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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Sex at Dawn. Proposed as a ethno-biographic history of monogamy / non-monogamy which is an important topic, but good god so stupidly written.

[–] Marketsnodsbury@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

My MIL raved about Lessons in Chemistry and was excited to share it with me. I was shocked by how poorly written it was— perhaps it’s a decent story (enough people were enamored with it that it made it onto several best seller lists), but the execution was so bad I couldn’t even finish the first chapter. When asked, I ended up just telling my MIL it wasn’t my cup of tea and crossed my fingers she didn’t want to discuss plot points or anything that would make it obvious I hardly cracked the spine.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Beast by Benchley. I'm still mad at the time I wasted.

Silas Marner was so hated by my English class our teacher cried. It turns out it was what she wrote her master’s thesis on and no one agreed with her about it being good.

[–] Newbrain@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

[–] El_guapazo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Every book used in education book studies

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