Quite honestly I can’t stand only a few books that I’ve read, recently The Awakening by Nora Roberts.

Holy crap, do I reallllyyyyy want my money back. I was bored. So. Bored. The magic system was subpar, the characters just….ew, everything was so, so boring. The MC is an idiot.

What book is a zero star read for you?

  • lovelylechuza@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 个月前

    Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou! I felt like the only one who hated this! This and the Life of Pi for somewhat similar reasons as I can’t stand when an author thinks they have this brilliant plot twist and it reads so smugly as if their intelligence is twice that of the readers. I also hate when people think that using something as horrific as war/ concentration camps/ horrific violence as some kind of interesting or novel way to make their twist more poetic/ juicier/ avant- guard…. And it shows that they have never really undergone anything close to resembling hardship in their lives and have a sort of rubbernecking at a roadside fatality to gossip about what they saw later with glee vibe. Gross

    • Sweet-Peanuts@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 个月前

      All of this is why I hated the movie “Life is Beautiful” with a vengeance. An insult to the victims.

    • Dughen@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 个月前

      I went to a reading by the author of Life of Pi once and can confirm he is a smug prick who thinks he’s infinitely more intelligent than his readers.

    • Velour_Tank_Girl@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 个月前

      Thank you! A friend gave me The Life of Pi for Christmas with a handwritten note saying how it changed her life. Why? How? What? I hated that book.