Today's Tuesday Thinger Question(s): What's the most popular book in your library? Have you read it? What did you think? How many users have it? What's the most popular book you don't have? How does a book's popularity figure into your decisions about what to read?
The most popular book in my library is The Davinci Code with 23,291 members listing this in their libraries. I read it after much convincing by a co-worker a few years ago and thought it was ok. To be honest, I don't know what all of the hype was about. I have not seen the movie so I have no idea how it compares.
The most popular book that I don't have is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone with 32,518 members listing this in their libraries. I have never read any of the Harry Potter books. They are something that I would like to read I just have never gotten around to it. Some of my friends had reading parties when the last book was released. They literally sat around to read and eat with friends. I have to admit I felt a little left out but oh well!
I have read some popular titles such as The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns but read those long before all of the hoopla. I also read The Alchemist based on friends recommendations and hated it. I am not opposed to reading popular titles if they happen to peak my interest. Lately, my book club selections seem to be the most popular fiction that I am reading.
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Whew! I'm not the only one who hasn't read the Harry Potter series out there then...As for The Alchemist, I recently bought it. That bad, huh?
I hated The Alchemist but many people I know, who recommended it, love it. Let me know what you think when you read it.
One of my friends (who has very similar taste in books to mine) highly recommended _The Alchemist_ ... like you, I hated it!
I read it all the way through, looking for "the good part", but it escaped me. Maybe I just wasn't as receptive to it at that stage of my life as she was? I try to keep an open mind ...
sheistoofondofbooks - I thought the same thing, that I wasn't at the right stage in my life to appreciate it. I did hang on to it and will try to reread it in a few years to see if I have a different take on it. I tried to keep an open mind as well but the whole time I was reading it I couldn't help thinking this is such a waste of my time!
I think that is it exactly. If a book interests me, I want to read it, regardless of its popularity.
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