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..."
I know, world in peril and we have to work together. This is my last office romance, I'll tell you that.
Buffy ,'End of Days'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
meara - Sep 27, 2012 2:12:52 pm PDT #19838 of 28344
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 27, 2012 2:18:15 pm PDT #19839 of 28344
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
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.
erikaj - Sep 27, 2012 2:25:07 pm PDT #19840 of 28344
Always Anti-fascist!
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.
Zenkitty - Sep 27, 2012 2:34:40 pm PDT #19841 of 28344
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
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.
sj - Sep 27, 2012 2:51:58 pm PDT #19842 of 28344
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I loved the movie version of The Kite Runner. I never read the book, but I'm all about the misery in books.
Cass - Sep 27, 2012 2:53:03 pm PDT #19843 of 28344
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
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.
dcp - Sep 27, 2012 3:22:17 pm PDT #19844 of 28344
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
ok, what's the most unfortunate book rec you ever got?
Kite Runner
Absolutely.
Dana - Sep 27, 2012 3:42:51 pm PDT #19845 of 28344
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
My aunt gave me The Celestine Prophecy.
Kat - Sep 27, 2012 6:37:59 pm PDT #19846 of 28344
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
There is one line in Kite Runner that I adore. I think it sums up the immigrant experience as many of my students feel it. Chapter 11, I think: "Baba loved the idea of America. It was living in America that gave him an ulcer."
I feel that way about so much in my life. I love the idea of it, but the reality of it gives me pains.
DawnK - Sep 27, 2012 7:09:43 pm PDT #19847 of 28344
giraffe mode
ok, what's the most unfortunate book rec you ever got?
Wind Up Bird Chronicles. Maybe I just missed the point of it but man, I did not enjoy it.