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Books that were recommended to you but turned out to be absolute pointless drivel - the wasted hours you'll never get back - a warning list for others!

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MadreInglese · 28/02/2011 14:37

These immediately spring to mind:

Kate Mosse - Labyrinth
(also her The Winter Ghosts - should have known after I read one of hers that another would be just as crud)

Paulo Coehlo - The Alchemist

Audrey Niffeneger - Her Fearful Symmetry
(first half was readable then she appears to have taken some strange pills before embarking on the rest of the book)

Stephanie Meyer - The Twilight Trauma Saga

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SweetestThing · 28/02/2011 15:10

The Alchemist - simplistic drivel
Possession (A S Byatt) - torture
Labyrinthe - formulaic and predictable

Really struggling with Wolf Hall at the moment- is it worth continuing??

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MadreInglese · 28/02/2011 14:49

lol @ theyoungvisiter

I thought the same about Harry Potter; read the first one and a bit of the second but they were so 'young' IYKWIM. My HP-mad friend assures me each book gets better but that's a lot of hours to gamble IMO Grin

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oldieneedsreminding · 28/02/2011 14:41

Harry Potter. cant seem to make it through the first one, let alone all seven volumes. I have tried, believe me i have tried. Ive been told that if i dont, then i wont get literary references in the future, that i will sound like an uneducated illiterate moron (who cant spell either) but i just cannot trawl my way throught the drivel.

theyoungvisiter · 28/02/2011 14:41

Oh my god I saw this thread title and IMMEDIATELY thought Eat Pray Love. I feel actually angry that she stole those hours from me and added them to her royalties! Grin

Glad I'm not the only one.

GoldenGreen · 28/02/2011 14:39

Eat Pray Love - dear lord what a load of bollocks