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Normally I'll avoid romance books because I'm not much into that, or other really cheesy books. I'll also normally avoid anything pertaining to religion (too many issues with Dad >.<). But most of the time, I'll stop, read the preview thing and maybe the first few pages to see if it interests me any. If not, back to the shelf. If it does, I may consider getting it.

I tried to read a book that was written after the movie. I got about ten pages in, closed it and returned it to the library the next day. Game-to-book can be just as bad. The second Halo book was basically the game in written form, but the others in the series were decent because though they were based in the game's universe, they weren't following the storyline of the game.

There aren't many books I'd say "No!" too, but they'd probably non-fiction books ( rofl ) that aren't about real-life mysteries and little kiddie books.

Anything revolving around vampires, werewolves, romance or anything else so cliche that I want to vomit. Also Terry Goodkind, I hate his writing now. Which is saying something because rarely do I find someone with the greatest her o ever syndrome, well folks, say hello to Terry!

Reader's Digest collections and their like make me rue the day that spawned the ingenious bugger who found out a person could make money selling crap like that. Then, to top it all off, Danielle Steel took the idea and ran with it. Now she has forty bazillion of the same novel under different titles circulating the romance sections of bookstores and fouling the airports of the world. Let it suffice to say that I Detest, with a capital "d," anything that she writes, anything with "Bigfoot Married My Husband" on the cover, and the Eragon books. Argh!!! burning_eyes Well, that's done. Thank you for the opportunity to vent my frustrations.

I fully agree with the hate of the whole "movies-to-books" franchise; it's pure, rabid manipulation of the fanbase. However, if a book is made into a movie, I won't buy the book until a good six months after the movie has been out lest I seem like a fish caught in the tide of pre- and post-movie obsession.

365 Mondays said:


To above: Amen, friend, amen.

On another note, there was someone who had posted earlier who mentioned that they wouldn't read books by Paulo Coelho, and I'm curious why this is.

And lastly: This is the first guild/forum/posting board/whatever-you'd-call-it I've attended to that actually debates and discusses! Bravo! Thank you all for making my day just that much better.

I refuse to read romance and the Artemis Fowl series...I tried reading them but it was a no go.

i will always cringe at the sight of a romance novel...always...lol..and my friends have traumatized me from even going near anything by stephanie meyer....oh..and manga..i refuse to "read" manga