Books to avoid

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Plenty of threads for recommendations but what books would you advise people to avoid

For me it's 'Her' by Harriet Gray

A total non story with a dreadful ending. I actually thought my kindle had forgotten to download the last chapter. Don't know if the author was running late for her deadline or what but ugh avoid

Just remembered, 'The Remains of the Day'.

Just blody tell her you love her, for gawd's sake. So boring.

Dan Brown books

Audrey Niffenburger... read the Time traveller's wife and it left me 'meh' and gave up on Her Fearful Symmetry. Also disliked Gone Girl too

One Hundred years of Solitude...felt like it took me a hundred years to read it

In the Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

I've read quite a lot of Ian McEwan books and disliked more than i've liked but I would recommend Saturday and On Chesil Beach

The Lovely Bones - what a waste of time.
In non - fiction, Dear Fatty by Dawn French. Hated this, it was so disjointed.
I loved The Time Travellers Wife though.

The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova. Got to about 400 pages in and literally nothing had happened. At that point I gave up.

The Little Friend - Donna Tartt. Just tedious.

The woman who went to bed for a year yadda yadda. I don't remember exact title.

I recently read a newish book called The Ship.

Both of them with utterly self involved main characters.

The historian is one of my all time favourites, brilliant book

I'm only about a quarter of the way through "how to be both", so judgement is reserved on that. I loved "the Goldfinch " though, even though at times I did feel as the pp says "just give the bloody painting back"..

The Historian - so dull I had wiped it from my memory entirely. It promised a good story but it failed to deliver. I was bored long before the end.

Another one - Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes. Just awful. Don't know what I was thinking reading this pile of shite. It was supposed to be satire. It wasn't. Maybe it lost that in translation.

I don't like Jodi Picoult books

diagree about the Outcast, it was very moving.

Wolf Hall.

Dire. As is so much historical fiction. You don't know wht happened, why are you pretending that you do? It's like a bizarre Fan Fic with codpieces.

Anything by Donna Tartt, seriously don't get all the live for her books

50 Shades of Shite

Gone Girl ( although the other books by the same author were very good imo)

The Hunger Games ( if you're over 14)

Anything by Jodi Picoult
Anything by Sophie Hannah

Anything nominated for the Booker prize. Inevitably a pretentious load of old bollocks

Me Before You - I read the entire book with a on my face.

The Lovely Bones - one of the only books EVER which I've given up on 3/4 of the way through. I just didn't care and couldn't bring myself to pretend anymore. Total shite.

Can't get into Ian McEwan even though the blurbs look brilliant - his writing style does nothing for me.

Oh, and Kate Atkinson's writing style also puts me off. I've never got past the first chapter of anything she's written either. I want to read Life After Life but I just can't.

Oh, yes forgot about that woman who went to bed for a year. Just get over yourself, you stupid cow. And that bloke who quite happily waited on her. And who calls their kids Brian and Brianne, ffs? I didn't finish it and am hoping it ended with everyone abandoning her so she had to get off her lazy arse and do something.

I thought Cloud Atlas and Midnight's Children were wonderful.

Only book that made me really angry was The Alchemist by Paul Coelho. Pile of shite.

What was that book with rabbit in the title ? God that was dire, one funny paragraph and that was it!

Wolf Hall
Lord of the Rings
50 shades of shite
On Chesil Beach
Anything written by Dawn French

I hated On Chesil Beach. So unrealistic that they would divorce over one tiny quarrel. 50 shades of grey sounds so totally ridiculous that I can't imagine ever wanting to read it.

Never let me go.
Whole world structure made no sense at all. Which wouldn't have mattered if I'd cared about the characters at all, but I didn't .
But I liked The Lovely Bones!

Love the idea of a book called We Need To Witter On About Kevin

Gone Girl - I kept thinking that surely it would get better only to reach the end and realise that actually it doesn't.

50 Shades - There are far, far better books about BDSM out there.

I cant really think of any because I stop reading them pretty quickly if I cant get into them.

Fwiw, I liked
the lovely bones,
kevin,
cloud atlas,
lotr (as a teenager)
time traveler and fearful symmetry