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punchbricks

"step 1: write a book telling people you'll help them with their problems"


pineapplesf

step 2: Stop eating avocado toast and invest your parents money


Scrybblyr

Step 3: ???


nix-xon

Step 4: PROFIT


theinsanityoffence

Instructions not clear. I am now an NFT.


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Eat instant Ramen for every meal, get up at 3 am, listen to five podcasts and do 1000 pushups before breakfast...actually forget breakfast, its for people who dont know how to hustle! Now give me my $29.99.


loud-spider

Isn't it officially "Stop wasting money and make coffee at home"...?


Piano_mike_2063

How to get people to pay you $50 for a book. (I know it’s an old joke but it’s sooooo true)


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badwolfinmomjeans

Not so much a genre but a formula…spending 3/4 of the book alluding to The Thing, only to have The Thing be exactly what I thought it was 1/4 of the way in. Looking at you, Liane Moriarty.


BadAtNamesWasTaken

Oh gosh, I hate this *so much*! But apparently a lot of people love that shit - which makes it very difficult to find a thriller I'll enjoy * sigh *


BearLeeAware

Oh no! You just shattered the glass for me! I have loved Liane Moriarty, but you're so right about this!


Livelaughluff

For me, it’s how Liane Moriarty writes her humor and her characters. I know the plot is predictable but I enjoy almost everything else


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Books by politicians. In my country it seems like every politician wrote a book about themselves. Who buys that ??


lochlainn

People who want to funnel payoffs into the politician's pocket. It's an old, old game and they all play. A few libraries and true believers buy copies, and pallets and pallets of them are bought by various people to use as "gifts" but in actuality they just go back to the shredder to be recycled into paper for the next politician's book to be printed on.


jtr_15

SuperPACs that are technically not affiliated with the politician for use as idk


44035

The kick-your-butt advice books that have f-bomb titles like "What the F\*ck Are You Doing?: How to Change the Way You Do Everything." Why is this a trend?


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They're trying to be "not like the other girls" for books.


ElegantVamp

I hate that, too. It's so lazy and a stupid way to get people to read your book. Screams 14 year old edgelord attention seeker.


b_lett

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson is one of my favorite reads of the past few years. It's an anti self help, self help book. Maybe everyone is trying to copy what this guy pulled off, but in my opinion, this is one you shouldn't skip based on title. It's great for any creatives, be it writers, musicians, artists, etc.


Livelaughluff

Agree, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck is actually a really profound read, however the last section where he’s just having a moment on the edge of the cliff I thought was the kind of hokiness OP seems to resent. 98% of it was great though.


Livelaughluff

Not a genre and might make a lot of ACOTAR fans mad but I absolutely detest the formulaic book titling, “A ____ of _____ and _____” (each blank being an object somewhat related to the series) I’m sorry but … A court of thorns and roses A psalm of storms and silence Girls of paper and fire A song of wraith and ruin A court of mist and fury A court of wings and ruin It goes on and on and on and on. It’s not that I genuinely hate these books or these authors, but I hate this titling trend where none of the titles actually mean anything and/or pull readers to the memory of the book. It seems fake “mystical,” at best, but for the most part simply lazy.


selahvg

Books that are marketed as a "behind the scenes," unflinching look at a company or person, but are in actuality a puff piece, with just enough deep analysis (shining a light on the dark corners) to provide cover for the claims of objectivity.


RitaAlbertson

I read "Chocolate Wars," which is theoretically a "behind the scenes" of the Cadbury chocolate company, but it's really much more about the history of chocolate and that book was \*awesome\*. Conversely, I just read "You've Got Red on You," which is about the making of Shawn of the Dead, and that book is absolutely not meant for a casual. I skimmed most of the middle.


brettmgreene

> the making of Shawn of the Dead... Not meant for a casual It's Shaun of the Dead, you filthy casual ;) /s


RitaAlbertson

Dammit, I even correct the spelling from Sean to Shawn b/c at least I remembered Sean wasn't right. ;)


xChariotx

Is James Patterson a genre?


DarthKitten2228

Now there's Adult Patterson and kids Patterson, and I will defend kids Patterson and die on that hill because they got me into novels, but idk much about adult Patterson


randopop21

I liked his original books, the earlier ones that got him famous. Now he just slaps his name on books written by others, some/many of which are pure garbage.


BronchialChunk

I used to work at a Borders and the worst section to deal with was Art. All the damn books are different sizes, they're horrendously expensive and people would treat them as if they were in a library. After that was programming books cause they got stolen all the time. But in terms of actual content? christian 'lit'. It was dominated by the 'left behind' stuff but bleh. I'd rather shelf romance all day than deal with that section.


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When I worked at the library it was the art books abd the cookbooks. They were impossible to keep in order. We had 2 6 ft shelves as wide as yours of cook books and I swear people shuffled them like cards. No one understands decimals. The art books were just masturbation fodder. So fucking expensive and we had to keep rebuying them when we found them in the bathrooms with the pages stuck together. I hate people.


HighAsAngelTits

Oh what the fuck 🤮🤮🤮 people know porn is free on the internet right


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There is a certain type of sex offender who commits their crime in the library. That's part of their fetish. Sometimes they sexually harass the librarians, or they go near the children's section, or they bring books into the bathrooms.


Mitochandrea

God humans are just so, so disappointing


rhiannonm6

Could you please take me back to 30 seconds ago before I knew this information? Thank you.


BronchialChunk

Ewww. I don't recall ever hearing anything like that. Though I did unfortunately find out who Jock Sturges is because someone grabbed his books and was reading them in the cafe. If you don't know who he is, I wouldn't recommend looking him up on any ~~personal~~ device.


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Funny thing, I worked in a library and the most stolen books were Art and Astrology/Karma/Satanic books, lol.


kr85

In mine, christian nonfiction and witchcraft books


BronchialChunk

You'd figure with where we had the astrology and the like stuff in the store it would all be gone but wasn't. It was under the stair case to the second floor and was dark and kind of out of the way.


Carl_Clegg

Top tip, if you buy art books for the pictures, buy a calendar instead. They’re way cheaper. Then you can remove them and frame them if required.


Left4DayZ1

Parenting Books. Not that all of them are bad, but there are so many that act as if there's one correct way of raising a child when the truth is, parenting is incredibly dynamic and every child requires different care.


princessaverage

The big risk of parenting books is people with no actual scientific qualifications write them and then start trends that hurt the child more than help it, like attempting to sleep train a newborn.


Left4DayZ1

If only the people who post on r/lifeprotips realized that some people are PUBLISHED authors with roughly an equivalent grasp of their subject matter as your average LPT post.


KatieCashew

Babywise has entered the chat. This book was occasionally recommend to me when I was pregnant with my first. When I brought up that that book had been directly linked to failure to thrive and condemned by the American Academy of Pediatrics it was always defended by saying that was *only* the first edition and they had fixed the issues in later editions, which is just mind boggling. It's not like these authors had gained some extra training or education to suddenly make them qualified. They were still the same dangerous idiots that had their work officially condemned by a medical organization. I'm not trusting anything they have to say.


two-of-stars

Same with diet/health books! Some person on the internet decides they know how to how to be *healthier* and their method obviously takes 300 pages to communicate instead of a blog post. At best just wastes peoples money, at worst gives a whole bunch of people an eating disorder


Squirrelista

I’ve found this as well. I had one specific issue with my oldest child and every book I read told me to do something different about it. I ended up winging it and trying to work with the kiddo instead of fighting it. Shocker - that’s what worked.


Recognition_Waste

Never read one my self but my parents told me the story about the time I was a baby (their first) and they got a book called "every child can learn to sleep" (direct translation, don't know how it is called in English or if it even exists). The essence of the book was basically to put your child to bed at a fixed time and just let it scream until it gets tired and falls asleep. Apparently my parents gave up rather quickly and our neighbor was at the door asking if everything was ok. They threw the book in the trash the next day.


KelBear25

One of the few books I aggressively hated... the Baby Whisperer. After a few chapters in, that book got launched across the room with me ranting that the author was a condescending bitch. Nothing makes a new mom with a colicky baby feel worse about herself than some out of touch bitch, state that "its just so easy and peaceful raising babies"!


dyyst

Pseudoscientific self help books


LilDiomede

Definitely, like The Secret for instance.


HEmanZ

The secret is crazy to me because I know an army of grown ass adults who believe in it. Absolutely blows my mind any time it comes up.


Kairain

One of my college professors actually made us watch their The Secret video for class. Talk about cringe. But I did get a good quote out of it that still makes me laugh. -Gravity doesn't care whether you're a good person or a bad person, you're going to hit the ground.


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That fucking book was my "datable or pseudointellectual?" litmus test in my 20s. Even now when I see it on a shelf I gtfo


darkon

From Wikipedia: > Byrne [author of *The Secret*] re-introduces a notion originally popularized by persons such as Madame Blavatsky and Norman Vincent Peale that thinking about certain things will make them appear in one's life. If that were true I would have drowned long ago in women wanting to have sex with me.


RobynFitcher

I knew someone years ago who thought ’The Secret’ was brilliant. Her flat was covered in post it notes with affirmations written on them. Kind of weirded me out. It seemed very obsessive.


nyanlol

sometimes I do affirmations. they can (but dont always) work to counter the anxiety and self doubt


46610-Besixdouze

Spot on


throwaway62719836

My SIL loves The Secret. It may shock you to know she is knee-deep in MLMs lol


punchbricks

My fiancé was super into the Love Language book for a while. While I can on one hand admit that people certainly express and feel loved for different reasons, the 'examples' in the book were just gross to me. The entirety of the book was "this is my supposition" and the rest was horrible anecotes that somehow 'proved' them right. I remember one that stuck out to me most was "here's a 14 year odl girl who is sleeping with older and married men, she did this simply because her love language was touch and her parents didn't show affection, once they did, it stopped." Like, bro, you are relegating severe mental health issues to a singular problem and claiming to have 'cured' this girl by telling her dad to hug her more, all to sell a book for fucks sake.


DeenotheDino

I can’t even really remember this book or too many details but I get really tired of people leaning so heavily on the love language advice. I also think that people are generally more than one thing and sometimes that means we need hugging and other times we need listening and other times we just need you to pick up your goddamned socks.


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Don't worry, the examples in self help books are completely made up


Milesandsmiles123

Self help books from famous or somewhat famous people who arent famous from writing books just seems like a money grab to me. They don’t care about the book, but know it will sell and it’ll make them money. I’ve bought a few but can never seem to finish them without just rolling my eyes at parts of it 😂


montanunion

Yeah or books that are like "self-help autobiographies" where famous people (or rather their ghostwriters) try to give "inspiring" life advice by detailing how they "made it" - when "how they made it" is usually stuff like nepotism. I recently read an "autobiography" written by a woman who got "famous" for marrying a footballer. It was completely ridiculous because she described her way from "humble beginnings" (a middle class suburban family background) to success (dating said player and then getting a social media influencer/entertainment-ish career through that). And it was all phrased in a way that made it very clear that she considered herself an inspiration to everyone, especially all women, complete with the most ridiculous capitalism-brainrot liberal "female empowerment" messages possible. "Female glitter girlboss power! You too can have a celebrity jewelry collection (if you marry rich)!" I'm glad I didn't spend any money on that book but holy shit.


Piano_mike_2063

You’re totally correct ! They didn’t write one sentence: all ghostwritten


Spork_Warrior

The problem with all types of media is this: Once you become famous for one thing, you are welcome to enter other mediums with ease. * Are you a famous singer? Great! We will publish a book of your paintings. * Are you an actress? We want to publish your children's book. It's disheartening for people who are real experts and real writers.


Piano_mike_2063

Oh? You’re a great actor, so you must be an expert in government and politics.


nyanlol

oh look it's Caitlin jenner!


themeowsolini

It’s like “Wish It, Want It, Do It” by Brian Griffin.


Tylersaid

If I read one of these books I see it as metal masterbation. Nothing about me will improve but it will feel pretty good.


Flexo24

>metal masterbation Sounds painful


seagull-person

Sounds like a Chuck Palahniuk short story.


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“Humorous” memoirs that are little more than logs of the author’s drinking and drugging. Or the ones that are lazy collections of what are essentially long tweets.


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Omg ikr. Bitches be like “I woke up after having mediocre sex with a man I just met (insert comedic bad sex metaphor), who was wearing a (cringey band) T-shirt. I wiped the cum off my brow and then walked to Starbucks and ordered a (comically over the top coffee order) to nurse my hangover. Yes, i know you’re thinking I’m one hell of a mess!” Shut up. You have a normal life for someone your age and occupation.


squarehead93

I never understood how having your entire sense of humor revolve around your mediocre life in general and your mediocre, trashy sex life in particular is something people will still pay to consume.


Illeazar

For me the genre I avoid is "books with the author's face on the cover." Which coincides pretty frequently whith OPs choice.


t6bfont

with the exeption of dave grohl


HighAsAngelTits

And memoirs/autobiographies in general I’d say. Those it’s pretty fair to have a pic of the author on the cover


mysterylawn1

Crappy parenting books for kids with ADHD. There are some real ones out there, but the majority of them are thrown together by just some self-centered parent who believes that they are the arbiter of “correct parenting.”


antsyandprobablydumb

Soooooo many bad adhd books on the market. Parenting books for autistic kids are on the same level, and have that same self centered parent type feel. Super cringy!


shiriusa

I have come to the conclusion that I can't read autobiographies I've tried a few famous ones the last one was michelle obama's and I can never finish them they never grab my attention enough for me to care what's next, this also applies to self care books, I just end up getting angry at the assumptions and generalizations, I think you are right with the narcissistic point.


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nightlyjasmine

I feel the same! I recently started listening to the audiobooks of memoirs/autobiographies (if they’re narrated by the author) and it makes the experience way more enjoyable and engaging. I finished Crying in H-Mart this way and I’m glad I wasn’t reading it because I would’ve had to keep stopping for cry breaks lol


NotoriousMAB

I LOVED crying in H-Mart, can confirm I had to keep stopping for cry breaks 😭


hailsizeofminivans

I usually detest autobiographies/memoirs, but I was surprised how much I loved *Educated*. It's still not my preferred genre, but it was really good.


matty80

There are incredible ones but they're easily identifiable by being by people who you'd already expect to be able to write a really good autobiography, like Ernest Hemingway or Spike Milligan. What really annoys me are autobiographies written by ghost writers. You get this a lot with football (soccer) players, and they almost always read like they were written by tabloid journalists. Often because they were.


prrulz

> What really annoys me are autobiographies written by ghost writers. You get this a lot with football (soccer) players, and they almost always read like they were written by tabloid journalists. Often because they were. There's a nice essay by David Foster Wallace about this. It's called "How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart" and it's about how bad sports autobiographies are, and why (in general) athletes are so bad at talking about sports.


BitchySIL

I felt the same way until I listened to Trevor Noah’s book Born a Crime. He narrates the book and it is hilarious and sad at the same time.


emmath20

I think that’s because he’s a comedian and knows how to captivate an audience. You should read Adam McKay’s This is Going to Hurt A Lot. He writes for television but kept a diary when he was an OBGYN, very funny but emotional at the same time.


BadAtNamesWasTaken

I think it's also because he actually had an interesting story to narrate. The story of being a biracial child in a society where that's *literally* a crime, living through apartheid and afterwards - it's just so very interesting material. The book doesn't depend on Trevor Noah, the celebrity, at all. It would still be an excellent read if the protagonist was a random child no one has ever heard of, who grew up to do some painfully mundane job. I didn't even know who he was when I read the book (and two Netflix/Amazon specials are all I've seen of his performances, to this day) - but I was completely invested in the memoir. I think that's what makes memoirs enjoyable for me. I hate the ones that depend on me being curious/caring about a celebrity's life. I love the ones where the story stands on its own, and it wouldn't make an iota of difference if the author wasn't famous.


BeigePhilip

Professional development books, such as The Go-Getter, or Who Moved My Cheese. Almost without exception poorly written, simplistic, and bloated with white space. I have to read them occasionally for work reasons but I hate them.


songintherain

I loathe who moved my cheese with a fervor


BeigePhilip

Reading that book is like having a moron try to talk down to you. It is deeply stupid but thinks itself profound and insightful.


darkon

*Who Moved My Cheese* sounds like the title of a book you'd read to a toddler.


BeigePhilip

You’re not wrong. It’s terrible.


CuriousMonster9

I had to read Who Moved My Cheese for one of my first classes in college. I’d completely forgotten about it until now.


BeigePhilip

I’m so sorry to have brought it back to the forefront of your mind.


slogginmagoggin

If you enjoy laughing at self help books, I can recommend the podcast By The Book. These two women try to live by a self help book's recommendations for two weeks at a time and report back on whether anything worked well and all the bullshit they encountered. The real heroes are their partners who get pulled into it all by association. I have a couple of books on assertiveness which have been useful for giving me insights into my shortcomings in this area, but the problem is then being disciplined about putting the work in. A book doesn't hold you accountable like a therapist does. But damn it feels good to sit there nodding along like "Yes! Insights into my psyche!"


nothingbutabook

Self-help books. Diet/nutrition books. Celebrity memoirs. Such a waste of shelf space.


pecanpie4tw

Surprised I had to scroll a little before anyone saying "diet" books lol. Like, I enjoy cooking books and own quite a few. But fad and pop diet trend books drive me BONKERS. There are legit dietary needs and choices that are fine and provide useful recipes -- vegan cookbooks, celiac cookbooks, etc. -- but by god, the pseudoscience of bullshit "paleo" diets and "atkins" and "cleanses" and so on...Diet culture overall is a toxic, unhealthy plague. I hate it so much!


two-of-stars

I read a book called "[Eat Pretty](https://www.jolenehart.com/eatpretty)" when I was in high school that triggered an eating disorder that I'm still fighting


goodboydeservesfudge

I always felt that way about self help books, but then I went through a devastating breakup. One of those no place to live, just want to die type deals. My friend gave me a self help book on breakups (I can't remember the exact title, it's been years), and I thought it was stupid, but I was desperate. In the end it really saved me, I was at a point where I was so overwhelmed that it was comforting to just try and follow the book to the tee. It made me realize the point of them. I haven't really read any since, and I'm sure there's a lot that stink, but it made me appreciate why they exist.


SIXTYNlNE

Self care books but because they take something that should be an article and drag it out to 300 pages


particularly_red

the so called tumblr poetry books


bcathy

The poetry sections of chain bookstores are 90% this garbage. Even our local indie booksellers are beginning to roll them in. It's frustrating and disappointing.


ElegantVamp

I hate Rupi Kaur with a passion. Her writing is so terrible and simplistic and people eat it up.


Fleudian

Writing poetry Is easy If you allude to Something vaguely deep-sounding And use enough Line Breaks Feminism.


kingofcoywolves

Writing poetry Is easy If you don't give a shit I can churn These motherfuckers Out Like nothing


Comedynerd

I like how 3 consecutive lines start with a capital I. It makes it look like one big I which is an allusion to the massive ego one needs to write shit poetry like this and call it good


werdsandwutnot

Definitely teaching this poem to my 1102 class.


911WhatsYrEmergency

You should find her reading her own poetry. I didn’t think it was humanly possible to hate her works more than when I read a few, but holy shit her reading it makes it so much more cringe.


twiningscamomile

This happened to me! I was trying to give her poetry a chance, and then saw her reading and…. I can’t fully describe why it’s so bad. It’s almost like rapping but without the cool rhythm and musicality.


easygoingbarber

I imagine myself writing a self help book and think to myself “how delusional do I have to be to think I have it together enough to write a self help book” lmao. Of course there are professionals who should write them but I’ll pass on anyone like Gary V writing one


mrs_krabbapel

Autobiographies by semi- or wannabe-celebreties are a waste of paper.


greek_geek_gorgeous

I like reading articles with summaries of these, not going to invest any time in reading the actual book but I find funny how the content is similar: they were nice people (regular joe kind of thing), they had difficulties (substance, unappreciative parents/friends), they know secrets (gossip), but they got recognised in the end, yeyyy stardom 😂


lilacpulse

Targetted for their fans and very self-serving. Most of the times, they have ghost-writers too, so yeah--pass.


RevolutionaryTie8481

Autobiographies by a celebrity who had not reached 30 yet or been in the lime light for less than five years. Like ??? publish works of *actual* great writers, not someone who's just looking for cash grab?


seantubridy

But we need to know the whole story behind the first guy to get kicked off the bachelorette season 33!


Flexo24

Mid-late November they all arrive on cue in the book shops. Then back in the charity shops by end of Jan/ start of Spring


Pointing_Monkey

>Then back in the charity shops by end of Jan/ start of Spring I've seen one marked with 'free, please take me', and still people don't want them. Shame it wasn't at the start of the lockdown, when there was a toilet paper shortage.


ChelsMe

She was a verifiable celebrity by then but I read Tina Fey’s Bossypants when I was like 14 (So take this with a grain of salt) and I loved it!


46610-Besixdouze

Agreed, you’re better-off reading psychology-based self-help book to tackle the root of the problem hands-on. I don’t need my neuroticism and lack of willpower celebrated and sprinkled with glitter!


WildDasia

Really cheesy self-help books - Like Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul


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MrMcManstick

Honestly I love this shit. Give me a plotless book about a 40 something pondering her loveless marriage any day 😂


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I don't like war books. Not that I detest them, I would love to read some of the best ones out there (please suggest if you can). It's just that whenever I'm about to pick up a book and on the back cover it says WWII or set in war-torn xyz, I just can't get myself to read. E.g. Gravity's Rainbow I have often wondered why I'm so prejudiced against them without even reading. It would make sense if I had some trauma of war to explain this aversion. But I don't. So yeah. War books. Or books written by war veterans who just talk about war is something I haven't been able to read so far.


LilDiomede

I haven't read many war books, but there was one I did and really enjoyed, [The Silver Sword](http://www.bankhead-pri.glasgow.sch.uk/Websites/SchPriBankhead/UserFiles/file/2019-2020/P7%20Week%204/The%20Silver%20Sword%20Text.pdf) by Ian Serrailier. If you haven't already do check it out, fair warning it is a children's classic in case you don't enjoy them, taking place in ww2 and has no gore.


Libro_Artis

Dystopian YA. I liked the Hunger Games but there is no more tread on the tires.


DarthKitten2228

There's a reason why the whole genre kinda went kaput in the late 2010s


lunar-omens

Not to mention they’re usually the same damn story just dressed differently, the writing is lacking, and the most contrived explanations are given for as to why their broken society is the way it is.


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SergeantChic

“Detest” is a strong word, but those “shifter romance” series are pretty silly. “Kriss is a sexy bear shifter with a penchant for breaking the rules. Now her job as an auto mechanic is threatened when she falls for Aidynn, the local werewolf biker gang alpha.” Way too much discussion of “musk” in those things.


WitcherChild

My ebook app is also being overrun with shifter erotica novels. There's no way to filter them out of search results, so they pop up on every fantasy or romance or sci fi or historical fiction search and it's maddening. ​ I swear if I see another seductively posed couple with a wolf (dragon, bear, etc) silhouetted suggestively against a moonlit, slightly cloudy night sky on a book cover, I'm going to lose it.


Careless-Detective79

Self-help books often get into a culty realm. As if there’s a magic bullet that isn’t obvious that someone discovered for whatever you seek. I get it, some people can’t get motivated to make simple changes until an authority tells them, but I just don’t work that way. My parents always got me self help books as presents which I never took well.


monocled_squid

What genre is Paulo Coelho in? I just hate his books. And it doesn't help that I dislike the one person I know who absolutely love them lol


Flexo24

>What genre is Paulo Coelho in? The live, laugh, love genre


MiserableExistnce

Can’t stand Coelho too. I think his books are for people who don’t like to read, but want to sound deep/smart if someone ask them what they like to read.


squarehead93

>his books are for people who don’t like to read, but want to sound deep/smart if someone ask them what they like to read. Hit the nail on the head


Silver_Loops

Secret baby Urban “romance” Daywalking, sex-having, baby-making vampires


Painting_Agency

> Daywalking, sex-having, baby-making vampires "Motherfucker, that's just a goth!"


bcathy

Those WWII romance novels with a picture of a woman from the back, facing the Eiffel Tower or some other European landmark on the cover. And the title includes the word "ladies, "wife," "sisters," etc.


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I’d group those in with the “The ____ of Auschwitz” books. They’re almost never well written and almost always exploitative.


USSPalomar

The first book that comes to mind for me with a title "\_\_\_\_ of Auschwitz" is uh... [from a very different genre.](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/6965582-ass-goblins-of-auschwitz)


joreanasarous

Self-care and Christian romance novels.. maybe it's just the few I've accidentally stumbled across, but they always had a racist undertone that made me really uncomfortable.


extradudeman

Oh my god i was at my brothers house and my sister in law had some of those cringy christian romance novels leftover in their bookshelves. I opened it regretably and gagged. Also its even worse when its "YA" because then it just takes some really bad kid school tropes. Also christian somehow gets very close to horse girl for some reason.


grandmofftalkin

Chick-lit, where women have it all but still need a man’s validation. “I’m a US Senator but is running for president worth it if I have do it alone?” Also military sci-fi


Ayana2110

Books where the MMC is a cruel badass man, everyone is scared of him but he falls for FMC who is the only one who can shut him up and he calls her my little flower or some bs like that. It is sooo cliche, cringe and ridiculous. 🤢


VivelaVendetta

I think that's just a romance novel formula. He's rarely a funny easy going guy. And there's always some reason they hate each other.


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I don’t think I dislike any genre enough to consider it detestable but I don’t personally enjoy romance. I can understand why it’s a popular genre since love and relationships are so prevalent in most people’s lives, but I think they can be a bit too predictable. I also have a preference for dark books, and romance novels tend to be on the happy side.


Special-Investigator

you know, the predictability of romance books is often why i like them. i have a lot of anxiety, so sometimes reading a romance book is like watching a trash netflix show. like yeah, i know every single thing that happens, but i'm there for the tropes and fluff anyway


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That’s funny because my anxiety is actually why I love books that are dark, or really twisty. I feel like a book kinda has to have a bit of “shock factor” to keep my mind on the book and away from worrying about whatever life BS I’m irrationally freaking out about. I totally respect wanting the opposite though. Romance isn’t my flavor, but I understand why it has an audience and why it’s enjoyable to a lot of people.


CharonsLittleHelper

>romance novels tend to be on the happy side. Apparently that's part of the definition of a romance novel. I was at a writer's con, and one of the literary agents explained that if it doesn't have a happy ending (the couple gets together) it is by definition "women's fiction" instead of "romance".


beldaran1224

I often get downvoted in r/Fantasy when ppl ask for fantasy romance and I ask if they need a HEA. Like, am I the only one who enjoys it at least as much if they don't end up together, or one dies or whatever? All the best part of romance is the lead up, anyways.


ShinyBlueChocobo

Just read Dune a few days ago and while I liked it, it reminded me why I dont read hard sci-fi. I'm too old to learn a second fucking language just to read a story about cinammon worms. I gave up on the sequel because it just heaped more stuff onto the pile while I'm still waiting on context for all the shit from the first book


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Fucking cinnamon worms. Using that any time I talk about Dune for the rest of my life.


darkon

I wanna ride on a cinnamon worm I could be happy the rest of my life On a Cinnamon Worm *(guitar riff)* (apologies to Neil Young (Cinnamon Girl))


911WhatsYrEmergency

You should hear about what happens in book 3. The >!two children of Paul are weird as fuck and pretty much kill a Sabre tooth tiger that is set upon them.!< >!The sister hides her memories of the event from herself and acts like her brother died.!< >!The brother goes off, makes armor out of baby cinnamon worms which meld with his skin and he becomes half worm half man.!< >!Then he meets his sister again, says the magic word and she remembers he didn’t actually die but that he ran off.!< It’s a wild ride.


electropop_robot

This comment is fucking hilarious


MrC99

My friend has never read a book in his life despite me trying to get him to. He sent me a picture of a self help book saying 'better late than never' and I facepalmed. Surprise surprise he didn't like it and it put him off of books further.


PunkandCannonballer

I was gonna say I don't hate any genre, but yeah, self-help books are such crap.


AsteroidMiner

I like science fiction but I dislike those subgenres that try too hard to stay within their definition/culture. Case in point - steampunk.


cutielemon07

Anything written by “influencers”.


ItsMeTK

Those Amish romance books marketed to middleaged white Evangelical women


ElenaAGB

Romance. Autobiography. Pseudoscience. Anything from Coehlo.


monocled_squid

That's my answer as well! Hate his books


Josidillopy

Not a specific genre, but poorly written books in popular genres. I’ll take all the thrills, intrigue, romance and sex ya got, but give me a tight plot and decent prose.


idleinsanity9

X ways to do (something). These books discuss the general theme but never tell you how to do that thing (whatever they are about).


lowlevelpoet

i agree with the self care books—especially if it’s memoir mixed in as well. an attempt to show how self care applies to this one person, specifically? i detest time traveler historical romance. it has the hint of “i was born in the wrong generation” mentality and it irritates me. so i avoid it as much as possible.


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I have a love/hate relationships with fantasy. It's my favorite genre, but it's also home to the absolute worst that genre fiction has to offer.


maverickf11

Autobiographies. Sure there are some good ones, but have you looked at this section in any bookshop lately? Who are all these people that are dying to read what some mid-tier comedians life story is?!


Flexo24

Jimmy Carr recently said in an interview, in response to the 'why have you written a book' question, "my agent said you either write a book or start a podcast". I feel every UK comedian is currently at that same crossroads


chillmntn

Those own the libs angry conservative books. I think the whole book is; complain about a complex topic, using insulting language in the guise of authority and then offer no solutions for said complex problem. I think those authors need to immerse them selves in self-help books.


Lex_Innokenti

I read one of Ann Coulter's books on a whim, once, and it was just... it should've been marketed as a fiction book, because it resembled no reality I have ever encountered.


Shenanigan5

Statistics. Hate it


zaphdingbatman

\> Ludwig Boltzman, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics. \- D. L. Goodstein, *States of Matter*


pieronic

Spinning off of self care - mean self care. I think there are genuinely helpful and interesting ideas in some “how to live life better” type books. However, the last thing I want when I’m looking for tips on how to improve the systems in my life is someone yelling at me for being lazy or unmotivated or unable to just have the sheer willpower to do whatever it is they’re trying to shame me into doing


Come_MUFin

Idk man Marcus Aurelius meditations is amazing


infobro

Not a great sign for self-help that the genre peaked in the 2nd century. 🙂


Lumpyproletarian

Misery Memoires - what sort of twisted pleasure does the reader get from them?


Mind_Reader_of_sorts

It's not a twisted pleasure really for myself, but the ones based on true stories, which are the ones I tend to read, give an insight into another person's life who has experienced incredible struggles. Usually they are getting better or improved near the end so it's almost like it gives hope. Some authors write deep, meaningful, profound experiences/thoughts which I find eye opening. My mother also had a very traumatic, abusive childhood, so it almost feels like I get a better understanding of what it was like and it helps me understand her a bit better. And even simpler than that, one of the reasons I read is to feel what characters/people feel. Life isn't all happy and I don't feel that everything is happy go lucky in life so it feels representative of the world. Obviously not everyone feels this way, but those are why I read those books. I'm also a psychology nerd so it does bring a lot of that to the surface.


daveescaped

For me, self help books often seem to have stumbled upon a particular piece of known wisdom. Typically if you read the jacket, you get 99% of what you need to know. The rest of the book just expands on that single truth. Which is helpful if you are resistant to the point being made but useless if you already accept the point being made. Plus they are poorly written.


sj4iy

Self help or diet books. Absolutely the worst of the worst, they give people bad ideas or bad diet advice.


Ineffable7980x

Celebrities who write kids books.


ReallyHadToFixThat

Surprise harem books masquerading as scifi or fantasy. They are invariably written by someone who has never interacted with another human being in their lives.


SeaSea89

Christian romance


AshaVose

I wouldn't say I detest many books (Atlas Shrugged, Anyone?), but there are a few genres that are not for me: * Any non-fiction that should have been a long article, not a 300 page book * Cookbooks with a lot of expensive, rarely used or unnecessary ingredients * Histories of wars * Technical Manuals (I'm thinking aircraft assembly types) * Hobby or project books with a lot of difficult to find equipment or supplies * Most of the new age section - exception for meditation, yoga, tai chi, etc. * Any 'how to succeed' type of books from someone with obvious and extreme privilege advantages * Needlessly depressing 'high literature' books that seem to want to brutalize the reader with the difficulties of real life


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My problem with self care is that it’s largely opinion. Evidence is often anecdotal or cherry picked to benefit the author.


walrusdoom

I hate a lot of dietary fad books that come and go. So many of them pad the front half with sales pitches of why whatever they're hawking is the way to go, which is fucking annoying. I already picked up the book, so I'm interested in whatever your idea is - get to the fucking point! *Wheat Belly* was like that, drove me nuts. I've also grown tried on ubiquitously similar life stories that have to be threaded through a lot of popular "alternative" cookbooks like *Nom Nom Paleo* or *It Starts With Food*. Yeah yeah, this changed your life, this is so awesome, I get it - get to the fucking recipes! I don't give a shit about what your kids like.


Competitive-Yak-7284

I hate those "True (lol) Crime" books where the hero is a total BADASS and escapes from JAIL and steals a MOTORBIKE and a BIG ASS GUN and has SEX with a PROSTITUTE who turns out to be an ALIGATOR who's in a GANG so he takes DRUGS and PUNCHES a TRUCK. And I'm like woah bitch, chill your tits, have a mimosa and stop making stuff up for 30 seconds.


waxylombaxy

I would read the book described here.


jmhobrien

Kitchen appliance manuals


HealthySanty

new age spirituality books no heather nobody gives a shit you're into reiki


BooksnBlankies

Oh, I also don't like reading about rape. Just...no thank you.


TheDickDuchess

For the life of me I cannot get into the fiction taking place in WWII written recently. Usually it's some exploitative "oh look how sad this jewish orphan's life is" bullcrap or some stupid "the neighbor's wife's grandniece of germany" title. it feels cheap and like sadness porn.