Ok #Booksky What book was this for you? For me: Fourth Wing. I love fantasy and dragons, but this was not for me. I did go on and read Iron Flame, but I don't think I'll continue the series. 💙📚
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Wheel of time, genuinely awful series
jun 24, 2025, 9:05 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm a fan of the series myself, but totally understand your point of view as well. It's definitely not for everyone.
jun 24, 2025, 10:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Catcher in the Rye. Go ahead and ban it again. Stupid.
jun 24, 2025, 5:00 am • 1 0 • view
Can I ask how old you were when you read it? My hypothesis about that book is that if you aren’t seething with teen angst when you read it, the book sucks. I was 35 with adult angst and didn’t like it, but could see how 15-year old me would have loved it.
jun 24, 2025, 9:01 am • 0 0 • view
I read it in HS and I hated it but I dont think I was mentally in the right headspace to read it.
jun 24, 2025, 4:20 pm • 1 0 • view
American Psycho. Awful... 16 pages describing someone's tie.
jun 24, 2025, 6:05 am • 1 0 • view
I REALLY wanted to like The Left Hand of Darkness cos I heard good things. Spoiler: I did not like The Left Hand of Darkness.
jun 26, 2025, 8:44 am • 0 0 • view
This is gonna be unpopular but Project Hail Mary disappointed me
jun 24, 2025, 1:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Chain Gang All Stars. I just couldn't get into it
jun 23, 2025, 11:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Was this written by an eleven year-old?
jun 24, 2025, 6:08 am • 1 0 • view
the book is called The boy from the Mish
jun 24, 2025, 8:18 am • 2 0 • view
Outlander by Diane Gabaldon.
jun 24, 2025, 3:32 am • 2 0 • view
Not necessarily "popular" but it's a classic... Treasure island. Just didn't do it for me.
jun 24, 2025, 4:42 am • 1 0 • view
Harry Potter. Nothing to do with the TERF who wrote it - just hated her writing style.
jun 24, 2025, 4:15 am • 1 0 • view
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, an Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. A fictional retrospective of the video game industry was a cool idea, but this doesn't actually fulfill that promise while projecting later developments too early. The plotting also continually opts for tropes it flags as problematic itself.
jun 25, 2025, 6:05 am • 1 0 • view
I've been thinking about reading that book for a while now. I keep hearing it's good but every time I read the blurb it just doesn't grab my attention.
jun 26, 2025, 4:32 am • 0 0 • view
I don't recommend it. It tends to essentialize the sort of post-GamerGate gamer backlash culture as if it was always like that, rather than a historical process of radicalization. The concept of a coordinated homophobic player backlash culminating in a mass shooting back in 2005 is patently absurd.
jun 26, 2025, 4:48 am • 0 0 • view
Likewise, the concept 1990s gamer culture would not accept an androgynous or non-binary protagonist in "Ichigo" doesn't hold water. Androgyny was a popular design motif, and the comparable Sega game Nights into Dreams with its androgynous flying jester was very popular and well-received back then.
jun 26, 2025, 4:55 am • 0 0 • view
Anything by Colleen Hoover
jun 24, 2025, 6:25 pm • 1 0 • view