Books that you thought would be good and weren't?

[Carla Hurst]

Peter Straub's new book: The Dark Messenger

If you read just ONE book this summer. Make sure it isn't THIS one.

[BookwormService]

Pat Barker's "Regeneration Trilogy." I made the mistake in buying all 3 books at once. $30 I will never get back

[smellymonkey]

Pat Barker's "Regeneration Trilogy." I made the mistake in buying all 3 books at once. $30 I will never get back

I had to study the first one for English Lit A-Level, i actually thought it was quite good. What didn't you like?

[BookwormService]

It just seemed really weak compared to Trumbo's "Johnny Got Hist Gun." I think the difference may have to do with it is an English book & Trumbo was American.

[BookeaterIvan]

The "Cirque du Freak" book by Darren Shan.

I thought the book was great because it had been made into a movie, but I was disappointed. I anticipated too much from it but was only greeted by a childish, and a little corny story.

Well, I just tried the first book, maybe I will still give it a chance some time and read the next in the series.

[smellymonkey]

It just seemed really weak compared to Trumbo's "Johnny Got Hist Gun." I think the difference may have to do with it is an English book & Trumbo was American.

English books are always better, but then being English. I'm bias!

[Misty]

I didn't finish either Bel Canto or Reading Lolita in Tehran.

[BookwormService]

It just seemed really weak compared to Trumbo's "Johnny Got Hist Gun." I think the difference may have to do with it is an English book & Trumbo was American.

English books are always better, but then being English. I'm bias!

I am not anti-english literature. Some of my favorite books are English (ie, Clockwork Orange). It is just Barker was weak compared to Trumbo.

And American books are always better.

[EquusAmor]

A Northern Light. It's been so long since i read that book, but it was kind of dull and hard to follow. I had a hard time keeping up with what she (main character) was doind and if she was in the past or present and by the time i figured where she was in the stoey she was changing again. and the ending was stupid and a complete let down I must say.

[Lost_InPlace]

Might cause some debate with these:

The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Which I found quite boring, I never really connected with Holden, or understood the big deal, and I have yet to find someone who can enlighten me, other than saying "WHAT?? It's a great book!!"

Focault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
Frequently added to top 100 lists and referred to as an intellectual Da Vinci Code, can't help but wonder if people just say this because they are too embaressed to admit that there's so much "intellect" it's a battle to read and even more difficult to keep track of what's happening in the core plot. I think good books should be readable...

[Carla Hurst]

Lost Continent...by Bill Bryson.

Traveling across the USA via small-towns. Sounded like it should be AMAZING...

Well...he didn't like IOWA...ILLINOIS...KENTUCKY...TENNESSEE...GEORGIA...ALABAMA...(or any of the rest of them) The book was a stream of negativity. The guy should have saved his time and $$$ and just stayed in his house and watched TV...he would have been happier...or maybe NOT. Certainly won't waste my time on any of his other books. He has one entitled "A Walk in the Woods" and somehow I can hear his diatribe without opening a page "It was hot...there were mosquitoes...and bugs...and on and on...

A few hours reading time I will never recover.

[Perrywinkle47]

Well, for me Wuthering Heights was the worst.. or may be i could not comprehend it as i was supposed to. Our literature teacher was talking so high about the book and she considered it as the best book ever. But when I actually read it myself, I starting wondering as to what is that one thing which would make it the best. It was not anywhere around good either. I found the story very upsetting and gloomy throughout.

[Runslikesnail]

Okay - I'm going to say it out loud. I did not love EAT PRAY LOVE. Everyone soooooooooo went on about it that I finally read it and was like ... "meh". It seemed like I had read something extremely similar a few years before - but I couldn't come up with a title. I read a lot of travel writing, so who knows?
So go ahead - yell at me.

(I didn't get past the second Harry Potter book either ...)

[Mairin]

An Unquiet Mind, I thought it would be a great reference for Bipolar Disorder and instead it turned out to be the story of some woman's life. And I also felt that she was over-exaggerating the disorder that I too personally have as well.

[Perrywinkle47]

Okay - I'm going to say it out loud. I did not love EAT PRAY LOVE. Everyone soooooooooo went on about it that I finally read it and was like ... "meh". It seemed like I had read something extremely similar a few years before - but I couldn't come up with a title. I read a lot of travel writing, so who knows?
So go ahead - yell at me.

(I didn't get past the second Harry Potter book either ...)

Dont worry, you have full right to dislike a book. Well, haven't read eat pray love so can't comment on it and its easy to understand that you couldn't digest Harry Potter, a lot of people dislike it... its just that the people liking it are far more than the ones disliking it, thats why we see so much hype around