I am so with you Erica! A patron came into the library the other day and said how much they love Nora Roberts, and I started reading one of her books, I swear I couldn't keep my eyes open! So boring. Animal Farm is by far my least favorite.
Here's a mixed bag for ya: Goosebumps, Mary-Kate and Ashley, Baby Sitter Series (Including Little Sisters), Twilight Series, Barbara Cartland, R.L. Stine, Harlequin, etc, etc. I find that the more books written on a certain subject by the same person, the more bland the writing.
8:00 PM
Anonymous said...
Berenstain Bears. I can't read those to a kid without falling asleep...I guess that's what they're for.
8:27 AM
Anonymous said...
The Froggy books. "Froggy?" said Mom. "Whaaaat?" said Froggy.
8:38 AM
Anonymous said...
Any of the more recent Mary Higgins Clark books - her older stuff is great but the new stuff is so formulaic that I can no longer read her books.
Danielle Steel. I have never read the books, but I've read the dust jacket summaries of many of them. They all sound the same, just with different names and settings.
9:37 AM
Anonymous said...
Most "Christian" fiction
1:48 PM
Anonymous said...
My wife once brought back a book from the library for which the dust-jacket comments stated that the author "Served up genre conventions as if they were straight from her garden". Someone actually considered it praise enough to put on the back cover.
1:27 PM
If your library's Banned Books Week display is too racy for your patrons, consider adding a complementary display of Bland Books.
Ask the readers: What would be in your Bland Books display case?
"Books, Bland"
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All of the Mitford books by Jan Karon, The Cat Who books by Lillian Jackson Braun, anything by Richard Paul Evans or Nicholas Sparks....
2:08 PM
Sarah Plain and Tall, at least they didn't falsly advertise it.
2:14 PM
I thought for a minute you had misspelled "Palin".
3:06 PM
Everything by Nora Roberts
3:25 PM
I am so with you Erica! A patron came into the library the other day and said how much they love Nora Roberts, and I started reading one of her books, I swear I couldn't keep my eyes open! So boring.
Animal Farm is by far my least favorite.
4:37 PM
Here's a mixed bag for ya: Goosebumps, Mary-Kate and Ashley, Baby Sitter Series (Including Little Sisters), Twilight Series, Barbara Cartland, R.L. Stine, Harlequin, etc, etc. I find that the more books written on a certain subject by the same person, the more bland the writing.
8:00 PM
Berenstain Bears. I can't read those to a kid without falling asleep...I guess that's what they're for.
8:27 AM
The Froggy books.
"Froggy?" said Mom.
"Whaaaat?" said Froggy.
8:38 AM
Any of the more recent Mary Higgins Clark books - her older stuff is great but the new stuff is so formulaic that I can no longer read her books.
9:48 AM
Danielle Steel. I have never read the books, but I've read the dust jacket summaries of many of them. They all sound the same, just with different names and settings.
9:37 AM
Most "Christian" fiction
1:48 PM
My wife once brought back a book from the library for which the dust-jacket comments stated that the author "Served up genre conventions as if they were straight from her garden". Someone actually considered it praise enough to put on the back cover.
1:27 PM