Popular book that you didn’t enjoy

and I didn't criticise any books.
I only said I wasn't interested.
not sure why you can not comprehend the difference 🤷‍♀️

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if you knew me you'd know that trying to sound cool is a ridiculous accusation.

you do realise you don't have to read a book or see a film to know what genre they are, don't you?
ever heard of trailers? and spoilers, refrences, people just talking about things?
all of the above were enough for me to know I wouldn't be interested.
not sure what your issue is.

@ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba The thread title is popular books that you didn’t enjoy so if you are going to criticise a book and post on a thread about books, try reading them first. Or were you just trying to sound cool by criticising something popular. At least the other posters on here who don’t like HP and LOTR have tried reading them and come to their own conclusion. I wasn’t aggressive in the slightest, you sound like an aggressive angry person especially with your unnecessary use of the word fuck. Keyboard warrior

[quote AmadeustheAlpaca]@CeaselessWatcher. I guess everyone”s different. My other intense dislike is The Amber Spyglass, it rambles on and on turgidly and I’m not too keen on the fact that a former English teacher writes about two twelve year olds having sex as if it”s a beautiful cosmic experience. Didn’t mind Northern Lights, Subtle Knife, a bit meh.[/quote]
I can agree with you there - I don't hate Amber Spyglass intensely, there are scenes I like, but it does seem incoherent, and it doesn't hang together with the first book at all. It definitely feels like Pullman changed his mind about his characters' motivations, what Dust was, what daemons were, what Lyra's betrayal was, and other things while he was writing the trilogy. I don't like books where a mystery or a plot hole is glossed over with "But I was lying when I said that!"

and the same with GoT, Walking Dead etc.
really don't care at all so will never give these ago, it'd be a waste of time

@AmadeustheAlpaca

cool off.
I didn't slag them off so no need to be aggressive.
I said I'm not interested in them because it's not my genre. so despite all the hype I couldn't give a fuck.

I didn't enjoy the film at all.

Apologies readers, the 4th book of A Song of Ice and Fire is A Feast for Crows, need to check my facts before I post.

@ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba you can’t slag off books like Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings if you’ve never read them, you may be surprised if you give them a go. I love the HP books, they have brought a lot of happiness to me and my family. Also huge fan of the LOTR films, preferred them to the books, though the books are OK.
Book 4 of the George RR Martin Song of Ice and Fire books is grim, apart from the sections about Tyrion and Cersei. Think it’s called a Storm of Swords and it rambles on incessantly about trivial events. lots of uninteresting drivel. The book series didn’t deserve the great makeover that became Game of Thrones. I reckon George will never finish the book series as the HBO version of the ending was also his planned ending - the clues were there all throughout the series - and he’d have to admit that the unpopular ending was his idea. I personally liked the GOT telly ending.

I definitely thought Girl, Woman, Other was overrated. Mr Loverman by Evaristo OTOH I loved and was just so so much better.

The Midnight Library - urgh - just so over-hyped!
Shantaram - dreadful, just dreadful
Girl, Woman, Other - did this for book group and at least half of us hated it, but you could tell that nobody wanted to say because, y'know, it's written by the current literary golden girl Bernadine Evaristo. I thought it was just so obviously formulaic and diversity box-ticking.

so many people were fascinated by it and visiting some old chapel in Scotland on holiday.

To be fair, Rosslyn Chapel is worth a visit even if you've never read the books.

ZingDrama, I too saw the film and thought it was dire. I sort of hoped it might be better than the book. I bought the book and another of his, Angels and Demons, in a charity shop and two stories were mixed up in my head. That shows how forgettable it was. It was a strange period of time though, so many people were fascinated by it and visiting some old chapel in Scotland on holiday. Weird.

Another charity shop buy of mine was 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. I thought that was horrible!

can't blame you. thankfully never read the book but the film was shite

Yes I agree it will seem more ‘normal’ as they’re older, or possibly they’ll just sort of skate over it/change it round a bit. Must get round to reading the new ones at some point!

I bit the bullet and read Me Before You, my friend who raves about it promised that it would like it despite being a romance. I fucking despised it with all my being, vile book. I then followed this up with Crawdads and the Murder Club, hated both and now have turned into a horrible cynic.

Prior to this I usually liked all the "buzzy" books, or at least enjoyed them even if I thought they were a bit naff. Most of the others in this thread I greatly enjoyed.

The Da Vinci Code

Oh I agree the implication was pretty clear in The Amber Spyglass. In the TV series the actors are older than Lyra and Will were in the books and of course are getting older each year (Dafne Keen and Amir Wilson are now 16 and 17) and so it won't seem so off when we get to that stage on screen.

Stoner by John Williams

Shardlake - just boring
Harry Potter
Anything Jackson Brodie (sorry Kate! I loved A God in Ruins though)
Anything Ben Elton

not so much that I didn't enjoy but I couldn't care less about either HP or LOTR so I've never attempted to read them.
I did suffer through the first LOTR films to be nice to DH, it wasn't worth it.

just not my genre

Yes that’s what I thought but I can see why he backtracked on it. I felt the implication was pretty clear though.

I think Phillip Pullman has backtracked on that one, it does imply in Amber Spyglass that they do, I thought at the time they were a metaphor for Adam and Eve?

Oh I presumed they had had sex too - I haven’t read the new ones yet though! I always thought it was a bit off because for some reason I presumed Will was older. I think he’s described as ‘near manhood’ at one point so I assumed he was in his teens.

My other intense dislike is The Amber Spyglass, it rambles on and on turgidly and I’m not too keen on the fact that a former English teacher writes about two twelve year olds having sex as if it's a beautiful cosmic experience

If it helps in The Secret Commonwealth we are told they didn't have sex. Probably a bit of backtracking but I guess it's canon now.

The Miniaturist. Over written and dull.

Captain Corelli. Tried numerous times as people encourage you to persist - but no. I just can't stick with it.

Harry Potter. I was expecting a real quality classic. It's just not, and the literary illusions are clanking and clumsy. It's all about the marketing. Little literary merit. Straight to the charity shop, and can't even recall which one it was.