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9 books you can live without

Not to be mistaken with books that you should not read...

1) The Hobbit - We all love Lord of the Rings, and that is a must read series, however the Hobbit doesn’t quite live up to some of J.R.R. Tolkien  over works. Would Lord of the Rings be less without the hobbit...? No, not really.

2) To Kill a Mockingbird - Yes it is a classic, but that doesn’t automatically make it something you HAVE to read. And personally I wasn’t that impressed with the book.

3) Divergent - I’ll admit I enjoyed the read but I wouldn’t feel as though I missed out if I hadn’t read it. It is a young adult dystopian novel and there are better ones out there.

4) Eclipse (From the Twilight Series) - First, as a side note, there are a lot of books called Eclipse I hadn’t realized how popular a title that was. Now Twilight has its place in the world of fiction, and I’ll admit that New Moon was awful, but Eclipse just didn’t work as well for me and started to make the series feel long and drawn out.

5) Breaking Dawn (Also from the Twilight Series) - Pretty much the same as Eclipse, only this one was a little worst to me because by the time I got to it I was already tired of the series and didn’t really want another one.

6) 50 Shades of Gray - The only thing it has going for it is shock value and sex, which both are done better by Game of Thrones. Honestly, people complain about 50 Shades of Gray being to risque?

7) Moby Dick - The whale doesn’t die and he is a whale immune to Harpoons and nothing really comes out of the story except for the life lesson don’t tick off whales or they will destroy your boat. 

8) The Elite - This one is only so high on my list because the other two books in the series are so good. There is one part in this (the second book) you need to know or read and beyond that you can pretty much just skip this and move on to the third and final book of the Trilogy. Th Elite is just back and forth between liking and hating the guy we all know the main character is going to end up with, and really unnecessary. 

9) The Hunger Games - Look, if you want kids fighting each other watch Battle Royale, if you want an educated look at a society that puts people into groups read Plato’s The Republic. Enough said.