'Sleeper'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
ok, what's the most unfortunate book rec you ever got?
Kite Runner. If I ever figure out who told me to read that book, I am going to be quite vexed at them. For the longest time it stayed on my shelves too because I refused to donate it and inflict that pain on others and throwing a book away felt like heresy. I totally threw it away though. It was the lessor of sins.
ok, what's the most unfortunate book rec you ever got?
The Book of Ruth. Hello, bleakness, how are you?
Oh! Someone sent me La Perdida, which I hated. But she was getting rid of it, so...there must have been a reason. There are several books that were recommended in general that I didn't like, but I guess there aren't many books that people have specifically, personally recommended to me that have been disasters. I didn't really like Tales of the Lost Formicans, so that might count.
I saw the Kite Runner movie...it was okay. But I can imagine the screenwriter cut out a lot of misery, Cass.
Twilight.
Back in the day a coworker was all "ooh, I just read this awesome book and I know you're a big reader and enjoy vampires and stuff..."
Do recommendations you didn't take count? A friend of mine was big into L. Ron Hubbard in school, and tried to get me to read Battlefield Earth. Pass.
Well, I guess, Matt. I think you made the right call. Meara, yeah, that happened to me too. I might have been fine with it if I only read the one, though.
Cass, I had the same reaction to Kite Runner. It left a sour taste in my brain that will never go away. From that book I learned the valuable lesson that it really is okay to stop reading and not finish a book.
I loved the movie version of The Kite Runner. I never read the book, but I'm all about the misery in books.
From that book I learned the valuable lesson that it really is okay to stop reading and not finish a book.
I'm still learning that lesson. I so wish I had just given it up instead of this stupid feeling angry at a book. I mean, that's ridiculous. It's a book, why was I angry at it? Even worse, I am still angry at it. I need to learn to stop reading.