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The Bane Chronicles
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Lovely Bones
The Host
The Hobbit
Lord of the Flies
The Help
Water for Elephants
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
A Bend in the Road
Gone with the Wind
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Looking for Alaska


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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Books I Haven't Read

     Today, I'm going to talk about those super popular teen novels that I haven't read. Yes, I have fallen prey to a few of the highly popular novels like Divergent by Veronica Roth, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, City of Bones by Cassandra Clare, and a few others. But I couldn't help myself, sometimes so many people around you read that one novel that you're just like "Oh fine I'll read it just to see why it's so good". Sometimes these popular novels have lived up to my expectations, sometimes they haven't. For example, I thought I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore was going to be a good novel and many of my friends told me that it was, but it was the exact opposite. Sure the plot was okay but the characters were cliche, the writing craft was bad, and the events were so predictable. But I'm getting off topic here, here are some of the popular novels that I have not read (yet or I never will).
  1. The Fault in our Stars by John Green - Somehow I have been avoiding this book. I've heard so many things about it, I don't think I need to read it. Here, I can summarize it for you: It's about a guy and a girl who have cancer. The girl falls in love with the guy and unfortunately the guy dies. The End. Do I still need to read it? 
  2. The Maze Runner by James Dashner - I just feel like this book will be so much like the Hunger Games. Maybe not, but still. I'm growing tired of these dystopian novels, they're everywhere. It seems like authors who want to become popular attempt to write a dystopian novels, and then they hope that it'll become really popular among teenagers, and then hope their book will get turned into a movie. There are so many novels these days becoming movies, I'm getting tired of it. Popular books these days are either dystopian or forbidden love. There isn't much of a variety anymore. 
  3. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld - I think this novel is too girly for me. From the synopsis, it seems like it's solely focused on the romance happening in the novel. Oh, and it's a popular novel because it's dystopian. I'm not surprised. 
  4. Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan - One of the main reasons I probably will not try reading this book/series is that it's meant for 4th and 5th graders or should I say, it's not considered in the YA category. I've seen the movie but I've heard that it missed a lot of things from the book, but I think I have the basic idea on what the book/series is about. Some of my friends have mentioned that they cried during one of the books, I don't know what to say about that considering these books are meant for middle aged children. 
  5. Matched by Ally Condie - From what I heard, it's all about love. The main character has to choose between these two guys, and just from that, I know this book isn't for me. I've also heard how uninteresting it is and how the writing isn't very good. And it's also a dystopian novel, wonderful.
Maybe you can convince me otherwise. What are your opinions on these books I listed above? Worth reading or not? Comment your opinions below. 

3 comments:

  1. I don't want to jump on the bandwagon, but The Fault In Our Stars is actually a pretty good book. However, I wasn't very impressed with the Matched trilogy, and haven't read any of the others,besides the Percy Jackson series, which isn't worth bothering with after middle school. Also, it's nice to see that someone else also is sick of dystopia. :)

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  2. I don't see whats wrong with falling with trends. If you like it then you like it and shouldn't have second thoughts. I think the preception is that you "fall into the prey" of fads is because well, everyone else is doing them.

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  3. Great post! I like how you incorporate your own opinions and thoughts into it. But The Fault in Our Stars is pretty good!

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