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Books that weren’t shit, just underwhelming/didn’t get

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KenForPM · 02/01/2018 05:54

So we’ve had a number of shit books threads... how about a thread for books that we didn’t necessarily hate, but were underwhelmed by/were forgettable, if you get what I mean.

I read Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud a good few years ago. I remember getting to the end and thinking “what even happened in that book?” I remember thinking it just felt like there was no plot. I suppose it’s partly to do with the fact that the narrator is so young (four/five IIRC), but others seem to rave about it when I googled it. It made no sense.

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Mulch · 21/01/2018 20:33

The girl on the landing and the alchemist. Massively hyped books really disappointed by both. Given up reading best sellers

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