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Offline Poprad

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The Do-Not-Fly Book List
« on: October 07, 2011, 03:07 PM »
OK, there are so many threads which are all about people's FAV things, but I want to dish some dirt and have a little rant fest.

So I thought, why not start a Do-Not-Fly list for books? Books that we, as readers, cannot tolerate to any degree at all. Ones we couldn't finish, couldn't help but finish because they were just that bad and ones which we feel the need to completely warn others off from.

What have you read that you feel needs to make this list?

You can rank them using this rating scheme if you want:
 
-1 star               :(                   I just didn't like it.
-2 stars             :o                   How did this go so wrong?
-3 stars             :'(                  (choked sob) It was horrible...
-4 stars             :-X                 Words cannot explain how bad this book was.
-5 stars             >:(                 I want to murder this book. It has pushed me to brink of insanity.

Which novels will make the list of STP's Most Hated? What book will be crowned STP's #1 Despised Book?
Stay tuned to find out...  :D
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Re: The Do-Not-Fly Book List
« Reply #101 on: April 25, 2012, 03:18 PM »
-3 :-X Bloodright Karin Tabke
I've just finished this book and don't really know what to say....spoiler ahead
This book end's the same as the first, Bloodlaw - Rafeal loses Falon his wife/mate to brother Lucien. Who says she is his new mate/wife
Bloodright - Lucien loses Falon to Norse God Fenir (werewolf) who says at the end, that falon is his chosen mate.
I read the book and thought what was the point of all that.....
 

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Re: The Do-Not-Fly Book List
« Reply #102 on: May 05, 2012, 01:39 PM »
I'm normally the one who HAS to finish a book and/or series not matter how bad it gets, just because I have this never-ending hope that the story will be redeemed somehow.  HOWEVER there is one book and one series that I've just had to give up on recently....

Book: 50 Shades of Grey.  There is so much wrong with this book that I can't even begin to focus my thoughts to make a summary.  I quit halfway through.
-5 stars I want to murder this book. It has pushed me to brink of insanity.

Series: House of Night.  It's been mentioned before in this thread, several times, but it bears repeating.  I really enjoyed the first 2 or 3 books, but then it just got too... something.  Between the weird storylines with the 'red' vamps, the overwhelming transition of the characters into caricatures, the fact that Zoey is going to be a smurf at this rate if she sprouts a new 'tattoo' anytime she faces any sort of challenge... I've just had to throw in the towel a couple of books ago.
-2 stars  How did this go so wrong?
 
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Re: The Do-Not-Fly Book List
« Reply #103 on: May 05, 2012, 04:58 PM »
Fifty Shades of Grey 
-5 stars I want to murder this book. It has pushed me to brink of insanity  >:(

That is the only book that made me want to murder someone after reading it. It was just bad imo.
 
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Re: The Do-Not-Fly Book List
« Reply #104 on: May 06, 2012, 12:38 AM »
If there would be - 10 gazzilion stars it wouldn't be enough for Jennifer Ashely ' s The Madness Of Lord Ian MacKenzie. I love a good series and though I'd start with the first book. 2 hours later I pressed delete on each and every one of the book in the series because it's just... How can I put this mildly...it made me my stomach cringe. Seriously I couldnt go through with it. It is so bad on so many different level, character growth, chemistry...Everything is so abrupt and painfully damn idiotic, I wanted to shoot myself.
 

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Re: The Do-Not-Fly Book List
« Reply #105 on: May 07, 2012, 04:25 PM »
I just thought of another after seeing it listed in a post

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake:  I am a supernatural junkie, but this book was... weird.  It left me really unsettled.  The main characters was fine but the stuff with her brother was just... off.

-5 stars  I want to murder this book. It has pushed me to brink of insanity.
 

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Re: The Do-Not-Fly Book List
« Reply #106 on: May 15, 2012, 06:32 PM »
I found this post and I am very thankful for this.

Knight Angels by Abra Ebner

I hated everything about the book. The plot, the characters, the multiple POV's, everything! I can't even remember any scene worth remembering. It didn't make me feel I belong to it...because a lot of books have that effect on me. But this...gah. :/

-4 stars....
 

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Re: The Do-Not-Fly Book List
« Reply #107 on: May 16, 2012, 08:30 AM »
Game of Thrones by  George R. R. Martin -5
I couldn't even get past the first chapter much less the first 2 pages. I tried but I kept getting distracted or finding myself rereading the same paragraph over and over. I am an avid reader and to not finish a book is so unlike me. I am so glad I only bought the first book and not the whole series.
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Re: The Do-Not-Fly Book List
« Reply #108 on: May 20, 2012, 04:31 PM »
I'm going to add "Uglies" by Scott Westerfield.  I read the whole thing yesterday and I have to give it a 2-star rating.  It could have been great.  But I started getting so tired of seeing the same five words over and over again, and Tally started to grate on my nerves about 2/3's of the way in.

My biggest complaint is that Westerfield could take the time to describe all their cool technology and wait the landscapes looked like, but he couldn't be bothered to even tell us what color Tally's hair was.   >:(
 

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Re: The Do-Not-Fly Book List
« Reply #109 on: June 02, 2012, 12:18 AM »
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The Fallen by Lauren Kate -- 5

I really hated this book. It was just horrible. I just can't. This was the first angel book I read and ever since then I've been weary to read anymore. Thankfully they're not all like this one.


i totally agree... fallen just didn't do it for me.. the writing was flat as well as the characters.. and the author was trying so hard to imitate twilight's characters...
 

Offline shadowmaster13

Re: The Do-Not-Fly Book List
« Reply #110 on: June 02, 2012, 12:41 AM »
Acheron by Sherrilyn Kenyon
-2 stars

I love the Dark Hunters series and most of Kenyon's work, the humor and just everything is great but...
Acheron is the only DH book I haven't reread because I cannot understand why he falls for Tory?
Because she's not supernaturally attracted like everyone else? Oh wait she lied because she was mad.
And that's it. Any other not psycho female would be as considerate to him. The only conflict is that Acheron has to keep Atlantis a secret so his mother can't be freed and destroy the world and Tory wants to prove it exists. Worse she thinks badly of Geary who I liked in her book, because she has moved on from that goal.

And worse we have to go through the horrible, heart-wrenching history of Ash before we get to see  him inexplicably fall for her.
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Re: The Do-Not-Fly Book List
« Reply #111 on: June 03, 2012, 06:50 PM »
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Acheron by Sherrilyn Kenyon
-2 stars

I love the Dark Hunters series and most of Kenyon's work, the humor and just everything is great but...
Acheron is the only DH book I haven't reread because I cannot understand why he falls for Tory?
Because she's not supernaturally attracted like everyone else? Oh wait she lied because she was mad.
And that's it. Any other not psycho female would be as considerate to him. The only conflict is that Acheron has to keep Atlantis a secret so his mother can't be freed and destroy the world and Tory wants to prove it exists. Worse she thinks badly of Geary who I liked in her book, because she has moved on from that goal.

And worse we have to go through the horrible, heart-wrenching history of Ash before we get to see  him inexplicably fall for her.

I didn't feel that way when I read it, I loved the book but I get where you coming from. A lot of readers didn't like or rather couldn't handle the first part of the book where we saw all the horrid things he had to go through. For me though I understood why she wrote it that way and I got why he fell for Tory as well, it wasn't just because she wasn't "into" him at first or even how she came off when he first met her.

I think the book was perfectly written for Acheron's character, we got more insight into a lot of things. I'll admit I found it weird that it was Tory since she was a kid in Geary's book. I was happy by the end because Ash was happy finally and I was pleased that
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Offline shadowmaster13

Re: The Do-Not-Fly Book List
« Reply #112 on: June 03, 2012, 10:39 PM »
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I didn't feel that way when I read it, I loved the book but I get where you coming from. A lot of readers didn't like or rather couldn't handle the first part of the book where we saw all the horrid things he had to go through. For me though I understood why she wrote it that way and I got why he fell for Tory as well, it wasn't just because she wasn't "into" him at first or even how she came off when he first met her.

I think the book was perfectly written for Acheron's character, we got more insight into a lot of things. I'll admit I found it weird that it was Tory since she was a kid in Geary's book. I was happy by the end because Ash was happy finally and I was pleased that
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I can live with a downer but I need the certainty of a happy ending, and I just found the Tory/Ash pairing one of the weakest and I can't just read half of it because it seriously depresses you. And yeah clearly Ash is happy now, I just can't re-read it because his HEA just makes me cranky and I feel no uplift so I'm left sad and angry.
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Re: The Do-Not-Fly Book List
« Reply #113 on: June 04, 2012, 06:23 AM »
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-4 stars             :-X                 Words cannot explain how bad this book was.
I'd have to put the Sookie Stackhouse series, George RR Martin's A Song of Fire and Ice series, the Eragon series, and anything written by Tad Williams here.
Sookie:  There's something to be said for a somewhat stupid main character. It gives the writer plenty of chances to have other characters explain things to the MC (and us). However, when your MC is so freaking stupid that she does the same things over and over again, never learning from her mistakes...that's when the writer needs to kill her off and find someone new to write about.
Martin:  Deadly dull. And just when it starts to get exciting, he starts killing off main characters. I slogged my way through the first two books and decided to look at Wikipedia to see if it got any better. Imagine my surprise when I learn the by the fourth or fifth book, he's managed to kill off every single main character except for one, who's a prick. I don't much like it when authors kill off characters, but when I went to all the effort to drag my way through his writing...*shakes her head* That I cannot abide.
Eragon:  I hate Eragon on multiple levels. There's the fact that he was this "genius author" who wrote his book when he was, what 17? 19? Yeah, a great book that takes the plot of Star Wars and sticks it in Tolkien's fantasy world, an author who has no imagination and poor descriptive abilities, one whose freaking PARENTS owned the publishing company that published him. He gets all sorts of accolades, when authors like Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (who wrote her first book at 14, was published without family connections, and has new ideas) are completely ignored.
Williams:  I've tried reading his different series on multiple occasions. What drove me crazy was his ADHD writing style. He would write a few pages from one character's perspective, rarely giving you enough information to figure out WHICH character, and then switch to another character..and another..and another. I felt like I needed to make a spreadsheet so I could write down the character's names, and what little I knew about them, just to figure out whose perspective I was reading. Entirely too frustrating!

-5 stars             >:(                 I want to murder this book. It has pushed me to brink of insanity.
The Elric Saga. Worst. Series. EVER. By the end of the sixth book, Elric manages to kill his entire family, everyone he loved, everyone he was ever friends with, everyone he met, and eventually destroys the world. And if that isn't bad enough, then his demon sword kills him and flies off. WTF?


...This is kinda cathartic. Thanks, Poprad!

I can't agree with everything you wrote, some of the books you talk about I haven't read yet, but you surely funny in your rage.
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Re: The Do-Not-Fly Book List
« Reply #114 on: June 04, 2012, 11:58 AM »
I agree with Eragon. The second half of the first book was lengthy written and very boring to read. For me, that was definitly the first and the last one of this serie.

-3 stars   :'(  It was horrible...
 

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Re: The Do-Not-Fly Book List
« Reply #115 on: June 04, 2012, 11:58 AM »
Young Love Murder-3 stars                               (choked sob) It was horrible...

It wasn't so much that I hated it but more like I found it ridiculous. I'll admit the first time I read it I thought it was amazing and then I read it a second time and wondered how did I not see how completely crazy the plot was. First of all the main character gets with one guy only to fall in love with the other in like a day. Oh and the guy to me was a total wimp. Secondly everyone is shooting each other! He shoots her she shoots him and then they jump each others bones. I think if the book would have been about just the first part of the book but more drawn out I wouldn't have disliked it so much. 
 
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Re: The Do-Not-Fly Book List
« Reply #116 on: July 05, 2012, 01:18 AM »
-2 stars             :o                   How did this go so wrong?

Dark Swan Series

I got into the series because obviously I've read and love VA. And I also like Georgina Kincaid series though I hated the ending.
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It started good. Yeah, right but in the 2nd book, I kind of lost what enticement I have for Eugenie
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. I just don't know why, sometimes whenever I drop reading midway/half-through, I always find the time and urge to go back reading, that's what I did for House of Night, BDB series, Bourne series and the others. But with Dark Swan, I just can't. I don't think its horrible but I don't want to go back, pick it up and read the start again.
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« Reply #117 on: August 28, 2012, 09:52 PM »
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Fifty Shades of Grey 
-5 stars I want to murder this book. It has pushed me to brink of insanity  >:(

That is the only book that made me want to murder someone after reading it. It was just bad imo.






I COMPLETELY AGREE!!!!! WASTE OF MY MONEY!!!! HATE THE CHARACTER THE WRITING...EVEN THE SEX SCENE CONFUSED ME!! One moment she was handcuffed n tied the next she was reaching somewhere doing something else...I was like wtf?? I TRIED TO GET THRU IT I ENDED UP SKIPPING FROM ONE SCENE TO ANOTHER JUST TO SEE HOW PLOT GOES ON...OMG IF OTHER PPL LIKED THIS DAMN BOOK SO MUCH THEY MIGHT AS WELL READ PENTHOUSE!
 

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Re: The Do-Not-Fly Book List
« Reply #118 on: August 29, 2012, 04:08 PM »
I have to give Heather Wardell's book Planning to live a -2 stars           :o           How did this go so wrong? OMG, I have a love/hate relationship with this book. I am all for HEAs and this did not have that. I was really shocked cause her other books did. I stayed up until 4am reading this damn book and when I got the the end I am like...WTF? Did I miss a page? So I go back and reread the last part. NOPE. I cried so hard after reading it.  :'( Haven't been able to go and read her other books yet.

I totally agree about 50 shades. It was an ok read. But I would have been pissed if I had paid 10.00 for that first book only to realize I had to fork out another 20 for the other two just so I would know what happened. I would have to give it a -1 star     :(           I just didn't like it. Way too much hype for that book when there are other's floating around with better story lines and sex scenes.



 
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« Reply #119 on: October 28, 2012, 12:40 PM »
Okay, it's time to vent, so I apologize in in advance to all the fans of this pathetic piece of *beep* book.

Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

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I simply can't believe the amount of positive reviews on this book. It's insulting. This book IS insulting. You don't like Edward Cullen? Ha! He's a literary masterpiece, a superhero compared to Adam Kent. You despise Bella Swan? Double Ha! I give you Juliette can't-remember-her-last-name. I don't remember the last time I was so infuriated by something. I felt cheated and deceived every step of the way. I'll try to breathe in and out deeply and explain why:

- The premise started interesting. The unusual prose promised another kind of YA read. The crossing out of words appeared to be an author's way of getting in Juliette's head.

- Then it all went to total crap.

- The prose became unreadable. As if the author forgot she was supposed to be doing some special literary tricks, then remembered last minute and inserted them randomly.

- Juliette has to be the absolutely worst heroine the world of YA had ever known.

- The love talk between her and Adam resumed to this:

He: "I love you."
She: "Why?"
He: "Because... *insert a heartbreaking flashback on their crappy childhood here*..."
She: "Yes, but WHY? I'm so pathetic, I'm bad, blah blah blah..."
He: "*another crappy flashback* I love you."

Right.

- The dystopian setting isn't developed at all. We get some vague hints, but we don't understand what's going on. Warner seems to be some sort of a leader, but he's quite pathetic. He can't hold in a teenage girl and his own soldier. Awesome.

- The supposedly 'original' language seriously gets on my nerves by the middle of the book.

- Secondary characters are undeveloped cliches.

- The ending is a joke. We get nowhere. All the characters do is escape the bad guy Warner, find some kind of a secret facility and give Juliette a special suit. Wow. And more crappy "I love you" lines that turn Stephenie Meyer into Shakespeare.

- I could go on forever, but I'll spare everyone and wrap it up  :-X Sorry if I hurt someone's feelings, I needed to get this out of my system.
 

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Re: The Do-Not-Fly Book List
« Reply #120 on: October 28, 2012, 01:29 PM »
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-4 stars             :-X                 Words cannot explain how bad this book was.
I'd have to put the Sookie Stackhouse series, George RR Martin's A Song of Fire and Ice series, the Eragon series, and anything written by Tad Williams here.
Sookie:  There's something to be said for a somewhat stupid main character. It gives the writer plenty of chances to have other characters explain things to the MC (and us). However, when your MC is so freaking stupid that she does the same things over and over again, never learning from her mistakes...that's when the writer needs to kill her off and find someone new to write about.
Martin:  Deadly dull. And just when it starts to get exciting, he starts killing off main characters. I slogged my way through the first two books and decided to look at Wikipedia to see if it got any better. Imagine my surprise when I learn the by the fourth or fifth book, he's managed to kill off every single main character except for one, who's a prick. I don't much like it when authors kill off characters, but when I went to all the effort to drag my way through his writing...*shakes her head* That I cannot abide.
Eragon:  I hate Eragon on multiple levels. There's the fact that he was this "genius author" who wrote his book when he was, what 17? 19? Yeah, a great book that takes the plot of Star Wars and sticks it in Tolkien's fantasy world, an author who has no imagination and poor descriptive abilities, one whose freaking PARENTS owned the publishing company that published him. He gets all sorts of accolades, when authors like Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (who wrote her first book at 14, was published without family connections, and has new ideas) are completely ignored.
Williams:  I've tried reading his different series on multiple occasions. What drove me crazy was his ADHD writing style. He would write a few pages from one character's perspective, rarely giving you enough information to figure out WHICH character, and then switch to another character..and another..and another. I felt like I needed to make a spreadsheet so I could write down the character's names, and what little I knew about them, just to figure out whose perspective I was reading. Entirely too frustrating!

-5 stars             >:(                 I want to murder this book. It has pushed me to brink of insanity.
The Elric Saga. Worst. Series. EVER. By the end of the sixth book, Elric manages to kill his entire family, everyone he loved, everyone he was ever friends with, everyone he met, and eventually destroys the world. And if that isn't bad enough, then his demon sword kills him and flies off. WTF?


...This is kinda cathartic. Thanks, Poprad!


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