Books you really, really **HATE**

[DanaC]

I will confess that I DID like The Raj Quartet (series of romancy type books that the PBS series "The Jewel in the Crown" was based on, but I honestly don't think they count as romances. The story is too richly detailed for that. And besides, it's British.)

.......We*do* have romance ye know.....

I cant believe the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever made it into this list! I lurved that sequence. I thought it was like......Tolkien for grownups...Now theres a book I really thought was overhyped. Lord of the Rings... I read about a third of it before I gave it up as a bad lot. The few female characters are mystical and unknowable ( I have heard Tolkien since described by one of his proteges as a mysogonist and that toally fits with my reading of LOTR ) and I felt pretty excluded by the authors vision.