Books #43

[CommentBelow]

to my memory it’s only heavily implied in the book (but obvious if you know what you’re looked for) but happens in plain sight in the tv show

also while i’m here my absolute least favourite books ever are:

it ends with us (had covid reading it, preferred covid).
the happy ever after playlist (abbey jimenez i will never forgive you).
creation lake (i donated this to the tesco bookshelf and i see someone has picked it up. i would like to apologise to that person).
all the colours of the dark (it just made me angry).

and, of course, where the crawdads sing. which is, at this point, basically part of the foundations of my house. sometimes i need to move something near the bookshelf i know it resides behind and i hiss at it. awful book.

Ah - I assume my naive young brain didn’t realise lol

Ergh it ends with us - hated it even more when I heard she was releasing an unnecessary sequel ‘for the fans’
And all the colours… I’ve said enough about that.. someone was reading it next to me on the train last week, as soon as I saw 168 at the top of a chapter page I KNEW and was triggered by it.

 

[Ivegone]

I don't know why but I really dislike films/books where someone time travels and it affects their timeline etc. i hated the lakehouse, and i have avoided the time traveller's wife as well. But this sounds like another reason not to read it.
My husband loves Back to the Future but it winds me up

I just dislike that sort of plot, unfortunately

do not get me started on the lake house my husband is like suspend your belief i absolutely cannot and i love magical realism time travel and time loops but i can't get my head around the lake house

 

[SaintLeo]

My lowest rated books on Goodreads are

Normal People - Sally Rooney - so bad that I didn’t even finish it!
Cows - Matthew Stokoe
My Husband - Maud Ventura
The Unworthy - Agustina Bazterrica
The Church Beneath the Roots - Felix Blackwell

Normal People was the one that made me feel like I was reading a completely different book to everyone else! Hated it to the point where I haven’t ever picked up anything else by Sally Rooney.

 

[LaBlonde]

And all the colours… I’ve said enough about that.. someone was reading it next to me on the train last week, as soon as I saw 168 at the top of a chapter page I KNEW and was triggered by it.

i would have been too it’s one of the books where i genuinely think i had a dud copy with completely different content to what there should have been because how can so many people love it so much.

his smug wow this is such a great metaphor i’m so good writing style still haunts me.

 

[Katykatykaty]

Normal People was the one that made me feel like I was reading a completely different book to everyone else! Hated it to the point where I haven’t ever picked up anything else by Sally Rooney.

I absolutely did not get the hype around it. It was so bad! I do not understand how it became this “must read” book, and I’m so pleased that someone else feels the same.

 

[anniemouse]

I find a lot of time if a book is hyped up then I end up wondering what all the hype was. People in a book club I’m in raved about Broken Country but I thought it was boring and the MC was unlikeable. What didn’t help was the dog being shot within about 10 pages.

 

[emmer_moans]

do not get me started on the lake house my husband is like suspend your belief i absolutely cannot and i love magical realism time travel and time loops but i can't get my head around the lake house

I was made to watch it against my will and it frustrated me 'time' wise

I find a lot of time if a book is hyped up then I end up wondering what all the hype was. People in a book club I’m in raved about Broken Country but I thought it was boring and the MC was unlikeable. What didn’t help was the dog being shot within about 10 pages.

I DNF'd this one too.
Haven't tried Babel but remember at the time my feed was oversaturated with so much praise and I guess I felt defiant so didn't bother, but since seen several say it was overhyped.

 

[SaintLeo]

Normal People was the one that made me feel like I was reading a completely different book to everyone else! Hated it to the point where I haven’t ever picked up anything else by Sally Rooney.

Quoting myself to see if anyone else has come across this account on TikTok? Her “explain a book in one sentence” takes are pretty spot on most of the time. Case in point - this sums up exactly what annoyed me most about Normal People!

 

[Ivegone]

I was made to watch it against my will and it frustrated me 'time' wise


I DNF'd this one too.
Haven't tried Babel but remember at the time my feed was oversaturated with so much praise and I guess I felt defiant so didn't bother, but since seen several say it was overhyped.

how the duck does it work though i can't sustain disbelief because i dont bleeping get it then somehow he is in her world and they meet like huh

 

[veronica71]

I find a lot of time if a book is hyped up then I end up wondering what all the hype was. People in a book club I’m in raved about Broken Country but I thought it was boring and the MC was unlikeable. What didn’t help was the dog being shot within about 10 pages.

I have read so few of the current books that are popular because every time I do I feel I’m clearly missing something because I always hate them . Think the last one I hated was Yellowface.

 

[Pinkii]

My lowest rated books

according to good reads

Piranesi ( I think everyone on this thread now knows about my hate about this book )
Still life- Fml that stupid bird did ny head in.
Dutch house- everyone hated everything and there was never any clear reason and the MC was insufferable
And my latest addition- Heart the Lover- this one made me irrationally angry!!!

 

[Multi-21]

i would have been too it’s one of the books where i genuinely think i had a dud copy with completely different content to what there should have been because how can so many people love it so much.

his smug wow this is such a great metaphor i’m so good writing style still haunts me.

Oh no someone has just lent me this and I was going to start it tonight! Bit wary now

 

[Ivegone]

I have read so few of the current books that are popular because every time I do I feel I’m clearly missing something because I always hate them . Think the last one I hated was Yellowface.

Me too

 

[LaBlonde]

Oh no someone has just lent me this and I was going to start it tonight! Bit wary now

you’ll be fine as long as you enjoy small children speaking like grizzled police detectives!

(genuinely don’t let me put you off - CB and i are very much the minority in not liking it)

 

[ahkrin]

One of my least favourite ever is The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. I will never read anything else he has written. What a load of tedious mawkish old rit and it goes on forever.

 

[Chocolategoggler]

One of my least favourite ever is The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. I will never read anything else he has written. What a load of tedious mawkish old rit and it goes on forever.

Oh! You've reminded me. I was going to mention that he'd been on the Rosebud podcast.
His name rang a bell from this thread. I couldn't remember if he was liked/disliked by Tattlers on here. Think it mentioned what headspace he was in when he wrote his books.

 

[Booklover]

One of my least favourite ever is The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. I will never read anything else he has written. What a load of tedious mawkish old rit and it goes on forever.

this. Dreadful book.

 

[Itchy of Itchington]

I hated Normal People. It was on my desk when we got sent home from work in the first lockdown. Went back 6 months later to clear my desk as we moved offices. I put it in the freebie pile as the adaptation has been so hyped and still nobody wanted it.

My plot summary was - Two very annoying people and all the annoying people they know.