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Mumsnet Discussions: Adult fiction : Those books you keep seeing. Everything about them suggests they will be garbage but there they are and you know that one day you will buy a copy. (13 messages)
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Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By nkf on Fri 07-Nov-08 19:34:54
The House At Rivington. I see it everywhere. Is it as crap as it looks?
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By nkf on Fri 07-Nov-08 19:39:08
Nobody read it then?
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By FiveGoMadInDorset on Fri 07-Nov-08 19:52:30
I read 2 pages, it is crap.
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By MajorMajor on Fri 07-Nov-08 19:56:16
Hello. Do you mean Riverton? If so, I thought it was fluffy rubbish, but then I am quite picky.
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By nkf on Fri 07-Nov-08 20:00:47
I just knew it would be crap. But every time I see it, my fingers just itch to buy it. It must be the jacket.

I do mean Riverton yes. Secret. House. Garden. Family. Etc.
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By editrix on Fri 07-Nov-08 20:09:28
Got this from the library a week ago, struggled to the end of the first chapter and took it back (thank god I didn't pay good money for it!). I found I just didn't care about the characters and the prospect of reading about them for hundreds of pages was depressing!
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By Scarletibis on Wed 12-Nov-08 11:05:54
I'm afraid it is. Starts off promising but then goes on and on and you don't care about any of the characters in the end.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By DaisyMooSteiner on Sat 15-Nov-08 16:56:20
House at Riverton is absolute shit, full of characters and storylines borrowed from other books (and TV programmes fgs!) Having said that we read it for book club and several people really enjoyed it - until I pointed out to them how and why it was crap blush
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By saltire on Sat 15-Nov-08 17:08:06
I ahven't read it, but got the author's second book, Forgotten Garden or something like that. its a load of rubbish, am only on the third chapter and ahve given up
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By wheresthehamster on Sat 15-Nov-08 17:09:23
Agree Daisy. It was like a computer had written it as an experiment grin
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By AnnVan on Sat 15-Nov-08 17:46:24
DP bought it for me while I was realy sick with hyperemesis, and have never been able to tell him that I couldn't bring myself to read beyond the first few pages blushand I only read those few pages because he bought it, I felt bad that I looked at the back and thought 'tripe'
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By BoccaDellaVerita on Tue 18-Nov-08 15:12:12
Haven't read it, but it's often been recommended to me by a friend with very unreliable taste in books.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By snigger on Tue 18-Nov-08 16:24:28
I was like that with The Librarian - kept seeing it and seeing and seeing it, and then gave in.


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