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Huffington Post Readers Reveal: Books They Hated That Everyone Else Loved

First Posted: 07/11/11 10:03 AM ET   Updated: 09/10/11 06:12 AM ET

It's okay. You can admit it. Everyone has read books that are either popular, critically acclaimed or both, but still been left pondering, "How can anyone like this?"

Last week, we decided to ask our readers what books they hated that everyone else loved. Our answers ranged everywhere, from classics to bestsellers.

Did we miss any books that you love to hate? Let us know in the comments!

"The Lovely Bones" by Alive Sebold
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kerriberri said on 11 Monday 2011 pm31 7:34 pm:
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It's okay. You can admit it. Everyone has read books that are either popular, critically acclaimed or both, but still been left pondering, "How can anyone like this?" Last week, we decided to ask o...
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Mel RotunoJohnson
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08:22 PM on 07/27/2011
This could probably be said about any book.
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Mekales
...and I mean what I don't say!
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10:00 PM on 07/28/2011
Precisely. And, "The Giving Tree" - HATED? Really? Maybe someone couldn't read and didn't like the pictures?
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sfblueangel
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08:10 PM on 07/26/2011
The Road, The Grapes of Wrath, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn = all books I should have probably appreciated, but didn't.
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KT31
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02:49 PM on 07/26/2011
The Corrections - and any other claptrap from Jonathan Franzen (not that I'd ever wade through another one!). Da Vinci Code and the Twilight series are some of the worst things I've ever read - but at least they were over quickly.
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thecommonraven
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01:23 PM on 07/26/2011
I picked up "The Shack" at my local grocery store while waiting for a friend to go through the check out aisle. The book sounded so awful people started staring at me because I laughed so hard reading the back description.
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rah138
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12:42 PM on 07/26/2011
What? No Da Vinci Code?
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Musnt Grumble
Feelings of an almost human nature.
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09:56 PM on 07/24/2011
Please don't hate me but... 'The Hours' was dreadful (IMHO)
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Natalie Jones123
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09:39 PM on 07/24/2011
I didn't hate 'the giving tree' i just found it heartbreaking.
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tbone99
cruisin' duality
926 Fans
02:19 PM on 07/24/2011
Anything by Rpbert Bolano . So overrated

Could never get thru Infinite jest , but loved every essay I ever read by David Foster Wallace- the guy is brilliant and reading him , makes it quite clear why he committed suicide- he saw and felt tooo much
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Jeremy Ritz
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02:25 PM on 07/23/2011
How can anyone HATE 'The Giving Tree' - really?
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Coryct
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10:34 AM on 07/22/2011
The Road? Really? I thought it was heart-breakingly beautiful. I loved the minimalist style and the bleak, stark words that created the bleak, stark world.
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misamille
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12:41 PM on 07/21/2011
I loved half of these books! The other half I hadn't read so I can't say if I hate them or not.
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HockeyMom
I was here before SP and will be long after her.
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01:26 PM on 07/20/2011
I never understood The Giving Tree. What is the message? Give until you are destroyed?
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splenetic
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02:18 AM on 07/20/2011
I guess all the people who would have remembered "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" are all dead now and can't comment.
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elizlucinda
a mind is a terrible thing to waste
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07:49 PM on 07/21/2011
I still have my copy of Jonathon.....I kind of liked it, even though I didn't really understand it but those were the days of smoking weed. I figured that was the reason why I didn't get it
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cmfrtblebbw
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06:55 PM on 07/18/2011
I agree on all but Angela's Ashes. Great story, but why do male authors ALWAYS have such bad endings?
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rtolba
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09:24 AM on 07/18/2011
Please add "The Secret"
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elizlucinda
a mind is a terrible thing to waste
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07:50 PM on 07/21/2011
Yup...x 2
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