Pans

[houseelf]

We have the thread on what we recommend, what do you NOT recommend?

I'm sure that my list will be unpopular, but here goes:

anything by Dave Sedaris (disjointed and bizarre)
The Devil Wears Prada (too whiny and just out there-Quit for godsakes)
The Nanny Diaries (See above)
Gone With the Wind (I can't stand Scarlet Ohara)
John Grisham (reads like an outline of a screen play)
Sydney Sheldon's *later* works (see above)

Kelly

[SuzySunshine]

Pursuit of Happyness (good story but hard to follow/get into)

[fluffhead]

Call me stubborn and elitist, but I refuse to read anything recommended by Oprah. And now that she's delving into the classics (Carson McCullers! the nerve!) it's getting a little difficult.

Re: Pans

John Grisham (reads like an outline of a screen play)

Kelly

TOTALLY agree w/that one. You can almost picture Matthew McConah... (not even trying to spell it) speaking the lines. While a mental image of Matthew isn't a bad thing, I choose to read a book to allow MY mind to fill in the blanks.

I'm not a big fan of:

Sophie Kinsenella (sp?)
Jennifer Weiner

and Fluff - I had the same ban you had for awhile, also out of principles. Clearly you're more committed to your principles than I, but that is no surprise. I still to refuse to read them when they're "hot" (as in, the "assigned book".

[Rapunzel]

Call me stubborn and elitist, but I refuse to read anything recommended by Oprah. And now that she's delving into the classics (Carson McCullers! the nerve!) it's getting a little difficult.

I agree about Jennifer Weiner.

I know there was a thread praising Jody Piccoult earlier but I didn't like her book at all and couldn't finish it.

[Cumberland]

Nicholas Sparks. Ugh.

[Sheherezade]

Iris Johanson (sp?) Terrible mystery plots - and I'll believe anything for a good mystery! :nana:

Phillipa Gregory annoying!! She's the Oliver Stone of British History.

Patricia Cornwall after about the third book. She just lost it.

Jonathan Kellerman (see above)

Basically most everything I read these days is suspect. I've become much more discriminating. Or snobbish.

[DCJenn]

Faye Kellerman isn't much better these days-

Her mysteries used to be so good but now you know that there's goingto be some creepy murder, blah, blah, blah, they go to synagogue, we learn more the grisly murder....

Bo-RING.

Jenn

[Sheherezade]

ITA about Faye. I liked her first few....then, not so much.

My list of unsatisfying mystery authors is very deep these days. Better to ask about GOOD ones. I've found that most mystery writers end up going downhill after a bit of luck. I usually get attracted to a character, read just for the detective...and then the dang author will try something new and spin off some minor person as the new "lead". and

This almost always pisses me off to an extend that I can't read the book. I'm petty. If they published under a new name, I'd probably give thema chance. I just hate picking up a Elizabeth George book.....and there's no Lynley. Disappointed!!!

But.....back on topic. Books that Suck.