Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Ten books I will probably not waste my precious reading time on

This one isn't too hard. Some of the books I'll list are the following  books in a series I've already read or books that are just so terrible, I wouldn't touch them with a ten-foot pole. I've determined the terribleness from ratings and reviews I've seen online and some of them are books I know that are super, duper stupid.

To start the list:

1. The Host by Stephanie Meyer. It's written by Stephanie Meyer, that alone says enough. Twilight was so awful that I thought she couldn't make another books as awful as the first ones she wrote. WRONG.

2. Dreadnaught by Cherie Priest. I didn't love the first book, Boneshaker, but I was able to tolerate it so I requested Fiddlehead, the fifth book in The Clockwork Century series when I saw it in the bookstore. At first I thought it was the second book, so when I got it I put it last in the list of books to review. Then I looked into it and Tor told me that I could, in fact, read the series in whatever order I wished. And O-M-G that book took forever to read because it was so incredibly, painfully boring. I won't be reading any others in the series; at least, I'll look into it more carefully.

3. 2nd and 3rd books of Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James, the author that totally messed up Dom/sub relationships and promoted the abuse and rape of women. BDSM is a power play but it's neither of the two above that I just mentioned. In Fifty Shades, though, this is not true.

I don't know the titles of the books and they're not worth what little effort it'd take to Google the series to find them. So. Not. Worth. It.

4-10. Anything that's classic like: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or anything not from the last two centuries. They bore the fuck out of me, all of the, especially The Great Gatsby. I realize that that makes me a horrible English major but it's true, I won't deny it: I hate the classics.

Included in books 4-10 would also be anything by Shakespeare. I'm so over that guy.

I'm cheating. I need to study for my final tomorrow but I couldn't resist doing this meme. So, the last few book are included in "the classics". Do you get that those bore me? I think I made that clear. As an English major I was forced to read these books over and over and over again. To begin with, I didn't like that, but when three classes made me read The Great Gatsby I nearly pulled my hair out.

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