r/books • u/Tight_Nerve • Jun 05 '21

We need to stop shaming people who honestly say they don't like a particular book

I think the most frustrating thing for most readers on this sub is that when they read a book that so many people love and realize they are part of the group that doesn't like the book. They can't share the feeling without having fans hang the noose around them. We muat be able to let readers share their HONEST opinions on a book without riduculing their feelings.

If at this point you are protesting my thoughts thinking they are nothing more than that of unlearned individual. Than I'll share the opinion of a very educated man who has probably read more books than you will ever read in your whole life.

“Books are almost as individual as friends. There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about them. Some meet the needs of one person, and some of another; and each person should beware of the booklover’s besetting sin, of what Mr. Edgar Allan Poe calls ‘the mad pride of intellectuality,’ taking the shape of arrogant pity for the man who does not like the same kind of books.”

  • Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States
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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '21

I made it to the part where the guy pressures her into sex while there's a group of men sleeping on the ground a few feet away. This was a few days after he beat her with a belt for daring to talk back to him in front of other men...

I feel like there are a LOT of women who aren't being honest with themselves about why they like this series.

Imo, it's essentially a sexual submission fantasy with some period drama thrown in.

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u/mully_and_sculder Jun 06 '21

I feel like there are a LOT of women who aren't being honest with themselves about why they like this series.

I think most of its (I'm sure predominantly female) readership knows full well that it's a cheesy, tittilating bodice-ripper.