Books you want to throw across the room

[tobee]

Over 20 years ago, on holiday I took The Chamber by John Grisham. I'd heard it had (at the time) the biggest amount for film rights ever paid. When I finished I literally threw it across the room in disgust. (Actually poolside area). It was such a load of hogwash! Now I look back and wonder I bothered to get that far.

Any books that have provoked a similar reaction in you?

[tobee]

I think we get such visceral reactions because not only have we usually thought carefully and spent money on a book and time reading it but it's such a personal experience, a contract between just us and the author that a let down seems like, dare I say it, a betrayal.

[lionheart70]

What they do in the dark by Amanda Coe. It was so unpleasant and it filled my head with images I couldn't erase. I really felt upset and angered by it.

[MermaidofZennor]

The Lemon Grove by Helen Walsh. If it hadn't been a library book I would have ripped it into tiny pieces, stamped on them and then thrown them into the compost bin, and let it rot and be eaten by worms.

[Lules]

Salman Rushdie's autobiography. He was like he took tips from Father Ted's Golden Cleric speech

[Quodlibet]

Can't remember what it was called but was by Jodi Picoult. I was stuck in a place on holiday where that was the only available reading material in English and I couldn't bear it.

[GreenBudgie]

Sepulchre by Kate Mouse. Inaccurate i.e. unseasonable flowers mentioned and limited vocabulary. Sorry Kate , binned it after chapter 1.

[quitecrunchy]

The Dark Volume (2nd in the Glass Books of the Dream Eaters series/trilogy/whatever). Still annoyed with myself for ploughing through it to the end. I didn't even particularly enjoy the first one - obviously a glutton for punishment.

Also 50 Shades. Glad I didn't persevere with that.

[Cooroo]

The Alchemist by Paul Coelho. I was leant it by a lovely friend who adored it, and I absolutely loathed it.

[HopeClearwater]

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers. I'm getting angry just thinking about it.

[EnthusiasmDisturbed]

Eat Pray Love

What utter indulgent twaddle

I hated her by the end of the book and felt pity for everyone she met on her tedious journey of finding herself

How I ever got to the end i don't know

[Wombat44]

The Danish Girl

The characterisation of the main character was so shallow, and she was constantly being described as being "like a little girl" although she is well into adulthood. Including scenes where it's really inappropriate in context to describe her as being like a little girl; unfortunately I can't describe the most flagrant example without giving a spoiler.

Also she is repeatedly described as being extremely shy, but then somehow wins an award for being saleswoman of the month in her job.

I read it on Kindle but if it had been a paperback I would definitely have thrown it across the room.

[SilkScarf]

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

[Sadik]

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)

[LadyDeadpool]

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.

[flightywoman]

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.

[YvaineStormhold]

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

[southeastdweller]

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

[Footle]

This is the trouble with using a Kindle.

[ItMustBeBedtimeSurely]

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.

[NotnearlyascalmasIlook]

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.

[TheSolitaryBoojum]

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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[MorrisZapp]

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.

[littlemissneela]

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.

[WatchMeSoar]

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