The Dive From Clausen's Pier. I actually loved the book until the end. I was so mad at the author that I threw the book down. I also cried for like an hour.
Ugh, this book made me so sad, and I hated the ending. I was depressed for a week after reading it.
Because it brought the topic to a group of people who still didn't effin get it in a way they could understand and digest.
Sure, there have been plenty of other books but how many of those books were old southern white ladies willing to read?
what, you don't think they curl up with some richard wright and a box of wine at kathleen's house for friday night book club?
Lol, okay that's a good point. I guess I cringe a little at the dumbing down of literature for the lowest common denominator. Don't get me wrong, I'm delighted it's a topic of conversation and I fervently hope and pray for change.
I'm as WASPy as they come but my parents still had me read Roots when I was 12. I guess that's not the norm though. I am so grateful my parents stressed literature when I was a kid. I absolutely lived off books.
I hated Grapes of Wrath, it was the only book in high school that I could not finish and I slogged through some painful stuff.
Emma. I can't read this book. I'm sorry, Jane Austen. But this thing sucked.
2666 by Roberto Bolano. It's about... something... I was never quite sure. It's 6 different people telling the same story from their point of view only the dude died before he finished writing it so there was no resolution. Really, he just never should have started. Plus, it's well over 1000 pages and I dragged through all of it just to see if something happened. It didn't.
I would happily smack the shit out of Jodi Picoult for My Sister's Keeper.
This. I can't join book clubs anymore because of this. It was the book my last club picked, and it was so bad it made me angry. All the other women loved it, and I just wanted to ask them how they could be sucked into such drivel. Soooooo many other book clubs read similar stuff. I just can't do it.
Uh. I go to a book club that sticks to Target best sellers and I have a blast. Coffee! And grown ups! Win!
I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books? I shall only engage in commerce if books are the coin. -- Catherynne M. Valente
This. I can't join book clubs anymore because of this. It was the book my last club picked, and it was so bad it made me angry. All the other women loved it, and I just wanted to ask them how they could be sucked into such drivel. Soooooo many other book clubs read similar stuff. I just can't do it.
Uh. I go to a book club that sticks to Target best sellers and I have a blast. Coffee! And grown ups! Win!
I go to a book club where if you didn't read the book, you have to bring a bottle of wine.
About 1/2 the people read it, 1/2 don't. I just call it Wine Club instead. But next month, for the first time, I will have actually read the book! YAY.
This. I can't join book clubs anymore because of this. It was the book my last club picked, and it was so bad it made me angry. All the other women loved it, and I just wanted to ask them how they could be sucked into such drivel. Soooooo many other book clubs read similar stuff. I just can't do it.
Uh. I go to a book club that sticks to Target best sellers and I have a blast. Coffee! And grown ups! Win!
coffee? what is that nonsense.
LIQUOR and grown ups. that's where it's at.
i don't mind a book club where the books aren't challenging literature, but i do draw the line at anything that has a perky lady in silhouette on the front. usually a bad sign.
i'm in a book club now where we all read pretty serious contemporary lit-ra-churr, and while i love reading a wide variety of thought-provoking books, sometimes i'm just hoping someone will pick tom clancy or something. ha.
Most of our club's picks are fairly scholarly. It's my turn this month and to change it up, I chose "Let's Pretend This Never Happened." I've only read about 80 pages and I am already embarassed that I chose it. I thought people said it was goooood!
I actually threw My Sister's Keeper across the room at the end. I was PISSED.
Another shout out for the Help. I threw that one in the trash. Didn't even recycle. If it had been on my Kindle I would have thrown the whole device away instead.
I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books? I shall only engage in commerce if books are the coin. -- Catherynne M. Valente
Lol, okay that's a good point. I guess I cringe a little at the dumbing down of literature for the lowest common denominator. Don't get me wrong, I'm delighted it's a topic of conversation and I fervently hope and pray for change.
I'm as WASPy as they come but my parents still had me read Roots when I was 12. I guess that's not the norm though. I am so grateful my parents stressed literature when I was a kid. I absolutely lived off books.
But a) The Help wasn't dumb and b) Who says it's literature?
We aren't discussing your favorite literary giants here. We're simply discussing books.
I would love a drunken book club, but mine was founded by Southern Baptists. They're very nice and manage to hide their horror fairly well when I mention the infant baptism of my children.