Bad reads

Have you ever been really looking forward to reading a book and ended up really hating it? I remember being really excited to read Stephen Kings Carrie but I hated it sooo much I just found it so boring unlike some of his other books which I've really enjoyed. So heres a place to rant about books you havent liked.

The Lovely Bones leaps to mind. I labored through that book for ages and still wonder why I didn't give up. What was all the fuss about?

Oh i sort of had that problem with A Clockwork Orange my bf told me how awesome it was (he has odd tastes in books, music and the such like) so i bought it and was very... unimpressed. I just couldn't see what made it so amazing maybe its my very unpoetic brain that doesn't find all the kind of symbolic meanings books like that have.

I just tried to read The Martian Child by David Gerrold. I just could not get into it. It was for my book club and almost everyone did not like it.

I'm really pleased to see a "bad reads" post! We talk and rave about the books we love, but little is said to those we can not digest. I'm sad to say that I have a compulsion which makes me finish a book I start no matter how awful it is! I had gotten through 50+ years of my life with never reading a Hemingway. I thought surely all good readers and those broadly read should surely have read Hemingway. Therefore, I embarked upon the perfect Hemingway book. I read critics reviews and even found a quote from Hemingway stating he thought his best book was The Sun Also Rises. With great anticipation I started reading, and I waited and waited and waited for it to get good or to even find a plot. I was so disappointed! A crude, short synopsis: Broke Americans, who write home and beg money from their rich American friends, drink their way from Paris to Pamplona. Most of the book took place in bars or sidewalk cafes. Snooooooooooozzzzzzzzzzzeeeeee

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand is mine. OMG!!!! I gave up after about 200 pages- with about one million to go. Awful, awful awful!!!! It took me months to get that far. The only reason I last THAT long was that I had been led to belive that it is a 'classic' and so I felt I needed to perserver.

I could never get through Stranger in a Strange Land by Heinlein. I love scifi and liked other of his books, but this was was terrible. Maybe I am just in the wrong generation.

I remember really liking the first three Maximum Ride books. . . but then the fourth. Ugh. It went off on this huge tangent of global warming that felt super preachy to me. And I had already preordered the next book. It's been sitting on my shelf for ages, there's already at least 2 more out past this one in the series. I was just so disappointed that I don't think I could handle it from the same series twice. So it remains sitting with me going back and forth over whether or not to attempt it. *le sigh

There are definitely others that I can't recall during this late hour. That one is just the top one that's happened.

I'm not a Thurber fan. However, one of the teacher's I work with loves Thurber. She said get the Thirteen Clocks and you will love it--it's funny, zany and hilarious. I did and it wasn't. It was so "off" that it was unintelligible.