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    What's a book you enjoyed but wasn't perfect?

    by thewidget98

    21 Comments

    1. Flowers for Algernon. It is definitely a good book, but I really disliked some characters, even the protagonist.

    2. Confident-Abrocoma26 on

      The Last Picture Show— Larry McMurtry

      Listen, I like sex as much as the next guy, but it gets to a point

    3. My last 3.5/5 on storygraph was Foundation. It’s definitely a book you read for the ideas and not any kind of slick writing or subtlety.

    4. Novela_Individual on

      I personally found A Gentleman In Moscow to be a 7/10, but it’s a bit long to sink so much time into a just okay book. For something shorter The Seep is an interesting book that doesn’t quite all hold together, so that’s a 7/10 for me

    5. RestlessNameless on

      Caitlin R Kiernan is my favorite author. To me The Drowning Girl is 11/10, my favorite novel. They switched from third person to first person narration on The Red Tree, which preceded The Drowning Girl, and is also a novel about an unreliable narrator lesbian writer. It’s a good book but not rereadable to me.

    6. Verity by Coleen Hoover (hear me out), a solid 7/10 for me. It was a page turner but I thought so many things were laughably dumb. Also pretty good read for Halloween, and really short <300 pages

    7. Shadeslayer2112 on

      The Devils by Joe Abercrombie

      A little cringe, a little edgey, a lot of fun. Its like if fast amd furious (the good ones(1,2 amd Tokyo Drift)) were put into a dark fantasy about delivering a princess.

      Is it Crime and Punishment or Ulysses? No. But if you like Abercrombie or have never read him then its worth the read.

    8. PrincipleInfamous451 on

      Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier. It was not a bad book by any means, but Rebecca was much better (and also I didn’t like how the MC ended up in the end, and not in a spooky way like in Rebecca, but in a “come on, girl, pick better” way)

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