So, this week's topic is Top Ten Books You'll Never Read. Which is tough, because you know... never say never. But I feel like I can safely say that I'm 99.99999% sure I'll never pick these books up.
1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. TOO MUCH HYPE around this series, and I heard that the author died before the series was even over. So besides the fact that I have little interest in these books to begin with, I won't start a series that I know will never be finished.
2. Anything by Sara Gruen. My god does she give all Saras / Sarahs a bad name! I read Water for Elephants and never fully recovered from how much it sucked. BLAH.
3. Going Rogue by Sarah Palin. Or that other book she came out with. I take back what I said above - THIS is the Sarah that disgraces all Sarahs around the world. I cannot express the depth of my dislike for this woman, and just cannot imagine a situation in which I'd pick up a book of hers. If I gun was to my head... I might just choose the gun over the book.
4. Dude Where's My Country by Michael Moore / How to Talk Like a Liberal by Ann Coulter. I won't lie, when I was a young freshman in high school, I soaked up these type of books. And then I learned the difference between hate-bashing between parties and actual intellectual political books. I just can't stand the obvious biased-ness and hate-mongering that these media political people spew.
5. New Moon by Stephanie Meyer. As well as the rest of the series. I did read Twilight, and I admit - it wasn't the worst thing in the world. But it wasn't good enough for me to read the rest of the series, especially when I just went online and read the plot of each of them and decided yeah.... I just don't care that much. And if I ever go crazy and feel an itch to read one of these, I can always just go watch the movies.
6. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese. I tried, I failed. It just didn't grab me, and I struggled for awhile.
7. Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar. I like some YA books, and then there are books like this... that just seem aimed to make teenage girls more clique-ish, more vain, more self-centered... Eh.
8. The Hollows series by Kim Harrison. The first book was SO BAD. And I hear the improves the further that you get in, but I just don't think it's worth working that hard. Why read a bunch of bad writing to finally get to some decent writing?
9. The Bible. I own several copies because I like to have copies of religious texts for reference (I also have the Torah, the Koran, The Book of Mormon, etc.) But it's just too long. And I tried when I was a kid in a Catholic middle school. I barely made it past Genesis.
10. Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. I tried the first couple pages of the first book, and blahhhhhh. It just wasn't that interesting, and the writing didn't seem that great. Plus I don't want to read a series with 16+ books in it, so far.
Soooo, that's it for now. It was a hard list... I generally ban myself from certain authors rather than certain books. Can't wait for next week!
~Sarah