book meme - responses part 2

[orangerful]

So, IT Chapter Two...I have thoughts. But I'm going to sleep. So how about more meme answers?

7. What is a book that you feel glad for not reading? requested by rogueslayer452
This is an odd question. I guess 'Fifty Shades of Gray'? Everyone was talking about it and I resisted the urge. Or the Twilight series beyond book 1. Oh wait, same thing LOL!

8. What is

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[ericadawn16]

7. I enjoyed the indepth posts making fun of it by those that did. That's such a weird question though. I always like forming my own opinion as much as possible. For example, my teenage coworkers were so disappointed with that fourth Twilight book and the way they described it- it sounded HILARIOUS! So, that's how I read them as bad cheesy books akin to MST3000 or something Bruce Campbell would do. I don't regret it because I did find it incredibly amusing but I also saw firsthand how certain readers should have an adult explaining how that's not how a romantic partner should act. It was definitely written by a Mormon and my more impressionable friends/friends who were sheltered and infantilized couldn't see that for many years afterwards

[ericadawn16]

I also want to mention A People's History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian which I read for a book club last month. I loved the poetic way it was written and MULTIPLE LGBTQ characters!!!!...so of course, half the book club totally hated it. One only read 10 pages and stopped.

[orangerful]

That sounds really good!!!

Eh, that's how book clubs are. Wouldn't be much discussion if everyone loved a book. Though that is lame that someone didn't even give it a try. 10 pages isn't fair for most books. Especially adult books!

[ericadawn16]

I haven't done a book club in about 20 years so I didn't know what to expect.

[orangerful]

LOL I kept trying to not use Harry Potter as an answer for things because that is really the only book based fandom I was ever in to.

[ericadawn16]

I think that was my first but then, I did Tolkien, ASOUE, Percy Jackson and a little Cirque du Freak.