things I enjoy: people hating popular books, and people unhauling books. sure you shouldn't dwell in hate, but it is certainly entertaining. (especially when there is continued disdain towards wuthering heights)
And I really want to read his work, but my stomach always turns in the first 30 pages. I can't deny He's an amazing writer- insanely talented. I just wish I had the stomach for his work.
I honestly don't think he's that great a writer. I have my favorites by him, ironically misery is one of them, but for a guy who has been writing for 50+ uears you'd think he would learn how to end a book by now. I personally find him very mid. There are MUCH better authors out there, who can do character work just as well (if not better) AND know how to end a book!
@@Christian.R94 well, he did end the Shawshank redemption with a decent ending but I agree on a lot of what you said about many of his other books!! … Misery was no way one of my favorites. He is good at telling stories like Cujo, misery and I can name a lot more … just made up stories to entertain us, but I could’ve done without those. Of course I’m a lot older than most of you readers in this chat and I have been reading King before most of you were born. When I was younger, I found his thicker books, entertaining, and I read them all the time like the Tommyknockers, Dreamcatcher, the shining and many others. I think he’s written a lot of his books when he was either stoned or drunk. IMO 🤔🤔 😂
It's the bread and butter for Boomer writers. They like to criticize authors from previous generations and pretend to be "The Nice Guy", while inserting sexual fantasies into their books in minute detail.
It was left out because his sister would not let him put a lot of details into the book, so he improvised. She actually wrote her own book, which is so dumb after not letting him write about certain stuff.
i remember reading kite runner in hs and not being warned about the content and having to face that unaware as i read ahead bc i was able to plow thru those assigned books lmfao
I have to agree with you on Dracula. I have long held the belief that people "like" Dracula because they feel like they're supposed to, but that they don't really like it, they just convince themselves that they do. It's a terrible book, terribly written in letter and journal format. The characters ranhe from bland to loathsome. There is basically no action. It's just all-around, not good.
I love Dracula but was never into Frankenstein based on the movies. With the books it is switched. The book dracula is not that good, but frankenstein is masterfully writen, so good.
I liked some of these books and cried like a baby with Kite Runner and H Mart, but I agree with you overall that many of these books would go into an "eternally forgettable" pile.
i swear, even i ended up hating the kite runner so much and i got judged so hard because apparently EVERYBODY LOVES IT?!?? like bffr. also completely off topic but i recently finished the count of monte cristo, i swear to you you'll love it (i hope).
God, I HATED tomorrow x3 (judging by the thumbnail and commenting before I even watch the video lol) If you do actually hate it, I'm going to trust your opinion on books until the day that I die.
@@cs0p hell yeah!!!! ill avoid reading crying in h mart, i hear people talk about it a lot and the synopsis seemed so good but i truly hate self indulgent authors
I hated reading The Kite Runner. I read it in 2018 in my AP Lit class as a junior in high school. I don't think it's a book that's meant to be enjoyed, rather than understood and dissected (if that makes sense?)
omg I loved "Lord of flies" 😭 honestly reading the scenes of Piggy's glasses been taken away by the other kids was oddly (?) terrifying, no other horror plot could make me shiver that much (as a heavy-miopia-eyes-owner, never thought I'm that vulnerable). Also the depictions of the Island's landscape really made something to my brain (we call it imagination😮) as inspired me to draw again
I eagerly awaited the publication of Hamnet as I thought it would be just my kind of book, which is why I hate it so much. The writing was unbelievably amateurish, the regular use of adjectives in triplets truly horrible, the decision to make Agnes into some kind of witchy earth woman in tune with nature entirely misbegotten, and so on and so on. Ghastly. When a book is that bad, the author does not get a second chance EVER, so she joins Anne Patchett (for the horror that was Bel Canto) and Sally Rooney (for the awful Conversations With Friends). None of their other books will ever besmirch my shelves. I have to agree about Wuthering Heights, a maudlin work about deeply unsympathetic people, and Dracula which becomes very dull after a great opening. Did F. Scott Fitzgerald strike it lucky with The Great Gatsby? I'm tempted to think so, because Tender Is the Night is a stinker. Finally, here's a classic I hated : The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe features one of the most whiny, snivelling pains in the neck in literature. He was just insufferable.
this is so awesome. heavy agree with p much everything. her writing was so amateurish. i loved the dutch house so id give ann P another shot, but i will never ever read another Maggie O
I felt the same way about Misery. It was so boring being in Paul's head all the time, and Annie was so annoying, and everything was so claustrophobic. I felt trapped in a book. If that's what King wants us to feel, I guess it worked.
5 People - totally agree H-Mart - Was looking at that the same time I was reading Vera Wang, in the end, decided against it. So glad I didn’t waste an Audible credit on that! Kite Runner - Like most things, the movie was better. What’s with the hostage video at 6:57? Hamnet - Never heard of him. Into the Wild, Lord of the Rings, Dracula, Misery - Refer to Kite Runner.
Hello Mr. CSOP, I hope you don't mind me mentioning your pronunciation of Wuthering Heights? It's wUthering, not wIthering, and describes the strong winds. For example, "It's a wuthering, dreich day in Edinburgh the noo" 😊
I love your channel sm, esp your constant pessimism and idgaf energy, but I simply had to pause and take a deep breath when you pulled out the kite runner
given your take on the kite runner, i am veryy interested to know your thoughts on a little life! because for me, a little life had similar trauma-indulgent connotations.
haha i love how your last video was like “guys let’s not dunk on what’s popular” and now you’re back on your hateration shtick. while i can see what you mean about most of these books (especially an abundance of katherines & other john green) it really sucks to hear that hamnet isn’t all that great. i had been wanting to read it because i heard it had won the women’s prize, was published by one of my favorite publishers, had a beautiful writing style, and sounded like an intriguing premise. uh, to answer the prompt, a critically acclaimed book that i didn’t particularly jive with was “the idiot” by elif batuman. but, i absolutely adored the dutch house by ann patchett as my most recent pulitzer read!
lisssten dont let me stop you from reading these books!! esp if you like the author.. you could end up loving hamnet like most ppl ive heard from. i had mixed feelings on the idiot but ive been itching to read it again
I always love a video from you!! i'm curious if you've read or seen Life Of Pi by Yann Martel. It's one of those I have wanted to read because of how greatly it's spoken of, but then when I tried, I loved the authors note more than the acutal book??? I'm curious what you think of it?
@@cs0p I wish I had stayed away myself! I did just find it in a Free Little Library, so no money wasted atleast. I just thought I must be crazy for not liking it. Same thing I feel would happend if I tried to pick up The Kiterunner so I'm not gonna 🤔
You’re hilarious 😂! I agree 100 except I loved crying in H mart. I literally have not stopped cooking Korean food since. Oh, and I love Khalid Hosseni. I HATED ninth house and into the wild.
I hate the road, i was forced to read this in high school and everyone was clutching that book to their chest proclaiming it their favorite child. At that moment i knew i was the only one with taste. Similarly i hate the picture of dorian grey, that book is boring dorian is dramatic in a grating way not the fun diva type
Catchy titles sell well. The two books that have made bank on their titles alone are "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" and (though not on this list) "Rich Dad, Poor Dad."
i was slightly crushed that you hated one of my favorite books of all time (Wuthering Heights)- but i have decided not to give your opinion any weight because you cannot pronounce “Wuthering”
@@cs0p youtube just started recommending your channel to me like crazy and i must admit i am a fan… im subscribing… but about to watch the full wuthering heights video and im scared
Yeah I hated how people seem to view the guy in Into the Wild as a prophet - he reminded me of Grizzly Man; baby talking the Alaskan Wilderness gets you killed, the End.
I remember reading "The Prince of Tides" as a teenager twenty years ago and kinda liking it. It had its perverted twist of course, with the escaped prisoners raping them all, even the boys... Barbra Streisand loves it, she made it into a great film starring herself (obviously). I agree with the rest. Makkai's "The Great Believers" is great. So sad it didn't follow and that they're hyping her next mediocre novel like that. The publishing industry is so phony. Make a new video about authors with both a perfect and a terrible book! I'd recommend J.K. Rowling and E.M. Forster. (Did you ever finish his "Passage to India"?) Thanks for putting out so many new videos during August, King. I was lonely and depressed and really needed the content! 🙏
Wow, if I am even mildly disinterested in a book around 10% of the way through there is absolutely no way I'll be able to finish it. Idk how you do it 😅
Have to tell u i just finished the dutch house 2 seconds ago and my heart is feeling very tender, i keep crying, and all i can think about is my siblings so this is ur fault 😭😭 thank you
I agree with a lot of these takes but I wanted to share a tip(?) for enjoying Into the Wild as I find this book a good read for a lot of people as it provides a unique perspective on life (in my opinio.). You HAVE to read The Wild Truth by Carine McCandless before you read Into the Wild. The Wild Truth is by his sister and breaks down what their home life was like and shares a close outside perspective of Chris' thought process the Jon Krakauer was not able to do. Reading The Wild Truth first shifted my perspective while reading Into the Wild and made Chris seem less bratty and more of stubborn guy trying to escape the world.
Tomorrow x3 is one of the most boring, pointless, and stupid books I’ve ever read I cannot fathom how that thing has so much praise…. I just ?????? The weirdest story with ZERO payoff and icky characters.
Hassan isn't graped multiple times (not excusing even the one time that it happens)......and the reason Ali does nothing is because he was a child, and he was flawed (like really flawed .....even as they are escaping Afghanistan in the truck ....you can tell he is a coward ....his dad calls him out on it) , which is literally the main thing in the book. Also his redemption arc would be that he got over his corwadice and went back to Kabul even though he almost died to go get Hassan's son. Which was incredibly brave and honourable of him. I respect you not liking it because it is all so subjective, but I also have to point out that you somewhat missed the point of the book.
i share the same opinion with you on ninth house. literally DNFed it after that happened and the story was hard to follow along with at times. I really wanted to like that book but it was so weird and now im hesitant to dive into more fantasy bc of it lol.
Charles, I went and read The New Yorker review of "I Have Some Questions for You." It was not a glowing review. In fact, I got a sense that the reviewer didn't even like the book. She certainly doesn't say, "Go and buy this. You'll love it." And, though she doesn't come right out and say it, you get the sense that she has mixed, lukewarm feelings about it, and that if hard-pressed she would say, "Pass."
Have to agree with the Jon Krakauer take. As a true crime lover and connoisseur myself, he unfortunately has the gift to turn an interesting story into a book so boring I wouldn’t even fall asleep too it😬
I agree with you and King, i read the shining and there was a scene with the mom having ..... stuff dripping out of her after some activities and its was like a jump scare! So not necessary
You mention Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow in the description and it's on your thumbnail too but you didnt talk about it in the video 🤔 also I love that you hate some books I loved. Recently read Natsuo Kirino's Out on your recommendation I thought it was meh, not bad but not incredible either.
fair fair. a couple other ppl i talked to thought the same about Out.. I think when it hits its mark it hits hard tho. as for Tomorrow, i just forgot to talk about it but i really didnt like it...
omg I tried to read State of Wonder by Ann Patchett, and if that's an example of all her work I'll never read another book by her again. It was supposed to be set deep in the Amazon jungle, but it took half the book to even get there. By the time I reached that point there was also 2.5 pages of ONE paragraph.. no indents, no breaks... just pages of one giant paragraph. I got pissed off and DNFd and unhauled it. SO many words written to say so little. 0/10 do not recommend.
Damn I read the kite runner and a thousand splendid suns in HS but never realized that what you said about trauma pandering is so true... again what an insightful and hilarious video, love your commentary!!
Aww man when i was in year 10 i had an english teacher who looked like her fuse was gonna blow at all times in a very dishevelled, mostly laughable way honestly(her dyed red hair blended right into her skin and her eyebrows drawn in the middle of her forehead). I never showed any interest in reading or the class along with like 70% of the students but one day out of the blue she comes up to me of all people, extremely religious at the time, and tells me i gotta read this book i would love it whatever its her favourite book, and it was misery. I was so confused and am still confused to this day why she thought i should read it so bad that she GAVE me her personal copy. Anyway i never read it and just gave it away bc my sister got in so much trouble for bringing a stephen king book home like the week before. So ya
The Kite Runner is a highly flawed book. As a first novel, written by a doctor, that’s somewhat to be expected. I do think it has interesting things to say about entitlement and the damage that it does to the privileged. I think that’s more interesting than the redemption theme.
dracula is a snooze-fest as soon as you get past the part of vampire lucy. like i have to study this book and ive read it twice, and i hate it all the same. i need someone to go back in time and get bram stoker an editor, at least half of the book could be taken out sorry not sorry
Dammit, I just bought "Crying in H Mart" last month and have been looking forward to reading it. lol. I am with you on the random perversion in books; I can't stand it when things get weirdly sexual for not good reason. (I actually prefer zero romance and zero sex in books because I am a cold-hearted prude.) Maybe read Haruki Murakami with come caution if you ever get to him. I read "Kafka on the Shore" and really enjoyed it (minus one or two parts that made me gag), but Murakami is a freak. As for "Into the Wild," that book's existence irks me. Back in like 2004 or so, it seemed like every backpacker I met (and I've met many while living in Tokyo!) raved about this book, and it completely turned me off reading it. I ended up watching the movie and hated it. lol
into the wild existing as a movie is even crazier than the book...it's like so you really were just doing a trauma money grab. pick up the joy luck club instead of h mart!!
@@cs0p love the Joy Luck Club. The movie, anyway… lost motivation to read the book after watching the movie. My favorite part was when the mother left her baby on the roadside.
love the hate, thx. i also dont have good reads (ill just stick to being a snob and using my excel spread sheet thank~you~), but i sometimes go there for reviews; i was interested in reading hamnet, but then saw the most convincing bad review of it and refused to touch. im glad i did lmao honestly i recently bought ann patchett's bel canto AND i was really looking forward to reading the dutch house ahhhhhhh (i think im still gonna read). i just feel like if you're a woman hating on other women, do it right lmao. im gonna really need you to read amor towles fr bro pls. lincoln highway was such a beautiful read (top read of the year for me so far). also, i haven't read any daphne maurier novels yet, but i started reading her short stories, and im really enjoying them if you go back to your short stories streak
im in the middle of rules of civility rn!!! and i think it's great 👀 i have also been staring at du M's short story book on my shelf for weeks now...still read patchett!! she is great too. i still love the dutch house. ill prob read bel C later this year. an excel spreadsheet made me laugh
Entertaining ham as usual. I truly appreciate all of your takes; the one I did enjoy was The Kite Runner, but as soon as you explained your perspective I was like you’re not wrong. Respect you!!! ✨
Charles at the beginning is like a high school bully
“I’m a bit ambidextrous on spreading hate.” Love that 😂
“I’m a misogynist myself but I don’t like when women are.”
Lmaoooo period
I died
Lmaoooo😂
"i don't like to dwell on hate i like to keep it moving" 😭😭😭
he says after planning filming editing and posting
You are the Holden Caufield of book tube.
things I enjoy: people hating popular books, and people unhauling books.
sure you shouldn't dwell in hate, but it is certainly entertaining. (especially when there is continued disdain towards wuthering heights)
"Perverted for no reason" if that ruins a book for you I'd stay away from stephen king. That's kinda his thing. 🤣
And I really want to read his work, but my stomach always turns in the first 30 pages. I can't deny He's an amazing writer- insanely talented. I just wish I had the stomach for his work.
I honestly don't think he's that great a writer. I have my favorites by him, ironically misery is one of them, but for a guy who has been writing for 50+ uears you'd think he would learn how to end a book by now. I personally find him very mid. There are MUCH better authors out there, who can do character work just as well (if not better) AND know how to end a book!
@@Christian.R94 well, he did end the Shawshank redemption with a decent ending but I agree on a lot of what you said about many of his other books!! … Misery was no way one of my favorites. He is good at telling stories like Cujo, misery and I can name a lot more … just made up stories to entertain us, but I could’ve done without those. Of course I’m a lot older than most of you readers in this chat and I have been reading King before most of you were born. When I was younger, I found his thicker books, entertaining, and I read them all the time like the Tommyknockers, Dreamcatcher, the shining and many others. I think he’s written a lot of his books when he was either stoned or drunk. IMO 🤔🤔 😂
It's the bread and butter for Boomer writers. They like to criticize authors from previous generations and pretend to be "The Nice Guy", while inserting sexual fantasies into their books in minute detail.
I loveeee perverted books lmao😂
For some reason whenever you hate a book I want to read it more 😭
low key i get that
this negativity is absolutely what i needed on a thursday evening🤞 being a hater and listening to fellow haters fuels me
a good rant is like a double shot of hope
This guy is Calvin grown-up. (Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes)
“Spirtually obese.” Hahahah!
Best line
absolutely tickled me 😂
MY DEAD GRANDMADA????
😂
True about Dracula. I love the first 50 pages or so, then it's like: what happened??
" not good....boring...classics suck" The next Harold Bloom is born.
"into the wild" is so upsetting because the author intentionally chose to leave out that the protag was severely abused by his parents
youre fcking kidding me... but he had time to talk about his irrelevant asz self 😂
It was left out because his sister would not let him put a lot of details into the book, so he improvised. She actually wrote her own book, which is so dumb after not letting him write about certain stuff.
i remember reading kite runner in hs and not being warned about the content and having to face that unaware as i read ahead bc i was able to plow thru those assigned books lmfao
dam. maybe this is a good hs book tbh to encourage ppl to grow a backbone or theyll regret it forever
The book literally got censored at my high school because of this,but I think it was partly because they showed the movie as well.
It’s so strange that I’m here so early and caught charles exactly on the spot
youre obsessed with me just admit it
@@cs0p Ofc and I held that with pride
I have to agree with you on Dracula. I have long held the belief that people "like" Dracula because they feel like they're supposed to, but that they don't really like it, they just convince themselves that they do.
It's a terrible book, terribly written in letter and journal format. The characters ranhe from bland to loathsome. There is basically no action. It's just all-around, not good.
no literally...
I love Dracula but was never into Frankenstein based on the movies.
With the books it is switched. The book dracula is not that good, but frankenstein is masterfully writen, so good.
The only think I liked about Dracula was the beginning when the man ( I forgot his name ) went to Dracula’s castle and only liked his perspective.
I liked some of these books and cried like a baby with Kite Runner and H Mart, but I agree with you overall that many of these books would go into an "eternally forgettable" pile.
eternally forgettable books being the ones that become popular is criminal. my friends usually love h mart and hosseini so this checks out
i swear, even i ended up hating the kite runner so much and i got judged so hard because apparently EVERYBODY LOVES IT?!?? like bffr. also completely off topic but i recently finished the count of monte cristo, i swear to you you'll love it (i hope).
ive never heard a bad word about any of his books and it used to make me feel crazy. one day ill read the count...
I love a good hating ramble😍😍😍
i watch on in dismay, because we will be covering the road for my advanced literature class next year
you might love it i swear im the outlier
real superstars stay classy while hating 😌 very cutesy, very demure
so demüer
God, I HATED tomorrow x3 (judging by the thumbnail and commenting before I even watch the video lol) If you do actually hate it, I'm going to trust your opinion on books until the day that I die.
I got clickbated..... You're such a superstar.....
HAHA NO ITS TRUE. i had already edited and uploaded the video when i remembered so i just changed the thumbnail. Read the description!!
@@cs0p hell yeah!!!!
ill avoid reading crying in h mart, i hear people talk about it a lot and the synopsis seemed so good but i truly hate self indulgent authors
HATED that book
@@BronwynAlexandriaa lets be friends
Woah this is a first time i hear a bad thing about The Kite runner so many ppl hype it up.
I hated reading The Kite Runner. I read it in 2018 in my AP Lit class as a junior in high school. I don't think it's a book that's meant to be enjoyed, rather than understood and dissected (if that makes sense?)
errrr no. it's just bad lol. the main character is pathetic. the only takeaway is that being spineless is cool!
loved kite runner and deeply connected with the main character. I am happily pathetic and spineless.
Lies it’s so good! 😂
omg I loved "Lord of flies" 😭 honestly reading the scenes of Piggy's glasses been taken away by the other kids was oddly (?) terrifying, no other horror plot could make me shiver that much (as a heavy-miopia-eyes-owner, never thought I'm that vulnerable).
Also the depictions of the Island's landscape really made something to my brain (we call it imagination😮) as inspired me to draw again
no the piggy glasses scene was horrifying
I eagerly awaited the publication of Hamnet as I thought it would be just my kind of book, which is why I hate it so much. The writing was unbelievably amateurish, the regular use of adjectives in triplets truly horrible, the decision to make Agnes into some kind of witchy earth woman in tune with nature entirely misbegotten, and so on and so on. Ghastly.
When a book is that bad, the author does not get a second chance EVER, so she joins Anne Patchett (for the horror that was Bel Canto) and Sally Rooney (for the awful Conversations With Friends). None of their other books will ever besmirch my shelves.
I have to agree about Wuthering Heights, a maudlin work about deeply unsympathetic people, and Dracula which becomes very dull after a great opening. Did F. Scott Fitzgerald strike it lucky with The Great Gatsby? I'm tempted to think so, because Tender Is the Night is a stinker. Finally, here's a classic I hated : The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe features one of the most whiny, snivelling pains in the neck in literature. He was just insufferable.
this is so awesome. heavy agree with p much everything. her writing was so amateurish. i loved the dutch house so id give ann P another shot, but i will never ever read another Maggie O
I felt the same way about Misery. It was so boring being in Paul's head all the time, and Annie was so annoying, and everything was so claustrophobic. I felt trapped in a book. If that's what King wants us to feel, I guess it worked.
i was claustrophobic bc i had to finish it in a day for a book club and it took everything out of me HAHAH
I too thought you were in the bathroom at first. 😂. Loved, loved this!
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5 People - totally agree
H-Mart - Was looking at that the same time I was reading Vera Wang, in the end, decided against it. So glad I didn’t waste an Audible credit on that!
Kite Runner - Like most things, the movie was better.
What’s with the hostage video at 6:57?
Hamnet - Never heard of him.
Into the Wild, Lord of the Rings, Dracula, Misery - Refer to Kite Runner.
Hamnet is the name of Shakespeare's son irl lol
thought you could just sneak lotr in like that😭
i honestly thought you'd already made the same video before bc yr rant against the five people you meet in heaven has assimilated into my dna
HAHAAH GOOD
Wuthering heights was great
I found it to be too wuthering
@@cantspellrestaraunt 🤔🤔🤔 = I agree!! 🤦🏻♀️
Hello Mr. CSOP, I hope you don't mind me mentioning your pronunciation of Wuthering Heights? It's wUthering, not wIthering, and describes the strong winds. For example, "It's a wuthering, dreich day in Edinburgh the noo" 😊
🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
HAHAHA THANK YOU
You must be that kid who shouted 'the emperor has no clothes'!
I love your channel sm, esp your constant pessimism and idgaf energy, but I simply had to pause and take a deep breath when you pulled out the kite runner
HAHAH listen tell me you hate one of my fav books and we'll call it even ;)
@@cs0pbut u good fire taste, I like all your fave books as well😭 (I’ll get you one day)
Im here for the kite runner slander cuz same
given your take on the kite runner, i am veryy interested to know your thoughts on a little life! because for me, a little life had similar trauma-indulgent connotations.
ballllls ive heard about that. im trying to read it soon so STAY POSTED
Yes it was packed with every sort of abuse that one person could suffer in 50 lifetimes, so it was just manipulative and dishonest.
Agreed so much. Kite Runner is horrible.
i’ve started calling people dumb doggies thanks for that
no prob baby
i love being a hater
ive realized it's essential
'spiritually obese' lmfao im pocketing that for myself
okay but will you be seated for the hamnet adaptation with paul mescal and his thighs
of course?
OMG!! I felt the exact same way about “into….wild”. Why is he a hero? If i were his father I’d never forgive him. But i just saw the movie.
yea he pissed me off
haha i love how your last video was like “guys let’s not dunk on what’s popular” and now you’re back on your hateration shtick. while i can see what you mean about most of these books (especially an abundance of katherines & other john green) it really sucks to hear that hamnet isn’t all that great. i had been wanting to read it because i heard it had won the women’s prize, was published by one of my favorite publishers, had a beautiful writing style, and sounded like an intriguing premise. uh, to answer the prompt, a critically acclaimed book that i didn’t particularly jive with was “the idiot” by elif batuman. but, i absolutely adored the dutch house by ann patchett as my most recent pulitzer read!
lisssten dont let me stop you from reading these books!! esp if you like the author.. you could end up loving hamnet like most ppl ive heard from. i had mixed feelings on the idiot but ive been itching to read it again
i love how he gives reviews, please read Babel, i want to hear your review on it.
im reading yellowface AS WE SPEAK...
I always love a video from you!! i'm curious if you've read or seen Life Of Pi by Yann Martel. It's one of those I have wanted to read because of how greatly it's spoken of, but then when I tried, I loved the authors note more than the acutal book??? I'm curious what you think of it?
i havent read it and i feel like it might annoy me so im staying away hahah
@@cs0p I wish I had stayed away myself! I did just find it in a Free Little Library, so no money wasted atleast. I just thought I must be crazy for not liking it.
Same thing I feel would happend if I tried to pick up The Kiterunner so I'm not gonna 🤔
You’re hilarious 😂! I agree 100 except I loved crying in H mart. I literally have not stopped cooking Korean food since. Oh, and I love Khalid Hosseni. I HATED ninth house and into the wild.
mmmmm i bet the korean food is tasty
Your negativity is so endearing it starts to feel like positivity.
Please keep making these videos man who sounds like Italian new Yorker grandmama.
I hate the road, i was forced to read this in high school and everyone was clutching that book to their chest proclaiming it their favorite child. At that moment i knew i was the only one with taste. Similarly i hate the picture of dorian grey, that book is boring dorian is dramatic in a grating way not the fun diva type
HAHAHA YOU WERE... i loved dorian 😭 but i read it in high shcool so i need to give it a go again now
OK, I’m just gonna’ say 🤜🏼🤛🏼 & 💯% agree with your hate. Your remarks on these books justified ✔️☑️✔️
;))))))
I've thought of picking up Crying In H Mart so that's good to know
I suggest you watch this video and write down what stands out to you and publish it as a book. Then we can hate it. Thank you!
err what
“And I get sick when I’m around, I can’t stand to be around, I hate everything about you… “
felt the same about kite runner. thanks for the hate video
yw ;)
Catchy titles sell well. The two books that have made bank on their titles alone are "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" and (though not on this list) "Rich Dad, Poor Dad."
i wont be fooled by another catchy title!!
i was slightly crushed that you hated one of my favorite books of all time (Wuthering Heights)- but i have decided not to give your opinion any weight because you cannot pronounce “Wuthering”
that's the spirit baby
@@cs0p youtube just started recommending your channel to me like crazy and i must admit i am a fan… im subscribing… but about to watch the full wuthering heights video and im scared
I totally understand not liking Prince of Tides, but I think The Great Santini is still worth a shot.
maybe ill try one day
Never cared for Wuthering Heights.
i knew you had good taste
i’ve been waiting for the crying in h mart hater representation for my whole life it seems
baby ive arrived
Yeah I hated how people seem to view the guy in Into the Wild as a prophet - he reminded me of Grizzly Man; baby talking the Alaskan Wilderness gets you killed, the End.
i FOUGHT w ppl over this book it's crazy
Here's a mini-guide going forward dude: popular doesn't equate to good✅
no i knowwwww but i like a lot of popular books too 😭
Hamnet pissed me off 🤣
“Who are you to put down a sexy broad?!” STAAAAAHP😂😂😂😂😂
ohhhh hamnet hamnet hamnet
Having more than 5 of your dislikes as my dislikes too, that’s why I subscribe
we're doing trauma bonding
I remember reading "The Prince of Tides" as a teenager twenty years ago and kinda liking it. It had its perverted twist of course, with the escaped prisoners raping them all, even the boys... Barbra Streisand loves it, she made it into a great film starring herself (obviously).
I agree with the rest. Makkai's "The Great Believers" is great. So sad it didn't follow and that they're hyping her next mediocre novel like that. The publishing industry is so phony. Make a new video about authors with both a perfect and a terrible book! I'd recommend J.K. Rowling and E.M. Forster. (Did you ever finish his "Passage to India"?)
Thanks for putting out so many new videos during August, King. I was lonely and depressed and really needed the content! 🙏
omg i like the video idea a lot. i didnt finish India!! Ive been meaning to pick it back up. I hope youre doing better! 🫶
My most hated: THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW (AJ Finn), GONE GIRL (Gillian Flynn), A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW (Amor Towles).
these are HOT takes...i respect the hustle
Wow, if I am even mildly disinterested in a book around 10% of the way through there is absolutely no way I'll be able to finish it. Idk how you do it 😅
if it's for a book club ill push through
Have to tell u i just finished the dutch house 2 seconds ago and my heart is feeling very tender, i keep crying, and all i can think about is my siblings so this is ur fault 😭😭 thank you
listen i know same im glad you loved it too 🫣
Charles is channeling Sandra Bernhard with some of his accents and facial expressions. Here for it.
Your first purge! Delightful.
Also hated the Five People Meet xyz…ugh and most of your others. But, not all.
no i purge a good bit
I agree with a lot of these takes but I wanted to share a tip(?) for enjoying Into the Wild as I find this book a good read for a lot of people as it provides a unique perspective on life (in my opinio.). You HAVE to read The Wild Truth by Carine McCandless before you read Into the Wild. The Wild Truth is by his sister and breaks down what their home life was like and shares a close outside perspective of Chris' thought process the Jon Krakauer was not able to do. Reading The Wild Truth first shifted my perspective while reading Into the Wild and made Chris seem less bratty and more of stubborn guy trying to escape the world.
Tomorrow x3 is one of the most boring, pointless, and stupid books I’ve ever read I cannot fathom how that thing has so much praise…. I just ?????? The weirdest story with ZERO payoff and icky characters.
HAHAH noo i know. i also hated the characters.. they were icky ! ppl pretending like it's the new bible is insane.
I love The Dutch House by Ann Patchett, unfortunate this other book wasn't it
Hassan isn't graped multiple times (not excusing even the one time that it happens)......and the reason Ali does nothing is because he was a child, and he was flawed (like really flawed .....even as they are escaping Afghanistan in the truck ....you can tell he is a coward ....his dad calls him out on it)
, which is literally the main thing in the book.
Also his redemption arc would be that he got over his corwadice and went back to Kabul even though he almost died to go get Hassan's son. Which was incredibly brave and honourable of him.
I respect you not liking it because it is all so subjective, but I also have to point out that you somewhat missed the point of the book.
i share the same opinion with you on ninth house. literally DNFed it after that happened and the story was hard to follow along with at times. I really wanted to like that book but it was so weird and now im hesitant to dive into more fantasy bc of it lol.
ugh it's terrible. A recent ish fantasy i liked was Jade City
Charles, I went and read The New Yorker review of "I Have Some Questions for You." It was not a glowing review. In fact, I got a sense that the reviewer didn't even like the book. She certainly doesn't say, "Go and buy this. You'll love it." And, though she doesn't come right out and say it, you get the sense that she has mixed, lukewarm feelings about it, and that if hard-pressed she would say, "Pass."
well no. the book is genuinely offensive unenjoyable navel gazey virtue signaling trash and there is hefty praise in the article
@@cs0p we must have read different articles
Have to agree with the Jon Krakauer take. As a true crime lover and connoisseur myself, he unfortunately has the gift to turn an interesting story into a book so boring I wouldn’t even fall asleep too it😬
amen.
The crying at H mart one was soooo on point literally what i thought!!!
you get it.
Oh no! Would you consider giving a second chance to Ann Patchett? I also enjoyed The Dutch House and recently read Bel Canto, it is very nice!
i would!! i just read tom lake and it was great. ill prob read bel C this fall
I agree with you and King, i read the shining and there was a scene with the mom having ..... stuff dripping out of her after some activities and its was like a jump scare! So not necessary
HAHAH OHHHH STEPHEN
You mention Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow in the description and it's on your thumbnail too but you didnt talk about it in the video 🤔 also I love that you hate some books I loved. Recently read Natsuo Kirino's Out on your recommendation I thought it was meh, not bad but not incredible either.
fair fair. a couple other ppl i talked to thought the same about Out.. I think when it hits its mark it hits hard tho. as for Tomorrow, i just forgot to talk about it but i really didnt like it...
I'm glad I found your account. The books you rant about hating, I'm going to love 😂😂
sometimes someone hating on a book is all it takes to make someone pick it up ;)
Could you do a video on all the "snooze fest" books so I'm better prepared? thank you
yes.
this type of hate needs to make a comeback!!!!
amen.
whoa whoa whoa im gonna need to hear some of these explanations
OKAY VALID.
Tbh, I love some of these books, but I love the validation I got from you hating on the ones I also hate MORE
aaaaamen relatable
omg I tried to read State of Wonder by Ann Patchett, and if that's an example of all her work I'll never read another book by her again. It was supposed to be set deep in the Amazon jungle, but it took half the book to even get there. By the time I reached that point there was also 2.5 pages of ONE paragraph.. no indents, no breaks... just pages of one giant paragraph. I got pissed off and DNFd and unhauled it. SO many words written to say so little. 0/10 do not recommend.
i KNEW it would be awful..i think that was one of the ones i gave to goodwill. I loved the dutch house i gotta pray it was as good as i remember
@@cs0p good call lol
Damn I read the kite runner and a thousand splendid suns in HS but never realized that what you said about trauma pandering is so true... again what an insightful and hilarious video, love your commentary!!
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I had to read The Road during my senior year of high school and it was so unbearable. I lost motivation to read for the rest of the school year.
and rightly so.
Aww man when i was in year 10 i had an english teacher who looked like her fuse was gonna blow at all times in a very dishevelled, mostly laughable way honestly(her dyed red hair blended right into her skin and her eyebrows drawn in the middle of her forehead). I never showed any interest in reading or the class along with like 70% of the students but one day out of the blue she comes up to me of all people, extremely religious at the time, and tells me i gotta read this book i would love it whatever its her favourite book, and it was misery. I was so confused and am still confused to this day why she thought i should read it so bad that she GAVE me her personal copy. Anyway i never read it and just gave it away bc my sister got in so much trouble for bringing a stephen king book home like the week before. So ya
Sorry about the rant but the writing masturbation connection rly made me think
HAHAH that's kinda awesome
The Kite Runner is a highly flawed book. As a first novel, written by a doctor, that’s somewhat to be expected. I do think it has interesting things to say about entitlement and the damage that it does to the privileged. I think that’s more interesting than the redemption theme.
i like that theme in a meta sense
Found your channel few days ago and I'm really enjoying the unhinged youtuber I have ever seen😂👍
glad youre here ;)
Why would you read books you hate? If a book doesn't work for me I bail on it (DNF) and find something more to my taste. Life is too short.
for the adversity
This is the book hate rant I didn't know I needed.
first video ive seen of yours...got me to subscribe. so good 😂😂😂 i loved the random burping!
AHAH if you only knew how many burps i usually edit out
you're so right about crying in h mart tbh
dracula is a snooze-fest as soon as you get past the part of vampire lucy. like i have to study this book and ive read it twice, and i hate it all the same. i need someone to go back in time and get bram stoker an editor, at least half of the book could be taken out sorry not sorry
he did need an editor fr
Dammit, I just bought "Crying in H Mart" last month and have been looking forward to reading it. lol. I am with you on the random perversion in books; I can't stand it when things get weirdly sexual for not good reason. (I actually prefer zero romance and zero sex in books because I am a cold-hearted prude.) Maybe read Haruki Murakami with come caution if you ever get to him. I read "Kafka on the Shore" and really enjoyed it (minus one or two parts that made me gag), but Murakami is a freak.
As for "Into the Wild," that book's existence irks me. Back in like 2004 or so, it seemed like every backpacker I met (and I've met many while living in Tokyo!) raved about this book, and it completely turned me off reading it. I ended up watching the movie and hated it. lol
into the wild existing as a movie is even crazier than the book...it's like so you really were just doing a trauma money grab. pick up the joy luck club instead of h mart!!
@@cs0p love the Joy Luck Club. The movie, anyway… lost motivation to read the book after watching the movie. My favorite part was when the mother left her baby on the roadside.
love the hate, thx. i also dont have good reads (ill just stick to being a snob and using my excel spread sheet thank~you~), but i sometimes go there for reviews; i was interested in reading hamnet, but then saw the most convincing bad review of it and refused to touch. im glad i did lmao
honestly i recently bought ann patchett's bel canto AND i was really looking forward to reading the dutch house ahhhhhhh (i think im still gonna read). i just feel like if you're a woman hating on other women, do it right lmao.
im gonna really need you to read amor towles fr bro pls. lincoln highway was such a beautiful read (top read of the year for me so far). also, i haven't read any daphne maurier novels yet, but i started reading her short stories, and im really enjoying them if you go back to your short stories streak
im in the middle of rules of civility rn!!! and i think it's great 👀 i have also been staring at du M's short story book on my shelf for weeks now...still read patchett!! she is great too. i still love the dutch house. ill prob read bel C later this year. an excel spreadsheet made me laugh
you had your chance and you ate that
Entertaining ham as usual. I truly appreciate all of your takes; the one I did enjoy was The Kite Runner, but as soon as you explained your perspective I was like you’re not wrong. Respect you!!! ✨
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