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[-] Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I read the book Paper Towns by John Green as a teen, and out started out good, then just kept getting better and better and way more adrenaline inducing. The characters were going on this crazy exciting midnight excursion and I was up reading until like midnight.

At a certain point, the mood just dropped straight off of a cliff. It was so depressing and draining but I was in too deep at that point, so I kept reading. After like two chapters of emotional torture, I knew I had to stop so I stopped reading and fully deleted the book off of my kobo and went to sleep.

The next morning though, I woke up desperate to know what happened, so I booted up my computer, went through Adobe's proprietary mess of a program to redownload the book onto my kobo, skipped the entire middle section, and kept reading. In the end, the ending was okay, but definitely not worth that rollercoaster of emotions.

I read John Green's The Fault in Our Stars right after, and I enjoyed it!

The Last of the Mohicans

Read it in high school because it's "classic American literature." If I remember right, a number of the main characters are killed off towards the end. It was a depressing story.

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[-] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

I was about to finish the book (it was mine) when my teacher asked to borrow it. I never got it back.

[-] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Dies The Fire by S.M. Stirling.

I didn’t hate the plot of the book, but something about the writers treatment of the character interactions, physical descriptions, and sex scenes creeped me out. I just… I don’t know. It was gross. I got the feeling that the writer was fulfilling their own fantasies through the novel. I told this to someone about 10 years ago, and they also felt that way, so I feel slightly vindicated and not like a weirdo who reads too much into things.

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[-] leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

a short story i forgot the name of.

the writing style was poor in a way that instead of the narrator persona narrating (3rd person), it is conversing to you instead (2nd person).

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[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Okay nobody said His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman. So that's my hated reading experience.

The first book was okay, seemed promising, the rest got worse and worse by the page. I've picked up lousy books and I can quickly tell if they would be a waste of time, so I drop them early. I have no beef with those books. But His Dark Materials? What a disappointment. I want my time and money back.

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[-] Omgboom@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago
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[-] DaBPunkt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane: The most boring book I ever had to read. It is SO dull, nothing happens. All books we had to read in school were fine but that one sucks great.

[-] Nobody@feddit.org 2 points 1 year ago

I read 50 shades of grey and 50 shades darker. It wasn't that awful, kinda hilarious actually especially the fact some women would believe that could happen Irl.

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[-] florge@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

I remember struggling so much to get into Inheritence that I gave up, not sure if it was because of the writing or I was still annoyed at the end of Brisingr.

[-] squid_slime@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Ive sat on my kindle pw3 on the plane, switch on to find its fucked. This just happened today 😥😥😥😥

[-] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Clear and present danger. Only book I’ve ever quit, and 600 pigs in to boot. Shit author, shit book, shit material. The people who enjoy this shit are the same people who jack off to guns and ammo. ‘What’s this author re*arded? Give me back my $15’.

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