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?

OP - the author might have been "inspired" by the actual true story, where the dead woman's "sister" turned up and basically tried to pick up where the "deceased" left off Her "widower" was convinced... Her colleagues weren't. To be fair, she had lost weight as well as getting a new hair do...

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Oh yes, Birdsong was another one. I didn't feel at all moved by it. But I've had a grumble against Sebastian Faulks ever since I read some thing of his where he said Marian Halcombe (from The Woman in White) was so ugly you could only shag her from behind. Or something ridic like that.

I mean...have you ever looked in a mirror, Mr Faulks?!

I can't stand any Marian slander.

The Richard osman Thursday murder club absolute pile of shit

it is the modern day “da Vinci code”

I aggressively despised it!! 😂

Oh and The finder of lost things

Comically shite

I read the Richard Coles book. Not great literature by any means but it was written in his 'voice' so I believe he wrote it.

I restarts/ends with us, absolute bollocks

Just cannot understand all the hype.

because the readers who love books like the, shudder, Thursday Murder Club, enjoy the books that are all on Richard and Judy’s summer reading list.

There are SO many utterly amazing books out there but if you don’t know, then perhaps, shudder again, like the Thursday murder club is a good read

just started “I’m Sorry you feel like that”

and already utterly absorbed. If you enjoyed sorrow and bliss (phenomenal) you will enjoy this

Thursday Murder Club

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I'd be surprised if Richard Osman doesn't write his own (terrible) books. He's so proud of them. He appeared on the last series of Who Do You Think You Are an he kept going on about his characters and his inspiration and his writing process

ive read one of her books, ‘Behind closed doors’

absolute drivel. Totally demented rubbish. I would not read another!

It’s not really my genre anyway but was going through a little Kindle phase of buying cheap, well reviewed books. Never again!

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What the hell made you decide to read a book with that kind of title!!

Anything by Sophie Hannah is usually a real disappointment. Always starts with an intriguing premise, then ends with a ridiculously unbelievable explanation.

The Outlander books. Absolute garbage. Loved the first tv series and wanted to find out what happened and ended up skim reading a few, but they're just tripe.

And an old chick lit book called The Tenko Club that almost put me off reading altogether. Every single character was hateful except the supposed 'villain'. I don't think I've ever hated a book as much.

A recent one called (I think) The Nest, where a woman applies to be a nanny with stolen credentials and a man single handedly diverts a river on his own in one afternoon and the ending is basically 'it all turned out alright in the end even though the main character lied to get a job and then we went home'.

Crawdads was awful. So bad. So hyped. I hardly ever buy new books (use the library and buy charity shop books mostly) so I felt robbed!

Yes! I stuck it through to the end and have regretted it ever since. I have to fight a shudder whenever I read the words "honey", "smoke" and "tea" now. I don't mind a book that's more style than substance, but this was neither. Absolute rubbish.

I once read about 4 chapters of a BA Paris book but the writing was so terrible, I became convinced her name is just a pseudonym for a group of A level creative writing students. 😂

Keri Beevis "The Sleepover"
It was SO BAD. I only read it to see which of 2 bad endings she went with. And then she crowbarred in a "twist" which was totally unnecessary. Really annoyed me (and I didn't even pay for it)

Karen Fowler "we are all completely beside ourselves". Ridiculous. Couldn't suspend my belief enough for this book.

The Photographer's Wife by Nick someone or other. I think it was self published.
Overall message was don't be a woman. Literally a tale about men who shaft women, take the credit for their work.

thus spoke zarasthara, most awful pointless book ever written

Sophie Hannah - Haven't They Grown.

Along similar lines as the OP one sounds, but I guarantee it is infinitely worse. (Woman spots old friend with her kids who were that age 10 years ago or something, ie the kids haven't aged. Sounds stupid - it is.)

Another vote for The Time Traveller's Wife being utter bilge.

Also agree with: Anything by Sophie Hannah is usually a real disappointment. Always starts with an intriguing premise, then ends with a ridiculously unbelievable explanation.

Recently, Lady Chatterly's Lover. Absolutely terrible.

The Coffin Path. Advertised as Gothic horror, 'the perfect ghost story'. I leaned more about sheep farming in historic Yorkshire than anything else in the plot.

Can't remember the name of another book series but every single one has exactly the same storyline, just changes the protagonists' names (eg Lucy becomes Claire, John becomes Steven). I gave up halfway through the second one. The author really bigs up their own books - I mean, I know they have to to some degree but stuff like 'Game Of Thrones meets Harry Potter' (made these up but you get the gist) when it's about teen romances in the 80s is a load of bollocks.

The last one I half read spent three chapters describing shopping for a dinner party and tidying up the flat.

Man and Wife by Tony Parsons. I threw it out of a window in Manchester.

B A Paris seemed to have 1 great book (The Breakdown) & everything else published seems ridiculously far fetched & easy to predict the unbelievable ending.
I really hated Behind Her Eyes, can't remember who it was by. It had a ridiculous supernatural ending & such annoying characters.
Someone's lent me Crawdads, I might not bother!

Recently, Lady Chatterly's Lover. Absolutely terrible.

I read it a few years ago - it was in news TV or film adaptation coming out or in works - finished it and then wonder why I bothered.