What book do you not like that everyone else seems to love?

[ufcasey]

revjen's confession that she doesn't  care for the Raven Cycle books by Maggie Stiefvater made me think of this:
Have you ever finished a book that everyone seems to love and you're like 'Did I read the same book?' because you just totally didn't get it/care for it? LOL

For me it was Anna and the French Kiss. Soooo many 5 star reviews from my GR friends and I gave it 3.5 stars rounded up to 4 because of invisible peer pressure LOL. Honestly? I'd say it was a solid 3 stars only. It was just ok. It was a little too YA for me with the angst. I didn't get the appeal.

Also, I feel that way about Gena Showalter, Rachel Van Dyken, Sherrilyn Kenyon, and Kristen Ashley as authors in general. Nope. Just nope.

[packfan20]

This could be dangerous...

[kelliebeans104]

Ha yes it could definitely be dangerous... especially since my answer is Outlander. I just couldn't get into it and I thought it was really boring. I'll go hide for a while now.

[packfan20]

I think I'll just keep my mouth shut. ;P

[snshne322]

Apr 29, 2016 9:31:58 GMT -5 ufcasey said:

Also, I feel that way about Gena Showalter, Rachel Van Dyken, Sherrilyn Kenyon, and Kristen Ashley as authors in general. Nope. Just nope.

Yes and yes.

Adding to this, I started Dark Prince by Christine Feehan and couldn't finish it.  I can typically look past some domineering male characters but I refuse to read more that that super popular series because of that character.

I mentioned it the other day but Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire. It has awesome ratings and I couldn't stand it.

Honorable mentions:

The Night Circus
Matched
Hush, Hush series
The Others series
Thirteen Reasons Why
The Young Elites

[snshne322]

Apr 29, 2016 9:49:05 GMT -5 packfan20 said:

I think I'll just keep my mouth shut. ;P

Very dangerous waters for you.

[MrsAxilla]

I never could get through The Poisonwood Bible.

[aurora]

Apr 29, 2016 9:51:55 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

I never could get through The Poisonwood Bible.

^o)  I thought we were friends!

[ufcasey]

This a judgement free zone! Spill!!!

[snshne322]

Piggybacking on MrsAxilla in the WAYR post, I have never finished anything by Neil Gaiman. I'm read half of both Anansi Boys and American Gods and I just.can't.do.it. It makes my eyes want to bleed.

[revjen]

The Hunger Games
Beautiful Creatures

[aurora]

I think I've talked about most of mine here recently already. Apparently I like controversy.

I hated The Time Traveler's Wife and IQ84.

I tend to feel that a lot of YA books don't live up to their hype. I don't hate them, but for example I read Daughter of Smoke and Bone, thought it was OK, and had no interest whatsoever in reading the rest of the trilogy. Same with Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. I do enjoy some books in this genre (The Hunger Games series for example).

[kelliebeans104]

Apr 29, 2016 9:56:49 GMT -5 snshne322 said:

Piggybacking on MrsAxilla in the WAYR post, I have never finished anything by Neil Gaiman. I'm read half of both Anansi Boys and American Gods and I just.can't.do.it. It makes my eyes want to bleed.

I agree. It took everything I had to get through Neverwhere.

[aurora]

Apr 29, 2016 9:56:49 GMT -5 snshne322 said:

Piggybacking on MrsAxilla in the WAYR post, I have never finished anything by Neil Gaiman. I'm read half of both Anansi Boys and American Gods and I just.can't.do.it. It makes my eyes want to bleed.

I really didn't like Neverwhere, but tried again with The Ocean at the End of the Lane when we did a book club on it here ~2 years back and that one was much better. With the 50/50 success rate I've been afraid to try Anansi Boys or American Gods.

[packfan20]

Apr 29, 2016 9:56:49 GMT -5 snshne322 said:

Piggybacking on MrsAxilla in the WAYR post, I have never finished anything by Neil Gaiman. I'm read half of both Anansi Boys and American Gods and I just.can't.do.it. It makes my eyes want to bleed.

Gaiman/his genre makes my head explode.  I appreciate his creativity but... However, The Graveyard Book was good enough that I recommended it to my mom. 

[MrsAxilla]

Apr 29, 2016 9:56:49 GMT -5 snshne322 said:

Piggybacking on MrsAxilla in the WAYR post, I have never finished anything by Neil Gaiman. I'm read half of both Anansi Boys and American Gods and I just.can't.do.it. It makes my eyes want to bleed.

Haha!  I loved American Gods.

[MrsAxilla]

Apr 29, 2016 9:55:01 GMT -5 aurora said:

Apr 29, 2016 9:51:55 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

I never could get through The Poisonwood Bible.

 I thought we were friends!

We can bond over our non-love of "new adult" fiction.  

[willyh19]

The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer. Those characters were insufferable.

Anything written by Nick Hornby.

The delirium series by Lauren Oliver.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

[revjen]

Apr 29, 2016 10:00:48 GMT -5 kelliebeans104 said:

Apr 29, 2016 9:56:49 GMT -5 snshne322 said:

Piggybacking on MrsAxilla in the WAYR post, I have never finished anything by Neil Gaiman. I'm read half of both Anansi Boys and American Gods and I just.can't.do.it. It makes my eyes want to bleed.

I agree. It took everything I had to get through Neverwhere.

I listened to Neverwhere instead of reading it and that made it very enjoyable.  I also really liked Good Omens but I enjoyed it because of the snark.

[christy082]

The Golem and the Jinni. I liked it well enough, but did not love it like so many seemed to.

Also The Ocean at the End of the Lane. I really didn't like it much at all.

[snshne322]

Apr 29, 2016 11:28:29 GMT -5 christy082 said:

The Golem and the Jinni. I liked it well enough, but did not love it like so many seemed to.

Also The Ocean at the End of the Lane. I really didn't like it much at all.

That's another one that I didn't finish.  I didn't like/understand it.  It's funny because I can rationalize werewolves and vampires, but give my Neil Gaiman's characters and TGatJ and I just can't wrap my brain around it.  I think my brain is wired weird. 

[monkeyfeet]

Life of Pi. I listened to it on audio, but I hated it.

[farfalla2011]

This is a good post! I may think of more, but I tend to be "that" person who just doesn't get the hype. A few I can recall off the top of my head that I didn't love or didn't understand the attraction.

White Oleander
Night Circus (although I think it would be a great movie)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Book Theif
Eleanor and Park

[charlatti]

I hated We Were Liars. Ugh.

[rootbeerfloat]

I'm also not a Neil Gaiman fan. I've only tried American Gods and Ocean at the End of the Lane. That was enough.

Life After Life
The Goldfinch
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[mrspez07]

Bossypants by Tina Fey
The Goldfinch

[MrsAxilla]

I loved The Goldfinch!

[kelliebeans104]

Apr 29, 2016 13:00:33 GMT -5 rootbeerfloat said:

I'm also not a Neil Gaiman fan. I've only tried American Gods and Ocean at the End of the Lane. That was enough.

Life After Life
The Goldfinch
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I agree about Life After Life and Hitchhiker's but I loved Goldfinch.

[Wallflower]

I'll jump on The Goldfinch bandwagon - I didn't finish it, and that almost never happens. After a certain point, I just couldn't be bothered with the main character.

The Help
The Hunger Games - I read the first book and wasn't interested enough to read the rest.

[ufcasey]

Apr 29, 2016 13:00:33 GMT -5 rootbeerfloat said:

Life After Life
The Goldfinch

Yes and yes. All the back and forth in life after life got old. And the Goldfinch? The whole part in Las Vegas lasted for.ev.er. That book was unnecessarily long.