I had one book I never read to the end. I don't remember what it was, but it just didn't hold my attention.
Ever read a book so bad that you actaully stopped reading?
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the boy in the striped pajamas. tedious predictable bullshit. and I thought that when I was the target audience
Yes, really. I really happens. A mentally unbalanced young man kills a women, cleans up her voided shit, leaves, then comes back and sticks his dick in her cold corpse.Ti0k0 said:Really? I started yesterday on the audiobook of that book, listened it at work again today!ReservoirAngel said:
I like it so far, although it is told a bit dull
I heard about the plot, and it reminded me of the graphic novel Girls by the Luna brothers.
Honestly, I was fucking horrified. I would tolerate it... if it had anything to do with the overall plot, but it doesn't. It exists only to show how fucked up this character is. Which could easily have been done without the murder and corpse-fucking in my opinion.
Harry Potter. I tried reading the first book and stooped at about Chapter 3. It was just too bad. People tell me they get better and recommend that I start at the fourth one, but I think I'll pass. If I'm going to read a series, I want to read the whole thing.
Temeraire by Naomi Novik. By all means it isn't super bad, I just hated the writing style since I couldn't get into it properly (I forget who is who and lack description of the locations).
I didn't exactly wasted my money since I got it for free when I preorder the next Eragon book (yes the film is bad but the book is one of the few that I read) so I can't exactly complain when I got it for free well maybe wasting my time reading it.
I didn't exactly wasted my money since I got it for free when I preorder the next Eragon book (yes the film is bad but the book is one of the few that I read) so I can't exactly complain when I got it for free well maybe wasting my time reading it.
The second Twilight book. Yes, the second one. I actually made it THROUGH the first one with my sanity intact...somehow...and started on the second one...for some ungodly reason...before I decided 'screw it. I have a life' (Note: This was BEFORE they exploded into all the unholy pretween popularity they are today.)
I noticed a lot of people in this thread mentioning Tolkien and Dickens but I kinda think its unfair to those authors.
Dickens works such as Tale of Two Cities was not published as a book but a series of entries in newspapers. The reason he is so wordy is because people were reading his "book" over the span of weeks. Imagine if you watched a favorite T.V. series as a movie. You would probably consider is a long tedious affair as well.
Tolkien created the fantasy genre as we know it today, so his work is fairly extensive in creating the world. Many modern day fantasy books lift Tolkien's world (Elves=good, orcs=bad, dwarves=Scottish)and change few details. Consequently, most people already know the world Tolkien describes because it has been copied so many times and so his descriptions seem very long and boring.
A modern book I couldn't finish would be Wizards First Rule. Everyone is so bland and archetypal that you can tell what will happen three chapters away. I looked up the ending on wikipedia because I could not bring myself to finish the book.
Dickens works such as Tale of Two Cities was not published as a book but a series of entries in newspapers. The reason he is so wordy is because people were reading his "book" over the span of weeks. Imagine if you watched a favorite T.V. series as a movie. You would probably consider is a long tedious affair as well.
Tolkien created the fantasy genre as we know it today, so his work is fairly extensive in creating the world. Many modern day fantasy books lift Tolkien's world (Elves=good, orcs=bad, dwarves=Scottish)and change few details. Consequently, most people already know the world Tolkien describes because it has been copied so many times and so his descriptions seem very long and boring.
A modern book I couldn't finish would be Wizards First Rule. Everyone is so bland and archetypal that you can tell what will happen three chapters away. I looked up the ending on wikipedia because I could not bring myself to finish the book.
I remember I fell asleep reading New Moon. *shot by fans of Twilight*
Slightly off topic, but the last one, Breaking Dawn, was so anti-climatic, and it wasn't (IMO) the good kind of anti climax (if they exist), it was the kind where it seems like the author just got bored and couldn't be bothered to fill in the fight.
I'm probably gonna get tonnes of hate for that, but I will say that it isn't the worst book I've read.
Not even near the best books, but not the worst.
(*obvious lies to hide my hatred of Twilight*)
And yeah, I prefer reading on a screen too, but that's because I can make the background black and the letters green (which makes it a lot easier on your eyes at night).
Slightly off topic, but the last one, Breaking Dawn, was so anti-climatic, and it wasn't (IMO) the good kind of anti climax (if they exist), it was the kind where it seems like the author just got bored and couldn't be bothered to fill in the fight.
I'm probably gonna get tonnes of hate for that, but I will say that it isn't the worst book I've read.
Not even near the best books, but not the worst.
(*obvious lies to hide my hatred of Twilight*)
Yeah, quite a lot of the stuff you read in schools is crap. I remember that they were all chosen to have tonnes of hidden meanings and morals, rather than picking a good read, so that we had more work to do explaining them and staying awake as we read them.madster11 said:
And yeah, I prefer reading on a screen too, but that's because I can make the background black and the letters green (which makes it a lot easier on your eyes at night).
I read UTD too, it was fantastic, not sure what you're all worked up about. There is worse shit that happens in real life than thatReservoirAngel said:Yes, really. I really happens. A mentally unbalanced young man kills a women, cleans up her voided shit, leaves, then comes back and sticks his dick in her cold corpse.Ti0k0 said:Really? I started yesterday on the audiobook of that book, listened it at work again today!ReservoirAngel said:
I like it so far, although it is told a bit dull
I heard about the plot, and it reminded me of the graphic novel Girls by the Luna brothers.
Honestly, I was fucking horrified. I would tolerate it... if it had anything to do with the overall plot, but it doesn't. It exists only to show how fucked up this character is. Which could easily have been done without the murder and corpse-fucking in my opinion.
Ceremony is one of the worst books that I've read in my entire life. I couldn't get past page 50.
Actually that series is know for getting worse as it goes along.... like a real load worse. It goes on over about 10 books, and gets progressively worse, so if you hated the first book, ye gods man, don't go near the last few.A Distant Star said:
Actually, if you do, record your reaction as you read it. You're sitting on a viral video right there
You realise everyone on the Internet despises Twilight with a fiery passion, right? You're not going to get attacked for that opinion.HimochiIsAwesome said:
captcha: books nchyPr. Fitting.
Anyway, OT: I remember this one Doctor Who book (wetworld or something) which completely mischaracterised (yay, new words) the Doctor and Martha. I was irritated with it, so I took it back after less than 100 pages. It was a shame, the other one I'd got (I took out 2) was pretty good, though I can't remember it now.
No, but I did cause me to want to burn the thing... which I did. Thankfully I had picked it up from the library on a "no one has checked this book out in 3 yrs... sell for .25 to help buy new books."
Brisingr is, interestingly, my favourite book in the series.arrapippol said:
I love the sword-making scene, it's worth it just for that alone really
Hey I remember reading that back when I was like 12 or 13? I also weirdly remember liking it. Huh.silver wolf009 said:Stargirl.
Just... Ugh... Not fun to read. Not fun at all.
OT: The 3rd LOTR, Doll by Nicky Singer, and many more books that just got dull.
On the other hand, things like Freakonomics, which I had only planned to read a bit of to try, were interesting past the expected point (I finished it, and bought its sequel the moment I saw it)
The only book that I have stopped reading partway through was Xenocide by Orson Scott card. I just got soooo pissed at some of the characters that I just stopped reading. Haven't picked it up since, but I keep on meaning to try and read it again.
Cross Country. Up to that point I'd read all of the Alex Cross books but it seems by this one James Patterson was just intent on putting Cross through the wringer with no real emotional gravity. There was no suspense, which he normally does really well. Anyway, I never finished it and haven't picked up any of the subsequent Cross novels. Maybe one day.
Janice Galloway's "The Trick is to Keep Breathing."
I was supposed to read this for school, along with another of her books, "Foreign Parts". While both were dull, confusingly written, and plotless, I managed to force my way through Foreign Parts.
I was supposed to read this for school, along with another of her books, "Foreign Parts". While both were dull, confusingly written, and plotless, I managed to force my way through Foreign Parts.