Books you finished and just thought: "Well...that was shit"

[rayen020]

A wrinkle in time. parts of my family insisted that i read it cause i would like it. I read about twenty pages got utterly bored put it down and never picked it up again until 6th grade, when i was forced to read it. Turns out i was right, it was shit (IMO, apparently alot of people like it but i just didn't).

i would say twilight but that seems too easy.

The warhammer 40K book Conquest of Armageddon. wasn't the book i thought it was to begin with. Had a downer ending, but in a way that made the whole thing seem pointless. Yeah just finished and thought "wait, what? that's it? well that's shit..."

 

[BlumiereBleck]

Brave New World....I love the dystopian genre but this book was just awful.

 

[TakerFoxx]

The Sword of Truth series jumped the shark in a big way after Faith of the Fallen. Up until then, I love them. But after that they got worse and worse until the final book, which was just plain horrible.

 

[DANEgerous]

The Chocolate war i obliterated it from my memory it was so bad.

 

[TotalerKrieger]

Brave New World. It started out fairly strong but quickly turned out to be a big disappointment. Huxley must have taken too much LSD when he wrote the second half of the novel...or perhaps not enough.

 

[Vault101]

after reading "shelters of stone" (Earths children series..first book clan of thecave bear) I thourght "huh...really?" it just didnt end, there was no climax/resolution

also as I read I thourght (ha...this is getting pretty silly)

and I actually cant remember if I half head the second or third lord of the rings

 

[Olivia Faraday]

Nights of Viljamur by Mark Charon Newton. I have never seen such a complete hot mess before. The writing is lazy, the characters are inconsistent, and there is so much ridiculous misogyny at play I could barely get through it.

 

[Davey Woo]

The ending to the second Guild Wars book, the Edge of Destiny.

Spoiler

The heroes fail on the quest they've been building up to all along, and they all blame each other and go their seperate ways.

I don't read books all that much, but I was just really stumped by this ending.

 

[rayen020]

Oh oh! Can manga count? If so I nominate Bleach, specifically the bullshit defeat of Aizen at the end of his particular arc.

Basically they build him to be an absolute unkillable monster with him waltzing through the combined might of the entire good side of the cast (bar the main character) and later just shrugging off a pretty badass assassination attempt by his former second in command.

Seriously if either of those things had killed him i'd have been totally ok with that. Power of Friendship ftw.

Basically the main character exploits a loophole in time and space to have infinite training time. This, being a Shonen manga equates to "holy shit watch the fuck out" territory

Then Aizen's power source (being kinda a seperate entity to him but not really) decides that "sorry dude i'mma just gonna jump ship for no reason k thx" and just leaves him to (not) die.

Fuck it, i'm out!

Might be slightly misremembered when it comes to the details but I doubt I could forget that amount of bullshit in one arc.

Dude thats shonen manga. It's what they do. Frieza ring any bells? Cell? Majin Buu? What about sasuke, akatsuki, Orochimaru? I haven't read enough one peice to know anything but i'm sure it has the same problems. Even really good ones aren't exempt, kenshin moves from one unbeatable foe to another to another at breakneck pace. Aoshi, Saito, Shishio, yukishiro. And the hero always pulls a victory out of their ass...

 

[LollzRoyce42]

Out of the Dark by David Weber. Picked it up at a Books-A-Million because the premise was interesting and the first chapter was good. But an otherwise quite good book is absolutely ruined when the author decides to bullshit the ending with goddamn VAMPIRES. In an apocalyptic sci-fi novel of all things! The ending also leaves about 3 different plot threads un-concluded, which pissed me off even further.

 

[SquidVicious]

Not strictly a book but the Vampire: The Masquerade supplement book Dirty Secrets of the Black Hand.

"There's a secret sect within a sect within a sect who really control everything, and there's a hidden branch of Tzmische that don't practice Vicissitude because it's unclean." Yeah fuck off with that crap.

 

[Korten12]

The ending to the second Guild Wars book, the Edge of Destiny.

Spoiler

The heroes fail on the quest they've been building up to all along, and they all blame each other and go their seperate ways.

I don't read books all that much, but I was just really stumped by this ending.

If it's any consolation, one of the big parts of GW2 is to bring them back together.

 

[bernardblack]

Twilight. Eragon. These two are pretty much givens I suppose. Neither one of them was that great to begin with, but the cop out endings didn't help.

Maximum Ride. Oh god Maximum Ride. The fourth book and every book after it does not exist to me.

 

[manic_depressive13]

The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Seriously, what a load of wank. How the fuck can you have an atmosphere where absolutely no plants can survive and yet have people who are still alive.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

I've had pretty good luck with not reading shitty books but a few that spring to mind are God of Clocks by Alan Campbell and Mirror, Mirror by Gregory McGuire.
Both Dragon Age books I've read were total garbage also.

 

[VulpesAqua]

The bible. Nothing happens, loads of fallacies, most of the characters were unrelatable, and the ending was awful.

And the plot just jumps everywhere. Then the main character comes in like half way through and dies like five chapters later. Wtf?

 

[dalek sec]

A wrinkle in time. parts of my family insisted that i read it cause i would like it. I read about twenty pages got utterly bored put it down and never picked it up again until 6th grade, when i was forced to read it. Turns out i was right, it was shit (IMO, apparently alot of people like it but i just didn't).

i would say twilight but that seems too easy.

The warhammer 40K book Conquest of Armageddon. wasn't the book i thought it was to begin with. Had a downer ending, but in a way that made the whole thing seem pointless. Yeah just finished and thought "wait, what? that's it? well that's shit..."

Hmmm... I've never heard of that one 40K book before, is that one of those "Print on Demand" deals they have there? Or is that some kind of codex type thing?

 

[Gavmando]

Atlas Shrugged. It took me months to finish that tedious load of crap. I thought it would be interesting, but damn, you could use it to put an insomniac to bed.

By reading or by clubbing them over the head with it?

My wife is a fan of David Eddings, so I plowed through the Belgariad books and was simply left with a "Meh" sort of feeling. They were just sort of formulaic and simple for my tastes, but I can see young teens reading them for their first fantasy series and falling in love with them, which is pretty much the case with my wife's familiarity with them.

David Eddings' books were awesome!

...And then I re-read them as an adult and thought "meh" too. He wrote every series to a formula that he even spelled out in The Rivan Codex. One of his pearls of wisdom for writing a book was to belittle the reader so that they would be impressed.
Just try reading The Redemption of Althalus. His books got worse with age.

The bible. Nothing happens, loads of fallacies, most of the characters were unrelatable, and the ending was awful.

And the plot just jumps everywhere. Then the main character comes in like half way through and dies like five chapters later. Wtf?

Plus, someone forgot to put the page at the start that says:
"This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental."

 

[Machiavellian007]

Sophie's World. It was pretentious, boring, and confusing. Don't get me started on the ending.