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

A book I want to read until I see something like "Book 6 in the XYZ series!"

Some (of course, not all) Travel books - non fiction - with hints like secret tips for the best restaurant in town. And the whole book outdated soon after being published, usually not worth the paper it is written on. Worse still if the author tries to point out "typical" traits of the country or the persons living there. I read (past tense) such books, will not do so anymore.

Sociology books without any scientific background.

And books with a trigger warning.

Bad romances with totally foreseeable outcome. Page 3, at the latest. No twists, no turns. No humor, no fun. Worse even, when titled something like "the cosy café where we breed rabbits".

All Romance Novels, and especially Harlequin romances.
They all have the same plot.
Both people are physically beautiful, in physical shape, sometimes one will have had an accident and are now blind, walk with a limp or scars on their face & body!

Man is a billionaire. If he's poor, she's rich!
He/She believes they're one or more of the following; golddigger, have no morals, is a thief, selfish, arrogant, exploitive, criminal, liar & is abusive.

They meet 1st time, usually it's very combative or with preconceived opinions about one another.
Woman instantly hates him. He's intimidating, scary, arrogant & powerful.
She rejects him, He's never been rejected, he gets mad, no one rejects him. He's intrigued by her rejection and is obsessed with breaking down her walls. He repeatedly creates confrontations, which often turn mean spirited, taunting, threatening, hurtful or sexual. Punishing her by brutally kissing her.
She's sexually inexperienced, a virgin. She likes the kiss, but hates how it made her feel sexy & wanting more. She's now thinking he's sexually experienced & very masculine. The "relationship"continues to develop with multiple encounters. Family, friends, ex-lover/wife/fiancee threatened by their emerging feelings for one another create chaos, tell half truths, outright lies; anything to destroy their trust in one another. The woman is always made to feel inadequate.
She falls in love with him, he doesn't know. She runs away. She's in danger, a hitman, ex-husband or stalker found her & is planning to kill/hurt her. Her heart is also breaking, she's fallen in love with him. Doesn't know it's reciprocated. He tracks her down, he saves her, they both realize they're in love with one another. They realize all the lies that were told by "X" kept them apart. This individual is humiliated, punished in some spectacular way & is ostracized by everyone they know!
The couple then live happily ever after!

I have issues with romance novels. They're basically softcore porn for lonely women...

Supernatural Romance. It's all the worst parts of romance novels and all the most cliche parts of supernatural books. I love good dark fantasy, I used to be a big fan of vampire novels before Twilight ruined it. (My mom was a Twihard, I know all of the story, unfortunately.) Unfortunately my aunt is a big fan of the genre.

Biographies of people who have been famous for about 3 minutes and are 19 at best. Yes, I do want a ghost-written tale of your childhood, person who has lived no life at all.

Detective thrillers.
It's always the same: Detective [insert name] has to find a criminal that killed a few people, meets a woman involved in the case along the way for a quick romance and has to deal with rather useless cops standing in the way of his investigations. To throw in some "character depth" the guy drinks whisky like no tomorrow, is either divorced, lost his wife in an accident or has another traumatic backround.

Horror. I have anxiety and imsomnia so I can't stand anything even vaguely scary or i just don't sleep, which is a problem cause I keep reading horror comics. It's like an addiction

Horror.

Life is scary enough w/out supernatural or criminal psychopaths.

Those dumb as hell Y/N X anime boy fan fiction. They are just really unrealistic, for a lot of the characters, and just feel very copy pasted. Give me a satire Y/N X nobody where an asexual Y/N is in a high-school full of handsome anime boys, then we'll talk.

Books on tape 👎

Westerns

Christian romance (someone left it in the "free library") Didn't finish it.

Generally romance novels. I find them incredibly irritating, unreasonable, and untruthful. Also come on, how many times do these people need to make out and describe it in detail?

I'm picky with books, but my least favorite are Realistic Fiction, or any contemporary/modern book. I dont wanna hear about high school/college students struggling with life, bc I relate and I dont like it. Like, I'm struggling with that already, why do I want to read about it? (I understand that this is irrational but I stand by it lmao)

I am not a fan of mushy love stories. They usually follow a script of boy meets girl or girl meets boy, then some drama/things happen, then the resolution of happily ever after.
My preference is historical or SciFi books. I love learning and therefore enjoy the historical genre the most.

The romance type and baby makes 3. Neither person in the couple is good or interesting but somehow they have sex against their will and she gets pregnant so they are forced to marry. What a nightmare passed off as a happy ending.

I don't have a specific "genre" that I don't like. It's more about the story, and the author's "voice". Generally I'm willing to try anything, and either I like it or I don't. So I say " whatever floats your boat" . And don't ever be ashamed of reading such or such genre that others may find trite or boring. If it gives you pleasure and helps you get away from reality, or learn, or just get through the day... just read!

I dislike fantasy books that mix medieval and magic. Over done. Writers, something new please.