Ever read a book so bad that you actaully stopped reading?
- Thread starter retyopy
- Start date
Recommended Videos
Atlas Shrugged. Still got it but I haven't really tried picking it up again for awhile.
It's not necessarily "bad" its just I got bored quickly.
It's not necessarily "bad" its just I got bored quickly.
Nope. And I've made it through Twilight. I read mostly good books, but I think I've fini- wait, a russian book. Some fantasy about necromancy. After about 100 pages, I closed it and never looked back. Did get a few ideas, but the book itself wasn't that good.
Star Wars Red Harvest...Zombies in a Sith academy...One gets its head cut off and throws it at the person who did such...turning him into a zombie..No I say. Than zombie Taun Tauns that spit and turn you into a zombie It finds a way to get worse to the point I just said No.
I loved Eragon and Eldest from the Inheritance saga (Chris Paolini, dragon on the cover, in case you haven't heard of it) but whilst reading Brisingr, the third book, I simply couldn't get past halfway... It was too slow, and nothing was happening, and, he kinda killed the whole idea of battles by putting magicians in there. I lost interest in it, so I'm not sure whether I'll try again with it and get the 4th book, cause I would like to know how it ends (even though its probably predictable)
and to this man... Though I adore Lord of the Rings and Tolkien, I can see where you're coming from with this. It does get quite slow. I will accept 'boring' as an adjective for LotR, but what I don't like, is when people call it stupid. That is when I would start 'giving people shit'.DJDarque said:
Very recently, I got about halfway through Catcher In The Rye and just couldn't take it anymore.
I am fully aware that the book was written the better part of a century ago and that the language and social attitudes are relative to that time... But my god, nothing happens and the story doesn't seem to have progressed at all after the first couple of chapters where he leaves school.
The protagonist is annoying and often his mind will just wander off in between walking across the street and will spend a page and a half reminiscing on some distant, unrelated memory. Maybe I've missed something but I'm halfway through and as of yet there is no structure in terms of objectives and direction that I can see, other characters simply come and go, and I just don't have any reason to care about whatever the main character is doing, what will happen next or what will happen at the end.
Maybe it gets better, I don't know, but the book has failed to hook me in and gain my interest.
I am fully aware that the book was written the better part of a century ago and that the language and social attitudes are relative to that time... But my god, nothing happens and the story doesn't seem to have progressed at all after the first couple of chapters where he leaves school.
The protagonist is annoying and often his mind will just wander off in between walking across the street and will spend a page and a half reminiscing on some distant, unrelated memory. Maybe I've missed something but I'm halfway through and as of yet there is no structure in terms of objectives and direction that I can see, other characters simply come and go, and I just don't have any reason to care about whatever the main character is doing, what will happen next or what will happen at the end.
Maybe it gets better, I don't know, but the book has failed to hook me in and gain my interest.
So far The Baker's Boy is the only one I haven't been abe to force my way through. I don't even know how to discribe it, it's just such an uninteresting book.
I don't blame you. The first half of the Fellowship of the Ring is torture: slow-paced and boring. It's even worse if you saw the movie before reading the book, since the movie has much better pacing.DJDarque said:
I don't know if I would call it "bad", but I put down Kushiel's Dart about 150 pages in. I found it very slow and dull, and Jacquelyn Carey is prone to flowery prose that is very annoying at times.
