Sex at Dawn. Proposed as a ethno-biographic history of monogamy / non-monogamy which is an important topic, but good god so stupidly written.
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Gormenghast. I got about 100 pages in, bored off my ass, saw that I still had like 1000 more pages to go, and was just like "...nah, I'm good."
Vonnegut and Haruki Murakami.
I read three books by each author and was shocked at how boring/bad/repetitive they were. I will never understand why people are so obsessed with these authors. I guess they just like the simplistic/repetitive stuff they do. I probably would have liked them when I was 16, but I read them as a 30 year old adult.
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Friend and I were joking about 120 Days of Sodom so I decided I should pick it up to see what the fuss was about... Huge mistake! It is more deviant than I possibly imagined a book that old being (and I was aware the first draft was written on toilet paper lol)
We read The Room by Jonas Karlsson for my works book club. I'm so glad it was only a 3-hour audiobook. I was done after the first hour. It was labeled as "magical realism" and a " dark comedy" but it was just some guy with mental issues trying to adjust and fail in an office setting. The main character is just an asshole so it makes it hard to relate to them, because of that you can't take their side when people start to question his Room. It just ends with a whole lot of nothing and I thought it was a total waste of time.
Red Rising. The whole series, really. They're probably fun for a 10 year old but... I am not a kid anymore. As much as I sometimes wish I were.
I don't know, maybe I'm missing something. But it seems like the author couldn't focus on his own story. Just "and then this happened, and then this, and then this" with no details or reasoning.
I can see why you'd say that.
Book 2 or 3 got so bogged down with MC indecision that I had to drop the series. I recently picked up the Sun Eater series on Audible for cheap and it's looking like it's going to trend the same way.
Instead of a story lead, it seems like the author wanted a story leaf that flits back and forth between overthinking this, melodrama that, and a whole slew of other plot contrivances that leave the story spinning in place for big chunks of the book.
The Bridge, by someone I don't care to remember. Recommended by a hackaday post. I can't believe I was dumb enough to get a copy based on what was essentially an advert disguised as a tech post.
Anyway, it's a rip off of Aldis' Non-Stop / Starship only written really badly and with utter nonsense plot holes. I'm saying this fully aware that Non-Stop had telepathic rats for one of its chapters.
My MIL raved about Lessons in Chemistry and was excited to share it with me. I was shocked by how poorly written it was— perhaps it’s a decent story (enough people were enamored with it that it made it onto several best seller lists), but the execution was so bad I couldn’t even finish the first chapter. When asked, I ended up just telling my MIL it wasn’t my cup of tea and crossed my fingers she didn’t want to discuss plot points or anything that would make it obvious I hardly cracked the spine.
One Hundred Years of Solitude.
I hated every minute, and hated all of my classmates for kissing the teacher’s ass about how great it was when I know all they read were the Cliff Notes
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