While searching for
weekday topics I came across this fabulous meme directory site. It was there that I
discovered Top Ten Tuesday stared by The Broke and the Bookish.
Now every week there’s a certain topic that these lovely ladies post
about, but I’m going to go with my own thing because 1) I realized after I had
written this post that there were certain topics they post about every week and
2) even if I had noticed beforehand I would have completely blanked. I’m odd
like that; give me a topic that I “have” to write about and I blank and fail.
So with that…
Welcome to Passion for
Page’s first Top Ten Tuesday. I decided
for my first top ten I would list the books that everyone and their mother seems to fall head over heels for that I
disliked, or downright hated.
In no particular order
(except the first two that I loathe the most)….
1) Fifty Shades of Grey: It
really should be titled Fifty Shades of Shit. I loathed, absolutely loathed,
these books. I actually only read the first two because I couldn’t rationalize
the brain cells I would have lost by reading the third. I have no idea why the
fuck everyone is so obsessed with this trash, and now with the movie coming
out? Lord help us all.
2) Twilight
series: Sparkly vampires? ‘Nuff said.
3) To
Kill a Mockingbird: I can’t say why
I don’t like this classic; I just don’t. Something about it just didn’t sit
right with me…
4) Romeo
and Juliet: I don’t care who rewrites it, how many movies are made
based on these two characters, the story is still the same and it still sucks.
This is not a love story. This is a story about two selfish, bratty children
who are forbidden by their parents to be together so they decide to kill
themselves to…what? Prove a point? Way to go, you’re dead. Who exactly wins?
5) The
Hobbit: Confession: I didn’t actually read the book, but I did see the
movie. Or at least parts of it when I wasn’t nodding off. I have no desire to
read it. Hobbits just aren’t my thing
6) The
Lord of the Rings: Again, just not something I’m into it.
7) The
Kite Runner: I just couldn’t
find the sympathy most do for the “hero” in this book. He’s not at all
likeable, in my opinion and the more I read the more I resented him. I never
did finish.
8) The Southern Vampire Mysteries: While
I love most things from the South these are not one of them. Don’t get me
wrong, I love me some Eric and True Blood is da bomb (do people say that
anymore?), but these books have some of the worst writing I have ever attempted
to read. I couldn’t get passed the first page in book one.
9) Outlander
series: Everyone, and I mean everyone
that I know was insisting that I had to
read these books, so I picked up the first one and later I promptly put it back
down and left it there to die.
10) War
and Peace: OMG this book did not end! I seriously felt like I was
reading it forever, and maybe I was because it took me almost a bloody month to
get through because I just could not get into it. I made myself finish this one because I thought it would be wrong to
quit. I mean, it’s friggin’ War and Peace. It was a month of my life wasted.
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