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Is there a thread for awful books?

The most awful book I've tried to read is "Hidden Figures." My wife and I are interested in finally seeing the movie, so we thought we'd read the book first. Ugh. I made it through two chapters, or so. She made it through one. :emoji_disappointed: We're still committed to seeing the movie, though. :emoji_slight_smile:
 

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The All Souls Trilogy.

Sat down to read it, and I was super into the premise: A 30 something year old woman who comes from a family of ridiculously strong/famous witches but could never practice magic herself. She finds a magical book that seems to get the attention of every other magical creature (daemons and vampires also exist) and she's the only one who can access it for some reason. Never did I think I'd be reading about someone's eating habits, work out habits, and sleeping patterns in so much detail in a book about magic. Of course, there was a budding romance between the main character and her vampire counterpart. Before I knew it I finished the entire series. I wanted to burn the books at the end. The main character, who is a 30 something year old adult living on her own, becomes worse than YA protagonist. She became whiny, ineffective and just ANNOYING. She fawned over the vampire dude nonstop, telling the audience how much she waited for hours in her living room, thinking of what she'd be doing once he arrived. Only to stop her musings when her stomach grumbles and then she'd open her cabinets, searching for something to eat. She'd find a couple pieces of bread and put them in the toaster before turning the dial to toast them. Do you see what I'm getting at here. IT WAS SO BAD. And don't even get me started on the plot. Oh my god, there was time travel, there was romance, there was some science (shitty science), there was family shit jammed in as well. Did you know our wonderful protagonist whose family is almost ashamed of her because of her lack of magic is ACTUALLY THE MOST POWERFUL WITCH IN THE WORLD??? Her parents were two super strong witches and when they fucked, their off spring was the strongest thing alive. She's an elemental witch, a time traveling witch, a witch that can conjure familiars (which in this world is just an old wives tale), she can CREATE NEW SPELLS (another thing that's extremely rare in this world). Oh and she's also the chosen one in a prophecy on how to connect all three magical races together. She fucks the vampire dude and has babies. BUT ONE OF THEM IS A VAMPIRE. God this book series was so fucking bad. There was also some other bullshit about how her vampire fuck boy had this weird vampiric disease that caused him to go berserk randomly, which caused him to be like "NO I CANT HAVE BABIES" when he found out she was pregnant. God I hate this series so much. There were decent ideas there, but they were just not given room to breathe. The main character was unbearable, whiny and just down right immature. Just no. Don't read it unless you wanna waste about 20 hours of your life.
 
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Worst books ever written

The Twilight Series

And its bastard hell spawn

The 50 Shades of Grey Series

Absolutely ruined vampires and kink. And gave slash/fan fic a bad name
Only thing I know about 50 shades is Mrs. Squirrel handed it to me, I read one paragraph and put it down.
 
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This is the worst novel I've ever read. Just extremely mediocre and corny writing. To the point that it can be fun to read it and laugh at how bad it is.

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Worst books ever written

The Twilight Series

And its bastard hell spawn

The 50 Shades of Grey Series

Absolutely ruined vampires and kink. And gave slash/fan fic a bad name


I was just about to post about the Twilight Series. lol.
not only is a terrible plot for so many reasons but the writing itself is god awful.
 
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You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again, a memoir by Julia Phillips. In partnership with her husband, Phillips produced some of the most famous 70s/80s American movies. (She has a producer credit for Taxi Driver and Close Encounters). Drug addiction and egomania caused her to lose almost everything, yet throughout her memoir she appears to have gained no perspective on life, or indeed, anything. Frankly, when you're careening out of control in charge of some of themes famous works of art of the late 20th century, I'm not really interested in what designer you're wearing as you puke up a small fortune in cocaine. I tend not to throw away books, no matter how bad they are, but I made an exception in this case.
 

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You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again, a memoir by Julia Phillips. In partnership with her husband, Phillips produced some of the most famous 70s/80s American movies. (She has a producer credit for Taxi Driver and Close Encounters). Drug addiction and egomania caused her to lose almost everything, yet throughout her memoir she appears to have gained no perspective on life, or indeed, anything. Frankly, when you're careening out of control in charge of some of themes famous works of art of the late 20th century, I'm not really interested in what designer you're wearing as you puke up a small fortune in cocaine. I tend not to throw away books, no matter how bad they are, but I made an exception in this case.

I borrowed this book from the library with a few others. I purposely saved it to be my last read before I returned the books for more. I just knew it was going to be a great read.

Wrong! I started the book. I found it difficult to stay focused. At times I'd have to reread portions to make sure I was not crazy thinking this is one of the worst books I've tried to read. I made myself finish the book. I had the same reaction as you did.

Last truly awful book I read was Shirley Jones's memoir. That was such a painful read. Not so much her life but how it was written. I made myself finish that book too!

The silver lining for both these books is that I was able to return them to the library. All I lost was time...I learned a lesson from that. There are too many good books out there for me to waste time slogging through a mediocre/awful book wishing to just get to the end.
 
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The silver lining for both these books is that I was able to return them to the library. All I lost was time...I learned a lesson from that.

Ya wanna hear some irony, Mister B? I bought Julia Phillips' book as an investment. It had just come out—first edition hardcover—and the author had signed some copies at the Harrods book dept in Knightsbridge for later sale. I thought that seeing as she was a big-time Hollywood producer, this could be worth a quid or two in future. Ha!
 
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Ya wanna hear some irony, Mister B? I bought Julia Phillips' book as an investment. It had just come out—first edition hardcover—and the author had signed some copies at the Harrods book dept in Knightsbridge for later sale. I thought that seeing as she was a big-time Hollywood producer, this could be worth a quid or two in future. Ha!

Wow, that sucks! Wonder if you put the book up on one of the re-sale sites and marketed it as Author-signed First Edition if you might get any takers? I'm sorry you spent any $$$ on that book. I'm glad I didn't!
 
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I'll add to this list the Sookie Stackhouse series aka The Southern Vampire Mysteries, also known as The True Blood Novels and The Sookie Stackhouse Novels written by Charlaine Harris