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I cant remember the name, it was a book where Queen Victoria was a zombie hunter or killer or something like that. I like my horror and I like my historical Fiction but not mixed up that way with real people that is.
Never really interested in LOTR, GOT, most of the classics. I hated Gone Girl but I finished it because I thought it would get better. I also tried reading Girl on a Train but I couldn't finish it because it was too reminiscent of Gone Girl.
I do not think there is any book that I hate (except the bad ) . But I have prejudice against certain types of books ( fantasy, too romantic books , books and Young Adult New Adult , almost all the famous series and sagas ) . I have a habit of reading a book in a genre not like and gain prejudice with all others of the same gender .
Shrouq wrote: "Anna Karenina was the hardest book I tried to read. I was stuck in the first chapter for so long that I keep giving up on it. But once I finished Pride and Prejudice for the third time I thought of..."I didn't like GOT either. I find that GRRM writing style is boring and tedious. After dnf-ing the forst book in the series I skipped a few and went directly to n.4. Bad choice. I can't get how an author that took 5 years to write a book with no actual plot is considered one of the best.
I hate Wuthering Heights and Alice in Wonderland. I read about 50% of LOTR but it was tedious. I do plan to finish reading it to see what all the fuss is about but gah, so damn boring. I also can't get into Dune. I've been reading it for years and still haven't even reached halfway through.
Onori wrote: "I hate Wuthering Heights and Alice in Wonderland. I read about 50% of LOTR but it was tedious. I do plan to finish reading it to see what all the fuss is about but gah, so damn boring. I also can't..."I'm so with you on Alice in Wonderland. No plot or storyline whatsoever. I failed to grasp the meaning of it all. I read it aloud to my two children, and they were sooo bored, as was I.. I don't understand how this childrens story ever became a classic..
I didn't like the Hobbit and I hated The Railway Children
Not hate, but I couldn't get myself to complete P.S. I Love You and Gone Girl. Seriously, what was the hype all about?
Onori wrote: "I hate Wuthering Heights and Alice in Wonderland. I read about 50% of LOTR but it was tedious. I do plan to finish reading it to see what all the fuss is about but gah, so damn boring. I also can't..."I tried multiple times to read LOTR after seeing the movies, but just couldn't get into sitting there reading. Then I found an unabridged autiobook (40+ hours long!!!) and actually got all the way through that way. I enjoyed listening to it, couldn't sit and read it, though.
Anna wrote: "Onori wrote: "I hate Wuthering Heights and Alice in Wonderland. I read about 50% of LOTR but it was tedious. I do plan to finish reading it to see what all the fuss is about but gah, so damn boring..."I have no idea how that book is considered a classic. But I think people just say they love it, just to say it. I've been meeting lots of people who admit they dislike the story too.
Lynda wrote: "Onori wrote: "I hate Wuthering Heights and Alice in Wonderland. I read about 50% of LOTR but it was tedious. I do plan to finish reading it to see what all the fuss is about but gah, so damn boring..."
I haven't watched the movies, though, I own them. I have this bad habit of not being able to watch a movie until I read the book first. That's why I'm pushing myself to finish it, but I don't know if I ever will. And that's way too long for me to be listening to a book. Haha
I hate Stephen King and love Dean Koontz. I love King's ideas but feel like he's paid by the word.. I don't need 3 pgs to describe one occurrence. I feel like Koontz is more concise in his story telling.
I listened to the audiobook and the narrator did a great job. I wonder if I would have liked it more if I had actually read it but...nope.
I didn't hate it but I really didn't care for Emma and cant figure out how it became a classic.
I don't like that sometimes the classics are overrated. Not all of them are bad but most of the time classic authors get away with things that now would be unbearable. I'm looking at you, JRR I-spend-three-pages-describing-a-completely-irrelevant-tree Tolkien.
I have never enjoyed To the lighthouse by Virgina Woolf. I have read it three times (only because of school) and I still don't understand it. I get why it has become this huge thing, and I get that it was groundbreaking and all that. but it is so confusing. I love her non-fiction works though.
I've just tried, and failed, to read The Lies of Locke Lamora for the second time. It's unlikely that there will be a third attempt.I can see that Lynch is a really good author, and I can completely get why so many people love this book. I wanted to love it! There were many things about it I thought were brilliant! To some extent, I can even recommend it...
But for me, I think what killed it was the lack of insight into Locke's mind. Locke is basically a very clever (too clever for his own good sometimes) con man. He's not some kind of Robin Hood: he's in it for himself. Classic anti-hero, in other words. So I think it's more important (at least for me) to have something about him that makes the reader interested in him enough to read 800 pages, or however many it is. And just clever con tricks isn't enough.
I'd compare him to Flashman, who is a liar, a coward, and (sometimes) a bully - but he's shatteringly honest about himself, and although he always looks out for number one, he never does serious damage to anyone weaker than himself. Even though he's certainly an anti-hero, and you may not like him, his voice is compelling enough - and he's complex enough - to keep you reading.
So this isn't so much "I really hated..." as "I really wanted to love it, but didn't."
I never finished the twilight series, only read book one, and thought what is this all about...I tried Fat Angie, couldn't finish it because I couldn't stand that every time she spoke, it was "said fat Angie," not that there were more Angie's in the story..she was the only one.I read all the peculiar children, once was enough, I won't read them again. I'm sure there are more, and when I remember them..I'll add them.
I didn't like Paper Towns. It was just pretty stupid and the characters were weird and the whole situation was pretty unrealistic. I loved The Fault in Our Stars, but cannot understand the love for Paper Towns. Thank goodness it was a library borrow. The Siren by Kiera Cass, author of the selection series, was another book that was just also kinda bad. I don't here people talk about that one much though.
I wouldn't say I HATED any of these.... But books where I just didn't get the hype...The Fault in Our Stars - It was by far the best on this list... And it has some AMAZING quotes and writing in it... But I didn't cry. I wasn't even sad. I barely even gave a sh*t...
Gone Girl - It was alright. I found the characters very interesting, but I despise injustice, and there was too much for me. Also, the book was too long - it was like.. 200 pages of story, 300 pages of bitching.
We Were Liars - This book was SO boring! And I was SO looking forward to it..
The Lovely Bones - I have tried to read this book. God, I have tried SO hard. But I don't care. It's decently written, it has a strangely hopeful and profound message, but I DO NOT CARE.
Perception - Possibly the worst book I have ever finished. I read the premise, and I was in LOVE. Then I read the book, and considered how bad murder really was...
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Maybe my expectations were too high, because all of my Goodreads friends seemed to love this novel and I just couldn't grasp what all the fuss was about. First of all, I found the main character extremely dull. Secondly, the action felt random and had no consistency, and finally, I found the whole plot about television and computers replacing the ancient gods to be such a cliche. I didn't buy the premise of the ancient gods playing a prominent role in culture and society until recently, because I seriously doubt that anyone emigrating to America from Scandinavia had brought Odin and Thor with them, since we in Scandinavia abandoned those gods approximately a thousand years ago.
Overall the novel was way too pretentious too me and I didn't care for it's moral relativism. I had the distinct impression that the author wanted to write a brilliant novel criticizing modern society, in order to be cheered by all of his academic friends. However part of me wondered, if I had missed some important details, since everybody else seemed to love this book, and therefore I chose not to review it very thoroughly.