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What's Your Least Favorite Book You Read in 2016?
Stephanie wrote: "Harry Potter and the cursed child... >.<"*Speaks as a lifelong acolyte of JK Rowling*
Was it really that bad?
Benjamin wrote: "It was a magnificent horror I witnessed. If it was more brief, it'd be in "so bad it's good" territory. How about you?
Any particular books ripe enough to have tomatoes thrown at them?"
Uh, were you asking me that question or the forum in general?
It was a tie between 'Codex Seraphinianus' and 'the botony of desire' On one end we have a book of esoteric book I read... That's not quite the right word- I witnessed this book on a dusty shelf in the library, before I knew it, I'd spent half a day just thumbing the pages and drinking it in. It twists the mind until you're ready to feel it snapping in two.
The other is about botany. You heard me right, BOTANY, the Kristen Stewart of scientific subjects. It asked do plants, he wondered, use humans as much as we use them? It was captivating and entirely unexpected.
Benjamin wrote: "Yes.But you in particular.
:-p"
Well I have a list of my 'Top 5 Worst Books I Read in 2016', and my #1 was Red Queen. I've been meaning to expand on my review of it for a while now, but basically my main complaints are:
The twist was horrible. It was easy to predict, and I nearly almost threw the book when it was revealed and tried to make it a surprise. I've never been so angry at a book before.
The world was confusing and didn't mesh very well since she tried to combine a futuristic high-tech society with a feudal medieval world.
THE MAIN CHARACTER WAS TERRIBLE. I could handle the rest of the book if she was actually likeable, but this has got to be one of the worst protagnists I've read in anything ever. She's selfish and prejudiced to the point of annoyance and sheer stupidity. At one point she accidentally breaks her sister's hand, thus firing her. Her sister worked for the royal family AND WAS THE ONLY SOURCE OF HER FAMILY'S INCOME, and the main character has the gull to say: "Well at least you're not working for those snobs anymore,"
I've never wanted a main character to die more than I did her.
And worst of all, I'm the only person who hates that book!
True medievel high-tech is hard to do well (It works for space-opera but not much else.)*googles book* ok, it's a bit of a contrived mind-vomit of a plot... and. oh. Ohwow this is...jeez.
"Her sister worked for the royal family AND WAS THE ONLY SOURCE OF HER FAMILY'S INCOME, and the main character has the gull to say: "Well at least you're not working for those snobs anymore," "
...
WHAT?!
Is the Author at least trying to make them look like a protagonist-villain or something? Please? How?
I had a few...Strange Fate just had bad language and was childish for the age of the characters. Insight wasn't well written and it felt like it was repeating things like there was nowhere else to go with it. The White Aura wasn't memorable enough to add a review.
Benjamin wrote: "True medievel high-tech is hard to do well (It works for space-opera but not much else.)*googles book* ok, it's a bit of a contrived mind-vomit of a plot... and. oh. Ohwow this is...jeez.
"Her s..."
I'm pretty sure she's supposed to be a 'realistic' portrayal, but I don't know how many people would actually do that to their own sibling, no matter how much they hated them....
*Tries not to vomit on laptop**is possibly exaggerating his dislike for bad writing. But only a little.*
Haha I recently updated my review because of this group and explained my thoughts on it better.
This may come off as hypothetical, but you ever see some of these multi-million dollar books, realize they are crap and start to wonder if you could write something good on your own?
I pretty much know I can do better, hence why I want to be an author.
Elizabeth♛ Everyone Else Has a Super Long Name With a Symbol So I Might as Well Do it Too♛ wrote: "I pretty much know I can do better, hence why I want to be an author."Best of luck! What genre do you hope to focus on?
Historical fiction! I also dabble in fantasy, science-fiction, and realistic fiction/contemporary.
Top 3 worst books I read in 2016 were:I am the Secret Wag
Too Close For Comfort- Eleanor Moran
Search For Love- Nora Roberts
the young elites. all my friends recommended it but it just wasn't that great for me.
Even thought I couldn't finish it (yeah it was that bad!), my least favourite book read in 2016 was, this one:
Dark Light - (my review on it, here)some others I didn't particulary like much, were:
- review: here
- review: here
These were the books I absolutely hated:Fangirl
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Thirteen Reasons Why
These ones I didn't hate quite as much but they still really disappointed me:
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two
Ring
On the Other Side
curleduptoes wrote: "An Empire of traitors. I could not finish it.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2..."
For some reason I thought that was a stab at Empire of Storms, lol.
I hate to say this because I enjoyed all the books I read in 2016, but I think my least favorite was The Pearl by John Steinbeck.
Elizabeth♛ Everyone Else Has a Super Long Name With a Symbol So I Might as Well Do it Too♛ wrote: "Historical fiction! I also dabble in fantasy, science-fiction, and realistic fiction/contemporary."Cool! If it's any help, there's a whole website I've been reading through devoted to that, alternatehistory.com keep in mind Sturgeon's law still applies.
The Little Red Chairs was awful. The blurb was interesting. The book was NOT the blurb! Very disappointing.
Meant to Be by Lauren Morrill....it just did not work for me.
Captive Prince for sure
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
It was a book I had to read for school and while it wasn't the worst it was my least favorite book of the bunch I'd read on 2016.
For me, it was The Boy Who Knew Everything by Victoria Forester.
A Thousand Boy kisses by Tilly Cole
The Beauty of Darkness (The Remnant Chronicles #3)by Mary E. Pearson
From #TeamKaden
Unfortunately, it was A Gathering of Shadows :( But there were several things the author just did not convince me of, and when a main character is so unbearable it just does not work.
I don't think there are worst books than the House Of Night series. I read the first book and it was horrible, I almost coudn't finish it. The main caracter was the most annoying, stupid, shallow and selfish brat! Reading that book was torture.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Red Queen
Can I be brutally honest here? I'm going to say Marie Lu books. Mainly the Young Elites. I just couldn't get into them AT ALL however, Prodigy and Champion of the Legend series did pick up a bit for me but definitely lacked for me and Young Elites......I was BORED. But good thing I'm a sucker for trilogies and I still need to read the last Young Elites book. But yeah, not my favorite series.........
Elly wrote: "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 100%"YES
The Dark Wife, Sarah Diemer. Predictable and boring.
Elly wrote: "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 100%"Oh, yes! Certainly the biggest disappointment!
The Racketeer by John GrishamMy Review
I have a tendency to ruin thrillers for myself, so perhaps that's more on me than the book.
~Bellegirl91~ wrote: "Can I be brutally honest here? I'm going to say Marie Lu books. Mainly the Young Elites. I just couldn't get into them AT ALL however, Prodigy and Champion of the Legend series did pick up a bit fo..."Agree young elites is total crap.
Probably Fan Art by Sara Tregay, which was kind of fetishistic about gay guys and also just... badly written
Looking for Alaska, John GreenI just thought this book was so boring! and didn't even make sense.
The Inn Between by Marina Cohen. It looked and sounded so good and it just wasn't :(
Dead Nasty Helen H. Durrant - full of telling, not showing and almost no character descriptions, and it was over the top on the gross-out factorThe Woman in Cabin 10 - Ruth Ware - that main character is a special sort of annoying!
Empire of Storms by Sarah J MaasUprooted by Naomi Novik (dnf)
An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
Uprooted en aeita were just very boring for me, not my cup of tea.
And I'm one of those people that really hates the direction that maas takes the throne of glass series in, hence why i hated empire of storms.
paper towns by John Green i wanted to love this book so much because all my friends love its movie and many of them recommended it to me but Ugh it was so horrible i felt that it was to long and it will never be over the characters were horrible i almost forgot their names uh i just hated it
Lola and the boy next door. BOIIII I HATE THAT BOOK
Naomi wrote: "Lola and the boy next door. BOIIII I HATE THAT BOOK"what? why/i didn't read them but i was planing too so if you tell me the reason of your hatred maybe i would change my mind and not read them
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