Wait, Eragon? I loved that book! Then again, I read it three years ago. (Maybe I should read it again?) Oh, and I used to love Twilight.
Enough said.
Anyway, I was looking through the comments, and the weird thing is most of these books have been recommended to me as great books (that I haven't read yet.) Except How I Live Now-my best friend (at the time) read it and was constantly lamenting about how 'retarded' it was. Oh, and I loved the Artemis Fowl series. Still do-maybe that's because I first read it aged ten, and reading it again has that 'slipping into comfy old pyjamas' feeling.
I read Lord of the Rings when I was ten, and had basically no idea what it was about, but I ploughed through anyway. I tried to read it again this year, y'know, now that I'm all mature and stuff, and I put it down after, oh three chapters? I could understand what was going on that time, but Good God it was boring. I now have a LOT more respect for my ten-year-old self.
The Lovely Bones, I read when I was-yes, ten,(I had this whole "I'm-mature-enough-for-BIG-kids-books thing going on) and I loved it, then I read it again last year and ended it bored and quite possibly scarred for life.
I'm waffling about all this because I'm trying desperately to think of a book I didn't like... Oh, The House of Night series by Kristin Cast and P.C. Cast. They went on and on and on without any kind of conclusion to ANY problem, and the writers were trying so hard to relate to teenagers that all the characters were disgustingly shallow and cliched, never taking anything seriously, until the writing made sudden switches to purple prose and cheesy dramatic scenes straight from Hollywood's most terrible films. Avoid. Them. Like. The. Plague.
Maximum Ride, I loved the first one, but when I got to the seventh one and nothing had happened except non-stop action, no conclusions and no explanations, I seem to remember throwing it against the wall. It was like, "Hmm, something else strange and unexplainable has happened, I've got a new magic power, hahaha, let's go to Disneyland, oh no more guys with guns! Fly like the wind!" Over and over and over again.
The Princess Bride would have been good if he hadn't added all that BS about Simon Morgenstern.
When We Were Saints by Han Nolan. Noooo idea what the author was on about there.
I was going to end this by saying I can't really remember any books that I hate, I usually block them from my memory. Then I looked up at alllll those paragraphs and went, "Ohhhhhhh...."
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