Books You Don't Like.

The Hunger Games - The writing was bland and unemotional. Katniss was basically Bella Swan, badass-ified. But was she a badass? No. Plus, all the characters were dull and the action scenes did nothing to get my blood pumping. I read the first two books.

The Giver - Many holes in the plot line, ending was ridiculousy vague, writing was poor, and things just didn't match up well. Oh, and it was boring.

City of Bones - Ha! For fun I wrote chapter reviews in my journal, criticizing nearly every sentence. It is almost as bad as Twilight.

Which leads me to..

The Twilight Saga - Please, like you haven't already heard its flaws from someone else.

The House of Night Series - It's a good thing P.C. cast's daughter helped her out a bit, because her idea of how girls talk is ludicrous. Also, the melodrama is through the roof.

Evermore -

PoeticallyPathetic:

Evermore by Alyson Noel - *sigh* How do I even begin to explain how angry this book made me? It's just a horrible imitation of Twilight. The protaganist, Ever, is extremely whiny, repetitive and just flat-out stupid. Her boyfriend, Damen, is only present in about 12 of the book's 38 chapters, and in most of those chapters, Ever is rejecting him. Really romantic... The story is incredibly uneventful, and the amount of grammatical errors it contains is ungodly. I've read fan-fictions on this site that could mop the floor with this book, and based on how much I hate this piece of garbage, I will never go near the other 5 books in the Immortals series or anything else Alyson Noel has written. She makes Stephanie Meyer look like a golden goddess of literature. This book deserves to go down in flames, and I'm very tempted to put a lighter to my copy so one less person has to suffer.

...Yeah.

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - Bland, dull writing style, unrealistic actions that the character takes, and an inability to narrate as if he were a seven (?) year old girl. I couldn't even finish after a certain amount of chapters.

The Clique series. I know they're supposed to be shallow and all sorts of awful, but I hated it. I couldn't draw any sympathy for any of the characters, who were all two-dimensional and had no real issues or depth. There literally wasn't any depth to the 'plot', and the plots were mundane. It followed a bunch of rich, spoiled pre-teen idiotic girls getting revenge on each other and being melodramatic. I have never met a group of teenage girls like this.

Romeo and Juliet. I know it's a play, but it was awful. The writing was okay, it wasn't nearly as bad as I assumed it would be, but I can't get over the stupidity of the plot. I know that the reason it was so fast-paced was so that when it was performed, it would be more dramatic, but it was awful. The characters were one-dimensional, the only glimpse of a plot was forbidden romance between two enemies. I'd rather read about Mercutio, Rosaline, or Tybalt, or even Paris—anyone but Romeo and Juliet. Friar Lawrence was all sorts of stupid.

The Uglies. I couldn't get past the first book. The first three-quarters were interesting, and I forced myself to stick with it. At the beginning, it was a real page-turner, and the dystopian world (was it dystopian, or post-apocalyptic?) was riveting and brilliant, but the characters were flat and I couldn't feel much for Tally. She was annoying after a while, and the minute her love interest was introduced, it was just hell. The last quarter of the book took me forever to get through, and I literally had to force myself to sit down and really finish it. It was dreadful.

cinderella.:

The Clique series. I know they're supposed to be shallow and all sorts of awful, but I hated it. I couldn't draw any sympathy for any of the characters, who were all two-dimensional and had no real issues or depth. There literally wasn't any depth to the 'plot', and the plots were mundane. It followed a bunch of rich, spoiled pre-teen idiotic girls getting revenge on each other and being melodramatic. I have never met a group of teenage girls like this.

Ah..The Clique. I read a couple of the books in no particular order. Nothing to rave about, in my opinion, but it was nice to escape my life and pretend that life is really that easy.

cinderella.:

Romeo and Juliet. I know it's a play, but it was awful. The writing was okay, it wasn't nearly as bad as I assumed it would be, but I can't get over the stupidity of the plot. I know that the reason it was so fast-paced was so that when it was performed, it would be more dramatic, but it was awful. The characters were one-dimensional, the only glimpse of a plot was forbidden romance between two enemies. I'd rather read about Mercutio, Rosaline, or Tybalt, or even Paris—anyone but Romeo and Juliet. Friar Lawrence was all sorts of stupid.

I'll be reading that tomorrow for English. I am not looking forward to it; my teacher has these magnets sporting a bunch of Shakespearan insults, and they're all really juvenile. Not witty or clever in the least. I told my mom this. She bitched me out for the rest of dinner.

Ok I just need to say something about the Uglies....
Ugh...I bought all four books for $20 on sale, and I WANT MY MONEY BACK! I really thought it was going to be good, so I started reading #1. I got to about page 75 before finally giving up. I had absolutely NO interest in it, and I tried to read pretties but it was really boring and there comes a point when there is just SOOO much detail you kind of forget what you're reading. I mean, do I really need an entire paragraph about what her eyes looked like? Brown is just fine to me! Some people appreciate that kind of stuff, but I just couldn't pull myself to do the same...

Looking for Alaska - John Green.

The quote circulating on the internet is the best part of the entire novel. Alaska is this idealized character, and Miles falls flat. There was too much explanation, lack of emotion, and lack of passion within Miles. Didn't like it.

I hated that Blue Bloods series, the second book in the Immortals series, and Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick or something like that. I also hate Harry Potter. (Let the Potterians attack me.)

Blue Bloods--- I only finished the first book because I wanted to get it over with. I hated the detail on clothes and furniture when I barely knew what any of the characters looked like. Speaking of characters, they were all bland and boring. The book pace was so slow, I'd go to sleep in class while reading it.

I don't remember what the second book in the Immortals series was called, but I hated the book. It was just a remake of New Moon. (Oh, why doesn't he love me anymore?) I mean, seriously Ever, grow up. Speaking of Ever, I have never read a more shallow character. Alyson Noel tried so hard to make Ever have depth, but in the end she was just a spoiled brat that wanted more, more, more. Gawd, I hate those characters. Plus, at the end (spoiler here), Ever just screams "Wake up!" and everyone goes back to hating each other. Uh, can you say stupid? If that was really all it took, then I could've done that at the beginning. Plus, the entire plot is choppy. She's throwing in random information as she thinks of it, putting absolutely no thought into what she's actually writing for the public to read.

Crescendo--- Where do I begin? It shoud've ended at the first book, Becca or Becky or whatever your name is. It was just like the Immortals book. THe only difference? Nora actually had depth, and half a brain in that pretty little head of hers. The only problem I had was that Marcie was a stereotype for a mortal enemy, and Patch is just another Damon Salvatore, except this time with wings. At one point. Plus, the whole "I can't feel you, physically" thing is kinda creepy.

Harry Potter. Where do I begin? I hate it. I hated the first movie, and the first book. Gawd, when my teacher told me were going to read it, I whined. He probably thought that since I'm into the whole fantasy genre that I'd love it, but I hated it. The characters sucked, the plot sucked, and everything was awful. I couldn't get into it.

the Hunger Games: the writing style was annoying, there was no real feeling in it, and i feel like commas were overly used. i also disliked all the characters except two: cinna & finnick. all the others had no appeal whatsoever. katniss was awful, i hated having her as the main character. she didn't feel real with emotion.

Great Expectations. Oh lord, where do I begin with this novel? A Christmas Carol was a fine tale that Charles Dickens created, so I was more than thrilled when I heard that for my honors English class, we would be reading Great Expectations. What a disappointing and terrible monstrosity it was. Pip was the worst excuse of a protagonist, and that brought the book down so much. I was more interested in Miss. Havisham, Biddy, and Estella. Even the intolerable Mr. Jagger's would've been vastly more enjoyable to read about. Pip started off okay, but soon turned into a whiny, selfish, disgusting, haughty excuse of a human being. I couldn't draw up an ounce of sympathy for him while reading this novel. Back then, Dickens and other authors were paid by the word, so the writing style was wordy and drawn out to the point where slicing bits of my flesh off sounded like an increasingly more appealing activity to participate in. This book is by far one of the worst pieces of literature I've read. For such an acclaimed author, this was horrid.

I'm reading Devil Bones by Kathy Reichs and I seriously dislike it. I've been struggling with it for the past 2 or 3 months. I have no drive to read or finish it. I thought I would like it because the author pretty much created the show Bones and I love the show so I thought I would like her novels, but it's quite the opposite of what I expected.

The Hunger Games, as well as the other two in the series (can't remember their titles). They were recommended to me by one of my teachers when I was a sophomore and all my friends raved about how good they were, but I just did not like them at all. I can't count how many times I rolled my eyes reading those books. But then, action/adventure type stuff really isn't my thing at all.

Also, Lolita by Nabokov. I read it three times because I wanted to like it soooo bad. I loved the plot and ideas, and classic Russian literature is my absolute favorite, plus I actually am a big fan of Nabokov's writing, but I just couldn't get in to that book for some reason.

I also never liked the Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings series, or the movies. Very unpopular opinion, I know. Again, just not a genre I enjoy.

Anything by John Marsden. Absolutely anything. I've tried to find a book written by him that I liked, but I couldn't. Recently, I had to read Tomorrow, When the War Began for school and it took three weeks to read, when I could read a book that size in a day. His writing never seems to have any emotion to it, and the characters are always really 2D and predictable. His writing style is rather bland and unemotional.

The Book of Blood and Shadow by Robin Wasserman. I'm not quite sure why, but I read the entire thing waiting for something to happen, something that would actually make me feel something, but that just didn't happen. The story line could have been interesting, but it just didn't work.

Boyfriend Material.

I went into reading it knowing it had a weak plot and a whole set of cliche storylines, but it sounded like the first story you write when you're 12, that when you look back on it are ashamed for letting it escape your mind.

I didn't particularly care for The Hunger Games. The characters were flat, the writing style was way too choppy and obvious, and it just has Battle Royale's plot with Twilight's romance thrown in. Not only that, but it's boring. I know that seems like a rather petty excuse for not liking it, but I like books that pull you in, whereas THG just made me question almost everything that went on.

And oh god, Marked in the House of Night series. The main character is a whiny little twat who just wants to be normal, even though everyone falls in love with her as soon as they meet her. There were parenthesis everywhere, and the characters are all so underdeveloped and FOR SOME REASON the two gay guys keep mentioning their sexuality. Guess what? I DON'T CARE. It seems as if the only reason Zoey befriends these people is so they can make her look open-minded, but that doesn't work. Why? Because they spend a good three-fourths of the book bashing Christians. The protagonist was utterly unlikable, the plot was just one cliche after another with the occasional "dirty" joke thrown in, and ... GAAH, I SERIOUSLY CANNOT DESCRIBE HOW TERRIBLE THIS BOOK WAS. You know, we really needed a series to come along and balance out Twilight's misogyny with some misandry. There's slut-shaming ("If you give a guy a blowjob, you're a dirty slut!"), and when you combine that with all the "MEN ARE SO EVULLL!!!" you get a series that would make most feminists cringe.

...Whoa. I-I was a bit too harsh with Marked. At least I could see why people like THG, just not why it got so popular. With Marked, though... I seriously don't know.

When we studied Lord of the Flies for English two years ago and it made me want to smash my head against a brick wall several times. The writing is so incredibly dull, and it dragged on forever. I literally bullshitted my way through the essays and exam for this book. I read to chapter 5 (how I even managed to get that far is beyond me) and then never touched the book again.

For this year in English we studied The Crucible and again, it drags on. I know it is a play but there was nothing exciting about it. The characters were flat and had no life in them. This is just honestly the worst play I've ever read. I got bored and stopped at page 70 or somewhere around there, so yeah, bullshitted my way through the essays and exams for this too .

The whole Twilight saga. I found that there just wasn't enough given in terms of imagery and emotion. This sometimes works, but here, it did not. Actually this goes for anything written by Meyer in my opinion.

If I ever have to as little as look at one of these books again....

I'm going to disagree with most of you and say that I absolutely adored To Kill a Mockingbird and Animal Farm (also studied for English a few years ago, but I had read them many times before). I'm not sure why I liked them as they are not in the style I like. I guess the plots just gripped me.

castiel:

Vampire Kisses ... I didn't like it - it was really, really cliche...

I rember in 8th grade I was obsessed with those books. Then I decided to read them over again in 10th grade. To say they were cliche is an understatement.

The Fifth Child - My teacher made me read it because she wanted me to do an analysis on it... and no, just no. Everyone was annoying, no one stood out or had character, and the main characters had this freakish view of having, like, 10 kids. Thank God it was such a short book, I would've burned my teacher's copy if it was any longer.

Shannon McFarland:

Looking for Alaska - John Green.

The quote circulating on the internet is the best part of the entire novel. Alaska is this idealized character, and Miles falls flat. There was too much explanation, lack of emotion, and lack of passion within Miles. Didn't like it.

That's how I felt after I finished the book. There was a time where I spent a lot of time researching John Green quotes, and they were all so pretty so I decided to read one of his books. And I was awfully disappointed.

If you want to read John Green, just read his quotes. They're better than the books.

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I've never read a book I didn't like, except for Tuck Everlasting. It was flat with an unoriginal story line. I can't say much more than that because while we were supposed to be reading this book in class, I read The Outsiders.

I'm reading Fury by Salman Rushdie at the moment but I'm finding it so dull. Nothing is happening, it's like a bit of an info-dump in chapters 1-5 without any major action. There's no doubt he's an incredibly intelligent and skillful writer, but to me he comes off as incredibly pretentious. In the first 5 chapters that I've read, it seems he wants to analyse, criticize and find a metaphor for everything he possibly can. And I'm not going to lie, I don't understand what he's talking about some of the time. It's a book for smart people and it's just inaccessible to me. Plus, I cannot sympathize with any of his characters and I actively hate his protagonist. I'm going to give Midnight's Children a chance because it's said to be his best novel, but I think I've had enough of Fury.

@Shannon McFarland:

YES. I feel the same exact way about Looking For Alaska. People just rave about it and say that it's this wonderful, life changing, extraordinary book, but I didn't get anything like that out of it. It wasn't boring necessarily, but I don't think it deserves all the hype. I agree that it's cliché too.

And I agree with the reverend in that I also really enjoyed Animal Farm and To Kill a Mockingbird. They're really great, in my opinion.

pink lemonade!:

Ok I just need to say something about the Uglies....
Ugh...I bought all four books for $20 on sale, and I WANT MY MONEY BACK! I really thought it was going to be good, so I started reading #1. I got to about page 75 before finally giving up. I had absolutely NO interest in it, and I tried to read pretties but it was really boring and there comes a point when there is just SOOO much detail you kind of forget what you're reading. I mean, do I really need an entire paragraph about what her eyes looked like? Brown is just fine to me! Some people appreciate that kind of stuff, but I just couldn't pull myself to do the same...

I read each book thinking the next one would be better. I would like to get the time I wasted by reading them back but obviously that isn't going to happen.