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                                How did this go so wrong?
-3 stars             :'(                  (choked sob) It was horrible...
-4 stars                              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... 

Another -4 was Julia Templeton's Sinjin... oh, my... I was asking myself why, why all those raving 5* It is badly written, the hero is a jerk (is this the correct spelling? sorry... english is not my mother tongue). Nothing interesting happens...

Yes, that's the correct spelling.   That's my problem with so many "romance" novels.  The guy is such a jerk to the heroine in the beginning of the story that I want to reach into the book/computer screen and throttle the guy (or choke him or knee him in the nuts).  You get the picture.   And he rarely is contrite, apologetic, etc.  I can't see the guy as a hero, but rather, the villain.
And what gets me ticked off even more than that is when the woman lets him get away with his abusive behavior!

One book that comes to mind is: Catch a Mate - Gena Showalter.  I love her novels but this particular book had me royally ticked off the guy was so obnoxious! - grrrrr.

Writers, please empower the woman by having her stand up for herself and not reward a disrespectful jerk by having sex with him!!  Thank you.
Another thing that annoys me is when the woman has a nasty attitude in the beginning of the story (usually towards the hero before he has done anything wrong).  I say wait until he has earned your attitude - it usually comes up eventually in "romantic" fiction.

I like reading romance novels for the romance, the falling in love, etc.  Not the fighting.  If I want to read about people fighting, I'll read war novels.
The problem is; when we pick up a book, we don't know (usually) if this is how the story is written or not.  I've read so many books (to their completion - because "I've read it this far, I might as well read it to the end when they make up and fall in love") that I'm tired of going postal when reading should be fun.  So I start reading a romance novel and if the guy's a jerk, I stop reading it and just delete it from my computer. Life is too short to be repeatedly aggravated.  At least it makes more room on my computer for other books.  And there's my silver lining!

Thank you for letting me vent.  Yes, it is therapeutic.

The DUFF (Designated Ugly Fat Friend) by Kody Keplinger
(yes, that is the title)
The DUFF starts off with the portagonist, Bianca sitting in a club as Wesley Rush comes up and starts telling her how he's interested in her friends, and how she's going to help him make them be the next notches on his belt. And, he ever so rudely informs her that she is the DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend.

and, with her messed up family life she uses him as a distraction... The guy's a brazen asshole who's trying to use you to get into your friends pants—all while telling you that you're a statistically ugly fat chick!!!!!!!!!!!

Let me guess?  She ends up having sex with him?

then, even though she hates him she falls into a friends with benifits thing because her home life is crap. Rather than talk with any one of her friends who she just pushes away, she sleeps with this guy who is a total man-whore, absolute douche and arrogant in an obnoxious way that just makes me want to slap him over and over.

Called it!   I could see that one comin' down main street!
But that's what I mean; too many writers write these novels with the same 'formula':
the guy's a jerk (to put it mildly)
and
the woman has sex with him.
The guy often doesn't apologize (at the end of the story) for his abusive behavior
and even if he does,
the woman usually won't even let him apologize.
I say the man ought to get on his hands and knees and beg the woman's forgiveness!!  And he should do it fairly early in the story so he can spend the rest of the book trying to make restitution/reparation for his abusive/disrespectful behavior!!!

I know guys might be the weaker sex but these are novels!  The authors can write them where either the guy is respectful, loving, etc. from the beginning or if he does hurt the heroine, he should be and act sorry for what he's done and how he's treated her.  But most novels (that I've read) aren't written that way.
I can't tell you how many times I've read a book where the hero ("hero"?? - please, give me a break!!) has such a disrespectful way of speaking to the heroine.  I also want to reach into the book/laptop/reading device and throttle the guy!!  I got so sick and tired of "going postal" when I should have enjoyed a-relaxing-moment-by-reading-for-pleasure, that now (when I see a book written in the way I described above), I just delete the book.

Empower a woman by giving her a backbone/strong character and have her stand up to the guy and not take his crap.  She can do it in a way so that she doesn't "sell out"; she doesn't have to have a nasty attitude, she can be calm, polite, respectful (because it's a reflection on her if she isn't) and she can tell him off.  Not reward his obnoxious behavior by giving him free sex (like it says in the book "Are Men the Weaker Sex?").

Thank you for listening to me while I rant and rave.

P.S.  Thank you, Poprad, for having this thread.  I have a feeling I'll be using it a lot (when I get a chance to read some of the books I have).  And having this thread helps to save the rest of us a lot of time (because we'll know which books not to read).

That's how I ended up feeling about Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series. I'd probably give it:
-2 stars                                How did this go so wrong?
It started out fun, but I quit reading around book..10? 11? And at that point, she STILL hadn't truly chosen between the two guys. I gave up and haven't read the next six or however many books. It's one thing for an author to create dramatic tension with a love triangle and another to drag it out to the point where you want to shoot one of the characters so she'll finally choose.

I didn't like the first one where Morelli handcuffed Stephanie to the shower curtain rod while she was naked (and I wasn't wild about him having sex with her - her first time - on the floor in a store she was working at.  The floor is hard and cold!  A girl's first time should be special!)  And I didn't like when Ranger was "oogling" that half naked woman in a future novel.  I kinda lost respect for him after that.)

I like Lula and Grandma Mazur.  At least they're funny.

The Substitue Bride - Margaret Pargeter -5 stars 

This book has a plain jane and thats what enticed me to read it....It was horrible.As the name of the book suggests, the h is substituting for her cousin...

"'Well, no one,' he taunted, 'needs rose-coloured
spectacles in bed.'
His careless frankness was making her quiver and
bringing wild colour to her pale cheeks."   This is just a sample of how the rest of the book will be.

In all the plain janes that i have read never have i come across such a jerk off. The stupidity of the h was also very frustrating. I wanted to slap both of them so hard and "bring wild color to their cheeks". And he didnt quit being a jerk till the last 10 pages when suddenly he realises that he loves his wife while the rest of the 230 pages he abused her both verbally and physically.

I dont know what made them love each other.Maybe it was when the H (finally) realised that his wife was a virgin and not the slut that everyone ( his own family ) making her to be. This book takes the whole mean hero thing a step too far. This is one sick book. Dont read it.

Thank you for sparing me the time I would have taken to read this book.   I, too, don't like when the hero is so mean and abusive to the heroine.  It just makes me want to cry.  How can that be romantic!  If we want to read about a jerk abusing a woman, we can put the book (ereader) down and just look around us.

..."bring wild color to their cheeks" - hilarious!!