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Books you want to throw across the room

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tobee · 19/08/2016 11:49

Over 20 years ago, on holiday I took The Chamber by John Grisham. I'd heard it had (at the time) the biggest amount for film rights ever paid. When I finished I literally threw it across the room in disgust. (Actually poolside area). It was such a load of hogwash! Now I look back and wonder I bothered to get that far.

Any books that have provoked a similar reaction in you?

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AnneLovesGilbert · 19/08/2016 13:06

How did it end Yvaine? I bought it when I started watching the TV series, but that turned quickly into a pile of utter shite and now I don't know whether or not to start the book? It's a hell of a tome, so not worth it?.

I did American Psycho on my degree course and while I never threw it anywhere I had to put it outside my bedroom every night as I thought it would give me nightmares if it was too close to me. Hated. Every. Single. Word.

YvaineStormhold · 19/08/2016 12:25

Under The Dome by Stephen King, because of the truly fucking awful ending even by his standards

The Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks, because I didn't want the bloody thing anywhere near me after I read the truly harrowing ending.

SpecialAgentFreyPie · 19/08/2016 12:22

Ugh. American Psycho.

The constant use of the term 'hardbody' was justification enough to hate it.

sazerashez · 19/08/2016 12:22

Comedy wing: you've described little life perfectly. I felt exactly like you. It made me both angry and bored.

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tobee · 19/08/2016 12:21

Ha! Love these intense reactions.

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AndYourBirdCanSing · 19/08/2016 12:13

50 shades was chucked across the room, as was American Psycho

janeelliott · 19/08/2016 12:12

Twilight and Fifty Shades of grey. Infuriating drivel.

ComedyWing · 19/08/2016 12:09

deeply unpleasant liking, not dislike! Duh.

ComedyWing · 19/08/2016 12:08

I think I did actually throw Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life across the room. I thought it was a morally- and aesthetically-indefensible load of misery porn that seemed to take an endless, deeply unpleasant dislike in saving up the horrifying details of a child's sexual abuse as a sort of narrative titillation for the reader, and almost glorying in what further horrors (continual agonising pain, extreme domestic violence, rape, progressive disability, self-harm, betrayal, bereavement etc etc) it could pile on the hapless character in adulthood.

FoxesOnSocks · 19/08/2016 12:07

Last one I actually lobbed across the room was 'a girl is a half formed thing'

SpecialAgentFreyPie · 19/08/2016 12:00

I usually love Laura Lippman, but the ending of The Most Dangerous Thing was so unbelievably offensive (not to mention unrealistic to the point of WTAF) that I actually went off her books for a few years.

Basically, the end excused and pitied the child molester/psychotic pimp because she was a woman Not in a literary'makes you think' sense, but in a 'I didn't know how to finish the book/little boys aren't harmed by molestation if it's a teenage girl' sense.

One of the few books I've genuinely been disgusted by.

The Crow Girl was very interesting, but a certain reveal was just so OTT it spoiled the psychological analysis for me.

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