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bif

(24,547 posts) Sat May 29, 2021, 09:46 AM May 2021

What are the books everybody loved but you just didn't get? [View all]

One of mine was "The Shipping News". My wife and daughter absolutely loved it. I got about 50 pages into it and kept waiting for it to grab me. I thought it was goofy, just for the sake of being goofy. Like watching an intentionally campy movie.

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What are the books everybody loved but you just didn't get? [View all] bif May 2021 OP

Cold Mountain. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2021 #1

I think I would have liked the Da Vinci Code a lot better if it were not for all the hype around it. Scrivener7 May 2021 #3

I really want to emphasize that I've read similar books. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2021 #9

I love those "secret history" books yellowdogintexas Jun 2021 #27

So long as you understand they are fiction. PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 2021 #29

Absolutely. I am amazed at these people who are so outdone by yellowdogintexas Sep 2021 #30

There's a whole genre that I call "housewife literature" that I don't get. (I am a woman.) Scrivener7 May 2021 #2

These are sometimes called "domestic thrillers," but they are seldom thrilling. Ocelot II May 2021 #13

Didn't "get," or didn't like? 3catwoman3 May 2021 #4

I agree about Garp. Most anything bu Irving, really, IMHO. rsdsharp May 2021 #18

I thought Huxley's "A Brave New World," gab13by13 May 2021 #5

Anything by Danielle Steel. babylonsister May 2021 #6

I personally loved PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2021 #31

Thank you kindly!! babylonsister Sep 2021 #33

I got a kindle right before my Hawaii cruise in March, 2020. I wound up not using it on the cruise, PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2021 #34

my mother HATED Danielle Steele. yellowdogintexas Oct 2021 #37

Gone With the Wind luvs2sing May 2021 #7

I first read Gone With the Wind when I was PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2021 #35

Amen to that! luvs2sing Sep 2021 #36

The Bible Bayard May 2021 #8

Conversely "Catcher in the Rye" underpants May 2021 #10

The Plot Against America PoindexterOglethorpe May 2021 #11

I read free novels from Amazon a good bit. Haggard Celine May 2021 #12

I should clarify... bif May 2021 #14

Harry Potter. CrispyQ May 2021 #15

For what it's worth, when the series first came out PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2021 #32

Rich Dad, Poor Dad XanaDUer2 May 2021 #16

I love Gore Vidal's history series and some others, but ... Myra Breckinridge, I could not read, and ShazamIam May 2021 #17

Fifty Shades of Grey sucks Ziggysmom May 2021 #19

Totally agree. Man, that thing was awful. Scrivener7 May 2021 #25

"Dune" by Frank Herbert. TexLaProgressive May 2021 #20

Gravity's Rainbow & Joyce's Ulysses bif May 2021 #21

Anything by James Patterson. Midnight Writer May 2021 #22

This! Scrivener7 May 2021 #23

In all honesty The King of Prussia May 2021 #24

I agree. The exceptions being Mark Twain and some Dickens. bif Jun 2021 #26

The French Lieutenant's Woman yellowdogintexas Jun 2021 #28