Ever been recommended a popular book and hated it?
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Re: Ever been recommended a popular book and hated it?
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I just came here to say this, LOL.jonesh91 wrote:I was recommended "The Fault in Our Stars" and "Looking for Alaska" by at least 25 people. I was very excited to read them and I was just so underwhelmed by them both. The characters felt forced to me, and everything just fell flat. While I respect John Green as a person, I'm just not fan of him as an author.
I didn't read "Looking for Alaska" but I read The Fault in Our Stars and yes, the right word to describe it is underwhelming. Exactly for the same reasons.
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Yes, I felt the same when I read this book. It was popular so I decided to read it, but I just don't feel like you said,"blown away by it". But reading this book helped me discover other John Green books, like Looking for Alaska which is a great one.midgetgem wrote:When I was recommended 'The Fault in our Stars' I had great expectations for it as I'd not heard a single negative review about it. However, I failed to see the 'craze' about it! I thought it was a really nice book and I did enjoy it, but I didn't feel that I couldn't put it down and I was blown away by it. Does anybody else feel this way about it? (please don't hate more for saying this!)
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They are Looking For Alaska by. John Green and Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. Surprising?
I am a fan of John Green, he's like my number one favorite male author, so I always looking forward for his works excitedly. I read The Fault in Our Stars and I was crying, the book wounded me and leave deep impressions to me, then I moved on and read Looking For Alaska for the next, and everything never be the same again. I was just disappointed, not really hate it. It's not like the book is bad but somehow it's not really that good.
And for Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell, I am a Goodreads member and everytime I want to read book I will consult to that site and I found that Fangirl was and is pretty popular, and the book has so many good reviews and good rating (almost 5 stars! that time), but then I read the book with a super huge expectation and I was disappointed, just disappointed because the book doesn't wound me nor leave deep impression, it was just like "That's it?".