Books you want to throw across the room

Inspired by this thread I finally did throw A Little Life across my room last night, I gave up on page 400 so that was a pretty decent attempt I do believe.

Best thing you could have done with it.

Wish I had the other 300+-pages' worth of my life back.

Izzy24 I totally agree! It was utter nonsense and I gave up on it tbh, all that crap about one of the characters learning fluent French in an evening???

Sebastian Faulks - Human Traces.

Had to keep ploughing through it because it was a gift from someone close to my heart. Such tedious drivel.

And turned out the giver hadn't read it........

I can barely walk past a copy of Midnight's Children in a book shop without having to physically stop myself from flinging it across the room then jumping up and down on it. Thankfully nowadays I think most copies are to be found at the bottom of the bargain bin.

TheRattle - I loved "If No One Speaks of Remarkable Things", but can understand if someone didn't.

A Year of Marvellous Ways is overly descriptive nonsense, but I quite enjoyed it.

The first book I ever threw across a room was Light A Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy. I waded through it all and it had a pants ending, so across the room it went.

Would've thrown Marabou Stork Nightmares across the room too, but it was a library book. Nasty, nasty book.

Yay - I can remember reading The Bridges of Madison County, loving it and sobbing over the ending, All I can say in my defence was that I was young and in love at the time. I thought it was sooo romantic. Now if I were to read it again I'd probably think it overblown manipulative tosh.

Agree with One Day. Reading SJ Watson's Second Life and just can't believe how awful it is, the characters, the plot, no redeeming features at all

Please don't say anyone else has ever read the Bridges of Madison County. The best selling love story . I read it in disbelief. Utter utter tosh.

I've never actually thrown a book against a wall, I feel like I should now!!

But ones that deserve to be thrown against a wall....

Fifty shades - no explaination needed
Me before you - sentimental claptrap that made me angry
Gone girl - hated every single character and the ending was ridiculous

Following on from Portnoy's Complaint - pretty much any modern American Classic, ie middle aged men droning on about their miserable affairs

Y to hating Miss Peregrine.
The plot was just silly.

Looking at my shelf, the one that jumps out as deserving of being thrown down a well is Thirteen Reasons Why. It's a book about suicide by someone who never bothered to learn about suicide and depression. Irresponsible.

I also hated Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children. Written by someone who had blatantly never been to Wales! Also, complete drivel.

Bought 'Wreckage' by Emily Bleeker on recommendation - it was bloody awful.

Adele Parks' 'the state we're in' was rubbish and made worse by the bit at the end that asks you to keep the secret (surprise ending) - you mean the secret of how shit it is, Adele???

Loved 'we are all completely beside ourselves' though and thought 'the miniaturist' was ok.

Sounds like this thread might save me from bothering with 'a little life'.

Really hated Sarah Waters' 'the paying guests' - loathed every character and had no interest in the outcome...would have abandoned it if not for book club.

The Inheritors by William Golding. Nothing happens, I read it to the end waiting for the story. Still waiting .

Fifty Shades, tried to read a sample on my kindle. Lost the will to live after first chapter, never even got as far as the juicy bits. Bloody dire.

The Pram, bigged up on Amazon Kindle with loads of five stars, but actually written by a child, I think. dreadful one dimensional characters. A shame, as the story had potential.

Miniaturist, I too read it and was sorely disappointed with the end.

James Herbert's last book, Ash, was a bitter disappointment. I didn't even finish it. I can't believe he wrote it , maybe a ghostwriter did, possibly because of James's health issues. I cannot believe the guy who wrote The Fog could write such drivel, again appallingly written, one dimensional characters and ridiculous storyline.

Love the GoT books though, and Girl with Dragon Tattoo books, and the Stand.

Inspired by this thread I finally did throw A Little Life across my room last night, I gave up on page 400 so that was a pretty decent attempt I do believe.

I loathed Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwing. I loathed it so much I wrote a blog post on it, unrequested, for my sister's blog, in which I ranted about what a vapid bitch the main character was.

But the worst book I have read recently was Portnoy's Complaint. His complaint is being an utter and total wanker (literally and figuratively). I read it for book club and it was truly dire. How do these things get lauded as classics?

But my experience of book club was that if I liked a book, 70% of the club hated it with a passion. On the other hand, I felt that most of them couldn't distinguish between a book written about Important Issues and actual good writing - take Me Before You - they all agreed it was really good and very thought-provoking. I agreed with it being thought-provoking, but not that it was really good, because it was just basic chick lit but with euthanasia thrown in.

Clashcityrocker He did!

Powerful stuff, both of the books, but very, very dark, as squoosh has said. I got a third book of his - "The Room" It was so awful Couldn't get past the first chapter.

I don't think anyone could make up that kind of stuff if they haven't lived/experienced it. It's very frightening.

Last Exit to Brooklyn is the darkest book I've ever read.

(I love American Psycho. And Lionel Shriver.)

hey, did he write requiem for a dream? I enjoyed that.

Day 7 of Les Mis. Fuck me, we have a new charactar! Hello Fontane, I'm very pleased to see you! It is very well written, and I'm actually quite enjoying it. It's not so much the actual location descriptions, but the in depth back story of each character...47 pages explaining what an all around nice guy Monseigneur Beinevue is! He better have a bloody big part later in the book, that's all I can say.

I like Lionel Shriver, however her books only work if you don't think about them too much.

bikerlou If you think "American Psycho" was horrific, try "Last Exit to Brooklyn" (Hubert Selby Jr). Brutal!

Oh I'd forgotten Ulysses. I was immensely proud that I got to page 370 before I gave up.

Ulysses by James Joyce, I think I only got to the second page before I put it down, it was such hard work to read.

Girl on the train was despite all the hype really disappointing, I didn't care about any of the characters and just didn't think it was interesting or clever at all.