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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[icecoldrain]

I made an attempt to read Twilight and didn't get more than a page in lmfao. I made an attempt at reading the gender swap Twilight and didn't get half a chapter in. 50 Shades? I can't believe how many people were into it LOL. The quotes I've seen from it is enough to make me question people's sanity 🤣

YOU DIDN'T READ SOME CLASSICS?! I'm just kidding. I think most people only read some classics because it was required reading in school and a lot of it isn't most people's cup of tea.

[orangerful]

LOL I always say if they actually TAUGHT the classics, that would have been different. The best year I had, when I got the most out of my classic reading, was when OMG IMAGINE THIS - HISTORY AND ENGLISH CLASSES LINED UP! We were studying the Great Depression AND reading Grapes of Wrath! WOW! I mean, how ridiculous that this isn't the norm. *sigh* I mean, I probably still would have grumbled about having to read Dickens but maybe if we had been studying Victorian England so we could have understood what made Dickens "edgy" for his time, it would have been a better experience.

[rogueslayer452]

I'm the same with FSOG and Twilight. I didn't even know those were a thing until everyone started talking about it, but by then it just wasn't interesting to me because it's not the genres that I gravitate towards anyway. I'm kinda glad I never read those or was even mildly interested in them in the slightest, aside from mocking them of course. I'm still baffled that many still don't know that FSOG is literally Twilight fanfiction, lol.

I've seen the debates here and there about Cursed Child being the eighth book, although the majority of Potter fans agree that it's a.) not a book and not part of the main series and b.) not considered canon. Because it's essentially fanfiction in play form that JKR apparently approved of.

[orangerful]

That last sentence is pretty much what I tell people when I give them the book while making a face. :P

I picked up Twilight because the buzz was happening at the library and I wanted to see what it was about. I heard "vampires" and was hoping for a good Buffy wanna-be, but, alas.

You'd be amazed what people will read based on it appear on a "Best Seller" list. It's like "you do realize that "Best Seller" does not represent quality, right???"

[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.

[carbonpaper]

Don't feel guilty for not reading Austen. I mean I think she's great, but books like that aren't for everyone.

I think the most I've read at once was 4 or 5 books. 3 is about my limit.

[chocolate_frapp]

I never liked Twilight either.