Least Favorite Books of the Summer 2013 Challenge

[Dlmrose, Moderator Emeritus]

What were your least favorite books of the Summer 2013 Challenge?

[Megan]

I generally liked the books I read this past season.

One-Star
The Eyre Affair
Fateful
Reckless Heart
A Touch of the Poet

Two-Star
Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen: Invasion of the Optiklons
Eden: It's an Endless World, Volume 2
The Marlowe Papers
Shelter from the Wind
Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida
King John
The River People

[Deborah]

2 stars
I don't like it when so many people love a book that I can't stand. I feel like I'm missing something. For me, the premise is there. I would love to see it in the hands of another author, updated I guess.



1 star

[Elizabeth]

1*:

[Deedee]

My lone 1* this time:

The Dead Travel Fast by Deanna Raybourn
Not a vampire novel, but, instead, a highly unlikely "gothic romance" which lacked atmosphere and lacked romance.

[Dee]

The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls - I was expecting soo much and was seriously disappointed

[Salem]

1 star:


2 star:

[Bea]

No 1 star books.

2 stars: The Picture of Dorian Gray.

I listened to the audio version of this book so perhaps that is why I did not really get into it.

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

2 star book. It was so predictable and a waste of my time.

[Kristina Simon]

Not my thing:
- I've yet to find a Virginia Woolf book that I like. One of these days I'm going to stop trying.
- I started this for the challenge, but couldn't finish it. Luckily, the book I replaced it with was fabulous!

[Ana]

. I didn't finish it. I spend so much time trying though.

. I didn't finish this one either.

and . I gave these two 2 stars.

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

I hated Gone Girl. So many people told me it was so good but I couldn't finish it.

[Ana]

Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "I hated Gone Girl. So many people told me it was so good but I couldn't finish it."

I picked it for the reading group at our local library. It had such great reviews. Only 2 people in our group read it. They liked it. The rest of the group couldn't finish it and hated it.

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

I gave the book to my sister.

[Ann A]

I really didn't care for The Book of Lost Things - just not my cup of tea.

[Jennifer W]

My 2 least favorite books were Light from a Distant Star and Long for This World: A Novel

I'm just not a character study person.

[Claire]

A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

Six Stories by Stephen King

[Chris]

Zoe & Zak and the Ghost Leopard

This was the only book I really didn't like. I received it in return for a review. Thankfully it was short.

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

I take it the review was too? :)

[Lorna]

Least favorite books Summer 2013

[Andrea]

Least favourite books:

- I found the characters unrealistic and the plot all over the place. Had to force myself to finish this.

- just no

- interesting premise but poor writing

- didn't really connect with the characters and I guessed the "secret" quite early on

- not a bad book but I expected more from it after reading and loving Eon. I felt the ending was rushed too.

[Peebee]

One Star Books from the Summer SRC:


The White Glove War by Katie Crouch
Love her chick lit but supernatural Southern debutante YA fiction is not her thing.

The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
Tiresome aimless whiners.

Leaving the Atocha Station
Thinly disguised autobiography of a douchebag.

[Anne (Booklady)]

My 1 Star book was the Group Read:



2 Star Books:

[Bec]

I had two 2 star books,

The Orphan Master's Son, I can't believe the awards it is receiving, I found it... unreadable. I skim read most of it, something I usually don't do.

And

The Lotus Eaters which I had such high hopes for, but hated every character.

[Amy]

The audio version of could have been used as a sleep aid. My husband and I listened to it together and we both found it to be a worthy of only 1 star.

[Anne (Booklady)]

Bec wrote: "I had two 2 star books,

The Orphan Master's Son, I can't believe the awards it is receiving, I found it... unreadable. I skim read most of it, something I usually don't do.

And

I totally agree!
The Lotus Eaters..."

[Marie-Anne]

I only had 1 2 star book, The Glittering Lights by Barbara Cartland. I loved all the other books I read this summer!

[Dee]

Bec wrote: "I had two 2 star books, The Lotus Eaters

I really disliked the characters in The Lotus Eaters and yet I liked the book...it reminded me of a more sophisticated version of Danielle Steele's Letters From Nam