Tuesday, May 5, 2015

top ten tuesday: nevers

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted over at the Broke and the Bookish, where each week we highlight a different category of novels, authors, etc. This week's theme is "May 5: Ten Books I Will Probably Never Read," which is hard for me, because I like to think that I will try anything once. However, there are a few books that I just don't think I will *ever* get around to, either by choice or just because I am disinterested. So without further ado, here they are. 

1. Reached by Ally Condie – I read the first two books in this series, Matched and Crossed, and while I loved the first book, Crossed underwhelmed me to a point where I just got angry at the series. I have absolutely no interest at all in finishing out this trilogy. 
2. Fifty Shades of Gray by E.L. James – Soooo not my cup of tea. I have friends who read all three and loved them, and other people who I know who absolutely hated them, but I stick pretty much with "I will never ever ever lay my hands on those books." 
3. Anything else by William Faulkner EVER – I read As I Lay Dying and thought it was actually the worst book I'd ever read, so when we were going to read The Sound and the Fury in my senior Lit class, I had hopes that me and As I lay.... had just had a bad relationship. Nope. Couldn't decide which one, of the two, I hated worse. Then, just to torture myself, I read The Bear, thinking that maybe a short story would be tolerable to me.... wrong again. I just can't get myself to be even cordial with Faulkner. 
4. Untold by Sara Rees Brennan – I loved the first book in this series, Unspoken, up until the very very end. Which completely destroyed me. I was so traumatized by the end of the novel, as well as the (imho) terrible cover change, that I can't see myself ever picking up the rest of this trilogy. 
5. Across the Universe by Beth Revis – Nothing against the book or the author, it's just something that has been on my radar and in my TBR pile for literal YEARS and I have just never gotten around to it. I have to be in a very specific mood to read sci/fi, and this is one that has just never called to me. 

I could really only think of these five examples because, like I said I will try anything once! What are some of your picks?

xx
Sunny

9 comments:

  1. I keep seeing 50 Sades of Gray and I so agree, I'm never gonna read it xP mostly because it's not my kind of book at all!

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    1. exactly! it isn't even because of all the hype, it's just because I wouldn't want to read this type of book! thanks for stopping by :)

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  2. Interesting list. I like Faulkner, but I totally agree about 50 Shades.

    Aj @ Read All The Things!

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    1. I've talked to so many people who don't understand how I can hate Faulkner, and I honestly can't explain it, he just does not agree with me... thanks for your comment!

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  3. Fifty Shades of Grey makes me sick and I've never read it or seen the movie! It just sounds gross and gratuitous! LOL! Happy reading! :)

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    1. exactly the same for me!! I've read so many articles talking about how awful it is and I could just never bring myself to read it! thank you :)

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  4. I had 50 Shades on mine too, and the Matched trilogy.
    My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2015/05/05/top-ten-tuesday-3/

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    1. matched is one of the greatest disappointments of my life!! i'll be sure to check out your TTT :)

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  5. I read the Matched trilogy in 5th grade and after reading all the books, the series make sense and is soooo good. You really should read the last book. It makes Crossed seams not so disappointing but really just as puzzle piece in the love story

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