Have you read a book that didn't live up to its promise?

[Quantum]

My daughter deplored the writing quality of the Hunger Games.

How about you? When has marketing trumped quality of the story?

[Philip]

War and Peace

[Scout]

I came here ready to name the same novel, Philip. I'm surprised and pleased to see that someone else was disappointed by it. I always said that I'd read it when I had time, so when I retired, it was the first thing I read. I had to make a list of characters as I read in order to keep them straight. And after all that trouble, I came away from it thinking that I'd wasted my time.

[Sarah]

The One you cannot have - utterly disappointed with POVs.

[Scout]

That makes no sense.

[Matthew]

I believe Sarah means to say she was disappointed with the choice of POVs for that book. I could be wrong, she may be just plain nuts ;)

[Matthew]

Personally, I was so disappointed with Hunters of Dune, I wanted to spit! The advertised conclusion to the Dune trilogy was nothing more than a shameless attempt at cashing in by the hackish writers who chose to carry on the series in their own twisted image!

Did that seem over the top? Too rage-y and bitter? Not enough?

[Philip]

Matthew wrote: "Personally, I was so disappointed with Hunters of Dune, I wanted to spit! The advertised conclusion to the Dune trilogy was nothing more than a shameless attempt at cashing in by the hackish writer..."

Think the same thing is happening with the Millenium series - have not read the two new books not written by Larsson