The cerulean sea. So so saccharine and trope after trope of pandering drivel

Hated it as well. There’s just shock factor randomness and then it ends. I think it’s a PP because it’s about Newfies and that area is not written about a lot? Maybe I’m ignorant but that is my opinion. But yes I hated it too

Agree. Also, so weird. Felt like a lot didn’t translate from Japanese culture to my western culture

Every thing I ever read by Micheal Chebon. So crass and pathetic. Edgy for its own sake. So many recommendations and it was all trash

Yesss I use it as a litmus test for how well I will connect with someone- if they have tried to read it and liked it or not lol

Same

Any book by Stephen King. So disturbing. I read two in a class and then dropped the class because I couldn’t do any more.

In Cold Blood. Just so senseless and disgusting.

I love The Pillars of the Earth, and I’ve read the entire series. But when I tell people that, and that I love them, they always say something like I must be a “big reader” or “oh those were too much for me”. And it makes me regret telling them. It’s very simply written so I don’t quite understand what they mean honestly.

Yep. But I also found them terribly “men writing women”

I’ve started and stopped it countless time just a few pages in. It feels so dark