I saw a post on r/movies and wanted to bring this here.
For me, its Cape May by Chip Cheek. Despite the book not really being my genre, as a life long Jersey resident that has been to Cape May a plethora of times, I wanted to love this book.
Instead I STRUGGLED to finish it because it was just boring. Even the smuttier parts were dull. Wouldnt recommend it
by Mikeissometimesright
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I stopped reading books that weren’t doing it for me decades ago. Highly recommended. DNF (did not finish) is your friend.
Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak. It had such promise, so imagine my surprise when I realised that it was nothing more than a fat-shaming, conservative propaganda, transphobic dogwhistle masquerading as a thriller.
I don’t wanna nitpick or call it objectively bad, but Brave New World by Aldous Huxley just wasn’t doing it for me.
Midnight Library. Terrible book. Only redeeming part about it was how easy it was to read.
The Oceans and the Stars by Mark Helprin. I normally love his work, but this one was awful.
Two recent DNFs for me … The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer and When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole. Both 👎👎👎
I struggled through *Fire & Hemlock* by Diana Wynne Jones. Maybe it’s time I admit to myself I don’t particualry enjoy her writing (I read them as part of my job).
This is low-hanging fruit, but I read Dan Brown’s THE SECRET OF SECRETS to review it in a books newsletter I write, and kept regretting that decision with every page I turned. I actually really enjoyed his books when I was younger (THE LOST SYMBOL was my favourite), but his new book is just exasperating: his previous novels had the good grace to be entertainingly absurd, but for a book in which>!the CIA is creating psychic secret agents!<, it’s shockingly dull. My favourite (?) detail is that a disproportionate number of chapters involve a Penguin Random House editor named Jonas Faukman, a rather inexplicable decision that makes sense once you remember that Brown dedicates the book, in an admittedly very sweet gesture, to “my editor and best friend, Jason Kaufman”.
I love horror and I love Westerns, so Reddit convinced me to read Red Rabbit. It did not live up to the hype for me. It was too silly. The main characters kept stumbling into spooky encounters in such a coincidental way it felt like a TTRPG where the DM is doing their best to keep everyone engaged, but read as a published novel it felt amateurish.
Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane
so dumb. I liked gone baby gone and this “sequel” is utter trash