Books everyone seems to love, but you just can't

[DemoMonkey]

"I still enjoy this one, but find the many different POV confusing."

It's basically the "Rashomon" of founding texts.

 

[Eltab]

I still enjoy this one, but find the many different POV confusing.

Tangent:
A tourist attraction in Orlando "The Bible Experience" takes 2500 or so years of history and squishes it down as if it all happened at once. Seeing Roman soldiers walk past Abraham's tent just did not work for me (I have a History minor). Individually the displays were good.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Sorry not sorry...

But I now want to read a LoTR meets Seinfeld pastiche.

 

[The Green Hermit]

I tried to reread the Elenium a while back...and gods it has not aged well. Really cool world, though.

The anti-gay rhetoric always bugged me. As an entire piece of work, though, I love it.

 

[The Green Hermit]

I don't like horror, so I haven't read much Stephen King, but for some reason, I absolutely love Pet Semetary. I also really like Anne McCaffrey, but some of her books duplicate too much of what is going on in other books. I actually like her son's continuation of the series better, but the polyamory made it so I wouldn't let my kids read them until I knew they could handle it. Anne hinted at it, but Todd full-on went there.

 

[Lanefan]

A tourist attraction in Orlando ... takes 2500 or so years of history and squishes it down as if it all happened at once.

That, in a nutshell, about sums up my game setting.

 

[Deset Gled]

Terry Pratchett. His humour and my humour just don't quite mesh. Bounce.

I don't mind Pratchett in moderation, but Good Omens definitely belongs on the list for me. It's on a bunch of "Best Fantasy" novel lists and people were super excited when the Amazon series came out. I found it quite forgettable.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

The anti-gay rhetoric always bugged me. As an entire piece of work, though, I love it.

Me too. I love the characters, and the fat gay man ends up being much more complex than he first seems, but still, it’s...not a fun read in those parts.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I don't like horror, so I haven't read much Stephen King, but for some reason, I absolutely love Pet Semetary. I also really like Anne McCaffrey, but some of her books duplicate too much of what is going on in other books. I actually like her son's continuation of the series better, but the polyamory made it so I wouldn't let my kids read them until I knew they could handle it. Anne hinted at it, but Todd full-on went there.

Wait what? Polyamory isn’t more “adult” than monogamy.

 

[The Green Hermit]

I don't mind Pratchett in moderation, but Good Omens definitely belongs on the list for me. It's on a bunch of "Best Fantasy" novel lists and people were super excited when the Amazon series came out. I found it quite forgettable.

I liked it, but it definitely had some prosey sections that I skimmed.