Has anyone read a book that was so bad that you were mad at it like, “what the heck did I just read?”
Has anyone read a book that was so bad that you were mad at it like, “what the heck did I just read?”
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Jays journal. Just wasnt a fan
yes. Usually, they are the ones that end prematurely. (because if they are just a bad book, I”ll stop reading before chapter 5.)
Gone Girl. The ending left me furious.
Agreed.
Did it end like the movie?
@Lilly, I did not see the movie. I always read the book first.
Same!!!!
Yes. And once i was a moron and thought it really wasn’t that bad and read it a second time!
I’ve had it happen. I don’t finish it. It gets to the point where I just stop.
We need to talk about Kevin.
Yes, it was part of a Melanie Shawn series which I was reading in order. Around book 8 or 9 there was a story about a nurse and the youngest of 3 brothers. The series had a bit more steam then I like but this book, if I skipped all the steam I read maybe 20 pages. It was out of character for the series. I was actually angry with the books.
Many times. 🙁
The young elites. What a shit show ??
I tried listening to it and the girl reading it drove me crazy!
Ugh. I hated it so much!!
Ugh i hate bad narrators!
I’ve read some I didn’t care for the story it didn’t flow or it was just terrible but I usually don’t mention those because who knows someone else might just love it.
Peter Strain Ghost Story
Yes ..but did not read the whole book
The Klone and I by Danielle Steel
That was just a stupid book
@Chrissie Wasn’t it????? Like REALLY bad!!!!!!
Hated it. Such a stupid concept!
The Pearl by John Steinbeck. Just…..I would never light a book on fire, but I came close.
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Anything by Polish author Żeromski.
You tried more than one? Well you tried.
“Przedwiośnie” was horrible. “Popioły” was slightly less worse. I gave up after that.
Handmaid’s Tale
I wouldn’t say it was that bad, but then again it wasn’t that great either.
On my to read list – might have to rethink.
I think I was disappointed because I had very high expectations. The ending just wasn’t my style I guess.
Most of the hoopla over this book is people making a big, political production over it. Saying it could happen these days. ? so we should read it as a guide. I thought it was boring and horribly written.
while ignoring the fact it already is …
What already is?
Do not want to start a political or religious to-do at all. But some women on this planet must cover themselves from head to toe when going out, are not permitted to work, etc.
I was speaking from a US view standpoint. I’m aware of the turmoil in other parts of the world.
@Angela agreed.
I did not like it when I first read it. But overtime it grew on me. Made me think about things and that is always good.
The Temple by Matthew Reilly was one of the worst books I ever read, and that is saying a lot.
Adultery. Paulo Coelho. ?
50 shades…Several hours of my life I’ll never see again.
Seven Black Diamonds
If I finished it, it wasn’t so bad. Life is too short to waste on such books though.
Gone Girl. I was told that it was a psychological character study. Yeah, right.
Me too!
Totally agree!! Want my time back from that read
Yes! Didn’t like it at all, so didn’t watch the movie.
Lisey’s Story by SK…. It drove me mad with every page that i read…
Twilight and the davinci code ?
Agree with you on Twilight. So boring! ?
Ugh Oasis by Dima Zales. I tried so hard with that one, too.
Wild Animus. I don’t know what sort of drugs the author was on while writing it, but they obviously weren’t good ones.
Betwixt by Tara Bray Smith?
game of thrones. outlander.
And I wasted more time than I should have hoping gabaldon learned how to write well…
Too many times last year…?
The teardrop books. I read both of them hoping they would get better but they NEVER did. It was just so badly written and weird…. @Stephanie @Alli
Handmaids Tale, Evermore series.
Girl on the train?
What pathetic useless characters. They all could have gotten run over by the train and not been missed.
Yes!!!!! Just read an investigative book written by journalist reporting on a crime that had happened in 2016 in my country. Got to the end… the sentencing/ verdict only scheduled for this year!! ARE YOU KIDDING?????? Very frustrating. Excellent reporting though.
I felt that way when I finished the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night.
Noooo! What didn’t you like? (Not judging just curious)
I just went and saw the play. Was so well done
I couldn’t stand the parents. I was having some problems with my kiddo so it might have been the wrong time in my life.
Yes the parents definitely irritated me too. Even in the play i thought they were a joke lol
I wanted to crawl in the book and drop kick the mom! Dad wasn’t much better.
??? same!
Yesssss The Accident Season. UGH.
Lincoln in the Bardo.
Why? I am reading it now. Not sure about it yet.
Yes, please tell us why. My husband gave me that book, but I still didn’t start it. He always gives me strange, acclaimed books ? So I was waiting until I would feel in the mood for a book like that. Was it that bad?
Lots of people love it but I couldn’t bear it. Probably because of the way it is set out and there were far too many characters. I thought that it would mostly be about Lincoln and a study of his grief. Well it just wasn’t what I expected…..don’t want to say too much more as I don’t want to give any spoilers. Please don’t let me put anyone off reading it. Like I said, many people have loved it and this is just my own personal opinion.
On a seperate note……I am always incredibly disappointed in Man Booker winners. For me they never live up to the hype. The only one I have ever enjoyed was Possession by AS Byatt.
Are all those supposed to be snippets from other books?
I don’t think so…..I think it’s an original work.
@Linda Just wondering who all those are supposed to be.
No idea….I just found them annoying…lol.
@Linda me too, but I shall try to finish.
Beautiful Disaster was that book for me. Made me mad. Got rid of the book and i never do that lol. I dont have many books i DNF or hated but this one tops it
For me, it was hands down Thirteen Reasons Why—I hate that book with a passion!
Golden Hill! goshhhhh and ‘Swing Times’ by Zadie Smith…just boring
Yes. I started out liking Swing Time, but it just went on and on and the ending seemed forced and abrupt.
I thought it was only me ;)It was my first book by her so I’m not sure whether it is Zadie’s writing or that only book
Mine too.
Never finished reading Aleph by Paolo coelho. I really struggled with the concept. Never quite understood what it was about or why it made it to newyorks’ bestseller list
Flea palace ??♀️
The book “ the sinner “ it was crap compared to the Netflix show
That’s me yesterday!!! But I can’t help, as a bookworm I HAVE TO finish it
The Coma by Alex Garland (author of The Beach, which was fantastic).
I just didn’t understand it. I gave it to my mum & she wasn’t impressed either.
Yes from memory i was confused as!
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept by Elizabeth Smart. A pity party in writing!
Every Last Lie by Mary Kubica. I was so looking forward to it but was soo mad and disappointed by the time I finished. ?
Colleen Hoover´s books. I was sooooo disappointed. 🙁
I never get that far. I’ll stop reading it and move to something better – life’s to short and there are too many books I want to read.
I sometimes hope it all makes sense at some point. If I like the characters and I think the story has some promise I’ll sometimes stick it out. Usually I find the author had a great idea, a great premise, but was somehow unable or unwilling to utilize it for a really good story. I wish I knew what some of the authors were thinking.
Crazy House by James Patterson & Gabrielle Charbonnet
My sister’s keeper
Yes! A Winter’s Tale. The book was so random, disjointed and bizarre I rarely knew what was going on at all. It was SO BAD
The selection series! I self loathed through that whole mess.
The girl on the train
Throne of glass
Caraval
Second girl on the train. Just saw the movie…and of course that was better…only cus they left out all the boring repeated parts!!
I agree with the Caraval…:/ Oh, man, i wanted it to be sooo good! ? But nope. ?
Silver Girl by Elin Hilderbrand, also Truly, Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty (that one I couldn’t get past the first couple chapters).
I reviewed a book for an author where they had sex with a horse ? the author didn’t even warn me! WTF dude
Day of the Dolphin
An Abundance Of Katherine’s
totally agree!!!
Yes!!
No, I’ll stop reading it before I get to that point. Although there was one book I was so pissed about I walked it out to the trash can and threw it away. Immature of me since someone else may have enjoyed it – and I’m a writer myself so should know better! But. When I’m sane, I acknowledge that a book that evokes a strong response, even a bad one, must have something going for it!
i think im into it now?
Ashes, Ashes
The Fallen series and then I was just devastated the way the Divergent series ended oh and Game of thrones to be continued. I have a love hate relationship
Yes…but most people are fans of the book here
For me, it was The Old Curiosity Shop.
I’ve started reading some, but if I can’t get into it, I put them back on the shelf to try again later. If, after 3 tries I can’t finish, I donate it.
The Shack. I continued reading only because it was a gift.
That’s one I didn’t finish and it was donated after my first try at reading it.
Yes. Chanakya’s Chant
i am pilgrim. the writer himself destroyed the plot!
The Girl on the Train. Hated it. None of the characters were likeable.
The characters were so pathetic and useless they could have gotten run over by the train and not been missed.
Me too! Terrible.
Hated Girl on the Train!
Meant to respond to someone’s post and messed up.
Read only half of 50 Shades of Grey. Just couldn’t finish it.
Same
25 shades of grey then?
Everything everything
“The Keys to My Diary” by Ann Omasta; the diary premise attracted me to it, though the main character is a woman in her 40’s or so and I got tired of it when it got a little unbelievable in my opinion.
Fifty shades of grey ?
I’m so glad I didn’t buy it! I burrowed my friend’s to see if it’s woth buying the series and nope it definetly wasn’t.
Yes. The 2-4 twilight books. Hate me all u want. I liked the first one but after that i wanted my life back.
Many books I had to read for school… Wuthering Heights was one to which I subjected myself because it’s a classic – horrible, miserable people!
twilight, 50 shade, dead until dark
50 shades!!!!
The upside of unrequited. Just awful. I actually left a bad review and I never do that.
Oh yes. I was given a large book that was a real page turner. At a certain point it started to take quit a negative dive, but by then it was already a good way through. It only got worse. The ending was sickening and disgusting and I will never read that author again. I actually told the giver off, it was so very, very bad!
I want to know what book this is lol
Over a decade ago now so I cannot relate the title or author but only the pic on front of book. I would not recommend looking… made me feel nauseous for a long time.
curiosity is killing me though, and letting us avoid it.
Shittt. Curious rn
lol!!
The twilight series irritates the living crap out of me and has pretty much turned me off the paranormal romance genre. Read a few pages Of 50 shades and left it there. Absolute tripe.
Twilight was soo bad, but there are a lot of good paranormal romance series. I highly recommend Kim Harrison’s Hollows books, Kelley Armstrongs otherworld series, and Laurell K Hamilton, though her anita series bogs down in sex and polyamory it is getting hopefully better
@Nicole yaaaaas! Laurells anita blake series took a turn for the worst. She teases with the promise of a good plot and then its bogged with relationship crap. Aint nobody got time for that. Have you read Patricia Briggs?
Yup. Great author but doesn’t catch me like some of the others
Winning by Jack Welsh total trash
There’s been one or two.
Yeah
Fallen by Lauren Kate (I think that’s her name) and Hush, Hush. I was so frustrated with how much I disliked them.
I have to admit I finished 50 Shades… and have taught it in a writing class. I once had a class of 7 women all of whom read 50 shades over the Winter break. To a woman, they mentioned the poor writing, sentence and paragraph development. Soooo, as a class project, I had them rewrite portions of the book, and then we compared the real vs their versions.
It was a good exercise, and last term I met two of the women who had been in that class, and they remarked on how that exercise made them better writers and readers.
That actually sounds really awesome
That’s a great example of making lemonade
Plenty of times :/
A Discovery of Witches. Never, NEVER read anything so bad. The only bright side was that I was hugely entertained by the 1-star reviews on Amazon. Hilarious, and right-on. This one captured my experience almost exactly:
“I am fascinated with Oxford, UK, the Bodleian, the Ashmolean, medieval castles… I wanted to like this book… it’s right in my wheel-house. I don’t want to be mean, but it was just awful. I almost never put down a book before finishing it. I feel committed once I’ve begun. I just simply could not go on with this one.
Thrilled to have it end and am glad to report it was utterly stupid to the finish.”
I say “almost exactly” because I did finish it. It was like watching a car wreck. I couldn’t believe how awful it was and just kept staring.
Constantly
Prisoner of night and fog is the sequel of an awesome book ( conspiracy of blood and smoke). Everything that happens was fir nothing, it’s even more painful considering how good the first one was
Totally! Probably the worst was Red Riding Hood by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright or The Hanging Girl by Eileen Cook
Cold Mountain
The harry potter book that was 77% camping and when snape died I threw the book across the room.
Twilight, 50 Shades, & Naked Lunch…..
Yeah i was shocked my friends just loooooved twilight. I was like “I still don’t get it.” I was in Goodwill recently in the books, and there were so many twilight books!!
I still haven’t brought myself to read 50 shades. I refuse to see the movies.
Yeah, usually I can’t even finish those kind.
The Gender Game
50 Shade of Grey. Absolute tripe. I was given a copy by a friend who said it was fantastic. Read about 50 pages and could not read anymore. Poorly written, misogynistic shite.
Misogyny and pedophilia.
Yes! The Woman in the Window.
Really? My husbands friend just told him to tell me bout this book. He said it was great and he thought I would like it. Should I bot even bother>
You may like it. I found it confusing and depressing. I didn’t realise it had so much drug and alcohol abuse in it. And there wasn’t one character in it I liked.
I do not finish books that are bad. If they can’t pass my 50 page test, it’s adios
Life is too short to read bad books, drink bad coffee, and knit With ugly yarn
If they are THAT bad, I probably won’t finish reading them *unless* they are required for school or something. I did kinda feel like that after The Old Man and the Sea, but that was actually fun to read (in a weird way), even though it was like, “HUH?!?!”.
Yeah, One hundred year of solitude ????
Yes! But I kind of had to force myself into reading it since my mom said that wasting money is bad, so I did have to read. And also I might have hated it because my mom was the one who chose to buy the book for me without my assistance
I read a book to at least half way – if the story hasn’t captured me by then or the characters/writing irritates me I give up and return the book for a refund … usually by e-books
Yes when in High School you were made to read books for English class and the one book I really hated to read was called “The Old Man and the Sea” it was so boring and stupid too!!!
Yes, just recently – Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt. Totally NOT what I thought it would be, and not in a good way.
I think I’ve done that only a couple of times. Usually I give a book about 20 pages, and if it hasn’t grabbed me by then, it goes on the “don’t bother” pile. (Luckily rather small.) There are exceptions to my 20-page rule, usually when a friend tells me a book is good, but takes a while to get into.
Granny Dan….. It was the worst work of Danielle Steel
If I stay
The Last Time They Met.
Yes. Thankfully, unless they’re stupid popular I can usually forget them.
Ghost girl, hell I cant even bring myself to finish the last chapter
Winter’s Tale. That was the first time I ever got mad at having spent money and a lot of time reading such a terrible book. It was only like $3 because it was a a book sale at the library. I still felt it was a waste of money.
will not seek it out!!
I just started reading it :'(
Beautiful Disaster by what’s her face. Can’t even remember the name of the author. Complete and utter drivel. Also “Ugly Love” by Colleen Hoover and “White Fur” by….eh…i forgot her name too but it was in botm club. TERRIBLE BOOK!
1q84 takes the cake. Plus is the longest book I’ve ever read
Twilight. It had a big sticker on it saying “You wont be able to put this down” and it was shelved with the “Season Must Reads”. What made me cross was that it was sold to me as a vampire book. It wasnt and, no matter how you wrap it, it never will be. Made me so mad!