I just read a terrible book

[Orangeis]

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?

I just know to watch out for bears and pray a fair bit.

Was she perhaps wearing glasses? This apparently is a fantastic disguise and worked for Superman 🤷‍♀️😉

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I'm finding it really hard to find any books I can be arsed with nowadays. So many seem to be pointless drivel.

Yes - the opening chapters of the book were actually really good. I was amazed at how badly wrong she got the rest of the book. Where were the editors who should have been helping her? It was so bad. And it did not make any sense! If there was that kind of technology, would the government have exclusive use of it for the purpose of educating parents? How much would that all have cost? Why would you throw everything we know about child psychology completely out of the window? It was so dumb. Sorry. It made me cross how bad it was!

I was thinking the same, @Alcemeg
All the ones I've read recently have been awful.

Glad I’m not the only one. I’ve read both and didn’t really get either of them. I didn’t mind the film version of The Lovely Bones though as I think it probably helped me understand the book more. I found both books boring and definitely not page turners.

I've read this book and couldn't agree more. It's awful awful.

He then magically forgives her for everything and she somehow forgets to be insulted she was so easily forgotten that he couldn't tell it was still her and not her sister.

Yes didn't like lovely bones and could not be bothered grabbling with time travellers which I'm glad about as the film sucked.

I used to be a real book worm years ago, always had a book on the go, but I haven’t found a book I’ve really engaged with for many years.

I find non-fiction better than fiction these days. Or old favourites like Daphne Du Maurier or Margaret Atwood.

Omg the nightingale is hilariously bad. I’m so beautiful that everyone hates me and I’m going to be a spy with a really obvious code name blah blah blah. There is an AMAZING takedown of it on Goodreads, here

The Guest Cat - supposedly a Japanese masterpiece. I’ve no idea what it was all about!

Verity by Colleen Hoover also dire. A main character completely lacking in any self-respect. One of the Book groups I am in has quite a wide age-range and we older ones started requesting less sexually explicit/abusive/misogynistic choices.

Sadly true. In fairness I did read a few good ones last year, but surprisingly no ‘new’ stuff. New to me, as in hadn’t read it before, but not newly published.

Thought I’d another one, although nobody I know has read it, which was ‘The Fifth Season.’ The writing was just really adolescent/childish, with a desperation to be ‘deep’ and the point always had to be hammered in to ensure the reader understood.

Oh and not forgetting Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty. Utter rubbish. Don’t know why I finished that one.

Yes! It was so tedious. Someone said it was deliberately so, the banality of evil and all that but eh still time I won't ever get back.

I love the Liane Moriarty books - they're entertaining and easy to read. I also loved the tv adaptation of Nine Perfect Strangers.

Oh I love Bill Bryson and Never Let Me Go.

Didn't like Nine Perfect Strangers but have got that Apples one by Liane Moriarty to read next.

I read a B A Paris book on holiday that made me so pissed off that I ended up annoying my husband by going on about it. From memory it was implausible and no one in the UK has the job title or “lawyer” we are solicitors or barristers.

The only reason I finished it is because I needed to find out if the poor wife got away.

Bill Bryson has never really been a travel writer, he's a comedy writer.

I love Bill Bryson. A Walk in the Woods made me laugh out loud in public.

the books that get your job very wrong are the worst. Don't want to out myself but I read one where the protagonist had my job and spent about 3 month's work doing something you might realistically get one day to do, was so pissed off I can't even remember the rest of the plot.

Also agree B Bryson is a god, one of the funniest writers I've ever read. that said even I CBA with A Walk in the Woods - I like the faster paced ones.

I think when you're writing, you try to avoid clichés so it's tempting to just rummage in the thesaurus for an alternative that might actually be even more crap than if you just used the cliché and had done with it.

@scrivette I’ve read two chapters and am debating whether to carry on reading this. Too many characters to keep track of!