I don't start reading books expecting I'll dislike them. But I do read classics and sometimes go into them expecting it could be a difficult read, and then be positively surprised. An example of that was To kill a mockingbird, which I found to be a total pageturner.

He said that in 2013 in an interview and in 2015 in a comment on his blog but as far as I know, he hasn't brought it up since then.

By now, he may look at it differently.

The Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb has a male protagonist and have some romance in them.

I think this question deserves it's own thread.

Personally, I read the book before watching the movie, or read the book and never watch the movie, or watch the movie but never read the book, but what I don't like is reading the book after watchig the movie. Usually when I read a book it feels like the things are happening to me, but when I watch a movie I feels like the things are happening to someone else and I'm just there on the sideline. When reading the book after watching the movie I can't get into it the way I'm used to.

But I've seen many people say that when they read a book it also feels like they're watching a movie, and in that case I think the order wouldn't matter.

There's nothing wrong with it in general, but for me having the books in my house would make me feel like I have to read all of them asap and would make reading into a chore. For me reading should be about the journey, not the destination.

Personally what I do is, I do have a TBR list on Goodreads, but I usually buy 8-10 books at a time. Then I get new ones when I'm almost done with my 8-10 books. This way there are always unread books on my nightstand to choose from, but I don't have the unread books stacking up and making me feel guilty about not yet reading them.

But if you're a young person looking to fill their first bookshelf, I can imagine how that's different for you!

Depending on how vague the title is, it is also probably being checked out by people just innocently looking for ways to deal with their trans or genderquestioning children, and then possibly corrupting their mind with these ideas. That may be even worse.

I have no experience with target clothes, but I've heard people say the same about h&m clothes, which also usually last me 4-7 years with some outliers where for instance I have a 2010 pair of sweatpants that are still going strong and on the other hand sometimes a seam goes loose in the first wash, but those are exceptions; usually I wear clothes until the fabric is pilling. So I do wonder: what do you do with your clothes? Do you crawl through a lot of tight spaces? Are you wearing a size too small? Does your washing machine have spikes on the inside? Do you only have 2 outfits so that you're washing them every other day?

Edit: I realised that my comment could be taken in a mean way, but I hope it isn't, because I don't mean it like that, I am curious about the actual answer, but I also didn't sleep well and am maybe not wording my words right.