For me it was "The Colour Purple."
It's NOT because of the subject matter. In fact, I'm sort of embarrassed to admit this because I'm a HARDCORE reader and I tend to read about traumatized characters.
I read "The Handmaid's Tale" and thoroughly enjoyed it.
I think the vivid description might have triggered me a little, but I knew it would be non-stop torture porn for a while.
This book probably is pretty good but as a hardcore reader I couldn't finish it.
Maybe some of you will call me soft, that's whatever I guess.
What about you guys?
by Best_Tennis8300
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Hobbit
The Secret History
I Who Haver Never Known Men. To me, paragraphs are important. The book felt like one long run on sentence. Not to mention I’m kind of losing interest in tragedy porn
I thought the hobbit/ lord of the rings was incredibly boring
Fourth Wing. Not really into romantasy (though I love fantasy otherwise) and BOY HOWDY it was rough. I pushed through 3 chapters and tossed it in the bin
Damascus Station. I don’t even recall the author’s name.
The Brothers Karamazov. But I wanna give it another go, not sure when, but eventually
A Gentleman in Moscow
One Second After is such a piece of shit. Bad writing, literally misusing words, tell don’t show writing, plus thinly veiled right wing societal whinging.
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine 🫣
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. I just couldn’t get into it and once we hit the “my professor won’t leave his wife” part I just checked out. 🤷🏼♀️
The Exorcist. I don’t know why, might’ve just been the state of mind I was in, I couldn’t comprehend what he was saying at all. I don’t think it’s even a difficult book, I’m sure I’ve read much more challenging ones, but I couldn’t make sense of it for some reason.
Binding 13
Gone Girl. I hated all the characters. I know that’s kinda the point but it wrecked my head.
Circe
Throne of Glass. Tried both paper and audiobook, and both my wife and I couldn’t stand the prose and how obviously tropey and predictable it was going to be. We both made it a chapter or two in before giving up.
{{Blindness by José Saramago}}. Like McCarthy, he doesn’t like quotation marks and other punctuation. Instant DNF when I saw that.
Hitchhiker’s guide to galaxy. Dry humor yes, but not interesting enough to hook me in.
A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara. Admittedly not the first few pages but still not very far through. The most inaccurate portrayal of male relationships i’ve ever experienced. Reads like a little girl’s fan fiction.
First biography of a billionaire that has been in the news lately. Cant remember the title. My BS detector started dinging early.
I was excited for the things they were doing at the time. I was a cheer leader. After that day I eyed everything the person said with suspicion.
It slowly started to come out that yes it was all fake, con man behaviour.