Book Club

[traveler]

Did you mean Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's?  Not understanding the Katherine Hepburn comment?

[magicmoodz]

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@withaK wrote:

The Great Gatsby...................A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius..........The Corrections

I also don't still understand the Oprah v. "A Million Little Pieces" bruhaha. From what I remember the author altered a few facts to protect the family of a woman who OD'd. He did not change the fact that she died of an overdose. 

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I'm glad it isn't just me.  Several years ago a colleague loaned me "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" with rave reviews from her brother who happens to be part of the literary world in New York.  

Hmmm, I wasn't feeling it. 

[lovescats]

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@mollybgood wrote:

the love people have for

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
and
the books written by the Bronte sisters

What can't you wrap your head around

in the book world?

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the appeal of j d robb

[Sunnyfield]

"Eat Pray Love" - can't remember the author, but I was bored to death...can't understand the hype.

[lovescats]

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@withaK wrote:

The Great Gatsby...................A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius..........The Corrections

I also don't still understand the Oprah v. "A Million Little Pieces" bruhaha. From what I remember the author altered a few facts to protect the family of a woman who OD'd. He did not change the fact that she died of an overdose. 

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I can agree with The Corrections

[Caligurll]

How I enjoyed Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms so much but could not get into any of his other books.

[Caligurll]

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@Sunnyfield wrote:

"Eat Pray Love" - can't remember the author, but I was bored to death...can't understand the hype.

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@Sunnyfield I agree.  So many of the women I worked with loved and raved about the book.  I barely made it through the eat part and put it down, never to pick it up again.

[sandy53]

...the appeal of books about vampires, books where the characters are sociopaths/psychopaths, and horror.  

I am glad there are so many kinds of books that I do like!

[Caligurll]

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@sandy53 wrote:

...the appeal of books about vampires, books where the characters are sociopaths/psychopaths, and horror.  

I am glad there are so many kinds of books that I do like!

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And I love them!  From Bram Stoker's Dracula to Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series, I'm guilty of loving them!

I like a lot of horror story books, but I don't necessarily enjoy watching movies or tv series that are too graphic.  I'd rather leave the really gory details up to my imagination.

[sunala]

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@Peaches McPhee wrote:

Throwback to the 80s:  Danielle Steele! My word, she was popular and wrote a ton of books.  Tried one, one time, and thought, "This is so badly written, I cannot even read it."

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@Peaches McPhee - OMG I am SO with you!

The few books I've read of hers were wretched. Her very early ones were somewhat tolerable, and I did read a few, but as time went by, UGH. She writes the same characters, just in different places in different situations. And I hate all of them lol

Rushing Waters, the one she wrote about Superstorm Sandy, was abominable. I only read it because I thought MAYBE she would do a good job on it. I laughed as I read it, so in a way it was a form of amusement for me. The plot (and especially the facts) were totally ridiculous! Never ever again.