Hey Pandas, What Popular Book Genre Do You Hate And Why? (Closed)

You know the ones in which the partner absolutely torchers, cheats, beats, disrespects, misuses or does all of these, and still, the person who went through all that trauma gets back with them after the slightest of attention and apology.😖

I don’t like these romance novels where a bunch of girls in high school fight each other for one seemingly perfect boy and backstab each other and stuff. All the stuff about ‘popularity’ and ‘crushes’. I don’t know if I’m insane or boring, but I think everyone in my school only have energy to get through the day without passing out due to a lot of reasons, and then go home to eat and sleep and do homework. No offense.

YA romance. Every single plot seems to be the same. And a lot of times it pushes toxic relationships.

Self-help books. They're trite and obvious a lot of the time, and sometimes sneak in hocus-pocus (e.g. "the secret") or jesus.

For me, it would have to be dystopian because these teenagers would not be able to topple a whole government and most of the time there is an unnecessary love plot

some times there are ones I think are OK like The Giver

The only "Fantasy" books at my school library are "Tyler is an ordinary boy, who one day finds a mysterious artifact and finds friends with some more artifacts!! Wow!! Can Tyler and his friends save the world from big cliche villain or will the world fall to ruin??" I hate those books they are the worst. It's just all ordinary kid, powers somehow or something magic like another world, a big villain trying to steal the magic thingy and "DeStINy"

I do not like the novels with a long haired and muscular guy on the cover holding a size zero with a D size chest like he caught her before she fainted.

Also, Sci-Fi specifically aliens.

Fantasy.

Okay so I LOVE Terry Pratchett books, they are fantasy, but other fantasy authors? Nope. I just cannot get on with them, they annoy me and I do not know why.

Dystopian novels where everyone is owned by the mega corps. Like back in the day, fantastic, Phillip K D**k, brilliant, but modern ones? It just seems to be the them, you have to have EvilCorp controlling us, and it seems to be every sci fi book these days, just BORED of them. Lets have fun!

The old fashioned romance novels that my mom used to read. She had hundreds of them.

Grimdark fantasy.
Fantasy used to be (and IMO should be) a form of pure escapism, a chance to not think about the woes of the real world and just enjoy an adventure. Then, the popularity of Game of Thrones set a trend that everything must be "dark, gritty and realistic" (= gory, bleak and depressing) and I think it caused massive damage to the genre. I have enough seeing people hate, kill and [violate] each other in real life. I don't need more of it in fictional stories.

Dystopian novels where somehow people think it's a good idea to enforce a justice system that will immmediately sentence you to death for any crime committed, big and small, no matter what your contribution to your small remainder of a community is. So, they'll kill one of the few doctors just because they told a lie or something. It does not make sense and never will, because you're already with very few and you kill people with valuable skills such as farming and medicine. Lookin' at you, The 100.

I read a lot of different genres (though science fiction is a fave), but if there's one thing I can't stand, it's love triangles. If you need that to move the plot, it's not good writing.

I have two:
1) Horror. It aims at arousing disgust or terror, or both, and never offers hope. I get that it is about encouraging catharsis, but I believe it must leave psychological wounds in the reader, wounds that incline them to view their everyday world and other humans in the same light, wounds that lead them to lose hope. I think this is especially true of horror stories that want readers to revel in violence, gore and cruelty, as if encouraging them to behave that way in their real lives. Everyone is a victim, even those who think themselves victors.
2) Dystopian SF. These worlds are often metaphoric reflections of the most negative views of modern life (particularly USA society as many such writers are American): worlds dominated by rapacious corporations, amorality, the crushing of freedom of the individual, extreme social divisions, ecological collapse. My criticism is similar to my views on horror. Where the writers' imaginations fail is in exploring solutions other than violent change (and change to what? Just a change of masters, as in "Animal Farm"?) and more than that, writing stories having actually researched and taken into account what positive solutions are already in place or in development in the world.

I have two:

those dismal romance novels where the women are all helpless and must be saved by the strong handsome man - absolute drivel

secondly, those fake whodunnit novels like Mrs Marple etc, again drivel. If you want to read about crime then read true crime.

I have one. However I have not read that genre I will mention below.
Romance.

Those idiotic love novels about one general thing. At first the main characters love life sucks(Hell I don’t even have one) and how they’re whining about a damn breakup. Then they meet a person and fall in love. They go through a whirlwind of romance and arguments. Eventually the two lovebirds break up or end up marrying each other(Imagine marriage). Really in reality, the whole time as you read the book you end up thinking about how miserable your love life is.

Romance books: We know you’re reading this because you have no love life and also you’re probably going through a breakup or divorce.

Cookbooks which turn out to be 70% beautiful photos and 30% recipes. Said recipes usually call for hideously expensive or vanishingly hard-to-find ingredients. I'm not going to traipse around 5 or 6 different stores or slog through an infinite number of exotic websites just to make a salad or a cake. Sorry, Dutch-process cocoa. I'm going with Hershey's. It's right here.

Those romance novels where the girl is described as the most normal looking and nobody gives a second glance but then an absolutely hunk of a billionaire falls head over heels for her, takes her in for some reason, treats her badly and keeps her in a toxic relationship until he figures out that she is the LOVE OF HIS LIFE. That S**t.

Romance novels that are basically porn.

I don't like crime novels.

I dislike basic dystopian, if the story is actually original than I might like it. (Exe: Hunger Games). But I don't like when people just take a basic plot and then use that basic plot and just add stuff on top of it. Like, give me an actual STORY. Not just a bland, boring book.

Also: generic good vs. evil. I do enjoy a traditional book of good vs. evil but too much of it is just boring.