Books You Couldn't Finish

merrystar (4): I'm possibly too old, but I found the beginning of this unreadable.

fuzzi (3): Despised the characters, why read about people with no redeeming qualities?

merrystar (6): the only assigned book I have ever given up on.

Cecrow (7): Maybe it gets better, but an uphill battle through its opening chapter. Not worth the effort.

Cecrow (4): Couldn't find the story or the point.

Bookmarque (19): zzzz

Bookmarque (31): Scenes too long and choked with detail. Quirky for quirky's sake. Couldn't connect w/main character enough to wade through it all.

merrystar (5): Enjoyed the first half, but then it bogged down.

Bookmarque (56): Self-aggrandizing asshat. Bad science. Questionable reporting.

Bookmarque (27): An orgy of misogyny.

Jullou (1): I love satire and absurdism, rarely don't finish books. But I just couldn't get through this one.

Bookmarque (32): I've liked his other books but this one too brutal, nasty and gross

Bookmarque (17): Repetitive. Boring.

Cecrow (5): Not nearly so engaging as Watership Down, I thought.

Bookmarque (34): Too stupid. Too manipulative. Dumb characters. Like every cheap horror movie ever.

Bookmarque (54): boring. convoluted. stop it with the two name boy already. Death to the two name boy!

Bookmarque (30): HIGHLY speculative. Repetitive. Repetitive. Repetitive.

Bookmarque (5): outdated, 80s vibe to Maris's victimhood, predictable and not well written

merrystar (3): I generally love re-told fairy tales, but I couldn't make it through this one.

gilroy (2): How can one sustain a story when you change points of view every two pages? Just horrible writing

Bookmarque (15): Just couldn't stand the brutality. Why do men do this?

Bookmarque (36): Adam is just too dumb for me to stick with this book.

Bookmarque (50): stupid woman, stupid premise - as if it would take a year for the accountant to tell her she had no money.

gilroy (3): This came out when the Extended Epic like Wheel of Time was popular. Wheel of Time was bad, this was worse.

Bookmarque (29): Can't write her way out of a wet paper bag. Why do I keep trying?

Bookmarque (48): Boring. Not scary. Not even eerie. Just dull.

Bookmarque (7): zzzzzzz

Bookmarque (38): Hateful for hatefulness's sake.

Diane-bpcb (2): was this edited?

Bookmarque (35): Too bleak. Dwells on the worst people do to each other. All. The. Time.

Bookmarque (26): In my best Colonel Kurtz voice - the writing, the writing.

Bookmarque (9): Too stupid

Bookmarque (23): Too oblique.

Bookmarque (33): an onslaught of cruelty, sadism, viciousness and violence.

Bookmarque (57): Can't stand the tone of this book. Too snide, too judgmental, too flip.

Bookmarque (22): Very info-dumpy. Narrator likes the sound of his own voice. Terrible dialog.

Bookmarque (44): It's too twee. Precious. Repetitive. Boring. Preachy.

Bookmarque (6): These assholes deserve each other, but not my time.

Bookmarque (41): Too stupid to finish.

Bookmarque (10): Can't remember anything except that there was incorrect forensic detail.

Bookmarque (2): oddly unfocused writing, didn't engage w/protagonist

Bookmarque (37): So terrible I couldn't finish and returned it to Audible. Protagonist is an idiot among idiots.

Bookmarque (3): boring, self-involed, bossy asshole as a "protagonist"

Bookmarque (47): Bored. Didn't like either mother or daughter and since they weren't interesting either, I ditched it. Oh and the boyfriend/father is a misogynist jerk.… (mehr)

Bookmarque (16): Desperate name dropping by the author. And it's a romance, which by itself isn't awful, but it's a stupid one.

Bookmarque (40): So bored by this novel that I can't go on. Made it to the meet cute crap in college. A girl named Story? For real? So bad.

Bookmarque (46): Boring, full of weird tangents & some awful racism.

Bookmarque (4): the N word all over, racism, plus no one is having fun, not even me. First RT I haven't liked.

Bookmarque (21): Ironically it was dry.

Bookmarque (53): Hated the characters, the politics, the mores and the killer's POV sections.

Bookmarque (18): Woman as another reward or trophy or object to be rescued. OMFG will men just stop with this already.

gilroy (6): Where to start with what's wrong with this story... Horrid writing, stilted dialogue, too many cliches

Bookmarque (28): Yes, the Clash was a political band, but this is just too much politics and not enough band.

Bookmarque (55): no justifiable reason for loser Ange to be entitled to Fabian's money.

Cecrow (0): Skip the whaling detail chapters if you must, but they build sympathy for the whale and add a strong dose of realism.

Cecrow (0): Any fantasy aficionado read this as a breath of fresh air when it was first published, and the genre has not been the same since.

lorax (1): I actually finished this one, gave up after Book 2, but there's no one book to determine if you're a fantasy fan. You can dislike this, because of the violence or for any other reason, and still consider yourself a fantasy fan.… (mehr)

merrystar (2): Have to disagree with Cecrow; I have always read and enjoyed fantasy, but could not finish this when I tried to read it in the late 1990s.