Books

a peoples tragedy by orlando figes. a complete mischaracterisation of the russian revolution, the title itself brings me to revulsion. it had decent historical sources, but falls completely flat in its analysis

I hated Catcher in the Rye.

I have a couple of books I bought at scifi conventions because the authors were nice.

They're signed and I have good memories of chatting with the authors about scifi.

I have no intention of ever giving the books away or of ever reading them.

The Last Shadow by Orson Scott Card. What makes it horrible is that it was greatly anticipated and wraps up the other 10 novels and joins two separate timelines of the same universe - except without tying up ANY loose ends with plot. Absolutely nothing is solved in the final book and all the build up from each timeline is completely wasted in a wishy washy "conclusion" that leaves a looooooot to be desired. This is why you don't take decades to write the final addition to your extensive universe.

Heaven is for Real (the book about a little boy who supposedly died, went briefly to heaven, and was then revived.). It literally made my skin crawl. He tells his parents things like “oh by the way, Grandpa says hi.” CRINGE. I’m actually a church-goer but this book just screamed fake to me. I felt the poor child was manipulated/brainwashed by his parents so they could produce a best seller. Some members of my church LOVED it, and I just steered away from any conversation about it. 😖

Verity by Colleen Hoover. It’ll stay on the bookshelf to make sure I warn people to not read it if they look at my books.

You and I by Leonard Nimoy. It’s bad. It’s really bad. But so hilariously bad.

Rebecca. The book is way too freaking long. The plot could have just been summarized on a post-it note & been 10 times more enjoyable.

I love putting books with wild titles on the shelf. Beside each other I have: “Principles of Nuclear Reactor Engineering”; “Disco Bloodbath”; and “How to Survive Federal Prison Camp.”

The Saga of Seven Suns. It pisses me off so bad I just need to keep an eye on it to make sure I didn't imagine it. It was so damn 1 dimensional for something that started out with so much room to grow. I'm afraid it's like the weeping angels and if I don't keep it on my shelf, someone else I know might read it.

I had never heard of Jude the Obscure until Michael Ian Black took it on. Now I want him to read all boring classics to me, but he has refused to do Ulysses.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/143-obscure-with-michael-ian-b-29446005/

Watermelon Sugar. I’m against book burnings but this book should be torched

Sons and Lovers. I thought I was the only one who did this.

For me, it was Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson. I don't think I've ever been so thoroughly appalled by any book before. Yet I couldn't bring myself to part from it when I was going through my books. It's just such a great conversation starter, ya know?

"Understanding Trump", by Newt Gingrich.

Gift from my Fox News loving father in law.

Any Niel gaimen book

American psycho probably

It’s unbearable in a good way

Pelican Brief

Wow, I love Jude the Obscure. Fantastic early modernist novel that speaks to the failures of the Victorian bildungsroman. Sorry you didn't like it.

It’s honestly so pathetic that you can’t separate a book’s quality from how much you liked/enjoyed it

the 2007 Leonard Maltin Movie Guide. Don't know how it got there, but it is an Ark of Knowledge,.

A Little Life for me. I don’t think I’ve ever loathed a book so desperately, but I wasted dozens of hours of my young life on it and I’ll be damned if I don’t get to keep my trophy.

Fifty shades of Grey. Just awful writing. And is it true that it started as a fan fiction?

So reading Jude made you feel like Sue Bridehead fulfilling her marital duties?

^((I didn't read it; just cribbed from the wiki))

Call You When I Land is nominally nonfiction by a travel blogger. It's so bad my partner wouldn't take it off the plane after she finished it, saying "its not worth carrying to the trash." My only worry is one of the plane cleaners may have read it accidently.

The Neverending Story. Terrible book but a great movie.

John Waters wrote a novel called "Liarmouth". I love him, but the book is every bit as trashy, tacky and gross as you might imagine. I couldn't finish it but I'll never get rid of it either.

They Both Die At The End. Great plot, great storyline, it all was just too fast

im older so forgive me, Forced to read "Classics" in early high school. Anything John Steinbeck , that awful Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, that Mill on the River whatever by whoever that was. I am a reader. I devour books but these were destroyed for me.

v.c. Andrews books .they didn't make me cringe til I got older , then they were made into movies and cast the most no talent actors .

The Eye of Argon. It's legendarily bad.

{Paladin: The Modern Knight by Raleigh Maynard}

I saw this author at his stand at a Barnes and Nobles not really getting any interaction. I wanted to support a local author so I went ahead and bought it.

It reads like a middle schooler just beginning to write on Wattpad. It reads like what incels think intelligent, financially secure men do. It was just awful. Support your local authors folks but not this one lol

The first stupid Game of Thrones book or Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans. HORRIBLE.

Fucking Addie LaRue

I remember a book that had the main character as a black woman, and I could tell within the first few sentences the author was definitely not black or a woman. And then later introduced a timid nerd professor character (main love interest) that when I googled the author, the description of the character matched his looks exactly. Oof it was a slog to read.