Sorry, but I won’t tell you because it’s such a bad book.
Witch-for-hire on
The last book that filled me with incandescent rage was the first book of Peter V. Brett’s Demon cycle. DNF-ed it at around 3/4.
I don’t think the author has ever met a woman in his life. I can deal with mysogny depicted in fiction when it makes sense in a story, but here I don’t think it was intentional, just the way the author thinks.
edit: I really liked the fist 3 books of GOT. I have no problem whatsoever with dark & gritty fantasy usually.
Front_Raspberry7848 on
I hated where the crawdads sing and also house in the cerulean sea I think they had fine ideas. The execution was not great. The character seemed wooden to me and it gave me the cringe. I could not finish either. Though I know it’s a very unpopular opinion lol
deatach on
Just read The Magus by John Fowles and I wouldn’t recommend it.
worm0303 on
Diary of an oxygen thief – Anonymous, STUPID
Hopeless series and Slammed series – Colleen Hoover, just so bad and weird but not in a good way just a complete waste of time
How to kill your family – Bella Mackie, I dfn this and I never dnf books, just so slow and boring and annoying. Saw a review that said it was like the author was just trying to reach a word count and I completely agree.
dearjkaroline on
Once upon a broken heart. I never read a bigger heap of flaming garbage.
mint_pumpkins on
None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
Author framed a 13-16 year old victim of grooming as the abuser and gave the 40+ year old groomer redemption and called him a good man, while its fictional I still think thats an incredibly harmful way to present a victim of such a horrible crime without challenging it in the narrative at all
Redditor9456 on
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – I know it’s a published script but oh wow will it make you angry
Grand_Opinion845 on
Atlas Shrugged. Ayn Rand was just not a good writer.
On the perpetual shit list: A Little Life (badly written torture porn)
Recently arrived on the list: Hench by Natalie Walschots. Such pretentious, I’m-so-clever bs ugh
Quirky_Dimension1363 on
Caraval. The magic/world building and characters felt incredibly under developed. The idea was so cool but it wasn’t executed the way I would have liked. I understand why people like it though. I recommend The Night Circus instead.
cpisko on
I didn’t enjoy Flowers for Algernon. It felt bland and much less impactful than was advertised to me.
tinniclo on
The Circle by Dave Eggers. I hated the story and everyone in it.
Guilty-Coconut8908 on
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. Poorly written, unpleasant subject matter and characters.
plotting_seagull on
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey. It’s written in an overly familiar way like you would expect from a relative telling you a funny story with them as a main character at a bonfire, but at the same time the speaker is full of himself and thinks you’re stupid. Also he is probably drunk.
bridge4captain on
Don’t read Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time in Hollywood because you like the movie and think this will build on the lore and characters. It doesn’t. It’s so much worse. I hated it, and you will too.
squashua on
Anyone else read Kockroach?
It’s an inverse of Kafka’s Metamorphosis, where a cockroach wakes up as a New Jersey dude and joins the mob.
One scene on the book gave me nightmares (creepy crawly vibes), so no, not going to recommend this.
masson34 on
Going against the grain for sure, East of Eden. While beautiful prose and writing, found boring and long.
leastobvfed on
lapvona. such shit narration and writing
secondhandsunflower on
Norwegian Wood. Unbearable MC, terrible depiction of women. Murakami at his worst.
aenirshearth on
The Salt Grows Heavy….unless you want a vocabulary builder
Donut092021 on
Beach read by Emily Henry. The worst book I read the past two years. The storyline was messy, and I was really “like wtf” most of the book. And not in a good way.
I gave away the rest of my unread Emily Henry books after reading that one.
Perfect_Shopping1976 on
This Woven Kingdom series by Tahereh Mafi. I read all the books and hated them with my whole being.
ChilindriPizza on
Wicked, by Gregory Maguire
Plus Piranesi greatly disappointed me. Everyone on Reddit overhyped it so much. To me, it was just another book.
error7654944684 on
Acotar. They both die in the end. Literally anything by Colleen hoover. Fourth wing. Written in blood (don’t know who wrote it but I dnf’d the book. I never dnf books
neubie2017 on
One Second After. Not because it was bad but because it was devastating and haunts me 15 years later
Michelangelor on
Thus Spake Zarathustra is one of the worst books I’ve ever read
Morning_Joey_6302 on
The Silk Roads. It’s important, it has a great premise, it’s full of the sweep of history. And it’s too long and (too often) not very interesting as empires, trade patterns, religions and power relationships wax and wane over a vast span of time.
It meaningfully shifted my worldview, and I’m still not recommending it. I think you could read good summaries of it and reflections on it and save yourself a lot of time.
strawcat on
In Cold Blood.
I realize and recognize its significance in history in that it created a genre and all that, but I absolutely hated this book. It read to me like unedited notes that got hit with a thesaurus and it drove me bonkers reading it. To date it is my most anticipated, biggest disappointment of a book I’ve ever read.
local_savage13 on
Unpopular opinion but I’ll never recommend Siddhartha to anyone.
DropAfraid6139 on
The Midnight Library. Interesting concept but really preachy, depressing, and anticlimactic. Other books execute this concept much better
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Sorry, but I won’t tell you because it’s such a bad book.
The last book that filled me with incandescent rage was the first book of Peter V. Brett’s Demon cycle. DNF-ed it at around 3/4.
I don’t think the author has ever met a woman in his life. I can deal with mysogny depicted in fiction when it makes sense in a story, but here I don’t think it was intentional, just the way the author thinks.
edit: I really liked the fist 3 books of GOT. I have no problem whatsoever with dark & gritty fantasy usually.
I hated where the crawdads sing and also house in the cerulean sea I think they had fine ideas. The execution was not great. The character seemed wooden to me and it gave me the cringe. I could not finish either. Though I know it’s a very unpopular opinion lol
Just read The Magus by John Fowles and I wouldn’t recommend it.
Diary of an oxygen thief – Anonymous, STUPID
Hopeless series and Slammed series – Colleen Hoover, just so bad and weird but not in a good way just a complete waste of time
How to kill your family – Bella Mackie, I dfn this and I never dnf books, just so slow and boring and annoying. Saw a review that said it was like the author was just trying to reach a word count and I completely agree.
Once upon a broken heart. I never read a bigger heap of flaming garbage.
None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
Author framed a 13-16 year old victim of grooming as the abuser and gave the 40+ year old groomer redemption and called him a good man, while its fictional I still think thats an incredibly harmful way to present a victim of such a horrible crime without challenging it in the narrative at all
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – I know it’s a published script but oh wow will it make you angry
Atlas Shrugged. Ayn Rand was just not a good writer.
Everything [Sad](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45916267-everything-sad-is-untrue) is Untrue
Life of Anna. Shit is traumatic to the max!
On the perpetual shit list: A Little Life (badly written torture porn)
Recently arrived on the list: Hench by Natalie Walschots. Such pretentious, I’m-so-clever bs ugh
Caraval. The magic/world building and characters felt incredibly under developed. The idea was so cool but it wasn’t executed the way I would have liked. I understand why people like it though. I recommend The Night Circus instead.
I didn’t enjoy Flowers for Algernon. It felt bland and much less impactful than was advertised to me.
The Circle by Dave Eggers. I hated the story and everyone in it.
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. Poorly written, unpleasant subject matter and characters.
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey. It’s written in an overly familiar way like you would expect from a relative telling you a funny story with them as a main character at a bonfire, but at the same time the speaker is full of himself and thinks you’re stupid. Also he is probably drunk.
Don’t read Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time in Hollywood because you like the movie and think this will build on the lore and characters. It doesn’t. It’s so much worse. I hated it, and you will too.
Anyone else read Kockroach?
It’s an inverse of Kafka’s Metamorphosis, where a cockroach wakes up as a New Jersey dude and joins the mob.
One scene on the book gave me nightmares (creepy crawly vibes), so no, not going to recommend this.
Going against the grain for sure, East of Eden. While beautiful prose and writing, found boring and long.
lapvona. such shit narration and writing
Norwegian Wood. Unbearable MC, terrible depiction of women. Murakami at his worst.
The Salt Grows Heavy….unless you want a vocabulary builder
Beach read by Emily Henry. The worst book I read the past two years. The storyline was messy, and I was really “like wtf” most of the book. And not in a good way.
I gave away the rest of my unread Emily Henry books after reading that one.
This Woven Kingdom series by Tahereh Mafi. I read all the books and hated them with my whole being.
Wicked, by Gregory Maguire
Plus Piranesi greatly disappointed me. Everyone on Reddit overhyped it so much. To me, it was just another book.
Acotar. They both die in the end. Literally anything by Colleen hoover. Fourth wing. Written in blood (don’t know who wrote it but I dnf’d the book. I never dnf books
One Second After. Not because it was bad but because it was devastating and haunts me 15 years later
Thus Spake Zarathustra is one of the worst books I’ve ever read
The Silk Roads. It’s important, it has a great premise, it’s full of the sweep of history. And it’s too long and (too often) not very interesting as empires, trade patterns, religions and power relationships wax and wane over a vast span of time.
It meaningfully shifted my worldview, and I’m still not recommending it. I think you could read good summaries of it and reflections on it and save yourself a lot of time.
In Cold Blood.
I realize and recognize its significance in history in that it created a genre and all that, but I absolutely hated this book. It read to me like unedited notes that got hit with a thesaurus and it drove me bonkers reading it. To date it is my most anticipated, biggest disappointment of a book I’ve ever read.
Unpopular opinion but I’ll never recommend Siddhartha to anyone.
The Midnight Library. Interesting concept but really preachy, depressing, and anticlimactic. Other books execute this concept much better