Books

I like a good scifi book. I like a good fantasy book. So when our book club tried a book about some scifi technowizard and a witch clashing at it like a retailing of Romeo and Juliet I really tried to like it. And then I tried to stand it. And then I DNFd it on like chapter 4. It was like the Author hated teens and decided to write from the perspective of two of them so you can get both sides of the "I hate teenagers" coin.

Withering Heights & Madame Bovary. I tried multiple (MANY!!!) times to brave through them and.. I just couldn't, simply couldn't.

The Devil Wears Prada: DNF after 1,5 pages.

A book self-published by a family member. It's bad. It's really, really bad. I had problems in the first paragraph and thought it was me, I could push through bc it was sci-fi. NOPE. Not even the first page.

It changes tenses in the title, and multiple times in the first paragraph. It's like someone who had no grasp of the English language wrote it, but this family member is as American as they get.

A Clockwork Orange.

I got about 5 pages in and realized I didn't care enough to try and decipher all the slang, even with the key in the back.

My mom raved about All the Light We Cannot See so I picked up a copy and read a few pages whenever I could. I was about 100 or so pages into it and was thanking her for the suggestion and telling her I really liked it. And then she told me the ending.

The Secret, got it as a gift and opened to a random page that basically made the point that all things that happen to us is because we wanted it to happen. I'm not gonna read some crap that blames victims with a flair of Oprah new-agisim.

So, I can get dnf is did not finish, what is the last d for?

The first book from the tales for the flat Earth trilogy. Spoilers incoming because I don’t know how to make spoiler tags. I’m blind and I don’t know where the option is. So mods, instead of taking this down, can you show me how to fix this problem maybe? Anyway, when there was a demon raising a little boy, and then having sex with a little boy that he raised and then dwarves using some woman’s tears as lubrication and sex with spiders I don’t even know.

I legitimately started reading Fifty Shades of Grey without knowing what it was. I’d been packing for a trip and realized at the last second that I didn’t have anything to read on the plane, so I quickly scanned the top books for sale in my Kindle and added one after about 6 seconds of research. I figured it was probably fine, maybe about some sort of grey area moral issue or whatever.

What struck me about the book was how terribly it’s written from the very start. It’s like the author didn’t know enough words to fill each page, so they just repeated the same ones over and over. Eg, the characters “murmer” to each other like 4x per scene.

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.

I can't remember the exact title, but it was a non-fiction book titled something like "Why America is Mad About the Wrong Things"

I stopped early in chapter 2 when I realized it was going to essentially be the same chapter over and over.

I was in high school and from a garage sale bought an old book on archeology in the middle east. I was skimming the author's introduction and noted:

"There are several sources for what we know about history. We have written records from those who lived during and after the events. We can, through archeology, study what they left behind. And finally, we have the bible, which is the most accurate source because it is the literal word of God on what happened."

I rolled my eyes, closed the book, and regretted not being able to return it.