Books you want to throw across the room

I've just remembered that I detested The Girl on the Train even more than Gone Girl. Absolute drivel. The main character was so annoying, and the 'mystery' boring and obvious. I also thought it was far fetched, and just badly written, tbh.

Raising Boys by Steve Biddulph - full of patronising sexist assumptions and generalisations. The only sensible bits were basic common sense anyway! Never mind throwing it the damn rubbish needed to be burnt!

Man and Wife by Tony Parsons. I flung it out of a window in disgust.

I get how Gone girl wasn't to everyone's taste. One read that I enjoyed from beginning to end was Burial Rites by Hannah Kent, I also found The Vegetarian an amazing book, not for everyone though, specially if looking for something light and soothing as it is shockingly visual, sad, dark, funny and very deep. Only 189 pages but I felt I wanted a few more.

I haven't read a decent book in ages too. Hated girl on the train and cloud atlas.

Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train, 50 Shades all went on the log burner.
I haven't found a decent book to read for months!

Oh, I loved Gone Girl It's so rare that a female character gets to be evil and get away with being evil - POSSIBLE SPOILER - I expected him to kill her at the end, so what actually happened was quite refreshing!

The girl on the train.
So unintelligent I worked out the whodunnit before I've read half of the book. The "girl" who should've been called a "woman" given that her age in the book is early 30s; was one the most irritating characters from a story ever. There was so much buzz about this book because it came in the footsteps of Gone Girl, now that was worth every second spent reading it.
Still, the writer of it must be very rich now and my opinion she owes it to the media and the luck of her book being published straight after Gone Girl

Gone Girl - one of the most over hyped books ever. I absolutely hated it.

The Lie was rubbish, overhyped nonsense. Just truly bad. I felt so angry I wanted to throw it. It was on my kindle though!

I'm another who hated Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , oh god it just went on and on. The film was loads better, lol.

So relieved to hear the hatred for A Little Life. It made me feel like a perverted voyeur. 'Misery porn' is the most apt description ever. And as for every single character having an amazingly successful, super-incredible career - as if.

Fecking horrible book.

Oh no Morris. I was going to nominate The Pilot's Wife for throwing across the room. Hated it. Only an American pre 9/11 could portray those events like that imho.

Also couldn't get in with Kim by Rudyard Kipling. I heard it praised on R4's A Good Read (which I love) and wanted to love it but hated it and there may have been some book throwing.

Slightly OT but I thought we weren't supposed to iike any of characters in The Slap, to make it even more 'huma.' Did go a bit OTT with the nitty gritty sex details though

I was interested by the story in The Slap, but I hated all the characters. It was irritating but I finished it.

What is the Susan George novel DixieWishbone? It sounds so awful that I had to look it up, but could not find it. is it the same Susan George who's an actress? Or do you mean Elizabeth George (the Inspector Lynley writer)?

Another vote for One Day here. It was just so bad and the characters so uniformly awful that it made me very cross.

Fifty Shades trilogy. I read them as it was "the thing" at the time. Utter, utter bilge. Mind you, the reviews of the books on Amazon were very entertaining!

Just lending my voice to the chorus of those who couldn't get on with The Slap. Not a pleasant experience-was the TV version any better?

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

It was so descriptive it went on and on and on there was far too much detail. The second in the series wasn't much better I couldn't read the third

Don't recall 12 year old princess sex!! I may have missed it as I repeatedly knocked my head off the wall trying to wade through the immense amount of description of every fecking tiny little fecking detail on every action, on every movement, about all clothes worn and every morsel eaten that was in Game of Thrones.

GoT was more of a shaking the book while hissing 'Get. On. With. It" through gritted teeth book than lobb across the room book. Book 2 was decidedly more frustration than book 1. Didn't punish myself read with the rest

..and Game of Thrones book 1. I got to the description of the 12 year old princess having sex with her new husband and stopped reading.

Christopher Unborn. It was the second book I didn't finish - didn't even try to. Usually, back then anyway (20/30 years ago) I thought that it behooved me to finish a book, showed respect for the author's pov and thoughts and labour, but with that one I just couldn't.

Some by someone call Ellory. That book flew across the room and out the window!

And The Island by Hislop. I still hate her for spoiling a potentially beautiful story with such awful, crude writing.

Me Before You. I hear it's now a film. Maybe it suffered from too much hype but I found it a little write-by-numbers

Testimony was a fucking disgrace. Victim blaming shite.

But I do like some other Anita Shreve, particularly The Pilots Wife.