Well, it was more of a gradual dislike rather than intense hate from start to finish.
HA HA! I suppose nothing will ever top how badly written TTS was/is, but I think this could have been written better. It felt more like a draft than a novel. But I also have an intense dislike of pseudo-populism love stories like this one (as well as the other examples I've mentioned: I think I'm the only person in the world who loathes The Notebook. I can tolerate Titanic and The Terminator movies which also feature the same type of love story but T has the historical background and TT movies have interesting sci-fi. But I hate the celebrated love stories in them!) (Yes, I have a love/loathe relationship with James Cameron.)
I do like pop culture books, but I guess I expected more from this one. Maybe because it's the It Book series of the moment? Everyone always talks about them so positively (I've never heard it ridiculed the way TTS is) that I expected to like them.
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Date: 2012-03-06 07:37 pm (UTC)HA HA! I suppose nothing will ever top how badly written TTS was/is, but I think this could have been written better. It felt more like a draft than a novel. But I also have an intense dislike of pseudo-populism love stories like this one (as well as the other examples I've mentioned: I think I'm the only person in the world who loathes The Notebook. I can tolerate Titanic and The Terminator movies which also feature the same type of love story but T has the historical background and TT movies have interesting sci-fi. But I hate the celebrated love stories in them!) (Yes, I have a love/loathe relationship with James Cameron.)
I do like pop culture books, but I guess I expected more from this one. Maybe because it's the It Book series of the moment? Everyone always talks about them so positively (I've never heard it ridiculed the way TTS is) that I expected to like them.