You know a book is bad when.....

[Victoria]

@Andy, I had that problem as well! I've only just got over it in the last year or so, my mum and I promised we'd start being stricter :P

[Samantha]

Max wrote: "You know a book is bad when it's high fantasy, and people say, "Yeah man," and "What's up, dude?" I'm not even joking."

Haha, fantastic.

[Barb]

You know a bok is bad when you spend more time just looking at it instead of reading it.

[Abi]

Max wrote: "Seriously, I'll type it up:


Teh storm was gathring with raindrops falling onto the house, but the bedroom still shook as much as possible even wifout teh storm.


And that's the first sentence."

Oh dear! Sounds awful.

[Mei]

How could they not notice that! Hmm

[Irene]

Ok, that's a really bad one!

[Irene]

You want to rip it apart and go have a serious talk with the author

[Sarah Elizabeth]

That sounds like me with finding paris! what book are you reading?

[Irene]

The Girl You Left Behind. It's not that it's really bad, it's more that nothing happens :|

[Irene]

I might even be getting into a reading slump because of it...

[Sarah Elizabeth]

That's not good! I get really annoyed when nothing happens! Just imagine, you could write whatever you wanted, you're god of your own creation as a writer, and then they write stuff where nothing happens! what a waste!

[Irene]

Haha that's so right! Haven't thought of it like that before, but yes!!!

[Samantha]

You know a book is bad when you write a review too snarky to post...


I've had to tone my review of Lost and Found down a bit, but (if anyone happens to read it) let me know if I come across a bit too mean!

[Sarah Elizabeth]

I sometimes write reviews that are less than diplomatic. Sometimes it just all comes out and there's nothing you can do to stop it.

[Wy'Kia]

You know a book is bad when...

You force yourself to endure reading it for a week and you're only halfway through before you have a raging epiphany that you can't finish the book and you quit never looking back.

[Tati]

you'd rather write your own bad story than keep reading it

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Gemma wrote: "You no a book is bad when even a whole bottle of wine doesn't improve it"

Oh dear, I've had books like that before!

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Tati wrote: "you'd rather write your own bad story than keep reading it"

Yep, I sometimes think I could make some books a whole lot less boring by re-writing them! (I'm most likely deluded, but it would be satisfying to have aliens land and shoot all the annoying characters in the head)

[Denia]

You know what is going to happen before you read it..

[Rebecca M.]

Forcing yourself to read it is like forcing yourself to walk into a dentist's office.

[Sarah Elizabeth]

That's not good!

[Samantha]

I've read 3 great books in a row so I'm proud to say I have nothing to add.

You know a book is great when you're not thinking about the 'You know a book is bad' thread. =P

[Sarah Elizabeth]

ha ha! so true!

[Maya]

You know a book is bad when....
You want to go to work or school, just so you have something to do other than read the book.

[Sarah Elizabeth]

that's bad! I feel like strangling a couple of characters right now.

[Maya]

It's horrible! I feel like there has to be characters in every book that you wanna strangle. I wish there weren't though!

[Sarah Elizabeth]

You just wonder where some of them were when the brains were dished out! They seem to be clearly lacking some!

[Maya]

Haha yes!

[Sarah Elizabeth]

When doing the hoovering seems like an enjoyable alternative to finishing the book!

[Rebecca M.]

A wrote: "Seriously, I'll type it up:


Teh storm was gathring with raindrops falling onto the house, but the bedroom still shook as much as possible even wifout teh storm.


And that's the first sentence."

Holy crap, how did that even get published?

[Irene]

Insta-love after 8 pages . After 15 pages he's grabbed her ass... And this is a ya fantasy book!

[Maya]

Oh that's bad! What book is that?!

[Sarah Elizabeth]

That sounds bad!

[Irene]

It's a new Danish one. It's so bad I'm laughing so hard! :D There's already a love triangle at page 30. Come on :D

[Maya]

Gosh that's horrible horrible horrible!

[[deleted user]]

You know a SERIES is bad when the first three books are amazing, the series ends well...then the author writes more books for money and they sound like they're about romance when the original/good books were fantasy with romance on the side. T_________T

In other words, if you read Witch & Wizard, stop after The Fire (book 3)...

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Ah yes, the pretty little liars series went like that. the first few were good, but after a while they became more and more ridiculous.

[Samantha]

A Series of Unfortunate Events was only worth reading up to around book 3. I think he only made 13 to fit in with the theme.

[Eva]

You know a book is bad when you start to skim read, and then just feel like reading the ending because the stuff in between isn't worth it.

[Sarah Elizabeth]

That's bad!

[Irene]

You're just waiting for it to be over...

[Eva]

Irene wrote: "You're just waiting for it to be over..."

That's always so painful, and you feel like it could anytime in the next 100 or so pages.

[Irene]

Well... I feel like it never even started? And I'm 250 pages in. Sigh! :)

[Eva]

Irene wrote: "Well... I feel like it never even started? And I'm 250 pages in. Sigh! :)"

Yeah, that really sucks :(

[Irene]

Yeah.. But I'll probably finish it anyway, it's an easy read after all

[Sarah Elizabeth]

I'm just about managing to get through an iffy one by reading a couple of chapters and then switching to something else. it's not quite so painful that way, but I'd still like to be done already!

[Irene]

I've reached the point where I kind of hope the characters will commit suicide...

[Sarah Elizabeth]

just so you don't have to read any more. not good ☹ How much do you have left?

[Irene]

Oh I finished it. 2 stars. Sigh :)

[Sarah Elizabeth]

At least it's over ☺