What is a/some book/s ? that was ranted and raved about, being absolutely loved by many, that you read but didn’t like? ???? ??
What is a/some book/s ? that was ranted and raved about, being absolutely loved by many, that you read but didn’t like? ???? ??
Man called ove, time travellers wife literally hated it, the girl on the train and gone girl all really overrated
I just didn’t get A Man Called Ov. My husband loved it.
@Pamela I’m like your husband, I loved it too.
Time traveller’s wife was mine too. Hated it! And the mildly pedo vibes creeped me out.
The Girl on the Train was very predictable and that made me not care too much for it
Gone Girl!! Hated it, awful book ??♀️
Me too
The Alchemist. After so many raving reviews, and my son bringing me his copy to read, I was disappointed.
I must have similar taste to your son as I really enjoyed the alchemist
I liked it, but I didn’t find it life changing, so it’s a bit overrated in that respect.
The Girl on the Train was complete and utter garbage. Also hated John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars. So overrated.
I watched the film of The Fault In Our Stars, that was pretty good.. can’t comment on the book! X
I love everyone’s different tastes. I really enjoyed both of these
The book of Fault in Our Stars was a big disappointment, probably because it my friends were saying “I was ugly crying by the end” and I just found it a bit sad and that was that.
The film made me ugly cry ?
I think I’m a bit of cold hearted moo! ?
Yes Jennie it didn’t make me nearly as sad as it made everyone who raved about it. I mean, it’s definitely sad but I wasn’t like earth-shatteringly heartbroken like I expected to be. If a book is going to ruin my world, I want it to ruin my world! Haha
Exactly that! I was waiting, and wanting, to be utterly devastated. Didn’t happen.
I liked the fault in our stars , I thought it was greens best book , his others were ok. I liked Augustus though and think it helps if you really like the central characters.
I didn’t cry as much as I did this week reading Our Song ?? broke me! X
Oh goodness noooooo Looking For Alaska is his best book!!!
Allegiant from Divergent series – The ending actually devastated me. I am still mad at the ending to this day.
@Courtney YESSSSSS that ending nearly killed me
@Amanda it’s on my tbr bundle so that’s good ? it’s one of his I’ve not got around to reading yet
@Sean hahaha I seem to enjoy the books of his that get the least amount of hype. Looking for Alaska, Will Grayson, Will Grayson, An Abundance of Katherines. All excellent. But Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns ????
Actually the Paper Towns book is good but the movie is AWFUL
I still want to really know why Veronica Roth just HAD to end it like that. She did something no writer really should do, tbh.
@Amanda I prefer the abundance to Katherine over paper towns too. His books are all good I’d say but mostly they don’t blow me away
Me too. I didn’t like the Girl on the train either
I read the Fault in the Stars years ago when it was first out. Liked it a lot so i didn’t see the movie. I find when i like a book that gets made into a movie, I’m almost always disappointed. The characters aren’t the way i visualize them, etc. like i hated the movie Gone With the Wind.
Life of Pi – hated it
Cloud Atlas – unreadable
The buried giant – tedious and repetitive
Cloud Atlas the book is beyond awful, I agree. Thank God I saw the film first, I love it! The screenwriter is a genius to create a complex yet brilliant script from the craziness that was the book ?
I love that book!
I think we have different genre preferences @Talya 🙂
I love pi ?
I stopped reading the Life of Pi.
Couldn’t get into Life of Pi and Cloud Atlas, well I nearly threw it across the room, it made me feel like I was really thick!
Mine would be allegiant and the very ending. ☕
I hated the book ending, preferred the film ending
Water For Elephants.
Like Breath for Air.
Just kidding. I loved it but i work in that field
A Little Life…tried three times and gave up.
Worst. Book. Ever. ?
Strange with this one as I really didn’t enjoy the first 100 pages and then ….. wow! I got it x
I finished it but it made me rage. Hated it. The characters were awful and so god damn predictable. And the plot? Okay. Couldn’t be more unrealistic. All of them had that level of unprecedented success seemingly without even trying? Okay. And Jude. Ugh!! Never has there been a more irritating main character. I can appreciate a frustrating character when the intent is for them to be. But this is a guy I was supposed to have some empathy for? Get the fuck out of here.
⬆ This! ⬆ Oh my gosh – this!
Could not have described it more perfectly @Christina!
I loathed this book. I kept shouting out loud at the characters! So self involved, woe-is-me etc etc. I wanted to strangle them!
I need a glass o wine to calm down now ?
@Victoria well just don’t have a wine drinking game where you take a sip for every time Jude says “I’m sorry”. You will die of alcohol poisoning 5 pages in!
Hallelujah!! I felt the same (and had a wee rant further down this list!) Didn’t like any character at. All.
I read a page of the nightingale and took it back to the library!
Not sure we could ever be friends…just kidding. One of my favourite books EVER! This is a great thread!
Ha ha, I’m generally not a fan of historical fiction!
I, on the other hand, love anything set in WW2 for some reason!
I find them hard going!
@Sarah I love WW2 settings also and I have a copy of Nightingale but why, oh why can’t I get into it. It’s loved by so many?
We are all different! What other WW2 books have you loved? I also especially loved The Silent Hours, Sarah’s Key and All the Light We Cannot See x
I will take a look Sarah, drawing a blank right now. Lilac Girls was a favourite? I haven’t read the Silent Hours- will check that out! Thanks!
@Rochelle The Silent Hours loosely based on a true event too – hope you enjoy!
Girl on the Train and Man called Ove (loving Follow the River which was recommended on here!)
Lincoln in the Bardo.
The Goldfinch
One of my all time favourites! x
The Goldfinch, The Immortalists
Gone Girl, Girl on the Train, the Hundred Old Man who climbed out of the window ….
agree re Old Man
Agree about the 100 year old man…
Gave up on the hundred year old man
The Book Thief…..
No way. Did you actualy read all of it?
I loved the book thief, I thought Jesse Owens was so likeable ?
Book thief ?? not for me
I hated it from the start, which annoyed me as I wanted to love it 🙁
Totally overrated!
Again, you need to get past the first couple of chapters
@Claire I tried to, but it felt as though I was wasting my time. I didn’t enjo the story or writing style at all 🙁
World Without End. Loved the first and third in this trilogy.
The cloud atlas
I didn’t like Shadow of the Wind, but I know lots of people loved it.
I loved THAT book! ?
Loathed it too
I read 4 last year that I wasn’t thrilled about, especially as I like other books from those writers:
The tempest – Shakespeare
Surfacing – Atwood
To the lighthouse- Woolf
The heart of darkness- Conrad
I read Surfacing at uni, but it clearly left no impression on me ’cause I can’t remember a single thing about what happens in the story!
@Joanne that’s what I was like when I read it, I felt it was building up to something epic, turned out it wasn’t ?
Hated Heart Of Darkness at uni x
@Kirsten read it last year as i have been reading a lot of classics but this one wasn’t for me?
Having read King Leopold’s Ghosts, Heart of Darkness was disappointing.
Dr Strange and Mr Norrell, I felt there was a good book in there, but that it needed a good edit. I got so annoyed with it around page 500, I took it straight to the charity shop without finishing it.
The name alone reminds me of Jekyll and Hyde
Never read the book but the show was great ❤️
I really wanted to see the TV version, but missed it
I think it’s on Netflix.
I Am Pilgrim, Girl on the Train, The Shack
FINALLY someone else who hated I Am Pilgrim!!
yeah dude! My whole bookclub loved it and I was like “really?? It’s super dumb and kinda racist.”
Not to mention sooooooo slow in the middle. It took me almost six times of picking it back up to finish it.
I agree I am Pilgrim If you read Dove Flyer which is brilliant and written before I am Pilgrim, you will see that a certain chapter is very similar!
I tried, but couldn’t get into I am Pilgrim. I wanted to, after reading how much people love it.
All the 50 shades books – load of pants! Poorly written tripe
I tried so hard to read the first 50 shades book. When the author used the word “slammed” three times in two sentences I literally threw the book across the room.
Yes!! Can’t believe they’re movies! Awful!
Yes thank you!
Each time my college students would ask me if I had read them, I’d tell them I was too young (but old enough to be their grandmother). ?
SO OFFENSIVE!! And i am NOT a prude!! I love me some romantic smut (guilty pleasure ?), and this was utter garbage.
Gone Girl tried 3 times to get in to it. Gave up
Any Nora Roberts book. I have tried 3 times and her books are terrible.
“The language of Flowers” irritating Character couldn’t finish it!
I agree! Couldn’t understand why everyone raved about it. She was so unlikeable.
Gone girl awful.
Really? I have this on my pile of books to read next. ?
So bad ?
@Teresa you may like it..I loved Time travellers wife and all the shadow books others didn’t.
Why?
The story is just.. meh ??♀️ and the ending is bad. I don’t want to spoil the plot for you!
However out of the 100+ books I’ve read in the past 2 years, it strongly holds the title of the worst one I’ve read X
Oh ok thanks for letting me know!
Um it was a bit disjointed and not one person not one! in the book was likeable you didn’t care for them..even death the narrator in the book thief (great book) was likeable!.
I actually liked one of the characters ? which made the ending worse!
Okay, I’m going to disagree with you all. I looooved it and gave it 5 stars! Give it a try @Teresa as you may actually enjoy it x
Totally agree
To kill a mockingbird not for me either
The Girl on the Train.
Hated the characters but I managed to finish reading it
Yeah didn’t like that much either x
I’ve given up this month on Jonathon Strange And Mr Norrell which seems very much adored by 95% of readers
So many. Girl on the Train. Gone Girl. Great Expectations. Me Before You. A Song of Ice and Fire books. 50 Shades of Idgaf. So, soooo many
We need to talk about Kevin- I hated the way it was written
Me too. One of the only books I gave up on less than half way through
It should have ended at a much earlier stage.
Talking about Shantaram!
@Lucy I hated the film too. Such an interesting subject but I couldn’t persevere with book or film!
I didn’t even bother with the film ?
We Need To Talk About Kevin was OK, not great not terrible, but So Much For That by the same author is THE worst book I’ve ever read
Shantaram; made it half way thru and just gave up. Most people loved it but it was one of the only books that I disliked so much I couldn’t finish.
This is one of 4 I’m currently reading. I’m only on the fourth chapter, but just out of curiosity – what about it did you dislike?
Was way too long, too many characters, boring and disjointed. Too much detail about unimportant things. I think people either love it or hate it; I’m one who hated it.
Ove everybody loved it but I really didn’t like it
Girl on the train
I only got two chapters into this book before I tossed it. I felt violated. It was poorly written and repetitive and uninteresting. Afterwards I felt a little bad because my friends were still talking about it so I decided to read the steamiest passages to find out what all the hype was about. I found them bland, boring, worse in the first two chapters as far as vocabulary goes, and kind of gross. I told my friends who said these books got them hot, “maybe you should try reading a book by Zane because that was boring and poorly written.” I have read Little Sister books that had better plots. Just my 2 cents.
Absolutely agree with you a dreadful book
Yes! I couldn’t handle it at all! I’m so surprised people wanted to see this in movie form! Bleh!
I actually liked the movie, not so much the books
The movie didn’t really have that many “steamy” scenes, as the books were overkilled with them
I didn’t even try to watch the movie (movies?) after starting the book. No thanks! Lol
Just not the hype everyone raved about
I tried to watch the movie once it came to premium TV. I fell asleep on it twice.
It was so terribly written. I was blown away at how awful it was.
Please don’t hate me for saying this but The It book by Stephen King. I thought I loved it… it took me so long to admit it to myself I didn’t love it as much as I thought… and the more I pondered on my thoughts of the book the More I realize how much I hated it.
I mean, I am a big fan in general. But it was obvious he was in a cocaine fueled spiral writing it. A preteen orgy? Makes sense. ?
A Little Life ?
It was many pages of hot steaming garbage.
Yup! I didn’t like the characters, they were self centred whinge bags! The writing wasn’t that great and was repetitive.. I felt I may be missing something after all the rave reviews so finished it, but no… No I’d missed nothing. The ending was just one big eye roll for me! Oh there we are, another reason for “justified” self loathing! ?
(too much?)
@Emma – nope – not enough ? See comments above 😉
All the Light we Cannot See. Just couldn’t get what all the fuss was about.
The Alchemist
The Lovely Bones
I hated Lovely Bones – just went around in circles, so annoying.
The Couple Next Door. I feel like my baby cousin could have written a better novel.
Saaaaaaame
Oh no! I’m reading it right now. About halfway through. I feel like I read it before unless it’s awfully predictable. Not so sure I want to waste me time finishing it.
Gave up on that quite early on!
It was trash! But easy trash so I read it quickly. Wish I hadn’t bothered.
Woman in cabin 10
Gave up on that one! Sooooooooo boring!!!
Gone Girl
I am Pilgrim, The Gold Finch, Me Before You
3 books I loved!!
Good job we’re not all the same eh!
So many for me too. Go Set a Watchman, Cloud Atlas, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Girls, The Sense of An Ending
I loved the handmaids tale but with the writing style I think it’s a book that splits options
I couldn’t get into the handmaids tale when I studied it at a level, absolutely loved the tv adaptation though so want to try and read it again.
@Daytona the tv series is one of my favourite on screen adaptations of a book
I agree with you about Cloud Atlas.
About half way in I got it and liked Cloud Atlas.
I couldn’t get into Cloud Atlas at all.
Oh I liked The Handmaids Tale!
Another vote for Gone Girl.
The goldfinch and where did you go Bernadette
Fahrenheit 451
This was one of my favourite books last year. I do love dystopians though
Me too. Read it recently and thought wtf!
Actually got this as a christmas present and I was super excited… maybe I’m too young but not something I’d read again
I didn’t love Eleanor Oliphant though I got through it ok
I agree, can’t see what the fuss is all about!
Same! It was good.. but took me ages to read it and I didn’t fall in love with it ??♀️
i started it loved the first chapter and now im kinda just reading it to finish it
Just looked back on my Goodreads.. took me 12 days! ? Usually read a book in 1-3 days X
All the light we cannot see. Tried it twice, about a year ago and haven’t been able to go back to it.
Snap!
Same!
The Alchemist…
All the Light we Cannot See
The Book Thief
My two as well.
A little life
Honestly the worst book I have ever read.
I tried about 3 times to read it and just couldn’t get into it at all
Discovery of witches
The Nest
Oh dear, just bought it!
I found it underwhelming. I know lots of people who enjoyed it though.
I am often disappointed with life changing books. Even if I enjoy some of them, they just don’t change my life! I guess people rave about them and then they don’t live up to the hype!
The Girl on the Train.
And the mountains echoed
This was good but definitely not as good as hosseini’s other books especially the kite runner and a thousand splendid suns
absolutely loved those 2 that’s why I was so disappointed with this one
@Kay me too , totally agree with you ?
Little Paris Bookshop!
Yes I was disappointed with this book, having read his previous 2 which I thoroughly enjoyed!
Preferred the other two, can’t even really remember what this was about now, not a good sign!
The Da Vinci Code
The alchemist by Paulo Coehlo.
I’m definitely in the minority but Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult. Loved all her other books, just found this v slow.
Oh I really really don’t like Jodi Picoult, tried three of her books any gave up on all of them, she’s just not for me
I agree I liked the book but I don’t think it lived up to the hype.
Captain Correlli, The Da Vinci Code, Gone Girl..
The husband’s secret. What a load of crap.
Husband’s Secret
Any stream of consciousness book!!
I thought the first half of this book was brilliant suspense… second half did not satisfy.
Agree— about a third of the way in when you figure out what happened, it’s like.,… now what???
Me Before You. So poorly written!
I read this post just to see if someone put that. I’m with you on that.
The Book Thief
yes! I couldn’r get past the first quarter of the book!
@Yaeli I had to read it for school, so I had to finish it. It was terrible!
All the light we cannot see
Girl on the train
Totally agree, I could not get into it and ploughed through but really didnt enjoy it.
Yep sounds exactly like my experience. I can’t not finish a book but I was looking forward to the end.
The Lovely Bones and my Sister’s keeper
Lolita, The Time Traveler’s Wife, The Lovely Bones
I Am Pilgrim (winces and waits for the backlash…)
Agree, thought it very violent and could not understand why so many people raved about it
It didn’t seem anything special at all!
The Clan Of The Cave Bear series
Haha right! Corny romance novel.
Didn’t even get past the first book, too repetitive, I don’t need to know every other page who the clan are and wants wrong with one of them, so I gave up ?
I read three of them. They got progressively worse!
Glad I stopped then
I haven’t hated any of the much-hyped books but I was totally underwhelmed by Girl On The Train, The Nightingale and The Alice Network.
A Man Called Ove. The Rosie Project. A Little Paris Bookshop. Book club reads that I didn’t finish. All the Light You Cannot See. the Nightingale. Left me flat.
Oh yeah. The Rosie Project. It was cute but I was like “is the message of this book that love can cure aspergers?”
Really? The nightingale??? I’m so surprised!
The Alchemist, Eat Pray Love – whatever it’s called, Captain Morelli’s Mandolin
I only enjoyed the Eat portion.
Oh god yes. Eat, Pray, Love – no words. I think I’m definitely seeing a running theme with books I’m not a fan of (y)
I tried with Captain Corelli, sort of liked the film, could not get away with the book either.
A man called Ove
The book thief. X
Ooh this is on my tbr pile. I keep seeing posts saying it’s really good so it’s position has risen 🙂 x
I’ve just started this ?
I thought it was okay… But didn’t live up to the hype in my opinion x
Yeah it was okay, I read another of his books first – I am the Messenger I think it was and absolutely loved it so it was a bit eh in comparison.
@Victoria it is a really good book. Interesting if your into history of WWII.
Thanks @Susan, still definitely going to give it a go (y)
Olive Kitteridge
The hare with the amber eyes
Really? I’ve heard nothing but good about this.
I don’t have a copy but I’ve seen it a few times recently and, each time, tempted to buy it.
Why didn’t you like it?
@Lesley it was a long time ago so my memory is rather hazy, but I didn’t like the style of writing/prose and just couldn’t get into it so gave up!
Fair enough.
I must admit, my tbr list is far too long to be hugely tempted by it..,,
Totally agree with you
Winter garden by Kristen Hannah. Rubbish to me
I hate all her books except for The Nightingale which to me felt like it was written by a completely different author! And is one of my favourite books ever!
Weird, isn’t it? 🙂 Loved Firefly Lane even more than Nightingale. Still one of my top favourite reads 🙂
The Great Gatsby, for such a little book I just wanted it to end. Rather like the movie though. Lana Del Rey, Spiderman and Leo <3
Room was also not the best. I liked the idea behind it but god damn it was hard to read from a kids perspective.
I liked room a lot but it definitely took a few chapters to get use to writing style
It’s the child voice that has made me give up.
I listened to Room, and wondered if I would have liked it in print. In contrast, I’m struggling with the audiobook of A Tale for the Time Being.
Agree re Great Gatsby
The 100 year old man
I agree. It was an awful book IMO x
Totally, utterly and absolutely agree!!
Beloved by Toni Morrison
I concur!
It took me at least 6 attempts to finish it, and I still don’t get it, @Claire. Glad I am not the only one.
A Little Life, Ove and The Hundred Year Old Man. All rubbish to me.
Agree about I’ve but couldn’t disagree more about A Little Life
Ove
The Road by Jack Kerouac, I’ve started it 3 times but I’ve got better things to do with my life.
Completely agree @Claire. This post has most definitely made me realise I have no patience with characters who are self involved/centred (not worldly). Every book I’ve disliked has had a main character like that.
You’ve hit the nail on the head there! That’s exactly what it is that bothers me about that book. I just don’t care what happens to any of them.
So dry I finished it but can’t say I enjoyed it.
Hit the road Jack, & don’t you come back……..
Pointless book
Twilight saga, fifty shades books and anything by Dan Brown.
Also the God delusion. It was elitist crap and poorly researched and theorised
The 50 shades series
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Dice Man and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, all overrated for different reasons.
How did oh not like the dice man. As a thought experiment I thought it worked wonders ?
I totally get tenant of wildfell however lol
@Ian I liked the concept of it too, it just played out a bit too brutally and went on a bit too long so it felt they were labouring the point too much. I wanted to like it more than I did.
That’s a fair point. It drag out a bit and was a little brutal ?
Harry Potter ?
Love the movies but I struggled with the books. They didn’t flow to me I guess.
????
I tried and failed with Harry Potter when I was in high school. Got to book 4 but the quidditch game took too long so I quit
Lolita, I just can’t finish it
I thought 50 Shades was a given for you inteligent lot ?
I think that’s a given ?
Didn’t bother to read it!
Totally hated I am Pilgrim! Thought it was predictable and poorly written! And it didn’t grip me. Sorry!!
The Alchemist is one of my all time most disliked books, I just can’t understand why so many think its life changing?
Oh I don’t know about all time most disliked …. There’s The Old Man and the Sea to consider…. But I disliked it as well. It’s preachy and condescending about its morals and I hated the message that women’s dreams are all wrapped up in seeing their men chase their dreams while they wait quietly
Outlander.
‘Behind Closed Doors’ by B A Paris. Slow, predictable and badly written ?
Totally rubbish!
I’m trying so hard with this one. My library loan ended when I was only halfway though (we only get a week) and I felt like it was like one incident after another of her trying to escape and he outwitted her. When do we get to something gripping? I am trying to convince myself to borrow it again and just finish it….
@Amy don’t bother, there are much better books out there to devote your time to!
Exactly. It was just dull, dull, dull, and the female character was so wet!
Definitely. I thought it was trash.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, The Great Gatsby.
Omg did we just become besties? These were the 2 I was going to write <3
The Book Thief
The Woman in Cabin 10
The book thief. I was bored by page 3.
The Alchemist, Cloud Atlas, Firefly Lane.
Ragdoll, really couldn’t understand the end
50 Shades?
A little life
I loooved this book, I agree with Wendy, just give it one more try.
It was one of the most moving books I’ve ever read.
The Fault in Our Stars
The women’s room!!
If I am not enjoying a book, I stop reading it…
Angela’s Ashes
also The Celestine Prophesy
Also didn’t like It by King. Didn’t finish the book.
Game of Thrones…before the show came out. But I never finished it, so maybe it got better.
Me Before You and Eleanor and Park
The kids voice annoyed me in Room so gave up on it. Also thought The Book Thief wasn’t up to the hype. Finished it but it was meh!!!
And me! His voice v annoying.
I couldn’t get into Room
I didn’t love The Bool Thief either but I did finish it.
Agree about The Book Thief, I thought it was over rated but did manage to finish it.
Book that is
The Essex Serpent, mind you, I’ve yet to meet anyone who does like it. Beautiful cover and massively hyped for some reason.
Omg I have another one! The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare
The 4 hour week and #girlboss
The Twilight series and 50 Shades
I’m going to be very unpopular but ‘the kite runner’
Whaaaaat!!! Did you therefore read any of Khaled Hosseini’s other books? X
i didn’t actually – the kite runner sort of scared me off!
My sister loved it though!
I thought the ending was out of sync with the rest of the story.
Noooooo
Virgin Suicides, Memoirs of a Geisha
One of my faves and least faves in one go; loved ‘Geisha but could not get away with the Virgin Suicides at all. Thought it must be Jeffrey Eugenides writing but just read Middlesex this year which is now one of my favourite books of all time.
The Couple Next Door
Book Thief
The fault in our stars. I didn’t like how John Green describes the relations between teenagers. It did sound everything but realistic
Oh and the trilogy of Philip Pullman. Read it in French so I don’t know the titles in English but I didn’t relate to the esoteric part of it. Though I’ve read it twice a while ago (my ex BF begged me to reconsider my point of view)
I don’t like John Green books, my godmother was a fan and keep giving me them as presents, I cherish them because I love her but I really don’t like his books
The Girl on the Train-could only make it half way through the book. To much whinning on her part.
Me too.
I agree
I tried numerous times and gave up after the first chapter. I didn’t even bother with her new one.
I struggled through but I also found the whinging tone hard to stomach.
Agree totally! I really didn’t get into this one.
50 Shades
It was so terribly written – I couldn’t get past the ‘oh dear’ whenever she saw something erotic!
Anything by Dan Brown
Room, anything by Paula Hawkins and ruth ware.. I let you go… man called ove.. beartown. I guess I’m weird but I couldn’t get past a few pages of any of those books.
The Miniaturist
Eleanor Oliphant. Didn’t hate it or anything, just couldn’t see why everyone else was so over the moon about it
The poisenwood bible…tried a few timed..just couldnt get it! ?
Flame in the Mist by Renee Ahdieh.
Girl on the train, rubbish
Outlander. Got the end of Book 1 and threw it down in exasperation. Couldn’t have cared less about any of the characters which is my usual measure of how good a story is. Just didn’t see what everyone raves about.
I’m one of the ‘ravers’. Glued to the story from the first page and have read the whole series several times. Can’t wait for the next (and possibly final) book to come out.
@Maggie I just didn’t feel it. Each to their own.
Of course. Happy reading!
Girl on a Train, Bridges Madison County
Life of Pi. Am I the only one? Should I get my coat?? She asks putting on her tin hat!
Already put this one. I loathed it but as my Hubble had bought get me hardback copy, I felt obliged to finish it
@Jane so glad I’m not the only one!!
Catcher In The Rue
I am pilgrim.
A man called ove ?
Girl on The Train…
I actually have to LIKE the characters I’m reading about otherwise it doesn’t “DO IT” for me. Didn’t like the characters at all of “The Girl on the Train”
Me too, I think that’s why I didn’t like Gone Girl, either