Books You Don't Like.

13 Reasons Why.
I couldn't even finish it. The girl was so selfish to even do that to people.

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.

A lot of people liked it, but there was something about it that just didn't get me, it couldn't get me. I felt that until the book hit its peak in Part Three, it was just a very tedious read. I still wanted to know what was going to happen as the book slowly progressed, but I just didn't feel this book at all. To be completely honest, I enjoyed the movie a lot more than the book.

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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.

A lot of people liked it, but there was something about it that just didn't get me, it couldn't get me. I felt that until the book hit its peak in Part Three, it was just a very tedious read. I still wanted to know what was going to happen as the book slowly progressed, but I just didn't feel this book at all. To be completely honest, I enjoyed the movie a lot more than the book.

When I saw the title of the thread, this is the first book that came to mind. :P I really agree about it being a tedious read. I've never seen the movie, but I grabbed it in Barnes and Noble one day because it seemed interesting enough. It was just really hard to get into for me. I felt like it was very slow paced and bland.

The Vampire Diaries series. It's the first series of novel in which I read the first book and couldn't even push through the rest. I pushed through the first novel, and tried to force myself to read the second, but I quit about twenty pages in.

American Psycho. I love Ellis, I love the way he writes, and I love the way that all the characters his books are all linked in some way, but I had a real problem with American Psycho once I got half way through. I loved the first half, and I liked the vague references to all of Bateman's rapes/murders, but once he slit the homeless man's eyes, I was just like 'Woah.'

I suppose I have a love/hate relationship with this book, because I love it, but am too affected by gore to read the end, which is a shame, because Bateman's one of the best characters I've ever read.

Eat,Pray,Love

Worst movie ever

A Clash of Kings

Such a HUGE let down from A Game of Thrones. I don't know if it's because my favourite character died but really, the focus on Tyrion is irritating as hell. He is not the only POV character in King's Landing, it would be nice to hear more of Sansa. Plus the Bran chapters are waaaaay too short and I love Bran - adore Bran - and the Jon and Arya ones are few and far between. Ditto that with the Theon chapters actually.

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The only thing keeping me reading is knowing Jaime becomes a POV character in the next book.

A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb.

I'm tempted to write a proper review for it. I HATED the narrative and the dramatic similies and metaphors in every other sentence. I was expecting it to be good, what a let down.

Lucky by Alice Sebold.

I think it's boring, which is quite a horrible thing to say considering this really happened to her. But I just felt that she was pushing her whole rape sob-story a bit far with The Lovely Bones and Lucky (The Lovely Bones which I read first), and I couldn't bring myself to even get halfway through Lucky.

I also tried reading The Almost Moon but gave up. Her writing is just so depressing.

The Twilight Saga - boring, cliche, plot holes galore, just...awful.

Jane Eyre - 400 pages of descriptions...of what exactly? The plot just didn't move and I was confused for most of the book.

Wuthering Heights - I didn't get it at all. The first few chapters were incredibly slow and uninteresting too, which I absolutely hate in a book.

Frankenstein - one-dimensional characters everywhere. Frankenstein's school friend was my favorite character because he had the slightest bit more...substance than the rest of the minor characters. I didn't understand Frankenstein's motives for creating the monster in the first place, and then everybody dies. The entire book was confusing too...I just didn't like it.

Two Way Street by Lauren Barnholdt

I thought that book was so pointless and so... so... I can't even explain it. I mean, I GUESS it was a pretty decent book, but it was so boring and it kind of just ended. I don't know, read it for yourself.

Al Capone Does My Shirts. - I honestly couldn't feel for anyone besides the autistic girl. Everyone else just seemed so snobby.

Twilight Saga - The Lost Boys would rip Edward with a single glance. VAMPIRES DONT SPARKLE.

Travel Team - Mike Lupica. I hate hate hate sports books. And the story was a little too far fetched. It didn't add up.

Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King. Here's the thing though: I really LOVED "Fair Extension" and "A Good Marriage", definitely my two favorite stories in the book. "Big Driver" was good, but I feel like that was carried out farther then it needed to be and quite frankly at times I found the main character annoying (although what happened to her was TERRIBLE). But "1992" pretty much ruined the entire book for me, and because~ it was the first story to begin the book, I stopped reading for months at a time because I couldn't continue with the story. I'm not talking about the gruesome aspect of it (I didn't find it very gut-wrenching or hard to read, disturbing, but not hard to read), but I'm talking about how DRAGGED OUT the story was, for most of the 100+ pages the narrator would just talk about work on the farm and I was thoroughly bored. I liked parts of the book, but as a whole, not really.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I cannot, for the life of me, get into it. I am half way done and just gave up. The formatting of it drives me mental.

Other than that, Twilight. Don't get me started.

The Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer, the reasons why I hate Twilight have been listed above numerous times.

Lord of the Flies by William Golding, I could never get into it. It was really boring.

Uglies series by Scott Westerfield. I'm not really into sci-fi type of novels in the first place and I really tried to get into it, but I just couldn't.

Vampire Diaries series by L.J Smith. Really boring, I do like the TV show though, thank god it's nothing like the books.

I don't like any of Shakepeare's works, especially not Romeo and Juliet. Boring as hell. I also find Sarah Dessen to be very overrated as well. People hail her as the queen of teen romance novels, but I've never really lost myself in one of her novels.

I see a lot of people that don't like Harry Potter.
I EFFING LOVE HARRY POTTER.

Pretty much all young adult fiction having to do with vampires and werewolves. I can't really think of a recent a single book that I enjoyed or did not make me angry.

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. That shit was so sexist.
Anything by Ayn Rand.
(I don't really like Russian authors, it seems.)
To Kill a Mockingbird. (I hate racism, but this book was so boring.)
Anything by Meg Cabot.
Everything by Sarah Dessen that's not Just Listen
She Said Yes. Blaming famous people for the death of your daughter (who had nothing to do with it in the first place) doesn't change the fact that she's gone, and it's counter-productive if anything.
I don't have anything against the first four Harry Potter books, but I just can't get into anything after The Goblet of fire.

July's people.
Othello.
Meg Cabot books (her characters are super whiny).
A thousand splendid suns.

I didn't like 120 Days of Sodom. The content was dark, but that's not what put me off. I didn't like the way it was written.

American Psycho.

I don't really like Ellis though. I think he's a slimeball and is in the same can-barely-write vein as Stephen King.

The Twilight Saga, which everyone else seems to be saying. I liked them at first (I have no clue what I was thinking) but they just got more annoying with each book. The last one, just awful.