We all have those books we disliked, and some books we absolutely hated. What books do you have personal beef with, as in those books you genuinely hate so much you have a huge amount of animosity towards? Like it tortures you any time you think of it or someone mentions it you wanna rant about how much you hate it.
Mine is Neon Gods by Katee Robert. I'm probably biased since I don't enjoy modernized greek retellings, but as someone who also worships Hades + generally greek deities super closely I HATED this book, reflecting on it. I was in the phase of "I can't DNF anything because I bought it", this book told me I was wrong and to DNF whatever I wanted. You would not pay me a million dollars, or give me a brand new mansion paid in full, to make me finish this book. I don't even know how I got through 180 pages but to say I didn't like this is an understatement. I also don't like Katee Robert's work as a whole, but I won't get into those crevices just yet. I'm incredibly disappointed I cannot donate or return this book because it's annotated heavily, so I'm gonna find a way to burn it without getting arrested or lighting someone else's property on fire.
Enough talk from me, what's yours? You can go off, roast a character, berate the author's writing, whatever. Please I need to laugh
by stopshadowbaneme
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House of Leaves. I forced myself through that book because of all the hype. It’s the only book that I regret losing the time I spent reading it. I learned long ago that there were too many books out there in the world to waste time on one that I didn’t enjoy and I ignored that because of that book. I had people online as well as people I knew in real life telling me it was the scariest book they’ve ever read. That is the only reason I push through, and I wasted my time!
The Stand was 1000+ pages. It started so good and then it just meanders off into some vague sense of good vs evil nothingness with no definitive anything. So unsatisfying. 1000 PAGES!!
Atlas Shrugged.
A book for wannabe philosophers who don’t understand Nietzsche or self absorbed Libertarians who somehow think using others is making it on your own
The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao. Won the Pulitzer, seemed right up my alley. I got 95% of the way through it and thought it was a stinking pile of crap but kept going because I thought there *had* to be some ending that made that slog worth it. Spoiler alert the ending sucked too. I do not get that book. It was like 13 on NYT’s best books of the 21st century. I see it recommended everywhere. completely baffles me.
Equally terrible is “The Name of the Wind”. Absolutely horrendous. At least I learned from Oscar Wao that you should stop reading shitty books halfway through. Which is exactly what I did with this one.
Any book written by John Grisham
A Little Life
It’s recency bias as I just got around to it, but I hated this book. I feel like it pulls you in at first, because it’s so well written. Then as you keep going you just slowly realize this story is all just the author torturing the main character. I can understand how people praised it, but for me it just got too ridiculous.