Awful books

Any books out there that you read and you just didn't like.

I hated Perfume. I thought the plot was dumb and I hated some of the descriptions. Yes, let's talk about the smell of a doorknob!!

I can's even get into the horror that is 50 Shades.

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Permalink Reply by Sweeney on February 4, 2013 at 6:14pm

The two stand-out awful books I recall reading last year were The Maze Runner and Her Fearful Symmetry. I had such high hopes for HFS because of The Time Traveler's Wife and I found the whole thing underwhelming and terrible. The Maze Runner had been hyped to me by several people and I was similarly disappointed by how awful it was.

Permalink Reply by Vignettes of Agony on February 5, 2013 at 8:13am

Ugh, The Time Traveler's Wife! I loathed that book. 

Permalink Reply by Ginny on February 5, 2013 at 10:47pm

I was planning on reading the maze runner but I trust your judgment Sweeney.

Permalink Reply by Mounting Counting (anonymous) on February 5, 2013 at 6:14am
This Kristen Hannah book where I could predict the ending like a bad chick flick.
Permalink Reply by Rachel Emmilee on February 5, 2013 at 8:11am

I read the three quaters of 50 Shades, and stopped there. Horribly written and so far fetched. Anna Steele was the most annoying character ever, I didn't buy their relationship and hated how much they overused some phrases.

I do love sexy romance though, so I've started reading Bared To You, and it puts 50 Shades to shame.

Permalink Reply by Tom on February 5, 2013 at 5:45pm

Hard Times - Charles Dickens. Worst thing ever.

Permalink Reply by Sweeney on February 5, 2013 at 5:47pm

I remember feeling like I was reading it very slowly, not on purpose, but enjoying it anyway. However, I don't actually remember anything else about the book. I guess I didn't love it as much as I thought.

Permalink Reply by Tom on February 6, 2013 at 5:44pm

The only thing I can remember is just how long and slow everything felt... 

Permalink Reply by Sweeney on February 6, 2013 at 5:59pm

I remember feeling that way too. I think it also had to do with when I read it. I was studying abroad in Ghana at the time and my whole pace of life was just radically slower and I found that my taste in books then was quite a bit different from what I'd generally prefer to read now. I read most of Jane Austen's books for the first time while I was abroad and loved them all but I feel like I have to be in the right mindset for them now.

Which is to say that I consider it entirely possible I would not enjoy it now. (Though I don't really have any plans to reread it and verify.)

Permalink Reply by Jorge Farah on March 12, 2013 at 4:25am

Would you say you had a HARD TIME reading it?

Thank you.

Permalink Reply by Ally Gregory-Moore on February 6, 2013 at 4:12pm

I was really disappointed with A Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling. I got a third of the way through and just quit. It was so incredibly dull.

Permalink Reply by Katie on February 6, 2013 at 5:02pm

I agree. I love JK Rowling and really wanted to like The Casual Vacancy, but it was just so hard to get into. And I also feel like we never got a good feeling for who Barry was, which is a problem when his death is what propels the whole plot.

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