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Of the well known books, I think that should be the Twilight series. I haven't read it, so I know my opinion is not totally valid, because I don't know what I miss , but as far as I heard about the story, it's a bit too dramatised and too much of a teenflick, with werewolves that for the half of the book seem to be shirtless for some reason . So, I myself won't be recommending this series

The books by David Gibbins are not so well written in my opinion too. I've read 2 f his 5 books, I own 3. Still trying to get myself to read the other book, but I actually don't really like his writing style. The books I have from him are Atlantis (quite ok), The Last Gospel (also sort of OK, but a good book is something else ) and The Tiger Warrior, which is still to be read. Even despite that I'm lured into maybe buying his new book; The Mask of Troy or something, just because it's an archaeolgy-thriller about ancient greece xD

Another novel I'd really not recommend is Project 731 (the order of the numbers can be different , the Dutch title is: Het Kyoto Virus). It is just... predictable, I could forsee most of the plot twists and I simply couldn't care less about the main character, because in my thoughts she was whining all time about nothing etc. So for me it was totally predictable and I couldn't relate in any way to the main characters, which I usually sort of can.

I totally agree with Nike about Twilight... I just can't stand it. It is like everywhere! And the fact, that vampires are oh so shiny and glittering... uuuuh...>.< I don't know but, that's just not a vampire in my opinion. And the fact that she brings up many Mormonian ideas in her book, just makes it for me less readable. And what I heard is, that the two protagonists are really boring, and also that the author can't really write. Well I just read a few sites, and that was enough for me.

I'm also not really into Harry Potter... I really love fantasy, but somehow I don't like Harry Potter!o_o' I've read about 30 sites, and I thought it was really boring.

The third is, "das Blütenstaubzimmer" by Zoe Jenny. I tried to read it for about three times, everytime I didn't finish it, because I hated the protagonist. She did things, I just could not understand, because it did not fit into the whole book somehow. There are few other books I would not recommend. Tokio by Mo Hayeder was similar to the Zoe Jenny one. The protagonist is implausible. And also the writing style is not really good (in my opinion...) f.e. she writes in an ego-perspective, but then there are such sentences like "I don't hear anything, not even the wind!" If she can't hear, why is she then talking about the wind which she can't hear? It's strange... (perhaps it's a stylistic device, but not a really good one) the theme would be really ok and interesting, but it was annoying after the half of the book.

I also don't like Federica de Cesco that much. I tried here too to read some books, but like the last two they bored me to death.

Hmm.. I really hated 1984 by George Orwell.. Maybe some of you like it. But for me it's one of the books I was never capable of to read to the end.