Biggest Disappointments

ahef1963: I thought this was pretty workaday considering all the good things I'd heard about it.

aulsmith: I thought it dragged. It was obvious where the plot was going and I didn't find the jokes worth the time to get there.

aulsmith: It just didn't grab me, especially after all the hype from my friends.

aulsmith : This is an adult book, not a sequel to Tom Sawyer.

ahef1963: One of the authors I like the best, and I couldn't get through his most famous work.

ahef1963: Have made three attempts to read this book as I generally love White's writing, but it was unreadable.

aulsmith: Found it nearly incomprehensible.

Cecrow: Too much hyperbole raised my expectations

Cecrow: Probably deserves another chance, but was too dense for me to penetrate.

jain: I couldn't read more than a couple of pages, the writing style was *so bad*.

: Painfully unrealistic: couldn't wait to give the book away hence it's not in my Lib Thing.

aulsmith: Found this much less engrossing than 1984 to which it had been compared.

aulsmith: Expecting an interesting book on intersexuality--there was a lot of interesting stuff, but not on gender.

aspirit: Feels like insanity. Don't know why I should want to experience that voluntarily.