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Books that disappointed you

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    #212
    Laura Palmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 249 ✭✭Laura Palmer


    I actually agree that The Little Friend is more well written than The Secret History. Overall, I enjoyed the experience of reading TLF than TSH (even though I really liked TSH too) except for... I'll say no more.


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    #213
    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    The Lord of the Rings.

    "Oh, ere, I'd love to be drinking ale in The Shire right now"

    The end.


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    #214
    heldel00
    Registered Users Posts: 1,832 ✭✭✭heldel00


    "Never let me go" by Kazuo Ishiguro.

    Absolute manure. Pure ignorance got me to the end because I wouldn't let it beat me! Tubridy absolutely raved about this one. Maybe that should have been an indicator of what was to come!


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    #215
    Lago
    Registered Users Posts: 364 ✭✭Lago


    "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss.

    I was looking for a book similar to A Song of Ice and Fire. Medieval fantasy, low magic. This book kept on popping up time and time again. Even the reviewers of one very professional looking book review site rated it higher than Lord of the Rings.

    I thought this was an exaggeration but felt that it must be pretty good if they are going to make as controversial statement as that. I got the book and really regretted it. I got to just past halfway and couldn't take it anymore. I read five other books in the time it took me to read the second half of that one.

    The main character was annoyingly perfect and the storyline just seemed to be going nowhere very slowly. I finished the book out eventually and never looked at the series or the author again.

    A year and a half on, the massively positive reviews this book got absolutely baffle me.


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    #216
    La_Gordy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,767 ✭✭✭La_Gordy


    IQ84 - 1000 pages of pish.


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    #217
    fisgon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭fisgon


    heldel00 wrote: »
    "Never let me go" by Kazuo Ishiguro.

    Absolute manure. Pure ignorance got me to the end because I wouldn't let it beat me! Tubridy absolutely raved about this one. Maybe that should have been an indicator of what was to come!

    Totally agree. V overrated. The key for me was that I couldn't buy that the 'donors' were so compliant and acquiescent in their 'destiny'. None of them tried to fight it, they seemed to have no survival instinct. It made the whole book impossible to take seriously.


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    #218
    fisgon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭fisgon


    Saipanne wrote: »
    The Lord of the Rings.

    "Oh, ere, I'd love to be drinking ale in The Shire right now"

    The end.

    Spoiler alert! :-)


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