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Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This week is about books we lied about reading, lied about NOT reading, lied about liking/disliking, etc.
(In no particular order)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray: I put this on my read shelf on Goodreads when in reality, I only watched the movie and haven't read the book. <3 Ben Barnes btw. - Dea (IvaliceAlliance)
- Twilight: We claim that we dislike this saga but honestly, we really liked it. We admit that the movies clouded our judgment and disappointed us because they're not how we pictured them to be. Movies aside, it's a pretty good series and what started it all. - Teen Readers' Diary
- Jane Eyre: Both of us have it on our read shelf when only Riz (Bookadicea) have read it. We really intend to but we're still struggling to find time and fight our constant desire to read new books. Classics aren't really for us. :) - Dea (IvaliceAlliance) and Mary Ann
- I Am Number Four: After 50 pages or so, I gave up on reading this any further. I dunno, it just gave me a headache and the fact that Alex Pettyfer will play the role of John made me think of ignoring the book and watch it on the big screen instead. - Dea (IvaliceAlliance)
- Beautiful Creatures: I rated this book 3 stars but after finishing Beautiful Darkness, I realized that I really loved it! Now I'm on to editing my review and change it into 4.5. - Mary Ann
- Eternal: I always say that this book is okay but what I really think of this book is it's beyond NOT okay. Sorry Ms. Leitich-Smith. :( - Bookadicea
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull: I read the summary and analysis of this book on our senior English textbook so I considered this already read in my GR shelf - Bookadicea
- Lovely Bones and ·The Devil Wears Prada: We really LOVED the movies of these books. Again, we don't feel the need of reading their books but the want of putting them on our Goodreads read shelf, which we did. : D - Teen Readers' Diary
We only have 9 and that's all we had to spill! We hope those are the last books that we had to lie about.
Comment with your list or your link to it so we can check them out!
I started to listen to The Lovely Bones on my ipod and I couldn't. It was too hard listening to this girl's story. Maybe someday I'll read it or maybe just see the movie.
ReplyDeleteInteresting list. There are some books we can never get into...
ReplyDeleteHere is my Top Ten post!
I tried reading Dorian Gray several years ago, and just couldn't get into the story. I remember it being pretty dull, is the movie any better? I'm noticing Twilight is on a lot of lists... :p
ReplyDeleteGood list, I agree with Devil Wears Prada. I've added it but have never read it.
ReplyDeletehere's mine:
http://carabosseslibrary.blogspot.com/2011/05/top-ten-tuesday_24.html
+JMJ+
ReplyDeleteI have a worse "confession" when it comes to The Devil Wears Prada. I saw the movie and was really impressed, so I thought about reading the book; and then a friend whose tastes in reading I don't particularly respect told me that the book paled in contrast to the movie. And I thought, "Okay. Then I won't read it." =/
In the back of my mind, I heard a voice from my childhood--a very stern aunt--asking, "Why are you letting someone else's opinion make up your mind for you?" But I just told it to shut up! =P