Books you want to throw across the room

The Great Gatsby. Now that really should have been a short story because there's so little to it.

First read this when I was 17. My A-level history teacher was annoyed with me because I apparently missed the point of the book. I thought I got the point very well!

Anything by Henry James makes me want to throw the book across the room. Overblown fussy prose style with tortured syntax and pretentious vocabulary. I am speaking as someone who normally quite enjoys Victorian novels and didn't find it too hard to finish Les Mis (though I could have done without the history lectures).

At the other extreme style-wise, The Great Gatsby. Now that really should have been a short story because there's so little to it. The best bit is the poetic description of the parties; the rest is just a waste of trees. Daisy, Tom et al have to be the most pointless characters ever.

50 shades was trash all along im not surprised everyone threw it in the bin

American Psycho literally went across the room

The Time Travellers Wife and Double Fault by Lionel Shriver were poor.

How has no one mentioned Go Set a Watchman??!

To Kill a Mockingbird is my absolute favourite book. Watchman only works for me if I view it like it was - a first draft of the novel that eventually became Mockingbird and was never meant to see the light of day!

JustDance agree about Big Brother.

Ps: big brother by Shriver is very good until you get to the last chapter!! Wtf!!

I loved A Little Life - sorry, haters
I did hate The Slap - dreadful plot & characters. one of the worst books I've read. Also years ago read Does My Bum Look Big in This? By that Arabella Weir comedian - was tripe personified. Also read an awful John Grisham for book club - it read like it had been written by a child.
Some books I never finished and thought wtf: White Teeth (tedious), Portnoy's Complaint - it went back to the library!
I quite liked 'we're completely beside ourselves' and loved dragon tattoo (all of them).
I read 'the paying guests' recently and thought it was ok. I have heard that some of her books are very good.
The latest Marian Keyes was bad too!!
Never read Eat, Pray, Love or 50 Shades and never want to either!!

I would have thrown The Nightingale across the room and vigorously stamped on it. But it was on my kindle....

I never, ever, ever would have finished it if it hadn't been for book club. Damn you, book club. That's 5 hours I'm not getting back.

How has no one mentioned Go Set a Watchman??! It reads like the worst kind of fan-fic where the characters are recognisable but not right. And now I don't know how to feel about Mockingbird - do you apply the awfulness of the Watchman characters or not? Did she write it or not? The whole thing made me very angry I very newrly threw the book at the window of the train.

I want to forget I ever read The Bunker Diaries. My own stupid fault for reading it, I hated Road of the Dead so should have known better.

My Year Of Meat by Ruth Ozeki.
Awful stereotypes. Author is flying the flag for vegetarianism so meat eaters are domestic abusers or paedophiles.

Interesting to hear all these opinions, I loved The Slap, enjoyed We're All Completely Beside Ourselves and like most books by Shriver (although The Post Birthday World was pretty crap)!

Agree with chucking Me Before You, Sister and Under the Dome though.

Living Death - Graham Masterton. God awful. And given how many terrible things have happened to the main character over the course of the series I think she should just give up police work, get a job in a shop and take to drink.

American Pyscho is the only one that has provoed that response. It was hurled across the room. Possibly left a dent in the plaster.

I have just finished reading Nutshell by Ian McEwan this afternoon. If it hadn't been a library book I would have lobbed it out of the window. First one of his books to make me want to do that. Horrible book.

Yvaine I had to write an essay about The Bunker Diary, it went on the bonfire afterwards!

How did Under The Dome end? I never finished it.

Well I finished it. Grudging admit that bits of it were not too bad. Still think he is overrated though

I've read the same ones and concur (although I did actually like Birdsong).

I had Where My Heart Used To Beat as an audio book. Loathed it. Have concluded that, after three Sebastian Faulks novels (Birdsong and Engleby are the other two), I don't like his novels. Engleby was ok but hated Birdsong. No more for me.

Right first time!

Which one Decor? Let me guess? 'Where My Heart Used to Beat'? Just stamp on it now.

I'm currently reading a different Sebastian Faulkes one for Book Group. Can't stand the lead character. Wondering if the author is deliberately making him loathsome or if that is how he also thinks

50 shades of grey and The Catcher in the Rye

Kate Mosse - Labyrinth, just terrible
A Little Life - well written, but dear god she went on and on.
Jonathan Franzen - Purity
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