Highest Rated Books on Goodreads That Aren't Worth the Hype!

Подписаться 129 тыс.

Просмотров 30 тыс.

50% 1

Hey Booktube, time for more unpopular book opinions! Here are books that I disagree with the Goodreads' reviews!
Part 1: • Popular Goodreads Book...
Lowest Rated Books on Goodreads I love: • Lowest Rated Books I'v...
All My Book Recommendations: amzn.to/3IBX5It
____ To support my channel & the kittens ____
Patreon: bit.ly/2maDB7R
Amazon Wish List: www.amazon.ca/...
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/book...
____ MEET THE KITTIES ____
Mama Cat: Perséphone (Pear). Took her in while pregnant due to a neighbour neglecting her. All black. Has thumbs. Pretty sure she's a dove.
1: Charlie aka sweet baby. All black with no thumbs. A bit shy and loves to hide under the couch.
2: Clawdia (Nibbles). Black and white with a beauty mark. She has thumbs... wouldn't surprise me if she stole them.
3: Harry Houdini (Chunky). Black with a white patch on his chest. Has thumbs. If it's eatable, he will try to eat it. He's a cuddle bug. I can't even go to the bathroom alone.
____ FOLLOW ME!! ____
Goodreads: bit.ly/2a9Qoki
Beauty Channel: bit.ly/1GDi7AJ
Twitter: bit.ly/1KQqL43
Instagram: bit.ly/3rgnXW0
____ Where I buy books online! ____
Amazon: amzn.to/2BXwoOp
Chapters Indigo: bit.ly/2aJw4lB
Support local, independent bookstores with your audiobook purchases bit.ly/3bCfrJo (or use referral code lfm267810)

Опубликовано:

27 сен 2024

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 318

@amordesdemona Год назад

if you're a woman who has ever reviewed a SF book negatively, you know the 'go back to reading Twilight' comment all too well

@BookswithEmilyFox Год назад

Twilight is pretty much a classic at this point 👌 They always say the same thing, it’s hard to take it personally

@jelatinosa Год назад

Men/boys are way too emotional 😆

@BookswithEmilyFox Год назад

“You should keep your opinion to yourself, you’ll prevent people from reading this masterpiece” Dude that’s the whole point of Goodreads 💀

@lenusniq_9746 Год назад

@@Charok1 "their own petty wants" - a very strange way to write "not wanting to get r@ped" or at least "wanting as a woman to be treated with respect" but uhm okay... well not really....

@Chaotic_Pixie Год назад

@@BookswithEmilyFox It physically hurt to see the title Twilight being called a classic. NOOOOO. Though I see the "Go back to reading Twilight" or "Go back to reading 50 Shades" comment a lot too... and neither are well written or have any decent concept. In fact, I'd argue 50 shades is pretty damaging. If it takes part in a trailer park & is suddenly creepy, it was always creepy.

@anavargas2837 Год назад

Love these videos because they help me shrink my TBR 😅 truly trust your book taste! I need to thank you again for recommending A Psalm for the Wild-Built, absolutely loved the duology❤️ P.S thank you for always including the kittens in your videos!

@BookswithEmilyFox Год назад

It’s pretty much their channel at this point 😂 I’m so glad you liked it!! Can’t wait to see what she writes next

@nextpageadventure9160 Год назад

I feel the same. But I loved the silent patient, that's like the only book i love that Emily hated.

@zachreads Год назад

I got 98% of the references in Ready Player One, it didn't help. if anything it made it worse because of how shallow they were.

@BookswithEmilyFox Год назад

LOL good to know!

@Hungarycloud Год назад

It annoyed me so much. Either you don't understand the reference and it's so shallowly explained you get nothing out of it anyway, or you do get the reference which is just a series of name drops that you have to sit through half-assed explanations of. I don't think Cline knew who his target audience was.

@rebelbelle1388 Год назад

I feel like RPO was written for 50-something people to nostalgically orgasm over. Yes, I also remember Rush songs, Pac man and leg warmers. I don't feel the need to write a book about them.

@zachreads Год назад

@@rebelbelle1388 I think it was for 20 year olds who think owning 2000 funkopops counts as a personality

@user-sh11 Год назад

It’s funny how every time you don’t like a popular book there is someone saying you probably just didn’t get it. 😂 Especially with si-fi or fantasy, because you know girls can really only understand romance.

@BookswithEmilyFox Год назад

Twilight only 🙃

@user-sh11 Год назад

@@BookswithEmilyFox Yeah, and if you are really want to try fantasy then maybe give Sarah J Mass a try.🤷🏻‍♀️

@christinedugas3089 Год назад

The Silent Patient is one of the two most disappointing books I've read in the past few years. I finished it, but only as a hate read where I thought, "This isn't how anything in modern psychiatry works!" every few pages, so I am right with you there. The other insanely popular book I hated was The Martian. Interesting science stuff, zero characters acting like real people. I think I gave both of them 2 stars simply because I finished them. The Shining, however, is my favorite Stephen King. King became popular when I was in my teens so was probably formative in my early taste in horror, and I devoured The Shining in 2 days up at a cottage where everything was extra dark and scary. I am in the minority in not thinking Kubrick's movie version is a masterpiece. Thought the book was a lot better!

@Kronkgirl Год назад

I agree with you on The Princess Bride and Good Omens. I think I gave them both 3 stars. I loved the movie and tv show for adaptations though. Hope the air quality in your area has improved and continuing to send positive vibes to the efforts to stop the wild fires.

@BookswithEmilyFox Год назад

Thank you! Today was good around here thankfully, they're announcing more this weekend so we'll see

@nerdy_nurse Год назад

If you want to try a film adaptation of Rebecca, definitely do the Hitchcock one. It’s excellent. The recent Netflix one was not good.

@kathybryar06 Год назад

I also adore the 1997 miniseries starring Charles Dance and Diana Rigg- it was my first experience of the story. Aired on PBS here in the US- not sure if it was a BBC production?

@PLK74 Год назад

Oh, I absolutely loathed A Hitchhiker’s Guide and was so disappointed by it’s utter shitness. The humour in it is so juvenile and reminds me of a couple of early teenage boys coming up with ‘cool’ stuff to amuse each other. If one more person tells me that 42 is the answer to everything while looking smug about it, I’m going to slap them 😡😡 Not really, but they are definitely getting glared at

@anacatarinasimoes3653 Год назад

The Silent Patient is my last year's worst book. 2 generous stars, it was so boring and annoying. The main character was so whiny and the portrait of mental institution and mental illness is so damaging.

@deendrew36 Год назад

Oh gosh! I loved that book!

@lucymarie7895 Год назад

I agree I did not like The Silent Patient either. Was awful

@scarlettesc Год назад

Exactly! I’m really tired of “psychopath” psychologists and really unrealistic and cheesy therapy sessions

@theIaurenshow Год назад

I want to read the book, do you think it’s atleast worth the time to read it once? Or I should look up the plot summary and move on lol

@anacatarinasimoes3653 Год назад

@@theIaurenshow I think you should try to read the synopsis and if it interests you, go for it. A lot of people enjoyed the book, you might like it as well 😊

@neliaaa Год назад

I find it interesting when people have different opinions on books. The world would be so boring if all think the same 😂 I don't really understand Goodreads' rating system, because everything seems so inflated. I believe that the circumstances that you meet the book also influences your reading experience. The amount of prescribed books that I hated while studying it, but loved it afterwards are numerous! 😂

@badfaith4u Год назад

The kittens in the background are my favourite. 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ Thank you for your honest feedback.

@MicrobioIsLove Год назад

oh my goodness! I thought that was momma cat playing in the background, but then there was three of them! The kittens have gotten so big!

@liv4050 Год назад

Lol I remember seeing the comments under your goodreads review of Dune and I'm still absolutely shocked at some of them. I specifically remember one comment that was like "no, you read it wrong, you're not used to focusing and you don't understand the philosophy" and I'm like what? Since when did book spaces become so entitled? Who the HELL decided that whether a book is good or not is subjective? Who decided that there's only one way to read a book? Book spaces have become increasingly entitled and ignorant. I feel like as adults, we all know most of this is subjective, and there's no such thing as a perfect book. Books cannot be enjoyed by everyone and I don't understand how some people cannot understand this? I've loved some books you've hated and hated some books you've loved. It doesn't mean anything and no one is right here. Grown adult men acting like children when a woman rates their beloved book anything but 5 stars is absolutely insane.

@BookswithEmilyFox Год назад

I've had to block/delete some because people were going way too far. If you check the other 1-2 star reviews written by men... the comments are so nice compare to mine lol That tells me everything I need to know

@karinasmith7636 Год назад

All of what you said!!!!❤

@theIaurenshow Год назад

Apparently “Eleanor oliphant is completely fine” was in fact, NOT completely fine. 😂❤

@BookswithEmilyFox Год назад

Exactly ! 😂

@ScoundrelChestnut Год назад

i love when you stir the pot and people lose it lmao, if i were to ever trust goodreads, trust it wouldn't be in this lifetime. i need this to be a series emily pleaseee edit: also my logic have always been: i can shit on a book all i want since i'm the one who have wasted their time, so i will waste more time roasting the piece of dumpster fire. but that's just me.

@MM-introvert Год назад

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and The House on the Cerulean Sea was not worth the hype for me 😬

@cloudedsky88 Год назад

Agreed on Cerulean Sea!

@mirela2608 Год назад

Completely agree on both. Both were 1 star for me.

@mr.intamin1081 Год назад

Sarah j maas is the new Stephanie Meyer. She’s so bad. Terrible writing. Horrible stories. Baby stories…

@selmaarnaut-madrigal667 Год назад

1984 oh that hurt 😂. but its okay i couldnt finish a single becky chambers book and they are so short 🙈 i really tried tho!

@BookswithEmilyFox Год назад

Haha that’s fair!

@crawfishpi Год назад

Dune is one of my favorite books, but yeah its definitely NOT for everyone. I refuse to read anything by King. I cannot stand him or his proclivity for weird underage sex and describing women/girls bodies. Ahh Hitchhikers Guide is also one of my favorite books! Sad that people are jerks about you not liking the same books. People can be real snobs sometimes.

@Dragondarkness30 Год назад

I recommend Revival by him its a whole different thing I could not put it down.

@ninabelmont4606 Год назад

Love your videos! It helps me decide on my next read.

@karamarie6781 Год назад

I DNF’d Hitchhiker’s Guide. Nah. Bored me to tears.

@CloTricots Год назад

I absolutely loved Daisy Jones, I also read it as an audiobook. I do understand the "skeleton of a story", but the characters!!!!! I can not believe these people aren't real. I miss them, I think of them still. I want Karen to be my friend!

@CloTricots Год назад

Btw my name is Claudia and I giggle every time that kitten acts out and you talk about her.

@BookswithEmilyFox Год назад

I was way more invested in the show because I got more of a chance to get invested in the characters, did you try it? Lol oh no, she’s the naughty one too so I’m always reprimanding her 💀

@annaliavalentine5752 Год назад

@@BookswithEmilyFox i was so annoyed that they made the characters in the show look exactly the same as the flashbacks to the actual band. i always imagined them as fat old or just like older folks versions and i was so annoyed like let us age hollywood we are women we get wrinkles. isn’t the interviewer suppose to be the granddaughter as well wouldnt they be way older ?

@CloTricots Год назад

@@BookswithEmilyFox I did like the show but some of the changes didn't really work for me. Still it was a good take on the book imo

@monikaliane Год назад

I was so mad about the toll b/c the first two were so good but the ending went like LEFT from where it started and just was such a let down

@taradawe Год назад

I think looking at books in this way is really healthy and can really help steer what books you do pick up in the future. I think you're just not the biggest fan of British humour and that's totally valid. A lot of people don't but it makes you not liking things like Good Omens or Hitchhiker's Guide make sense since face value they seem like books you would have liked.

@TheFran2555 Год назад

Evelyn Hugo was a so fast read that I Believed that was a sign of a good story so 5 stars but with time was reduced to 3 stars

@isirlasplace91 Год назад

Some of those books I haven't read so I can't give my opinion on them but I'm with you for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and 1984. I expected so much more based on all the hype 🤷🏻‍♀️

@Hungarycloud Год назад

Hitchhikers was so boring. 1984 was interesting but I wouldn't call it an enjoyable read.

@isirlasplace91 Год назад

@@Hungarycloud I preferred We by Yevgeny Zamyatin over 1984

@Halfling4 Год назад

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is on my tbr. I am very interested to read it after reading the blurb, but I'm still quite hesitant to pick it up. Oh, well, let's hope that I won't end up being disappointed!

@karamarie6781 Год назад

I loved Elinor Oliphant!🤷‍♀️ I thought it was endearing.

@jennifer_left_a_comment Год назад

i really liked it. listened to the audiobook.

@Halfling4 Год назад

@@jennifer_left_a_comment that's great to hear!

@Halfling4 Год назад

@@karamarie6781 oh, that's good!

@jennifer_left_a_comment Год назад

in case you haven’t bought it yet and can’t get it from a library, what i always like to do to figure out whether i might like a book is to download the kindle sample. i understand your mixed feelings, though. after hearing emily’s boring verdict on dune i wonder whether i’m better off sticking to the movies. 😆

@Angelica_Rodriguez39 Год назад

The cats going feral in the background made me laugh so hard throughout the video 😂 I completely agree though -- normalize not liking things in general!!! Especially books! They're subjective like anything else in the arts.

@spiritofthefaerie Год назад

Do you have any recommendations for books following assassins that were better than Throne of Glass? I thought the premise was really interesting but I don't think I made it more than two chapters in the book because it was just so poorly written.

@bujobyfilo Год назад

That was fun. Of course we all have different taste, that's why it's interesting to talk about books! I agree, My cousin Rachel is so underrated, we always hear about Rebecca (I still liked it, but not her best). On the other hand, I read Evelyn Hugo and still don't understand the hype at all 🤷‍♀

@BookswithEmilyFox Год назад

I think what helped me with Evelyn Hugo is that I hadn’t seen it going around much when I read it so my expectations were low!

@kirikaloria4589 Год назад

I like the back you are talking and the cats going crazy at the background and you didn't finch xD

@BookswithEmilyFox Год назад

I edited a few clips of me pulling them away from the mic haha

@kirikaloria4589 Год назад

@@BookswithEmilyFox i have a question I know you read most of the time in English. Did you heard about la guilde des ombres de Anna Triss. It's a dark fantasy but i think you can enjoy it ok I just read the first part of the first book but it's promising. I like ready player one but the second no interest. Sorry if my English is not so good. My french is better but i dont want to upset you xD

@BookswithEmilyFox Год назад

Ton anglais est très bon! Non j’ai pas lu énormément de livres français dans les dix dernières années… je vais devoir en lire qquns bientôt!

@Halfling4 Год назад

Such an interesting video, I totally agree with you about normalizing not liking popular books. Every reader has different interests, therefore it's important to respect that and not gatekeep popular books. Personally, I didn't like Verity and ACOTAR. I gave Verity a 2.5 stars rating, while I rated ACOTAR with 2 stars. And no, I'll probably won't continue reading the rest of the ACOTAR books, because I wasn't a fan of the writing style, the characters and I was not even invested to the fantasy world. As for Verity, it was a very underwhelming thriller, written in a dull and plain way, with insufferable and dull characters (except Verity who was more interesting) and more sex than plot. Not to mention that I was able to guess the plot twist.

@BookswithEmilyFox Год назад

I have yet to try some CH... not sure I ever will lol

@kirstens1977 Год назад

I loved the throne of glass series, but have no interest in ACOTAR, and the reviews haven't helped

@FunFantasyBooks Год назад

Ahh that Good Omens reference killed me 🥲. But 100% agree with Assassin’s Apprentice!

@imvulneraboy3919 Год назад

Mine is Emily Henry's book

@lacasa8640 Год назад

Shook! I love Dune so much 🫶🏽

@BookswithEmilyFox Год назад

I like the movie better!

@kaiju_k5042 Год назад

@@BookswithEmilyFox That movie had no soul.

@MlleSophietr Год назад

Last year, I went on a trip with friends and some people that I didn't know. One of the guy saw me read a book and came to talk to me about book. The first thing he said was that he just finish the witcher serie and that it was pretty good. My answer : "I haven't read it, but I've heard that it is really sexist and there is a few grape scenes." He look at me for a while and then said that I was right and he never saw the story that way. Conclusion, sharing your opinion can affect some people point of view. He was offended, he just stayed there and was thinking for a while.

@BookswithEmilyFox Год назад

Absolutely! I have a friend who’s husband had read the black prism series by Brent weeks and liked it. I told him I couldn’t finish it because it was too sexist. He went back to try and read it again and his mind was blown that he hadn’t noticed it when he first read it as a young adult. I’m sure I’d be shocked if I went back to reread older favorites or rewatched older movies… as long as people don’t get mad over it and are opened to learn it’s all good

@MlleSophietr Год назад

@@BookswithEmilyFox I do agree that some older favorite are questionnable. In the case I was stating earlier, he finish the serie a few months prior, it wasn't an old favorite, but he didn't notice until I mention it. He is somebody who is aware of this type of behavior in everyday life, but just didn't pick it up in the book.

@1313AnimeFan Год назад

I would like spoilers for the sewer seen in IT! I don’t plan on reading it, but am curious cause I keep hearing about “that scene”.

@BookswithEmilyFox Год назад

Did my answer disappear?? For some reason it doesn’t look like I can say it?? Why?? I have it on my Goodreads review if you want

@BookswithEmilyFox Год назад

SPOILERS (trying again...) The kids all end up having s e x in the sewers, a giant prepubescent g*ngb*ng. The girl ends up having an O because of course (I wish I could erase that from my mind) and the explanation is that they're now "adults" so they can now face the clown??? It was awful lol Also the clown is an alien...

@kirstens1977 Год назад

@@BookswithEmilyFox , I don't know about you, but I still don't understand how *that* managed to defeat IT and like you I wish I could erase it from my memory

@BookswithEmilyFox Год назад

Listen, I'd want to die too if I had to see/hear that scene in person XD

@isaa1782 Год назад

Wait...for real? How tf did this get published? How did it get movie adaptations? 😳

@BlairBoggletrot Год назад

I just love your honesty 🤌🏻

@myribstellmesheslying Год назад

Isn't the Dune main character named Paul or smthn?

@BookTalksWithMrsThomas Год назад

Ok I agree with you mostly but I liked The Silent Patient

@karinasmith7636 Год назад

I appreciate the different angle. It is refreshing to hear different opinions and to be able to reflect and make my own ideas after. Attacking a person for their book opinions should not happen and might be an indication of how little those people feel about themselves. Thank you for sharing and starting the discussion. (You should totally bumped up Wordslut up the tbr. I started it on audiobook and it is very enlightening)

@BookswithEmilyFox Год назад

I keep hearing the audiobook is great and I'm mad that neither of my 2 libraries have it -_-

@kaiju_k5042 Год назад

Attacking people for liking the book shouldn't happen either.

@bronwynknox-lawler5576 Год назад

You absolutely came after some of my favorite books. 🙂You also had some opinions I totally agree with. Funny how different books affect people in different ways.

@monicamoss347 Год назад

I love the princess bride movie. I read the book a few years ago and it was just ok. I agree the double narration really took me oit of the story. But the movie is a classic.

@lindabloom6666 Год назад

Priory of the orange tree was very boring. Lord of the Rings was also very boring. I DNFed it at 647 pages. I liked the Hobbit though

@qlqnen Год назад

I think the lesson here is don't go to a book expecting to give it five stars. That's a half-joke. I've noticed that if I get super high expectations for something, it's more likely than not going to be a disappointment. I build up this huge expectation for whatever it is (book, movie, tv show) and eventually the media cannot live up to what I've built up in my mind.

@rebelbelle1388 Год назад

I am SO with you on The Princess Bride, Raven Cycle, Hitchhiker's Guide, Rebecca, Ready Player One and The Black Prism. All overhyped for no reason, in my mind. Even though we don't agree on everything (I really enjoyed Theft of Swords and The Last Wish, for example) I truly appreciate you making these kinds of videos so I feel validated on my unpopular opinions! Keep being real and telling it like it is, Emily!

@DekeRadio 10 месяцев назад

Middle aged man here. I'm reading 'Dune' right now for the first time. To say that I am struggling with it is a grotesque understatement, and I usually enjoy scifi. How did people who didn't have the luxury of audiobooks ever finish reading it? I don't want to DNF it, I want to finish it and be able to offer a fair opinion on it, but my god....

@AndreaMGC Год назад

I'm so glad to see you didn't like The Toll either. The first book was SO good. Second book was meh. But the Toll was utter trash. I was so angry by the end that I immediately unhauled the series. You had such good thing going and then ruined it.

@BookswithEmilyFox Год назад

It had so much potential :(

@deetee8100 Год назад

I loved The Princess Bride, but I agree about Dune.

@amordesdemona Год назад

I read The Sixth Extinction as an audiobook. It's pretty repetitive and simple so it works better that way, and I do feel like there are things that an average person wouldn't know about climate change in relation to previous extinctions. I do remember that scene but maybe the narration made it seem more toned-down than it was, because I don't remember there being much of a conflict about that gift shop situation.

@sbayles5593 Год назад

I saw the author talk about the book anxious people. He said he wrote it while he was in an in-patient therapeutic setting and didn't expect to publish it. I like him but didn't like that book so I get it.

@paulabarreto2668 Год назад

omg I thought I was the only one who preferred the Daisy Jones TV show over the book!

@iphisnextdoor Год назад

I feel like the “children’s book for adults” vibe is part of why I like Princess Bride and Good Omens? I know what you mean by it, and hearing you say it was actually like an “oh! yes that’s it!” hahahaha, I understand though, it’s hit or miss even when you like the vibe

@beLIEver31415 Год назад

14:25 ish - Just a point of clarification but there were 3 novellas in the Skyward series (under Skyward Flight now if you buy them together) 2.5 Sunreach 2.6 ReDawn and 3.5 Evershore (read after Cytonic)... I also did not enjoy these especially the first 2 but unfortunately they are pretty much required reading if you want to understand what is happening in the story... and not excited to see Janci is continuing the Skyward property (on her own? idk, maybe the same way these were done, I'm uncertain)... Anyway... :woman_shrugging:

@bardhaselmani2877 Год назад

As a linguistics student, I hated Babel with a passion.

@BookswithEmilyFox Год назад

Haha I’ve heard a few people say the same! Personally liked the school setting but didn’t love the ending

@procaffeinate_withbooks Год назад

Nice to see your goodreads video again 😀 I did a goodreads one too

@theshannaeilishshow Год назад

I really love the Princess Bride movie. I don't plan the book because I've heard it was meh. (But I do have a 25th edition copy of it because it was pretty.)

@katherineshelton Год назад

I liked The Sixth Extinction, I don't even remember the author IN the book, so now I'm wondering what I was focused on the whole time. Because the way you describe Elizabeth Kolbert is how I feel about Bill Bryson. I find him really crass and abrasive. And I had a similar experience with Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schutt. I loved the book, I thought it was fascinating. But every part of the book with Bill in it, interviewing people, and sharing his little opinions, it irritated me. At one point he described an interview subject's child as "husky." It was so unnecessary. I would have rated it 5 stars if he had just left his personal narrative and thoughts out of it. Schutt still wasn't as bad as Bill Bryson in A Walk in the Woods, though.

@R.G.LovesBooks Год назад

I like the tv show Daisy Jones and the Six, but only gave the book two stars

@iheartwalle Год назад

You came out the gate with Princess Bride and i almost closed the video 😂

@MinxLaura123sWackyWorld Год назад

I like your honesty n realness ♡ hi from uk xx

@glitteryvoid Год назад

For sure a hot take with Daisy Jones. I loved it but now that I'm thinking about it, i get what your issue with it is. for me that was fine though, I think I just read it in the right moment where I was able to somehow appreciate the way the book works

@regerde2711 Год назад

As someone who loves character driven stories I also did not enjoy 1984. It was bland amd at times boring even though I do appreciate the ideas behind it. Definitely enjoyed Animal Farm much more. If you haven't read it yet I'd recommend Wool. It's set in a dystopian world and I think it is very engageing with likable characters and an interesting plot.

@leticiatoraci9855 Год назад

I haven't read The Riyria Revelations series yet but I would give Michael J. Sullivan's books another chance. The Legends of the First Empire series has really awesome female characters.

@theyungstump4933 Год назад

I thought it was pretty good, and her saying "most of the female characters are sex workers" is just wrong. There is like 1 that is actually a part of the story (a couple other that get mentioned), and the 2 main female characters are not. And all 3 are strong characters in my opinion.

@ida6950 Год назад

Omg I love The Last Wish so much, it’s one of my favourite books ever! 😭 But it’s been a few years since I’ve read it and I honestly don’t remember the SA. My popular yet hated book The House in the Cerulan Sea. Absolutely loathed that one.

@Riverrly Год назад

I think about 70% of the books you mentioned, I also didn't like. Can you do another video "lowest rated books that are worth the time"?

@bluelionz Год назад

Well, Dune series (the 6 books) are mainly philosophical, rather than SF/actions books. And Jessica is a normal name, since her child is Paul (another normal name). It is tedious, and not for "modern" readers, who like fast paced books. It is more like a classic novel, maybe in the same category as Ulysses by James Joyce.

@laurenschenck5355 Год назад

Loved the princess bride and it was good to read it again one of my favorites 🏝️🌊🌊🏝️💛💛📚📖📚📙🌞🌞⛱️📙📚🌊🩵🩵🏝️🌞💛🌊📖📖📚📙⛱️🌞🌞🌞💛🩵🌊

@Plants.and.cats5 Год назад

The cats tho… 😂😂😂

@BookswithEmilyFox Год назад

Pure daily chaos… looking at your profile pic, you can probably relate lol

@val.teacup Год назад

My finger hovered over the unsubscribe button for a moment there when you said 1984 😂😂😂❤

@BookswithEmilyFox Год назад

Come on Val, we can’t break up over 1984 of all books?!?! 😂

@val.teacup Год назад

@@BookswithEmilyFox almost Em, almost 😂

@aaatt268 Год назад

I liked the Pricess Bride because of the double narration. To me, it felt like the author started with sweet, hopeful fairy tale, and then the author's bleak personal life started bleeding into the story.

@Den7205 Год назад

😂😂😂your comments about 1984 is so true! ❤

@RoundSeal Год назад

I use The Storygraph rather than Goodreads, but for me, it was Legendborn. 😅 Highly rated but I had such mixed feelings about it. Too many of the reviews felt like they slapped a 5 star on it without taking time to think on it critically. (I loved the main character's personal story as it was organic and drew from the author's own grief; really didn't like the Arthurian stuff as it was choppy, contrived, nonsensical, and just...kind of goofy next to the personal story) I could talk a lot about this and think about it quite often. I do agree with you about so many of these! Especially the Raven Cycle, King books, a lot of Gaiman, etc. I always appreciate that you're straightforward and honest with your reviews, regardless of the overall reviewer opinions. It's really refreshing and cathartic. (Until certain types of men find your reviews...🙃)

@Tharia1981 12 дней назад

I was bored by Douglas Adams too and I did read all books.

@chriswildfire Год назад

I'm glad you made this video cause it is great to know you're not alone in the hate or dnfing of some of these books. I tried the Raven cycle series a few years ago and couldn't even finish the first book. And dnfed both of Sara j mass series so boring. The silent patient wasn't anything special I don't know how it won that year. One book I hate that everyone loves is Behind her eyes. The main character was so dumb and one of my top pet peeves is dumb characters. And recently tried to read My heart is a chainsaw and dnfed that too it had to much stream of consciousness.

@annaliavalentine5752 Год назад

yes the daisy jones actor look like they were about to go shoot with a green latte. i was like babes this is the 70s…. lip injections are not popular yet.. i really didn’t like the casting or the fact that they don’t even try to make them look older in the interviews and that was confusing and annoying.

@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm Год назад

Yessss agree to ready player one 😬

@stacyb7623 Год назад

Steelheart was my first Anderson book, yes I didn’t really enjoy it, great promise but the main character was so so. I’m trying to get through Skyward, put it down 40% hope one day I’ll finish it

@izzzzzzzzy19 Год назад

I'm so glad you mention It by Stephen King in this video. Previous to reading that, I considered myself a fan of his books. Slogging through the 1200 pages turned it into a hate read for me, and then the SEWER SCENE. OMG. That is the grossest, most unnecessary, most VILE scene I've ever read in a book and it has scarred me. Also the way Beverly was described trough the whole story, kid and adult, was sooooo objectifying and gross. I haven't read a SK book since.

@caitlynprice9501 Год назад

I look back on some of my 5 star reads from a few years ago and I was way too generous with a lot of them. My hot takes: Reminders of him: 2 stars, 4.44 average When Breath Becomes Air: 2 stars, 4.39 average The Housemaid: 1 star, 4.36 average Things We Never Got Over: 1 star, 4.23 average Books I think are underrated (literally): Lucky You by Erika Carter: 4 stars, 2.61 average Catherine House: 4 stars, 3.11 average Star Daughter by Shveta Thakrar: 5 stars, 3.31 average The Cabin at the End of the World: 5 stars, 3.32 average

@anacatarinasimoes3653 Год назад

The Silent Patient is last year's worse book. 2 generous stars, it was so boring and annoying. The main character was so whiny and the portrait of mental institution and mental illness is so damaging.

@susantownsend8397 Год назад

Interesting. We like what we like and don’t have to apologize. I was a lit 29:05 major and really good writing will draw me in. 1984 - there’s a reason for assigning it in high school but I never considered rereading it. On the other hand, I love a good YA series. I read Arc of the Scythe along with my teenage grandson and we both loved it. I’ve never liked Stephen King (with a few exceptions). I also enjoy going back to Golden Age sci-fi, like Asimov, Clarke, early Heinlein, books that seem very “simple” today.

@xmilax96 Год назад

Omg i saw part of the dune movie the other day & it makes it sound intresting so i was thinking if i should read it. Noone close to me read it & i thought i remembered you not liking it but not why

@shloka3915 Год назад

I'm so glad someone else doesn't like Dune 😅 I was so ready to love it that I get a very beautiful edition and huuuu, I was so disappointed. I actually loved like the 2/3 of it but then there's like a jump in time or something like that (don't remember exactly) and you learn the death of a "important" character that you don't know and Paul doesn't look like he cares so I was like "I don't care either" 😂 I completely stoped feeling invested and started being really bored. And I HATED 1984 with passion. Some interesting ideas but awful, AWFUL characters. There's litteraly a point where I thought "my god, I hope they will die".

@covergirlbooks Год назад

3:01 right there with you on Dune.

@tamerlaaane Год назад

Do you take into account the period/culture when a book was written? This is (of course) in response to the Forever War. I know it wont change your opinion on the book. Just curious if this is the case for other works/topics as well.

@BookswithEmilyFox Год назад

Of course but I also think it's okay to judge them on a modern lense too. While certain things were frowned upon back in the day, not everyone had issues with it. Heck, there's some positive representation of a lesbian couple in "the count of monte cristo"! I do think we usually can tell if these opinions are shared by the authors or if it's just the character/book but even if it wasn't... it's okay for people to not want to read a book containing homophobia, racism or rape.

@tamerlaaane Год назад

@@BookswithEmilyFox Thanks for the reply! I guess i am giving less importance to the judgement through the modern lense but i fully understand if people do. Also it did not bother me as much as others because i thought the novel did a great job on the feeling of being an alien in your own world/society. It still hurts that you found it boring but hey, at least i wont get mad on GR ;)

@laurenschenck5355 Год назад

OMG! The kittens are absolutely so cute and so special and momma cat is so beautiful and amazing and growing so fast and amazing 🌊🌞🩵🏝️🏝️🌞📖📖📚⛱️💛💛🏝️🩵🌊🌞🩵🏝️🩵🌞📖📖📚⛱️📙📙💛🩵🌞🌊🌊🌞📖📖📚⛱️🏝️💛🏝️

@doyourmath826 Год назад

Please reconsider using so many emojis, it looks like you are a Spam Account

@witchymary5246 Год назад

@@doyourmath826I think they are a spam Account...

@BookswithEmilyFox Год назад

No they’re always leaving lovely comments, not spam!

@juliaroth9739 Год назад

AGREE WITH DUNE. I barely finished it after watching the first movie because I thought it’d be better than the movie (which I also didn’t like). My main question is why are their names Paul and Jessica?? Aren’t we in a different universe??

@deendrew36 Год назад

I have read almost all of SK’s books and he is one of my faves. BUT……yeah. Endings are not his strong suit. Lol

@BookswithEmilyFox Год назад

I watched the movie the mist and liked it. I’ve heard the ending was better than in the book, is it? I feel like his books are better as movies

@deendrew36 Год назад

@@BookswithEmilyFox his endings can sure be improved upon in the movies and I feel like they usually are. I saw the movie The Mist and read the book when they first came out, but I don’t remember being super disappointed or annoyed. Lol

@cat_pb Год назад

I am following you for a reason hahaha 😂

@completelycrazy1 Год назад

Maybe the Warcross book started the trend of people thinking coloured hair is a personality 😂

@Pintsizeamy Год назад

my own personal popular goodreads/booktok book that I HATED was saving Noah. it’s about a mother who has a pedophile as a son and idk if the authors intention was to downplay her sons acts and victim blame bc she wants to see the good in her son but the goodreads reviews emphasising with the son is a massive ick (to those who have read it and loved it yes I know the ending and yes I know the plot twist) and a book with that subject matter having a plot twist is so tacky. It made me hate the book even more.

@lindacooper2579 Год назад

I so agree with your thoughts on Dune!! I was reading it for a book club, so I did finish it, but very painful. Also didn’t like the The Silent Patient. A lot of books you mentioned were on my TBR list, but not now! 😅

@lenusniq_9746 Год назад

This round there were none that hurt too much (100% agree on Silent Patient and other mystery thrillers - well not everything can be Gone Girl or Kind of Worth Killing). But if you ever felt like it, another mystery thriller recommendation video would be nice. Also I hate when "men"/world makes fun of women reading some smutty (totally consensual) romances, but straight up r@pe in "esteemed" (male) SF books is totally OK. PS: I am still hurting over And then there were none.

@ivingzuniga841 Год назад

Michael J Sullivan is known for writing good female characters in fantasy. First book of Riyria only has a princess and a sex worker, true 😂 but it gets so much better. People rave about Legends of the First Empire series, saying how amazing his female characters are. I haven’t read that yet but after reading the second Riyria book, I’m starting to believe the positive reviews. I’m curious to know what would you think though

@entrepaginasinfinitas Год назад

I have the same feeling about 1984. That book got me into depression, I was giving up live, actually I feel the same for this author in general 😞 his work is tiresome

@BookswithEmilyFox Год назад

I haven’t tried anything else but him but good to know it’s just as dreadful!

@matthampton8692 Год назад

Do you ever got told if you didn’t enjoy a book that people say you just didn’t understand it. I get that if I don’t like a super popular book So glad you didn’t like Eleanor Olyphant I did not get the hype

@Colaman112 Год назад

So, uh. What books you do like? :D

@ninabelmont4606 Год назад

Please read Simple Lies by David Baldacci. Give me your thoughts.

@ninabelmont4606 Год назад

Sorry Simply Lies

@jio5680 Год назад

Lmao the most dumb commentary I got for not liking a series was for the Dresden Files. And you must understand, all I asked was whether the sexism (which there was so much you wouldn't believe) continued as rampant in the next books (I've read 3) because the magic system was so freaking good I'm still thinking about it. Anyway the commentary straight up made me DNF the series.

@BookswithEmilyFox Год назад

Lol the fandom can be really telling! I actually have a few books from that series on my shelf I had picked up at a library sale… will add it to my “read it or unhaul it: murakami edition” 💀

@jio5680 Год назад

@@BookswithEmilyFox prepare yourself for a lot of boobs and grinding🙄