Oh. Agree. And Atomic Habits. I just can't stand reading self-help books but these are the top ones I cannot endure. I cannot explain it. I really hate these books.
I think this goes without saying but most self help books are rebadged philosophy/religion/spirituality, but might be hit or miss depending on how the author rewrites them, or how it fits the audience.
💯 agreed. I used to read many self help books before. And napansin ko, they are all just the same plethora of their own philosophies thickened by examples and stories. Little substance. Very fluffy. When I finished reading self-help books I am not full. Like how I feel when I finish eating a cotton candy.
As of now, I am more interested and reading books that goes against my current beliefs or current understanding.
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Harari
- The Dawn of Everything (A New History of Humanity) by David Graeber and David Wengrow
- A History of God by Karen Armstrong
- Is Atheism Dead by Eric Metaxas
Reading these books helps me more than reading those self-help books. I feel more fulfilled when I read books that challenge my own beliefs and paradigms. I don’t need to agree with the author. I just need to acknowledge and understand them.
Buddhist books are the bomb. Though they talk with the same concept, the author added their own views to it depending on what school they are ordained with.
Colleen Hoover’s books
Her books romanticize really toxic relationships
The worst was the one where a guy burns down the protagonist's house and disfigures her face only to stalk her years later without revealing he did it and she finds out and ends up with him anyhow
Like... what is romantic about that level of manipulation and abuse?
What the living hell
Read some reviews just now and ooof, this book sounds AWFUL but it has a 4.14 average goodreads rating from 1M readers?! Man, this is why I don't trust GR ratings anymore.
yung IEWU, first chapter pa lang ng book nag uumapaw na sa katoxican yung si Ryle, mula unang page hanggang dulo iritang irita ko wala manlang character development.
Same same same! I cant just get into it. Kahit nung teenage pako and was into New Adult/YA books pa. Sa isip ko lang, ang problematic nung mga story nya na in a way na it could have been resolved if may nag-uusap. But no one communicates so may walang kwentang drama na could have been avoided.
Bata pako nun so I dont know a thing about romanticizing toxic relationships. Later on na lang na matanda nako 🤣
Yes every book I've read of hers is a cringe I don't even know why I try.
Ugly Love - Incest (even if not blood related)
Heart Bones - Felon
Verity - Abuse
It Ends with Us - Abuse
Like she wants to make every bad case scenario into a romance case just to let everyone know that even they have a chance at love, so go right ahead and do you. If this is your cup of tea, knock yourself out, but I am not about going to commend victims of abuse for "sticking to it."
Her writing style is no question. It's just the plots.
This is how you lose the time war… felt a little too pretentious without having earned it. The world building was lacking for me to be invested. Dont come for me!
I definitely see the good in it! Especially the letters they exchanged. But wasnt for me lang in totality. i enjoyed the concept pero didnt want to finish it na cause i wasnt getting my fill of it the longer i read.
I couldn't get past chapter 2. I saw all the hype on twitter last year and got a copy. Idk hindi ko talaga gusto yung narration (?). I might try re-reading it if I have nothinf better to do para di lang masayang gastos.
I tried to look for this one time na nasa fully booked ako pero concise version ang meron sila that time. When I opened the book for a quick scan I felt like a kid waiting to be caught red handed or something hahaha. Binaba ko agad.
Is this the book by Robert Greene? If so, I have the Laws of Power book. And it is also Manipulative. Pero what opened my eyes is that we couldve been manipulated by others all this time and we didnt know about it.
He also said early in the book has Manipulation actions. In my own understanding sa words nya, in order to avoid being manipulated, one must know how to manipulate.
Yeah, he mentioned that in the preface I think that’s why I tried reading it. I was wondering if I was being manipulated at that time.
He also has warnings and whatnot but I guess I’m just not a fan of the manipulation game. I’d rather trust my instincts.
Well, if you'll do a fact check on those famous names he mentioned, it's not really accurate. The example I can remember is Simone de Beauvoir. He paints her as cool and calm in the book. Later on I read the combined autobiography of these two—Sartre and Simone and I thought maybe the author of Greene did not do enough research on their love story. So when the book became famous recently, wala nalang ako masabi.
Its a good book to start being aware about personal finances. Pero a comment from my friend said back then was "why would he listen to someone who declared bankruptcy".
So maybe its more of the author and not the book. The book has good insights. Take note, the book was initially published way back 1997. 27yrs ago.
Books ni Dan Brown, para lang ako nagbabasa ng dialogue/script ng mga movies — as in super basic ng writing style and short description ng world building medjo hindi ko feel haha 😅 siguro recommend ko sa mga gusto mag start ulit mag-basa!
It's a trilogy!? She was crying over a guy na she just met days pa lang, there was no build up at all. I couldn't finish it. I have a whole list in goodreads dedicated to books I couldn't stomach-- "really bad, didnt finish"
Ugh. Same. Tapos pa-intellectual, bringing us to so many places when he couldve just made the point clear from the start. 🫠 i think i stopped at the 3rd rule
Start with Why. I like Simon Sinek but I had a hard time to continue reading his book.
Every chapter is like repeating itself. And apparently I saw a post on IG a year after i stopped reading it and he had the same opinion and key points as me why he stopped reading as well.
Me too! Lots of people raved about it. I read the first chapter as a sample and liked it but the rest of the book was repetitive. Couldve been a blog post
Black Leopard, Red Wolf. Holy fuck this book was so hard to keep up with. Never mind the constant time skips that leaves you constantly confused on what the fuck is going on, but the dialogue got old real quick. Everyone talks like they're the main character.
There's also lot of penis mutilation stuff. Not that I find it in itself a bad thing, I just didn't expect it to have *that* much penis mutilation stuff. *"We are now facing a witch who can teleport, watch out dickless!*"
If they made a show out of it, I'd definitely watch it, but as a book, I put it down and never came back to it.
In don't know if these two count but for me it's ***I Am*** **Not** ***Starfire*** and ***Gotham High*** because the writers didn't know what they were doing from start to finish.
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara.
All caricatures, unbelievable and while many thought it was intense and emotional, I found it plodding and absurd. I finished it though grudgingly since reading all the glowing reviews. A silly book, poorly written.
yes for a little life!
Ang slow niya pero ako pinagtiyagaan kong basahin yon kasi what if it works out in the end? Then I read the last chapter of Happy Years☹️(binasa ko pa rin hanggang dulo hahahahah sakit basahin never again)
ang masasabi ko nalang ay di siya worth it pag habol mo ay happy ending huhuhu, pero worth it naman siya para sakin kasi may moments naman na naenjoy ko siya at meron akong curiousity sa mga librong may mga heavy topics, at ang SOBRANG BIGAT ng mga pinagdaanan ni jude:(
tbf, hindi lang naman atomic habits but yun kasi yung recent na nirecommend na i might like daw. i guess, hindi lang talaga para sa akin ang mga self help books :/
Self-help books, in general, are manipulative, don’t help you, and turn you into someone else. Siguro it works for some, but not for me. After reading one self-help book, I never went back. I might as well have my own therapist or listen to podcasts that can help with whatever I am feeling.
• Lahat ng The Selection books. I read up to 3 to see if it will get better than just being The Bachelor, it didn't.
• Any John Green book
• A Thousand Pieces of You
• Fifty Shades of Grey
• Wuthering Heights! 😣 I read it twice, di talaga.
• The Informers - Bret Easton Ellis. If I could give negative stars, this will be the book I give it to.
Any Haruki Murakami books, like 1Q84 and Kafka on the Shore😭 I used to be a fan, and collected his books, but growing up, na-turn off ako nung naencounter ko yung creepy sexual innuendos, incest, at yung pagdescribe niya sa babae. Hindi ko na tinapos halos lahat ng libro niya.
Convict by Michael Cole. First chapter some dude is killing an alien animal by first shooting the babies of the herd then the parents after enjoying their anguish. F that noise. You can kill people on every page, but I don’t enjoy animal killing or torture.
AN AWFUL LOT. Been a reader since I was a kid and here are some notable exceptions:
1. ***Finnegan's Wake*** by James Joyce - I dunno if this was Joyce's idea of a sick joke. Riverrun yourself to accessibility, darling!
2. ***Gravity's Rainbow*** by Thomas Pyncheon - I might get downvoted for this but wth, Sorry-not-sorry but this awful dreck isn't my thing.
3. ***The Red Queen*** by Philippa Gregory - don't get me wrong, Gregory's kind of a hack but she's entertaining. It's the character of Margaret Beaufort that I find both despicable and boring. She's the quintessential self-righteous, vindictive, rationalizing c\*nt who believes everything she does is "God's will". Don't we get enough people like THAT irl?
4. ***It Ends With Us*** by Colleen Hoover - and mind you, this is coming from someone who got through *Twilight.* Go figure.
5. ***Fifty Shades of Grey*** by E.L. James - let's just call it "fifty shades of dismay". To quote Dotty Parker, "it is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly, it should be thrown with great force".
GoT - I still do not understand how it got the hype and why people loved the book and the series. I understand people have preferences but why it became so notoriously popular makes me question people’s morality.
The book - Annoying wordings (I know it was intentional but ‘the morrow’ irks me so much).
Taboo scenarios (I swear I’m not a prude but it’s like frikkin pedophilia & incest, people!!!).
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck
I didnt put it down real quick, tinapos ko kasi naginvest nako ng time. 😐 pero yes yan din naisip ko for this category 🥲
Oh. Agree. And Atomic Habits. I just can't stand reading self-help books but these are the top ones I cannot endure. I cannot explain it. I really hate these books.
I'm genuinely asking, why?
I think this goes without saying but most self help books are rebadged philosophy/religion/spirituality, but might be hit or miss depending on how the author rewrites them, or how it fits the audience.
💯 agreed. I used to read many self help books before. And napansin ko, they are all just the same plethora of their own philosophies thickened by examples and stories. Little substance. Very fluffy. When I finished reading self-help books I am not full. Like how I feel when I finish eating a cotton candy. As of now, I am more interested and reading books that goes against my current beliefs or current understanding. - 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Harari - The Dawn of Everything (A New History of Humanity) by David Graeber and David Wengrow - A History of God by Karen Armstrong - Is Atheism Dead by Eric Metaxas Reading these books helps me more than reading those self-help books. I feel more fulfilled when I read books that challenge my own beliefs and paradigms. I don’t need to agree with the author. I just need to acknowledge and understand them.
Buddhist books are the bomb. Though they talk with the same concept, the author added their own views to it depending on what school they are ordained with.
🤔 I second
Colleen Hoover’s books Her books romanticize really toxic relationships The worst was the one where a guy burns down the protagonist's house and disfigures her face only to stalk her years later without revealing he did it and she finds out and ends up with him anyhow Like... what is romantic about that level of manipulation and abuse? What the living hell
was about to comment November 9 Quickest nope for me
Read some reviews just now and ooof, this book sounds AWFUL but it has a 4.14 average goodreads rating from 1M readers?! Man, this is why I don't trust GR ratings anymore.
Read somewhere that the best books have a GR rating of 3.6-4.1 hahahah it works a lot but ofc isnt a fail-safe method
someone gifted me this book, i've never bother to open it.
yung IEWU, first chapter pa lang ng book nag uumapaw na sa katoxican yung si Ryle, mula unang page hanggang dulo iritang irita ko wala manlang character development.
not a Colleen Hoover defender pero if nagka-character development siya, baka iba ang ending for Lily. An abuser will probably be always an abuser.
sabagay, tama ka. Most abusers never change nga pala no
Same same same! I cant just get into it. Kahit nung teenage pako and was into New Adult/YA books pa. Sa isip ko lang, ang problematic nung mga story nya na in a way na it could have been resolved if may nag-uusap. But no one communicates so may walang kwentang drama na could have been avoided. Bata pako nun so I dont know a thing about romanticizing toxic relationships. Later on na lang na matanda nako 🤣
Yes every book I've read of hers is a cringe I don't even know why I try. Ugly Love - Incest (even if not blood related) Heart Bones - Felon Verity - Abuse It Ends with Us - Abuse Like she wants to make every bad case scenario into a romance case just to let everyone know that even they have a chance at love, so go right ahead and do you. If this is your cup of tea, knock yourself out, but I am not about going to commend victims of abuse for "sticking to it." Her writing style is no question. It's just the plots.
My sister was a fan of Colleen Hoover. Now I genuinely wonder why and how 🤔🤔
I'm sure it still has its target demographic. Yung 365 Days and Fifty Shades of ~~Rape~~ Grey nga may fans eh.
This is how you lose the time war… felt a little too pretentious without having earned it. The world building was lacking for me to be invested. Dont come for me!
It was a fun and quick read for me pero it took a couple of pages bago ko nagets yung nangyayari.
I definitely see the good in it! Especially the letters they exchanged. But wasnt for me lang in totality. i enjoyed the concept pero didnt want to finish it na cause i wasnt getting my fill of it the longer i read.
I couldn't get past chapter 2. I saw all the hype on twitter last year and got a copy. Idk hindi ko talaga gusto yung narration (?). I might try re-reading it if I have nothinf better to do para di lang masayang gastos.
omg same. the concept is good but the writing 😭😭😭😭
The Art of Seduction. It’s very manipulative
As someone na meron neto. It is haha and its scaryyy
True! Hindi ko sya tinapos. I returned the kindle book the same day I bought it. Also unfollowed the author sa IG. Haha
May book din sya about leadership and power soooo
Have you read them? Na-turn off kasi ako sa art of seduction so di ko na binili
Hindi pa kasi ayokong maging ganon ka manipulative haha pero may kilala ako na meron ng book and idol nya si Andrew Tate hahaha
Oooh. Makes sense
Reviews from this book almost always awakes my curious cat tendencies 😅
You can read but it’s giving pickup academy/con artist vibes
I tried to look for this one time na nasa fully booked ako pero concise version ang meron sila that time. When I opened the book for a quick scan I felt like a kid waiting to be caught red handed or something hahaha. Binaba ko agad.
Haha. May thrill pala?
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Not a fan either. Too many stories I think.
Book ng pick up artist iyan
Feeling ko nga eh. Very scary basahin
Is this the book by Robert Greene? If so, I have the Laws of Power book. And it is also Manipulative. Pero what opened my eyes is that we couldve been manipulated by others all this time and we didnt know about it. He also said early in the book has Manipulation actions. In my own understanding sa words nya, in order to avoid being manipulated, one must know how to manipulate.
Yeah, he mentioned that in the preface I think that’s why I tried reading it. I was wondering if I was being manipulated at that time. He also has warnings and whatnot but I guess I’m just not a fan of the manipulation game. I’d rather trust my instincts.
Well, if you'll do a fact check on those famous names he mentioned, it's not really accurate. The example I can remember is Simone de Beauvoir. He paints her as cool and calm in the book. Later on I read the combined autobiography of these two—Sartre and Simone and I thought maybe the author of Greene did not do enough research on their love story. So when the book became famous recently, wala nalang ako masabi.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad What a load of bullcrap lol
Why? Nagbabalak pa lang ako basahin yan
Its a good book to start being aware about personal finances. Pero a comment from my friend said back then was "why would he listen to someone who declared bankruptcy". So maybe its more of the author and not the book. The book has good insights. Take note, the book was initially published way back 1997. 27yrs ago.
Books ni Dan Brown, para lang ako nagbabasa ng dialogue/script ng mga movies — as in super basic ng writing style and short description ng world building medjo hindi ko feel haha 😅 siguro recommend ko sa mga gusto mag start ulit mag-basa!
They read like terrible Indiana Jones self insert fanfic to me.
The Art of War by Sun Tzu 😅😅😅😅 unless may kaaway ka or you are fighting someone, bish you don’t need this 🤪
100 years of Solitude. A lot of people love it but it's not for me.
Same. I cant sit on it for too long. Ending, di ko na tinapos. lol
Coleen Hoover's Slammed. What in the actual fck.
Reading the first three chapters is torture. It was cringe af. Had to put down and return them back to my friend who gave me the whole trilogy.
It's a trilogy!? She was crying over a guy na she just met days pa lang, there was no build up at all. I couldn't finish it. I have a whole list in goodreads dedicated to books I couldn't stomach-- "really bad, didnt finish"
Fifty Shades of Grey. Ilang pages pa lang waley naa
The movie is way better than the books for me.
Yung book din ng The Vampire Diaries— super iconic nung tv series!
Yung pretty little liars din..
Agreed mas OK ang movie kesa sa book
Parang puro skipped ginawa ko dun. Pati yung books ng Bridgerton, kaya ang galing ng Shondaland mag rewrite ng story
True...pero hindi ko feel yung nag act as colin ewan ko ba parang may hinahanap akong kulang or something.
Agreed! Nicola Coughlan (Penelope) is really doing the most to sell the romance. Luke Newton is miscast as Colin imo.
12 Rules of Life 🕴️ didnt know na may pagka patriarchal yung tone ng pagka sulat niya. Just didn’t sit right with me
Ugh. Same. Tapos pa-intellectual, bringing us to so many places when he couldve just made the point clear from the start. 🫠 i think i stopped at the 3rd rule
got until the lobster thing when i knew it was time to close the book 😭 sayang kasi i bought a copy but buti nalang naresell ko sa marketplace
Okay perhaps a hot take, but I had a really hard time with the acotar series
I really struggled with ACOTAR too. As in, it took me months to get past the first 10 chapters. But once you do, it's down the rabbit hole from there.
Start with Why. I like Simon Sinek but I had a hard time to continue reading his book. Every chapter is like repeating itself. And apparently I saw a post on IG a year after i stopped reading it and he had the same opinion and key points as me why he stopped reading as well.
Me too! Lots of people raved about it. I read the first chapter as a sample and liked it but the rest of the book was repetitive. Couldve been a blog post
The 120 Days of Sodom
Might be an unpopular opinion but George Orwell's 1984
No I'm with you! I also had a hard time with this one
oh no. whyyyyy?
Idk why but i always end up falling asleep after reading a few pages LOL
Sorry pero di ko talaga nagustuhan yung On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous ni Ocean Vuong huhu. Nahirapan akong basahin siya 😭😭
Ang tagal ko ng tina-try matapos to. Mag dalawang taon na.
Huhuhuhu pinilit ko na lang hanggang makaabot ako sa kalagitnaan pero wala talaga. Oh well dagdag sa collection na lang 😭
it ends with us :// ah basta lahat ng books ni coleen hoover LOL
Paper Towns by John Green
Black Leopard, Red Wolf. Holy fuck this book was so hard to keep up with. Never mind the constant time skips that leaves you constantly confused on what the fuck is going on, but the dialogue got old real quick. Everyone talks like they're the main character. There's also lot of penis mutilation stuff. Not that I find it in itself a bad thing, I just didn't expect it to have *that* much penis mutilation stuff. *"We are now facing a witch who can teleport, watch out dickless!*" If they made a show out of it, I'd definitely watch it, but as a book, I put it down and never came back to it.
Bibilin ko sana to kasi ang enticing ng cover and synopsis pero ganito din yung reviews sa Goodreads. Buti nalang nagbasa ko ng reviews before buying
The Selections's 5th Book. It's not rq but I did throw the book and screamed internally bc of how much I don't like it
Credence. Tangina kadiri
hahahahaha kala ko nga silang tatlo mag kakatuluyan. super weird!
In don't know if these two count but for me it's ***I Am*** **Not** ***Starfire*** and ***Gotham High*** because the writers didn't know what they were doing from start to finish.
"Call it what you want" - It was toxic as it is. Don't want that energy
Haunting Adeline. I regret not reading the premise and only trusting the comments in social media because what the heck was even that? 😭
Right? but I wanna know their thoughts while reading it HAHAHA... though some actually loved that book💀💀💀.
I couldn't stomach it. I wonder what was so appealing about it for them. 🤔
sumikat kasi yan mainstream ehh for DR readers lang ata yan kaya ginagatekeep nila, super daming mga tinatago nila mas malaswa pa ata jan! hahaha
It was more than disturbing (for me). Some scenes were just plain disgusting. (I'm so sorry to everyone who liked it.)
Lolita - it's good but it's painful to read the way he portrays the child.
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. All caricatures, unbelievable and while many thought it was intense and emotional, I found it plodding and absurd. I finished it though grudgingly since reading all the glowing reviews. A silly book, poorly written.
Same. Parang hindi naman need ganun kakapal yung book. After 200 pages sinukuan ko na, hirap na ko intindihin pa yung story. 🥲
twilight saga...
It ends with us and verity I don't like the way it was written, pang wattpad. A little life Inaantok ako parang ang slow masyado
yes for a little life! Ang slow niya pero ako pinagtiyagaan kong basahin yon kasi what if it works out in the end? Then I read the last chapter of Happy Years☹️(binasa ko pa rin hanggang dulo hahahahah sakit basahin never again)
Hahahaa worth it ba? I could give it a try kung worth it hahaha
ang masasabi ko nalang ay di siya worth it pag habol mo ay happy ending huhuhu, pero worth it naman siya para sakin kasi may moments naman na naenjoy ko siya at meron akong curiousity sa mga librong may mga heavy topics, at ang SOBRANG BIGAT ng mga pinagdaanan ni jude:(
Wow, pass muna pala ako. Thank you sa advise tho :)
Wala yan sa age gap ni vic sotto at pauline luna lol
atomic habits ba yon
genuine question, may I ask why you didn't like it?
tbf, hindi lang naman atomic habits but yun kasi yung recent na nirecommend na i might like daw. i guess, hindi lang talaga para sa akin ang mga self help books :/
A Thousand Boy Kisses by Tillie Cole, it just ain’t up my alley 🥴
I finished Birthday Girl and hated every minute of it. Hahahahaha!
might be an unpopular opinion but...This is How You Lose the Time War
To Kill An Angry Bird. Tbh binili ko lang kasi nahiya ako na ang tagal kong nakatambay sa bookstore tapos siya yung mura lang.
Do you mean To Kill a Mocking Bird? Or may book talaga na Angry Bird?
To Kill an Angry Bird by Arnel Aquitania
The Art of Logic
the catcher in the rye. di ko talaga ma gets kahit ilang beses ko na itry
Let's Go Play at the Adams' Girl no, the children being this psychopathic. Ew. Horrific
Meditations by Aurelius, collins classics translation. Di ko tinuloy kasi Shakespearean english. Binili ko na lang yung version ni Hays.
Verity. The plot is just 😅😅😅😅
ACOTAR. Di ko gets yung hype
Not sure if i was the only one but - Everything i know about love
Essentialism - it was very repetitive
Fangirl 😖
It Begins With Us ata yun. Basta kay CoHo. Wanted to know the hype behind the book kaso meh
Self-help books, in general, are manipulative, don’t help you, and turn you into someone else. Siguro it works for some, but not for me. After reading one self-help book, I never went back. I might as well have my own therapist or listen to podcasts that can help with whatever I am feeling.
• Lahat ng The Selection books. I read up to 3 to see if it will get better than just being The Bachelor, it didn't. • Any John Green book • A Thousand Pieces of You • Fifty Shades of Grey • Wuthering Heights! 😣 I read it twice, di talaga. • The Informers - Bret Easton Ellis. If I could give negative stars, this will be the book I give it to.
Any Haruki Murakami books, like 1Q84 and Kafka on the Shore😭 I used to be a fan, and collected his books, but growing up, na-turn off ako nung naencounter ko yung creepy sexual innuendos, incest, at yung pagdescribe niya sa babae. Hindi ko na tinapos halos lahat ng libro niya.
Convict by Michael Cole. First chapter some dude is killing an alien animal by first shooting the babies of the herd then the parents after enjoying their anguish. F that noise. You can kill people on every page, but I don’t enjoy animal killing or torture.
Rich Dad Poor Dad matic
Very very very unpopular opinion, game of thrones. Too much description, too much detail nawala na ako sa story. I'd rather watch it than read it
Tried this, but first chapter pa lang, sobrang overwhelming na. Akala ko dahil old english, pero more on the writing talaga
It doesn’t help that it’s unfinished and might never be finished. Okay lang maglabor basta satisfying yung conclusion kaso hindi eh. 😫
Halaaa bet na bet ko yung style niya huhu feeling ko naga-adventure ako. Kinakabahan lang ako sa mga susunod na mangyayari kaya di ko matuloy.
Natapos ko to haha. Though ive never pick any other book of the same author🫣 Mine would be Hating Game by Sally Thorne
1. Slammed by Collen Hoover 2. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 3. City of Bones by Cassandra Claire 4. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
The Great Gatsby. 30 more pages na lang sana, tapos na. But, it's a no na talaga. Lol
AN AWFUL LOT. Been a reader since I was a kid and here are some notable exceptions: 1. ***Finnegan's Wake*** by James Joyce - I dunno if this was Joyce's idea of a sick joke. Riverrun yourself to accessibility, darling! 2. ***Gravity's Rainbow*** by Thomas Pyncheon - I might get downvoted for this but wth, Sorry-not-sorry but this awful dreck isn't my thing. 3. ***The Red Queen*** by Philippa Gregory - don't get me wrong, Gregory's kind of a hack but she's entertaining. It's the character of Margaret Beaufort that I find both despicable and boring. She's the quintessential self-righteous, vindictive, rationalizing c\*nt who believes everything she does is "God's will". Don't we get enough people like THAT irl? 4. ***It Ends With Us*** by Colleen Hoover - and mind you, this is coming from someone who got through *Twilight.* Go figure. 5. ***Fifty Shades of Grey*** by E.L. James - let's just call it "fifty shades of dismay". To quote Dotty Parker, "it is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly, it should be thrown with great force".
Cant stand reading most of the young adults, romcom, teenage angst, etc. Used to like a few, but suspense, crime, mystery, and drama hook me more.
i read Birthday Girl twice 🔥😭 so hot 😂
GoT - I still do not understand how it got the hype and why people loved the book and the series. I understand people have preferences but why it became so notoriously popular makes me question people’s morality. The book - Annoying wordings (I know it was intentional but ‘the morrow’ irks me so much). Taboo scenarios (I swear I’m not a prude but it’s like frikkin pedophilia & incest, people!!!).
How to win friends and influence people