"One book that I hated that everyone else loved" response
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FROM: "Marla" <[removed]@orion.mtgr.mtlib.org>
REC'D: 1/23/02, 11:19 AM
Hi. I just wanted to pass on how absotootly (!) successful my
recent fiction display has been. I used the suggestions from all of
you of books you hated that everyone else loved/were bestsellers/
etc.
I can barely keep the bin filled. I guess everyone has to read why
someone else hated a title. A big collective "thank you" to you all.
BYE!
Marla/Great Falls Public Library/Acquisitions
301 2nd Ave N
Great Falls MT 59401-2593
[removed]@orion.mtgr.mtlib.org
Before you criticize someone,
you should walk a mile in their shoes.
That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away...
and you have their shoes.
FROM: "Marla" <[removed]@orion.mtgr.mtlib.org>
REC'D: 1/23/02, 2:30 PM
Since I have received several requests for the compilation (which
was much longer ago than I remembered!) I decided the easiest
would be to just forward it back to the list.
Thanks again to original compiler Vicki Nesting!
BYE! Marla/Great Falls Public Library
------- Forwarded message follows -------
Date sent: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 20:16:30 -0600
From: Vicki Nesting <[removed]@bellsouth.net>
To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org>
Subject: The one book I hated compilation (long)
Send reply to: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
Okay, here it is -- the compiled list of contributions to the
discussion "The one book I hated that everyone else loved..." I've
sorted the books by the number of votes each one received, but
beyond
that they're in no particular order. Please forgive my typos and any
titles I missed.
Happy New Year everyone!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~
Vicki Nesting, Circulation Librarian
West Bank Regional Library
Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
[removed]@bellsouth.net
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~
"THE ONE BOOK I HATED THAT EVERYONE ELSE LOVED…"
(celebrating the diversity of reading tastes)
12 votes
The Celestine Prophesy James Redfield
11 votes
Bridges of Madison County Robert James Waller
8 votes
Cold Mountain Charles Frazier
Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt
(anything, esp. recent books, by……) Patricia Cornwell
7 votes
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
6 votes
The Horse Whisperer Nicholas Evans
She's Come Undone Wally Lamb
(anything by…...) Danielle Steel
The Shipping News E. Annie Proulx
5 votes
Hannibal Thomas Harris
4 votes
The Notebook Nicholas Sparks
Lord Foul's Bane Stephen R. Donaldson
Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger
The Deep End of the Ocean Jacquelyn Mitchard
A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
3 votes
Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Rebecca Wells
Bridget Jones' Diary Helen Fielding
A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving
Beloved Toni Morrison
Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough
A Man in Full Thomas Wolfe
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil John Berendt
The Glass Lake Maeve Binchy
(almost anything by ……) John Grisham
2 votes
Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry
Corelli's Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
The English Patient Michael Ondaatje
Bombay Ice Leslie Forbes
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert Pirsig
Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson
Moby Dick Herman Melville
The Reader Bernhard Schlink
Secret History Donna Tartt
Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky
Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
A Widow for One Year John Irving
The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco
Tortilla Curtain T. C. Boyle
Love You Forever (children's book) Robert Munsch
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
Mutant Message Down Under Marlo Morgan
Hobbit books J. R. R. Tolkein
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
1 vote each
All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy
Ulysses James Joyce
Neuromancer William Gibson
Dune Frank Herbert
Clan of the Cave Bear Jean Auel
Stones from the River Ursula Hegi
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
Harry Potter books J. K. Rowling
Little, Big John Crowley
Master and Commander Patrick O'Brien
Daniel Martin John Fowles
Son of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland
Peloponnesian Wars (sp?) Thucydides
(vampire books by……) Anne Rice
Possession A. S. Byatt
(anything by……) James Fenimore Cooper
A Time to Kill John Grisham
(anything by……) Patrick O'Brien
The Once and Future King T. H. White
The Book of Ruth Jane Hamilton
Jonathan Livingston Seagull Richard Bach
The Law of Love Laura Esquival
The Children of God Mary Doria Russell
Blood Countess Andrei Codrescu
All Tomorrow's Parties William Gibson
Floating Dragon Peter Straub
The Firm John Grisham
Lake Wobegon Days Garrison Keillor
Mating Norman Rush
The Widow's Adventures ???
Accordian Crimes E. Annie Proulx
The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy
Mosquito Coast Paul Theroux
The Oregon Trail Francis Parkman
Amy and Isabelle Elizabeth Strout
Smilla's Sense of Snow Peter Hoag
(anything by ……) Robertson Davies
Jackson's Dilemma Iris Murdoch
Debt to Pleasure John Lanchester
The Good Earth Pearl Buck
At Home in Mitford Jan Karon
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley
Maximum Bob Elmore Leonard
Charming Billy Alice McDermott
(anything by ……) Philip Roth
Evening Susan Minot
Cider House Rules John Irving
Silas Marner George Eliot
(anything by ……) Lynn Andrews
Chicken Soup books ------
A Stranger is Watching Mary Higgins Clark
Stephanie Plum mysteries Janet Evanovich
Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
Breathing Lessons Anne Tyler
A Big Storm Knocked It Over Laurie Colwin
Summer Sisters Judy Blume
(anything by ……) Jan Karon
Independence Day Richard Ford
Birdsong Sebastian Foulkes
Talk Before Sleep Elizabeth Berg
Little Women Louisa May Alcott
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
The Sparrow Mary Doria Russell
Left Behind series Tim LeHaye
Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing Melissa Bank
Shell Game Carol O'Connell
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
The Lilac Bus Maeve Binchy
(anything, esp. Kiss the Girls, by ……) James Patterson
American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis
Tristam Shandy Laurence Sterne
(anything since Secrets of Harry Bright by ……) Joseph
Wambaugh
Falconer John Cheever
Texasville Larry McMurtry
A Separate Peace John Knowles
The Breaks Richard Price
Dog Soldiers Robert Stone
Breath, Eyes, Memory Edwige Danticat
The Cat Who…… books Lilian Jackson Braun
The Last Don Mario Puzo
The Mexican Tree Duck James Crumley
Exquisite Corpse Poppy Z. Brite
Crimson Joy Robert B. Parker
Lithium for Medea Kate Braverman
Gone Kit Craig
In the Lake of the Moon David Lindsey
The Day After Tomorrow Allan Folsom
Circle of Friends Maeve Binchy
Lord Valentine's Castle Robert Silverberg
A Lesson Before Dying Ernest Gaines
Congo Michael Crichton
(anything by ……) John Steinbeck
(anything by ……) Ernest Hemingway
(anything, except The Great Gatsby, by ……) F. Scott Fitzgerald
------- End of forwarded message -------
*************
For reason will convince us that what is necessary to be
performed in the heat of action should constantly be
practised in the leisure of peace.
Vegetius, EPITOMA REI MILITARIS
FROM: "Roberts, Julie" <[removed]@rolling-meadows.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 1/23/02, 2:30 PM
-----Original Message-----
From: Marla [[removed]@orion.mtgr.mtlib.org]
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 2:21 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: "One book that I hated that everyone else loved" response
Hi. I just wanted to pass on how absotootly (!) successful my
recent fiction display has been. I used the suggestions from all of
you of books you hated that everyone else loved/were bestsellers/
etc.
I can barely keep the bin filled. I guess everyone has to read why
someone else hated a title. A big collective "thank you" to you all.
BYE!
Marla/Great Falls Public Library/Acquisitions
301 2nd Ave N
Great Falls MT 59401-2593
[removed]@orion.mtgr.mtlib.org
Before you criticize someone,
you should walk a mile in their shoes.
That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away...
and you have their shoes.
FROM: "Roberts, Julie" <[removed]@rolling-meadows.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 1/23/02, 3:00 PM
-----Original Message-----
From: Marla [[removed]@orion.mtgr.mtlib.org]
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 2:36 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: (Fwd) The one book I hated compilation (long) -- reply
Since I have received several requests for the compilation (which
was much longer ago than I remembered!) I decided the easiest
would be to just forward it back to the list.
Thanks again to original compiler Vicki Nesting!
BYE! Marla/Great Falls Public Library
------- Forwarded message follows -------
Date sent: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 20:16:30 -0600
From: Vicki Nesting <[removed]@bellsouth.net>
To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org>
Subject: The one book I hated compilation (long)
Send reply to: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
Okay, here it is -- the compiled list of contributions to the
discussion "The one book I hated that everyone else loved..." I've
sorted the books by the number of votes each one received, but
beyond
that they're in no particular order. Please forgive my typos and any
titles I missed.
Happy New Year everyone!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~
Vicki Nesting, Circulation Librarian
West Bank Regional Library
Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
[removed]@bellsouth.net
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~
"THE ONE BOOK I HATED THAT EVERYONE ELSE LOVED?"
(celebrating the diversity of reading tastes)
12 votes
The Celestine Prophesy James Redfield
11 votes
Bridges of Madison County Robert James Waller
8 votes
Cold Mountain Charles Frazier
Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt
(anything, esp. recent books, by??) Patricia Cornwell
7 votes
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
6 votes
The Horse Whisperer Nicholas Evans
She's Come Undone Wally Lamb
(anything by?...) Danielle Steel
The Shipping News E. Annie Proulx
5 votes
Hannibal Thomas Harris
4 votes
The Notebook Nicholas Sparks
Lord Foul's Bane Stephen R. Donaldson
Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger
The Deep End of the Ocean Jacquelyn Mitchard
A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
3 votes
Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Rebecca Wells
Bridget Jones' Diary Helen Fielding
A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving
Beloved Toni Morrison
Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough
A Man in Full Thomas Wolfe
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil John Berendt
The Glass Lake Maeve Binchy
(almost anything by ??) John Grisham
2 votes
Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry
Corelli's Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
The English Patient Michael Ondaatje
Bombay Ice Leslie Forbes
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert Pirsig
Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson
Moby Dick Herman Melville
The Reader Bernhard Schlink
Secret History Donna Tartt
Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky
Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
A Widow for One Year John Irving
The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco
Tortilla Curtain T. C. Boyle
Love You Forever (children's book) Robert Munsch
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
Mutant Message Down Under Marlo Morgan
Hobbit books J. R. R. Tolkein
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
1 vote each
All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy
Ulysses James Joyce
Neuromancer William Gibson
Dune Frank Herbert
Clan of the Cave Bear Jean Auel
Stones from the River Ursula Hegi
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
Harry Potter books J. K. Rowling
Little, Big John Crowley
Master and Commander Patrick O'Brien
Daniel Martin John Fowles
Son of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland
Peloponnesian Wars (sp?) Thucydides
(vampire books by??) Anne Rice
Possession A. S. Byatt
(anything by??) James Fenimore Cooper
A Time to Kill John Grisham
(anything by??) Patrick O'Brien
The Once and Future King T. H. White
The Book of Ruth Jane Hamilton
Jonathan Livingston Seagull Richard Bach
The Law of Love Laura Esquival
The Children of God Mary Doria Russell
Blood Countess Andrei Codrescu
All Tomorrow's Parties William Gibson
Floating Dragon Peter Straub
The Firm John Grisham
Lake Wobegon Days Garrison Keillor
Mating Norman Rush
The Widow's Adventures ???
Accordian Crimes E. Annie Proulx
The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy
Mosquito Coast Paul Theroux
The Oregon Trail Francis Parkman
Amy and Isabelle Elizabeth Strout
Smilla's Sense of Snow Peter Hoag
(anything by ??) Robertson Davies
Jackson's Dilemma Iris Murdoch
Debt to Pleasure John Lanchester
The Good Earth Pearl Buck
At Home in Mitford Jan Karon
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley
Maximum Bob Elmore Leonard
Charming Billy Alice McDermott
(anything by ??) Philip Roth
Evening Susan Minot
Cider House Rules John Irving
Silas Marner George Eliot
(anything by ??) Lynn Andrews
Chicken Soup books ------
A Stranger is Watching Mary Higgins Clark
Stephanie Plum mysteries Janet Evanovich
Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
Breathing Lessons Anne Tyler
A Big Storm Knocked It Over Laurie Colwin
Summer Sisters Judy Blume
(anything by ??) Jan Karon
Independence Day Richard Ford
Birdsong Sebastian Foulkes
Talk Before Sleep Elizabeth Berg
Little Women Louisa May Alcott
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
The Sparrow Mary Doria Russell
Left Behind series Tim LeHaye
Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing Melissa Bank
Shell Game Carol O'Connell
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
The Lilac Bus Maeve Binchy
(anything, esp. Kiss the Girls, by ??) James Patterson
American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis
Tristam Shandy Laurence Sterne
(anything since Secrets of Harry Bright by ??) Joseph
Wambaugh
Falconer John Cheever
Texasville Larry McMurtry
A Separate Peace John Knowles
The Breaks Richard Price
Dog Soldiers Robert Stone
Breath, Eyes, Memory Edwige Danticat
The Cat Who?? books Lilian Jackson Braun
The Last Don Mario Puzo
The Mexican Tree Duck James Crumley
Exquisite Corpse Poppy Z. Brite
Crimson Joy Robert B. Parker
Lithium for Medea Kate Braverman
Gone Kit Craig
In the Lake of the Moon David Lindsey
The Day After Tomorrow Allan Folsom
Circle of Friends Maeve Binchy
Lord Valentine's Castle Robert Silverberg
A Lesson Before Dying Ernest Gaines
Congo Michael Crichton
(anything by ??) John Steinbeck
(anything by ??) Ernest Hemingway
(anything, except The Great Gatsby, by ??) F. Scott Fitzgerald
------- End of forwarded message -------
*************
For reason will convince us that what is necessary to be
performed in the heat of action should constantly be
practised in the leisure of peace.
Vegetius, EPITOMA REI MILITARIS
FROM: "Jeanne Etling" <[removed]@nslsilus.org>
REC'D: 1/23/02, 4:04 PM
Jeanne Etling
Dundee (IL) Township Public Library District
----- Original Message -----
> Hi. I just wanted to pass on how absotootly (!) successful my
> recent fiction display has been. I used the suggestions from all of
> you of books you hated that everyone else loved/were bestsellers/
> etc.
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