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What is the book that you want your time back from?

Sorry, Sir Pterry, but Raising Steam sucked and I regret the time spent reading it. It wasn't just that I didn't like the story, it was badly written and put together.

The Encyclopedia of Tolkien by David Day. Ugh. David Day should be banned from publishing books.

Seconded. It beats me why the Tolkien Estate doesn't come down on him like a ton of bricks.

Breaking Dawn. I went to one of those midnight release parties back in the day, went home, and stayed up all night reading it. To this day, I’ve never felt such palpable disappointment.

Fucking Naomi Novik's Uprooted. I have never in my life thrown a book out of disgust and disappointment until I read that book.

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Please take ayrt with a grain of salt

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And I meant AIRT, not AYRT

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DA

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the Brandon Sanderson book I got halfway through before chucking across the room. I would also like to recoup the time spent indulging every fandom opinion online claiming him to be the next coming of [any famous fantasy author]. I don't even remember the name of the book now, it was just stupid. the only redeeming factor is that I was actually sucked in for the first half, unlike all the other recced books I also tossed aside after five or fewer chapters. that just makes me madder and wishing I had that time back.

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The Devouring Grey.

I picked it up not realising it was YA 'horror'(it was in the horror section in my local books-store, not YA) but when I realised my mistake I read it anyway because I like some YA books. But nope, this one didn't work for me, I hated the main girl and main guy because I found them annoying as fuck. Only liked the 2nd girl and the plot was so very thin. There's apparently another book, I won't be reading it.

The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron. I hated it but read so much of it, I decided to finish it.

I wish I could get my time back and bleach them from my brain. Fucked up incestuous depressing books that I kept reading far too long in hopes that there would eventually be a happy ending but no.

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Years of Rice and Salt. I mean it was a library book and fell open at the castration scene. I should've known better than to attempt it at all.

The Silk Road. I forget who wrote it; it was a historical novel. A couple of scenes of extreme mysogenistic violence and if the author didn't have his hand down his trousers while he wrote it I'll eat my hat.

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HP and a couple of Ramsay Campbells.

The Great Gatsby, The Grapes of Wrath, and Catcher in the Rye. I hated all of those books. They're all books I had to read for school because, when I have a choice, I stop reading a book when it's no longer fun.

A Discovery of Witches.

I just kept waiting for them to get to the book (macguffin,) and get to the book, and eventually it pissed me off the characters were dithering so much, I took it back to the library.

A Priory of the Orange Tree

The first 200 pages could have been one chapter. I think I got halfway through and realized how contrived the plot "progression" was and gave up.

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Wicked Lovely. Now there's a book I literally threw out a window.

(and i'm still mad because the title is so good but oh my gooood the story)

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I wish I could get back the time and money I spent on anything Hairy Plopper. I even went on the studio tour in London my first trip overseas and wish I’d done anything but now.

Moby Dick. It was clear from the start what I could expect, so I have nobody but myself to blame for my wasted time. But my god, it was just SO. DRY. I've read a lot of classic lit, and Moby Dick might've been the driest of the bunch (it doesn't help that I have a poor visual imagination and it did a LOT of visual describing). Also, IMO the plot was better suited to a novella. It was six or eight times longer than was remotely necessary, with absolutely nothing to justify its length.

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Brave New World or... Wuthering Heights.

Hitchhiker's Guide. Sorry, world, but it was just boring.
Also - White Gold Wielder and the one that came after holy FUCK. Those fucking books, that fucking character, FUCK.

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Drood by Dan Simmons. I picked it up because I'm interested in Charles Dickens and it's about the last few years of his life, but quickly got frustrated by the way it explained everything to me multiple times like I had a three second memory. (I know there are a few guys named Charles in it, but give me a little credit.) Then it introduced a character called Drood, who I think was supposed to be scary, but since he was introduced during a much scarier train crash scene he was just boring and an annoying distraction. So I flipped forward to decide if I was going to miss anything, decided I wasn't, and put it aside.
I'm still mad that it treated me like a complete melon and I want my time back as well as all of the time the author spent repeating himself as compensation.

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

I don't know how you take such a great premise and write it so terribly. Also the writing was so up its own ass.

The Christmas Murder Game by Alexandra Benedict

So we're just not going to talk about the incest? The rampant incest is not getting addressed? No? Okay. o___o

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I can't remember the name exactly, something like Star Doctor or some such.

I thought I was getting an updated version of Hospital Station, only with a poorly-funded clinic on a backwater planet.

What I *got* was lots of explicit rape (between the female lead and the character who was apparently the endgame romance, god), a court-case where the female lead is sued by a sentient bacterial colony because her immune system killed them off Which Is Murder (instead of just succumbing to the infection), the female lead being put on trial to prove that she's legally *sentient"; somehow the *extremely* underfunded clinic decides to front up the cash to send the female lead (I'm not calling her a heroine) to a luxury resort for a nice holiday...

Rape and ludicrous court cases, that's what the book was about.

(Honestly, the 'prove you're sentient' trial was a potentially interesting plotline about, oh, value, and humanity, and commercial exploitation, but by that point I was just done).

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Paulo Coehlo's The Alechemist that tripe was so BAD ugh
I can't believe it's lauded as so DEEP and MeAnIngFul no it's bad. Plain bad.

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Girls of Paper and Fire, which I didn't even finish and I'm still mad about the time I wasted on it.

House in the Cerulean Sea, which I did finish in hopes of finding the good part everyone raved about, but....there ain't one.

Chariots of the Gods.

Probably out of print. Just Google it if you need a break from making fun of the flat Earth types out there...

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