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post your unpopular literature opinions?

for example

Curly is the best character in mice an men
Original post by Avreil
for example

Curly is the best character in mice an men


The fictional character Holden Caulfield in the book The Catcher In The Rye is not so vulgar in choice of words as he was critized after the publication.
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Colleen Hoover books are trash
cant understand people that like the great gatsby >.< the characters are so monotone and the plot is very random </3
Original post by eenie_49
cant understand people that like the great gatsby >.< the characters are so monotone and the plot is very random </3


In terms of the characters, you are right. They are surficial and obnoxious hedonists, but the narrator Nick Carraway. It is the drama and the pathetic try by Gatsby to get his love by being a wealthy and noble man. That makes it surprisingly so interesting.
George Eliot's books are boring. I had to study 'The Mill on the Floss' and my son then endured 'SIlas Marner' ...
Original post by Muttley79
George Eliot's books are boring. I had to study 'The Mill on the Floss' and my son then endured 'SIlas Marner' ...


Read the summary of the book. It is like a story written by Jane Austen. The patterns at least are so familiar.
I really didn't like Catcher in the Rye. I know it's rated as such a classic but I just couldn't get into it.

Original post by bones-mccoy
Colleen Hoover books are trash

I've never read any of them, but I've heard similar. There's a Youtuber I watch- Rachel Oates, who's had a few things to say about Colleen Hoover.
She really isn't impressed.




Original post by Alesha1991
I really didn't like Catcher in the Rye. I know it's rated as such a classic but I just couldn't get into it.

(...)


It was my first English Classic I read and from this point of view, it was okay. There are better ones nonetheless.
Most Catherine Cookson novels have main character guys who are predatory criminals or revolting spineless liars.
While the women main characters are usually total idiots who make themselves a magnet for domestic abusers or psychos.
I cant read anything by james joyce, except The Dubliners. Also, Ibsen and ingemar bergman have such a lousy sense of humor that I can't watch their comedies. Agatha Christie was probably one of the least innovative writers I know, since most of her characters were contemporary types already existing in many incarnations. She just used these better than AEW Mason and the others. I agree with my mother's assessment of Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. It makes an excellent stand on which to reach the top cupboards in the kitchen.
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Original post by Avreil
for example

Curly is the best character in mice an men


Ive never been a fan of the harry potter books
Original post by Emma:-)
Ive never been a fan of the harry potter books

Me too. I have not even finished the very first book. To be fair, I have tried to read it when I was a teenager and not a bookworm as I used to be now.
Original post by Avreil
for example

Curly is the best character in mice an men

don't know if this is unpopular but I literally cannot finish books written from first person pov
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Anne Franks diary is a largely a fraud


Meyer Levine (Jewish author) vs Otto Frank (Anne Franks father) court case in the 1950's in NY

Otto Frank paid Meyer Levine, what would be today millions of dollars.

Meyer Levine argued that Otto Frank stole much of his work. Meyer Levine was writing a book about a Jewish girl during WW2.

Yet people are fined, thrown in jail in the West for questioning not the Holocaust itself.. but that one diary.
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