Books you want to throw across the room

Dune. Had to read for a freshman seminar. Chucked it across the room and it got very dented - luckily it had no resale value in the first place!

Eat, Pray, Love was appalling. Caused a rift in our bookgroup

The most recent Fiona Gibson one. They are easy reads but this one was utter shite.

Oh gosh, The Slap was dire wasn't it? Not one sympathetic character in it.

Testimony by Anita Shreve. spoiler alert

The premise is that a young teenage girl (I think 14) at an exclusive private school drinks alcohol at a party and then has group sex with several students much older than her. It turns out one of the boys involved filmed it all and the book deals with the fallout. The tone of the book is dreadful. The boys are portrayed as innocent 'victims' and the girl, despite being underage and intoxicated is some kind of temptress, responsible for their downfall. When one of the boys eventually commits suicide, it's clear who the author blames.

I couldn't throw it across the room but I deleted it from my kindle with a very firm press of the finger!

American Psycho.
Thought The Time Traveller's Wife was arch, over-hyped mush.

Yy to 'We are all completely beside ourselves' and 'The Slap' (beyond dreadful), also all of Kate Mosse, I had decided to treat myself and bought all 3 new - Labyrinth, Citadel and Sepulchre, read half of the first chapter and threw the whole lot of them into the bin. Awful tripe and so badly written.

Eric Clapton's autobiography
Got about a third of the way through and realised I simply wasn't interested enough to carry on.
Didn't throw it mind as it was a hard back but certainly felt like it.

Erk, a few of these are on my waiting-to-be-read shelf

I've thrown two books - Fifty Shades (not for the badly written sex, just because it was badly written in general) and the novelization of The Notebook, syrupy pap.

50 Shades. Utter, utter crap. Couldn't get past the second page, it was so bad. And I quite like cliterature.

The dust that falls from dreams by Louis de berniere - hated it, it was for book club. Needless to say I just drank the wind that evening as I couldn't enter the full discourse as I declined to finish it. Saying that the whole group were unimpressed.

Disclaimer by Renee Knight - skull-crushingly boring, sordid, insulting nonsense, just utter trash. I threw it across the room, picked it up to put into the recycling (as wouldn't consider sending it to a charity shop it was that bad), then thought that someone might pick it up in the recycling centre and it'd be my fault if they read it, so I threw it in the rubbish bin and threw food and old teabags on top of it to make sure it was dead

50 shades of grey
I paid good money for that pile of shite and I did throw it in disgust, the grammar was appalling!

This is from someone who finished Eat Love Pray

Not thrown, but not finished so pretty much the same, a Deane Koontz book. I cant even remember the name but it was utter dross.

Currently reading a really shit book called The Art of Fielding. It's about American college baseball and none of the characters have normal names. They are called Affenlight, Pella and Starblind. And Henry.

Also it actually describes baseball matches.

It's indescribably bad. Could somebody give me written permission to stop reading it please.

I know what I'm going to do with the next book I can't bear to release into the wild again...
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Yy to One Day, I thought that day would never end. The Slap, they were all horrible, and I didn't care what happened to them. Eat, pray, love, self-indulgent in the extreme, 'did you know I'm a hugely successful writer and I'm so popular'. But I did love The Miniaturist, though. It wasn't just the story, itsel, but the way she vividly conjured up the time and place, that made me feel really invested in the characters.

The Stand. Had potential to be great, but was so fucking sexist. It got thrown at the part where Fran (?) gets a seat on the council but is introduced by her standing up and giving everyone a twirl while the men sit back and admire. Puke.

There was more, but that was the worst.

This is the trouble with using a Kindle.

How to be Both by Ali Smith gets my vote here. What a load of pretentious shite!

SPOILER ALERT

AnneLovesGilbert

The whole thing was down to alien children playing with Earth, like kids with a magnifying glass over ants.

I mean, for actual fuck's actual sake

The Da Vinci Code was a wall-hitter. There's nothing wrong with tosh, but that was so bad it was like a lesson in how not to write. PLUS all those people who seemed to think it had some basis in reality and said things like "It makes you think doesn't it?". Um, no.

The Slap. OH. MY. GOD. Awful, just awful. How the fuck did it get published, it's seriously utterly shit. The people were all vile, the story was non-existent. I absolutely hated it. I had it on holiday in India and had to cart it around because I didn't want to leave it polluting the lovely places we visited!

Gone Girl is pretty bad. I would have thrown it at the wall if it had been paper rather than a Kindle copy! And again, horrid people. I skip-read most of it, it never improved.

The Couple Next Door - the way it presented post-natal depression made me so angry it really was a nasty vile book. It was hugely recommended by a book group I follow on Facebook but I've begun to realise every book where the author is a member is never given anything less than 5 stars. It was just such a horrid way to present someone suffering depression "Oh she probably killed her kid" she was hitting the child as well because you know everyone with PND is an evil fuck.

Both the Book of Dave and Great Apes by Will Self. (Why did I even try to read the second one - I think his plot ideas sound great, but I just find him unreadable)

Cormoran Strike series. So wanted to love it but it wasn't for me.