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 utenti hanno contribuito
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30,120 utenti
1,220 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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8,798 utenti
130 recensioni
3.8
2 Members
merrystar, fuzzi
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fuzzi: Despised the characters, why read about people with no redeeming qualities?
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2,495 utenti
65 recensioni
½ 3.5
2 Members
Bookmarque, ManWithAnAgenda
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Bookmarque: HIGHLY speculative. Repetitive. Repetitive. Repetitive.
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29,816 utenti
1,471 recensioni
½ 4.4
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ahef1963
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27,420 utenti
382 recensioni
½ 3.6
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ahef1963
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23,073 utenti
971 recensioni
4.2
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Minthe
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18,496 utenti
1,121 recensioni
½ 3.7
2 Members
barbharper, ahef1963,
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12,974 utenti
737 recensioni
4.2
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Minthe
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11,353 utenti
445 recensioni
3.8
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10,201 utenti
225 recensioni
½ 3.7
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8,488 utenti
87 recensioni
½ 3.5
12
7,714 utenti
88 recensioni
3.9
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7,685 utenti
57 recensioni
4
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merrystar
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merrystar: the only assigned book I have ever given up on.
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6,641 utenti
191 recensioni
3.8
15
5,712 utenti
183 recensioni
½ 3.5
16
5,622 utenti
48 recensioni
½ 3.6
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cej1027
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5,124 utenti
99 recensioni
3.9
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cej1027
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4,302 utenti
71 recensioni
½ 3.7
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4,284 utenti
93 recensioni
3.8
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4,161 utenti
78 recensioni
½ 3.7
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Minthe
22
4,077 utenti
66 recensioni
3.8
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Minthe
23
3,903 utenti
182 recensioni
4
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3,647 utenti
217 recensioni
½ 3.6
25
3,640 utenti
73 recensioni
3.8
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Cecrow
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Cecrow: Couldn't find the story or the point.
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3,613 utenti
52 recensioni
3.8
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katie4098
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3,570 utenti
78 recensioni
3.8
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cej1027
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3,493 utenti
93 recensioni
3.9
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Bookmarque
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3,485 utenti
50 recensioni
4
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3,363 utenti
39 recensioni
½ 3.4
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aulsmith
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3,152 utenti
252 recensioni
3.8
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3,106 utenti
137 recensioni
3.8
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3,091 utenti
170 recensioni
3.9
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Minthe
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2,989 utenti
41 recensioni
3.1
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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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2,952 utenti
41 recensioni
4.1
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merrystar
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merrystar: Enjoyed the first half, but then it bogged down.
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2,922 utenti
93 recensioni
½ 3.6
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Bookmarque
Spiegazioni
Bookmarque: Repetitive. Boring.
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2,817 utenti
47 recensioni
½ 3.4
38
2,636 utenti
46 recensioni
½ 3.3
39
2,631 utenti
61 recensioni
4.1
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Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Self-aggrandizing asshat. Bad science. Questionable reporting.
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2,448 utenti
37 recensioni
½ 3.5
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starbox
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2,408 utenti
50 recensioni
3.8
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skid0612
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2,391 utenti
79 recensioni
½ 3.3
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Jullou
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Jullou: I love satire and absurdism, rarely don't finish books. But I just couldn't get through this one.
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2,333 utenti
128 recensioni
4
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Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: I've liked his other books but this one too brutal, nasty and gross
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2,294 utenti
74 recensioni
2.9
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SimoneA
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2,232 utenti
56 recensioni
½ 3.4
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Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Too stupid. Too manipulative. Dumb characters. Like every cheap horror movie ever.
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2,131 utenti
25 recensioni
3.9
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2,091 utenti
62 recensioni
4
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dara85
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2,054 utenti
39 recensioni
3.9
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2,030 utenti
45 recensioni
½ 3.7
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Bookmarque
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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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1,979 utenti
83 recensioni
3.8
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1,869 utenti
10 recensioni
4.1
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1,743 utenti
26 recensioni
4
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Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: outdated, 80s vibe to Maris's victimhood, predictable and not well written
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1,738 utenti
22 recensioni
4
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cej1027
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1,724 utenti
33 recensioni
½ 3.6
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Minthe
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1,639 utenti
35 recensioni
½ 3.5
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gilroy
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gilroy: How can one sustain a story when you change points of view every two pages? Just horrible writing
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1,592 utenti
31 recensioni
3.8
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merrystar
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merrystar: I generally love re-told fairy tales, but I couldn't make it through this one.
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1,439 utenti
147 recensioni
3.9
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Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Just couldn't stand the brutality. Why do men do this?
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1,423 utenti
63 recensioni
3.8
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Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Adam is just too dumb for me to stick with this book.
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1,341 utenti
22 recensioni
4
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aulsmith
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1,208 utenti
36 recensioni
3.9
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Bookmarque
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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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1,193 utenti
15 recensioni
3.2
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gilroy
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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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1,187 utenti
68 recensioni
½ 3.5
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Bookmarque
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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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1,082 utenti
19 recensioni
½ 3.4
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gilroy
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1,044 utenti
62 recensioni
4.1
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Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: zzzzzzz
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970 utenti
37 recensioni
½ 3.6
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hoddybook
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915 utenti
44 recensioni
4
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751 utenti
14 recensioni
3.9
68
735 utenti
18 recensioni
½ 3.3
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Bookmarque
Spiegazioni
Bookmarque: Hateful for hatefulness's sake.
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726 utenti
5 recensioni
½ 3.6
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709 utenti
42 recensioni
½ 3.7
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Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: In my best Colonel Kurtz voice - the writing, the writing.
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687 utenti
15 recensioni
3.9
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Diane-bpcb
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Diane-bpcb: was this edited?
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687 utenti
14 recensioni
½ 3.7
73
602 utenti
27 recensioni
½ 3.3
74
598 utenti
17 recensioni
3.8
75
590 utenti
22 recensioni
3.9
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Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Too bleak. Dwells on the worst people do to each other. All. The. Time.
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590 utenti
46 recensioni
½ 3.6
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Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: an onslaught of cruelty, sadism, viciousness and violence.
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559 utenti
12 recensioni
½ 3.3
78
540 utenti
25 recensioni
½ 3.7
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dara85
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504 utenti
21 recensioni
½ 3.3
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Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Too stupid
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503 utenti
18 recensioni
½ 3.5
81
487 utenti
15 recensioni
3.8
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gilroy
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470 utenti
55 recensioni
4
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Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Can't stand the tone of this book. Too snide, too judgmental, too flip.
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440 utenti
32 recensioni
2.1
85
437 utenti
26 recensioni
4
86
426 utenti
24 recensioni
2.9
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Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Very info-dumpy. Narrator likes the sound of his own voice. Terrible dialog.
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410 utenti
23 recensioni
2.8
88
401 utenti
10 recensioni
½ 3.6
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Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Too oblique.
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375 utenti
21 recensioni
3.8
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Bookmarque
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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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367 utenti
2 recensioni
½ 3.5
91
343 utenti
67 recensioni
½ 3.4
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Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Too stupid to finish.
92
343 utenti
32 recensioni
3.1
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Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: These assholes deserve each other, but not my time.
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329 utenti
16 recensioni
3.2
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Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: oddly unfocused writing, didn't engage w/protagonist
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324 utenti
19 recensioni
½ 3.6
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307 utenti
3 recensioni
½ 3.7
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Bookmarque
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Bookmarque: Can't remember anything except that there was incorrect forensic detail.
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281 utenti
12 recensioni
½ 3.7
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275 utenti
3 recensioni
½ 3.4
98
260 utenti
3 recensioni
3.8
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arrwa
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237 utenti
10 recensioni
3.2
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Bookmarque
Spiegazioni
Bookmarque: boring, self-involed, bossy asshole as a "protagonist"
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212 utenti
25 recensioni
½ 3.6
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Bookmarque
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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.