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What is the soonest you've ever DNFd a book? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by FacelessOldWoman1234@alien.top to c/books@metacritics.zone

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You wanted to read the book, you were excited to crack it open, you came into it with good faith and anticipation... but you ended up dnf-ing it. Which book and why?

Mine was The Maid by Nita Prose. It was for my book club and looked like a fun murder mystery. Instead I got instant manic-pixie-dream-neurodivergent-girl vibes, and I noped out before the crime scene was even found.

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[–] UltimaSeeD92@alien.top 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The Guest List by Lucy Foley. Approximately 20 pages in, I returned it. The characters, literally every single one, were the most annoying, insufferable people I've ever read. I've been told that's the point, and I'm sure it is, but at the time I just wasn't in the mood to wait to see them to their inevitable ends. Perhaps at some point, I'll give it a shot again when I feel I have more patience for it.

[–] Competitive-Web1464@alien.top 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sounds very like another of her books, The Paris Apartment. Every character was so unlikeable and every plot point seemed so daft, I got about a third in and quit because I realised I could not care less what happened to any of the pricks in it

[–] CrownBestowed@alien.top 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The ending was so ridiculous. If you ever wanna laugh hysterically at absurd writing, finish it 😂

[–] Competitive-Web1464@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I had it on audiobook and bumped it up to like 3.5x speed and I still couldn't stick any of them hahah