One by Richard Bach. He also wrote Jonathan Livingstone Seagull.
Its Richard’s personal story about meeting his soul mate and it makes anyone with average sensibilities want to vomit.
He is so arrogant and egotistical in this tale of romance it makes one sick. He writes as if him having a bowel movement would be a spiritual event of significance. His romance and courtship with his ‘soul mate’ is so disgustingly superlative that its no wonder he ends up divorced later in life.
I cringe when I see Jonathan Livingstone Seagull knowing it’s written by a man who believes he’s walking on water while he walks through a Wal-Mart parking lot.
I no longer subject myself to finishing a book I am hating because of the torture inflicted upon my psyche by Richard’s soulless boomer tale of astrological romance.
Sea_Pianist5164 on
I never get to the end of books I feel are bad. There are a few disappointing ones that I’ve got through because I like the author’s other books but they’re rarely truly bad just mediocre by the author’s standards. Ishiguro’s Clara and the Sun, or David Mitchell’s Utopia Avenue spring to mind. Not bad by any real standard, just not that good.
IndieCurtis on
It’s not badly written, but: Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis.
I hated the characters, hated everything they did, hated the main characters thoughts. I just hated everything I was reading in this book. And towards the end it seemed like the narrator was hinting at something even more horrible that had happened, that they would reveal at the end. I didn’t want to know. So I didn’t finish it.
SorosPaidActor on
The Wasp Factory by Ian Banks and American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis – both have vivid depictions of sadistic violence. DNF either.
Mind you, I read The Fourth Monkey last year and mostly enjoyed it. The violence and depravity was nothing compared to the Wasp Factory. That book is fucked up.
strangeinnocence on
*A Little Life* was terrible from a plot perspective, a character perspective, and a moral perspective. Genuinely an awful book.
jIfte8-fabnaw-hefxob on
I read a book called Loop Group by Larry McMurtry thinking there was no way it could be a bad book. Well, it was garbage.Just some random weirdos meeting each other and driving around together. I wondered at the time if someone else actually wrote it or if it was just his first draft. It was so bad!
InitiativeLogical421 on
This is not going to be a popular answer, but *for me,* it’s The Inmate by Freida McFadden. I just felt like I didn’t like a single one of the characters, her plot was a little too unrealistic for me, and the the “twists” and epilogue only made it worse. It was a short, quick read, so I finished it, but I have never touched another of her books because of it, despite how popular she is.
grooviestofgruvers on
The Confederacy of Dunces. I know it’s the point but the main character is fucking deplorable. Idk why Reddit like this book so much.
ohnolookoutitsantoni on
Catcher in the Rye. I know you’re supposed to dislike Holden but I honestly couldn’t stand the character, much less having to do a book report on him.
CommissarCiaphisCain on
*Catch-22*. I didn’t find it amusing, interesting, or intelligent. That was the book that taught me it’s ok to DNF.
CKnit on
It’s hard to choose. You read so much and certainly come across disappointments.
I didn’t like Homecoming by Kate Morton. I felt like a freak Lol after reading glowing reviews and ppl saying it’s the best book they ever read.
I wish I could have that time back.
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One by Richard Bach. He also wrote Jonathan Livingstone Seagull.
Its Richard’s personal story about meeting his soul mate and it makes anyone with average sensibilities want to vomit.
He is so arrogant and egotistical in this tale of romance it makes one sick. He writes as if him having a bowel movement would be a spiritual event of significance. His romance and courtship with his ‘soul mate’ is so disgustingly superlative that its no wonder he ends up divorced later in life.
I cringe when I see Jonathan Livingstone Seagull knowing it’s written by a man who believes he’s walking on water while he walks through a Wal-Mart parking lot.
I no longer subject myself to finishing a book I am hating because of the torture inflicted upon my psyche by Richard’s soulless boomer tale of astrological romance.
I never get to the end of books I feel are bad. There are a few disappointing ones that I’ve got through because I like the author’s other books but they’re rarely truly bad just mediocre by the author’s standards. Ishiguro’s Clara and the Sun, or David Mitchell’s Utopia Avenue spring to mind. Not bad by any real standard, just not that good.
It’s not badly written, but: Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis.
I hated the characters, hated everything they did, hated the main characters thoughts. I just hated everything I was reading in this book. And towards the end it seemed like the narrator was hinting at something even more horrible that had happened, that they would reveal at the end. I didn’t want to know. So I didn’t finish it.
The Wasp Factory by Ian Banks and American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis – both have vivid depictions of sadistic violence. DNF either.
Mind you, I read The Fourth Monkey last year and mostly enjoyed it. The violence and depravity was nothing compared to the Wasp Factory. That book is fucked up.
*A Little Life* was terrible from a plot perspective, a character perspective, and a moral perspective. Genuinely an awful book.
I read a book called Loop Group by Larry McMurtry thinking there was no way it could be a bad book. Well, it was garbage.Just some random weirdos meeting each other and driving around together. I wondered at the time if someone else actually wrote it or if it was just his first draft. It was so bad!
This is not going to be a popular answer, but *for me,* it’s The Inmate by Freida McFadden. I just felt like I didn’t like a single one of the characters, her plot was a little too unrealistic for me, and the the “twists” and epilogue only made it worse. It was a short, quick read, so I finished it, but I have never touched another of her books because of it, despite how popular she is.
The Confederacy of Dunces. I know it’s the point but the main character is fucking deplorable. Idk why Reddit like this book so much.
Catcher in the Rye. I know you’re supposed to dislike Holden but I honestly couldn’t stand the character, much less having to do a book report on him.
*Catch-22*. I didn’t find it amusing, interesting, or intelligent. That was the book that taught me it’s ok to DNF.
It’s hard to choose. You read so much and certainly come across disappointments.
I didn’t like Homecoming by Kate Morton. I felt like a freak Lol after reading glowing reviews and ppl saying it’s the best book they ever read.
I wish I could have that time back.