Unpopular Literary Opinions

[Sunnyhorse]

I gave up, Chonies, and that doesn't happen often. * Slouches off to Books I've Thrown Away *

[mrsbowling2]

I don't know if she's popular with my age group as much as my mom's but Jodi Picault books give me agita. I read the entire book of the Amish one but it stressed the hell out of me. I started Salem Falls last week but everything was so foreshadowing disaster and tension that I quit. I think the older and busier I get the less time I have to read and therefore if the book makes me uncomfortable, I choose to give up rather than be squirmy and stressed whenever I read.
I think that is why I mostly like formulaic mystery series--they are cozy and often witty and charming without being too tense.

[chonies]

I listened to half of Cross Bones by Kathy Reichs on my long drive yesterday. I gave up halfway through, but I suppose my potentially unpopular LO is that based on half of one book, I far FAR prefer TV Temperance Brennan to book Tempe.

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Jan 3, 2011 10:36:53 GMT -4 chonies said:

I listened to half of Cross Bones by Kathy Reichs on my long drive yesterday. I gave up halfway through, but I suppose my potentially unpopular LO is that based on half of one book, I far FAR prefer TV Temperance Brennan to book Tempe.

Read the early books - a lot of the more recent ones aren't nearly as good. (Also, I don't remember that book and I swear I've read them all.) Mind you, I refuse to watch the series because my brain would explode trying to reconcile the two characters - I'd probably love it if she was anybody other than Temperance Brennan.

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I am not interested in reading The Hunger Games Trilogy OR the Millennium Trilogy. I am not interested in seeing any current or future movies based on said books.

Do you hear that world? STOP TRYING TO MAKE ME CARE ABOUT THOSE BOOKS!!!

[chonies]

spordelia, thanks for the tip. Cross Bones was, at least until the point at which I stopped listening, about an incongruous skeleton found in an archaeological site in Israel. I was kind of into the idea, but they were leaning on "is it....JESUS?" as a plot point too heavily, and then I stopped caring. And Tempe and Ryan were dull dull dull.

[yournamehere]

Jan 4, 2011 15:14:03 GMT -4 @roisin54 said:

I am not interested in reading The Hunger Games Trilogy OR the Millennium Trilogy. I am not interested in seeing any current or future movies based on said books.

Do you hear that world? STOP TRYING TO MAKE ME CARE ABOUT THOSE BOOKS!!!

Welcome to the reason for my indifference towards Harry Potter.

[MrsCatHead]

I'm starting the Hunger Games just cuz I"m sick of everyone telling me I need to read it. I want to read at least the first one so I can have an informed opinion.

My unpopular literary opinion is actually about a blog. I just don't think Dooce is funny. I don't find her even interesting. I know that's horrible. Many of the Mommy Blogs are so alike. And since my youngest child is 12, I'm not really interested in reading about potty-training or doctor visits or anything like that. Also, if I were some of these mom's children and read these blogs, I'd think my mother doesn't love me. Or at the very least is sick to death of being my mother and dealing with my needs.

[twopfan]

I have a three-year-old and I don't get Dooce at all. She's boring. It's not really THAT witty. And her posts are really short. There are much better blogs out there.

[incognito]

The recent Huck Finn controversy makes me want to say that I hate Huck Finn and much prefer Tom Sawyer, although The Prince and the Pauper remains my favorite Mark Twain story.