Refuse to read?

[Mina Markliff]

Are there any books people refuse to read? Either because the author is awful or just on principal?

I can't think of any... yet. There may be a few on principal but I would usually try to approach a book with an open mind. How can you judge a book by its cover?

[The Inkling]

I'm reaaaaaaaally putting off Atlas Shrugged... I know that eventually I want to read it, just to say that I did, but... I've heard mixed reviews...

I really have no interested in 50 Shades of Grey, and I will not regret being one of the few who won't have read it. I've read sci-fi and trashy romance novels before, so until someone sells me on another aspect of the story than the kinky sex, I'm already bored with it.

[Rachel Kubrick]

I Am Number Four and anything else from that series. There's something about the author that really annoys me.

[Audrey York Woodsum]

Umm I think that most all people can agree that reading Fifty Shades of Grey is more of a crime than armed robbery...

[Audrey York Woodsum]

Umm I think that most all people can agree that reading Fifty Shades of Grey is more of a crime than armed robbery...

[Claire Schwa]

I applaud you for recognizing the death of literature

[Claire Schwa]

I have to be honest that I refuse to read The Host just because of how terrible Stephanie Meyer's writing was in Twilight. I tried to read that and I just couldn't because of the plot, the characters, and the writing

[Elizabeth]

Fifty Shades of Grey...

...I'm not into that sort of stuff. So, I didn't really get into it because I just don't read the genre.

Otherwise, I'm pretty open minded (well except I don't really like horror).

[Combefairy]

Uhm, well, I refused, past tense and just haven't bothered going back. Ethan Frome is the absolute worst thing in the face of romantic literature. We were assigned it two years ago, I read a third of it and SparkNoted the rest because I literally felt my brain melting with each awful sentance of Edith Wharton's I stumbled through.