Books you finished and just thought: "Well...that was shit"
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I can't recall reading a truly bad book, as I'm pretty damn picky, but I remember Clockwork Angel being pretty meh. Maybe because I wasn't the target audience, but I just couldn't really stand the main character.
Children of Dune also left me rather cold, as the Dune series just became too esoteric for me at that point.
Children of Dune also left me rather cold, as the Dune series just became too esoteric for me at that point.
Funny that, The Hobbit is actually meant for that age. Perhaps slightly older, but it's definitely meant for a young audience.aba1 said:
Soul Drinker by Ben Counter.
Never in the history of WH40K has ANYONE even approached the level of abject dumbness of the Soul Drinkers. I wouldn't trust Sarpedon with anything sharper than a rubber ball after reading the first book in this series. I still don't get how he was THAT stupid.
Also, The First Heretic. Thanks for ruining a primarch, Aaron Dembski-Bowden. Thanks for making Lorgar, an immortal leader of a legion of supermen, into a whining, inept, childish, moronic and limp-wristed little ***** who cries like a 6 year old at the drop of a hat.
That, alongside Helsreach, proves that ADB can't be trusted to do good work when his hardcore fetish for the Night Lords can't be the focus. I mean, Night Haunter has a cameo in First Heretic, and he upstages Lorgar! The guy the book is about! Lorgar is so weak as a character he gets sidelined in his own book for a bit character. It's sickening.
Never in the history of WH40K has ANYONE even approached the level of abject dumbness of the Soul Drinkers. I wouldn't trust Sarpedon with anything sharper than a rubber ball after reading the first book in this series. I still don't get how he was THAT stupid.
Also, The First Heretic. Thanks for ruining a primarch, Aaron Dembski-Bowden. Thanks for making Lorgar, an immortal leader of a legion of supermen, into a whining, inept, childish, moronic and limp-wristed little ***** who cries like a 6 year old at the drop of a hat.
That, alongside Helsreach, proves that ADB can't be trusted to do good work when his hardcore fetish for the Night Lords can't be the focus. I mean, Night Haunter has a cameo in First Heretic, and he upstages Lorgar! The guy the book is about! Lorgar is so weak as a character he gets sidelined in his own book for a bit character. It's sickening.
Twilght. All four books.....
Yes, I read them. But only because my mom said I might like them. Boy was she wrong.
The fourth book, however, made me want to hurl it across the room. How can you spend the better part of half a book building up to a huge climatic battle only to have some random kid come along and say "oh, it was just a big misunderstanding. Everyone can go home now". Seriously, the twilight books were bad but that ending made me want to scream "screw you, Meyer!"
[small]I didn't put that in spoilers because I figured anyone who cared at all about the series probably has already read the books, so.....[/small]
Yes, I read them. But only because my mom said I might like them. Boy was she wrong.
The fourth book, however, made me want to hurl it across the room. How can you spend the better part of half a book building up to a huge climatic battle only to have some random kid come along and say "oh, it was just a big misunderstanding. Everyone can go home now". Seriously, the twilight books were bad but that ending made me want to scream "screw you, Meyer!"
[small]I didn't put that in spoilers because I figured anyone who cared at all about the series probably has already read the books, so.....[/small]
I don't remember those books. I just remember the ones I stopped enjoying and just dredged through without anything committing to my long-term memory.
Orson Scott Card's Homecoming saga, first book was good with certain issues, had some big issues with the second, in the first eleven pages of the third I thought to myself, **** this ****, and dredged to complete the series, though it did sometimes get interesting in the third and fourth book.
Orson Scott Card's Homecoming saga, first book was good with certain issues, had some big issues with the second, in the first eleven pages of the third I thought to myself, **** this ****, and dredged to complete the series, though it did sometimes get interesting in the third and fourth book.
I didn't really read Susan's books, but that is a glorious quote.DoPo said:
I had to force myself to finish Ender's Game. Couldn't tell you why; I loved the ending and it paved the way for the fantastic Speaker for the Dead, but I just didn't have fun reading Ender's Game.
Also The Andromeda Strain, from Michael Chrichton. Boring, boring, boring.
Dunno why people are mentioning Meyer's bullshit, I figured that her books were shit went without saying. The woman's a talentless hack.
Also The Andromeda Strain, from Michael Chrichton. Boring, boring, boring.
Dunno why people are mentioning Meyer's bullshit, I figured that her books were shit went without saying. The woman's a talentless hack.
Yup, still if I was desperate to see the story again I'd watch the movie instead of rereading the book. It was just bad in the sense it was promising but poorly executed.BNguyen said:
I am with you two. The writing was awful and pretentious.Zappanale said:
In a "related" note, the Bioshock novel was pretty bad too. Decent at the beginning and the final chapters are pretty good, but everything in between is unendurable.
There is another one. I have to force myself to finish it, but I was bored beyond words.Damien Black said:
The Hunger Games was pretty terrible. It didn't help that everyone thinks it's brilliant and was lining up in the streets for the movie.
Under the Dome by Stephen King. 880 pages, and for what? A lame ass ending... Don't know how to hide the spoiler so I'm not even gonna bother.
And come on people, The Catcher in the Rye is great!
A adolescent kid who thinks everything is shit; pretty good when I read it for the first time (I was 18 or so)
And come on people, The Catcher in the Rye is great!
A adolescent kid who thinks everything is shit; pretty good when I read it for the first time (I was 18 or so)Terry Goodkind. Nuff said.
Half of Karen Traviss's stuff. Yay sanctimonious hypocrites who always win.
Anything by Brad Thor and Vince Flynn. How such amateur writers can be national bestsellers is beyond me. I love how they take turns blatantly ripping off both other writers and themselves by writing the same plot over and over.
Tom Clancey's The Bear and the Dragon. America rocks. Conservatives rock. Reader interest at rock bottom.
Lots and lots of game tie-in novels. I loved them when I was a kid. Now I look back and "well, that was sh*t" sums it up nicely.
Darth Bane-the Rule of two. Not the whole book, must two particular sequences that are so full of plot holes I had to put the book down.
Half of Karen Traviss's stuff. Yay sanctimonious hypocrites who always win.
Anything by Brad Thor and Vince Flynn. How such amateur writers can be national bestsellers is beyond me. I love how they take turns blatantly ripping off both other writers and themselves by writing the same plot over and over.
Tom Clancey's The Bear and the Dragon. America rocks. Conservatives rock. Reader interest at rock bottom.
Lots and lots of game tie-in novels. I loved them when I was a kid. Now I look back and "well, that was sh*t" sums it up nicely.
Darth Bane-the Rule of two. Not the whole book, must two particular sequences that are so full of plot holes I had to put the book down.
(glares)DustyDrB said:
Nah, i'm just kidding around.
(sharpens sword)
OT: Revan. What a fucking monstrosity. The whole thing was just Drew Karpshyn shoving his version of the character down our throat and telling us how awesome his blandness is, rather than focusing on the vastly superior Obsisian version. Oh, and they turned the Exile into a Revan fangirl, and did not comment on her
FUCKING FORCE WOUND THAT IS THE SINGLE MOST DEADLY THING IN THE STAR WARS CANON
at all.
I'm normally a huge fan of Conn Iggulden, but Empire of Silver (a book I hugely anticipated after his first three Genghis Khan novels) was DULL.
At least I have the Sharpe books to keep myself occupied.
At least I have the Sharpe books to keep myself occupied.
God Emperor of Dune was, well I'm not sure whether it was one of the smartest thing I've read or the stupidest. The book was filled with the ramblings of Leto, the God Emperor. It was complete nonsense, but I'm not sure if that was the point. Either Frank Herbert had set out to write some epic philosophy and missed his mark by a mile or the book was supposed to show us the twisted logic of an insane, inhuman, megalomanica who had lost all touch with the universe yet whose words actually created universal truth regardless.
Maximum Ride fell so fast in my esteem after Book 1.Romblen said:
OT: Mockingjay, the third book in the Hunger Games series. Terribly paced - it felt like the author had wanted to make a quadrilogy but had been edited down to a third short but horribly rushed book.