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So recently I started It's Complicated. I was so excited! The writing was amazing and the plot was good! Until it took a quick right turn down romantic lane...it got inappropriate. I stopped mid-chapter so I don't know how detailed it actually got, but I was kinda shocked that this was a Christian book. :(
This was about a year ago, but I had problems with Prized and I couldn't finish it. It was too strange and inappropriate, I'm actually surprised it was promoted for YA rather than adult fiction. It was handled maturely, I guess, but it was too much for me personally.Also The One Hundredth Thing About Caroline and Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye. I picked these up because I like Lois Lowry but they both either had swearing or other strange content. :(
Oh: Prized is the 2nd book in a series, however the 1st book Birthmarked is clean, and I'd recommend it.
I am kind of ashamed to say that a few years ago I tried to read Fifty Shades of Grey, I was unaware of what kind of book it was and I stopped reading it when it got "physical", I sure was shocked that the book turned out that way.
A few years ago I couldn't carry on reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time because of the blasphemy and swearing. It was not pleasant.
A year or two ago I had to put down a few books. But actually, just a few days ago I tried reading a book and I couldn't. I read the first chapter and it had so much swearing I couldn't believe it. I stopped reading right then.
I almost stopped reading "The Help"... I ended up finishing it, but there were some swear words and some rather disturbing content that I was just not comfortable with.
That is too bad. I hate it when book that look cool are bad in content and language.
Yeah. And it was worse because I was enjoying the book, and other than those things it was a really good one.
i usually put down books that are crude and stupid, all i wonder when i put them away is who would write books like those
The only book I'm not sure about ever finishing is Gone with the Wind. It just...bores me in some parts. Sorry, I know it's a classic!
It is the boringest movie ever. I will never read the book.
Okay, thanks for telling. Definitely won't read it.
I was reading this book called After the Snow, and at first it seemed really promising- a tribal spin on dystopia. But the blurb seemed to be more captivating than the first few chapters. It's as if I was holding a nice big balloon, and the more I tried to inspect the balloon, the more it deflated. And, the author uses broken English because Willo (the main character) and his family live in the frozen wilderness and he never went to school. Which would be totally fine if I could understand what's going on. I've read books with different dialects, and I remember enjoying all of them and finding it especially intresting. But I'm just not feeling this one. Maybe I'll get bored and pick it up later? :-P
Karissa wrote: "Years ago (2011-2012) I attempted to read The Hunger Games Trilogy. (Because of all the hype from the movies and all my friends were reading and loving the series) I read the first one and convinced myself I loved it, to be cool and like everyone else. Halfway through the second, I started to get depressed and anxious about it. So my mom promptly put an end to that and ever since I've hated everything about The Hunger Games. (Even to the extent that I get a sick feeling in my stomach when I listen to the songs I was listening to at the time) "I think they try to make us as readers think that everyone's reading certain books, but it's just not true. I definitely don't want to read them - even more so after reading your warning, Karissa. If a book's depressing, I just don't need that. I was turned off from The Hunger Games because, besides that it seems like a gladiator-type thing, one of the people talking it up was a person who liked some warped things.
Chaya
Karissa wrote: "I swear sometimes people say they like something just because they think everyone else likes it and don't want to be left out. (Which is actually true with fads besides books too.) This whole thing..."I agree!
I really like Hunger Games but, that is just my opinion. I do understand, though, why some people wouldn't like it.
I had to stop reading the Hobit. I don't know why I didn't like it. I just..... I don't know. It didn't resonate with me I guess. It was boring. Maybe it was because I had been forced to read it for school. It seemed the most interesting on the list at the time. I cringed through it all practically. I don't even really remember it. I had to keep on rereading different parts because I couldn't focus on it.
Actually, I can relate to that! I started it and got half way through it and then had to stop. I do agree that it was dry. But after I watched the movie, I got into it and read it in a day. It just may take a couple tries.
Karissa wrote: "I swear sometimes people say they like something just because they think everyone else likes it and don't want to be left out. (Which is actually true with fads besides books too.) This whole thing..."One might argue that the point of the book is not the "depressing and horrible subjects" - it's the hope you can find even through terrible trials. I can understand where you're coming from though - if that sort of stuff (violence, etc.) bothers you, no one should pressure you to read a book that has that sort of thing in it.
But you know, even the Bible has violence in it. Not meaningless, of course, but it's there. There's a certain passage in Judges that I might actually say is more gruesome than the entire Hunger Games. It's terrible and barbaric and just plain gross. It's meant to convey to us the depravity of Israel at that time.
So... I can't remember where I was going with this, so I'll just end awkwardly.
Haley(fabulous/crazy/Daughter of the King of Kings) wrote: "Actually, I can relate to that! I started it and got half way through it and then had to stop. I do agree that it was dry. But after I watched the movie, I got into it and read it in a day. It just..."Exactly!! It was so dry to me I needed eye drops because every time i looked at the pages my eyes became dry as the Sahara desert! LOL okay it wasn't that bad as I just now said. But yeah it was dry.
I couldn't grasp the story. You know?
I am an avid reader and loose myself in many books. But I couldn't with this. I actually stopped reading for awhile after that before I picked up another book.
Karissa wrote: "Yeah, I was not at all wild over The Hobbit. It's a bit...do I want to say corny? I think Lord of the Rings is a WAY better series to read. Personally though, I was very disappointed in the Hobbit ..."The movie seemed like it would be better than the books.
I never watched or read Lord of the Rings. I heard it was very good!
Yeah! I always have that problem with movies and books! Like Twilight. And especially Vampire Academy!! They really did not do it a justice!
Karissa wrote: "@Amanda the only movie to book I am actually okay with is the 1995 Pride and Prejudice. :D Which is a six hour mini-series that is word for word to the book!"I need to check that out!
Karissa wrote: "@Firefly Oh, no I must not have made myself clear. It's not the violence that bothered me. Violence doesn't bother me all that much. The books don't actually have hardly any in them. Many books I r..."I totally understand. I have actually never read the Hunger Games :P I might, but I might not. I'm not bothered by a violence in say, a book about war, but I can see what you mean about the whole... killing for sport part of it.
Yeah, Firefly, i am the same. But, Hunger Games is quite good!
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