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what not to read

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stainesmassif · 23/07/2010 12:51

my best friend lives abroad. she recently facebooked me to say she 'needed' me to read the bride stripped bare. i couldn't believe how awful it was. it turns out she needed me to read it so that we could agree on how dreadful it is.
has anyone else tricked you like this? or did you enjoy this book? it appears i still need to talk about it!

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pointydog · 23/07/2010 13:53

Holiday by stanley middleton, who has written millions of books and I'd never heard of him.

Well, I won't be picking up any more of his. My lord, it was painful and pretentious.

StealthPolarBear · 23/07/2010 13:49

go on then pointy, what was it?

pointydog · 23/07/2010 13:32

I did not liek labyrinthe either. Had to give up.

pointydog · 23/07/2010 13:31

I really want someone to read a book I reaD ON holiday because it was so awful. And even worse, it won the booke r prize in '74. I felt so deceived.

StealthPolarBear · 23/07/2010 13:17

go on then i'll give it a go

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stainesmassif · 23/07/2010 13:11

anyway, someone read the bride stripped bare. it's awful! it has sex in it...

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StealthPolarBear · 23/07/2010 13:10

8th confession was the JP one, i remember

StealthPolarBear · 23/07/2010 13:10

lol

I just remember it being something like this:

Main character meets love interest, has sex. They fight and don't speak. Somehow they make up. They have sex, followed by another fight and then don't speak....etc etc. With a bit of screaming at the spooky ghosts in between.

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stainesmassif · 23/07/2010 13:08

i didn't take note of titles, but i do remember there was an awful lot of exposition in the tami hoag eg 'the detective protagonist grasped his pathologist twin brother by the wrist when he arrived on the crime scene and growled 'it's good to see you again two years after the mysterious death of our father'

or something like that

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StealthPolarBear · 23/07/2010 13:02

I buy and read most James Patterson books, this one was bad!!
Tami Hoag - I think I started with a very bad book by chance, there were some ghosts and a lot of bad sex (when the characters were talking to each other). I did try reading another one which was slightly better but too dull - I gave up.

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stainesmassif · 23/07/2010 12:59

i've read jp and th in desperation whilst staying at my mum's. not as bad as the bride stripped bare.

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TheButterflyEffect · 23/07/2010 12:58

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StealthPolarBear · 23/07/2010 12:56

8th something by James Patterson, it's dreadful
anything by chelsea cain
anything by tami hoag

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stainesmassif · 23/07/2010 12:56

i managed approx 4 pages of the labyrinthe. dull, dull, dull.

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