What Makes you Throw a Book Across the Room?

[Michael]

The closest I came to tossing a book against the wall was The Da Vinci Code. What got me was the use of the phrase "eyeing," or any of its variations, rather than "examined," or "studied," or something like that. Even and occasional "looked at" would have been better.

I don't usually read that sort of trash, but my wife and a lot of my friends had read it and said it was good. The story was okay, but the writing sucked. Written at a middle school level.

What has made you chuck a book across the room?

[[deleted user]]

Tess of the D'Urbervilles was the last book I wanted to toss across the room, stomp up and down on, tear it appart. Fortunately the book was not mine. I managed to take my frustrations out on Mr G instead. He understood, or said he did! :P It has to be a well written book to get me emotionally involved enough to get violent.

[Michael]

Gail wrote: "Tess of the D'Urbervilles was the last book I wanted to toss across the room, stomp up and down on, tear it appart. Fortunately the book was not mine. I managed to take my frustrations out on Mr G..."

That book is at the other end of the spectrum from da Vinci Code. What made you want to throw it?

[Michael]

Michael wrote: "What has made you chuck a book across the room?"

A woman.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

One of the Anna Pigeon books by Nevada Barr. (Actually they probably all do this.) Instead of writing "Anna had" this or that, it became Anna'd. Anna'd. Anna'd. It was so unbelievably fucking annoying it ruined what was otherwise a semi-decent story.

[Michael]

I'da probably done the same thing.

[Suefly]

50 Shade of Grey.

I was curious, and there is a hilarious review on GR,so I bought it for my Nook. I wanted to see for myself what the brouhaha was all about. If it wasn't for the price of the Nook, I would have thrown it in the trash. I lasted 30 pages of drivel. Bleh...

[Carol]

"As I Lay Dying," or as I heard one person call it "As I Die Reading."

[Michael]

Suefly wrote: "50 Shade of Grey.

I was curious, and there is a hilarious review on GR,so I bought it for my Nook. I wanted to see for myself what the brouhaha was all about. If it wasn't for the price of the Noo..."

It's curious how a book that everyone says is utter crap can generate so much attention. Imitators, spoofs, and actual lovers of the work. I read a comment by a woman who said it made her want to have sex with her husband. A lot. That can't be bad, can it? Maybe why it's so hard to get published. If it ain't drivel for the lowbrow, then it won't see the light of day.

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I have a friend who highly recommended 50 shades of Grey as a substitute/preliminary for/to foreplay. I read about 100 pages. The characters reminded my so strongly of Twillight I wanted to vomit. I couldn't continue to read it.

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Michael wrote: "Gail wrote: "Tess of the D'Urbervilles was the last book I wanted to toss across the room, stomp up and down on, tear it appart. Fortunately the book was not mine. I managed to take my frustration..."

Pure frustration! The self righteousness of Angel, the pathetic self sacrifice of Tess. I know that that answer is a little simplified. It is my short answer!

[Mark]

Seeing that Gail has chosen Madonna as her profile pic...

[Lauren (aplpeach)]

Beautiful Disaster....Travis was so stupid...he should have told her a ton of times how he felt

[Cheri]

Rage Of Angels. I tossed this book off the back of a motorcycle somewhere after Seattle and before SF in the early 1980s. And I didn't have another book to read. Reading nothing was better than reading this crap.

[Michael]

I'm trying to discover WHAT made you throw the book, not just the title. Some of you have answered that, but I'm interested in whether it's the writing style, something about the characters, or what.

[Jammies]

What makes me want to throw a book across the room?

Any plot point which involves killing or harming a child or animal just to make the reader cry.

Egregious grammar, spelling and/or typographical errors.

Characters doing idiotic things that are not in sync with their overall personalities or history.