Hundred procent agree with everything you said about Lessons in chemistry! I hated it from the start and eventually DNFed it. Don’t get the hype at all and get really annoyed everytime I see the cover now 😂
The fact that Delia Owens, is actually accused of helping in a murder in REAL LIFE and she wrote this book... The one accused are her ex-husband and his son, they kill someone in a "hunting accident" and dropped the body in a lagoon. Insane 🤦
DNF'd Crawdoors because it was infuriating. The idea that a severely neglected child with no education became a wonderful author was ridiculous. In real life, a child like that (and there have been cases) would barely have language let alone writing ability.
"They Both Die At The End" is extremely overrated. It was so mediocre, especially the characters and their relationship, which sucks because it's the core of the novel, but everything was just really bland It also really bothered me that we just don't know anything about how the world works. Like, the two MCs died because they were in the same house together... had they not spent the day together, would they have died the same way? This line of thought drove me nuts, and there was no explanation Adam Silvera's first two books are actually really good, but I feel like his writing went downhill ever since TBDATE
Thanks for reading For Whom The Bell tolls, so I don't have to. I have read two Hemingway novels - The Old Man and the Sea, which I found extreely tedious and his first novel The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) which I quite enjoyed,,,,
I definitely agree with Lessons in Chemistry, I DNFed it after 100 pages or so. You really hit the nail on the head with your criticism. I'm excited for part 2! (That and My Dark Vanessa is on my library-tbr, so I'll likely get to it next year) As for me, books that I hate but lots of people love, including some of my favourite booktubers, are The Night Circus, and If We Were Villains. The Night Circus was so boring, to me it was just a pretty facade without substance and I cared about none of the characters. If We Were Villains was entertaining enough to read, but to me in the end it's a pretentious, overhyped mess with bland characters and a “twist” that is neither exciting nor "shocking" (quoting the blurb here. Didn't live up to it imo)
The popular book I hated was Klara and the Sun. Boooooring, didn’t do anything for me emotionally, stayed on the surface. I love some other Ishiguro’s books, but just don’t get the hype for this one AT ALL. Some others popular books I read recently that didn’t do it for me are The Guest by Emma Cline, the Shards by Bret Easton Ellis and It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover.
Ishiguro is my favourite author but I agree that Klara and the Sun wasn't his best. Not sure what message he was trying to say about AI and/human connection but it felt behind the times.
@ I absolutely love some of his other books! Currently reading The Buried Giant and so far I am enjoying it :). I almost feel like a lot of the big reviewers would praise anything he writes just because he’s Ishiguro tbh. I am planning to read it again in a few years to see if my opinion changes.
Where the Crawdads Sing is terrible! I mean, almost the entire book is about her childhood and the murder trial - and then the ending that deals with the remainder of her life is just sort of tacked on in a few pages. It would have been much more interesting to know how she spent the rest of her life living with what she had done. What does killing someone (justifiably or not) do to a person? That might have made a good story!
The older I get the more annoyed I feel about Harry Potter as a main character of his story. I am into True Crime and the more I learn about the background of the worst people this world had ever seen - they are all very similar to the environment Harry was brought up in almost since birth. Even loving families can produre really bad people (for one Charles Manson would tell you no one ever cared, loved or gave him a single chance, which is a shameless lie), but it is much more rare than abuse or/and outright cruelty with nothing to balance it out anyhow. How is Harry so sweet-natured and caring and polite if he had never been exposed to any of this feelings or attitudes in his life? His living conditions also do not provide him with opportunities to absorb all those positive values from books or movies or music. What it boils down to is this idea that people are "born good" or "born bad" and this is what I am fundamentally against. In general, I feel like Harry Potter books are very deeply, irreversibly woven into the fabric of my life, but I was not a child when I read them, I was a teen and later a young adult and my core values and views have been formed and influenced by other books (and movies), so, as I said, as I get older and older a lot of moral concepts it presents seem very shallow to me. I like to use them as stepping stones and re-imagine them.
Loved the rant! My popular book I hate is Bright Young Women, it was deeply unethical and made me feel gross 😷 Also hard agree on waiting until the year is out to give your best books! I also respect booktubers whose years run November-november, as long as it’s a full 12mos of books!!
I so agree with lessons in chemistry, it kinda destroys my faith in humanity that its so popular. Where the crawdads sing i DNF'd Im excited for your worst books of 2024 vid! Mine were Green Dot, It Lasts Forever Then It's Over, and Rosewater by liv little
Finally, someone who also didn‘t like They Both Die at the End. I gave it 2 stars because it is not horrendous but I just did not like it. I was ready to get emotionally wrecked,and got nothing at the end. Of course, it is sad when they both die but their relationship felt so under developed.. I was waiting to see some development between them but it just never happened. So much other stuff happens but I just wanted to see them bonding and create a connection/relationship. It had so much potential with its premise but I just think it did not deliver. I have My Dark Vanessa on my tbr and hope to get to it at the beginning of next year!
I'm so glad you agree!! I was so nervous to even mention I didn't like They Both Die at the End because I had only heard amazing rave reviews for it, and I just didn't get it at all!
For me its Frankenstein! I finally read it after a soft-DNF but let me tell you it should've been a hard DNF. Its short but it feels so long and Victor Frankenstein himself is just so WHINY!
I don't mind Frankenstein (bearing in mind I read it a while ago so might be misremembering) but its one of those books that I completely understand when someone says they don't like it!
I don't understand the hype about American Dirt, honestly. It starts out really well but then it just goes on and on and on about this mother and her son fleeing Mexico because the journalist father wrote about the drug cartels and their entire family was gunned down as a result. It's just very repetitive and we are told in minute detail how they climb to the top of a train that takes them north - several times! Very badly written book which should have been at least 100 pages shorter.
Another Hemingway hater! Huzzah! His writing is terrible. I studied his work in college, and I maintain that if anyone else wrote like him, that person would get laughed out of the publishing industry. 😬
Please do another one. These vids are the best. 🤌🏼🔥 I think a book that made me angrier than all books is ML Rio’s If We Were Villains 😭 I hated that book to a point that I actually scripted a YT video ranting about it. 🙆🏻♂️
Hundred procent agree with everything you said about Lessons in chemistry! I hated it from the start and eventually DNFed it. Don’t get the hype at all and get really annoyed everytime I see the cover now 😂
Me too!! I can't believe how beloved it is as a book!
The fact that Delia Owens, is actually accused of helping in a murder in REAL LIFE and she wrote this book... The one accused are her ex-husband and his son, they kill someone in a "hunting accident" and dropped the body in a lagoon. Insane 🤦
Exactly!!!
~grabs popcorn~ this is gunna be good
Hahaha yayy
Completely agree about Lessons in Chemistry. I recorded it as an audio book for the blind so couldn’t dnf.
SAY IT LOUDER Where the crawdads sing is HORRIBLE
YESS
I love a good book rant video! Excited for part 2!
Thank you so much!!
I also hated 'Where the Crawdad's sing"
I completely agree about Where the Crawdads Sing, horrendous book. I haven’t read any of the others in this video. And now I never will! 😅❤
I'm so glad you agree!!
Also can’t stand Hemingway, I read A Farewell to Arms ages ago and hated it!
Totally agree on most especially Where The Crawdads Sing
I loved Lessons In Chemistry, but Hated Where The Crawdads Sing!
DNF'd Crawdoors because it was infuriating. The idea that a severely neglected child with no education became a wonderful author was ridiculous. In real life, a child like that (and there have been cases) would barely have language let alone writing ability.
"They Both Die At The End" is extremely overrated. It was so mediocre, especially the characters and their relationship, which sucks because it's the core of the novel, but everything was just really bland
It also really bothered me that we just don't know anything about how the world works. Like, the two MCs died because they were in the same house together... had they not spent the day together, would they have died the same way? This line of thought drove me nuts, and there was no explanation
Adam Silvera's first two books are actually really good, but I feel like his writing went downhill ever since TBDATE
Thanks for reading For Whom The Bell tolls, so I don't have to. I have read two Hemingway novels - The Old Man and the Sea, which I found extreely tedious and his first novel The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) which I quite enjoyed,,,,
Out of his novels the Sun Also Rises was my favourite, but I have really learned that Hemingway is just not for me!
I definitely agree with Lessons in Chemistry, I DNFed it after 100 pages or so. You really hit the nail on the head with your criticism. I'm excited for part 2! (That and My Dark Vanessa is on my library-tbr, so I'll likely get to it next year)
As for me, books that I hate but lots of people love, including some of my favourite booktubers, are The Night Circus, and If We Were Villains. The Night Circus was so boring, to me it was just a pretty facade without substance and I cared about none of the characters. If We Were Villains was entertaining enough to read, but to me in the end it's a pretentious, overhyped mess with bland characters and a “twist” that is neither exciting nor "shocking" (quoting the blurb here. Didn't live up to it imo)
I watched this whilst I had dinner. LOVE a book rant 🍿
This is actually such an honour to be meal time entertainment, I prize this highly 💚💚
The popular book I hated was Klara and the Sun. Boooooring, didn’t do anything for me emotionally, stayed on the surface. I love some other Ishiguro’s books, but just don’t get the hype for this one AT ALL.
Some others popular books I read recently that didn’t do it for me are The Guest by Emma Cline, the Shards by Bret Easton Ellis and It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover.
Ishiguro is my favourite author but I agree that Klara and the Sun wasn't his best. Not sure what message he was trying to say about AI and/human connection but it felt behind the times.
@ I absolutely love some of his other books! Currently reading The Buried Giant and so far I am enjoying it :). I almost feel like a lot of the big reviewers would praise anything he writes just because he’s Ishiguro tbh. I am planning to read it again in a few years to see if my opinion changes.
Where the Crawdads Sing is terrible! I mean, almost the entire book is about her childhood and the murder trial - and then the ending that deals with the remainder of her life is just sort of tacked on in a few pages. It would have been much more interesting to know how she spent the rest of her life living with what she had done. What does killing someone (justifiably or not) do to a person? That might have made a good story!
I agree!! It felt so badly thought out, and ended up being so unsatisfying!
The older I get the more annoyed I feel about Harry Potter as a main character of his story. I am into True Crime and the more I learn about the background of the worst people this world had ever seen - they are all very similar to the environment Harry was brought up in almost since birth. Even loving families can produre really bad people (for one Charles Manson would tell you no one ever cared, loved or gave him a single chance, which is a shameless lie), but it is much more rare than abuse or/and outright cruelty with nothing to balance it out anyhow. How is Harry so sweet-natured and caring and polite if he had never been exposed to any of this feelings or attitudes in his life? His living conditions also do not provide him with opportunities to absorb all those positive values from books or movies or music. What it boils down to is this idea that people are "born good" or "born bad" and this is what I am fundamentally against.
In general, I feel like Harry Potter books are very deeply, irreversibly woven into the fabric of my life, but I was not a child when I read them, I was a teen and later a young adult and my core values and views have been formed and influenced by other books (and movies), so, as I said, as I get older and older a lot of moral concepts it presents seem very shallow to me. I like to use them as stepping stones and re-imagine them.
Loved the rant! My popular book I hate is Bright Young Women, it was deeply unethical and made me feel gross 😷
Also hard agree on waiting until the year is out to give your best books! I also respect booktubers whose years run November-november, as long as it’s a full 12mos of books!!
Interesitng, i've heard mixed things about that book, and so now will never read it most likely!!
I so agree with lessons in chemistry, it kinda destroys my faith in humanity that its so popular.
Where the crawdads sing i DNF'd
Im excited for your worst books of 2024 vid!
Mine were Green Dot, It Lasts Forever Then It's Over, and Rosewater by liv little
Finally, someone who also didn‘t like They Both Die at the End. I gave it 2 stars because it is not horrendous but I just did not like it. I was ready to get emotionally wrecked,and got nothing at the end. Of course, it is sad when they both die but their relationship felt so under developed.. I was waiting to see some development between them but it just never happened. So much other stuff happens but I just wanted to see them bonding and create a connection/relationship. It had so much potential with its premise but I just think it did not deliver.
I have My Dark Vanessa on my tbr and hope to get to it at the beginning of next year!
I'm so glad you agree!! I was so nervous to even mention I didn't like They Both Die at the End because I had only heard amazing rave reviews for it, and I just didn't get it at all!
I stole Ernest Hemingway book from my bf Sunday I read the first 10 pages so far so we will see
For me its Frankenstein! I finally read it after a soft-DNF but let me tell you it should've been a hard DNF. Its short but it feels so long and Victor Frankenstein himself is just so WHINY!
I don't mind Frankenstein (bearing in mind I read it a while ago so might be misremembering) but its one of those books that I completely understand when someone says they don't like it!
loved the rant! 2 books i hated that i know a lot of people have loved Sorrow and Bliss and In the Dream House!🤮
I don't understand the hype about American Dirt, honestly. It starts out really well but then it just goes on and on and on about this mother and her son fleeing Mexico because the journalist father wrote about the drug cartels and their entire family was gunned down as a result. It's just very repetitive and we are told in minute detail how they climb to the top of a train that takes them north - several times! Very badly written book which should have been at least 100 pages shorter.
You have succeeded in warning me off this one, sounds terrible!
Another Hemingway hater! Huzzah! His writing is terrible. I studied his work in college, and I maintain that if anyone else wrote like him, that person would get laughed out of the publishing industry. 😬
Please do another one. These vids are the best. 🤌🏼🔥
I think a book that made me angrier than all books is ML Rio’s If We Were Villains 😭 I hated that book to a point that I actually scripted a YT video ranting about it. 🙆🏻♂️