5 books meme
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zimenaSwiped from catness:
State 5 (Five) books you just couldn't get into, and other people really enjoy it. It's the chance you have to take, reading. *No Pics* just text please, it's overstated with images everywhere. Words, words, words.
1. Lord of the Rings: I never understood what's so special about this. I had tried to read it as a child or perhaps young teen, but then I gave up because I found it extremely boring. Then I made another try around the time when the movies were coming out and I felt like the only person who wasn't into them at all. Suffice to say, I finished the reading then, but the universe or its characters mean nothing to me afterwards.
2. Books by Alistair MacLean: I kept getting recommendations to read his books, because they're supposedly so exciting and packed with suspense that you can't put them down. Pity I could never get into even one of them, despite trying a few different ones because I wanted to understand what the hype was about.
3. House Of Night series: I loved these books from the beginning. I read the first few in a very short time, and I loved immersing myself in this universe. Then, at some point, the story evolved in a direction that took it very far from the original setting, and I simply lost interest from then on. I never finished the whole series.
4. The Thorn Birds: The TV series was on when I was little, but I was too young to watch it. However, I kept hearing about it at random intervals throughout childhood, so when I got old enough to start researching what it was, I found the book in our bookshelf... and I got the series on video from the best friend. Sadly, I never particularly cared about neither book nor series. I tried both, but was bored and never finished. It's probably not my kind of thing anyway, though.
5. Marianne series: These books were published in the late 1960s or early 1970s (at least the Norwegian translation, I don't know about the French originals). When I found them in our bookshelf as a teen, my mom was squeeing about reading them when she was younger. I know some of my cousins also borrowed them from her, and they were also in love with these books. Me? I read them, because I read a lot more at that time than I do now, but I never felt as strongly about them as the other women of my family did.
catness:State 5 (Five) books you just couldn't get into, and other people really enjoy it. It's the chance you have to take, reading. *No Pics* just text please, it's overstated with images everywhere. Words, words, words.
1. Lord of the Rings: I never understood what's so special about this. I had tried to read it as a child or perhaps young teen, but then I gave up because I found it extremely boring. Then I made another try around the time when the movies were coming out and I felt like the only person who wasn't into them at all. Suffice to say, I finished the reading then, but the universe or its characters mean nothing to me afterwards.
2. Books by Alistair MacLean: I kept getting recommendations to read his books, because they're supposedly so exciting and packed with suspense that you can't put them down. Pity I could never get into even one of them, despite trying a few different ones because I wanted to understand what the hype was about.
3. House Of Night series: I loved these books from the beginning. I read the first few in a very short time, and I loved immersing myself in this universe. Then, at some point, the story evolved in a direction that took it very far from the original setting, and I simply lost interest from then on. I never finished the whole series.
4. The Thorn Birds: The TV series was on when I was little, but I was too young to watch it. However, I kept hearing about it at random intervals throughout childhood, so when I got old enough to start researching what it was, I found the book in our bookshelf... and I got the series on video from the best friend. Sadly, I never particularly cared about neither book nor series. I tried both, but was bored and never finished. It's probably not my kind of thing anyway, though.
5. Marianne series: These books were published in the late 1960s or early 1970s (at least the Norwegian translation, I don't know about the French originals). When I found them in our bookshelf as a teen, my mom was squeeing about reading them when she was younger. I know some of my cousins also borrowed them from her, and they were also in love with these books. Me? I read them, because I read a lot more at that time than I do now, but I never felt as strongly about them as the other women of my family did.
