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I just read a terrible book

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Orangeis · 06/02/2023 11:29

Bring me back, B A Paris.

What a load of absolute tosh. A man's partner dissapears, 6 years later he gets with her sister and lives with her. The big twist is.....the new girlfriend is actually the missing sister. He didn't realise this as she had a different hair do.
That's hours of my life I'll never get back. I feel like taking the book in to the back garden and burning the bugger.
What's your worst book and why?

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BeautifulWar · 06/02/2023 12:03

It's a marmite book but I wish I could get the time I spent reading Piranesi back - pretentious guff!

Oh no, I've had that on my list for ages.

Mine was the Luminaries - unnecessarily long, weird and inconsistent writing style that was almost faux Dickens in places and then switched back to the author's authentic voice. Odd.

Also, the first 666 Park Avenue book. It was excruciatingly bad!

FuckabethFuckor · 06/02/2023 12:03

The Time Traveler's Wife bugged me too. All that gazing upon her when she was a kid. Yuck.

Also:

Call Me By Your Name (aka Please Groom My Teenager)

One Damned Thing After Another. Glibby McGlibface.

Some domestic thriller type thing called The Teacher. (I can't remember the author's name just now.) Female teacher comes up with excuse after excuse as to why it's OK that she's fucking a teenage boy. Made me feel sick.

KnottyKnitting · 06/02/2023 12:03

Anything written by Giovanna Fletcher- reads like it has been written by a love sick 14 year old! " Billy and Me" has got to be the biggest pile of doggie doo I have ever read!

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Orangeis · 06/02/2023 12:01

@AinmÁlainn I read a chapter of that and gave up, I knew I wouldn't enjoy it. But this bloody B A Paris had me fooled into thinking I'd enjoy their book. My mother gave me the Thursday Murder Club as she'd really enjoyed it, we usually enjoy the same books. But I found that one somehow suffocating.

@Howeverdoyouneedme yes!!! So he's with Layla, who dissapears. A period of time passes then he gets with Laylas sister Ellen. Who is actually a mentally ill Layla who has reinvented Ellen, who is actually dead. Honestly I feel angry even writing this down, what a load of old bollox.

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peachgreen · 06/02/2023 12:01

Ooh I loved Piranesi! But I absolutely loathed A Little Life which everyone else adored. It was misery porn and in need of a ruthless edit.

AinmÁlainn · 06/02/2023 11:57

The Richard Osman one, Thursday Murder Club. I never don't finish books but I found it utterly painful and refused to give it any more of my life after about a third of the way through.

Hereforthedramaz · 06/02/2023 11:54

The ladies midnight swimming club.

So weirdly Gp surgery focused, felt like I was reading an extended episode of Doctors, which no one ever asked for!

TBF, the top review noted the beautiful setting and if that was the best someone could say about it it should have been a clue the story was lacking!

(Bookclub choice though and in all honesty it wasn't ever going to be my genre)

SecretVictoria · 06/02/2023 11:41

If you want something that’s in a similar vein, but better, try ‘A Face in the Crowd’ or ‘The Girl Who Came Back’, both by Kerry Wilkinson.

NooNakedJacuzziness · 06/02/2023 11:35

It's a marmite book but I wish I could get the time I spent reading Piranesi back - pretentious guff!

Wallabyone · 06/02/2023 11:34

This has made me laugh 😂 it sounds totally implausible!

I read a very dull one last year, Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan...flipping awful.
Hated Crawdads too but yours sounds worse!

WandaWonder · 06/02/2023 11:34

Time travellers wife, I didn't care about the characters at all and that is rare for me

Gone Girl irritated me for some reason

Howeverdoyouneedme · 06/02/2023 11:32

So he ends up with his old partner..?