I liked that Holden wanted to “save the children” by catching them as they ran thru the rye so they wouldn’t fall over the cliff. But that desire didn’t show up until the very end.
‘The signature of all things’ after 200 pages I havent decided yet if I liked it. Nothing had really happened. 200 more pages of nothing… and then it ends with a 50 yr old virgin giving her late husband’s Tahitian lover a blowjob…then going back to study moss. I was so pissed I had invested that much time in it.
MiddleSex … can’t say I hated it, however I struggled with every chapter!! Bouncing from one story to the next, no complete thoughts. It was all over the place and honestly just ended… no clear reason why the book was even written!
Me too!! I just couldn’t get through it without having to read whole paragraphs over or looking back to see who this person was or where he was going with it! Without giving spoilers, did you feel the whole part of his gender decision was lost!!
@Neelma that is why I thought to try it so many people reading saying great got half way through and saw no point to the story so didn’t finish which I never do always try to finish but just couldnt
Was just coming on to say The Goldfinch too. I was never so happy to finish a book. It’s rare I give up on a book but I came close to it with this one. I felt like I was wading though it.
I kept thinking that it has to get better because it is a classic, so I read through to the end. All I got out of it was how to butcher whale after whale after whale.
So I totally blame my pregnancy hormones for enjoying these books… because the second I got to book club I had nothing but bad things to say. lol I didn’t realize how much i hated it until I started talking about it! Terrible writing. HOWEVER from a victimology perspective, a better author could have made christian’s story into something.
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept, by Elizabeth Smart. A pity party in writing. Autobiographical account of how a grown woman fell for a poet, paid for him and his wife to come to the USA, and then carried on like a sulking teenager because he wouldn’t leave his wife for her!
Rather than read this epic sulk, just listen to “Love’s Unkind” by Donna Summer. It tells a similar tale in just 3 or 4 minutes and saves you a few hours!
I’ve read manuals I liked better than that book. So infuriating! I get why, there’s a lesson to be learned from it….but I can’t stop the fury I feel when I think of it lol
I enjoyed it, understand what you are saying but that may have been part of the point of the story … and interesting insight into barely functioning alcoholism.
I like unlikable protagonists. Makes it feel more real. People are flawed. Some people are alcoholics, some are addicted to other drugs, and some have mental illnesses. Those uncomfortable topics and points of view are an interesting insight into that life, in my opinion.
So far? I’m forcing myself to try to get through The Handmaids Tale. It’s SO BORING!! Never read a book I hated, but this one is definitely on the bottom, rofl.
At first I thought it was supposed to be set in the olden days, then started reading it, find out its more along the lines of dystopian. The authors writing style is very boring, her characters are even more boring than her writing. I can only read a little bit at a time, then pick up another book between, I just can’t sit straight through it. But I’ve never not finished a book, so I’ll muscle through it, then never pick it up again, lol.
The Light of the Fireflies by Paul Pen. It’s about a family trapped in a basement sealed off from the world; the protagonist is the family’s youngest child. By the end of the book the only family member that I didn’t hate (besides the protagonist and his nephew) was his older sister, and she was completely vilified and abused… not just by her family, but by the author. She was portrayed as worthy of abuse, imprisonment, and murder because of a mistake she made at the age of 14. She came across as hateful but frankly there was no way to blame her. The book also involved a rather disturbing rape of an incapacitated girl by the mentally impaired brother in the family.
Glad I am not the only one. Gave up after 3 chapters, every character (to me) felt overdone, spoilt or just boring. What was the hype about? Maybe I could applaud the writing that I could get so fed up with the characters. Still puzzled
If I’m ever hating a book, I stop reading it. Then I feel like I can’t really judge whether I REALLY hated the book or not—because I didn’t really read it.????
Right? I love this series- but I want to go to Hogwarts myself. I want Draco Malfoy to be mine….. And I want to meet Snape and Hermione and Luna…. I want my own wand.
The Girl on the Train, Throne of Glass, Caraval, Under the Skin. Are the ones I finished that I hated. Hating a book isn’t enough to stop reading it, as a writer they make for great research.
An Unseemly Wife by EB Moore. I finished that book and got it out of my house the next morning. and I hoard books. Not that it was bad. I just couldn’t handle the sadness of it.
All Gillian flynn! I found her books to be either too boring or too predictable and didn’t enjoy any of them. I actually got quite ? because it came recommended by a Chapters employee so I spent the $. Hated them all! Waste of time & $ imo.
Atlas Shrugged Alas, I read it at an age when I felt one should always finish a book–even a poorly reasoned morass of awful writing, unbelievable characters and endless didactic rants by someone who couldn’t pass elementary logic if her life depended on it.
Personal experience? I had a 17 year old tell me because of that garbage, she believes suicide is BRAVE AND NOBLE. Let that sink in for a few… Not to mention, the feedback I’ve heard from highschool teachers about how students are buzzing about the sensationalism and notoriety, but not the tragedy or what they can do to help. Throughout the story there is a relentless message that your life sucks, it never gets better, NOBODY cares, and you may as well kill yourself because life is hard and you shouldn’t have to struggle. There is NO OTHER OPTION offered.
There’s recommended guidelines for portraying suicide, to avoid encouraging people to kill themselves, and it is as if asher read those guidelines and wrote the exact opposite. There are reasons this book is feared by mental health professionals… and you will NEVER hear me praise something which condones and promotes children harming themselves.
Lord of the rings series. So much random shit that had nothing to do with the story at hand. I was afraid it was never going to end. And Sam wise was a fucking ass hole. There were parts smeagol was trying nope sam just beat him some more. Little ass hole.
Time Cat by Lloyd Alexander, it was just so boring when the premise was so interesting but bad story put to it. “Teardrop” & “Waterfall” by Lauren Kate. Again boring the premise was interesting but the writing was horrible. It had promise but it just fell flat on its face.
Also, Roseblood by AG Howard. I loved her Splintered series. But as a huge Phantom of the Opera fan, this was just a huge disappointment. Nothing how a retelling of something that’s epic, mysterious and tragically beautiful at the same time. I felt no connection to the main character and the concept of everything was just weird and the guy didn’t feel like the Phantom.
Every Melissa Kantor book. Her story lines are predictable. Her style is just so unbearably boring that it took me forever to read the whole thing. I wish I read the reviews first on her books before instinctively buying them.
Both were true crime stories. I don’t remember the exact titles for neither, but one was about satanic members luring a friend and fellow satanic worshiper and then murdering him. I don’t remember what bothered me so much. My guess is that they must have killed and tortured animals (Hey, it’s been a while!). I also think that I didn’t like the victim and it bothered me to not be able to sympathize. It may have been Say You Love Satan (about Ricky Kasso & Gary Lauwers)
The second was about Shirley Wolf and Cindy Collier who murdered 85-year-old Anna Brackett. I was raised by my mother and my grandmother. Gramma and I were very close. I was horrified reading this and kept seeing my sweet grandma’s face. It was too heart-wrenching! It doesn’t help that my Gramma’s name was also Anna. I believe the title may have been Fun.
Orange is the New Black…maybe because I read ‘Hotel Kerobokan’ and ‘Forget You Had a Daughter’ before it…so it seemed to be a little bit boring in comparison
I respectfully disagree. It’s a book about what happens when a person thinks they know what’s best for another, which can lead to all kinds of complications. I have a theory about books, that when it’s not the right time for you to read a certain book, you’ll get nothing out of it. I’d recommend trying it again someday and ask yourself when you’re reading it if you’ve ever known someone like Emma.
She writes about the society of her time and women’s place in it, the injustices of class systems, all kinds of things, but she has a subtle sense of humor. Jerry Seinfeld, I’m not crazy about, but Jane Austen, I am.
Little Women….but just the tail end of it. It made me so mad that I stopped reading it so I really don’t know how it actually ends. And Breaking Dawn(Twilight) the worst ending to a series. I completely disregard that book in it’s entirety. (Both books ended with the wrong people being together IMO)
I haven’t read it, but I’ve read excerpts and there are so many things wrong with the series.
The writing is atrocious! I have never read anything SO bad. Reading porn is fine, but I’d rather read something written well.
The depiction of a BDSM relationship is horribly wrong. A real master/slave relationship is nothing like that.
I just don’t understand how something this awful caught on when there are huge stacks of books with similar subject matter that are well written. They don’t have to be accurate to types of relationships by any means, but can we be honest about fantasy.
Old Man and the Sea I hated it so much! It was just so boring to me. I know it was supposed to be metaphors and all of that, but I just wanted the man and the fish to both die.
The son of sands by tahar benjelloun, it’s a story by wich the writer intends to talk about sexuality, taboo and sexism in moroccan society, but first there is an overdone of the “muslims are sexualy obsesed and are hypocrit” cliché but i chosed to endure that cliché, what really made me stop the book it it’s numerous metaphores that goes nower, i felt like the writter was trying to give me the impression that his book was way deeper than it really is, in french it’s called “branlette intelectuelle” it’s the fact of trying to give deep and philosophical meaings to things that doesn’t have it
I hated trying to read 50 Shades of Gray, only read about 10 pages before I gave up, but I love the fact that it became a best seller because if something that bad can do that well then that means maybe my stuff has a shot.
The Hating Game by Sally Thorne. It was billed as an epic battle of the sexes hate to love romance and it failed spectacularly on every. The main female character was an unlikeable twit and the author choosing to narrate the entire book from her first person perspective was a terrible idea.
The eleven thousand rods by Guillaume Apollinaire.
It was horrible and disgusting!!! I only bought it because the back cover said that Pablo Picasso believed it was tha greatest book of all time.man he was twisted!!!!
Just looked it up because I never heard of it. It references Marquis DeSade, that’s enough said!! He was sexually psychotic, I can only imagine how icky the book was!!
Anything by John Saul; the plot and writing are good until the end of the book then it all goes to crap. I can’t threw one of his books across the room once, because of the terrible ending. It’s like he chokes.
I’ve read so many books where the endings do that! It’s like the whole book is amazing and then you get to the end and it’s like they didn’t know how to end it so they just cobbled something together! Why?!
I did not like “Falling into Place” (please don’t hate me for this, we all have our own opinions) IDK why I hate it, but I guess I just didn’t understand the story.
but thinking about it, I read about 3\4 and gave up, Journey to the center of the earth, too much geological terms about stones etc and had no clue what they were on about ??
Gone Girl and The Alchemist are both books I wish I hadn’t given into the hype on. GG was both predictable and ridiculous. The Alchemist was also not my thing.
Oh yeah I forgot about The Alchemist. I tried a sample chapter on Kindle and it was so uninteresting I quickly deleted it from my Kindle and apparently my brain too lol
Kresley Coles new m/m book. Its my fault as I bought it on auto pilot not realising it was a m/m romance got into the first few chapters before realing there was a lot of sausage and starfish action going on. Love gays but just not my cup of tea reading about his huge member slamming into his tight hairy vampiric balloon knot.
The Catcher in the Rye – the main protagonist, I found him to be an annoying little shit
So they didn’t catch you? ?
nope. Can’t remember why Catch 22 didn’t engage me
awww I love catcher in the rye lol
I liked that Holden wanted to “save the children” by catching them as they ran thru the rye so they wouldn’t fall over the cliff. But that desire didn’t show up until the very end.
Hitler’s book. I don’t even want to remember it existed.
How on Earth did u end up reading it?
I didn’t. I only said I hate even the idea of this book was ever written. I think it’s very rare and difficult to find.
Mein Kampf?
Yes, this is it.
It’s not rare. It’s quite easy to get a hold of.
Depends where you are. My ex got from the internet, he said it turned very hatefu, very fast.
Anatomy of a misfit- its shit. I cant concentrate on it. Its understandable but like it makes your thoughts wonder to something else.
Ms peregrines Peculiar children- i dont hate it but it was hard for me to dig in. I preferred the movie?
Same with Peregrin, the idea was better than the narration or story.
Yeah!
‘The signature of all things’ after 200 pages I havent decided yet if I liked it. Nothing had really happened. 200 more pages of nothing… and then it ends with a 50 yr old virgin giving her late husband’s Tahitian lover a blowjob…then going back to study moss. I was so pissed I had invested that much time in it.
I share your feelings about it.
I’ll definitely be skipping this one!??
@Siri good call! ?
MiddleSex … can’t say I hated it, however I struggled with every chapter!! Bouncing from one story to the next, no complete thoughts. It was all over the place and honestly just ended… no clear reason why the book was even written!
Wanted to like that book so bad! But it didn’t quite do it for me
Me too!! I just couldn’t get through it without having to read whole paragraphs over or looking back to see who this person was or where he was going with it! Without giving spoilers, did you feel the whole part of his gender decision was lost!!
Yes! It went on and on, but then rushed that important piece of the story
I really liked that book.
I love love love The Virgin Suicides, but Middlesex was just not the same. It was long and bloated and pretty uninteresting.
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson. Audio version. Found it very confusing and got to the point where just didn’t care anymore
Same! Eventually, I skipped to the end to know how it ended.
Acotar
@Neelma that is why I thought to try it so many people reading saying great got half way through and saw no point to the story so didn’t finish which I never do always try to finish but just couldnt
The Goldfinch, was too slow and boring. It’s sitting on my shelf, 26 pages left to be read, and I just can’t finish it.
Oh dear, I can feel the struggle. So close but yet so far.
I stopped reading after 302 pages. Too slow paced, though beautifully written.
So much minutiae…ugh! It gets the award for Micromanaged Book of the Year
Was just coming on to say The Goldfinch too. I was never so happy to finish a book. It’s rare I give up on a book but I came close to it with this one. I felt like I was wading though it.
Mobs Dick! I got tired of reading page after page about hoe to tie a rope.
What happened after the ship sank was more interesting anyway ?
I kept thinking that it has to get better because it is a classic, so I read through to the end. All I got out of it was how to butcher whale after whale after whale.
*how
50 shades , so poorly written
And all that blushing…
uugghhh?????
So I totally blame my pregnancy hormones for enjoying these books… because the second I got to book club I had nothing but bad things to say. lol I didn’t realize how much i hated it until I started talking about it! Terrible writing. HOWEVER from a victimology perspective, a better author could have made christian’s story into something.
Not a book I would want to read.
We Were Liars. So much hype and so cliche. ? wasn’t surprised by the end at all.
Aw, that’s on my list to read 🙁
Agree. This was lacklustre. Not awful, it just did nothing.
Little Bee and Pretty Girls. I don’t enjoy graphic scenes of senseless, brutal violence, torture, and cruelty.
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept, by Elizabeth Smart. A pity party in writing. Autobiographical account of how a grown woman fell for a poet, paid for him and his wife to come to the USA, and then carried on like a sulking teenager because he wouldn’t leave his wife for her!
Rather than read this epic sulk, just listen to “Love’s Unkind” by Donna Summer. It tells a similar tale in just 3 or 4 minutes and saves you a few hours!
A Discovery of Witches. I almost DNF at 500/688 pages, but decided to push through.
This review is NOT my own, but it perfectly sums up everything I found wrong with the book
. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/167323929
Same, but I didn’t finish. I really waited for this book and it was a total bummer.
The Pearl by John Steinbeck. If there was ever a book I would gleefully burn, it’s that one.
My least favorite Steinbeck so far.
I’ve read manuals I liked better than that book. So infuriating! I get why, there’s a lesson to be learned from it….but I can’t stop the fury I feel when I think of it lol
Girl on the Train. Interesting concept, but terrible humans. Had no sympathy for any of those garbage people and their garbage behavior.
I enjoyed it, understand what you are saying but that may have been part of the point of the story … and interesting insight into barely functioning alcoholism.
I like unlikable protagonists. Makes it feel more real. People are flawed. Some people are alcoholics, some are addicted to other drugs, and some have mental illnesses. Those uncomfortable topics and points of view are an interesting insight into that life, in my opinion.
Crime and Punishment. The main character plots to kill an old woman. I hated him. I didn’t finish.
Lord of the flies by William Golding. Read it at school many years ago.
I hated it at school, but read it again as an adult and loved / understood it better.
Uprooted. That is emotional abuse 101
Diary of an Oxygen Thief. First sentence is…I like to hurt girls….
First half of that book was great. Pretty interesting. After that it was shit, but that interesting first half made for good reading.
So far? I’m forcing myself to try to get through The Handmaids Tale. It’s SO BORING!! Never read a book I hated, but this one is definitely on the bottom, rofl.
At first I thought it was supposed to be set in the olden days, then started reading it, find out its more along the lines of dystopian. The authors writing style is very boring, her characters are even more boring than her writing. I can only read a little bit at a time, then pick up another book between, I just can’t sit straight through it. But I’ve never not finished a book, so I’ll muscle through it, then never pick it up again, lol.
Magnus chase I just couldn’t get myself to read it it’s EXACTLY like percy jackson but a different religion I just couldn’t
The secret. A book based on lies, false hopes and total nonsense.
Completely agree
Me too, interesting as an insight into human psychology though … as if the universe is there only for us …?
The Light of the Fireflies by Paul Pen. It’s about a family trapped in a basement sealed off from the world; the protagonist is the family’s youngest child. By the end of the book the only family member that I didn’t hate (besides the protagonist and his nephew) was his older sister, and she was completely vilified and abused… not just by her family, but by the author. She was portrayed as worthy of abuse, imprisonment, and murder because of a mistake she made at the age of 14. She came across as hateful but frankly there was no way to blame her. The book also involved a rather disturbing rape of an incapacitated girl by the mentally impaired brother in the family.
The Great Gatsby – hate it – most boring book I’ve ever read
Glad I am not the only one. Gave up after 3 chapters, every character (to me) felt overdone, spoilt or just boring. What was the hype about? Maybe I could applaud the writing that I could get so fed up with the characters. Still puzzled
I hated Gone Girl too, especially the way it ended. It really didn’t have an ending, it just ended. Lame.
Moby Dick…………way more than I wanted to know about blubber processing.
If I’m ever hating a book, I stop reading it. Then I feel like I can’t really judge whether I REALLY hated the book or not—because I didn’t really read it.????
I think hate is a strong word to use for books.
I agree with your thinking.
And I Darken
Soooo slow moving and very confusing with not way too much world building and not even character/plot development
Johnny Angel by Danielle Steel. It’s just pure cheese (not the good kind!), not my favorite style/voice, and just kitschy.
I stopped reading her books years ago. Her earlier books are great, but now it just seems like they are too predictable and canned.
Harry Potter… because WHERE’S MY LETTER!! ?
Right? I love this series- but I want to go to Hogwarts myself. I want Draco Malfoy to be mine….. And I want to meet Snape and Hermione and Luna…. I want my own wand.
I hated The Girl on the Train.
The Girl on the Train, Throne of Glass, Caraval, Under the Skin.
Are the ones I finished that I hated. Hating a book isn’t enough to stop reading it, as a writer they make for great research.
An Unseemly Wife by EB Moore. I finished that book and got it out of my house the next morning. and I hoard books. Not that it was bad. I just couldn’t handle the sadness of it.
Book I had to read – The Great Gatsby, I just hated everything about it.
Book I read for fun – Her Fearful Symmetry, just awful.
Omg the end of her fearful symmetry was just awful! The story was ok then it all just got lazy!!!!
Day of the triffids,hated it and the film.
I quite liked the book, the film was a bit naff.
I am most likely going to get lit up good for this one “The Great Gatsby ” F. Scott Fitzgerald why because I couldn’t stand the character
I didn’t like that one either
All Gillian flynn! I found her books to be either too boring or too predictable and didn’t enjoy any of them. I actually got quite ? because it came recommended by a Chapters employee so I spent the $. Hated them all! Waste of time & $ imo.
Wuthering Heights
I can’t really say, because any book I don’t like I quit reading …
The Shack. The characters of the trinity were too silly to be believable on any level.
The Scarlett letter. I hate the writing. The story is fine. I also didn’t like to Kill a Mockingbird.
White tiger and divergent
Gone Girl, because it suckers you in with good writing, but the characters are almost all horrible people. I need to like the protagonist at least!
Wolf Hall.
Twilight, 50 Shades, Fault in our stars
Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult. I’ve been trying to finish this book for about 4 years or so now. I have about 20 pages left.
Finish it already!!!!
I hated that too!
Working on it! Lol
@Susan glad I’m not the only one!
@Alicia I like some of JP’s books but not that one!
@Susan I’ve also enjoyed many of her books. I haven’t tried reading any others since this one though.
Agreed- that was the one about being gay, if I remember- thought she handled it in a very strange way.
Eat, pray, love. Never finished it!! Just couldn’t read it.
Same
Twilight…oh woe is me!!! Blah blah blah never made it past page 30.
Moby dick, Gone girl, Girls in the train, The fall…
The Poisonwood Bible. Never did get the hype.
Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Broth mortal instruments and infernal devices and vampire academy and house of night and red queen series
I understand House of Night but everything else are some of my favorites. But everyone has their opinions…
Same!!! Hate everything by Cassandra Clare
yay finally someone agreers
Atlas Shrugged Alas, I read it at an age when I felt one should always finish a book–even a poorly reasoned morass of awful writing, unbelievable characters and endless didactic rants by someone who couldn’t pass elementary logic if her life depended on it.
Wuthering Heights, loved it, hated it,
The Zahir by Paulo Coelho , absolute garbage
13 reasons why… Asher wrote a book to promote suicide.
I disagree. I think the book handled it very well. I haven’t watched the show however so I can’t speak to that.
Personal experience? I had a 17 year old tell me because of that garbage, she believes suicide is BRAVE AND NOBLE. Let that sink in for a few… Not to mention, the feedback I’ve heard from highschool teachers about how students are buzzing about the sensationalism and notoriety, but not the tragedy or what they can do to help. Throughout the story there is a relentless message that your life sucks, it never gets better, NOBODY cares, and you may as well kill yourself because life is hard and you shouldn’t have to struggle. There is NO OTHER OPTION offered.
There’s recommended guidelines for portraying suicide, to avoid encouraging people to kill themselves, and it is as if asher read those guidelines and wrote the exact opposite. There are reasons this book is feared by mental health professionals… and you will NEVER hear me praise something which condones and promotes children harming themselves.
50 shades – couldn’t wade through it. Awful writing
Especially the part with *oh my*. Fuxk that.
I agree
I can’t read Melville. He’s unreadable to me. I do hate his works.
Can’t remember the name but it had explicit sex scenes that i thought were unnecessary to the story
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson. The writing style was soooo hard to get through.
Catcher In The Rye. It seemed so….pointless.
It was the first time anyone described teenage angst so accurately, or even cared to acknowledge it.
I can see that point.
Pet Cemetery
Portnoy’s complaint…..it was obscene
Wicked. And The Wind and the Willows.
I read the Wind in the willows as an adult (didn’t like it as a child) and thought it was funny and charming.
The girl on the train (never understood why everyone loved it so much) Wicked (didn’t like the writing style)
I couldn’t finish The Girl on the Train. I wanted to like it, but I hated all of the characters!
To Kill a Mockingbird. Twilight.
All These Things I’ve Done by Gabrielle Zevin- didn’t like the writing style. And I might get shot for this but- Pride and Prejudice.
I hate Jane Austin period, so I understand the wrath of Jane lovers. Lol
Lord of the rings series. So much random shit that had nothing to do with the story at hand. I was afraid it was never going to end. And Sam wise was a fucking ass hole. There were parts smeagol was trying nope sam just beat him some more. Little ass hole.
Time Cat by Lloyd Alexander, it was just so boring when the premise was so interesting but bad story put to it.
“Teardrop” & “Waterfall” by Lauren Kate. Again boring the premise was interesting but the writing was horrible. It had promise but it just fell flat on its face.
Also, Roseblood by AG Howard. I loved her Splintered series. But as a huge Phantom of the Opera fan, this was just a huge disappointment. Nothing how a retelling of something that’s epic, mysterious and tragically beautiful at the same time. I felt no connection to the main character and the concept of everything was just weird and the guy didn’t feel like the Phantom.
Twilight
TFIOS. I couldn’t stand the characters. So damn pompous and flat. Omg.
I am pilgrim… It was utter rubbish!
Agree – gave in!!
Every Melissa Kantor book. Her story lines are predictable. Her style is just so unbearably boring that it took me forever to read the whole thing. I wish I read the reviews first on her books before instinctively buying them.
War & Peace, could never remember who was who. One of the few books never finished.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo! All the economic stuff at the beginning bored me! I never quit on a book but I did that one.
currently reading it. I love it!
Books 2 and 3 much better
I bought the book without even reading the description, because I’m a woman with dragon tattoos. What more did I need to know?
Interview With a Vampire. I got about 20 pages into the book and almost threw it across the room. Hated the writing style.
Oh no! 🙂 That’s the only book ever that I finished and immediately turned back to page 1 and started it over.
ah well, we all have different tastes!
Very true!
People seem to either love or hate Anne Rice’s writing style for some reason.
Fifty Shades, Twilight. Couldn’t get past the poor writing.
I would comment but I might get yelled at…
Omg you’re thinking of HP aren’t you
no…actually…the bible
@Marisa ohhhhhhh
Well I agree so ☺️
Gone with the wind, Forrest Gump
Lord Of The Rings – so dull and boring!!
The pearl
Both were true crime stories. I don’t remember the exact titles for neither, but one was about satanic members luring a friend and fellow satanic worshiper and then murdering him. I don’t remember what bothered me so much. My guess is that they must have killed and tortured animals (Hey, it’s been a while!). I also think that I didn’t like the victim and it bothered me to not be able to sympathize. It may have been Say You Love Satan (about Ricky Kasso & Gary Lauwers)
The second was about Shirley Wolf and Cindy Collier who murdered 85-year-old Anna Brackett. I was raised by my mother and my grandmother. Gramma and I were very close. I was horrified reading this and kept seeing my sweet grandma’s face. It was too heart-wrenching! It doesn’t help that my Gramma’s name was also Anna. I believe the title may have been Fun.
Orange is the New Black…maybe because I read ‘Hotel Kerobokan’ and ‘Forget You Had a Daughter’ before it…so it seemed to be a little bit boring in comparison
One of the few time the series is WAY better than the book!!
Yes ? many reviews said that (y) I should try and watch the serries
Memorialdo Convento by José Saramago.-
Emma by Jane Austen it is a book about nothing
I respectfully disagree. It’s a book about what happens when a person thinks they know what’s best for another, which can lead to all kinds of complications. I have a theory about books, that when it’s not the right time for you to read a certain book, you’ll get nothing out of it. I’d recommend trying it again someday and ask yourself when you’re reading it if you’ve ever known someone like Emma.
Indeed that’s the view I took on Emma for my university paper. In my honest opinion Austin reminded me of Jerry Seinfeld writing a show about nothing.
She writes about the society of her time and women’s place in it, the injustices of class systems, all kinds of things, but she has a subtle sense of humor. Jerry Seinfeld, I’m not crazy about, but Jane Austen, I am.
I love Austen for her other work. Emma and Seinfeld were just not for me.
Do you think it might be because you didn’t like Emma? I didn’t like her nearly as much as Austen’s other protagonists.
I went in knowing that I should dislike Emma our lecturer set that up. So yes I could be bias.
The Slap… hated all the characters and couldn’t care less what happened to any of them!
Little Women….but just the tail end of it. It made me so mad that I stopped reading it so I really don’t know how it actually ends. And Breaking Dawn(Twilight) the worst ending to a series. I completely disregard that book in it’s entirety. (Both books ended with the wrong people being together IMO)
Oh, but Laurie was NOT the right person for Jo, though I confess to having been a little disappointed in the professor as her ideal mate.
No. If I’m reading a book I don’t like I stop reading it.
Now I have read books that I did not like the ending to
50 Shades, poorly written and trashy
Started it, but gave up very quickly!
Stupid trash.
??? it wasn’t written to be a philosophical revelation(rather soft pervasion of the mind)
I haven’t read it, but I’ve read excerpts and there are so many things wrong with the series.
The writing is atrocious! I have never read anything SO bad. Reading porn is fine, but I’d rather read something written well.
The depiction of a BDSM relationship is horribly wrong. A real master/slave relationship is nothing like that.
I just don’t understand how something this awful caught on when there are huge stacks of books with similar subject matter that are well written. They don’t have to be accurate to types of relationships by any means, but can we be honest about fantasy.
@Kristy desperate housewives. Hype.
I know, but can’t people use google to find something better? It smacks of laziness to me. Blerg.
The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens. I couldn’t muster any sympathy for Little Nell and hoped she would be eaten by a wolf.
A million little pieces by James Frey. I could not stand the way he wrote! Only read half the book.
Moby Rick, tried three times.
Moby Dick
The catcher in the rye- found it tooo over hyped, Crime and Punishment, Different Seasons by SK, Lisey’s Story
I hated the catcher in the eye and found it annoying too( autocorrect strikes again)
Yess…same feeling
Tried to read both Crime and Punishment and Catcher in the Rye and couldn’t get past the first chapter
Cows by Matt Stokoe because they literally eat crap in that book
Omg where do I start? Lol
Song of Ice and Fire, and The Sword of Truth
Old Man and the Sea
I hated it so much! It was just so boring to me. I know it was supposed to be metaphors and all of that, but I just wanted the man and the fish to both die.
Agreed!
It is extremely boring. Even my high school English teacher though it was boring. Boring metaphors.
The son of sands by tahar benjelloun, it’s a story by wich the writer intends to talk about sexuality, taboo and sexism in moroccan society, but first there is an overdone of the “muslims are sexualy obsesed and are hypocrit” cliché but i chosed to endure that cliché, what really made me stop the book it it’s numerous metaphores that goes nower, i felt like the writter was trying to give me the impression that his book was way deeper than it really is, in french it’s called “branlette intelectuelle” it’s the fact of trying to give deep and philosophical meaings to things that doesn’t have it
I hated trying to read 50 Shades of Gray, only read about 10 pages before I gave up, but I love the fact that it became a best seller because if something that bad can do that well then that means maybe my stuff has a shot.
house of night
The Bone Witch. It drug on and on about the same things. Couldn’t finish it.
I tried to read WIcked and I just couldn’t get through it.
The Bone Witch
The Hating Game by Sally Thorne. It was billed as an epic battle of the sexes hate to love romance and it failed spectacularly on every. The main female character was an unlikeable twit and the author choosing to narrate the entire book from her first person perspective was a terrible idea.
House of Night
Literal crap…
If I hate a book I don’t keep reading it. I figure it’s a waste of my time.
The eleven thousand rods by Guillaume Apollinaire.
It was horrible and disgusting!!!
I only bought it because the back cover said that Pablo Picasso believed it was tha greatest book of all time.man he was twisted!!!!
Just looked it up because I never heard of it. It references Marquis DeSade, that’s enough said!! He was sexually psychotic, I can only imagine how icky the book was!!
Anything by John Saul; the plot and writing are good until the end of the book then it all goes to crap. I can’t threw one of his books across the room once, because of the terrible ending. It’s like he chokes.
I’ve read so many books where the endings do that! It’s like the whole book is amazing and then you get to the end and it’s like they didn’t know how to end it so they just cobbled something together! Why?!
I did not like “Falling into Place” (please don’t hate me for this, we all have our own opinions) IDK why I hate it, but I guess I just didn’t understand the story.
If i do not like I do not finish it
but thinking about it, I read about 3\4 and gave up, Journey to the center of the earth, too much geological terms about stones etc and had no clue what they were on about ??
Gone Girl and The Alchemist are both books I wish I hadn’t given into the hype on. GG was both predictable and ridiculous. The Alchemist was also not my thing.
I enjoyed those. Your assessments understandable
Oh yeah I forgot about The Alchemist. I tried a sample chapter on Kindle and it was so uninteresting I quickly deleted it from my Kindle and apparently my brain too lol
The Shack. I just couldn’t get interested in it.
I find that some books, I just have to be in the mood for. I really enjoyed The Shack.
Catch 22!
odd thomas and blue eyed boy. Just couldnt get into them.
The whole Liar Liar series
Kresley Coles new m/m book. Its my fault as I bought it on auto pilot not realising it was a m/m romance got into the first few chapters before realing there was a lot of sausage and starfish action going on. Love gays but just not my cup of tea reading about his huge member slamming into his tight hairy vampiric balloon knot.
Personally wouldnt carry on reading a book that is terrible
Many don’t get me started ?
Arcadia. I found it incredibly boring.
well, wasn’t so nuts about the pilot’s wife ( so boring)