… and why?
I rarely ever DNF books. I can actually count on one hand the amount of books I’ve DNF’d in my lifetime. I just DNF’d The Regional Office is Under Attack! At page 7 (almost page 20 or so if you count the Roman numerals numbered prologue). It was 100% a dude trying to write a “relatable teenaged girl” while trying to be edgy af by dropping f-bombs and g-ds every sentence… every sentence that was written as if he was trying to capture the style of the classics like Dickens but ended up word vomiting instead. I feel sucker punched. It had such a great premise too! Sigh. If you enjoyed the book, I’m not trying to yuck your yum. It just wasn’t for me.
So what’s your version of this scenario?
by Mobius8321
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I do not want to read three page long sentences
Had to put down Karl Marx’s Capital, I’ve never read economic theory before and despite the opening being a very simple concept, the way it was written and the absurd level of repetition gave me a headache, I’ll go back to it.
The midnight library and On Earth we’re briefly gorgeous 😩
Power vs Force by David Hawkins
No idea what convinced me to read it. But it’s complete and utter horseshit gibberish out of the gate.
Frieda McFadden’s /The Housemaid/. It won the Goodreads choice award for thriller, and I was trying to read all the winners one year. I simply could not do it. There is something truly perverse about sex and murder being discussed using a 5th grade vocabulary. I couldn’t take it. Not being hyperbolic: it was easily the worst written book I’ve ever encountered as an adult.
Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca. It’s ridiculous but I hate dream sequences in books, always have. This very very famously starts with “last night I dreamed I went to Manderlay again” and even though I knew it started like that after half a page I put it down.
Many but the most “well loved” by others book I’ve DNFd was the Picture of Dorian Gray. That prose drives me crazy. I have a visceral hatred for it.
*Walden*. Tried to listen on Audiobook, but the language was too beautiful that it needed a better mechanism for going back and repeating sentences. May revisit in a physical copy if I have time.
I knew I was not going to finish Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet on page one. Everyone here loves it, but to me that whole shit was like old timey Tumblr turned into a book. Twee and up its own ass, excessively quirky and just… nonsense. Every character is annoying, especially that mechanic chick whose only personality is getting a little bit high.
Now, I read a bit more, but part of me knew from page one that every single freaking conversation and non-existent plot point was making me annoyed.
The DaVinci Code
Dreamcatcher? Steven King novel.
Absolutely gross, I think it was a 1/3rd or so of the way through.
Orbital. Didn’t get it at all
The Poppy Wars is the only one I can remember.
The fury
I dont remember the name but it was Brad Thor. He instantly just threw in relentless pro conservative bullshit that was just pure fantasy about how dems made the country so much weaker during “the last administration”.
Only book i have ever thrown in the trash.