Really Rubbish Books

Lucca yeah, you're probably right about the title.

I suppose I expect people to not take things too literally.

So, dear reader, if you are still with me - it's books that I hated.

I have another confession about not liking a classic, I don't like Trollope, Anthony I mean, quite like Joanna.

Lucca

The Slap. Aussie thing. I cannot remember the author but I have been Told the book was pants.

The TV series was one of the best things I have ever seen. It was brilliant. I was totally gripped.
I ordered the book from the library on the back of it and was so excited.
But it was really, really awful.
Horrible, unsympathetic characters.
The author was obsessed with sleazy sex.
The whole thing was very misanthropic.

I loved the first four Strike novels by Robert Galbraith ( or J K Rowling), but Troubled Blood left me cold. It was way too long and complex and required a strength that I just don’t possess to lift it!

Don't hide! You probably read enough to form an opinion and that's good enough. Unlike someone I know and overheard panning a book he had TOLD me had not read. When called on it he posited that he knew the writer Ayn Rand to be very right wing therefore that was enough. The book we were talking about regularly appears in the world's best one hundred books and is The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. I have read it twice and I am not right wing. The only thing I have against the book is that my copy is soooo old and the print is so tiny but this is the only thing that it makes it almost
unreadable.

I haven't read Gone Girl but Girl on the Train did nothing for me either, although I did finish it.

I forgot to say, 2 books that have had a lot of praise did nothing for me at all. I finished them, but thought they were dull and boring. They were, Gone Girl, and The Girl on the Train. Sorry if I`ve upset anyone who loved them.

Tizliz

Callistemon - you can delete kindle books ‘from this device’ but they stay in your cloud and the device knows you have read them, and you can easily download them again. Frees up your memory. However, I didn’t know you could return them for a refund.

Thanks for that information Tizliz.

I didn't know you could return them either.

The Keeper of lost things- got to the end but a struggle! Boring!

Callistemon - you can delete kindle books ‘from this device’ but they stay in your cloud and the device knows you have read them, and you can easily download them again. Frees up your memory. However, I didn’t know you could return them for a refund.

I’ve tried 3 times to read The Goldfinch. I’ve now thrown it out to stop me trying again.
ayse
I agree about Wilber Smith. He’s lost it in his later books.

Witzend re not buying Kindle books by unknown authors - I've recently discovered that Kindle book purchases can be returned! Who knew?

I will often also download a sample first because I can usually tell whether or not the author's style appeals to me.

But I had bought a few books in Kindle format that I didn't like and was moaning about it to my husband, who told me I can return them! I had had the book I was grumbling about for three days, returned it, and got a full refund.

I dislike reading Dickens but love the TV adaptations. I'm currently catching up on the 2011 version of Great Expectations with Ray Winstone as Magwitch and Gillian Anderson as Miss Haversham.

I began reading Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch and gave up after about five chapters. Thought it would get to the point, but it just dragged on...

DS2 recommended The Girl with all the Gifts. Horrible! I shall tread warily if/when he recommends anything in future.

The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald is only good for firelighters. Our book club read this on our local library's recommendation. Mercifully, it isn't a long book and the blurb would have you believe you have a masterpiece in your hands. You don't.

Anything by Salman Rushdie. I’ve tried but it’s just not for me.

I don't much like Dickens either vampirequeen can't wade through all that descriptive stuff. My daughter loves his books though.

I disliked
Any of the Fifty Shades books
Anything published by Mills & Boon
Girl on a train
Lovely Bones
Prof Fitzpatrick biog
Books overly hyped in the press are often rubbish I've found.

I found Dickens really hard going at school plus Shakespeare. I’ve not got to grips with Dickens but I love some of the dramatisations on TV. Shakespeare is similar but since going to the Pop up Globe in NZ with my daughter it’s really come to life. If you’re in the standing area the players and the audience often intermingle.

I read some Herman Hesse as a teen and Narcissus and Goldmund was a good read. The Glass Bead game was quite different. I must have tried to read it four or five times but gave up.

Ken Follett’s historical novels are very readable but some of his other stuff is not so good. Phillips Gregory is another author who’s earlier novels are gripping but the later ones just seem to lack the same depth. Same comments go for Wilbur Smith.

I’ve generally given up on chick lit, even as escapism. Maybe I’m just too fussy.

Thursday Murder Club
Midnight Library

couple of massively over hyped books among the current crop of best sellers (in my humble opinion)

Lincoln In the Bardo Won everything including The Booker, hated it.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell that's a whole chunk of my life, I'm never going to get back and the tv series wasn't much better.
Lovely Bones - Hurled it across the room when I finally finished it, I didn't like The Time Travellers Wife either. Both books are flaky. suspend belief whimsy. I realise much of that doesn't appeal to me.
Transcription can't believe I'd ever hate a book by Kate Atkinson but I'm glad this wasn't one of the first of hers I happened to pick up, it might have put me off her as a writer. Most of her books I've really enjoyed.
That awful Sarah Pinborough book "Behind her Eyes Amazon have now turned into a series. Preposterous!

Sorry, it was vq, I addressed my comments to.. apologies ?

The Slap. Aussie thing. I cannot remember the author but I have been Told the book was pants.

I loved Dickens when I was younger, but not now.
Now I am prejudiced about any book which suggests that ‘you’ll like it if you liked . . . ‘

I used to persevere till the end, but now if I don’t like it after the first few chapters, I abandon it. I’ve returned quite a few Kindle books for that reason.
Often I do what StatenIsland mentioned and read a sample on the order page.
I tried desperately to like Sophie Kinsella books, but they are on my NTBR pile.

Callistemon, my turn to duck under the sofa- I can’t stand Jane Austen... I find her the Aga saga of the XIX century.
It took me many years to learn that life was too short to plough through books I didn’t enjoy. I have stopped now. I have to confess to enjoying the occasional flummery.?

At the age of 14 I read Anna Karenina and loved it, so decided to have a go at War and Peace, but gave up afyer a few pages. About 5 years ago I decided to have another go and bought a copy from Amazon. I finished it, but it was hard going.
I recently started my first ever book by Marian Keyes, The Break, but after a couple of chapters I decided it was absolute rubbish and gave up, unusual for me, and I don`t fancy trying anything else by her.

My niece writes supernatural books I bought one in support. I only read one chapter it was absolute twaddle, thankfully I’ve no idea what it was called.?

“I am pilgrim”. Gave up halfway. Too grim for words
My sister-in-law recommended that one saying it was one of the best books she had read for a long time, so I downloaded it but couldn't get on with it.