Top 3 Most Frustrating Novels

[Carol]

Anna Karenina and Moby Dick. Even more boring than One Hundred Years Of Solitude. Although Moby Dick did have some off beat humor for me. I liked the headhunter with his tomahawk in the bed.

[Esther]

Kate wrote: "

1. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
2. Atonement
3. The Memory Keepers daughter"

Captain Corelli's Mandolin I disliked so much that when the book physically fell apart I didn't bother to pick the pages off the floor. My mother loved it so much she wouldn't let me throw it away and keeps it together with a rubber band!!

The Memory Keeper's Daughter had an interesting concept but the writing was leaden and the whole last third should have been edited out. I recommended it to my mother who loved it although she did admit the writing was a bit slow.

Atonement is on my TBR. My mother has just read and not liked it so I'm quite hopeful :0)

[Lisa]

1. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
I thought I'd love it. I do like the author as a person. I recommended it to my book club. Nobody much liked it.

2. Cold Comfort Farm
I thought I'd find it hilarious but I barely cracked a few smiles. This was another (real world) book club read.

3. Vanity Fair
This was only the second book I had to read for school that I actively disliked. (the first was The Old Man and the Sea ) This was frustrating because I should reread it as I think I'd like it now, but I loathed it so much at the time that I'm not willing to pick it up again.

[Jennifer]

My latest book nemesis: Catch-22; and I'm not crazy about The Graveyard Book at the moment, either (but I'll get through it) ; Books by the Bronte sisters, like Wuthering Heights, so far bores the crap out of me. LOL
I guess I'm weird, for half of the books mentioned here, I don't mind, and would possibly read again (like Hannibal, although the ending is quite the pisser, and any HP book I would definitely read again, and do). What a strange reader am I?! :D

[Jenna]

Grace wrote: " I just finished The Reader and I can't say that I was all that impressed with it."

I am reading it right now ....and stuck on pg 137 it's not one of those books that i can't put down ...I need a more believable love/togetherness between a couple ...just makes things seem more unbelievable to me that man sees girl then immediately starts fornicating and this is love! lol

[Vanessa]

Only three? Well here are a few that made me tear my hair and resent the time wasted on them:
1. Kafka on the Shore - @#$%^&*%@#*$!!!!!
2. Daughter of Fortune - Idiot making idiotic decisions
3. Theft: A Love Story - Unlikeable characters in unbelieveable situations.

[Tammy AZ]

1) A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - my most hated book ever.
2) A Year in Provence - just didn't care about these people at all.
3) Rebecca - I never could finish this one.

[Jenna]

Tammy wrote: "1) A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - my most hated book ever.
2) A Year in Provence - just didn't care about these people at all.
3) Rebecca - I never could finish this one."

I was just going to order Rebecca too off a site maybe I will think again on ordering it lol

[El]

Rebecca is one of my favorite books! Jenna, I still recommend you check it out.

[Juniper]

The three books that frustrated me the most are:


1)Small Island A Novel by Andrea Levy
2)The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
3)Lost Girls by Andrew Pyper