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I am not talking here about books that you merely disliked. I really mean those books you would have thrown against the wall if you could have spared the expense of the kindle. So folks, what are your anger-fueling books?
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Seleya
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« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2012, 01:15:49 AM » |
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The Doomsday Book, mainly.
I got about halfway through before I just couldn't stand it anymore. Cardboard characters and terrible research. I really wanted to like it because I kept reading great things on it from people on a book forum I was in, but in a short while I was wondering if I was reading a different book.
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« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2012, 03:32:51 AM » |
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The only book I've ever thrown was Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer. I really didn't like Twilight but kept with the series in the hope that the horrid, snivelling Bella would grow a back bone. But she never did and by the time I got to Eclipse, I'd just about had enough! Needless to say, I never read Breaking Dawn.
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« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2012, 03:48:35 AM » |
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The Power, by Rhonda Byrne.
And I felt happy afterwards.
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« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2012, 04:01:57 AM » |
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The Last Train to Scarborough by Andrew Martin; it's so badly written he makes Dan Brown seem like Dickens.
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« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2012, 05:01:09 AM » |
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The only book I've ever thrown was Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer. I really didn't like Twilight but kept with the series in the hope that the horrid, snivelling Bella would grow a back bone. But she never did and by the time I got to Eclipse, I'd just about had enough! Needless to say, I never read Breaking Dawn.
OMG YES! I just wanted to strangle that stupid girl. I don't understand how many people love that series. Sent from my Kindle Fire using Tapatalk |
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« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2012, 05:07:36 AM » |
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Stephen Hunter, " Soft Target"
Normally I don't get upset over books. I usually don't write reviews, but I paid a premium price for this book based on what I had read previously from this author. This book was so poorly written that had it not been a Kindle I would have thrown it against the wall.
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« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2012, 08:09:42 AM » |
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Phillipa Gregory's Wideacre. I really enjoyed The Other Boleyn Girl and a slew of her other books, but I hated the protagonist in Wideacre. When she had a kid with her brother, I gave up on trying to finish the book.
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« Reply #8 on: January 24, 2012, 08:29:37 AM » |
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Books, back in the day, that I simply disliked got passed on to used bookstores or even friends who I thought might like them. A few, really not many, were so bad I wouldn't pass them on. I tossed them in the garbage which I thought was what they deserved.
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« Reply #9 on: January 24, 2012, 09:24:35 AM » |
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Wuthering Heights
Assasin's Apprentice (or something like that) by Robin Hobb
Devon Monk...I don't remember if that is the series or the author's name
Really, really LOATHED and HATED And STILL would throw against the wall, Embers by Laura Bickle.
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« Reply #10 on: January 24, 2012, 09:38:38 AM » |
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The Twilight scene when Bella finds Edmund watching her sleep all fluffy and sweet.
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« Reply #11 on: January 24, 2012, 10:05:15 AM » |
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Small Death in Lisbon was a book I loathed with all my heart - fortunately, a paperback, so I was able to throw it away. It has good reviews, so maybe there is something wrong with me.
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« Reply #12 on: January 24, 2012, 10:26:41 AM » |
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For me, it was New Moon by Stephanie Meyer. I'd read the first book and thought, "Well, maybe it gets better" because friends of mine actually like the series. It doesn't get better, and I was highly disturbed by the popularity of the series and what an abusive guy Edward is, not to mention creepy. And then, how pathetic and stupid Bella is in her "depression." Ugh, just ugh. I couldn't stand it, so I actually did throw it across the room, even though it was a library book.
I'll never understand those teens who swoon over this character, calling him the "perfect boyfriend." It disgusts me, just my opinion. I don't mean to offend anyone.
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« Reply #13 on: January 24, 2012, 11:34:21 AM » |
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The character of Umbridge p*ssed me off to the point I actually ended up hating her more than I did Voldemort. It is the only book I have ever thrown against a wall but it happened probably 5 or 6 times before I finished the book.
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« Reply #14 on: January 24, 2012, 11:36:37 AM » |
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The Shack
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« Reply #15 on: January 24, 2012, 11:39:15 AM » |
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"Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon But throwing it against the wall wasn't violent enough. Here's what really happened: After enduring as much as I could take, I marched outside to the dumpster behind my apartment at the time... ...and tore it page from spine, litter to litter. Terminated. With extreme prejudice. Todd
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« Reply #16 on: January 24, 2012, 01:06:36 PM » |
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A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines. It was required reading for a class and after about five pages in, I heaved it across the room. Horrible book.
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« Reply #17 on: January 24, 2012, 01:14:37 PM » |
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"The Quest" by Wilbur Smith. I'm a life-long fan of Smith so was very disappointed with this one. I think he definitely took his eye off the ball.
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« Reply #18 on: January 24, 2012, 01:36:45 PM » |
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Nights in Rodanthe. I hate to speak badly about a fellow South Carolinian but could he please give us a happy ending?
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« Reply #19 on: January 24, 2012, 04:15:55 PM » |
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Um... A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One by George R.R. Martin Killed off one too many characters and that was it for me. Sold them to Powell's the last time I was in Portland.
Assasin's Apprentice (or something like that) by Robin Hobb
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« Reply #20 on: January 24, 2012, 05:09:13 PM » |
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Ugh. The first books that come to mind are A Feast of Snakes by Harry Crews. Absolutely hated the characters in that book. I couldn't care if they lived or died. The other was Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr. I couldn't get into the story and wasted time reading nearly half of it hoping it would get better. I'm a slow reader, so that time wasted really ticked me off. I could've spent that time writing!!
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« Reply #21 on: January 24, 2012, 06:10:47 PM » |
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The Help (oddly, liked the movie. A tribute to fine actresses). The Hours. Maybe I need to avoid two-word titled books where the first word is The and the second word starts with a "h".
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« Reply #22 on: January 24, 2012, 06:18:16 PM » |
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Phillipa Gregory's Wideacre. I really enjoyed The Other Boleyn Girl and a slew of her other books, but I hated the protagonist in Wideacre. When she had a kid with her brother, I gave up on trying to finish the book.
It's funny you should mention Wideacre because it's one of only a half dozen or so books I've thrown at the wall myself. I've enjoyed other Phillipa Gregory books but this one was just unspeakably bad because of the heroine. According to the Amazon reviews, most Gregory fans agree with me. An interesting side note, I've read other books where the heroes did more unforgivable stuff than the heroine of Wideacre and nobody seemed to have a problem with it. I've come to believe people have a higher tolerance for some types of behaviors when they come from a male character. Especially if he's hot.  |
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Laura Lond
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« Reply #23 on: January 24, 2012, 07:09:05 PM » |
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I've never thrown a book against the wall, but I've felt like doing it to some characters (Catherine from Wuthering Heights, for example) and, in one case, an author. The unlucky author was Rudyard Kipling, and I hated his guts for killing nearly every character I grew to love in The Jungle Book. (I was in my early teens.)
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« Reply #24 on: January 24, 2012, 08:06:13 PM » |
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The character of Umbridge p*ssed me off to the point I actually ended up hating her more than I did Voldemort. It is the only book I have ever thrown against a wall but it happened probably 5 or 6 times before I finished the book.
I totally second this. Leaves a big dent, too. |
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