What book let you down the most? Grasshopper Jungle for me
What book let you down the most? interms of anything, for me it was Grasshopper Jungle.?
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What book let you down the most? interms of anything, for me it was Grasshopper Jungle.?
The secret place by Tana French…. so disappointed
Havent read it… and dont think i will
I agree. I enjoyed her other books, but didn’t like this one much at all.
I have only read one other of hers which I loved… The Trespasser….. but I really didn’t like The Secret Place
I know many people who went nuts over this series. I only read #1 and found it tediously slow: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17675462-the-raven-boys
I really loved those books but they are quite slow, to each her own!
Yeah.. Maggie is always a slow burn!
Andrew Smith’s Winger (and its sequel) is one of my all time favorites but I decided Grasshopper Jungle was targeted at teen boys and I was too old and too female to appreciate the humor. But I know lots of adolescent boys who love it. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11861815-winger
It wasent neccisarily a bad book, but it went in a compleat different direction than i thought it would, not really my style. Like you said, more boy targeted
One of my book loving teen students calls it testosterone humor! She doesn’t appreciate either??
@Beverly That is halarious, i might have to use that sometime
I really liked it -as a 50+ year old woman – but it might be because i work with teens. I felt it was a very clear picture of a number of teen boys -including that look at girls as other.
Julie and Julia. HATED it!
I enjoyed that, but hated her next book, Cleaving, with a passion.
All the Light We Cannot See. I was so excited to read it and thought it was so boring.
“Middlesex”
I just kept waiting for SOMETHING to happen in the plot that directly pertained the main character. It wasn’t a bad book—just not at all what I expected.
Ha ha – one of my absolute favorites!
Fannie flagg’s latest book, dreadful
Gone Girl
Girl on a train. Train wreck!
Couldn’t even finish it. What a waste of my time.
never finished that one either
Oh my goodness! The ending was the best part! I haven’t read a book with a more satisfying ending in years! Do you have any recommendations for books where characters are redeemed at the end?
The Glass Castle. The book itself was good, with good writing, but I guess I was just expecting more from all the hype and it never happened.
Yes!
I hated how the “stories” were so short, so disjointed, so uneventful. Meh!
I agree, Jennifer!
I just started it … thanks for the heads-up :/
@Lynn so many people love it! I hope we didn’t ruin it for you ?
I loved the book, because I related to it. I recommend it and I got mixed reviews; /
Always coming home – Ursula le Guin – no matter how hard I tried – I just couldn’t read this book
Without a doubt, Gone Girl! I detested it!
50 Shades of Grey, The Black Dalia & Little Bee
‘Emperor’s Children’ by Claire Masseud.
My Grandmother Told Me to Tell you She’s Sorry
I liked this one!
@Carol I tried to like it. Had to give up. Was recommended to me by several friends.
The Girls by Emma Kline, The Vegetarian by Han Kang and The Separation by Katie Akitamura for recent reads. Gone Girl and the Girl on the Train, as well. Way overhyped!
The Shack, Bad Feminist, The Golden Notebook, Mistress by James Patterson (who is writing his books now-a-days??) and Gray Mountain by Grisham I rated even lower!
Am losing interest in autobiographies and other “personality” books by people I really admire after being let down by Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein and Everything All at Once by Bill Nye!
Go Tell a Watchman
Peter pan. What a brat.
Gone Girl…Girl on the Train…Hunger Games series…a man called ove (I know, I know, I’m supposed to love it, right?)…Woman in Cabin 10…
Hated the girl on the train,
WHAT?? How could Grasshopper Jungle let you down?! I thought it was the most exciting, invigorating, boundary-exploding book I’d read in ages. It’s heir to Slaughterhouse-Five in my mind!
it certainly pays homage to Slaughterhouse five. Which is one of my favorite books . I just also really liked the Opps, this might not be good science – so lets put it away and pretend no one will find it.
I started Girl on the Train three times. Never finished it.
I couldn’t get into the Book thief.
I ADORE that book but i can totally see how it could be hard to get into, i didnt finidh it the first few timed
Same here, Faith, and I actually felt guilt because so many raved about it.
The Sellout, A Little Life. Waited with bated breath for both and then couldn’t stand either :/
Loved A Little Life. Favourite book of the year for me
Atonement. I will never get that time back.
Oh . . I loved that book so much.
I loathed it.
Pride and Prejudice. I loved the movie SO much and I wanted the same swept-off-my-feet love for the book and I could barely finish it. I can usually whip through a book this size in a matter of a week or two. It took me NINE months to finish it. I was so disappointed.
I could not get into reading it. So I listened on audio book. I liked it better that way
Dune. Not ashamed to say I was bored to tears. Probably one of very, very few sci fi fans who doesn’t overly praise it.
Ugh. I agree.
Yay, one of my people!
Good to see I’m not alone.
Fifty Shades of Grey…I thought it was DREADFUL;(
I ended up entertaining myself by counting the number of times she described Christian’s long fingers…don’t know why she was so fixated on the length of his…fingers…
@Michelle lol!
OMG I’m so glad I put down my drink before reading this. I might have drowned!
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. I felt like the author really went off the rails at the end of the book and that the story tangled up into a hot mess of an ending.
Oy! That was a tough slog. I could not force myself to care about those characters. And I agree, it went off the rails.
So glad I listened to the CD while I was dicing tomatoes this summer. But I thought the book was never going to end. I had to switch to only listening to books of 3 or 4 CD’s to give myself a break 🙂
The Goldfinch
Swing Time
OMG, I read “Grasshopper Jungle” at the urging of a teen who claimed it was worth the read…..and I decided that maybe if I had been the target age I would have not disliked the ending so much…..
yeah it was… something for sure
I don’t know, if I don’t like a book after 50 pages or so I put it away.
The Paying Guests. The absolute worst.
In the Woods by Tana French
Goldfinch
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Loved Lucy Barton, the sequel is great also.
Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver
Read it twice….thought provoking;)