This week's Top Ten Tuesday is Fictional Crushes. I don't have fictional crushes. Maybe there was one or two a while back but now I rarely find any characters to love. Instead, I'll borrow an idea from Lectrice Vorace's top ten list (link here) — books I'll most likely never read and what I think about them which also describes the reasons why I won't read them. My judgements are based on reviews so maybe I'm wrong about some of these books. I was going to show the book covers but I really didn't want to look at them so, no book covers.
01 | The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab — 100 years and still, no life plan, just wandering about for no reason
02 | The Twilight Saga/That Edward book by Stephenie Meyer — teenage vampire angst
03 | Fifty Shades series by EL James — soft porn for respectable people or soft porn for people who thinks reading this is more respectable than reading actual porn
04 | Anything by Sarah J. Maas — People doing dumb things, making dumb decisions while having sex. (Maybe it's unfair to lump them all together but so what?)
05 | Anything by Cassandra Clare — People with problems making good decisions about their romantic relationships and also, vampires doing stuff, mostly bad (All her books takes place in the same world so I think it's fair to think of them as one entire series)
06 | The Cruel Prince or whatever the series is named by Holly Black — young adults making dumb decisions while being cruel to each other
07 | Simon Snow Trilogy by Rainbow Rowell — Harry Potter fan fiction with a couple of road trips
08 | Outlander by Diane Gabaldon — a woman travels back in time to cheat on her husband
09 | Caraval by Stephanie Garber — sisters making bad decisions and dating men who have no respect for them
10 | The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo/Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid — people with interesting lives but still sounds kind of boring somehow
What are some books you will most likely never read?
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I’ve never read the Twilight saga either and never intend to.
ReplyDeleteI tried to read The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo but couldn’t get past the first few chapters. It just wasn’t my thing, but to each their own. :)
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Lydia: I think all books have audiences so even if some of don't want to read them, others will.
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I read the first Twilight book and that was enough for me; I never read any of the rest. And I'll never be reading 50 Shades of Gray either.
ReplyDeleteLark: I've not even tried to read Twilight or 50 Shades of gray - there's just not the kind of books I like to read.
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I think it's fine to not want to read the books that everyone seems to be liking at the moment.
ReplyDeleteI read the first novel in the Twilight saga (which was more than enough for me!) and I liked The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo/Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid, but I can see why some would find the narration to be boring. I don't want to read #3 and #7 for the same reasons as you.
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Lectrice Vorace: For some reason, the more popular a book is, the less likely I would read them. Not to say this is always true, but it's almost always true.
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I don't like horror.
ReplyDeleteChristine: I don't like horror either.
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How did I miss that you had moved. Perhaps you announced it when my reading list was having hissy fits.
ReplyDeleteI have never read a book by Dan Brown. I picked one up at a bookstore, flipped through it and put it down.
Ditto on the Shades of Grey series.
Not for me.
Elephant's Child: I've not read anything by Dan Brown either or Shades of Grey - I think it's okay not to read them.
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I don't see myself reading any of the books you've mentioned either.
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Pam: It's nice to know we agreed on these.
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I actually liked OUTLANDER, although I haven't read the rest of the series. TOTALLY agree with you on FIFTY SHADES. Just...no.
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Susan: It's good that you like Outlander - I could never read that series - sounds too much like romance to me.
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These made me smile. :)
ReplyDeleteGreg: I might have laughed when I wrote these.
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Lissa,
ReplyDeleteMy reading content is limited primarily to blogs. I'm glad for your reminder post on your old blog because somehow I missed the announcement that you moved and I see there is no way to get email notification for this one. Is there not Blogger substitute for the one discontinued? Hmmm... I think I'll check into this just for the fun of it. I have a Blogger blog that I rarely use, other than to play around with so I won't forget everything entirely. I had to smile at some of your takes on these books, especially Outlander. We started watching the series but ditched it after moving onto something else. What little I saw was interesting, though. Have a wild and wonderful Wednesday, my dear!
Cathy Kennedy: I'm still deciding on which service for email subscription - I just can't seem to decide on this.
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They were all funny, but these especially:
ReplyDelete"07 | Simon Snow Trilogy by Rainbow Rowell — Harry Potter fan fiction with a couple of road trips
08 | Outlander by Diane Gabaldon — a woman travels back in time to cheat on her husband"
I don't see a book or series that I would like to read in your list either. Except maybe The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - I actually wanted to read it a while ago, but from some reviews I got the impression that it was a tad too boring. Fifty Shades is just a big fat NOPE for me LOL.
Roberta: I did meant to make fun of these books. I'm glad it makes you smile somehow.
DeleteI had some interest in reading The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue but when I read all the reviews, I decided it wasn't a book for me.
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Your description of Twilight is accurate. I only read a bit of Twilight, but how you describe it fits with what happened.
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Quinley: That was the main reason I didn't want to read the Twilight series.
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