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BTT: Unread
Is there a book that you wish you could “unread”? One that you disliked so thoroughly you wish you could just forget that you ever read it?
I can’t think of any books that have been so bad that they burned my mind’s eye, that I wish I could have avoided subjecting myself to. On the other hand, there are definitely books that, after I finished them, I sincerely wished I could have back the time I just spent, if only to have read a better book! Some titles that come to mind: anything by Paulo Coelho, “Two Brothers, One North, One South,” “Adventure in Borneo.”
What books have you read and then wished you could get your time back?
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May 28th, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized
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If I don’t like a book I usually stop after 100 pages. However, there have been exceptions. In the Woods by Tana French — I hated the ending and Souvenir by Therese Fowler — I disliked but read it for book club.
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I didn’t answer the question this week because I couldn’t think of any. There were books I disliked, but none that I really think I’d take back reading.
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I am with you about Coelho!
Booking through Unread
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I am not a fan of anything by Jodi Picoult for the most part. I’ve never been mad to read it, but I just haven’t been too happy with them.
I was also really upset with the ending of In the Woods.
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Yay! More Anti-Cohelo and Picoult fans!
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No book immediately jumps into my mind either. I usually don’t finish books that I am thoroughly not enjoying. And while there have been books I’ve read that are disappointing, there was something in them that kept me going so I can’t say I thought they were a complete waste of time. Maybe just a little.
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I just had my first Paul Coelho experience with Brida…
Any of the Sookie Stackhouse books and any of the Faerie books by Holly Black come to mind for me first.
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I’ve got some Coelho on my shelf that I’ve been overlooking in favor of other books because I can’t get in the right “mood” to read him.
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ANYTHING by Coelho? Jeez… I liked “Veronika Decides to Die” and “The Alchemist” I havent read the rest though. Maybe I got lucky and picked up two good ones?
How come you don’t like him?
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devourerofbooks Reply:
May 28th, 2009 at 11:34 am
No, I don’t think that you happened to pick the two good ones, I think you and I just have different reading tastes. The first book of his I read was “The Alchemist” and I thought he was trying to hard to make it all mystical (it has been a long time, I mostly just remember it annoying me). Then I read “The Valkyries” and that annoyed me even more. Everything I disliked about “The Alchemist” was magnified in that book. I suppose I just find him a bit absurd, but a chacun a son gout!
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I haven’t encountered something that is irredeemably bad. Books that I want to “unread” are ones written by authors whose previous reads I have enjoyed. Sometimes they just have a bad day I guess. I would like to defy time and start over again with another book.
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I would like to unread the summary of Wetlands that I read a few weeks ago. Thinking about it has made me queasy – the actual book would really be intolerable. I don’t mind a few body fluids in my reading, but they are not intended for *consumption*.
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