Books you want to throw across the room

Lots of these books I've really enjoyed (A Little Life, The Slap, Outlander, Girl With Dragon Tattoo).

But I totally agree with Disclaimer (unreadable) and a book called 'Only Ever Yours' from last year which was touted as The handmaid's Tale for teenagers. Drivel.

I can't read Terry Pratchett. - visceral reaction to his smug self referential meta narrative. Struggle with maigcal realism - tried to read new one by woman who wrote When God Was a Rabbit and it was just nonsense. (A Year of Marvellous Ways I think it was called.)

The worst reaction I've ever had to a book was At Swim-Two-Birds which is supposedly a modernist classic but within 15 pages I was ready to kill.

I think the word 'girl' in the title is a good indicator to avoid a book.

I liked Atonement as well. And Birdsong.

Glad I'm not alone, Memoires :) Enduring Love gave me the shivers, was that good. But I'll never want to reread The Child in Time - that scared me. The DC were young then and prone to wandering off in supermarkets. Enjoyed The Children Act very much - love any literature that is law related.

I hated Atonement but very much liked On Chesil Beach....

50 Shades went in the bin - utter dross!

I loved Gone Girl and The Girl With A Dragon Tattoo...--

I love anything by Jane Austen unsurprisingly and adore the Morse novels by Colin Dexter.

Yeah the time travellers wife was shit.

I can't help but think it odd that the amount of time he spent grooming Claire is suddenly ok because they were always going to get married anyway.

The Time Traveller's Wife. Only finished it as on holiday and only English book I could find eventually swapped it for a woman Iin White. I got the better deal. Boring rubbish badly written crap.

I like Ian McEwan, you're not alone

"If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things" by Jon McGregor was recommended to me by a friend, who gushed about how brilliant it was.

I hated it. It was written as though someone had thought, "hm, I'm going to write a meaningful book which will win awards" without giving much thought to anything else!

I have shit taste in books

I find American Psycho oddly compelling. Disturbing, yes, but I've reread it several times.

Love the stand. I don't think the book is inherently sexist, but stu redman is. I suspect in a post-plague world woman's rights would take a significant step back (not saying they ought to do, just saying I reckon they would)

Also loved game of thrones...although do find the writing in the first book clunky. Don't recall the 12 year old princess sex scene though - no, yes I do, I think you're referring to the Danerys's wedding night.

Did hate WAACBO though with a passion and thought the mianiaturist was a load of shite and the most pointless book ever written.

its an old one, but I hated Lake Woebegone Days.
Everyone going on about how funny it was and it was the most boring drivel I have ever read

I almost feel embarrassed to admit that I like Ian McEwan's novels now. I haven't read everything he's written, nor have I loved all the books of his that I have read, but I did enjoy Atonement. It had sat, unread, on my bookshelf for ten years before I picked it up and read it, but found myself really enjoying it. And, yes, I like tricksy endings to novels. Probably On Chesil Beach is the one I enjoyed the least. I've just ordered his new one, Nutshell, from the library. Sounds odd, but intriguing.

Not sure I have ever liked anything by Kazuo Ishiguro. Don't even try now.

Also hated Attonment - didn't throw it anywhere just didn't bother finishing it.

happy - I had wiped the memory of having read The Buried Giant. I absolutely hated it. Just awful.

Speaking of Kazuo Ishiguro, his latest the Buried Giant is NOT good, double annoying as I had three books on holiday and that was one of them. I ploughed on hoping i would have a light bulb moment but it never happened. I left it in the room when we left so someone else could be disappointed.

I really liked We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, thought The Miniaturist was nicely written but the plot was full of holes.

My worst book ever was Anything for Her by Jack Jordan. I would have thrown it across the room but it's an ebook so would have done irreparable damage to my Kindle. It is utterly appalling: unbelievable plot, unbelievable and deeply unpleasant characters, dreadful writing and pacing, incredibly repetitive...I cannot understand why it has so many five star reviews on Amazon. I don't know what else these reviewers have ever read in their lives to think this book is good.

I also hated What Dreams May Come but at least the writing was OK, it was the plot that was awful and the banality of how heaven was portrayed.

A friend and I have a pact that one day we will sit at a table with a bottle of vodka and she'll read Atonement and I'll read The Corrections, which she hated as much as I hated Atonement.

That is a cruel trick your father played Merricats

Oh yes I HATED Atonement too! My father gave it to me to read as he said it was really good - turns out he was playing a prank as he'd wasted his time reading it The only reason I finished the damn thing was because I trusted his judgement, I've never forgiven him! Been staying clear of McEwan ever since.

The Girl on the Train was awful too, I have given up reading these so-called thrillers now. Am avoiding anything described as 'the next Gone Girl' and can't wait until 'domestic noir' has disappeared as a fad genre.

Oh bugger. I'm half way through A Little Life. I'm hating it but feel I have committed to it now.
Did anyone like it?

Also Atonement is basically nicked from The Go-Between. Agree McEwan is overrated.

Hurrah margaritas someone else hates the self-indulgent 'aren't I clever' shite from McEwan in Atonement! Why the fuck didn't his editors cross it out with big black marker pen? 'Ian, this is bollocks, we're not publishing it unless you drop this twaddle at the end here'.

Oh! Is it common? I didn't realise.

I am delighted.

50 shades of gray, got turned into fire bricks,

I just knew there would be some McEwan hate on this thread

.. so you won't be going for his new one written from the point of a foetus then Margaritas? .. I read the reviews last weekend ,(Hamlet--esque they say ) but not sure if i'll rush to get it ..(unless its 99p on Kindle one day )

Though of his recent books I did enjoy Sweet Tooth ...

Don't even try 'The Unconsoled' by Kashuo Ishiguru.