What bad book have you read recently?

[Ker_Thwap]

No idea if this thread exists, my forum searching skills suck.

Reading Gauntlgrym by Salvatore. Haven't read him since maybe high school. Missed the dozens of Drizzt stories apparently. I'm only halfway through, and I'm fairly sure I hate everything about it. The fight scenes are like watching someone play with a heavily scripted runestaff in GS, during a heavily choreographed ballet that makes no freaking sense. He also describes every damned outfit, to a degree that makes bad GS alters seem tame. I have no confidence the plot is going to go anywhere.

He's got to play GS. Suck it Bobby Salvatore!

[Gelston]

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[JackWhisper]

Reading the Drizzt series... without reading the Drizzt series....

Fuck it. Someone do a most interesting man in the world gif.

[Tisket]

Fifty Shades of Grey

Wasn't really recently that I read it but it was bad enough that it deserved mention here.

[Tisket]

I believe that people who enjoyed that book are probably people who don't read regularly. That book might be the only book they've read so they have no comparisons. It's the only reason I can think for it's high popularity.

[subzero]

I'm guessing that reading isn't what their life is missing.

[Ker_Thwap]

Reading the Drizzt series... without reading the Drizzt series....

Fuck it. Someone do a most interesting man in the world gif.

Halfway through a book. I saw it was the first story in a trilogy, and grabbed it. Didn't realize at the time is was one of many trilogies set in the same world, or I'd never have started it.

[JackWhisper]

Dude just go to book one. Buy it from a used bookstore for 82 cents.

You will like that, and go from there. =)

[Tgo01]

Fifty Shades of Grey

Wasn't really recently that I read it but it was bad enough that it deserved mention here.

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[shad0ws0ngs]

I've been having a bad time of it, lately, with books. They're not bad necessarily, but I am not finding them nearly as interesting as I had hoped and keep putting them down to read something else.

Authority, the secnd book in the south reach trilogy. The first book, Annihilation, is a quick thrilling "wtf is going on?" read where at the end I still don't know what the hell is going on. I liked it. The second one is from a different perspective and still has a lot of "wtf is going on?" but it's from the perspective of someone who SHOULD have a much better idea than the first book.. and it's plodding. I want to finish it so I can finally find out wtf IS going on, but it's hard.

Ancillary Justice - I like the idea of it, I want to keep reading it, I just can't get into the characters. The main character used to be an avatar for a thousands of years old spaceship.. the avatar is a combination of a dead human body reanimated and implanted with tons of machinery and houses an aspect of the ships A.I. It's neat, but the damned thing can't figure out what anyones gender is and calls everyone "she". It's hard to get into it when I'm imagining what is going on and, halfway through a chapter, I realize that the woman she is talking to is a guy, so it's jarring to stop and kind of re-imagine how everything just happened.

I'm reading Only the Good Die Young right now, which is about a ghost of a woman who was murdered in the 80s and was stuck in a "loop" reliving her murder until a psychic medium pulls her out.. and she helps the psychic medium person to try and figure out another murder while trying to remember her own murder. I like the idea behind it, but the characters are really flat and hard to get interested in. The psychic medium was the most one dimensional character I've seen in ages. I'm about 4/5 through and it's getting better, but it was work to get this far. I hate leaving books unfinished.

The worst book I have read in a long, long time was this book.. I can't remember the name exactly, but it was something like Atlanteax, which is probably why I want to neg rep Atlanteax every time he posts.. or his politics, but anyway.. it was trying to find atlantis but somehow was all about how jesus is good and behavior psychology is bad. Only book I've ever thrown in the trash.

[GS4-Seomanthe]

Ancillary Justice - I like the idea of it, I want to keep reading it, I just can't get into the characters. The main character used to be an avatar for a thousands of years old spaceship.. the avatar is a combination of a dead human body reanimated and implanted with tons of machinery and houses an aspect of the ships A.I. It's neat, but the damned thing can't figure out what anyones gender is and calls everyone "she". It's hard to get into it when I'm imagining what is going on and, halfway through a chapter, I realize that the woman she is talking to is a guy, so it's jarring to stop and kind of re-imagine how everything just happened.


I had the same experience with this book-- I wanted to read it because it was a Hugo or Nebula winner and I generally have really enjoyed those.. but.. I just couldn't bring myself to care about the main character. Admittedly, I didn't read very much of it.. I always feel a bit guilty when I can't get into a book.

I also just finished Quiet (http://www.amazon.com/Quiet-Power-Introverts-World-Talking-ebook/dp/B004J4WNL2).. I don't know if I can say it's bad, because I found the subject matter very interesting, but I found the writer really, really annoying. She wrote the book like a super long-winded explanation for being weird in social situations, and came off as kind of whiny. I did manage to finish it and took away some lessons I can use, but ugh. I want a better writer to re-write the whole thing.

[JackWhisper]

I want a better writer to re-write the whole thing.

This idea is something I genuinely want. They do it in movies. Why can't they do it in books?! BLA!

[Tisket]

This idea is something I genuinely want. They do it in movies. Why can't they do it in books?! BLA!

Seriously, man.

Can you imagine Fifty Shades of Grey written by George R. R. Martin? How awesome would that be.

[Tisket]

I hate leaving books unfinished.

Do what I do: skip to the last chapter. Reading words that don't spark something inside of you is a waste of time.

[JackWhisper]

Seriously, man.

Can you imagine Fifty Shades of Grey written by George R. R. Martin? How awesome would that be.

Sigh. Off the top of my head? I want someone to reboot the book AND movie for the Eragon series.

I have never seen a novel and movie franchise have so much potential, and be so utterly wasted because a naïve teenager controlled the rights.