It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.
I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
I don't like books, they're all fact, no heart.
When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike it.
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
When I love a book, I really love a book. You don't get that very often.
A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.
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