Normally in this literary corner we talk about those books that are worth having, those books whose readings fill us, comfort us, entertain us and we would even read on more than one and two occasions ... But today's article is about the opposite : books that (in my opinion) did not deserve to cut the tree from which its leaves came ...
And I repeat, this article is a mere opinion, what I dislike about literature is not why you do not like it, okay? Let no one put their hands on their heads! And another thing: I'm sure I forget many.
We start at 3, 2, 1 ...
I refuse to read them
And these are the books that I will never read, recommend or read again if I have already done so:
- "Ambitions and reflections" of the ultra-known in Spain, Bethlehem Esteban. I already repudiate certain television channels for the appearance of people like this «writer» to have to see her face also stamped on the cover of a book ... And with this book I group all those of the style ...
- "Blue Beard" de Charles Perrault: For two reasons, it is not a children's story as it is intended to be categorized and it has a «bad teaching» in my opinion, that of not being curious with the world around us.
- "Twilight" de Stephenie Meyer and all his saga inspired by wolves and vampires: I had the 4 books, I bought them in a fit of delirium and I only read the beginnings of each one of them ... Long, infumable and absurd ...
- "Don Juan Tenorio" de José Zorrilla and Moral: Simply because I don't like reading theater ... I consider that as a good play that has been written, it should be enjoyed in its usual setting, a theater.
- "The Alchemist" de Paulo Coelho: Perhaps this book should not be on the list of «I refuse to read them» because I have read it in its entirety at the age of 15 but I would never read it again ... I remember that I liked it a lot in its time, but eventually I realized that it is the typical book that you want to load from mysticism and mystery to simple daily and everyday reflections ...
- "Fueteovejuna" de Lope de Vega: Again a play that bores me a lot to read ...
- "Beware of the still water" de Calderon de la Barca: I don't like baroque and overly ornate literature. I consider it to be a rather confusing book with an unattractive theme for me (married daughters and handsome gentlemen looking for good girls…).
- "A miracle in balance" de Lucía Etxebarría: It is the only book I have by this author in my personal library and the more times I have tried to read it I have never been able to continue reading it.
- "The secret" de Rhonda Byrne: It is a book that attracted me a lot at the time but that I have never had in my hands. And I think that I have been the one who has avoided that encounter with this book. I am of the opinion that it is good for the person to have positive thoughts and to be charged with hope so that life does not turn out to be so difficult at times, but hence the theory that is related in this book, that only with thoughts positive you will attract the good ... Well no! Rhonda Byrne, don't sell me cheap milongas ... Life is to live it, to fight it every day for very good and wonderful things that can happen to you, but everything has its work and its perseverance ... Dreams are not fulfilled only by wanting them, you have to dare to fulfill them and look for them yourself if necessary. I don't like this kind of empty teaching, and I think it does ordinary people a disservice.
- The Bible: Surely you will be surprised to see this book on this list ... I have tried to read it on several occasions, and I have only managed to end up with brief fragments skipped ... On the one hand I like the "mysticism" and history that this great book has (it is the most read in the world, ahead of Don Quixote, second on the list) but on the other hand it is so difficult to understand and there are so many theories around it that I consider reading it a waste of time ... Maybe I'm wrong!
Carmen,
It seems to me that you are not wrong at all, although you say, with reason, that your list does not necessarily have to or can coincide with that of other readers. You agree with mine, although I do not know that Spanish author that you mention in the first place. The plays also bore me, they were indeed made to be seen, not read. On my list I would add Ruiz Zafón, his books begin as a novel and end as a telenovela. Paolo Coelho is infumable, as are the Shadows of Gray texts. There are really many that should not have been published and yet they have had good marketing, which makes them Best Sellers, especially among readers who are characterized by reading one book a year.
Greetings from Mexico
José Antonio
You have to be patient with the Bible, and it is a matter of always keeping in mind that there are THOUSANDS of authors, it is an oral tradition passed down through generations. Things that seem totally absurd to us today (whoever touches a menstruating woman will be impure, etc.) have SOME grip today (women who died from leaving a sanitary tampon in for a long time). And so with leprosy and other diseases, at least they had a notion CLOSER TO REALITY (burning clothes and "disinfecting") than those they had in the Middle Ages with the Black Death (burning incense ...)
I MAY BE WRONG but science is discovering things and facts that the Bible recounts (I see the flood that touched Noah at the time that the Mediterranean Sea was filled with water, one of the several times, I don't know which one-seriously , it is scientific fact, they extract salt from the seabed of a previous drought-).
In any case, let us never lose faith, AS WE NEITHER STOP LEARNING new things every day, as the Bible says "we ate the forbidden fruit that gave us light to knowledge" or we were primates who lived on the shores of the seas. The fur fell to swim well and we nourished ourselves excellently with fruits of the sea -as the Japanese do today- ...
As for Coehlo, well, at once let's include all the self-help books and classify them within the science of psychoanalysis AND NOT IN THE FIELD OF LITERATURE.
Not reading numbers 4 and 6 is, in my opinion, a big mistake.
Regards,
I refuse to read this post ... particular and selfish opinions that do not suit me and in fact many ...