Top ten worst books everyone loves (except me)

Worst books everyone loves

except me

 
 

I’ve been itching to write about this ever since the movie adaptation of THAT book. Fully aware that some of you might hate me now. still, I can’t hold back.

10.  The road to the narrow south 

If I can’t ‘feel’ a book, I don’t like it. This one left me completely cold. The scene on the bridge? I should’ve been crying my eyes out, but I felt - nothing.

Redeeming feature: superb sentences

9.     Moby Dick

I can’t believe anyone enjoys reading 50 pages about different types of sailor knots. 

Redeeming feature: he wrote beautiful love letters to Hawthorne

8.     Prodigal summer 

I’m all for conservation and protecting jackals, but please don’t preach. 

Redeeming feature: she wrote the magnificent Poisonwood Bible 

7.     Flowers in the attic

I like weird books, but there needs to be something else there. This one? Just plain weird. 

Redeeming feature: the twist isn’t bad 

6.     The lord of the rings 

I tried to read this one in all 3 languages I’m literate in. It’s equally boring in all 3.

Redeeming feature: interesting names 

5.     The road 

Great book but - the gloom and doom! I felt like slashing my wrists. 

Redeeming feature: beautiful writing 

4.     A man called Ove

Any aspect of Asperger’s you’ve ever heard of? It’s packed into this one character. 

Redeeming feature: multiculturalism 

3.     Captain Correli’s mandolins 

The worst ending of all times. I can’t forgive him for spoiling a good book. 

Redeeming feature: first half of the book 

2.     Bridge of Clay

This was so painful to read. It’s like someone wanted to be super smart and make every sentence into a poem but achieved the opposite. 

Redeeming feature: he wrote the superb The Book Thief

 

1.     Where the crawdads sing

Where do I start? The characters are completely unbelievable, the plot is so haphazard, the psychology of the characters is less than cartoonish, and the writing is just so, so bad. I won’t even go into how implausible the actions and developments are. 

Redeeming feature: The cover?

 

How is this possible?

What is it I’m missing that 50 million other people see in this book?

 
 
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