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If so, what book and why?

Never, not once. Though one time I ate one in the middle of reading it.

How'd it taste?

The Mortal Instruments. I tried super hard to get into them but they were just AWFUL.

Moby Dick. I know it's considered a classic but I got bored.

I had to read the whole book for a class. It was awful.

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illiadandoddity - 2017-12-27 17:16 (UTC) - Expand

Eldar Prophecy.

I can usually get through any book, even if it's a bit crap, but I just couldn't bring myself to finish that book. It was just so bad, the guy ignored the lore from the actual codex's and made shit up to suit whatever he was trying to do(which I'm still not sure of even though I made it half-way through before bailing).

I tend to end up skimming them if they start getting boring, but I have dropped a few. Just don't remember the titles. Life's too short to stick with stuff I don't like.

I stopped midway into the second book of the Wolves of Mercy Falls series by Maggie Stiefvater. The first book was pretty bad (unlikeable or boring characters and very little plot), but I really liked the idea of the series enough to continue with it. The second book was so much worse.

Wild Animus was a piece of shit.

I have no problem ditching books for any reason. Why waste valuable reading time on books that are boring or annoying me?

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rosehiptea - 2017-12-27 05:35 (UTC) - Expand

The latest book I checked out from the library, Dear Cyborgs. I stopped about three chapters in because I could already tell it was going to be one of the most pretentious things I've ever read.

The first Harry Potter book. It just didn't interest me, and I only picked it up because of all of the hype.

Twilight. I hated Bella's viewpoint. I wanted to give it the old college try because it was a gift but it suuuuuucks.

I actually the other day stopped The Brothers Karamazov because it was starting to bore me and all the religious navelgazing is not up my alley. Started The Man in the Iron Mask, liking it much better

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(Anonymous) - 2017-12-27 09:09 (UTC) - Expand

Several. They were all recced here. Varied from two chapters in to about halfway through.

The only one I remember is the one by Guy Gavriel Kay about ancient China and something about horses. I almost quit after the first three pages because the setup was so pretentious, but I gave it some time. It never improved. I quit by chapter 5 but I hated it so much that I will never read anything by the same author ever again. It gave me a solid prejudice against his writing that shall never be overcome.

The prequel book for Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Can't remember what the title was, but I had to put it away when all the guys at base, including Lennox, was drooling over some tech-wiz babe. The narration was painful at that particular chapter.

I couldn't get through the first book of ASOIAF, and I really really tried.

I can't point to one thing I hated because there was so much. I wouldn't wipe my arse with it.

Tons of ‘em. The fastest I stopped reading was Sir Apropos of Nothing (two pages), but I dropped Atlas Shrugged pretty quickly as well. My angriest drop was The Sight by David Clement-Davies—I experimented to see how far I could make it bounce. Other books I’ve rapidly quit include Life of Pi, Middlesex, and The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

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feotakahari - 2017-12-27 14:02 (UTC) - Expand

The first Heralds of Valdemar, or possibly one of the later books in the first trilogy. A friend was a huge fan. I found the heroine unbearable and I hated the love interest.

Too many to number.

Several, but the most recent one is Rule 34 by Charles Stross because I hadn't realised it was written entirely in second person (despite having multiple POV characters! who does that?!) until nearly finishing the first chapter. I also dropped Accelerando by Stross because after ten pages it didn't make any sense and I had no patience for that, just having finished an extremely confusing and hard to follow SF book (Too Like the Lightning, no idea how I got all the way to the end). The previous ones were probably SF books, too, dropped for similar reasons (if I don't care for a single character after the first 20-50 pages or so, I give up, so SF is a tough genre for me to enjoy).

Oh, and there was also Carry On for having the most insufferable writing style. Literally like bad fanfiction.

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(Anonymous) - 2017-12-27 05:31 (UTC) - Expand

The second Guardian of Ga'hoole book because an owl (cognitively the stupidest of the birds) called a crow (cognitively the smartest of the birds/animals in general) stupid in the first chapter.

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junee - 2017-12-27 16:29 (UTC) - Expand

Black House. I got a couple hundred pages in and NOTHING HAD HAPPENED. The Talisman is one of my favorite books, but Black House was just terrible. Maybe it picked up a lot in the second half, idk, but the first half was awful.

I stop reading books all the time but the worst one was a Regency romance called Love of Her Life. I do not expect great writing out of Regency romance novels but that was the worst professionally published book I have ever seen.

A good number. I've slogged through a lot because I'm a fast reader, but if it's awful I'll stop.

The one that first comes to mind is the second Eragon book. I made it through the first trainwreck, opened up the second, read about a page and realized I didn't care enough about any of the characters to put up with the terrible writing.

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