My friend Brookie has a reading/writing blog, and on it today she answered some questions about book popularity. I thought it sounded fun, so I'm going to answer the same questions here.
1. A POPULAR BOOK OR SERIES THAT YOU DIDN'T LIKE:
-The Louis Lowery books, I liked The Giver a lot, but the others were sort of meh.
-Daughter of Smoke and Bone series, wanted to love it, but hated it
-Six of Crows, started it but didn't finish, it was a bit dark
-The Light Between Oceans, wanted to love it, but didn't.
-Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, boring
-Fault in Our Stars, hated
-The Green Ember, too slow
-The Night Circus, still can't put my finger on exactly why I didn't enjoy that one, but I didn't
-The Selection, started out ok, but by book 3 I was rolling my eyes WAY too much
2. A POPULAR BOOK OR SERIES THAT EVERYONE ELSE SEEMS TO HATE BUT YOU LOVE:
-Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
-Go Set a Watchman
-Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
3. A LOVE TRIANGLE WHERE THE MAIN CHARACTER ENDED UP WITH THE WRONG PERSON OR AND OTP (ONE TRUE PAIRING) THAT YOU DON’T LIKE:
Still mad about Katniss and Peta....but I totally understand how that needed to be. I don't read many love triangle books, because I hate love triangles, and find that by the end I usually hate all the people involved in them.....
-The girl with blue hair and the angel in Daughter of Smoke and Bone
-The couple in Night Circus
4. A POPULAR BOOK GENRE THAT YOU HARDLY REACH FOR:
-young adult anything
-self help
5. A POPULAR OR BELOVED CHARACTER THAT YOU DO NOT LIKE:
-Princess Buttercup, or basically any of the Princess Bride characters
-America Singer
6. A POPULAR AUTHOR THAT YOU CAN’T SEEM TO GET IN TO:
-John Green
-Nicholas Sparks
-Jane Austen
-Amy Tan
-Kate Morton
7. A POPULAR BOOK TROPE THAT YOU’RE TIRED OF SEEING:
-Love triangles
-Cancer death stories.
8. A POPULAR SERIES THAT YOU HAVE NO INTEREST IN READING:
-Twilight
-Matched
-Maze Runner
9. THE SAYING GOES, “THE BOOK IS ALWAYS BETTER THAN THE MOVIE,” BUT WHAT MOVIE OR T.V. SHOW ADAPTATION DO YOU PREFER MORE THAN THE BOOK?
Ninety-nine percent of the time I tend to agree with the above statement. But there are a couple.....
-Phantom of the Opera
-Pride and Prejudice (because the movie version is shorter, not because I particularly love either one)
-Possibly Sherlock Holmes. I love the Conan Doyle stories, but I REALLY like a lot of the movie and TV spin offs from it.
-The Theory of Everything. Love that movie so much more than A Brief History of Time, the Stephen Hawking book.
1 comment:
I love this post and all your other book review post you do. I always enjoy reading book review post to find new books to read and to get different perspectives from books. I am really bad about writing reviews myself but knowing how much i like them makes me want to try to write more of them. I do like the idea behind this post gives you different questions to consider then the usual ones.
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