Most disappointing read

[Nicodemus]

I found 'American Psycho' terribly boring.

 

[r.a]

I read all of Chuck Palahniuk's books up until Snuff. After that I decided to give him away. It was Invisible Monsters that I fell in love with and I should have left it at that. After too many you realise he's using virtually the same formula, novel after novel. It's all very repetitive and eventually you numb to the shock factor.

snuff was a pretty aweful book. i'd been into palanhuik since he stole my heart with Survivor, and since i bought snuff i havent cared to read anything new that he has made. admittedly i am currently re-reading Haunted, though. that one is actually pretty decent.

i feel you on the numbing and shock factor thing, but lets face it, his style completely bites off vonnegut so the grossness is all he's really got. other than his gimmick, he had a good thing going on for a while. snuff killed it for me. what a waste of carbon and trees.

 

[InsatiableCuriosity]

American Psycho, I think scarred me for life...one of those books I couldn't stop reading, but it was very traumatic for me. I had nightmares for months after wards. Very graphic and not for sensitive souls. I think I burnt it (and I don't believe in censorship and burning of books) after wards, I felt so dirty and impure after reading it. Really needed a few more warnings on the cover or in the synopsis. And yes I know it was a metaphor, but still...

I had the same reaction after reading the Exorcist!! I felt physically ill!! I have read many horror books but this one really ate at me like no other before or since!

 

[EJCC]

Everything I've read by Ernest Friggin' Hemingway. RRRGH!

 

[stringstheory]

all the new Stephen King hate although I agree, The Stand was really disappointing, and i couldn't get into what my friend calls The Dork Tower series

I was pretty disappointed with The DaVinci Code; for all the hype i found it pretty poorly written, especially at the end. It read to me like he forgot his deadline and finished it up in about an hour.

 

[EJCC]

I was pretty disappointed with The DaVinci Code; for all the hype i found it pretty poorly written, especially at the end. It read to me like he forgot his deadline and finished it up in about an hour.

Agreed! Also, the plot twist made me LOL. (Even more so in the movie.)

 

[Einnas]

The lonely bones..

I just thought it was so darn borring :/

 

[Einnas]

I found 'American Psycho' terribly boring.

Really? Why?

 

[Aquarelle]

Everything I've read by Ernest Friggin' Hemingway. RRRGH!

I have to agree. I tried to like him, but I just can't get into his writing.

 

[ThatsWhatHeSaid]

This was a pretty disappointing read.

 

[Nicodemus]

Really? Why?

I cannot really tell. I disliked its style, the (intended) phoniness, and I did not see any sense in reading it: it offered me nothing. Granted, I saw the film before I started reading the book, but that usually does not ruin the book for me.

 

[Stanton Moore]

A novel written by a HS friend of mine. What a peice of shit. The person and his book.

 

[Nonsensical]

'The Stand' was all right, but I feel like it could have been much shorter and still had the same effect.

yeah, for other people than myself. I sort of enjoy the strong and elaborate characterization...but agree with you completely. The beginning was slower than a lot of books I've ever read and the backgrounds behind the characters droned on and on. But like I said, I enjoyed every page of it. All 1100 or so of them in the complete and uncut version of the novel.

 

[mr.awesome]

i began to read 'the myth of the sisyphus'
and about 40 pages in it dawned on me that not a single word or phrase had yet sunk in or made any sense to me.

 

[Vie]

Eassyyy.


Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
I grew up with HP and for it to end so...well, it wasn't what I expected.
May seem like a childish book, but it really was the most disappointing read .

 

[r.a]

I was pretty disappointed with The DaVinci Code; for all the hype i found it pretty poorly written, especially at the end. It read to me like he forgot his deadline and finished it up in about an hour.

dan clown is nothing more than a petty airport-novel author.

i didn't read the davinci code because i read angels and demons first and decided that the author is a spineless hack, thusly his books deserve no attention from me.

 

[FalseHeartDothKnow]

dan clown is nothing more than a petty airport-novel author.

i didn't read the davinci code because i read angels and demons first and decided that the author is a spineless hack, thusly his books deserve no attention from me.

Both strings and r.a, seconded

 

[Tallulah]

Everything I've read by Ernest Friggin' Hemingway. RRRGH!

I have to agree. I tried to like him, but I just can't get into his writing.

Agreed. I did read a couple of his short stories, though, and found them more palatable than the novels.

I hate how he writes women. Like he's never met one.

 

[Colors]

Wicked.

(Most disappointing first 15 pages.)

The style of writing was just too awful.

*Grumbles about the waste of money and how I should start beginning books before I buy them, regardless of its status as a NYT Bestseller*

Oh disregard, good call- I wish I had ever been that clever! Unlike Tallulah, I *did* like the original Oz books* (and Wicked actually takes from both movie and books). I was young and a total sucker, and willingly read Wicked AGAIN, to confirm that it was still awful. (And I really liked Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister too.)

Other disappointing reads?

Life of Pi. Bah. I never, ever thought a fight between a tiger and a shark would bore me. I was oh so very wrong.

The Wind Up Bird Chronicle. Double bah. I'd say I hate how Murakami writes women but he writes men worse.

A Wizard of Earthsea- cliche, dull, and sexist: the trifecta.

*Oz books, I started rereading last year too! I've gotten through the first three. They're pretty awesome. Puns! Weirdness, imagination, understated irony... and feminism! That damn popularized populist interpretation, not *nearly* as interesting as the socialist-utopian-radical-feminist-dictatorship stuff that actually *is* happening in Oz.

 

[figsfiggyfigs]

GRAPES OF WRATH.

OH. MY. GOD.



maybe it was my age, or my priorities at the time, but oh dear god, it was hard keeping the gun away from my mouth.