What book do you hate/dislike

[lintscreen]

The only book I truly "hated" and almost couldnt finish...The first Twilight book. It felt like torture to read it and I still do not get how anyone can enjoy it...snoozefest.

Books I've read lately and didn't like:
The Great Gatsby - I don't understand the appeal
Crime & Punishment - I really wanted to like it but it just dragged on and on
Dragon Tattoo - book 2, Its the only one I read and it was just ok

Books that didn't live up to the hype:
The Catcher in the Rye
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

[Deleted]

I am another Prayer for Owen Meany hater. I also didn't care for the World According to Garp, but I did like The Cider House Rules. I also hated Running with Scissors because I tend to think that Augusten Burroughs is full of shit about his childhood. I didn't hate The Glass Castle, but again, I tend to think that her book is full of exaggeration. In most memoirs out there, I think they are part fiction and part non fiction, mostly because I don't think there is a way that anyone can remember specific lines of dialogue from their childhood with such detail. I wish they would market their books that way instead of acting like its all true.

[copzgirl1171]

The Poisonwood Bible

[Nonny]

I would like to chime in and join the fellow haters of:

Catcher in the Rye -- I spent the entire book wanting to beat the snot out of Holden and tell him to quit whining.
Old Man and the Sea -- zzzzz; wake me up when there is actually a story.
Dicken's writing style, even if his stories are good.
The Great Gatsby -- I really can't stand this style of book; where playboys do stupid shit.
A Wrinkle In Time -- my H read this book as a kid and he says he loved it. I often wonder if we are talking about the same book.
Twilight - I had to force myself to finish the first book, which I only read to begin with because I hate it when people rail against books they haven't read. But my preconceived notions were correct. The fact that it spawned 50 Shades of Grey is even more appalling.

[Myrrhine]

Brothers Karamazov. Ugh what a miserable book.

I also strongly dislike a number of the books attributed to James Patterson.

[magnoliablossom]

Ditto Catcher in the Rye and A Million Little Pieces.

I find that I dislike most books that Oprah Winfrey has on her book list. It is amazing to me that most of them have to do with sick and twisted things happening to people and especially children. Disturbing.

EX. Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald. Disturbing and gross. Also anything by Wally Lamb. Ugh.

[kaybee85]

May 15, 2012 20:00:08 GMT -5 dorothyinAus said:

Jane Eyre. I just cannot understand how people enjoyed it.

YES. I wanted to like this book so badly, but nope. Couldn't do it

Also, Wicked is the only book I've had to quit reading after getting a significant chunk of it read (200+) pages. I finally decided it wasn't worth wasting the time to get through it.

[mrsjstackhouse]

May 15, 2012 20:06:23 GMT -5 chilerellanos said:

Anything Jane Austen. I force myself to finish her books. I don't know why I keep trying.

Ditto this!

[pooh8402]

anything by Jane Austen. I've tried to read her books and end up giving up each time. I love her stories though and will watch any movie adaptation.

Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye.

I forced myself to read Wicked at first but ended up liking it about halfway through. however, I will not try to read other Gregory Maguire books.

anything Russian.

[mam677]

Outlander. Ugh!

[kimsy]

Hi! I'm new here--usually post in H&F and S&B.

I hate Anna Karenina, and I also hate most chick lit.

ETA: I forgot 50 Shades of Grey! I HATED that book. Kind of random, but I read a funny review on Amazon in which the woman asked if any other readers thought of ET when the book kept talking about his long fingers. After reading that, I couldn't stop laughing every time the author mentioned his fingers.

[otowngirl]

Moloka'i

[ElizabethBennet]

I HATED The Help, I didn't like the characters at all.

Also, Year of Wonders (I think that's what it is), the ending completely and totally ruined the entire book for me, and I didn't like it that much to start off with.

[otowngirl]

Jul 19, 2012 16:53:07 GMT -5 ElizabethBennet said:

I HATED The Help, I didn't like the characters at all.

Also, Year of Wonders (I think that's what it is), the ending completely and totally ruined the entire book for me, and I didn't like it that much to start off with.

I remember being really put off by the ending, too. I liked the rest of it though.

[otowngirl]

Oh, and I'll add Sarah's Key.

[tacokick]

To Kill a Mockingbird, the Great Gatsby.

[ElizabethBennet]

Jul 20, 2012 23:01:53 GMT -5 RexManningDay said:

The Alchemist.

Oh my gosh yes! I HATED that book too. It was just a bunch of self important, feel good crap.