Books you want to throw across the room

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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?

A lot of these books have in common their irritating, "memorable" titles. Your comments about Portnoys Complaint had me gaffawing TooExtra.

Following on from Portnoy's Complaint - pretty much any modern American Classic, ie middle aged men droning on about their miserable affairs

I've never actually thrown a book against a wall, I feel like I should now!!

But ones that deserve to be thrown against a wall....

Fifty shades - no explaination needed
Me before you - sentimental claptrap that made me angry
Gone girl - hated every single character and the ending was ridiculous

Please don't say anyone else has ever read the Bridges of Madison County. The best selling love story . I read it in disbelief. Utter utter tosh.

Agree with One Day. Reading SJ Watson's Second Life and just can't believe how awful it is, the characters, the plot, no redeeming features at all

Yay - I can remember reading The Bridges of Madison County, loving it and sobbing over the ending, All I can say in my defence was that I was young and in love at the time. I thought it was sooo romantic. Now if I were to read it again I'd probably think it overblown manipulative tosh.

TheRattle - I loved "If No One Speaks of Remarkable Things", but can understand if someone didn't.

A Year of Marvellous Ways is overly descriptive nonsense, but I quite enjoyed it.

The first book I ever threw across a room was Light A Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy. I waded through it all and it had a pants ending, so across the room it went.

Would've thrown Marabou Stork Nightmares across the room too, but it was a library book. Nasty, nasty book.

I can barely walk past a copy of Midnight's Children in a book shop without having to physically stop myself from flinging it across the room then jumping up and down on it. Thankfully nowadays I think most copies are to be found at the bottom of the bargain bin.

Sebastian Faulks - Human Traces.

Had to keep ploughing through it because it was a gift from someone close to my heart. Such tedious drivel.

And turned out the giver hadn't read it........

Izzy24 I totally agree! It was utter nonsense and I gave up on it tbh, all that crap about one of the characters learning fluent French in an evening???

Inspired by this thread I finally did throw A Little Life across my room last night, I gave up on page 400 so that was a pretty decent attempt I do believe.

Best thing you could have done with it.

Wish I had the other 300+-pages' worth of my life back.

Kate Mosse - Labyrinth, just terrible
A Little Life - well written, but dear god she went on and on.
Jonathan Franzen - Purity
Miss peregrine's home for peculiar children

50 shades of grey and The Catcher in the Rye

I'm currently reading a different Sebastian Faulkes one for Book Group. Can't stand the lead character. Wondering if the author is deliberately making him loathsome or if that is how he also thinks

Which one Decor? Let me guess? 'Where My Heart Used to Beat'? Just stamp on it now.

Right first time!

I had Where My Heart Used To Beat as an audio book. Loathed it. Have concluded that, after three Sebastian Faulks novels (Birdsong and Engleby are the other two), I don't like his novels. Engleby was ok but hated Birdsong. No more for me.

I've read the same ones and concur (although I did actually like Birdsong).

Well I finished it. Grudging admit that bits of it were not too bad. Still think he is overrated though

Yvaine I had to write an essay about The Bunker Diary, it went on the bonfire afterwards!

How did Under The Dome end? I never finished it.

I have just finished reading Nutshell by Ian McEwan this afternoon. If it hadn't been a library book I would have lobbed it out of the window. First one of his books to make me want to do that. Horrible book.

American Pyscho is the only one that has provoed that response. It was hurled across the room. Possibly left a dent in the plaster.

Living Death - Graham Masterton. God awful. And given how many terrible things have happened to the main character over the course of the series I think she should just give up police work, get a job in a shop and take to drink.