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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? ???? ??

Courtney #questionnaire

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Emma

Man called ove, time travellers wife literally hated it, the girl on the train and gone girl all really overrated

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Pamela

I just didn’t get A Man Called Ov. My husband loved it.

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Sean

@Pamela I’m like your husband, I loved it too.

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Christina

Time traveller’s wife was mine too. Hated it! And the mildly pedo vibes creeped me out.

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Nicole

The Girl on the Train was very predictable and that made me not care too much for it

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Vanessa

Gone Girl!! Hated it, awful book ??‍♀️

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Talya

Me too

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Bonnie

The Alchemist. After so many raving reviews, and my son bringing me his copy to read, I was disappointed.

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Sean

I must have similar taste to your son as I really enjoyed the alchemist

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Joanne

I liked it, but I didn’t find it life changing, so it’s a bit overrated in that respect.

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Amanda

The Girl on the Train was complete and utter garbage. Also hated John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars. So overrated.

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Vanessa

I watched the film of The Fault In Our Stars, that was pretty good.. can’t comment on the book! X

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Jane

I love everyone’s different tastes. I really enjoyed both of these

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Jennie

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.

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Vanessa

The film made me ugly cry ?

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Jennie

I think I’m a bit of cold hearted moo! ?

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Amanda

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

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Jennie

Exactly that! I was waiting, and wanting, to be utterly devastated. Didn’t happen.

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Sean

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.

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Vanessa

I didn’t cry as much as I did this week reading Our Song ?? broke me! X

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Amanda

Oh goodness noooooo Looking For Alaska is his best book!!!

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CourtneyQuestion author

Allegiant from Divergent series – The ending actually devastated me. I am still mad at the ending to this day.

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Amanda

@Courtney YESSSSSS that ending nearly killed me

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Sean

@Amanda it’s on my tbr bundle so that’s good ? it’s one of his I’ve not got around to reading yet

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Amanda

@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 ????

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Amanda

Actually the Paper Towns book is good but the movie is AWFUL

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CourtneyQuestion author

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.

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Sean

@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

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Chris

Me too. I didn’t like the Girl on the train either

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Lis

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.

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Jane

Life of Pi – hated it
Cloud Atlas – unreadable
The buried giant – tedious and repetitive

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Victoria

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 ?

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Talya

I love that book!

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Victoria

I think we have different genre preferences @Talya 🙂

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Sean

I love pi ?

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Chris

I stopped reading the Life of Pi.

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Sarah

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!

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CourtneyQuestion author

Mine would be allegiant and the very ending. ☕

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Rebecca

I hated the book ending, preferred the film ending

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Jennie

Water For Elephants.

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Barbara

Like Breath for Air.

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Lis

Just kidding. I loved it but i work in that field

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Lorna

A Little Life…tried three times and gave up.

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Victoria

Worst. Book. Ever. ?

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Andrea

Strange with this one as I really didn’t enjoy the first 100 pages and then ….. wow! I got it x

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Christina

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.

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Victoria

⬆ 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 ?

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Christina

@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!

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Emma

Hallelujah!! I felt the same (and had a wee rant further down this list!) Didn’t like any character at. All.

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Sonya

I read a page of the nightingale and took it back to the library!

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Sarah

Not sure we could ever be friends…just kidding. One of my favourite books EVER! This is a great thread!

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Sonya

Ha ha, I’m generally not a fan of historical fiction!

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Sarah

I, on the other hand, love anything set in WW2 for some reason!

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Sonya

I find them hard going!

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Rochelle

@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?

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Sarah

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

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Rochelle

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!

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Sarah

@Rochelle The Silent Hours loosely based on a true event too – hope you enjoy!

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Julie

Girl on the Train and Man called Ove (loving Follow the River which was recommended on here!)

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Mary

Lincoln in the Bardo.

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Andrea

The Goldfinch

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Andrea

One of my all time favourites! x

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Molly

The Goldfinch, The Immortalists

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Jill

Gone Girl, Girl on the Train, the Hundred Old Man who climbed out of the window ….

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Claire

agree re Old Man

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Andrea

Agree about the 100 year old man…

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Emma

Gave up on the hundred year old man

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Heather

The Book Thief…..

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Claire

No way. Did you actualy read all of it?

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Sean

I loved the book thief, I thought Jesse Owens was so likeable ?

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Kay

Book thief ?? not for me

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Heather

I hated it from the start, which annoyed me as I wanted to love it 🙁

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Lynn

Totally overrated!

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Claire

Again, you need to get past the first couple of chapters

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Heather

@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 🙁

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Judy

World Without End. Loved the first and third in this trilogy.

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Lucy

The cloud atlas

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Talya

I didn’t like Shadow of the Wind, but I know lots of people loved it.

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Victoria

I loved THAT book! ?

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Jane

Loathed it too

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Sean

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

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Joanne

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!

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Sean

@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 ?

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Kirsten

Hated Heart Of Darkness at uni x

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Sean

@Kirsten read it last year as i have been reading a lot of classics but this one wasn’t for me?

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Andrea

Having read King Leopold’s Ghosts, Heart of Darkness was disappointing.

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Talya

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.

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CourtneyQuestion author

The name alone reminds me of Jekyll and Hyde

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Shauna

Never read the book but the show was great ❤️

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Talya

I really wanted to see the TV version, but missed it

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Shauna

I think it’s on Netflix.

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Margaret

I Am Pilgrim, Girl on the Train, The Shack

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Christie

FINALLY someone else who hated I Am Pilgrim!!

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Margaret

yeah dude! My whole bookclub loved it and I was like “really?? It’s super dumb and kinda racist.”

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Christie

Not to mention sooooooo slow in the middle. It took me almost six times of picking it back up to finish it.

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Linda

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!

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Robin

I tried, but couldn’t get into I am Pilgrim. I wanted to, after reading how much people love it.

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Emy

All the 50 shades books – load of pants! Poorly written tripe

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Christina

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.

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Roopa

Yes!! Can’t believe they’re movies! Awful!

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Shauna

Yes thank you!

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Andrea

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). ?

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Amy

SO OFFENSIVE!! And i am NOT a prude!! I love me some romantic smut (guilty pleasure ?), and this was utter garbage.

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Susan

Gone Girl tried 3 times to get in to it. Gave up

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Teresa

Any Nora Roberts book. I have tried 3 times and her books are terrible.

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Annarita

“The language of Flowers” irritating Character couldn’t finish it!

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Joanna

I agree! Couldn’t understand why everyone raved about it. She was so unlikeable.

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Louisa

Gone girl awful.

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Teresa

Really? I have this on my pile of books to read next. ?

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Vanessa

So bad ?

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Louisa

@Teresa you may like it..I loved Time travellers wife and all the shadow books others didn’t.

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Teresa

Why?

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Vanessa

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

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Teresa

Oh ok thanks for letting me know!

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Louisa

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!.

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Vanessa

I actually liked one of the characters ? which made the ending worse!

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Andrea

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

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Marsha

Totally agree

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Kay

To kill a mockingbird not for me either

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Hazel

The Girl on the Train.

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Annarita

Hated the characters but I managed to finish reading it

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Marsha

Yeah didn’t like that much either x

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Leanne

I’ve given up this month on Jonathon Strange And Mr Norrell which seems very much adored by 95% of readers

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Dell

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

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Susanne

We need to talk about Kevin- I hated the way it was written

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Lucy

Me too. One of the only books I gave up on less than half way through

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Linda

It should have ended at a much earlier stage.

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Linda

Talking about Shantaram!

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Susanne

@Lucy I hated the film too. Such an interesting subject but I couldn’t persevere with book or film!

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Lucy

I didn’t even bother with the film ?

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Donna

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

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Sharon

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.

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Victoria

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?

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Sharon

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.

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Millie

Ove everybody loved it but I really didn’t like it

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Donna

Girl on the train

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January

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.

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Millie

Absolutely agree with you a dreadful book

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Brooke

Yes! I couldn’t handle it at all! I’m so surprised people wanted to see this in movie form! Bleh!

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CourtneyQuestion author

I actually liked the movie, not so much the books

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CourtneyQuestion author

The movie didn’t really have that many “steamy” scenes, as the books were overkilled with them

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Brooke

I didn’t even try to watch the movie (movies?) after starting the book. No thanks! Lol

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Heidi

Just not the hype everyone raved about

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January

I tried to watch the movie once it came to premium TV. I fell asleep on it twice.

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Cassie

It was so terribly written. I was blown away at how awful it was.

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Tee

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.

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Christie

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. ?

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Emma

A Little Life ?

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Christina

It was many pages of hot steaming garbage.

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Emma

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! ?

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Emma

(too much?)

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Victoria

@Emma – nope – not enough ? See comments above 😉

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Sharon

All the Light we Cannot See. Just couldn’t get what all the fuss was about.

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Shehi

The Alchemist

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Amy

The Lovely Bones

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Joanna

I hated Lovely Bones – just went around in circles, so annoying.

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Susan

The Couple Next Door. I feel like my baby cousin could have written a better novel.

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Jade

Saaaaaaame

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Alyssa

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.

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Emma

Gave up on that quite early on!

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Sarah

It was trash! But easy trash so I read it quickly. Wish I hadn’t bothered.

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Lauren

Woman in cabin 10

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Emma

Gave up on that one! Sooooooooo boring!!!

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Sarah

Gone Girl

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Emma

I am Pilgrim, The Gold Finch, Me Before You

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Sarah

3 books I loved!!

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Emma

Good job we’re not all the same eh!

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Ruth

So many for me too. Go Set a Watchman, Cloud Atlas, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Girls, The Sense of An Ending

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Sean

I loved the handmaids tale but with the writing style I think it’s a book that splits options

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Daytona

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.

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Sean

@Daytona the tv series is one of my favourite on screen adaptations of a book

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Andrea

I agree with you about Cloud Atlas.

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Nancy

About half way in I got it and liked Cloud Atlas.

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Lesley

I couldn’t get into Cloud Atlas at all.

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Nicole

Oh I liked The Handmaids Tale!

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Lorna

Another vote for Gone Girl.

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Shuli

The goldfinch and where did you go Bernadette

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Krissy

Fahrenheit 451

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Sean

This was one of my favourite books last year. I do love dystopians though

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Claire

Me too. Read it recently and thought wtf!

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Lacey

Actually got this as a christmas present and I was super excited… maybe I’m too young but not something I’d read again

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Rachel

I didn’t love Eleanor Oliphant though I got through it ok

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Linda

I agree, can’t see what the fuss is all about!

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Vanessa

Same! It was good.. but took me ages to read it and I didn’t fall in love with it ??‍♀️

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Renna

i started it loved the first chapter and now im kinda just reading it to finish it

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Vanessa

Just looked back on my Goodreads.. took me 12 days! ? Usually read a book in 1-3 days X

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Ragini

All the light we cannot see. Tried it twice, about a year ago and haven’t been able to go back to it.

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Claudia

Snap!

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Amelia

Same!

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Erica

The Alchemist…

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Claudia

All the Light we Cannot See
The Book Thief

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Cory

My two as well.

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Marissa

A little life

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Christina

Honestly the worst book I have ever read.

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Marissa

I tried about 3 times to read it and just couldn’t get into it at all

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Kay

Discovery of witches

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Jade

The Nest

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Linda

Oh dear, just bought it!

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Jade

I found it underwhelming. I know lots of people who enjoyed it though.

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Joanne

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!

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Terence

The Girl on the Train.

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Kay

And the mountains echoed

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Sean

This was good but definitely not as good as hosseini’s other books especially the kite runner and a thousand splendid suns

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Kay

absolutely loved those 2 that’s why I was so disappointed with this one

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Sean

@Kay me too , totally agree with you ?

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Linda

Little Paris Bookshop!

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Annarita

Yes I was disappointed with this book, having read his previous 2 which I thoroughly enjoyed!

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Rebecca

Preferred the other two, can’t even really remember what this was about now, not a good sign!

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Lorna

The Da Vinci Code

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Tracy

The alchemist by Paulo Coehlo.

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Caroline

I’m definitely in the minority but Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult. Loved all her other books, just found this v slow.

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Donna

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

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Jenny

I agree I liked the book but I don’t think it lived up to the hype.

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Toula

Captain Correlli, The Da Vinci Code, Gone Girl..

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Sammy

The husband’s secret. What a load of crap.

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Claire

Husband’s Secret
Any stream of consciousness book!!

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Arlene

I thought the first half of this book was brilliant suspense… second half did not satisfy.

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Amy

Agree— about a third of the way in when you figure out what happened, it’s like.,… now what???

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Yaeli

Me Before You. So poorly written!

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Naomi

I read this post just to see if someone put that. I’m with you on that.

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Kayla

The Book Thief

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Yaeli

yes! I couldn’r get past the first quarter of the book!

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Kayla

@Yaeli I had to read it for school, so I had to finish it. It was terrible!

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Rebecca

All the light we cannot see

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Sharon

Girl on the train

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Juliette

Totally agree, I could not get into it and ploughed through but really didnt enjoy it.

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Sharon

Yep sounds exactly like my experience. I can’t not finish a book but I was looking forward to the end.

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Hayley

The Lovely Bones and my Sister’s keeper

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Kristen

Lolita, The Time Traveler’s Wife, The Lovely Bones

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Christie

I Am Pilgrim (winces and waits for the backlash…)

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Caroline

Agree, thought it very violent and could not understand why so many people raved about it

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Emma

It didn’t seem anything special at all!

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Donna

The Clan Of The Cave Bear series

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Febinger

Haha right! Corny romance novel.

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Donna

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 ?

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Febinger

I read three of them. They got progressively worse!

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Donna

Glad I stopped then

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Sharyn

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.

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Nancy

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.

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Margaret

Oh yeah. The Rosie Project. It was cute but I was like “is the message of this book that love can cure aspergers?”

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Jade

Really? The nightingale??? I’m so surprised!

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Lesley

The Alchemist, Eat Pray Love – whatever it’s called, Captain Morelli’s Mandolin

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Christina

I only enjoyed the Eat portion.

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Victoria

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)

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Sam

I tried with Captain Corelli, sort of liked the film, could not get away with the book either.

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Esther

A man called Ove

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Jemma

The book thief. X

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Victoria

Ooh this is on my tbr pile. I keep seeing posts saying it’s really good so it’s position has risen 🙂 x

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Jenny

I’ve just started this ?

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Jemma

I thought it was okay… But didn’t live up to the hype in my opinion x

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Georgia

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.

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Susan

@Victoria it is a really good book. Interesting if your into history of WWII.

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Victoria

Thanks @Susan, still definitely going to give it a go (y)

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Karen

Olive Kitteridge

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Liz

The hare with the amber eyes

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Lesley

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?

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Liz

@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!

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Lesley

Fair enough.
I must admit, my tbr list is far too long to be hugely tempted by it..,,

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Katy

Totally agree with you

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Carol

Winter garden by Kristen Hannah. Rubbish to me

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Sarah

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!

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Carol

Weird, isn’t it? 🙂 Loved Firefly Lane even more than Nightingale. Still one of my top favourite reads 🙂

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Georgia

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.

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Sean

I liked room a lot but it definitely took a few chapters to get use to writing style

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Victoria

It’s the child voice that has made me give up.

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Andrea

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.

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Claire

Agree re Great Gatsby

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Karen

The 100 year old man

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Andrea

I agree. It was an awful book IMO x

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Phil

Totally, utterly and absolutely agree!!

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Nancy

Beloved by Toni Morrison

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Claire

I concur!

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Nancy

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.

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Lorna

A Little Life, Ove and The Hundred Year Old Man. All rubbish to me.

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Phil

Agree about I’ve but couldn’t disagree more about A Little Life

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Phil

Ove

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Claire

The Road by Jack Kerouac, I’ve started it 3 times but I’ve got better things to do with my life.

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Victoria

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.

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Claire

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.

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Sam

So dry I finished it but can’t say I enjoyed it.

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Graeme

Hit the road Jack, & don’t you come back……..

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Claire

Pointless book

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Ian

Twilight saga, fifty shades books and anything by Dan Brown.

Also the God delusion. It was elitist crap and poorly researched and theorised

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Geneva

The 50 shades series

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Sam

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Dice Man and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, all overrated for different reasons.

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Ian

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

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Sam

@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.

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Ian

That’s a fair point. It drag out a bit and was a little brutal ?

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Jaclyn

Harry Potter ?

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Bailey

Love the movies but I struggled with the books. They didn’t flow to me I guess.

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Ian

????

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Georgia

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

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Lucy

Lolita, I just can’t finish it

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Lesley

I thought 50 Shades was a given for you inteligent lot ?

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Jill

I think that’s a given ?

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Alison

Didn’t bother to read it!

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Amanda

Totally hated I am Pilgrim! Thought it was predictable and poorly written! And it didn’t grip me. Sorry!!

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Samantha

The Alchemist is one of my all time most disliked books, I just can’t understand why so many think its life changing?

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Becca

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

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Shelly

Outlander.

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Lucy

‘Behind Closed Doors’ by B A Paris. Slow, predictable and badly written ?

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Sarah

Totally rubbish!

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Amy

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….

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Sarah

@Amy don’t bother, there are much better books out there to devote your time to!

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Lucy

Exactly. It was just dull, dull, dull, and the female character was so wet!

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Claire

Definitely. I thought it was trash.

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Becca

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, The Great Gatsby.

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Sarah

Omg did we just become besties? These were the 2 I was going to write <3

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Megan

The Book Thief
The Woman in Cabin 10

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Sarah

The book thief. I was bored by page 3.

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Sarah

The Alchemist, Cloud Atlas, Firefly Lane.

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Sharon

Ragdoll, really couldn’t understand the end

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Debby

50 Shades?

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Birgit

A little life

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Phil

I loooved this book, I agree with Wendy, just give it one more try.

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Phil

It was one of the most moving books I’ve ever read.

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Caitlin

The Fault in Our Stars

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Sandra

The women’s room!!

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Jean

If I am not enjoying a book, I stop reading it…

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Linda

Angela’s Ashes
also The Celestine Prophesy

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Linda

Also didn’t like It by King. Didn’t finish the book.

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Candice

Game of Thrones…before the show came out. But I never finished it, so maybe it got better.

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Azraa

Me Before You and Eleanor and Park

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Brenda

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!!!

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Louisa

And me! His voice v annoying.

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Becky

I couldn’t get into Room

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Linda

I didn’t love The Bool Thief either but I did finish it.

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Phil

Agree about The Book Thief, I thought it was over rated but did manage to finish it.

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Linda

Book that is

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Sam

The Essex Serpent, mind you, I’ve yet to meet anyone who does like it. Beautiful cover and massively hyped for some reason.

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CourtneyQuestion author

Omg I have another one! The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare

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Charelle

The 4 hour week and #girlboss

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Bec

The Twilight series and 50 Shades

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Petra

I’m going to be very unpopular but ‘the kite runner’

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Sarah

Whaaaaat!!! Did you therefore read any of Khaled Hosseini’s other books? X

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Petra

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.

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Claire

Noooooo

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Madison

Virgin Suicides, Memoirs of a Geisha

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Sam

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.

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Steph

The Couple Next Door

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Cory

Book Thief

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Camille

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)

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Melany

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

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Sally

The Girl on the Train-could only make it half way through the book. To much whinning on her part.

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Sujata

Me too.

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Tami

I agree

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Savanah

I tried numerous times and gave up after the first chapter. I didn’t even bother with her new one.

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Petra

I struggled through but I also found the whinging tone hard to stomach.

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Laura

Agree totally! I really didn’t get into this one.

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Susie

50 Shades

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Petra

It was so terribly written – I couldn’t get past the ‘oh dear’ whenever she saw something erotic!

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Susie

Anything by Dan Brown

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Savanah

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.

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Ruth

The Miniaturist

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Linda

Eleanor Oliphant. Didn’t hate it or anything, just couldn’t see why everyone else was so over the moon about it

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Clarkie

The poisenwood bible…tried a few timed..just couldnt get it! ?

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Liza

Flame in the Mist by Renee Ahdieh.

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Brianna

Girl on the train, rubbish

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Helen

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.

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Maggie

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.

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Helen

@Maggie I just didn’t feel it. Each to their own.

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Maggie

Of course. Happy reading!

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Alison

Girl on a Train, Bridges Madison County

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Gill

Life of Pi. Am I the only one? Should I get my coat?? She asks putting on her tin hat!

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Jane

Already put this one. I loathed it but as my Hubble had bought get me hardback copy, I felt obliged to finish it

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Gill

@Jane so glad I’m not the only one!!

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Deirdre

Catcher In The Rue

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Kayla

I am pilgrim.

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Jackie

A man called ove ?

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Margaret

Girl on The Train…

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Annarita

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”

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Jill

Me too, I think that’s why I didn’t like Gone Girl, either

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