Throwing a book in the bin !

I've never read The Road.
Might have to now, though.

They made a film based on the novel MissA. It was a very bleak, dark watch.

Thanks.
I didn't know that.

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Ellet

I have only once binned a book, it was by Martina Cole. It was horrific. I love a good murder/mystery/thriller but this was just gratuitous violence. I binned it because I didn’t want anyone else to read it.
I once took a bag of books to a charity shop, Barnardo’s, they refused to take them. Our local hospice shop took them gladly. Guess who gets my business now?

I am finding that my q local hospice shop is getting very picky about books, and other items. I thought charity shops were glad of anything they can sell on, but the shop (in Kent) turned its nose up in no uncertain terms! I should add that the items were clean and looked like new so I don’t know what their problem was. Perhaps they just didn’t like me!

Charity shops are donated so many books that their store-rooms are flooded with them.

Allsorts

I have felt like throwing a few away as they are so bad, one was Angela's Ashes, so depressing. You couldn't pay me to read Jilly Cooper or Jackie Collins. I pass unwanted books to a charity shop as others might like them.

I think I'm going to have to come and get Angela's Ashes out of your bin Allsorts, I really liked that book even if it was a catalogue of misery. I'll let you keep Jackie Collins in the bin though her stuff sounds like trash so probably where it belongs. Not sure about Jilly Cooper, I'll read one and reserve judgement as to whether that gets lobbed as well.

I don’t throw books in the bin, but give them to charities. My bugbear are those books ‘written ‘ by celebrities. The last I was given as a gift , Shirley Ballas ( plus one other) ‘ Murder on the Dance Floor ‘. Badly written, dreadful plot and characters.
I feel so sorry for new writers who have no real hope of a good publisher, as all seem to go for the ‘celebs’ and therefore high sales.

I was reading an excellent book that had been a real slow burner.

I'd got to the point where it was absolutely gripping, when it fell down behind my exes chest of drawers, then life took a series of twists and turns, and I never found out what happened.

There is a difference between a sad book, even a desperately sad one, and a depressing book, don't you think? Something about whether the courage and resilience of the human spirit features at all, or whether there is a curmudgeonly, grudging sort of gloom pervading everything. I had a lot of difficulty finishing "Gone Girl", "the addictive no 1 bestseller" by Gillian Flynn. Not that it was altogether grim, but the sheer spite of the Girl in question was chilling - as it was meant to be - and it wasn't too difficult to guess the twist before the ending. It's still on my shelf, but I definitely don't intend to pass it on. Chilling!