The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

What were your least favorite books of the Winter 2016 Challenge? Which books didn't meet your expectations?

I have to say that Waiting for Godot was my least favourite. I listened to the BBC version of it, and while it was well done, the play was just not my cup of tea. I listened to it because it was the last day of the challenge and I needed an audiobook that I could listen to while driving that was short enough to finish.

I had one 1 star read London Fields. A few people have recommended Martin Amis to me so I hope his other books are better.

I was disappointed with FIND HER by Lisa Gardner. She is a great writer of suspense but this book spent way too much time in Flora's past and it started to feel repetitive.

I didn't enjoy House of Leaves and found myself interested in only one of the story-lines. And while I appreciate the writing style of having readers reading backwards, turning the book in circles, etc, after a while, it really got annoying.

The Boleyn King was a 1 star for me

- 1.5 stars -
Wall of Kiss

- 2 stars -
The Bell Jar
The Catcher in the Rye

No 1 star books for me (wooo!!) and only one 2 star book (The Light Fantastic). I just...don't get this series but I'm trying. I don't hate reading the books but I don't understand why they're so well loved. Maybe it's just not the genre or type of humor for me.

I recorded my first "unfinished" for almost a year with Into the Thickening Fog. I think it was supposed to be humorous but to me it was just tedious, and I never really got to care about any of the characters in the 40% of the book I managed to get through. Maybe it was "lost in translation" from the original Russian.

I also had a 1* in The Little Stranger, which covered a lot of the same ground as The Haunting of Hill House, which I read later and really liked, but did it painfully badly.