Love vs Loathe

by S W
13th February 2014

What book do you love the most? and what book do you loathe the most?

The contrast can be interesting.

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Siew Leng Lee, what about 'When Mr Dog Bites?' by Brian Conaghan?

Great book, full of swearing because he's writing about a boy with tourettes. Nevertheless, a great book.

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Debbie Ellen
13/02/2014

I like to read books by authors who use easy to understand sentences that can connect us to them. For example self-development books by Dale Carneige are very well written. The sentences somehow connect me to what Dale wrote. Hard to explain. An easier way to put it is : It's like after reading a book that contains such sentences, I feel as if the writer and I are somehow like 'kindred spirits'.

I dislike reading books which contain a lot of 'trash' & F words. Gee...they kill the urge to read. An occasional one is fine but to read a book that contains too many of such words, I would say it's better not to waste my time reading it. Nothing concrete to learn from such books.

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Bitten by Kelley Armstrong is one of my favourite books.

But i've loved Allie Condies Matched series, and also Tabitha Suzuma's book Forbidden. I can't choose between those three.

There's only been 1 book that's made me physically angry before, and that's a book called Enigma. It was clearly self-published and the author hadn't bothered to edit it or read it out loud. Was a shame.

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