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Matthew Reilly is one I struggle with understanding why he’s so popular.

I read Ice Station and Temple. To be fair they are page turners but I felt nothing for the characters.

I tried to read Scarecrow and gave up. This blows up and then this person is killed and then this blows up and then these guys are killed. And then this blows up..
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ReviewerDiksha wrote: 19 Aug 2017, 09:31 Paulo Cohelo. Everyone around me just loved the Alchemist. And everyone was like it the best book ever and all. And when I read that book. Disappointed. It has been overhyped so much! I just dont understand why?
I totally relate. I think it's definitely mind-blowing and exciting when you're younger, but after reading other books it doesn't pack the same punch.
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J. K. Rowling seems to be all the rage now - and have been for over twenty years. I absolutely loathe the Harry Potter series. Consequently, I haven't even attempted anything else of hers.
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Being from the Caribbean sadly I don't really like V.S. Naipaul's work.
Saying that is almost sacrilege because of his prominence in West Indian literature but somehow his works never grew on me.
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JK Rowling. I get a lot of hate when I say I don't like JK Rowling word but there is something in her work that makes me feel sleepy and give a pretentious feeling.
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J. D. Salinger, Susan Sontag, Ernest Hemingway, Samuel R. Delany, E E Cummings, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, to name a few.
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I would have to say Gillian Flynn. I really could not get into Gone Girl because her writing style is just not for me.
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Ernest Hemingway! And, the worst part, other than that just not liking his writing makes me feel like a reject, is that I've read biographies on him and I think I would have liked the guy so very much! It makes absolutely no sense to me! I don't hate his writing, I just didn't understand why is it supposed to be so great. It always seems very straightforward and factual. He was a war correspondent - he didn't have to go to war, I don't think which means he was a responsible, go-getter type. He had cats. He liked fishing for marlins. I've never read For Whom the Bell Tolls, I think only The Sun Also Rises and some short stories, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "The Old Man and the Sea". I think I read "The Old Man and the Sea" before the others and so I was unprepared for the serious nature of his writing. But, as I said, I think I would have loved the guy! Incidentally, I was giving a Somalian woman a ride home from work one night and we were chatting and I mentioned "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and she started laughing. I thought it was my pronunciation but she said "No... snows of Kilimanjaro means snows of water..." What?
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Cassandra Claire.
I get so many recommendations to read her books and I've tried multiple times but can't seem to care about any of her work.
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i think its these romance authors. Not Nicholas Sparks but authors like Durjoy Datta and authors who make the romantic genre so childish. girls around here make a big fuzz out of him and I cant stand that.
Smile, for better days are yet to come :D
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J. K. Rowling and Stephenie Meyer. I can not stand their books/movies. My mom made sure I watch every book based movie. I do not get how people say they are the best. The plots are not that good and most ends up repeating in the later series.
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Paulo Coelho. I literally could not get through 'The Alchemist'.
Imagine if we had no secrets, no respite from the truth. What if everything was laid bare the moment, we introduced ourselves?
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Stephen King. Even as a horror fan, that man has a lot of questionable ways of doing things and also what he decides to include in his books.
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elena armas, her writing style is so bad and consists of telling and barely showing. Always mentions "blue eyes". cant stand the spanish love deception but idk how everyone loves it
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Bad Macaw wrote: 05 Jan 2017, 10:38
I second this. I've actually come to the point where my hate for her books has become almost irrational. I can't help it, I just really, really dislike her books.[/quote]

Hahaha the irrational comment made me think of Sophie Hanna and the "new" "Poirot" "books".

I'm a really REALLY big fan of Agatha Christie. So when I heard somebody would be writing new Poirot books, I had mixed feelings. I ended up reading the first one, I WANTED so much to have new Poirot stories...What a disappointment. I HATED everything about the book.

After that, people have told me "but hey, her other mystery books are really good!" and I'm just like
NO
NOOOOOOOOO
NO!
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NO.
NEVER.
NO.
[/quote]
Oh my goodness! This just put me off! How can someone attempt to continue from where Agatha Christie left off?!
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