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What is the worst book you have read recently and why was it so bad?

361 replies

Miaou · 30/07/2007 20:41

I've been reading light stuff atm and just grabbed this off the "chick lit" stand at the library just before having ds2 - I struggled valiantly through to the end but was really disappointed in it. The story was turgid and predictable, the characters one-dimensional, and I felt that what could have been an interesting story with the potential for some really sinister turns, was in fact incredibly dull. The final "showdown" between the mother and son was jaw-droppingly badly written and really let the whole book down.

However I have had lots of fun picking it to pieces so maybe it was worth it

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TotalChaos · 31/07/2007 21:52

snorting at the critiques of lovely bones and shopaholic series.

I am immensely grateful to RL though for posting that hilarious article about book groups by RC, that has really brightened my night

bundle - I also loathed Shadow of the Wind.

FluffyMummy123 · 31/07/2007 21:53

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MuminBrum · 31/07/2007 21:55

Here's another homunculus. This man's book Thinly Disguised Autobiography is truly ex-cru-ciating.

RosaLuxembourg · 31/07/2007 22:00

ROFL MuminBrum. What an egregious twunt.

Aitch · 31/07/2007 22:06

nevertheless, cod. according to recent MN threads the fact that your children are members of the aforesaid minority group does not give you the right to infer that MumInBrum suggests anything other than a downright bluestocking. do try to keep up in future. it's pc gone mad don't you know?

FluffyMummy123 · 31/07/2007 22:07

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MuminBrum · 31/07/2007 22:07

... and that's an insult to twunts. Oh, I'm enjoying this. What else has really annoyed me in the literary line recently?

FluffyMummy123 · 31/07/2007 22:08

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MuminBrum · 31/07/2007 22:08

BluestockingInBrum?
BitchInBrum?

FluffyMummy123 · 31/07/2007 22:08

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FluffyMummy123 · 31/07/2007 22:08

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MuminBrum · 31/07/2007 22:08

FGS I do not live in frigging Sutton Coldfield.

FluffyMummy123 · 31/07/2007 22:08

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FluffyMummy123 · 31/07/2007 22:09

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MuminBrum · 31/07/2007 22:09

Sutton Codfield?

Aitch · 31/07/2007 22:10

is bluestocking taken? i like that name very much. (so it's probably taken...)

FluffyMummy123 · 31/07/2007 22:10

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MuminBrum · 31/07/2007 22:11

Oy, Cod, MB wants you here

Bluestocking · 31/07/2007 22:13

Excellent suggestion Aitch!

FluffyMummy123 · 31/07/2007 22:13

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sassy · 31/07/2007 22:13

ooh you have a twin!

bluestocking - greensleeves.

Bluestocking · 31/07/2007 22:15

Moseley, of course.

ForcesSweetheart · 31/07/2007 22:15

wtf??
not only did I love Lovely Bones, I can't wait to get my fat little paws onto the next Jasper Fforde.
wonder what that says about me!

FluffyMummy123 · 31/07/2007 22:16

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