A big thank-you to The Orangutan Librarian for tagging me in this – her post was hilarious, as is this tag, so I am excited to participate! Here goes:
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An Over-Hyped Book:
Situation: You’re in a store when the zombie apocalypse hits. The military informs everyone that over-hyped books are the zombies only weakness. What book that everyone else says is amazing but you disliked do you start chucking at the zombies?
I’m gonna go with Insurgent and/or Allegiant by Veronica Roth. This series was so big, but I only really liked the first book. Naturally, the hype surrounding the later books was huge because of the series’ success, but I did not like either.
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A Sequel:
Situation: torrential downpour. What sequel are you willing to use as an umbrella to protect yourself?
This might be a controversial answer, but totally Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee (sorry, Harper). It’s the prequel that was marketed as a sequel, and therefore a pretty terrible failure. As a book, it did not hold together well, and lord knows there were enough of them printed that using one as an umbrella won’t be much of a loss.
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A Classic:
Situation: You’re in English class and your professor raves about a Classic that “transcends time”. If given the opportunity to travel back in time, which Classic would you try to stop from ever publishing?
Oh dear…I don’t think I’d ever stop something from being published (awful things happen to wizards who meddle with time), but I suppose I have to answer the question. I’ll go with Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, because I don’t think erasing that book from existence would have any terrible space-time repercussions; it’s a total waste of space on my bookshelf, even though it isn’t even an inch thick.
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A Least Favorite Book:
Situation: apparently global warming = suddenly frozen wasteland. Your only hope of survival for warmth is to burn a book. Which book will you not regret lighting?
I’m definitely stealing The Orangutan’s answer here: Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James. The fact that so many copies of this book were published and sold and devoured is disguising…not because of its content, but because it is literally the worst-written book I’ve ever had the misfortune to attempt to read (I got about 100 pages in as a pact with a friend but just could not go on).
I tag:
Carrianne @ Cuppa ‘n Critiques
Rose Read 
Oh, can’t wait to do this! Thanks for the tag and I have to agree with you on the Divergent books. I actually think the movies were better haha!
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Lol thanks for the tag. My answer for the first one will probably be the same.
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Thanks for the tag! Could not agree with you more about FSoG and the divergent series. I got a few pages into it and wasn’t feeling it.
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Thanks so much for the tag! 🙂 I so agree with the Divergent series – everyone thinks they’re amazing, but they really aren’t…
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It’s too bad you didn’t enjoy Go Set A Watchman… I was looking forward to reading it in the future because I loved To Kill A Mockingbird so much.
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It’s definitely worth reading, especially if you love Mockingbird. So long as you read it as a literary artifact, because it is essentially a rough draft of Mockingbird, so it’s very interesting from that standpoint. I wrote a post all about it. It just shouldn’t have been marketed as a sequel…
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*Love* your answers! I totally agree with you about the last two Divergent books- the first one was ok, but the series was way too overhyped. Also, I have absolutely no desire to read Go Set A Watchman- partly cos of the reviews (in which I heard some spoilers which put me off ever picking it up) and partly cos it’s essentially the first draft of To Kill A Mockingbird (which I love and don’t feel the need to ruin with this book). I’ve never heard of Ethan Frome- but it sounds awful! And of course I agree about Fifty Shades of Grey!
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The Divergent trilogy was incredibly overhyped! I remember marathoning the series and the last book just didn’t live up to that hype.
Thank you so much for tagging me, but I’ve already done it.If you want, you can check mine out here: https://thebookandthebone.wordpress.com/2016/02/05/the-book-sacrifice-tag/
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Gotcha thanks! 🙂 I marathoned it too. So disappointing.
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Oh man, your answers are perfect, all the way down to (and including) Ethan Frome. Hours of my life I’ll never get back were poured into that book, like, a decade and a half ago, and I’m -still- bitter about it.
I never read Fifty Shades of Grey, but I loved Jenny Trout’s chapter-by-chapter take-down of it (http://jennytrout.com/?page_id=5720). But even as awesome as her recaps/critiques are, the book itself is so ridiculous and horrifying that I could only read Trout’s responses in short bursts over a period of weeks. The book is -awful-. (But I recommend the recaps, if you’re ever in the mood for to laugh/stare in disbelief/erupt into outrage!)
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Haha, I do love a good outrage commentary! Thanks for the recommendation! 🙂
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Glad to point you to it! My other favorite outrage-lols source is Cleolinda Jones’s recaps of the Twilight series (which I barely managed to read the first book of). It’s here, if you’re interested:
http://cleoland.pbworks.com/w/page/10373763/Twilight#Bookdiscussionentries
Do you have any outrage commentary to recommend? I’m always prowling for more. =D
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I don’t, actually; I’ve only read the little ones sites like BuzzFeed have posted, which is why I’m glad you pointed me to more, lol!
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I’m always happy to share the outrage-lols. Hope you like them! =)
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