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Books/authors which others enthuse about but didn't really grip you...

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

For me, recently it's American Gods by Neil Gaiman and The Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. I've read and finished both but they lost me slightly.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How To Win Friends and Influence People is overrated, basically just states the obvious.

For an "all time classic", I didnt think Great Gatsby was that good either.

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By *olgateMan
over a year ago

on the road to nowhere in particular

Anything by Dan Brown

Good plot badly written

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not really an author or book (sorry!) but I felt the same watching Citizen Kane.

Everyone says it’s one of the greatest films of all time, I found it tedious! Couldn’t watch to the end.

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By *irtyGirlWoman
over a year ago

Edinburgh

White Teeth by Zadie Smith. Yawn

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By *ecretlyASoftieWoman
over a year ago

Hull but travel regularly


"For me, recently it's American Gods by Neil Gaiman and The Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. I've read and finished both but they lost me slightly. "

I tried twice to get into shadow of the wind but it just wasn’t happening for me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Recently purchased "Devil's Day" by Andrew Hurley on the recommendation of a lady at Waterstones.

Awful read - in fact I`ve given up at page 60. One of the most annoying aspects is that a character's father is referred to as "dadda" all the way through. The character is an adult himself and with dadda being "baby language" it's absolutely infuriating to read "dadda" about 6 or 7 times a page!!

It is also very slow - taking an eternity to describe something as mundane as a car journey from a train station to a farm a couple of miles away - truly awful.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"White Teeth by Zadie Smith. Yawn "

This! I gave up about a quarter of the way through.

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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago

Bristol

I know I ought to but I have never finished a Dickens. There's also a lot of modern award winning fiction writers I never enjoyed reading and now just don't bother trying because I simply don't like any of the characters. They're not people I want to spend time with.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Game of Thrones

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

To many of my vanilla friends liked 50 shades of ****.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Catch-22 was f^&king boring as well.

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By *atcherwankerMan
over a year ago

Birmingham

I absolutely LOVED American Gods! It was my first Gaiman novel though, I've read Stardust and Neverwhere since and they're completely different, so I can see how you might not get on with it if you're already a N.G. fan.

I read a few Chandler books and fell in love with the Noir/hard boiled gumshoe vibe, and subsequently someone recommended Ellroy. I really like the movie LA Confidential, and I quite liked The Black Dahlia, so I bought those two to read. Absolutely dreadful author, really hard going and barely compelling at all.

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

Bible

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