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  Worst books?

  Today a review went up from me at AAR of one of the absolute worst books I've ever read. As opposed to just being bad, it was horrendous. When was the last time you read a book THAT bad...and what was it?
  
  TTFN, LLB

  Laurie Gold started this discussion 1 year ago. ( reply )

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  Melinda P 

  I just read your review, and I don't think I can top that.
  
  However - there's a member at paperbackswap.com that is giving us all fits with her interpretation of Rabbit Heart - a book where a woman's heart was changed to be a rabbit's heart and every man she screws dies from a heart attack because hers beats too fast. Queen Victoria interviews Rabbit Heart in jail before sentencing her to die by guillotine - a special device she ordered from France - the interview is Rabbit Heart's ode to feminism via sexuality, while Queen V is shocked at the very idea of any woman possibly enjoying sex. Yeah, that's credible. Not.
  
  Ok it isn't anywhere as squicky as your book, but it sounds pretty awful and I've laughed a lot reading her interpretations.
  
  For myself, when it gets too awful I just DNF unless (like Rabbit Heart) it's Mystery Science Theater 3000 worthy.

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    Laurie Gold 

    Melinda -
    
    Wow...that book sounds bizarre. The one I reviewed, though, was not really Mystery Science Theater 3000 worthy. I've read those, and in fact reviewed one last month. Writing the review for it was at least partial compensation for the ridiculous of the book, but as regards this other book, it was so disgusting that nothing could make up for my having to read it, not even writing a terrific, scathing review.
    
    TTFN, LLB

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    LinnieGayl 

    Melinda, Yikes! That does sound like an awful book. Glad I'm not reading it.

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  Kassiana 

  Just this past year I've read a few stinkers. Here's one I really hated: The Duchess Diaries by Mia Ryan
  
  What an awful, evil, selfish, stupid heroine we have in this book. And we're supposed to care what happens to her? Personally, I'd have loved to see her dead in a ditch after two pages. She's a misandrist who hates men for absolutely no reason and yet another historical heroine who has no reason to be against marriage. When there are a lot of real reasons why a lot of real women were opposed to marriage in the 1800s, it's really insulting that Ryan didn't bother using one. She's just kinda opposed to marriage because, um, men are stooooooooopid. And maybe she wants to do stuff. That's really it. Sad.
  
  I never thought much of Ryan before. I think even less now.

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    Laurie Gold 

    The Duchess Diaries is the one single title release by Mia Ryan we've reviewed; it earned a D. Two short stories she wrote earned C range grades. What made you pick up the book...it was published several years ago and is out of print. Did you have it in your tbr pile?
    
    TTFN, LLB

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    Kassiana 

    I picked up this POS because it was at the library and I wanted books to read. I do impulse reads sometimes there, especially if they don't have anything new by authors I follow. Sometimes I pick up some treasures, and sometimes I take out the trash.

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  Cindy ♥ W 

  The one that I think of is The Black Lyon by Jude Deveraux, UGH. It didn't seem the same person in the book, waste of time for me!

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    Laurie Gold 

    Cindy -
    
    Interesting you should say that. Since that book was the first in Deveraux's long Montgomery series, it's among the books I tried by her before deciding she was NOT for me.
    
    TTFN, LLB

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  Kristine G 

  I am not sure it is the worst book I have ever read, but it is the most boring book I have read in a while - To Catch a Thief by Christina Skye. And I really had looked forward to this one because it was supposedly a new Draycott Abbey. NOT! It was a combo of her Navy Seals Foxfire series and DA series. I didn't work for me on any level. The story was boring and there was no chemistry between the h/h IMHO and I could have cared less about any of it. The DA connection was totally contrived and any secondary characters could have fulfilled the function of the DA characters. It was nearly a DNF but I stuck it out to the end. Bummer!

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  Janon 

  I've read 2 stinkers in the last 6 months by the same author. The Pursuit and Heart of a Warrior by Johanna Lindsey.

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