Book or books that you thought would be good but was disappointed with after reading it?

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For me it would have to be "On Chesil beach" I really enjoyed "Atonement" and had high expectaions for this but the end was an anticlimax. Pun intended.

Time Travellers Wife
Cloud Atlas

What about Angela's Ashes? Iy was a while ago I read it but it seemed so miserable to me. I actually preferred the second book he wrote.

The Island. So badly written and never fulfilled the promise. Potentially fab story which was completely wasted. Still seething over having wasted money buying it NEW and I FEEL CHEATED!!!!!! Silly woman should not write again.

Anyone read or reading The Outcast by Sadie Jones - its new out and featured in the Richard & Judy Book Club. I'm almost finished and I really can't make my mind up about it.

Oh and hemingway.

Dire

Agree with Angela's Ashes and Lovely Bones. Tripe.

Vernon God Little
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt - I actually thought that there must have been a printing error and there was a chapter missing at the end
Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds (loved most of his other books so much they have earned permanant residence on my bookshelf)

The Time Traveller's Wife was very pedestrian.

Oh, and I loathed Chocolat. But I never did have high expectations of it, as it was a gift from my SIL.

So many - but the real horrors include "We Need To Talk About Kevin", "Attonement", "A Quiet Belief In Angels" - all utter, utter drivel.

The Time Traveller's Wife. Why all the fuss?
Anything by Sebastian Faulks.

Here, here for Birdsong, Angela's Ashes, Captain Corelli and Kevin.

Just reading Chesil Beach but finding it a bit zzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZ so it's likely to join the list, though as it's short I'll continue to the end!

Another vote for 'The Secret History'
'The Da Vinci Code' got lost in all the plot twists...

Time Traveller's Wife - High expectations dashed.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter - so disapointing.

Loved loved loved The Secret Life of Bees.

Memory Keepers Daughter...I thought it looked a really good storyline. By the time I was half way thru I could predict the ending. Really disappointed with it.

The Girls - was a Richard and Judy one that I thought looked interesting but then turned into a kind of morbid freakshow.

That other Ian McCewan one, the one about the balloon - excrutiating.

'White Teeth' gave up
'Possesion' pastiche-y, not in a good way.

Whispy,I thought I had missed some important plotline in The Outcast.

I loathe Harry Potter. Bloody J R Hartley, she's got a lot to answer for.

I'm about two thirds of the way thru The Outcast. I can't work it out at all. It's not the most gripping book I've read. In fact its got rather drab now. I will finish it because I've not got very much left to read but its very slow.

rose of sebastopol. i was so furious with the ending, i threw it across the room

the Colour

Atonement

that Jonathan Strange and whatever the fuck

We Need to Talk about Kevin - no we don't. we need to talk about how i was conned into wasting time picking up this fucking book.

Gosh so many

Tristram Shandy
Clarissa
Everything by Dickens
Ulysses
Everything by Henry James
Everything by Terry Pratchett
Another vote for Captain Corelli's Mandolin (which is oddly derivative of something by Calvi, I think but can't quite place)

Lio - given that you have listed four of my all time favourite novels, I suggest you read the list above because you are GUARANTEED to like them.

How could you not like Wide Sargasso Sea? HOW?

all that hsitorical fiction business, like The Other Bolelyn Girl.

and rip offs of other books.

like Wide Sargasso Sea.

make up your own damn character, ffs!

Expat!!!

Yes but the whole point of that novel is to humanise the madwoman in the attic - it's wonderful. Have you read any of her other books? I am in love with Jean Rhys.