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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by Stacy Schiff
2,265 members
61 reviews
½ 3.5
Score 2
Added 2019-02-08, 08:54 AM
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- Bookmarque, ManWithAnAgenda
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- Bookmarque: HIGHLY speculative. Repetitive. Repetitive. Repetitive.
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by Ransom Riggs
17,077 members
1,099 reviews
½ 3.7
Score 1
Added 2013-11-27, 12:22 PM
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- 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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- Bookmarque: Self-aggrandizing asshat. Bad science. Questionable reporting.
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- Bookmarque: I've liked his other books but this one too brutal, nasty and gross
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- Bookmarque: Too stupid. Too manipulative. Dumb characters. Like every cheap horror movie ever.
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- Bookmarque: boring. convoluted. stop it with the two name boy already. Death to the two name boy!
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- Bookmarque: outdated, 80s vibe to Maris's victimhood, predictable and not well written
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- Bookmarque: Can't write her way out of a wet paper bag. Why do I keep trying?
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- Bookmarque: stupid woman, stupid premise - as if it would take a year for the accountant to tell her she had no money.
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by Kory Stamper
957 members
57 reviews
4.1
Score 1
Added 2018-11-03, 10:21 AM
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- Bookmarque: zzzzzzz
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668 members
14 reviews
3.8
Score 1
Added 2013-11-27, 10:48 AM
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- Diane-bpcb
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- Diane-bpcb: was this edited?
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- Bookmarque: Too bleak. Dwells on the worst people do to each other. All. The. Time.
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- Bookmarque: In my best Colonel Kurtz voice - the writing, the writing.
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- Bookmarque: an onslaught of cruelty, sadism, viciousness and violence.
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441 members
56 reviews
4
Score 1
Added 2020-10-13, 12:28 PM
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- Bookmarque: Can't stand the tone of this book. Too snide, too judgmental, too flip.
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- Bookmarque: Very info-dumpy. Narrator likes the sound of his own voice. Terrible dialog.
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- Bookmarque: So terrible I couldn't finish and returned it to Audible. Protagonist is an idiot among idiots.
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- Bookmarque: Can't remember anything except that there was incorrect forensic detail.
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- Bookmarque: Desperate name dropping by the author. And it's a romance, which by itself isn't awful, but it's a stupid one.
