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  Stupidest Book You Ever Read (or gave up on)

  So...regale us--what's the last book you threw across a room in disgust?

  katfireblade started this discussion 1 year ago. ( reply )

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  awelker 

  Two years ago i had to read the red badge of courage for my american lit class and i hated it. i only read to the fifth chapter and just cliffnoted the rest of the book.

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    Wooliferkins 

    Besides that Perfume. I finished it only as it was the book club book. Hideous. 95 word, million phrase, sentences that go on longer than parlour games on "Sorry I Havent A Clue" without punctuation rhyme reason or any other possible thought process, droning on like a phillibustering pleabian never quite getting to the point or doing us the favour of starving to death while surviving on slime in a cave in the unfashionable western spiral arm of the written word where in the depths of dehydration the water in the world buggered off and left you to scream about this bloody awful book. People paid to watch the film!

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  Wooliferkins 

  Shouldn't this be an on going Geoffrey Archer (Lying plagiarist )post?

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  misselaineous 

  It took me months to get through the Yearling. I just could not get into the story at all, the characters were annoying, and the writing style didn't make up for that at all.

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  deactivated member 

  I HATED 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency' by Alexander McCall Smith. A lot of people recommended it but I found it shallow and irritating.

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    Rochelle H 

    Me too! i didnt even end up finishing it

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  raimster 

  I rarely put a book down once I've started, but I absolutely could not get through Six of One by Rita Mae brown. The style, the un-funny jokes, the characters....all of it annoyed me to no end.

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    kairos 

    You know, as much as I enjoy Bingo (same characters), Six of One just was not Rita Mae's best work. Try Riding Shotgun.

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  NotASuzi 

  There are two I can think of off hand:
  
  (1) the most recent Kate Flanigan diatribe on motherhood. I almost threw the book across the room when she wrote that families that insist on having dinner together every night have no ambition for their children. In her view, the little ones should be involved in some sort of activity (baseball, gymnastics) most nights.
  
  (2) This one is just embarassing. I was in the mood for something light and funny. I made the mistake of picking up "The Devil in the Junior League." It was atrocious from start to (I assume) finish but I made it half way through on the hope that something truly evil would happen to the "heroine" (her husband leaving her and taking all their money wasn't nearly awful enough for this self-absorbed witch). I finally gave up when the apparently starving young artist turned out to be a dot com zillionaire in disguise. Yeah. Pretty embarassing.
  
  --Suzanne
  a.k.a. NotaSuzi

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  kairos 

  My mom thought I would like the Lavransdotter sagas -- I thought I would do -- but I just didn't.
  And I slogged to the halfway point of the Da Vinci Code and finally gave up. Had a bit of an awkward time socially a few years ago when EVERYONE was reading it and loving it. Felt a bit like admitting to poking holes in my dog for fun or something.

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  Judith L 

  The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova....book starts out promising but dwindles into drivel about halfway through...was she plotting the book as she went along-the ending was pure mommy mush/sorrow/regret over all the lies and blood spill...Jeekers, talk about overhype/overkill (a bit of funny that)....avoid this book if you hate to be disappointed...stick to Stoker and Rice for yer vampire fixes, kids

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  Rinn 

  I know a lot of people like wicked but I hated it. I just couldn't finish that book, it was just so bad. One day maybe I will see the musical though which is supposed to be amazing.

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