Books You Couldn't Finish

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For whatever reason, good, bad or indifferent, you couldn't finish it. Add your abandoned reads. Thumbs down the ones that should be given a second chance.
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31,307 medlemmar
1,240 recensioner
4.1
2 Members
merrystar, 2wonderY
Förklaringar
merrystar: I'm possibly too old, but I found the beginning of this unreadable.
2
8,921 medlemmar
132 recensioner
3.8
2 Members
merrystar, fuzzi
Förklaringar
fuzzi: Despised the characters, why read about people with no redeeming qualities?
3
2,593 medlemmar
68 recensioner
½ 3.5
2 Members
Bookmarque, ManWithAnAgenda
Förklaringar
Bookmarque: HIGHLY speculative. Repetitive. Repetitive. Repetitive.
4
30,388 medlemmar
1,487 recensioner
½ 4.4
Member
ahef1963
5
27,820 medlemmar
385 recensioner
½ 3.6
Member
ahef1963
6
23,584 medlemmar
983 recensioner
4.2
Member
Minthe
7
19,079 medlemmar
1,132 recensioner
½ 3.7
2 Members
barbharper, ahef1963,
8
13,423 medlemmar
757 recensioner
4.2
Member
Minthe
9
11,639 medlemmar
453 recensioner
3.8
10
10,302 medlemmar
226 recensioner
½ 3.7
11
8,690 medlemmar
90 recensioner
½ 3.5
12
7,822 medlemmar
59 recensioner
4
Member
merrystar
Förklaringar
merrystar: the only assigned book I have ever given up on.
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7,799 medlemmar
91 recensioner
3.9
14
6,867 medlemmar
192 recensioner
3.8
15
5,745 medlemmar
184 recensioner
½ 3.5
16
5,700 medlemmar
48 recensioner
½ 3.6
Member
cej1027
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5,196 medlemmar
99 recensioner
3.9
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4,658 medlemmar
192 recensioner
3.8
Member
cej1027
19
4,366 medlemmar
72 recensioner
½ 3.7
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4,354 medlemmar
93 recensioner
3.8
21
4,216 medlemmar
79 recensioner
½ 3.7
Member
Minthe
22
4,174 medlemmar
191 recensioner
4
23
4,114 medlemmar
68 recensioner
3.8
Member
Minthe
24
3,707 medlemmar
74 recensioner
3.8
Member
Cecrow
Förklaringar
Cecrow: Couldn't find the story or the point.
25
3,691 medlemmar
218 recensioner
½ 3.6
26
3,673 medlemmar
55 recensioner
3.8
Member
katie4098
27
3,603 medlemmar
78 recensioner
3.8
Member
cej1027
28
3,570 medlemmar
94 recensioner
3.9
Member
Bookmarque
Förklaringar
29
3,531 medlemmar
50 recensioner
4
30
3,401 medlemmar
40 recensioner
½ 3.4
Member
aulsmith
31
3,371 medlemmar
256 recensioner
3.8
32
3,224 medlemmar
175 recensioner
3.9
Member
Minthe
33
3,176 medlemmar
137 recensioner
3.8
34
3,049 medlemmar
98 recensioner
½ 3.6
Member
Bookmarque
Förklaringar
Bookmarque: Repetitive. Boring.
35
3,014 medlemmar
41 recensioner
3.1
Member
Bookmarque
Förklaringar
Bookmarque: Scenes too long and choked with detail. Quirky for quirky's sake. Couldn't connect w/main character enough to wade through it all.
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2,991 medlemmar
43 recensioner
4.1
Member
merrystar
Förklaringar
merrystar: Enjoyed the first half, but then it bogged down.
37
2,851 medlemmar
47 recensioner
½ 3.4
38
2,681 medlemmar
63 recensioner
4.1
Member
Bookmarque
Förklaringar
Bookmarque: Self-aggrandizing asshat. Bad science. Questionable reporting.
39
2,678 medlemmar
47 recensioner
½ 3.3
40
2,488 medlemmar
38 recensioner
½ 3.5
Member
starbox
41
2,448 medlemmar
50 recensioner
3.8
Member
skid0612
42
2,409 medlemmar
79 recensioner
½ 3.3
Member
Jullou
Förklaringar
Jullou: I love satire and absurdism, rarely don't finish books. But I just couldn't get through this one.
43
2,363 medlemmar
129 recensioner
4
Member
Bookmarque
Förklaringar
Bookmarque: I've liked his other books but this one too brutal, nasty and gross
44
2,332 medlemmar
74 recensioner
2.9
Member
SimoneA
45
2,276 medlemmar
56 recensioner
½ 3.4
Member
Bookmarque
Förklaringar
Bookmarque: Too stupid. Too manipulative. Dumb characters. Like every cheap horror movie ever.
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2,161 medlemmar
25 recensioner
3.9
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2,128 medlemmar
62 recensioner
4
Member
dara85
48
2,091 medlemmar
39 recensioner
3.9
49
2,053 medlemmar
45 recensioner
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
Förklaringar
Bookmarque: boring. convoluted. stop it with the two name boy already. Death to the two name boy!
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2,007 medlemmar
83 recensioner
3.8
51
1,902 medlemmar
11 recensioner
4.1
52
1,778 medlemmar
23 recensioner
4
Member
cej1027
53
1,772 medlemmar
28 recensioner
4
Member
Bookmarque
Förklaringar
Bookmarque: outdated, 80s vibe to Maris's victimhood, predictable and not well written
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1,743 medlemmar
33 recensioner
½ 3.6
Member
Minthe
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1,670 medlemmar
35 recensioner
½ 3.5
Member
gilroy
Förklaringar
gilroy: How can one sustain a story when you change points of view every two pages? Just horrible writing
56
1,612 medlemmar
31 recensioner
3.8
Member
merrystar
Förklaringar
merrystar: I generally love re-told fairy tales, but I couldn't make it through this one.
57
1,461 medlemmar
149 recensioner
3.9
Member
Bookmarque
Förklaringar
Bookmarque: Just couldn't stand the brutality. Why do men do this?
58
1,433 medlemmar
63 recensioner
3.8
Member
Bookmarque
Förklaringar
Bookmarque: Adam is just too dumb for me to stick with this book.
59
1,365 medlemmar
22 recensioner
3.9
Member
aulsmith
60
1,238 medlemmar
38 recensioner
3.9
Member
Bookmarque
Förklaringar
Bookmarque: Can't write her way out of a wet paper bag. Why do I keep trying?
61
1,218 medlemmar
15 recensioner
3.2
Member
gilroy
Förklaringar
gilroy: This came out when the Extended Epic like Wheel of Time was popular. Wheel of Time was bad, this was worse.
62
1,208 medlemmar
70 recensioner
½ 3.5
Member
Bookmarque
Förklaringar
Bookmarque: stupid woman, stupid premise - as if it would take a year for the accountant to tell her she had no money.
63
1,088 medlemmar
20 recensioner
½ 3.4
Member
gilroy
64
1,073 medlemmar
64 recensioner
4.2
Member
Bookmarque
Förklaringar
Bookmarque: zzzzzzz
65
990 medlemmar
40 recensioner
½ 3.6
Member
hoddybook
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938 medlemmar
44 recensioner
4
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769 medlemmar
45 recensioner
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
Förklaringar
Bookmarque: In my best Colonel Kurtz voice - the writing, the writing.
68
758 medlemmar
14 recensioner
3.9
69
742 medlemmar
18 recensioner
½ 3.3
Member
Bookmarque
Förklaringar
Bookmarque: Hateful for hatefulness's sake.
70
730 medlemmar
5 recensioner
½ 3.6
71
710 medlemmar
15 recensioner
½ 3.7
72
694 medlemmar
15 recensioner
3.9
Member
Diane-bpcb
Förklaringar
Diane-bpcb: was this edited?
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661 medlemmar
29 recensioner
½ 3.3
74
626 medlemmar
48 recensioner
½ 3.6
Member
Bookmarque
Förklaringar
Bookmarque: an onslaught of cruelty, sadism, viciousness and violence.
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617 medlemmar
17 recensioner
3.9
76
597 medlemmar
22 recensioner
3.9
Member
Bookmarque
Förklaringar
Bookmarque: Too bleak. Dwells on the worst people do to each other. All. The. Time.
77
574 medlemmar
13 recensioner
½ 3.4
78
543 medlemmar
25 recensioner
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
79
514 medlemmar
19 recensioner
½ 3.5
80
508 medlemmar
22 recensioner
½ 3.3
Member
Bookmarque
Förklaringar
Bookmarque: Too stupid
81
495 medlemmar
15 recensioner
3.8
Member
gilroy
82
487 medlemmar
59 recensioner
4
Member
Bookmarque
Förklaringar
Bookmarque: Can't stand the tone of this book. Too snide, too judgmental, too flip.
84
448 medlemmar
33 recensioner
2.1
85
446 medlemmar
26 recensioner
4
86
443 medlemmar
27 recensioner
2.9
Member
Bookmarque
Förklaringar
Bookmarque: Very info-dumpy. Narrator likes the sound of his own voice. Terrible dialog.
87
410 medlemmar
23 recensioner
2.8
88
405 medlemmar
10 recensioner
½ 3.6
Member
Bookmarque
Förklaringar
Bookmarque: Too oblique.
89
398 medlemmar
23 recensioner
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
Förklaringar
Bookmarque: So terrible I couldn't finish and returned it to Audible. Protagonist is an idiot among idiots.
90
370 medlemmar
2 recensioner
½ 3.5
91
348 medlemmar
32 recensioner
3.1
Member
Bookmarque
Förklaringar
Bookmarque: These assholes deserve each other, but not my time.
92
347 medlemmar
67 recensioner
½ 3.4
Member
Bookmarque
Förklaringar
Bookmarque: Too stupid to finish.
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339 medlemmar
13 recensioner
½ 3.7
94
336 medlemmar
16 recensioner
3.2
Member
Bookmarque
Förklaringar
Bookmarque: oddly unfocused writing, didn't engage w/protagonist
95
335 medlemmar
20 recensioner
½ 3.6
96
310 medlemmar
4 recensioner
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
Förklaringar
Bookmarque: Can't remember anything except that there was incorrect forensic detail.
97
278 medlemmar
3 recensioner
½ 3.4
98
269 medlemmar
4 recensioner
3.8
Member
arrwa
99
241 medlemmar
10 recensioner
3.2
Member
Bookmarque
Förklaringar
Bookmarque: boring, self-involed, bossy asshole as a "protagonist"
100
221 medlemmar
26 recensioner
½ 3.5
Member
Bookmarque
Förklaringar
Bookmarque: Desperate name dropping by the author. And it's a romance, which by itself isn't awful, but it's a stupid one.