Got it on Kindle. Paid a tenner Purity by Jonathan Franzen.
I liked only some parts of it. Gave up after reading half if it. Not going to read his other books either even though reviews say they are fairly good. He is a mysogyn who thinks he can write. There's god book in it but it would require someone better than this author. <rant over > I think East Germany part was the best of what I read so far. Frantzen describing sexual scenes? Unpleasant.
This is a revelation! So I could have given up on the travesty that was that idiot Merrily stupid vicar whatshername and got my money back (all £1.99 or whatever it was!) too?!!!
Margo - I really wanted to finish it. It took me to 30% to start enjoying it but the mysogyny and the outragenousness of Purity the character just upset me. I am off to read thar article Cany.
No option to return my book on Amazon account. I returned several on Audible in the past.
Frantzen mysogyny screamed at me in the way he describes male-female relationships.
I wa going to buy the latest book by Houellebecq. I read first chapter in the bookshop and just felt sick at the way he talks there about women. I am not going to prop his ego by buying it.
I am so angry at Frantzen that I vowed to myself to read for a while books written only by female authors.
I got really low after reading a Houellebecq many years ago. I didn't realise what I was letting myself in for and was already feeling quite disillusioned and alone.
That f**ker drained all hope out of me - took me quite a while to recover.
Seriously? Most people on this thread would return a book after reading all or most of it? You don't think that a year or several years' of an author's working life is worth whatever you paid for the book? Would you drink a latte and then try to get a refund? Or wear a coat twice, decide you didn't like it and return it to the store? I don't begrudge paying for books that I haven't enjoyed - I respect the time and effort the author has put into it and I feel they deserve to be paid for their work even if it is not to my taste. I can't understand avid readers who begrudge paying a fair price for a book or think that because it isn't to their taste, they should be refunded. If you buy something by accident, or read 20 pages (listen to 20mins) and decide you don't like it, then I think a refund is perfectly acceptable. But the people who read or listen to a whole book then return for refund are no better than those who read pirated copies. Since when did we as a society decide that a coffee had more inherent value than a book?
I think you will find that most of the thread is about people discussing returning a book when they discover they dislike it, rather than having read the whole thing, or most of it.
Well, I've lurked on many threads over the years and I've seen plenty of comments about listening to whole books through audible and then returning for a refund, simply because they didn't enjoy the narration. I've also seen the "didn't like it, return it" position put forward about ebooks. Having spent the afternoon with some wonderful writers, I was upset by how little their biggest fans value them.
Che - maybe address those comments, rather than the people on here who are absolutely not talking about what you are describing.
You're on Adult Fiction. The people on here buy/read lots and lots of books. We're talking about realising within a few chapters/soon after buying that the book is not for them, not about greedily devouring a book and then expecting our money to be returned.
Although,to return to Merrily stupid W, I probably ought to have been paid for finishing the damn thing!
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