English is my second language and I looked up what imprinting is, but it doesn’t seem to be bad. Can you please elaborate on why it was too much for you? I haven’t read that book or watched the movie.

Untamed by Glennon Doyle. There is no redeeming quality. She’s a grifter and will eventually go the way of Rachel Hollis.

Haha thank you for the book rec!!

Upgrade by Blake Crouch. Spoilers below.

>!The main character's mom caused a global famine with her gene editing technology by accident due to unintended side effects... And the main character's goal through the book is to prevent somebody else using the same technology to edit genes because he's worried about the unintended side effects that they can't predict...!<

>!But when he saves the day and stops them, he takes the technology and uses it to edit the entire global population himself! But wait, it's okay because he only edited people to be more empathetic, so he doesn't have to worry about any unintended side effects! Because he had good intentions!!<

When I think of bad endings to books I've read, this will always be at the top of my list. And I've read a lot of Stephen King.

I got a ton of spoilers on the movie version because I could never bring myself to read it.

When I found out about that- oh god you can imagine how much nope to that book I felt. 🥲

I wanted to throw a book on the last twilight. The imprinting on Bella’s infant was too much for me. Say what you will about it, but like… nope. No thank you. Unnecessary, useless, stupid, weird.

Every book in the god damn Malazan series. Stop introducing characters!

I totally get that. I think that was intentional though.

To me the book was less about an epic love story, and more about Patroclus not being able to see Achilles for how he really is (an arrogant asshole) because he's just SO consumed by his love. Patroclus idolized him to a deadly degree

Achilles decision to choose pride over happiness/love was repulsive. It made me sick to my stomach, more than any book has.

It's young adult not kids

Physical books are more convenient and more portable than a laptop. Physical books are less expensive to replace when damaged or stolen than an electronic device. The text in a physical books doesn't "disappear" in bright sunlight. Reading a printed page is less tiring for the eyes than looking at an electric screen.

I've read my nephew's YA books of varying degrees of quality and I've read childrens books to my daughter that range wildly in standard. I'm in the target audience for neither bracket, but if the writing is sub-par/lazy and the research it slipshod, criticisms of these things shouldn't be invalidated because I'm not the key demographic.

I agree there should be some reference to the target audience when it comes to subject and themes- for example I can't dismiss a book about, say, social media influencers as being absolute rubbish as it must appeal to someone (and that may not be me)- but if said book is poorly written, has a poor grasp of structure, vocabulary, nuance, relies on telling, rather than showing etc my criticisms would be absolutely valid and shouldn't be dismissed just because it wasn't written for someone like me.

Exactly. I’m currently reading “Stolen Focus” by Johann Hari. He talks about this very thing. It’s pretty interesting so far.

To be fair, I've seen plenty of people dislike a book for not understanding it, or not understanding what the book was trying to do.

Just check out r/badreads

I have gone fully digital in my reading. Only the device is different. For leisure reading, I read on e-readers. For references and study, I read on my iPad. As it is easier to create notes, move the notes to a central database and better for flipping through pages.

The book is almost nothing like the movie, more that just a few aspects were taken from it: it's not exactly an adaptation, and it shouldn't be surprising an original film can be better than a book (it's not even good to begin with). Similar with the Earthsea and Borrowers ones, except the former was generally agreed to be a mistake. I'd like there to be a better adaptation of Earthsea, none have really hit the mark so far imo.

Personally I prefer the feel of a physical book. Though since I moved around a lot I have a lot of ebooks so I can read on the go.

I’m currently writing my master’s thesis in literature. While working on it, I much prefer digital books for ease of copying quotations, especially as I generally use them with GoodNotes.

For leisure reading, I prefer physical books. Partly because my eyes get less tired, but mostly because I like to read in stupid places. I have destroyed more than one book by dropping it in the bath. Replacing a book is generally much cheaper than replacing a Kindle or iPad!

Main advantage of paper books is that in bright sunlight you can still easily read them and they do not require being charged.

Ebooks. Love having a library in my pocket on my mobile which I can read on larger displays as well. Walking / driving my mobile can read to me any book I like. I control the fonts and sizes. I can highlight terms for quick looks or notes. Full text search is easy inside the books. To quote or share passages from ebooks is easy.

Paper book vs ebook question is like question of typewriter vs word processor. If you are used to the older technologies you may be fond of them despite even because of their limitations simply because how they make you “feel”.

E-books when I’m commuting to work. It’s very crowded and books take up space. Otherwise physical books are preferred. It just feels more real.

The other day, I bought my first physical book in years as it wasn't available in digital format. It was big and awkward to hold and the text formatting was just acceptable. There was lots of flipping between the text and footnotes rather than just pressing the screen link to the reference.

It was nice holding a real book again but I feel more immersed in a digital book.

I travel daily a lot so I started preferring ereading, since I got kindle on xmas

Sometimes people don’t like things because they don’t get it. Often. Nobody wants to hear that though because of Death of the Author and other shit that tells you to disregard authorial intent.

I bought it wane was interested in reading it but I read somewhere that it is for Young Adults and I felt silly reading a book for kids . Is it still worth the read for adults ?

I have hundreds of pdf books, and merely browsed. Nothing beats a physical book. Screens aren't fun to stare at.

100% agree. I also think platforms like Twitter, with their character limits, have conditioned us all to go for punchy and reductive, and like you say, put so much weight on our gut reaction to things there's no room to let an idea sit for a while and tease it out fully