Bookmarks Subscribers discussion

List your clunkers in this thread.

Sorry, I have four.

Monkey Mind - Daniel Smith

Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down - Rosecrans Baldwin

All Gone - Alex Witchel

The Middlesteins - Jami Attenberg

(yes, a kid's book)

Clunkers I read this year:
and a couple cozy mysteries that weren't worth the read.

My clunksters are:

Sweetheart
We the Animals
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

LynnB wrote: "Clunkers I read this year:
and a couple cozy mysteries that weren't worth the read."

Confederacy of Dunces is definitely an odd book that people either love or hate. I loved it and recommended it to a friend with very similar humor and she need up hating it.

I agree about Confederacy of Dunces. I loved it but know many who hated it. It is actually one of the few I reread from time to time.

Betsy wrote: "Confederacy of Dunces is definitely an odd book that people either love or hate. I loved it and recommended it to a friend with very similar humor and she need up hating it. "

I find that reading is such a personal choice in what appeals to us or not. There are so many books that I love and find others don't, and there are times I am just amazed that people love a book that I thought stunk.

Without thinking about it too hard, my clunkers of 2012 would have to include:

      

I had high hopes for all of them, but I didn't care for any of them. I know others who loved them, but as Lynn said, reading is a very personal choice!

What didn't you like about , Barb? I had that one on my TBR, but then it didn't seem as if people enjoyed it much. Plus, I frequently saw multiple copies of it available at the library each week, which is another indicator of a book not being a "to die for" type of read.

The only one that I can really say that I did not enjoy was Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger.

I loved A Confederacy of Dunces because of the narrator on the audio version, I might not have liked it just reading the book, but he made all the weird characters likable and fascinating.

My 3 least liked were Beautiful Ruins, A Visit from the Goon Squad, and The Girl Who Fell from the Sky.

I was really looking forward to reading The Lifeboat, and was extremely disappointed with it.

Continuing with water-themed books, my book club read Learning to Swim, which I found painful to finish. I made it through it, but it was a chore!

The Little Giant of Aberdeen Countyalso didn't live up to my expectations.

Luckily, I have many more on my "books I loved this year" list!

I am disappointed to hear that you didn't like Learning to Swim. I am very interested in reading that one.