The book you like most discussion
Let’s hear your hot takes! What’s a book/series you have zero interest or intentions of reading and why?
I’m not interested in reading the rest of the magnolia parks series because i hated the first one but then again i keep thinking maybe i’ll try the next one incase it gets better but i don’t think it will
All those Warriors books (the magical cat ones) There's like 30, and all my peers keep pressuring me, but the series looks so long. Also, Divergent, I feel like the author missed the mark with dystopia.
Colleen Hoover books… never grabbed my attention tbh
not interested in reading the cat an mouse duet or the devils night series, i can just feel that i don’t mess with those books and their energy
I'm not interested in classics, dystopian novels, fantasy, SciFi. I love movie books, crime novels and autobiographies.
Hmm I am an English major so this may be a really hot take, but classics never keep my attention. On top of this I probably won’t ever read the selection series, the rest of From Blood and Ash, and anything by Cassandra Clare because it’s simply way too long for me (and I already am trying to dedicate my time to ACOTAR, TOG, etc). I also think that Cassandra Clares series is too young for me, and that most fans grew up reading it and are just sticking with it because at that point you need to! I do not blame them. But who knows maybe one day I will read it too!
Hello Sarah and all-- Sorry if I offend anyone with my response but I've always held a loathing for James's The Fifty Shades trilogy. Maybe it was all the hype and the controversy surrounding the books back in the day but they came across to me as vulgar and gauche. I've read from other folks who read the books that the MC female gets "financially rescued" by the wealthy but totally psychologically disturbed male. That's not a trope I care for I suppose.
I don't like books that have romance as the main plot... I think it's a lot better when it is the side plot and there is an actual story.
Jennifer L Armentrout needs to find a new employment field. She's a god-awful writer and adds books to her series because they sell and it's a cash grab. She desperately needs to find new titles for her books. The amount of times flesh, blood, and ash are used is ridiculous.
I will never read Collen Hoover- just never heard anything that great about them, and they don't peak my interest. to me they seem like shallow drama books, and I just can't do it.
will never read CoHo novels, cause it just don't click to me. feels like more of a trauma writer than actually writing romance
I like Nicholas Sparks love stories. They always have a good plot.
Not looking forward to any Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter literature. Not "into" fantasy. However, l have to read a them (part of a list of books l have to complete). I'm quite sure it will be a nefariously visceral erethism for my gray matter.
might be an unpopular opinion, but ana huang's books, they just seem so generic to me.
Anything CoHo or Nat Cassidy. 0 interest.
i dont like jennifer lyn barnes writing style... (please dont smite me)
I will never read CoHo or (and I'm very sorry ) the Harry Potter series
Fourth wing by Rebecca Yarrosit just seems so generic like all we had before. add spice and you have booktok on their knees
I am not interested in reading most literature or poetry books.Not interested in:
Harry Potter books
Game of Thrones
Most fantasy books
Pretty much all Sci-fi books
No poetry, no classics, no dystopian. no fantasy, no SciFi, no Harry Potter, no Tolkien for me.
harry potter I saw the movies because when I discovered harry potter I wasn't into reading. I will never read the twilight book because I tried to watch the movies and to this time I didn't read but I couldn't even finish the first movie and I couldn't stand a single character and now I don't plan on reading the books
I was bored by Game of Thrones, I tried to read the first Harry Potter novel, but if you grew up reading Famous Five by Enid Blyton like I did, you expect a lot more from a book than Harry Potter can give you.
i don't kinda understand the hype about shatter me series so i am not planning to read it this year or any other
Absolutely NO Harry Potter. It holds no interest for me. So many people rave about the books and movies, but I haven’t heard one thing about them that could recommend them to me. All I hear is “They’re SO good! They’re SO interesting. I LOVE Harry Potter!” I need more than that to get me hooked. I need to know why it’s good, why it’s interesting, why it’s globally adored. I am clueless, therefore….its a no go.
LilaBeth, I grew up with Enid Blyton books when I was 10 years old and compared with those, Harry Potter is sooo boring. The first 3 movies are o.k., but the first book was incredibly boring plus I'm not into magic, so I found it very unbelievable.But for some people who liked for instance "Pippi Longstocking" by Astrid Lindgren in their childhood (I didn't) it might be the right kind of book.
We had the chance to get the Happy Potter books much cheaper through the publishing house I worked for, so I bought the first 4 (this was before 2002), read the first book and day after day hoped it would finally get better. But it never did.
Let them rave...there are more fascinating books out there.
Fifty Shades of Grey and all the following books. Not really a prude and have no problem with erotica, it just seems like an unhealthy relationship, from what I know of it.
The Twisted Series
ACOTAR and mainly because the author is kinda problematic
The Empyrean series by Rebecca Yarros, these books seem so repetitive and cringe plus the author is problematic
Anything and everything historical. I hate history. Also, Jenna Evans Welsh books. My friends read them and told me they were very repetitive and basically the same thing in most of her books.
I read one Colleen Hoover book and I never read one again. Aside from being blatantly misogynistic and the bad portrayal of trauma and toxic relationships, it was just sooo boring I could cry. I don't know how she's a bestseller author (good for her though) and I never will
Annie wrote: "not interested in reading the cat an mouse duet or the devils night series, i can just feel that i don’t mess with those books and their energy"Please don't I had literal nightmares after reading that book. I wanted to gag. Absolutely disgusting. Stay away for your own good.
Nireeksha wrote: "I don't like books that have romance as the main plot... I think it's a lot better when it is the side plot and there is an actual story."Same lol. The only time romance is acceptable for me is when it's a subplot in a mystery/fantasy novel.
Harry Potter Series...No reason...Just can't stand him!!
Anything dystopian, SciFi, magical bores me to death. I prefer novels about interesting people like the novels by Douglas Kennedy or Sloan Wilson or Charlotte Link.
The Cat and Mouse Duet, that hunting adeline seriesCollen Hoover books for the most part, just not my thing
50 Shades was very cringe for me
John Steakley's Vampires was not my favorite lol
The Empyrean Series by Rebecca Yarros
I am sure there are more, but I am at a loss right now because really I don't even consider them again after writing them off.
Frankly, any gay romance novel written by a woman. Women don't understand how gay sex works, period.
To go more towards the classics or older ones, I will likely never read The lord of the rings books. I had to start the first one for a school presentation many many years ago but think Tolkien took descriptions a little too far.More recently...I guess the Hunger Games books. Not just because I didn't like the movies but also because there is not one single scene or plot in the movies that seems interesting to me. I guess it's just not my kind of topics?
After ACOTAR I won't try any of Sarah J Maas's books. I can't do romantasy books, they're not my cup of tea.
I’m a big fantasy and sci-fi series reader but I’m not sure I’ll ever read the Dune series.
Nireeksha wrote: "I don't like books that have romance as the main plot... I think it's a lot better when it is the side plot and there is an actual story."preach
after how much i disliked fourth wing, iron flame
Harry Potter. It's never seemed very interesting.
the Harry Potter series sorry but I lost interest in like 3 pages
Rosemary wrote: "All those Warriors books (the magical cat ones) There's like 30, and all my peers keep pressuring me, but the series looks so long. Also, Divergent, I feel like the author missed the mark with dyst..."Fair to not want to read the Warriors series. I like those books, but I didn't even get through the first six books all the way.
If you really want to get a taste for the series without needing too much commitment, I'd recommend trying one on the Super Editions. They're easy enough to follow if you know the basic rules of the series, and they generally have more engaging stories than the main series. Crookedstar's Promise and Tallstar's Revenge are especially good, in my opinion. :)
Six of Crows, and basically anything in the Grishaverse. I'm sorry, but I just really don't feel like reading about an edgy vigilante squad with bucketloads of trauma and witty banter. That sort of thing just does not really appeal to me.
Okay here’s mine:
Anything by Colleen Hoover: I have heard next to zero redeeming qualities of this author. Just not interested in wasting my time
Most classics: I really love Little Women but apart from that, I probably won’t pick up a classic. The writing style just does not hit like modern books do. I’m way too ADHD for them. I’m willing to change my mind about this but I’m not jumping at the bit to pick up a classic.
Sarah J Maas: I’m really slowly trying to read ACOTAR so I’m not saying I’ll never read her books (I obviously have) but I don’t know if I’ll finish reading her books. Her series are entirely too long and I just can decide if they are actually good. I’m also not a fantasy girlie so I don’t know if she’s for me. I want to like them because they are popular but idk man.
I’m really nosey. What is your list?