I love reading through people’s recommendations for favorites, but what is a book you wish you could save people from? Mine is Anna Karenina (sorry, Tolstoy).
honestly anna karenina hits different when you’re in the right headspace for it, but i get why people bounce off it hard. for me it’s gotta be infinite jest – everyone acts like it’s this profound masterpiece but it’s just 1000+ pages of wallace showing off how clever he is. the footnotes alone made me want to throw it across the room.
Yoshimi1968 on
Theo of Golden bored me to death but some people loved it.
billthecat0105 on
Atlas Shrugged
Kthulhu42 on
Are we allowed a series of graphic novels because my biggest regret is Bunny Drop post volume 4.
GuruNihilo on
***The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*CK***
I read it because it was on a celebrity’s reading list. I almost didn’t finish it after the first chapter (a roadmap of the book’s content) which is a sophomoric “look how many times I can get away with using the F-bomb”.
I found the writing repetitious, the author’s use of personal (including his family’s) anecdotes cringe, and its tone bombastic and full of bluster. The book had one redeeming concept (for me) when it discussed the metrics of personal values. It’s the only reason I forced myself to finish.
Hefty_Badger9759 on
Sapiens. Absolute dogshit. And complete bullshit 98% of it.
metzgie1 on
As I Lay Dying.
WholeConstruction307 on
For me recently:
Frieda McFadden – One by one
Emily Henry – Happy place
singwhatyoucantsay on
The Year of the Witching.
The premise was great. But the ending made me rage, >!because Immanual decides to kill the witches and save the Prophet and the rest of the high power church men. Because the witches are just as bad, and the cycle of awful men being awful will never change, apparently.!<
So I finished the book feeling like absolutely no plot development happened, and that I had wasted my time.
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honestly anna karenina hits different when you’re in the right headspace for it, but i get why people bounce off it hard. for me it’s gotta be infinite jest – everyone acts like it’s this profound masterpiece but it’s just 1000+ pages of wallace showing off how clever he is. the footnotes alone made me want to throw it across the room.
Theo of Golden bored me to death but some people loved it.
Atlas Shrugged
Are we allowed a series of graphic novels because my biggest regret is Bunny Drop post volume 4.
***The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*CK***
I read it because it was on a celebrity’s reading list. I almost didn’t finish it after the first chapter (a roadmap of the book’s content) which is a sophomoric “look how many times I can get away with using the F-bomb”.
I found the writing repetitious, the author’s use of personal (including his family’s) anecdotes cringe, and its tone bombastic and full of bluster. The book had one redeeming concept (for me) when it discussed the metrics of personal values. It’s the only reason I forced myself to finish.
Sapiens. Absolute dogshit. And complete bullshit 98% of it.
As I Lay Dying.
For me recently:
Frieda McFadden – One by one
Emily Henry – Happy place
The Year of the Witching.
The premise was great. But the ending made me rage, >!because Immanual decides to kill the witches and save the Prophet and the rest of the high power church men. Because the witches are just as bad, and the cycle of awful men being awful will never change, apparently.!<
So I finished the book feeling like absolutely no plot development happened, and that I had wasted my time.