Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish where we give our top ten favorites to certain topics.
Top Ten (or Nine ) Books That Were Hard For Me To Read
1. A Tale Dark and Grimm
Okay, I am a sissy. And even in this book I was a bit grossed out and horrified. The plot wasn't all that great either, which led me to just feeling disgusted the entire book.
2. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Confession: I couldn't sleep with this book in my room. The pictures of the guys without irises or pupils just creeped me out waayyy too much.
3. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
I actually enjoy most classics, because they have a timeless, relatable, and classic feel to their story. But Tom Sawyer was so hard for me to get through. I was bored to death half the time, and I'm pretty sure I almost fell asleep.
4. Shiver
There is nothing particularly annoying about this book besides the fact that i just chugged through it. It took me forever to read, and I kept wanting to put it down for another book.
5. The Hobbit
I cheated here. After 7 months since I have started the book, and reread the beginning 3 times, I still have yet to get into it, or finish it. What do you think? Should I try again?
6. The Boyfriend List
I don't even know what the point of this book was. It was a girl whining about a harsh break up and blabbing about other boys.
7. An Abundance of Katherines
Don't get me wrong, I love John Green. He is incredibly witty, satirical, cynical in the best way. But a book needs more than just wit or satire. And I feel like this book was just a collection of witty comments with a bad plot.
8. The Madman's Daughter/Her Dark Curiosity
Word of the day: Vivisection. AKA dissecting an animal when it is still alive. Both of these books are absolutely wonderful. I love the plot, love the suspense, but when the depictions of vivisected animals come up...Blech.
9. For Real
Talk about a cheesy cheeseball covered in cheese dust. This book has no real point, makes me want to groan, and throw it across the room.
How about you?
I agree with you on TOM SAWYER. I would have put it on my list but my list contains of books I have avoided or didn't finish.
ReplyDeleteI would say to try The Hobbit again, if you really want to. I enjoyed it when I read it (I've never been able to get through The Lord of the Rings, though).
ReplyDeleteI didn't like A Tale Dark & Grimm, either. With the graphic violence and the buttinsky narrator... it just wasn't that good.
I liked Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, though. Some of those pictures were creepy (but that's one of the reasons I liked it).
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children was enjoyable and very authentic, it's just not my cup of tea I guess.
DeleteAmen on "Abundance of Katherine's" and "Shiver". I think I'm done with paranormal romance. "The Hobbit" isn't for everybody but it is one of the books I consider a literary treasure. You might try it on Audio.
ReplyDeleteI find it funny that your picture is The Hobbit...I might try that thanks!
DeleteI feel the same way about Abundance of Katherines. If that had been the first of his I picked up, I probably would not have gone on.
ReplyDeleteDitto your thoughts on The Hobbit. Ughghgh.
I feel like I should at least attempt to get into it, because people consider it such a literary classic, but at the same time a really good book should do that naturally.
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