Books You Couldn't Finish

Descrizione
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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31,392 utenti
1,241 recensioni
4.1
2 Members
merrystar, 2wonderY
Spiegazioni
merrystar: I'm possibly too old, but I found the beginning of this unreadable.
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8,914 utenti
132 recensioni
3.8
2 Members
merrystar, fuzzi
Spiegazioni
fuzzi: Despised the characters, why read about people with no redeeming qualities?
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2,607 utenti
68 recensioni
½ 3.5
2 Members
Bookmarque, ManWithAnAgenda
Spiegazioni
Bookmarque: HIGHLY speculative. Repetitive. Repetitive. Repetitive.
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30,394 utenti
1,487 recensioni
½ 4.4
Member
ahef1963
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27,848 utenti
385 recensioni
½ 3.6
Member
ahef1963
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23,620 utenti
983 recensioni
4.2
Member
Minthe
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19,129 utenti
1,132 recensioni
½ 3.7
2 Members
barbharper, ahef1963,
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13,460 utenti
759 recensioni
4.2
Member
Minthe
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11,661 utenti
453 recensioni
3.8
10
10,307 utenti
226 recensioni
½ 3.7
11
8,712 utenti
90 recensioni
½ 3.5
12
7,831 utenti
59 recensioni
4
Member
merrystar
Spiegazioni
merrystar: the only assigned book I have ever given up on.
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7,805 utenti
91 recensioni
3.9
14
6,877 utenti
192 recensioni
3.8
15
5,748 utenti
184 recensioni
½ 3.5
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5,705 utenti
48 recensioni
½ 3.6
Member
cej1027
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5,202 utenti
99 recensioni
3.9
18
Member
cej1027
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4,367 utenti
72 recensioni
½ 3.7
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4,358 utenti
93 recensioni
3.8
21
4,221 utenti
79 recensioni
½ 3.7
Member
Minthe
22
4,204 utenti
192 recensioni
4
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4,119 utenti
68 recensioni
3.8
Member
Minthe
24
3,715 utenti
74 recensioni
3.8
Member
Cecrow
Spiegazioni
Cecrow: Couldn't find the story or the point.
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3,694 utenti
218 recensioni
½ 3.6
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3,670 utenti
55 recensioni
3.8
Member
katie4098
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3,603 utenti
78 recensioni
3.8
Member
cej1027
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3,574 utenti
94 recensioni
3.9
Member
Bookmarque
Spiegazioni
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3,535 utenti
50 recensioni
4
30
3,403 utenti
40 recensioni
½ 3.4
Member
aulsmith
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3,391 utenti
256 recensioni
3.8
32
3,215 utenti
175 recensioni
3.9
Member
Minthe
33
3,185 utenti
137 recensioni
3.8
34
3,060 utenti
98 recensioni
½ 3.6
Member
Bookmarque
Spiegazioni
Bookmarque: Repetitive. Boring.
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3,019 utenti
41 recensioni
3.1
Member
Bookmarque
Spiegazioni
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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2,995 utenti
43 recensioni
4.1
Member
merrystar
Spiegazioni
merrystar: Enjoyed the first half, but then it bogged down.
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2,853 utenti
47 recensioni
½ 3.4
38
2,687 utenti
63 recensioni
4.1
Member
Bookmarque
Spiegazioni
Bookmarque: Self-aggrandizing asshat. Bad science. Questionable reporting.
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2,680 utenti
47 recensioni
½ 3.3
40
2,492 utenti
38 recensioni
½ 3.5
Member
starbox
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2,456 utenti
50 recensioni
3.8
Member
skid0612
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2,412 utenti
79 recensioni
½ 3.3
Member
Jullou
Spiegazioni
Jullou: I love satire and absurdism, rarely don't finish books. But I just couldn't get through this one.
43
2,367 utenti
129 recensioni
4
Member
Bookmarque
Spiegazioni
Bookmarque: I've liked his other books but this one too brutal, nasty and gross
44
2,335 utenti
74 recensioni
2.9
Member
SimoneA
45
2,278 utenti
56 recensioni
½ 3.4
Member
Bookmarque
Spiegazioni
Bookmarque: Too stupid. Too manipulative. Dumb characters. Like every cheap horror movie ever.
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2,162 utenti
25 recensioni
3.9
47
2,132 utenti
62 recensioni
4
Member
dara85
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2,094 utenti
40 recensioni
3.9
49
2,055 utenti
45 recensioni
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
Spiegazioni
Bookmarque: boring. convoluted. stop it with the two name boy already. Death to the two name boy!
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2,011 utenti
83 recensioni
3.8
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1,903 utenti
11 recensioni
4.1
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1,783 utenti
23 recensioni
4
Member
cej1027
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1,773 utenti
28 recensioni
4
Member
Bookmarque
Spiegazioni
Bookmarque: outdated, 80s vibe to Maris's victimhood, predictable and not well written
54
1,745 utenti
33 recensioni
½ 3.6
Member
Minthe
55
1,673 utenti
35 recensioni
½ 3.5
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gilroy
Spiegazioni
gilroy: How can one sustain a story when you change points of view every two pages? Just horrible writing
56
1,610 utenti
31 recensioni
3.8
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merrystar
Spiegazioni
merrystar: I generally love re-told fairy tales, but I couldn't make it through this one.
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1,462 utenti
149 recensioni
3.9
Member
Bookmarque
Spiegazioni
Bookmarque: Just couldn't stand the brutality. Why do men do this?
58
1,434 utenti
63 recensioni
3.8
Member
Bookmarque
Spiegazioni
Bookmarque: Adam is just too dumb for me to stick with this book.
59
1,366 utenti
22 recensioni
3.9
Member
aulsmith
60
1,239 utenti
38 recensioni
3.9
Member
Bookmarque
Spiegazioni
Bookmarque: Can't write her way out of a wet paper bag. Why do I keep trying?
61
1,217 utenti
15 recensioni
3.2
Member
gilroy
Spiegazioni
gilroy: This came out when the Extended Epic like Wheel of Time was popular. Wheel of Time was bad, this was worse.
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1,209 utenti
70 recensioni
½ 3.5
Member
Bookmarque
Spiegazioni
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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1,089 utenti
20 recensioni
½ 3.4
Member
gilroy
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1,076 utenti
64 recensioni
4.2
Member
Bookmarque
Spiegazioni
Bookmarque: zzzzzzz
65
990 utenti
40 recensioni
½ 3.6
Member
hoddybook
66
939 utenti
44 recensioni
4
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773 utenti
46 recensioni
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
Spiegazioni
Bookmarque: In my best Colonel Kurtz voice - the writing, the writing.
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759 utenti
14 recensioni
3.9
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741 utenti
18 recensioni
½ 3.3
Member
Bookmarque
Spiegazioni
Bookmarque: Hateful for hatefulness's sake.
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730 utenti
5 recensioni
½ 3.6
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711 utenti
15 recensioni
½ 3.7
72
694 utenti
15 recensioni
3.9
Member
Diane-bpcb
Spiegazioni
Diane-bpcb: was this edited?
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658 utenti
29 recensioni
½ 3.3
74
632 utenti
48 recensioni
½ 3.6
Member
Bookmarque
Spiegazioni
Bookmarque: an onslaught of cruelty, sadism, viciousness and violence.
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621 utenti
18 recensioni
3.8
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597 utenti
22 recensioni
3.9
Member
Bookmarque
Spiegazioni
Bookmarque: Too bleak. Dwells on the worst people do to each other. All. The. Time.
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576 utenti
13 recensioni
½ 3.4
78
543 utenti
25 recensioni
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
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514 utenti
19 recensioni
½ 3.5
80
508 utenti
22 recensioni
½ 3.3
Member
Bookmarque
Spiegazioni
Bookmarque: Too stupid
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496 utenti
15 recensioni
3.8
Member
gilroy
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488 utenti
61 recensioni
4
Member
Bookmarque
Spiegazioni
Bookmarque: Can't stand the tone of this book. Too snide, too judgmental, too flip.
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450 utenti
33 recensioni
2.1
85
446 utenti
26 recensioni
4
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443 utenti
27 recensioni
2.9
Member
Bookmarque
Spiegazioni
Bookmarque: Very info-dumpy. Narrator likes the sound of his own voice. Terrible dialog.
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410 utenti
23 recensioni
½ 2.7
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405 utenti
10 recensioni
½ 3.6
Member
Bookmarque
Spiegazioni
Bookmarque: Too oblique.
89
401 utenti
24 recensioni
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
Spiegazioni
Bookmarque: So terrible I couldn't finish and returned it to Audible. Protagonist is an idiot among idiots.
90
370 utenti
2 recensioni
½ 3.5
91
348 utenti
32 recensioni
3.1
Member
Bookmarque
Spiegazioni
Bookmarque: These assholes deserve each other, but not my time.
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347 utenti
67 recensioni
½ 3.4
Member
Bookmarque
Spiegazioni
Bookmarque: Too stupid to finish.
93
342 utenti
13 recensioni
½ 3.7
94
336 utenti
16 recensioni
3.2
Member
Bookmarque
Spiegazioni
Bookmarque: oddly unfocused writing, didn't engage w/protagonist
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335 utenti
20 recensioni
½ 3.6
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311 utenti
4 recensioni
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
Spiegazioni
Bookmarque: Can't remember anything except that there was incorrect forensic detail.
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278 utenti
3 recensioni
½ 3.4
98
269 utenti
4 recensioni
3.8
Member
arrwa
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241 utenti
10 recensioni
3.2
Member
Bookmarque
Spiegazioni
Bookmarque: boring, self-involed, bossy asshole as a "protagonist"
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222 utenti
26 recensioni
½ 3.5
Member
Bookmarque
Spiegazioni
Bookmarque: Desperate name dropping by the author. And it's a romance, which by itself isn't awful, but it's a stupid one.