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 also put it down about of a third the way through.

Yes!! I gave up on it about a third of the way through. Just cannot understand all the hype. I read an Alexei Sayle book that was similarly awful and figured that it had only been published because he was so famous. I can't remember the name of it but it was laughably bad.

The worst book I can remember (in terms of a completely WTF godawful plot, at least) was Zelda’s Cut by Philippa Gregory. It was published quite a while ago but boy, the ‘twist’ at the end was just… completely crap.

I had read a few by PG before, and thought they were quite good, but that one put me off her forever.

The Miniaturist is one of mine too. What a load of old tosh.

Another one I remember rolling my eyes through most of the book was The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield.

These days I just chuck 'em if they're annoying me too much.

How to Kill Your Family. Just do not understand why it's a bestseller. The writing is appalling.

I loved Piranesi, hated A Little Life - should have binned it off but ploughed through thinking it might improve. Lesson learned.
I read about 10 pages of Verity by Colleen Hoover then hurled it across the room. I have never thrown a book before in my life. Awful 50 shades vibe. Dire.

Now I've rtft I see I'm not alone.

A fellow book group person told me she'd pretended to be busy because she couldn't face talking about it.

Where the Crawdads Sing. One of the worst books I’ve read in years - quite why it’s as popular as it is I don’t know, it’s utter tripe.

Anything by Jodi Picoult. Well, to be fair I’ve only read 2 of hers so I can’t say for certain that they’re all awful, but I bet they are.

This is one that I chucked about a third of the way through. Thought it was such third rate stuff. But he obviously sells as his books are all now given the window display at Waterstone's treatment. Thought it was funny that Rev Richard Coles then released a similar sounding 'cosy crime' novel. Publishers clearly looking to repeat Osman's success.

I’m so happy to see Crawdads made other people’s lists. What a dreadful book.

I’m throwing I Am Pilgim into the mix. I was hate-reading it after the first third, and finished it only as some kind of exercise in self-flagellation. It still makes me cross.

A Little Life is the worst book I have ever read. We read it in my Book Club and all hated it. Misery upon misery upon misery yet some people seem to love it.

oh god yes I think I might have been on the same readalong for The Interpreter - bleurgh

Oh I think Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell is one of the great novels of all time! Taste is so crazy, isn’t it?

Second The alchemist! I could barely finish it.

Also, Night Waking by Sarah Moss. The characters were just awful. Annoying whingy children and smug self absorbed parents, and a storyline about nothing. I just listened to the end expecting a clever twist or something interesting to happen. But no. Dreary nonsense until the end.

Ditto Cloud Atlas which I adored (the less said about the film, the better)

Maxwells Deamon. It was just weird and frankly shit.

dont bother with the newest BA Paris @Orangeis - The Prisoner is even worse in terms of plot development. Just drivel

The 100 year old man who climbed(?) Out the window by No Idea, all the characters were horrible, plot completely implausible.

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, tbf I don't think (hope) you were supposed to like the character, but the guy who seduces a child then abandons her so she commits suicide while he gets it on with the woman he'd been stalking for decades. Grim.

I abandoned A Discovery of Witches by I've Forgotten, but telling my kids about the vampire yoga class gave them a good laugh, so there's that. I might go back to it.

I did like Piranesi though.

I listened to this on audiobook and it made me absolutely howl with laughter on the way to work every day. It’s shockingly bad, and the acting (is that the right word for audiobooks?!) is just something else.

I really like quite a few that have been named. The one I hated (along with the film) was Life of Pi. Meant to be deep, actually just boring. And, of course Jane Eyre, which is the worst book ever written, tedious book about a tedious, whiny woman.

I loved A Walk in the Woods … can’t understand how anyone could say it was boring, it was hilarious! I also love The Paper Palace.

SPQR has been on my kindle for two years. I manage to read a few pages and then remember why I stopped the last time.

The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose. It had such potential but the ending was a car crash.

The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes. It was like running a marathon wearing high heels.

Few years ago and was a well meant gift - the fingersmith by Sarah Waters. It was annoying - I can read utter tripe but it was too much tripe which honestly is really saying something.

Never let me go - the plot holes were annoying and it was another gift.

I've got to the point when I don't really like books as gifts or pushy suggestions from relatives as my tastes while wide ranging seem to out of step to others.

Not read the book you're referring to but sounds like he could be inspired by the true story on Marie Hilley who pretended to be her own twin sister and formed a relationship with her own husband as the twin sister.

Incredible story and as they say the truth is stranger than fiction

I don’t think they write these books themselves, they just put their name on them. So the books are all ones which couldn’t get published on merit.

I used to know a famous jockey and tv presenter who ‘ wrote’ novels about racing . He once told me he was looking forward to reading the one that had just been published.

She wrote a pregnancy book that is truly, truly dire. She expects us to believe that she didn't know she was pregnant until all her family and friends had noticed and told her, and that she went to Wormwood Scrubs prison for her booking in appointment because she thought it was a hospital.

Is is FUCKING AWFUL.