Books and Authors I'll NEVER Read | Anti-TBR Tag

[@rananajjar]

What book/author you'll never read?

[@thatothernigeriangirl]

Salman Rushdie, Sarah J Mass, etc etc 🤭

[@cassandraclavesaint]

Probably colleen Hoover

[@nntianu]

I don't want to say never but I don't see myself ever picking up Circe by Madeline Miller

[@amclairmont]

Colleen Hoover and E.L. James

[@_mooshrooom]

Sarah J Maas, Coleen Hoover, anyone who is popular for their smut and spice in books

[@dstarks360]

Thanks for mentioning the Delia Owens controversy. I'd never heard of this before, and it got me to look her case up...I was SHOCKED...! I'm surprised I'd never heard about such a controversial case until just now!

[@FlowerPower69123]

Me too!

[@rananajjar]

and many people don't actually care about what she did and went a head and made her more popular by adapting her book to a movie.

[@mohammadaun374]

OMG I read where the crawdads sing, and afterwards found out about the author's history. I was so shocked. Also, I clicked subscribe the minute you said you would not read ACOTAR, because I respect you so much for saying that

[@rananajjar]

what did you think of the book before finding out about the author's past? did enjoy it? and welcome to my small corner of the internet! hope you like it here :)

[@mohammadaun374]

@@rananajjar Thank you for welcoming me! Okay, so like it was so slow in the beginning and the way she writes the main character, it just seems like she wanted her to be very innocent, but it didn't come off that way, so when I finished the book, I was like okay so she killed him, because it was never revealed if she was guilty or not. We are just told that she was "found innocent", but SHE WAS THERE the night of the murder. Like she didn't have that alibi. And then I find this out about the author, and I was like so shocked because it all matches up.

[@FLOZsks]

i just found your channel and i totally get what you mean about goodreads/booktube reccomending all the same kind of low quality books :( but dune and gone with the wind are so good. gone with the wind is way more than just a historical romance. and as a huge sci-fi fan dune is not just stereotypical science fiction!!

[@AnaMoShoshin]

Totally agree about Sally Rooney and Sarah J Mass. LOL Rupi Kaur.

[@sandy23stories40]

I agreed with your statement about Rupi Kaur just didn’t love none of her books and I have the same feeling with Murakami as well, no wonder he hasn’t won a Nobel yet.

[@ThatBiLibrarian]

I lost it at "a tome of a book about a guy catching a whale... no thank you" 😂😂😂

[@kaleahoylear9085]

I feel so late to the game I just found your channel today and I am so in love with your hot takes.❤ thank you for being a distinguishable personality on booktube☺️

[@rananajjar]

Thank you dear 🌸

[@thatothernigeriangirl]

Elif Shafak is actually quite popular in this side of the world and I’ve just never been drawn to her books, even the latest one that I was looking to try.

[@rananajjar]

Her book forty rules of love is full of wrong ideas about Islam from the point of view of Sufism. It's basically destroy everything about Islam in the name of "love". Like drinking alcohol and having sexual interaction with the opposite sex is acceptable.

[@mmm555m]

@@rananajjarDo you find some of these books interesting to read, if not to just hear a different viewpoint of the world? I love reading about beliefs, opinion, etc., that differ from mine, because it gives me a “quick look” (for lack of better word I can think of, lol) into how some people think. Not all the time, but I do find it fascinating to hear how other people experience the world.

[@YourLordPhrog]

"If it tickles your pickles" LMAO I love you already!

[@rananajjar]

😂😂🌸

[@thatothernigeriangirl]

Aww I can see what you mean with Acevedo’s books. I personally enjoy her books because she endeared me to novel in verses - and it helps that I use to learn español

[@_mooshrooom]

Assalamualaikum. I just found out your channel and I resonate with all of your opinions and its so so good to find someone at las that matches so much of my taste in reading books.

[@rananajjar]

Walaikum alsalam! That's great to hear. Welcome abroad!

[@shhimreading906]

i think i heard some of sally rooney’s books dont use quotation marks when people speak in them. im sure there’s some kind of artistic reason for this, but hearing that was enough to put me off from trying to read them. i know it would have just annoyed me the whole time.

[@sandipabiswas1295]

Omg yes I read just one of her books and it was a *nightmare*. The no-quotation-marks and endless-paragraphs thing ground me gears so hard.

[@rananajjar]

you guys just gave me another reason not to read her books! thank you lol

[@shhimreading906]

@@rananajjar no problem lol

[@redlander55]

I like SF, but I will probably not read The Martian. I heard it is well written, but Mars is not, I don't know, sexy 😂 for me. I would watch the movie and maybe it will make me change my mind.

[@daad8264]

I loved this! The funniest deadpan video ever. I'll never read that Dune author, Game of Thrones author, Devney Perry (romance author with annoying skanky heroines (and heroes) in ALL her books) or Nalini Singh (paranormal and scifi romances that don't feel romantic to me at all). And so many more, but those come immediately to mind.

[@nfrwasherbestalbum]

girl SAMEE with kafka on the shore. had to put it down tbh

[@rananajjar]

I wish I did the same

[@evapeat5020]

I too hated Karen Slaughter, was so looking forward to it after talking to people but she was just too overboard with the graphic detail . Also was bored with seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo, don’t know what all the fuss was about

[@thevillainousqueenofhearts4976]

4:55 I am in an agreement, as long as they don’t commit a serious/heinous crime, I will read their book, I don’t care about their political stuff or religious beliefs, just don’t hurt irl people and we’re good.

[@Risivia]

I always see people say this, but I’ve never been able to fully get onboard with this idea. I just can’t ignore someone’s wrong doings just because I like their books.

[@thevillainousqueenofhearts4976]

@@Risivia I’m not ignoring their wrong doing, I ‘m still aware of it, I’m just not letting that stop me from reading their work.

[@Risivia]

@@thevillainousqueenofhearts4976 IDK sounds like a meaningless distinction to me.

[@vashtinayagar1325]

@@Risiviathere’s a difference between a “wrong doing” and then having a different opinion than you.

[@Aaaaaabatterybat]

I didn't use to enjoy sci-fi but have for the last few years. Put simply once i discovered sci-fi that wasn't written by white American men, it was a lot easier to appreciate how differently the genre is done by different authors. Eg I recommend Aliette de Boddard who writes space opera.

[@Freckledbibliophile495]

Murders. I like when readers research the author and not just their bibliography. I love your thoughts and this video. Informative and honest.

[@sadihaafrose8124]

I want 40 rules of love ranting video in English I read that and the ending went out of my head

[@TheEowyn22]

Totally agree about Taylor Jenkins Reid - read Daisy Jones and Evelyn Hugo and hated them both! Sooooo boring…

[@thevillainousqueenofhearts4976]

Me at 2:07: wait what? I was role playing on SpicyChat so that flipping caught me of guard…wtf..

[@marianaamoedo5942]

Elizabeth Acevedo is relatable for Latin culture, and even so maybe for children of Latin immigrants. It's beautiful but obviously is going to be hard if you don't get the sense of what is being described.

[@NerdyNatReads]

Lmfao on love hypothesis and SJM 😂intrigued for the video about separation of author and work. I tend to go case by case with authors, bc it really depends on the issue/response. Like JK Rowling has just continuously doubled down on her gross comments.

[@rananajjar]

I mostly do not care except for extreme cases! I'll for sure elaborate in my video when I film it.

[@thevillainousqueenofhearts4976]

I actually like the small partner + big partner though that’s probably because I like being smaller than my partners because it makes me feel cute and danity

[@FlowerPower69123]

I never new the controversy with Delia owens 😮

[@LaughingStockfarm1]

Trust me, the only thing you missed by not reading ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ was a bad book. Sometimes when I become aware of an author who I might find objectionable on a personal level but I want to read their book, I buy used. The author doesn’t get the money, it helps the circular economy, and I find out if I like the writing or not. I’m totally with you on the romance. Graphic sex is showing up in so many awkward places these days…eek. I’m also not really into magical realism.

[@rananajjar]

Totally agree! Buying used books is the solution for this. and people dare to call it spice! Books these days are basically a spice cabinet with no real food (plot)

[@thatothernigeriangirl]

I actually watched the twilight movies but didn’t bother with the books either 😅

[@rananajjar]

Are the movies even good?

[@thatothernigeriangirl]

@@rananajjar errr, I mean, they were good enough for teenage Aisha 🤭

[@vashtinayagar1325]

@@rananajjarthey’re the same quality of the books…and IMO I only enjoyed reading them the first time I did because I was a teenager

[@AnUncreativePerson]

I like classics, but I don't like sci-fi classics or romance classics either. JD Salinger is probably my favorite classic author, since his books involve neither

[@cassandraclavesaint]

I think the same thing about "problematic" authors. If you are not a bad person i don't care what your opinions are. People started to cancel the author of harry potter (i have no interest in reading this series lol) because she had her own opinion on transgenders etc. And i don't support this cancel culture

[@rananajjar]

totally agree!

[@black-aliss]

I didn't know that stuff about Jay Kristoff... but. The man dips into cringe far too often for my taste, and there's his tendency to copy-paste modern mannerisms and what I can best describe as thought patterns-slash-cultural memes that are incredibly immersion-breaking. So you're not missing very much. I read The Flea Palace by Elif Shafak and she falls into the category of "I don't like what I know about her" for me. And she's VERY orientalist. Always a bad look when an author gives her own culture the orientalism treatment to better sell it to a foreign audience. As to sci-fi, you might have slightly better luck with standalones from the New Wave era. But of course, I don't know what part of sci-fi that turns you off. Like for instance, I'm not particularly fond of action-y, politicky space operas, but I love thought experiment-like sci-fi. I'd recommend you the science fantasy Hyperion Cantos because the first book at least has an episodic feel with several different genres, but it doesn't do a very good job of explaining itself in the first two volumes (and the last two... ergh, they're controversial among readers). Its author Dan Simmons is just very good though, as a whole. I must say I totally agree with you in your assessment of romance novels. I can't stand pointless drama, I avoid it like the plague in my own life. I have little reason to read it if it doesn't come with a solid, non-drama attached. And those books who have an excuse plot just to have two characters bang every twenty pages. And the romances in them often also just suck, what with being window dressing for the sex. At least erotica is honest. Sarah J. Maas is that author I'll never read. Oh, one more thing and this'll be the last. You said you didn't like reading long series but I see the Stormlight Archive on your shelf

[@rananajjar]

Thank you for recommending Hyperion. I just read the synopsis on Goodreads and it actually sounds like something I would enjoy!

[@london_lulu]

I’m so glad to find someone else who hates Taylor Jenkins Reid’s books. SO overrated.

[@1974AMDG]

On the subject of Science Fiction, I have never been a fan of it, but my brother is, and when he suggested I read 'The Door Into Summer' by Robert A. Heinlein, I absolutely loved it!! It's not a long read, nor is it a highly 'technical' read, as science fiction books go, but it is so good! It's basically about time travel cryogenics and is set in the 1970s and there is a cat in it called Pete who is so funny. I'd love for you to give this genre one more try, with this particular book, because I think you would find Robert Heinlein's writing very entertaining. Just a suggestion. Love your videos. I'm a new subscriber.

[@rananajjar]

Thank you for the recommendation! I never heard of this book but I might give it a try after all this praise 😊

[@Tttt-b3o]

Brave new world slander

[@wanninmio]

i do not like separating authors and art, but i love pirating authors i dont want to support lmao

[@wanninmio]

also about your point about romance, this is so true! but i'm kinda guilty of reading fanfiction

[@rananajjar]

Pirating all the way 🏴‍☠️

[@rananajjar]

Fanfiction doesn't not count 😂 it's our guilty pleasure

[@mohammadaun374]

Okay, you got to give Sally Rooney a chance lol

[@rananajjar]

which of her books would you recommend to me?