Any books that you hated?

Sounds pretty awful - thanks for the warning

Interesting, I’ve never heard anyone speak badly of his books. I’ve only ever read Fault In Our Stars, which I didn’t hate but thought was definitely overhyped! As you said the teens didn’t feel like teens (I have yet to meet a boy who pretends to smoke as a metaphor for life) and although I did cry and I’d probably rate it about 2.5-3 stars, everyone does go on about how groundbreaking they are. Probably won’t read Looking for Alaska now

I probably hate John Green's books because I like realism and simple English. His books are definitely not realistic and let's not go into the language he uses in his writing🙄

Shirley by Charlotte Bronte is... boring. Very boring. Gave up about 300 pages in during an excruciatingly detailed description of a village fete. And marrying your first cousin is quite weird.

Don't read Frankenstein then. lol Honestly though don't let a certain relationship put you off, Frankenstein is honestly an amazing book. Much better than any movie that has ever been made of the source material.

I will say I enjoyed Turtles all the way down. Can't remember why it worked for me when his other works haven't but maybe give it a try?

Oh I read Frankenstein for GCSE, I liked it. I only made a point of this because Jane Eyre also nearly marries her cousin. But isn't Elizabeth only Victor's cousin in the 1818 version?

Divergent. I read it when I was 12 and it was about as enjoyable as being dragged face-first down a gravel driveway. A neutered, lobotomised Hunger Games clone in a sea of neutered, lobotomised Hunger Games clones, and it still manages to sink to the bottom. You take a Buzzfeed Hogwarts House quiz and that determines your career path. That is genuinely the plot synopsis. An absurd amount of time is devoted to the protagonist's lack of tits. I do not know why. It is mentioned so often that it is the only thing I can remember about her. I wish I remembered nothing.

Divergent is way too overhyped I agree! I found book 1 ok, book 2 such a drag to get through. Book 3 I gave up after 50 pages.
It is a really stupid concept too when you think of it. 'We need to be put into categories of being only one thing to stop fighting'. Uhhhh segregation never stopped fighting, and it's not even like they genetically were more of a personality. It's just whatever scale they tipped too most on the day. I'd have understood it more if the scientists actually MADE them more like one of the houses, but it was as you said a personality test.
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Mark Twain. I've forced myself to read through several of his works for other hobbies/general knowledge and the only reason I got through them was because they were audiobooks.
His writing style grates for some reason I can't name, and especially through Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court I was reading it a page/a few minutes at a time because I just couldn't.
It's not a problem I've had with other classic authors of the period - like I can read all of a Jules Verne novel in a day, and Dickens is hardly an issue. But Twain? Nope. If I want to know Huckleberry Finn, I'll be reading the Cliff Notes

Divergent is way too overhyped I agree! I found book 1 ok, book 2 such a drag to get through. Book 3 I gave up after 50 pages.
It is a really stupid concept too when you think of it. 'We need to be put into categories of being only one thing to stop fighting'. Uhhhh segregation never stopped fighting, and it's not even like they genetically were more of a personality. It's just whatever scale they tipped too most on the day. I'd have understood it more if the scientists actually MADE them more like one of the houses, but it was as you said a personality test.
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As the title says - what is a book you hated? Popular or unpopular, and why?
For me it was Glass Sword, the secomd Red Queen book. I liked the first, the concept was good and enjoyable but by the second the mc had become INSUFFERABLE. She felt no remorse or guilt for what she did, but she'd always go on about her tough life and how she loses every other character. But gets over it? Also I felt no chemistry to either of the love interests - I'm not a love triangle person but both of them were boring.