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What book do you recommend that no one ever reads?
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Still, I personally would never, ever recommend it to anyone.
Stray Bullets by Robert Rotenberg. Totally boring, plot took forever, finally gave up on it, and yet it got good reviews!
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He was a librarian scholar who created the Five Laws of Library Science:
1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader his [or her] book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader.
5. The library is a growing organism.
One of my professors in library school printed the rules on business cards and gave them out. I still have mine somewhere.
Along that line- My high school English teacher use to tell us that you can't judge a book until you've read it cover to cover. As a result I rarely can put a book down until I finish. That said I wish I'd put down Stephen J. Cannell's At First Sight. It was so predictable.
I agree with Ranganathan's Laws of Library Science, especially rules 2 & 3 (Every reader their book and every book its reader) with regards to this question. Just because I didn't get something out of a book doesn't mean it's a bad book or that someone else might not enjoy it. It happens all of the time; every experience is different. Realistically though, I am not keen on recommending books that promote racist, sexism, or other hateful views, or which glorify violence - especially when there are so many other books out there to read. :)
Debby K wrote: "Stray Bullets by Robert Rotenberg. Totally boring, plot took forever, finally gave up on it, and yet it got good reviews!"I enjoyed Stray bullets - it had a Toronto setting, the murder was very topical, and it gave an insight into the Canadian legal system.
I thought he tried to hard to show that the setting was in Toronto.
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