Any books everyone else love's but you dislike or go "meh" at? For me it's Eragon and it's follow up's.
Magic realism as a genre annoys me, it seems like it was invented by people to snobby to say their work was fantasy.
I am going to agree with Salman Rushdie and Anne Rice, also going to add Agatha Raisin, Catcher in the Rye and Anita Brookner's Hotel Du Lac.
Twilight. I honestly liked them but, I really can´t say that they´re brilliant books as many describe them.
Twilight, Twilight: New Moon, Twilight: Eclipse, Twilight: Breaking Down. (I wanted to clarify) Eat, Pray Love.
In my attempt to read the last 30 Pulitzer Prize winning fiction I have completed only half. Of the one's I did finish I only loved five Empire Falls, The Executioner's Song, The Color Purple,Confederacy of Dunces, Lonesome Dove...Not sure i got thru chapter one in any of the 10 I never finished.
That hurts my soul a little bit. I think I've talked to maybe one other person who feels the way I do about these books, but the effing Chronicles of Narnia. I just don't get it, man...I had to force myself to finish reading.
Agree. Especially after two-three pages of praises of it... I would say the Stieg Larsson triologi, but I actually haven't read it...I didn't get through more than maybe 40 pages of the first book before it put it away, I didn't like his way of writing, but that is a problem I have with most of the swedish writers I have read. anyone else having opinions about these books?
I loved them, but I can definitely see where you're coming from. It was really hard for me to get into the first one, his writing took some getting used to for me before I really started to enjoy it.
I have to go with Anne Rice's novels and the Twilight series. Why is it so many vampire novels are done in a first person POV? Does the author want to be one or in love with a vampire?
One Twilight fan I know said that it's because the reader apparrntly feels the character's emotions better through first person POV.
Twilight definitely, but pretty much anything that involves teenage angst, or vampires. I'm not much of a book connoisseur, and tend to only read books that I know I like, so I've never really encountered a book so bad I had to walk out on it. I don't have to read Twilight to know it sucks though. I saw an excerpt online on a funny blog (something about "vampire baseball"), and holy crap the grammar was terrible.
Anything by, Jodie Picoult. Anne Rice. The first few books were fine, but they just dragged on. Almost every Stephen King novel. Neil Gaiman - Liked him once, but i just don't enjoy the experience on second reading, which is pretty bad as i like to read almost everything a second time.
Most things to do with vampires. Werewolves I find more tolerable. Unless their at war with vampires.
Urgh, Phillip Pullman. Everyone got so excited and begged and begged me to read Northern Lights and as a kid I never got past the opening chapters even though everyone said it got better. Had to read it for my course this year, and it did get better but I still think that my first assessment was right and no one should hype a book that's so awful in the first half just based on the ending. :/
Did you like Beloved (Toni Morrison) - I haven't read that one but loved Paradise and Song of Solomon I feel the same about Booker Prize winners - I have tried to read them every so often one appeals but they are few and far between. The Bone People, The Remains of the Day, The Sea, the Sea and The Sea. 2004 was a good year I actually enjoyed the winner and most of the shortlist - that is the first time that has ever happened. Bitter Fruit, Cloud Atlas, The Master and The Electric Michaelangelo are all intriguing and have good plots.
Can't stand Paolo Coelho's books - don't understand what all the fuss is about. I'm not a big fan of Jeeves either...a bit too dry for my liking. Oh and Twilight is a definite miss & so are the million other teen vampire novels that spawned off it. V.C. Andrews is just plain creepy & depraved. And (don't kill me for this) I barely made it through 'Wheel of Time' in one piece.
Jodi Piccoult's House Rules. Everyone outside the Autistic Spectrum was on about how much I'm like the character, Jacob. But anyone with Asperger's Syndrome would become quickly offended by the comparrison three pages in. Reading this book is like reading a three hundred page ad for Autism Speaks.
