So I’ve started listening to Neuromancer by Will Gibson, a truly great Sci-Fi book that helped give birth to the Cyberpunk genre.
The characters, world building and overall story is very good and captivating, but the book is ruined in the first couple of hours by unnecessary sexual relations between the male protagonist and a female character.
They meet, talk once or twice, the girl seemingly had zero interest in the protagonist and yet out of the blue the author jumps to describing a very “men-writing-women” style “passionate” sex “scene” that is so cringe-worthy that I three days later still can’t get over it.
It’s so poorly written and stupid that I almost refunded the damn book right then and there.
What is your similar experience with a book?
Sexual or not, as long as it ruined or almost ruined the book for you.
by Tankeverket
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The perfume by Patrick Süskind. The last pages are really weird and I wanted to quit reading.
Pillars of the Earth. Follet inserts sex scenes periodically where it is both unnecessary and lurid. The book is so good and this is almost enough to ruin it altogether.
My friends highly recommended Ken Follett’s books but I had to stop because they just seem disgustingly r*pey.
For me, one of the last chapters about the aliens in the three body problem. so cringe I now refuse to read the other books in the trilogy. I already didn’t like many things that were too trivial but that was too much. i wouldn’t say the book was great before that chapter, but surely something that could be read for fun.
Atonement. The ending enraged me so much I threw the book on the floor and stamped on it. First and only time I have done that.
IT – preteen gangbang.
Made me put the book down for a minute and think about the author being fucked up rather than the story being fucked up.
I’m reading the fisherman, the middle part about the fisherman and Reiner and all ruined for me
The secrets of the immortal nicholas flamel
The twins learned their powers too fast(but i guess this runs with the oart where it is said that all humans need to do is use their senses), and the climaxes are too small, altho the buildup is quite good
Barkis just had to be willing, didn’t he?
The Emberverse series. I really dug the post apocalyptic setting and the rebuilding aspect to it. But the magic was just a letdown. It really just boiled down to “I want X to happen so X happens.”