eaglei Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Heather's thread for favorite books was HARD! After answering it, I realized I could much more easily choose a LEAST favorite fiction and non-fiction book that I read this year. How about you? What would you choose? Here's mine: Fiction: Skipping Christmas, by John Grisham Non-fiction: Dance of a Fallen Monk, by George Fowler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 I think it came out in '09, but I read it in 2010. Dan Brown's Lost Symbol was very disappointing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMamaBird Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 I tried to read "Wicked" this year and couldn't get past the first chapter. So, I didn't really read it . . . does that still count.:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidsHappen Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 I didn't read Twilight until this year but I wasn't impressed. I even read half of the second one but I still wasn't impressed so I gave it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golfcartmama Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 I don't know why, but I could NOT get through The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo. So many loved it, just not me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jld Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 I tried to read Life of Pi and Sense and Sensibility. I think fiction is just wasted on me, unfortunately. Dd and dh keep urging me to read The Book Thief, but I think it would be depressing, and I just don't need any more of that in my life . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 The Hunger Games. I know people love this series, but I couldn't even get through the first book. Didn't like it at. all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garga Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 I tried to read Life of Pi and Sense and Sensibility. I think fiction is just wasted on me, unfortunately. Dd and dh keep urging me to read The Book Thief, but I think it would be depressing, and I just don't need any more of that in my life . . . Those are hard or boring or yucky books! Fiction's supposed to be fun. No wonder it's wasted on you, with those as your choices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renee in NC Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Twelve by Twelve by William Powers!!!!!!! :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather in Neverland Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Wolf Hall. UGH....it is the first book I ever read that I never actually finished...although I read half of it and at that size I think it should count as a whole book! Just awful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommy22alyns Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 I wince as I write this, but Sons of Encouragement by Francine Rivers. I LOVE Francine Rivers, but for some reason this collection of men in the Bible is only boring me. :confused: I also have to add in Octavia E. Butler's Patternmaster series. First I found the order of publication and read that book first. It seemed a bit disjointed, but okay I can handle it.... Then I see another list that says they actually GO in a totally different order, so I started again with Wild Seed and just couldn't get into it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Well, out of the books I actually read all the way through, I would have to say Life of Pi. On one hand, the writing is beautiful. It is a fascinating story. (It also had my favorite cover art of the year.) Yet, I felt like that book crushed my soul. It really did. I was so upset after reading it that I didn't want to read *any* books for awhile. Out of books that I stopped part-way through & didn't finish, I would pick The Hunger Games. I just couldn't get over the ick factor of children being pitted against each other to the death. Other books I started this year & didn't finish because I couldn't get into them: Bicycle Diaries The Canon The Illuminator The Elegance of the Hedgehog the YA version of Three Cups of Tea The Swan Thieves The Ballad of Peckham Rye Napoleon's Buttons The Black Nile The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (I'd actually like to read/finish this one -- just ran out of time before it was due back at the library) Act of Will Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plucky Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Wolf Hall. UGH....it is the first book I ever read that I never actually finished...although I read half of it and at that size I think it should count as a whole book! Just awful. Me, too! I love the subject content normally, but that book. Ugh. What a snoozer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Out of books that I stopped part-way through & didn't finish, I would pick The Hunger Games. I just couldn't get over the ick factor of children being pitted against each other to the death. This is what got me. There are books I've read all the way through only to realize I didn't like them, but none were in 2010. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in GA Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Without a doubt -- Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. I stuck through with it halfway -- 300 pages! -- because I was sure it must get better. Over a thousand Amazon reviews said it was their favorite book ever! Finally I realized that no, it wasn't going to get better. I stopped reading it and was sorry I had stuck with it that long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rose in BC Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Without a doubt -- Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. I stuck through with it halfway -- 300 pages! -- because I was sure it must get better. Over a thousand Amazon reviews said it was their favorite book ever! Finally I realized that no, it wasn't going to get better. I stopped reading it and was sorry I had stuck with it that long. This was my experience too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsbaby Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 The Bronze Bow. It was a read aloud with the kids. We made it about 3/4 of the way through. We just couldn't finish it. The kids were SO bored and I dreaded reading it to them. And I had heard so many great things about it...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakia Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 There were two books I started this year but couldn't finish: The Book Thief and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2jjka Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 The Shack:tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FriedClams Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 The Hunger Games. I know people love this series, but I couldn't even get through the first book. Didn't like it at. all. I tried. Couldn't do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perry Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 1. Outlander. Gave up after a few hundred pages. 2. All of the James Patterson mysteries. Awful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paisley Hedgehog Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txbloobonnet Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Without a doubt -- Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. I stuck through with it halfway -- 300 pages! -- because I was sure it must get better. Over a thousand Amazon reviews said it was their favorite book ever! Finally I realized that no, it wasn't going to get better. I stopped reading it and was sorry I had stuck with it that long. I despised and loathed both Outlander and a book called Little,Big. They are the two worse books I read this year...and I read them both all the way through. I especially hated Little, Big but I read the whole long, horrible thing because it was my pick for book club and I had to lead a discussion on it. It was torture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crissy Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 The School of Essential Ingredients. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakia Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 The School of Essential Ingredients. Oh I forgot I tried to read that one. Got through a couple of chapters and quit. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Crown Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 John Galsworthy's To Let. I couldn't finish it even though it meant I wouldn't have credit for finishing the first trilogy of The Forsyte Chronicles. The Victorian moral scruples were too excessive to sustain my belief in anyone's motivations. I just wanted everyone to move to San Francisco and get on with their lives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beaners Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 The Element by Ken Robinson. I have it sitting by the computer with 10 pages left. I haven't liked it from the first chapter, but I am determined to finish it so that no one can tell me it gets better. I am not a "special unique snowflake" kind of gal. I also can't stand when a book includes its own special vocabulary word ("Element" in this case) in almost every single sentence. I've tried to ignore those things and judge the book on its other merits, but I can't get through more than a page without rolling my eyes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarrieF Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 I think it came out in '09, but I read it in 2010. Dan Brown's Lost Symbol was very disappointing. :iagree:Enough said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin M Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 I'd have to say this The Killing of Mindi Quintana was the worse. I reviewed it for a debut author and his writing left a bit to be desire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LG Gone Wild Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Twilight - believe it or not, the movie was better Be Ready When the S**t Goes Down - Forrest Griffin any book by Frances Mayes (lady who wrote Under the Tuscan Sun) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfside Academy Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 The Pillars of the Earth I wanted to like it but couldn't get past 1st 100 pages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impish Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 I think its called 'Perilous Proposal'. I really, really tried to like it...but I can't stand a book that's written in slang. This was set in the Civil War, and from the perspective of slaves mostly, so the language used is representative of the time and people...but I cringe at it anyways, even though I know its historically accurate. I just don't want to work that hard to get through fiction. :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TN Mama Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Twelve by Twelve by William Powers!!!!!!! :tongue_smilie: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom-ninja. Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 The Duggar book. Big yawn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleepymommy Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo--yuck. Way to graphic for me. Eat, Pray, Love---yuck, yuck. Couldn't finish it, bored me to tears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakia Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Eat, Pray, Love---yuck, yuck. Couldn't finish it, bored me to tears. And yet another book I forgot that I didn't like and couldn't finish. Eat, Pray, Love. Yuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleWMN Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 The Shack:tongue_smilie: Me too!! :001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 I wince as I write this, but Sons of Encouragement by Francine Rivers. I LOVE Francine Rivers, but for some reason this collection of men in the Bible is only boring me. :confused: I love her books, too, but when I had dh buy them for me (because I just knew I'd love them) I couldn't get through them. I found them very boring, as well. :( My least favorite (that I finished) for 2010 was The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughing lioness Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 1 I didn't read: the Life of Pi. Just couldn't get past the first couple of pages. 1 I did read: Little Bee. Very graphic and utterly depressing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karenciavo Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 Stoner by John Williams. Finished it. I won't say it was horrible, but I don't consider the main character heroic at all, I often found his choices disturbing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QueenCat Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 Eat, Pray, Love---yuck, yuck. Couldn't finish it, bored me to tears. :iagree:Could not get in to it...... and returned it to another WTMer, after just one chapter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 I hated the Book Thief. I made myself finish it, but it was such a waste of my time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 I think I complained more about St Augustine's Confessions than I did about Margery Kempe, but I'm not quite sure. :tongue_smilie: Rosie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali in OR Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 A Reliable Wife. Book club pick. Felt like I was reading porn. Yuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negin Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 Twilight series Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negin Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 Without a doubt -- Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. :iagree: I now give books only 10% - if they don't do anything for me in the first 10%, I give up. We do that with our read-alouds also. Life is too short to read rubbish that doesn't appeal to us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i.love.lucy Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 The Pillars of the Earth I wanted to like it but couldn't get past 1st 100 pages.:iagree: I slotted through the whole thing but skimmed lots to make it through. And yet another book I forgot that I didn't like and couldn't finish. Eat, Pray, Love. Yuck.Made it through just about 50 pages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jld Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 Those are hard or boring or yucky books! Fiction's supposed to be fun. No wonder it's wasted on you, with those as your choices. LOL! But some people love them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jld Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 The Bronze Bow. It was a read aloud with the kids. We made it about 3/4 of the way through. We just couldn't finish it. The kids were SO bored and I dreaded reading it to them. And I had heard so many great things about it...... I love, love, love that book. But you know, we listened to it on audiobook, so I wonder if that makes a difference? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jld Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 :iagree:I now give books only 10% - if they don't do anything for me in the first 10%, I give up. We do that with our read-alouds also. Life is too short to read rubbish that doesn't appeal to us. Way to go, Negin! I love your confidence! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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