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?

Which book is this?

The Da Vinci Code.

I loved Piranesi!

Also, I'm ploughing through SPQR at the moment, and I'm sad because I so wanted to love it, Mary Beard is such an icon, but I'm finding it dull and confusing, and it's really not bringing ancient Rome to life for me in the way I thought it would.

The Interpreter by Brooke Robinson. Not even published yet, due June 2023. Interesting premise: the most dangerous person in the courtroom isn’t the accused, but the interpreter who might deliberately mistranslate what someone says to make them look guilty. But oh my goodness what an implausible plot with hideously awful, stupid characters.

I’m still cross just thinking about A Little Life. And now I hear it’s on stage, imagine the horror!

Also recently hated It Ends with Us. Terrible.

I get most of my book recommendations from here, so I was excited to get Piranesi from the library.
I couldn’t get past the first chapter. Life’s too short.
I’m now on the waiting list for Lessons in Chemistry.
I regretted the time spent reading Crawdads.

eleanor oliphant is completely fine - utter GARBAGE and I hate it when shit books gain momentum and everyone starts talking about it. They are always shit and it's what happened with this one.

I feel I have found my people on this thread!

I also hated Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan, and I didn't enjoy either of the Sally Rooney books that I read either. Everybody gets a second chance, but I'm certainly not reading her third novel! I'm also not enjoying Really Good, Actually which I'm ploughing through at the moment. I think I'm just too old for all this , female, navel-gazing, untangling my incredibly deep thoughts and feelings while simultaneously knocking back copious quantities of alcohol and having mindless sex, style of literature.

And I thought Crawdads was completely implausible!

The Time Traveller's Wife gave me THE ABSOLUTE RAGE but because of what she did rather than the novel which i thought was really good.

I used to be "I've started so I'll finish" but i will give them 100 pages and if it's not grabbing me, gone. I need to cut it down to 50.

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. Anything which is generally described as “deep” is going to be rubbish, I should know better.

The Animals at Lockwood Manor, Jane Healey - truly awful lmao, really really naff. Because of You, Dawn French - utterly implausible. The Vegetarian, Han Kang - pretentious shit, it was like two completely unrelated stories forced together. The Secret Magdalene, Ki Longfellow - one of those books where you read it for hours and look at the page number, and you've read fewer than 100 pages. Turgidly dull. Possibly the worst was the Roanoke Girls by... someone.. the twist was that the only male in the family was sleeping with his daughters and granddaughters but he was just so handsome they couldn't resist! Utterly vile book.

@ThreeKneeRepeater really sorry to say this but I HATED lessons in Chemistry, however millions love it so enjoy 😝For me it's only bearable as a complete fantasy in which physical reality, history and actual people don't exist. Like watching your 5 year old play with Lego.

Bees - allegorical bit of whimsy

I DNF'd SPQR too, it sent me to sleep multiple times.

I love most of JoJo Moyes stuff but hated Me Without You.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell..
Richard Osman, absolutely.
Couldn't finish Gone Girl.

I loved crawdads, midnight library and Eleanor oliphant!

I did however hate the murder club books by Richard osman

Op sounds familiar am sure there has been a recent tv series on Netflix or somewhere similar that I switched off after 10 mins as was equally annoyingly bad 😂

Sorry, the title cut off on my display, you did tell us! I haven't read it...there's a similar one about.

Thanks for warnings on others.

The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton was infuriating after a reasonable first chapter, as was Audrey Niffeneggers’s second novel Her Fearful Symmetry. Both just dreadful books.

'The Orphan Choir' by Sophie Hannah.
Ridiculous plot.
I had read a couple of her other books that were decent but this was so bad made me want to weep.Life is to short for bad books.

I recently read the family at no. 12.

Absolutely awful!

Also, Malibu rising - I found that really tedious.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo has been recommended to me a few times, but seeing as it's the same author I can't imagine finding that an interesting read either

Eleanor Oliphant was the biggest pile of shit ever. Actually made me properly furious it was so unbelievable and the way it trivialised childhood abuse and serious mental illness was just bizarre. Total raging alcoholic but only on the weekends - right. Lonely social misfit with hints of dark abuse and grim childhood - oh guess what all she needed was a makeover, a Brazilian wax and the love of a good man. And as for the 'ending' - she's actually been hallucinating her long-dead mother all along?? In other words floridly delusional. But she's FINE NOW?? Absolute bollocks. Cannot understand why anyone likes it.

Little fires everywhere..it was SOOO slow going. I gave up in the end which I hate doing. Can’t understand the rave reviews.

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern. It is supposed to be 'spellbinding'. It couldn't finish it as it was cats, corridors, cats, corridors....and I gave up the will to live.

Oh my god, I picked this 'book' up in a charity shop recently for 50p, having never read anything of hers previously. Good lord, it is dire. I struggled through and finished it, god knows why. The main character, who we're clearly supposed to love and sympathise with, was just eurgh. Whiny, clingy, possessive and self pitying.
I really like chick-lit, but it has to be good chick-lit, (Marian Keyes etc). This never would have been published without a 'celeb' name attached to it, not in a million years.
I passed it on to my 14 year old, who managed less than one chapter before lobbing it in a corner and saying, "Wtf, did she even pass GCSE English? This is shit."

A Little Life. Horrible misery porn. The person who chose it for my book group rhapsodized about it at length, her favourite book that she rereads every year etc. I'm not in a book group anymore.