I miss that element in this series!
@Siri I don’t mind her romance or at least not in ACOTAR… But there was just something I didn’t like about Caleana/Aelin… And her whole ‘everyone gets a mate’ thing is starting to annoy me…
@Stephanie right but only two people did out of all the characters. It seems like a lot because they all have romances but mates are only Elain and Feyre
Puhi Illyrian Yeh but somehow with them being sisters it irks me more… I really can’t explain why… And the whole Nessian and Moriel being mates theory annoys me… Maybe I’m taking that more into account than maybe I should…
I was thinking of reading FSoG as well. The first page had me saying nope when I read it (before I knew what it was) so I didn’t. Maybe I still won’t lol I know what happens anyway.
My friend recommended the This man trilogy. I was 8 chapters in and all I could think was she needs to get a restraining order. I thought 50 shades was bored housewife literature written for bored women that don’t read much.
Hahaha I was kinda like that when watching the film… I was watching it with a few friends, the beginning was so unfeasible we picked it apart and then I fell asleep lol
I tried to read Glass Sword last year and I’m still not finished. Just too slow and boring. I don’t get the hype of the series anyway. Red Queen wasn’t that amazing either.
The first book was too much for me, I saw the guy on Oprah and know in the end his life had a happy ending but I was left so shaken by the first book I didn’t even attempt the second or third
I couldn’t finish this one or read book reports that my students would write about this book. I finally told them it wasn’t an option. It is way too triggering.
Only one other and that was The Rest Of Us just Live Here which I actually loved. I do have the Chaos Walking trilogy too but its on my TBR pile, and I have no plans on reading A Monster Calls.
I adored ‘The Rest Of Us Just Live Here’ it was so well written and it was such a unique storyline 🙂 I’m glad to find someone else who liked it. I would recommend the Chaos Walking trilogy I loved them, they were my first Patrick Ness books so I’m glad I started with them. A Monster Calls… I wasn’t a fan I read so much and wanted to stop but I really wanted to see what happened at the end so I flicked through it… I still cried at the end though… The film not so much…
A Monster Calls has way too much hype and the fact there’s now a movie for it has given me more reason to not watch or read it. And I have a love/hate relationship with hype.
I haven’t really seen the hype about the film but I saw the trailer and it got me interested… It was OK but it definitely wasn’t rave worthy nor would I have watched the film it it weren’t for my parents lol
Good for you, but there are some books out there that I will never read did I mention I’ll never read The Book Thief you know why? It’s over hyped to no end and I have no interest in reading it.
No I totally get it, I haven’t read that book either but I did watch the film when it first came out… It was OK… But i have no interest in reading it either
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë I love the 1943 movie with Orson Welles but I couldn’t get into the book. For me she described every detail of a room for pages…I will attempt to read again someday
I can’t read anything from that era lol. I tried wuthering heights ounce…. Couldn’t get past the first page. shakespeare was forced upon me! And I hated it!
My Name is Red, by Orhan Pamuk. It looked promising, the autor was awarded the Noble Prize of Literature in 2006, and the plot was about the murder of a miniaturist in the Ottoman Empire, but it’s written in a very confusing way, each chapter has a different narrator and at one point I got lost. Still, maybe one day I’m going to give it a second chance…
Wow, this became a rant. Here we go: I can’t remember the name, but if I do I will let you know. It was a post-zombie apocalypse book about a guy who was on the zombie cleanup crew for Manhattan. It constantly and without warning swapped between The Present, The Apocalypse (the recent past), and The Past . And it would focus on the most absurd details, like a zombie would be trying to bite the dudes face and he would go into a flashback about his ex-girlfriend because the zombie was wearing a similar outfit to what she wore. Also, the first chapter focused on how “average” the main character was, I think the was an attempt to allow you to mentally become the character but it backfired and made me wonder why I would even give half of a care about this boring human. I think I made it through 1 1/2 chapters.
I would get so into it between tangents, and then Bam! Another one! My sister loves it—because she knows all the political history he’s referring to—but I only felt dumb and dumber?
Dark fever by Karen Marie Moning I’d seen so many rave reviews and so many people recommend it and… It just read so ridiculous and I couldn’t finish it, I managed over half the book hoping it would get better but I couldn’t do it…
It was tough to follow but I pushed through and enjoyed it. If I hadn’t had a friend telling me how much she loved it I probably wouldn’t put it down and never finished it tho.
I had to push myself to read Six of Crows and I’m not that interested in reading Crooked Kingdom. I mean Six of Crows got better towards 250-300, but still. I don’t get the hype around it.
I have tried to read Look Homeward, Angel (Thomas Wolfe) several times and just can’t get anywhere with it. I think it’s that old style of writing authors used way back when LOL. I grew up in Wolf’es hometown, Asheville, NC and the book was infamous there! The most recent one was What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman. I started the book one night and got along with it pretty good but the subject matter bothered me so much that I couldn’t sleep that night so I’ve just had to put it aside. I don’t know that I’ll be able to pick it back up.
The Goldfinch. The main character was just such a washout, and up until 84% of the book, had no growth or change. For better or worse. Just kept on being a lousy guy despite whatever happened.
I enjoyed the Secret History though. But I read somewhere that the Goldfinch was self published. Don’t know if that’s true but I think she either had a weak editor or none. A good editor would have made her cut most of the excess and drivel that she spewed in it. However, other people raved about the book.
Reboot by Amy Tintera. I hate being rude towards authors but this time I can’t help it. What a boring book!! I specially hated how almost every page the title character said: and then he kissed me.
The plot felt really slow paced to me ?. I was really looking forward to reading it when i heard it was written by J.K Rowling. But sadly, it didn’t meet my expectations.
There is one sitting on my desk at work that I got in a “Blind date with a book” event our state library was hosting. I cannot remember the title but it is a strange telling of Sleeping Beauty. I just can’t bring myself to open the cover after reading the plot line on the back.
I always said that 50 shades was a book for people who don’t read, if that makes sense? Poor storyline and writing that because of the content was overlooked by people who don’t often read
@Jennifer I was like that until the movie preview and awesome movie cover worked its magic on my susceptible brain! Realized I hated it as soon as I saw it was more like a strange writing-rape of the original rather than it’s own thing…
I see. Well I can see why many would dislike it. Some people dislike poison study because they think it’s young adult and it is but it’s more mature than that in the style of writing. So I can see how when you expect one thing and get another it can be off putting
I thought matched was good. I think I read the second one, or maybe I just stopped reading it. But, I do know I stopped reading the series because it was so slow.
The Maze Runner. The movies are fantastic but I couldn’t even get to the halfway point in the book. I thought it was super slow and the words they spoke were really confusing. I just didn’t like it overall.
@Silvina I totally agree but I think that if I hadn’t had to do Animal Farm as part of my English course (which required reading it multiple times, watching the film – the toon version – and generally picking it apart) I’d actually want to read Orwell books, they sound fascinating but i just can’t bring myself to…
By the way, I read Animal Farm (found in a Little Free Library) and 1984 (somebody left it in the lunch room of my job) by chance, and found both of them fascinating…
It was only my class that got Animal Farm the others got Mary Shelley’s Fankenstein and I was devastated… I really wanted to do my term on that but no dice… I have since read it, but it didn’t capture me like I hoped it would… Which sucks but at least I got to read it 🙂
Fight club, hwas hard to get into for me. With the violence right at the beginning. But I still plan to give it one more chance. Cause hear after that parts its amazing. So worth one more chance.
I totally agree. I had to read two novels by Thomas Hardy for college, which I wouldn’t have read on my own. I didn’t like either that much, but in class discussions were great fun, thanks to the professor.
The Odyssey, Romeo and Juliet, Great Expectations, Of Mice and Men, and Lord of the Flies. I had to read those for high school, the first two I couldn’t get through because of the way it was written. The third was because of the way it was written and it was so dull. The last two I just had no interest, they bored me.
I have such mixed feelings about this book. I admire the Bronte sisters. They are all very talented and accomplished amazing things for women in their time. I can’t stand Wuthering Heights though because every character in it is a terrible person! But it makes for great discussion whether you hate it or love it. The same with Jane Eyre, I didn’t care for it, and think Mr Rochester is a terrible love interest. But I do admire that at its time it was a very feminist book, and it provokes great discussions!
Oh my God, I had to read silas marner for my GCSE and she describes a tiny detail over like 2 pages. Me and my friend actually fell asleep in class listening to the audio tape and got detention for it
The thing is, people bring sappiness to that, the text is pretty blunt about the tragedy. Romeo is faithless, Juliette is naive and both are ridiculous. Everyone is awful.
Truth witch. I got 100 pages in and was so bored. So I gave up. Another book was These Broken Stars. I got halfway and was very bored. Skimmed through the book and it was just very bizarre.
On the other hand, I love Moby Dick. I think it’s the best American novel ever written, with the possible exception of The Scarlet Letter. It’s Twain and his style. I can’t stand him.
Me too! Bella was the most horribly pathetic character I have ever had to deal with in a book, and the writing was quite simply, atrocious. Some people said it was written for YA and would become better later on, but it was just very cliche and (as you said) tacky. I finished the first one and REFUSED to pick up another. I also find the idea of a vampire and a human on the same level as a human and a chimpanzee, so yes, vampires that glitter and are just nice people irked me. I like my blood sucking monsters to be blood sucking.
‘Here I am” by Jonathan Safran Foer. I’m no prude but the cursing was just so offputting I stopped after a very short time. Threw the book in the bin. And that is something I have never done in my life.
I just recently finished the series and loved it, but my mom said they got more boring for her the more serious the series got. I guess that’s a popular thing
50 Shades-series. The whole “forcing women to have sex” thing irks me in all the wrong places. All of The Mortal Instruments. Clare is a horrible writer.
The farseer trilogy – I found it the storyline great. The characters great. But the lack of action, the slow slow slow pace, it bored me. I wish it didn’t because I could have loved it.
50 shades. Purely because if Anastasia bit her lip one more time, the book was going through the window
??????
That really was annoying!
It’s a tie between FSoG and Empire of Storm.
Empire of storm! I’m surprised about that one. I love it so I’ll think that way of course lol
Just not her fan anymore. ✌ after Heir of Fire, I’m done. It’s my choice, so.. ?
Of course, I wasn’t trying to be mean….
I know. I just met someone here before that was literally cursing me bout same topic. WE are good. ? no worries. We [readers] all have our own opinions. ?
No. Lol ? I already bought the book but I couldn’t read it. I’m just disappointed with HoF I guess, so I never tried any of her books anymore.
I think they will change your mind. I don’t know what happened to her writing but it just got epically better. Honestly the throne of glass series I was like ‘meh it’s good. Ok’ about but acotar and acowar are miles apart from it and the best YA/Na books out at the moment. I promise you won’t read anything better. It’s odd how different the books are but how similar in a way that she took the good from ToG and left out the bad and then slapped in a bunch of omg ?
Especially in ACOMAF. I mean acotar is good but ACOMAF will literally blow your mind.
But I already gave away my ACOMAF copy. I do that when I’m angry at a book or author. ?? Maybe I’ll be able to give sjm another chance, but I can’t see doing it right now. Or the next few years, there are tons of amazing books that keeps on popping nowadays.
Well, of course I think you’re making a mistake ? I’ve got a lot of people to read it and they’ve actually thanked me for it ?
@Nana I totally agree with @Stephanie ACOTAR/ACOMAF are so different from tog and soo much better I’d definitely recommend them over tog and I hope you decide to give sjm another chance 🙂 but if you decide not too I totally understand 🙂
@Nana I barely made it through Empire of Storms, I’m sorry to say? The very end made me willing to read the last one, but after how much I loved the beginning of the series (and Heir of Fire was my favorite—partly because finally there was a platonic, brotherly relationship, but mostly because of Manon) I forced myself to finish. I fully admit to skimming though…
@Stephanie thank you for being understanding. ?
@Siri I love 1&2 but I’m a bit hesitant with 3&4. Obviously I’m a fan of Chaol Westfall and after what happened with HoF, I decided I’m done.
@Nana like you said we all have our opinions and I appreciate that you actually tried it and found it lacking rather than just deciding off hand (if that makes sense?) but my saying is, ‘whatever floats your boat, as long as it doesn’t sink mine’ 🙂 and having differing opinions makes interesting discussions 🙂
@Nana I agree— the way she does romance is not at all to my liking. Definitely. I’m trying to get over it, tell myself it’s not a romantic story, but I miss that element in this series!
@Siri I don’t mind her romance or at least not in ACOTAR… But there was just something I didn’t like about Caleana/Aelin… And her whole ‘everyone gets a mate’ thing is starting to annoy me…
@Stephanie right but only two people did out of all the characters. It seems like a lot because they all have romances but mates are only Elain and Feyre
Puhi Illyrian Yeh but somehow with them being sisters it irks me more… I really can’t explain why… And the whole Nessian and Moriel being mates theory annoys me… Maybe I’m taking that more into account than maybe I should…
What’s FSoG?
Fifty Shades of Grey? Gray? ?
@Nana or yeah that makes sense haha
50 shades!!! Actually I did cringe my way through the first two…. skimmed a lot of it. Couldn’t be bothered with the third. Anastasia is too annoying!
I was thinking of reading FSoG as well. The first page had me saying nope when I read it (before I knew what it was) so I didn’t. Maybe I still won’t lol I know what happens anyway.
Moby Dick. Ugh. Also Moon Palace by Paul Auster, but that’s probably because I had to read it in highschool.
i too had a love story, i have read this book once and reading it again would just send me to depression! it has such a sad ending!!
Ivory and Bone. the second POV really threw me of. ‘you… you,…’ nope not for me
Eragon…just felt like a cheap version of lotr.
50 shades i just couldn’t do it! no no noooo! an online review tricked me, it said it was just like twilight, but NO IT WAS NOT!!!
Fifty shades..made me cringe. If he wasnt rich he would just be a perverted sexual freak on trial.for.offences against women
Rich bitch he might be, had I been Anastasia I would’ve had a restraining order filed against that guy.
Catharina ‘Cathy’ Cordes hahaha, I like that book but I swear. ?
My friend recommended the This man trilogy. I was 8 chapters in and all I could think was she needs to get a restraining order. I thought 50 shades was bored housewife literature written for bored women that don’t read much.
A daughter of smoke and bone! I couldn’t get through the last book no matter how hard I tried lol
I had a hard time getting through the first one
The Martian. The first 20 pages I felt like I was reading a maths book. I couldn’t get through it.
Hahaha I was kinda like that when watching the film… I was watching it with a few friends, the beginning was so unfeasible we picked it apart and then I fell asleep lol
The red queen, I got 4 chapters in and I just can’t do it. I can’t even pick why precisely it’s just lacking
I had problems getting into Red Queen, too. It took me forever to finish it. Not very motivated to start Glass Sword, tbh
I’m not sure I’m even going to try and stick it out, it will be the first book I’ve given up on but at this stage I just can’t get into it
Don’t force yourself to finish it if you don’t enjoy it. Reading is for fun, so no pressure 😉
I tried to read Glass Sword last year and I’m still not finished. Just too slow and boring. I don’t get the hype of the series anyway. Red Queen wasn’t that amazing either.
Beloved by Toni Morrisen….. just..no.
Posion study -just couldnt get into it
Oh I love that series! I’m actually reading the last instalment now!
I got until about Chapter 4 and just gave up? I dont know why just couldnt finish it
A Wind in the Door – idk it just didnt have the same grip on me that the first book did
A child that called “it”
Oh that book broke my heart! It was so emotionally draining
Me too, that i couldn’t read it again, but i read the trilogy “the lost boy” and “a guy named dave”
I could only get half way through the second book. His story is so heartbreaking.
The first book was too much for me, I saw the guy on Oprah and know in the end his life had a happy ending but I was left so shaken by the first book I didn’t even attempt the second or third
The second and third book are the story about when he’s growing up, not as shaken as the first one. I reccommend them?
I couldn’t finish this one or read book reports that my students would write about this book. I finally told them it wasn’t an option. It is way too triggering.
I did even try, I just couldn’t…
More Than This by Patrick Ness I tried to read it but I just didn’t like it at all and I very rarely DNF books.
Oh that’s disappointing… Have you read any of his other books?
Only one other and that was The Rest Of Us just Live Here which I actually loved. I do have the Chaos Walking trilogy too but its on my TBR pile, and I have no plans on reading A Monster Calls.
I adored ‘The Rest Of Us Just Live Here’ it was so well written and it was such a unique storyline 🙂 I’m glad to find someone else who liked it. I would recommend the Chaos Walking trilogy I loved them, they were my first Patrick Ness books so I’m glad I started with them. A Monster Calls… I wasn’t a fan I read so much and wanted to stop but I really wanted to see what happened at the end so I flicked through it… I still cried at the end though… The film not so much…
A Monster Calls has way too much hype and the fact there’s now a movie for it has given me more reason to not watch or read it. And I have a love/hate relationship with hype.
I haven’t really seen the hype about the film but I saw the trailer and it got me interested… It was OK but it definitely wasn’t rave worthy nor would I have watched the film it it weren’t for my parents lol
Good for you, but there are some books out there that I will never read did I mention I’ll never read The Book Thief you know why? It’s over hyped to no end and I have no interest in reading it.
No I totally get it, I haven’t read that book either but I did watch the film when it first came out… It was OK… But i have no interest in reading it either
Angeology by Danielle Trussoni ?? 200 pages in and still nothing happened- gave up after that
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë I love the 1943 movie with Orson Welles but I couldn’t get into the book. For me she described every detail of a room for pages…I will attempt to read again someday
Oh man I read all of Jane eyre buy it was awful
So it wasn’t just me, at least you finished it
I can’t read anything from that era lol. I tried wuthering heights ounce…. Couldn’t get past the first page. shakespeare was forced upon me! And I hated it!
Jane Austen is way better you should try reading pride and Prejudice
The Raven Boys – I was so excited to read the series and I tried to love it but I tossed it about 1/3 of the way in
Same!!!
Time Travlers Wife ….boring and confusing…. I didn’t finish it… I know so many people liked this book , not me lol
When the movie trailer came out, I looked into reading the book before the movie was released. It had terrible reviews, so I passed on the book.
goldfinch. pages and pages!
My Name is Red, by Orhan Pamuk. It looked promising, the autor was awarded the Noble Prize of Literature in 2006, and the plot was about the murder of a miniaturist in the Ottoman Empire, but it’s written in a very confusing way, each chapter has a different narrator and at one point I got lost. Still, maybe one day I’m going to give it a second chance…
Wow, this became a rant. Here we go:
I can’t remember the name, but if I do I will let you know. It was a post-zombie apocalypse book about a guy who was on the zombie cleanup crew for Manhattan. It constantly and without warning swapped between The Present, The Apocalypse (the recent past), and The Past . And it would focus on the most absurd details, like a zombie would be trying to bite the dudes face and he would go into a flashback about his ex-girlfriend because the zombie was wearing a similar outfit to what she wore. Also, the first chapter focused on how “average” the main character was, I think the was an attempt to allow you to mentally become the character but it backfired and made me wonder why I would even give half of a care about this boring human.
I think I made it through 1 1/2 chapters.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame—I didn’t like Victor Hugo’s political tangents every other page?
It was hard for me too but in the end it was worth it, his writing is very good. May be it’s because I read more for the writing than the story.
I would get so into it between tangents, and then Bam! Another one! My sister loves it—because she knows all the political history he’s referring to—but I only felt dumb and dumber?
My Àntonia was so slow and not to exciting… and I had to read it for school
Dark fever by Karen Marie Moning I’d seen so many rave reviews and so many people recommend it and… It just read so ridiculous and I couldn’t finish it, I managed over half the book hoping it would get better but I couldn’t do it…
Six of crows! Idk why I just couldn’t! I tried I did but NOPE!
Oh that sucks…
It was tough to follow but I pushed through and enjoyed it. If I hadn’t had a friend telling me how much she loved it I probably wouldn’t put it down and never finished it tho.
Did you read The Grisha trilogy
I’m having this problem currently. It never takes me this long to read a book ever.
@Ryan no I haven’t read the grisha trilogy … Is it like amazing???
I’m currently reading the Grisha books and I’m halfway through the second and it’s getting mildly interesting.
I had to push myself to read Six of Crows and I’m not that interested in reading Crooked Kingdom. I mean Six of Crows got better towards 250-300, but still. I don’t get the hype around it.
I have tried to read Look Homeward, Angel (Thomas Wolfe) several times and just can’t get anywhere with it. I think it’s that old style of writing authors used way back when LOL. I grew up in Wolf’es hometown, Asheville, NC and the book was infamous there! The most recent one was What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman. I started the book one night and got along with it pretty good but the subject matter bothered me so much that I couldn’t sleep that night so I’ve just had to put it aside. I don’t know that I’ll be able to pick it back up.
Red queen
Leviathan, I tried but I couldn’t focus for the life of me. Only book I dnf last year
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. Too much detail at the beginning so never got past it. I may try it again.
That in my tbr list.
The Goldfinch. The main character was just such a washout, and up until 84% of the book, had no growth or change. For better or worse. Just kept on being a lousy guy despite whatever happened.
I tried that but I want to read a secret history.
I enjoyed the Secret History though. But I read somewhere that the Goldfinch was self published. Don’t know if that’s true but I think she either had a weak editor or none. A good editor would have made her cut most of the excess and drivel that she spewed in it. However, other people raved about the book.
It won the pulitzer prize
Cinder. I got to about page 100 and I didn’t care for it at all. I thought the plot was slow and I wasn’t really feeling it
Truly Madly Guilty. I have read all of Liane Moriarty’s books and liked them, but this one, I just couldn’t.
I got this for Christmas. I didn’t like three wishes by her.
I’m trying to read to the lighthouse but I am having a time of it getting into it! it’s been 4 days and 38 pages. ?
The Chemist by Stephanie Meyer. I found it to be so slow. For a spy thriller it just wasn’t very thrilling.
Reboot by Amy Tintera. I hate being rude towards authors but this time I can’t help it. What a boring book!! I specially hated how almost every page the title character said: and then he kissed me.
The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith… it didn’t appeal to me at all
I loved it!
The plot felt really slow paced to me ?. I was really looking forward to reading it when i heard it was written by J.K Rowling. But sadly, it didn’t meet my expectations.
I never even finished it! Couldn’t get into it at all I just didn’t care about the characters!
Library of Souls. It’s not that I didn’t like the other two books, I just lost interest. I’m going to try to finish it some time this year
The same it seemed to drag… I’m glad I finished it but it seemed like a rubbish ending in my opinion…
I couldn’t read it either.
The entire Mortal Instruments series.
Ship Breaker. Just so so bad.
The Bird Box by Josh Malerman. Read the whole thing. Awful. Came out with more questions and got no answers
There is one sitting on my desk at work that I got in a “Blind date with a book” event our state library was hosting. I cannot remember the title but it is a strange telling of Sleeping Beauty. I just can’t bring myself to open the cover after reading the plot line on the back.
The magicians. It was horrible and twisted version of chronicles of narnia
Any books about Princess Diana after she had passed away….
Wideacre…..disturbing subject matter.
You guys gonna hate me, but all Stephen King’s books are disastrous. I can’t stand the writings.
I haven’t read any of his books (yet) but my mom loves him. Why don’t you like him?
@Burgess His writing style isn’t just for me. He makes simple sentence difficult to read. I tried reading Carrie, but it just didn’t work for me.
I agree. That was the same for me when I read The Shining
I have tried too but I am going to read his book with the numbers about jfk
50 Shades Series. Could not go page 100. Plot and choice of language indicates itself towards a depleted quality literature.
I always said that 50 shades was a book for people who don’t read, if that makes sense? Poor storyline and writing that because of the content was overlooked by people who don’t often read
Yes. I heard rave reviews oabout the book but the reality was shocking,
Bored housewife literature.
An insult to literature to call the 50 Shades series anything but garbage.
Well it did start out as a Twilight fan fiction, so I can see why it was bad. ?
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I just couldn’t.
Same.
I didn’t even want to try.
Worst freaking book. The original is my favorite and I just hate how it got butchered.
Me either.
The fact that it exists at all is my pet peeve.
Same
I really wanted to give it a chance. I thought the concept was interesting, but it was just so badly done!
I dnf it, it was so dull
Didn’t read the book, but saw the movie. So freaking weird and boring.
You are one step further than me. I refuse to pick it up!
@Jennifer I was like that until the movie preview and awesome movie cover worked its magic on my susceptible brain! Realized I hated it as soon as I saw it was more like a strange writing-rape of the original rather than it’s own thing…
Anna Karenina. So disgustingly misogynistic and conservative that neither the plot or the literary aspect could redeem it.
This was one I was going to say!
night circus
A lot of people saying that
i tried
I’ve never heard of it – probably why. With so many saying it’s bad I don’t think I’ll try.
This makes me sad, it’s one of my favorite books!
What’s it about?
It’s hard to explain. Some people compare it to The Prestige.
It’s kinda a magical realism book.
I think people were expecting battling magicians like Harry Potter style from the descriptions it gets, but it’s not at all.
It’s very poetic.
it was just…. idk all over the place and random to me
I see. Well I can see why many would dislike it. Some people dislike poison study because they think it’s young adult and it is but it’s more mature than that in the style of writing. So I can see how when you expect one thing and get another it can be off putting
i like all genres so it wasn’t that either. It was the book itself.
I am planning to read it soon
I can see that, it was all over the place with the plot and storyline.
The Corrections, just because I couldn’t
The Casual Vacancy
Crossed. It was just Sooo slow and I have never ever stopped reading in the middle of a book before that book
Ally Condie?
Yes Allie condie. And I had it for the entire library three week limit trying to read it lol
Your really didn’t miss out on much…
Yeah that was one time I was lucky I didn’t buy it
I thought matched was good. I think I read the second one, or maybe I just stopped reading it. But, I do know I stopped reading the series because it was so slow.
I agree, matched was good, and so was crossed
Perfect chemistry, I literally could not stand it! Only read about 1/4 of it and donated it
By Simone elkeles? I finished it but it was so hard to get through
Flawed by Cecelia Ahern. I just couldn’t get into it. The book was too slow and boring for me.
The Maze Runner. The movies are fantastic but I couldn’t even get to the halfway point in the book. I thought it was super slow and the words they spoke were really confusing. I just didn’t like it overall.
1984 by George Orwell. I found it depressing.
I can’t read any George Orwell books since I had to do ‘Animal Farm’ in school… I came to hate it..
I read an excerpt of that in school and I really want to read it
1984 and Animal Farm are two great distopias, like Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
Yes, @Silvina, I’ve heard wonders about both books. I believe the genre doesn’t agree with me.
Reading has to be a pleasure, not a punishment. If you don’t like the genre, they’re plenty of other options to enjoy.
@Silvina I totally agree but I think that if I hadn’t had to do Animal Farm as part of my English course (which required reading it multiple times, watching the film – the toon version – and generally picking it apart) I’d actually want to read Orwell books, they sound fascinating but i just can’t bring myself to…
A typical case of education ruined by school…
By the way, I read Animal Farm (found in a Little Free Library) and 1984 (somebody left it in the lunch room of my job) by chance, and found both of them fascinating…
It was only my class that got Animal Farm the others got Mary Shelley’s Fankenstein and I was devastated… I really wanted to do my term on that but no dice… I have since read it, but it didn’t capture me like I hoped it would… Which sucks but at least I got to read it 🙂
Fight club, hwas hard to get into for me. With the violence right at the beginning. But I still plan to give it one more chance. Cause hear after that parts its amazing. So worth one more chance.
The movie was good
The Scarlet Letter
I could not wrap my head around the language.
I had to read this one in college. I ended up really liking it, but I had a professor to guide me through.
That may have made a big difference.
In college, we read The Odyssey of Homer, which I found intriguing. But if I’d read it on my own, maybe wouldn’t have.
That guidance and understanding can make a world of difference.
I totally agree. I had to read two novels by Thomas Hardy for college, which I wouldn’t have read on my own. I didn’t like either that much, but in class discussions were great fun, thanks to the professor.
A good teacher changes everything.
Day of the triffids,hated it.The film scared me to death.
fifty shades of grey it was garbage i threw the book out i was ashamed to have it in my house
Of course, that’s not even literature…
Me too, Sandy. It was pure garbage, and a waste of time. I made it through 2 or 3 pages, and gave up.
Me too. Also gave up after a chapter and got rid of it!
womanizer by Katy Evans. I had so many WTF moments I just had to stop reading.
These broken stars. Lilac is such an awful character
The Odyssey, Romeo and Juliet, Great Expectations, Of Mice and Men, and Lord of the Flies. I had to read those for high school, the first two I couldn’t get through because of the way it was written. The third was because of the way it was written and it was so dull. The last two I just had no interest, they bored me.
Red Queen… I thought it was very predictable and boring. I couldn’t get into it, I quit a lil over half way thro.
Jane Eye, bc of the way it was written
*Jane Eyre
One of my favorite books. Re-read it last year.
Started reading it not too long ago but the way it was written was confusing me
I have such mixed feelings about this book. I admire the Bronte sisters. They are all very talented and accomplished amazing things for women in their time.
I can’t stand Wuthering Heights though because every character in it is a terrible person! But it makes for great discussion whether you hate it or love it.
The same with Jane Eyre, I didn’t care for it, and think Mr Rochester is a terrible love interest. But I do admire that at its time it was a very feminist book, and it provokes great discussions!
The language has changed a lot since it was published in 1847. That book is a classic.
Really? I find Jane Eyre to be one of the most readable classics I’ve come across
Love Jane Eyre. Despise WH, mainly because the characters are just SO self involved and overly dramatic.
Oh my God, I had to read silas marner for my GCSE and she describes a tiny detail over like 2 pages. Me and my friend actually fell asleep in class listening to the audio tape and got detention for it
Pride & Prejudice. I never could get through it, and I’ve tried many times.
Romeo & Juliet. So sappy. I had to read it for english class. Probably failed the stupid test lol.
The thing is, people bring sappiness to that, the text is pretty blunt about the tragedy. Romeo is faithless, Juliette is naive and both are ridiculous. Everyone is awful.
Truth witch. I got 100 pages in and was so bored. So I gave up.
Another book was These Broken Stars. I got halfway and was very bored. Skimmed through the book and it was just very bizarre.
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest. I just couldn’t get into it. I am not sure why.
“Fifty shades”I I guess because it didn’t keep my interest. The others were “Outlander”. Series. But I love the series on tv. Go figure huh?
Your right the fifty shades was ? I tried reading the second book but just mostly skim it .
Go tell a watchman was another one I could t get into. I think it was just not up to par if to kill a mocking bird.
For school years ago, A very easy death – Simone DeBevior…. So Very Boring……
Oh and “Lord of the Flies”
Huckleberry Finn – I hate that book
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On the other hand, I love Moby Dick. I think it’s the best American novel ever written, with the possible exception of The Scarlet Letter. It’s Twain and his style. I can’t stand him.
Double?? ?
A Thousand Pieces of You and The Sin Eater’s Daughter.
House of night couldn’t get into it pls the sex scenes were uncomfortable ?
Fifty Shades of Gray. Just couldn’t make myself read it because of the huge hoopla over it.
Fifty shades. I heard a lot of bad things and my daughter told me it was awful.. I do not want to read a book about women being abused.
All of the twilight books.
They all suck IMO. I tried the first one and hated it, then my friends kept lying saying they got better , they don’t get any better.
See I didn’t mind the first one. It was the second one I couldn’t get past. So dull and depressing.
Oh I hated them all. I thought they was very dull and tacky. Come on vampires that glimmer and feed only on fluffy woodland creatures?????
Me too! Bella was the most horribly pathetic character I have ever had to deal with in a book, and the writing was quite simply, atrocious. Some people said it was written for YA and would become better later on, but it was just very cliche and (as you said) tacky. I finished the first one and REFUSED to pick up another. I also find the idea of a vampire and a human on the same level as a human and a chimpanzee, so yes, vampires that glitter and are just nice people irked me. I like my blood sucking monsters to be blood sucking.
I was in high school so they can’t use that ya bull lol.
Stephanie Meyers is just overrated IMO , because I hated the host just as much
‘Here I am” by Jonathan Safran Foer. I’m no prude but the cursing was just so offputting I stopped after a very short time. Threw the book in the bin. And that is something I have never done in my life.
Harry Potter series.
Me too, I hated the books and the movies
Why?
I honestly thought they were boring, I just couldn’t get into them.
I just recently finished the series and loved it, but my mom said they got more boring for her the more serious the series got. I guess that’s a popular thing
50 Shades-series. The whole “forcing women to have sex” thing irks me in all the wrong places.
All of The Mortal Instruments. Clare is a horrible writer.
I would say 50 shades is hands down the winner in this category. (Not that you want to be a winner in this category)
The Help. I couldn’t stand the grammar they used. It drive me crazy