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Post by tastyink on Jun 2, 2011 20:51:00 GMT -5
Have you ever had high hopes for a book, but once you read it you were completely disappointed? I know I have.
The Hunger Games. I couldn't stand it, it was so predictable. My friends kept telling me how awesome the series was, so I read the second one (can't remember the name) and it was worse. I can't even bring myself to read the last book.
How about you guys?
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 2, 2011 21:14:12 GMT -5
... Harry Potter.
I tried -- I really did! -- but no. Just no.
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rayyychul
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Post by rayyychul on Jun 2, 2011 21:17:52 GMT -5
If you didn't like the first two, I probably wouldn't read the last. I loved the series and the last installment was by far the worst.
Personally, I didn't enjoy The Secret Daughter. It has been awhile since I read it, but I remember hearing such amazing things about it and being utterly disappointed. I felt that every single character was flat and the author rushed through the novel. I think it could have easily been three books... I would have more than likely enjoyed it more.
Oh, I know they're compltely "guilty pleasure" novels, but I really disliked most of what Kristin Hannah wrote (yet I keep buying her books, in hopes of this one being better than the last...).
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Post by Marina on Jun 2, 2011 21:42:35 GMT -5
Really guys? My heart is broken. I love the Hunger Games! I'm not obsessed and I'm not saying it's the best series ever, but really? I actually haven't heard of anyone disliking it until now. Although, if you don't like it, you might want to stay away from the last book. It's not that it was the worst, as rayyychul says, it's just that many people were disappointed with how some things were handled. But that happens with every series. For a war story thought, I think it's a decent third installment.
What I didn't understand the hype of was the Wicked Lovely books, and I'm still questioning how much I liked the Mortal Instruments, the first book, if at all.
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Post by embonpoint on Jun 3, 2011 9:43:42 GMT -5
Catcher in the Rye.
Jodi Picoult. I read Change of Heart and pretty much hated it the whole time; I persevered just so that when I criticised her in future, my criticisms would be legitimate because I have read a whole book of hers. I'd heard so much about her; everyone seemed to love her but oh my god, I do not care for her books. At all. Then I got into a conversation with someone about how that book totally rips off The Green Mile, which made me hate it/her more. THEN I heard about three more of her books (Sister's Keeper and the others I don't remember the titles of) which are all basically the same. Just no.
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Post by leonwingstein on Jun 3, 2011 10:39:17 GMT -5
I didn't like Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, and was let down because I loved The Christmas Carol. Pip was horrible.
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Post by Marina on Jun 3, 2011 13:17:44 GMT -5
White Noise.
I could not stand it. I wanted to scream. I wanted to throw it at a wall. I wanted to cry.
Now I hate post-modernism because of it.
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Post by Dobby on Jun 3, 2011 18:36:07 GMT -5
Twilight. I heard a lot of my friends talking about how great it was, so I read the series. It was awful.
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Post by nickusp on Jun 3, 2011 18:47:10 GMT -5
Swoon by Nina Malkin. The first I heard about it was people were pulling it off library shelves and basically trying to give it away because of it's controversial content. I was curious as to what was shaking up the YA paranormal romance world so I got a copy of it for a steal. Now I'd say they were pulling it for being gratuitously sexual and irresponsibly ridden with drug-use and dirty words. That is not how you reach teens. Sigh.
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Post by tastyink on Jun 3, 2011 19:05:16 GMT -5
Twilight. I heard a lot of my friends talking about how great it was, so I read the series. It was awful. Speaking of Twilight: youtu.be/2L253VLwH3wThat series is how I got the title for this thread  |
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Post by inarikins on Jun 4, 2011 18:49:30 GMT -5
Twilight. I heard a lot of my friends talking about how great it was, so I read the series. It was awful. Please tell me you've found Reasoning with Vampires. |
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jun 4, 2011 18:50:54 GMT -5
I didn't like Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, and was let down because I loved The Christmas Carol. Pip was horrible. So...you're saying that you had great expectations for Great Expectations? For me, it's Caitlin Kittredge's books. I expected so much because she and I share the same first name and it's not a common spelling, and yet...ugh. I'm appalled. |
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Post by KatjevanLoon on Jun 4, 2011 21:20:54 GMT -5
Twilight. I heard a lot of my friends talking about how great it was, so I read the series. It was awful. Please tell me you've found Reasoning with Vampires. Ahhh, oh my gods. That blog is fantastic. Thank you. |
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Post by iamahexagon on Jun 9, 2011 15:37:00 GMT -5
This is NOT me, but one of my peers HATES To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. She says that it has no plot and is just boring.
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Post by thestrangewinston on Jun 9, 2011 15:53:27 GMT -5
This is NOT me, but one of my peers HATES To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. She says that it has no plot and is just boring. This breaks my heart </3 But that is probably because TKAMB is one of the first books that really got me into reading. |
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