Ok this is very juvenile but I refuse to read This Perfect Day. My husband recommended it to me the first time we went to a library together 7 years ago. It didn't sound interesting to me at all so I just mumbled something about checking it out sometime, not really planning to do so. A couple of months later he asked if I had read it and I said no, not yet. The next time he asked I admitted that I wasn't planning on reading it, had no interest in the storyline as he had described it, sorry. Some books I know I won't be interested in and I hate reading something just so someone will get off my back about it. Anyway, It's his favorite book and he won't leave me alone about it... SEVEN YEARS LATER! 8) It comes up about every two months. Now I'm refusing to read it more because I don't like losing than lack of interest. After this long there is no way I'm giving up. Besides the argument is filled with nostalgia, it's our first fight and longest running one. LOL

So- does anyone else have a book they refuse to read?

The Da Vinci Code. I think it's a negative reaction to all of the hype -- it was just too popular. (Good thing I didn't feel that way about HP, I guess -- though I started reading it before I knew it was popular.)

I get that way about movies, if they get too much hype I burn out on it before it even gets to a theater. 8)

I may hear a lot about this one, but Twilight is on my Do Not Read list. I have friends who love it, some who hate it, but I am just not into vampires or teenage love stories.

I tend to have that negative reaction to things too, its why it took me so long to get into HP (and when I did pick it up it was because it was literally the only thing to read at the time). I actually read The DaVinci Code as an ARC though.

I can definitely be stubborn in the way MEM is talking about too, in particular if one of my sister's recommends something, (you all know how long I resisted Pride and Prejudice!) though I've gotten better about that. My reading tastes have been evolving at a rapid pace the last couple years, so these days I'll try anything once.

My twenty-year-old sister and I have tried for years to get each other to read our books but only recently have one of us suceeded. In the last three weeks she's read The Time Traveler's Wife and made her way into the last book in the Twilight series. She really wants me to read a book by Patricia Cornwell.

It's funny I thought of The DaVinci Code when I saw this thread and here it is. I've actually read it, but I won't read any other books by Dan Brown connected to it for the same reason as foggi says.

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I refuse to read the Left Behind series...my husband (nonreader) loved them. But I've heard too much hype and just have heard too much about them, and the theology doesn't appeal to me. I did watch the movie with him, and wasn't impressed either.

I refuse to read any more books where vampires refuse to bite people. Vampires should suck blood, imo.

I also will not read the twilight series because I have little interest in vampires living in our world. (maybe we could call them "vampires trying to pass" who gets it?) teen age love, and because everybody was reading it at Walmart and I also am stubborn that way! (Where did you think MEM got it?)

now the Da Vinci Code and other dan Brown books.. I liked them and am looking foreward to his new book

I like Pat Cornwall books sometimes. It just depends

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>#8: Vampires that don't suck, suck. Vampires that suck, don't suck.

You're doing my head in.

>#6: Hi K!

Now that the Twilight movies are coming out, i know i'll never read the rest of the series.

#10 Now the vampires that do the wacky crack! That is messed up.

#10 MrA:
ROFL. Hi, MrA! It's been forever since I could say that. Please tell Donna hi, too! I've missed you guys.

#11 LG:
The what-what?

#12 K, check the What Are You Watching thread.

MsD sez hi :-D

It's a new book: LG and the Wacky-crack Vampires.

k I second your sisters vote for the Patricia Cornwell novels...though you knew I would :)

Books I wont read...hmmm....anything military related really. Blame it on Gramps but I had my fill of war stories by the age of 10.

The Secret
Edited to add: I do intend to read it just so I can write some horrid reviews.

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#14: ROFL! I clicked see what you linked that title too! WWBD?

I think the only thing I refuse to read are romance novels. It's more of an embarrassment factor though.

It's too early for me to think of anything else right now. I'm waiting for foggi and Espy to show up. Or call saying they are hopelessly lost.

Ah yes, those are books I'll never read, The Secret, The Prayer of Jabez, The Purpose Driven Life. Definitely not my thing!

I will not read anything b y Nicholas Sparks, because I don't like sad endings. Thats the reason I won't read Marley and me, either

Wow, thanks for comparing me to Buffy, MrA! I feel honored.

I purchased The Night Watch yesterday, so you see I am not opposed to vampires on principle, just impotent ones.

I don't mind romance novels, so much, but there are rules I follow. If it has words like luscious, tender, rebellious or Fabio posers on the cover or at this point in time anything with vampires. Last year I picked up a vampire book and it really was the raunchiest thing I have ever read. Vaguely traumatizing, it was. Beyond that I don't mind romances as long as the actual romance isn't the major plot line. Am I making sense? No? hmmm oh well
Onward:
Books I have read and well never read again or make my kiddles read include: Island of the Blue Dolphins, Hatchet, The Giver and anything by John Steinbeck. The first three I had to read in 3rd grade and I swear to all that is holy, they single handily caused my first depression episode. 8) Steinbeck just made me want to die (The Pearl).

There have been many romance novels that I pick up and don't finish. Sometimes things are a little too much for me. That's information I don't want to know until I'm married.

The HP books were ones I had refused to read at first. Then I educated myself right about the time the 4th book came out. I've told the long story in the other thread.

Other books I won't read:
Anymore books by Philip Pullman- Sorry, I just didn't enjoy The Golden Compass.

Anymore books by Angie Sage-Okay, maybe I'll read another book by her, but nothing from the Septimus Heap series. I loved the 1st book (Magyk) but couldn't even finish the 2nd book.

I also haven't really been interested in Dan Brown's books. They just don't appeal to me.

I won't read explicit romances either. And I won't read horror anymore. I used to read Stephen King back when I was a teenager, but I don't know why! Now it would just really upset me. But that's just me.

Romances don't interest me either. Neither does any book (or tv show) with a serial killer as protagonist.

My husband read The Da Vinci Code and loved it. I tried to read it but I just couldn't get into it. Just not my thing.

A Purpose Driven Life didn't really inspire me but several women in the church group I was in loved it.

I'm a big King fan. I prefer his older monster books to the ones he has been doing. I can't read King when I'm pregnant, except for It, my favorite book ever. I read a story in Different Seasons when I was 7 months along with Missie. The story was about a pregnant woman and it really messed me up.

#25 - I use to enjoy serial killer/gore novels, but they also use to have more in them regarding a plot line and they certainly didn't try to justify the killer(s) reasons.

In Oz we are being bombarded with CSI type shows on TV where they seem to love showing dead people on a slab. The last horror type movie I watched was Wolf Creek and that was an accident (home alone and too scared to get out from under the Doona and turn off the TV).

I can't imagine how disturbing it must be for a person who has recently suffered a death in the family, whether natural or murder to inadvertently come across one of those shows. To me they just seem further desensitize people in regard to the sanctity of life.

>#26: It's sad when monsters get older. They try, but they just can't catch the kids like they used to.

Edited to add post reference, because MsD and i appear to have cross-posted. Spooky.

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*snicker*
Imagine Big Foot with a cane LOL

Or the Creature From the Black Lagoon in a wheelchair.

Or the Wolfman with patchy hair.

Or the Mummy slowly lurching... oh wait.

MsD, a friend of mine was murdered years ago and I couldn't watch any tv show or movie with guns or murder in them for about 2 years. Ironicially, the film that cured me was Pulp Fiction. Cartoon violence is nothing like the real thing.

i must say i wouldn't have read the twilight series, except i started reading #1 & #2 before all the hype. b4 all the hype i was just like ehh it just YA and now i'm on the verge of having a bonfire to burn the books, posters, movies, tabloids, t-shirts, jewelry, and all the other ( *insert foul laguage here*) that's come out....

I won't read anything by Stephen King, or any horror at all, as it gives me bad dreams.

I'm not a huge fan of romances or chick lit, although I'll read them occasionally.

I flat out refuse to read The Shack, although a lot of people I know keep recommending it to me. No appeal whatsoever.

>32 twilight make up/twilight burger king merchandise etc

Seriously? There's make-up and Burger King merchandise?

>35 yep. there are also twilight action figures (like Barbie)

Ha, ha, ha, ha!

ha, ha, ha. They have no shame.

>MuggleMagic

you're freaking kidding me!! today at the market there are Sweetart Twilight candy!!! ugh...

quick google search and I found this

www.twilightshop.com

hahaha I know you will ALL be cramming to get there! ;)

I refuse to read Pride and Prejudice and Twilight. Also, I find I have an incredibly hard time getting into books that have a feminine female protagonist. Just guess I'm a male chauvinist pig...

well there are only a few books where i like male protagonists, like HP and Napoleon's Pyramids but mostly i like female protagonists, i suppose we are biased towards our gender...

>#41: How about those with a masculine female protagonist? Or a feminine male protagonist? Or a non-gender-biased antagonist with ambivalent sexuality?

ETA post reference

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this is true, i suppose it really depends on the writing and what you like

#43 -- Nah, he's fine with all of those.

feminine female protagonists that are actually killer robots sent from the future?

Sounds like someone has been reading Sarah Connor Chronicles Fanfics...

Here's a hint: It's not me.

Oh this thread has been making me chuckle.

I won't read dan brown but not because of the controversy but because I read the first bit of his book and decided that he is not a good writer. (and there is no such thing as a symbologist-it would be a professor of semiotics like say Umberto Eco who already wrote a better book than Dan Brown on a similar subject)

I agree with LG, not interested in romance or in serial killer books or true crime, I am not much for self help either.

41 that is interesting espy. I always identify with Hamlet in Hamlet say (not gertrude or ophelia) I wonder if women are just trained early to read the endless male protagonists we encounter in literature classes.

Didn't I hear that they told Jo Rowling to use JK because boys don't want to read books by women authors?

>49 yeah i heard that too

Anything by Suzanne Somers. Anything in that vein of quasi famous people writing about diets or self help books, autobiographies, or their battle with addictions. "Breakthrough: 8 steps to Wellness" by Suzanne Somers ! or "Wishfull Drinking" by Carrie Fisher ! "Here's the Story" by Maureen Mcormick Please gag me with a spoon !

#13 LG:
Will check next. Thanks! :)

#15 Bella:
You're right, of course. I surely did know that. ;) Ah. With my grandfather it was National Geographic. He has the biggest collection of magazines and videos from them! There's a lot my mother's learning from books at 48 that I learned when I was 10 from those videos. She always says, "How'd you know??"

#19 Polly:
That movie had me a mess. I do like some of Nicholas Sparks' works though.

#33 grmwk:
Horror gives me bad dreams, too! The Strain was the last to do so. Oddly enough though I really liked the book.

#49 LG:
Yes. They wanted a gender neutral name. She actually had to come up with a middle name for herself because she had been middle nameless. Kathleen is a name from one of her grandmothers.

#51 David:
;) Heehee. I didn't know anyone used that expression anymore, 'gag me with a spoon.' :)

On the topic of romance books, I won't read them, either.

I will read a romance for fluff or fill in reading but in high school I devoured them

51 - I hate those kind of celebrity tell all things too. I'm not interested in most celebrities, so the gossipy confessional is so boring to me. I also don't the 'how to get ahead in business' kind of books. I don't hate them, just don't find them interesting or appealing. I think to be successful, you have do more than read. You have to work.

I won't read any novel that has a cartoon-ish picture of a woman with shopping bags or shoes on the front.

*gasp* Does suge know this, LadyN?

Ha! I have nothing against shopping or shoes, believe me, I just don't want to read about vaccuous women who only ever shop for shoes. (Unless they're complaining about men in between shopping for shoes, that is). And you know that's what you're gonna get if you pick up any one of the books with that kind of cover. :-)

#55 LadyN- I usually don't pick up books like that either. The one that I did actually get from the library was The Devil Wears Prada because I thought title was funny. The book was okay and fairly humorous, just not a genre for me.

I used to be I WILL NOT read on Twilight and Harry Potter but I'll probably end up reading them. Who knows???

I now I will not read anything with print that does not help my comfortness. I do not need large print, but sometimes I am wanting to read something in low light or other difficult condition. That, is why I will only read books that do not interfere with my comfortness! :P

LOL! I had forgotten about those spammers, but we did (and do) have so much fun making fun of them.

#60: LOL! For a second there I was worried about Espy, but then I realized that sounded a bit familiar!