Book Club

[walkingal]

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@teganslaw wrote:

I wouldn't call it "dreadful",  but the book A Man Called Ove was disappointing to me. I expected much more after all the great reviews, but couldn't get into it. I read about a third of it before giving up. 

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Agree.  I filed that into my "Overrated" shelf.  

[JumpTheRope]

Oh gosh....I'm a Boomer, but it took me until I was 50 to give myself "permission" to NOT FINISH
a book once I've started.
I don't read books in the same vast quantities I used to read, as a younger person.
Especially since there's more than 3-TV channels now
and of course the *magic* of cable/wifi.
I'm actually THANKFUL that there were so FEW
options back-in-the-day....reading became my
Number 1 pastime, along with bike riding.
Sigh....
Reminiscing often leads me down
into The Dumps., carrying the Blues.
Lol

[beckyb1012]

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@GenXmuse wrote:

I know I’m in the minority but I hated Woman in the Window by AJ Finn. The characters were flat and the interactions and relationships seemed very poorly fleshed. It is his first novel and a bestseller but it was drudgery for me.

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I am standing with you on this book as well @GenXmuse.  I read it quickly but was so disappointed.  I felt like the book was just taken from Rear Window, Jimmy Stewart and Copy Cat, Sigourney Weaver and just thrown in a teenage boy.

[Group 5 minus 1]

Any thing by Danielle Steele.

[icezeus]

Here is another reader that just will not waste her time on books that she does not care for. Way too many books to read to suffer through one. I enjoy reading as a form of entertainment, and the Library keeps me highly entertained. 

[occasionalrain]

Quentins by Maeve Binchy, I knew how it would go half way through and only finished it to congratulate myself on being right. I disliked the main character and wasn't all that keen on any of the others. I won't be reading any more of Maeve Binchy books.