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.
- Utenti
- 31 utenti hanno contribuito
3
di Stacy Schiff
2,495 utenti
65 recensioni
½ 3.5
Punteggio 2
Aggiunto 2019-02-08, 08:54 AM
- 2 Members
- Bookmarque, ManWithAnAgenda
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: HIGHLY speculative. Repetitive. Repetitive. Repetitive.
7
di Ransom Riggs
18,496 utenti
1,121 recensioni
½ 3.7
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2013-11-27, 12:22 PM
- 2 Members
- barbharper, ahef1963,
15
di Mark Haddon
5,712 utenti
183 recensioni
½ 3.5
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2018-11-03, 01:03 PM
- Member
- Bookmarque
18
di A. J. Jacobs
4,606 utenti
192 recensioni
3.8
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2015-05-20, 10:20 PM
- Member
- cej1027
25
26
di P. D. James
3,613 utenti
52 recensioni
3.8
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2014-01-23, 03:59 PM
- Member
- katie4098
28
di Iris Murdoch
3,493 utenti
93 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2018-11-04, 11:57 AM
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: zzzz
29
di Thomas Wolfe
3,485 utenti
50 recensioni
4
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2017-09-15, 10:14 AM
- Member
- Crypto-Willobie
31
di B.A. Paris
3,152 utenti
252 recensioni
3.8
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2018-01-16, 11:49 AM
- Member
- Bookmarque
34
di Zadie Smith
2,989 utenti
41 recensioni
3.1
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2019-02-09, 02:48 PM
- 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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36
di Stephen King
2,922 utenti
93 recensioni
½ 3.6
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2018-11-03, 01:08 PM
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: Repetitive. Boring.
37
di Annie Proulx
2,817 utenti
47 recensioni
½ 3.4
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2014-11-23, 12:48 AM
- Member
- Diane-bpcb
38
2,636 utenti
46 recensioni
½ 3.3
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2017-09-21, 07:25 AM
- 2 Members
- dtw42, ManWithAnAgenda,
39
di Farley Mowat
2,631 utenti
61 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2020-10-13, 12:26 PM
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: Self-aggrandizing asshat. Bad science. Questionable reporting.
40
di Gao Xingjian
2,448 utenti
37 recensioni
½ 3.5
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2014-05-01, 11:22 AM
- Member
- starbox
42
43
2,333 utenti
128 recensioni
4
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2019-02-18, 10:20 AM
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: I've liked his other books but this one too brutal, nasty and gross
45
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: Too stupid. Too manipulative. Dumb characters. Like every cheap horror movie ever.
46
di Bruce Feiler
2,131 utenti
25 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2014-11-23, 12:51 AM
- Member
- Diane-bpcb
49
2,030 utenti
45 recensioni
½ 3.7
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2020-10-13, 12:06 PM
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: boring. convoluted. stop it with the two name boy already. Death to the two name boy!
51
di H. W. Brands
1,869 utenti
10 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2014-10-03, 03:12 AM
- Member
- Diane-bpcb
52
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: outdated, 80s vibe to Maris's victimhood, predictable and not well written
55
1,639 utenti
35 recensioni
½ 3.5
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2017-09-14, 07:22 AM
56
57
1,439 utenti
147 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2018-11-03, 01:03 PM
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: Just couldn't stand the brutality. Why do men do this?
60
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: Can't write her way out of a wet paper bag. Why do I keep trying?
62
- 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.
64
di Kory Stamper
1,044 utenti
62 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2018-11-03, 10:21 AM
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: zzzzzzz
68
735 utenti
18 recensioni
½ 3.3
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2020-01-27, 05:57 PM
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: Hateful for hatefulness's sake.
70
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: In my best Colonel Kurtz voice - the writing, the writing.
71
687 utenti
15 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2013-11-27, 10:48 AM
- Member
- Diane-bpcb
- Spiegazioni
- Diane-bpcb: was this edited?
75
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: Too bleak. Dwells on the worst people do to each other. All. The. Time.
76
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: an onslaught of cruelty, sadism, viciousness and violence.
77
di Marian Keyes
559 utenti
12 recensioni
½ 3.3
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2020-10-13, 10:47 AM
- Member
- Bookmarque
82
470 utenti
55 recensioni
4
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2020-10-13, 12:28 PM
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: Can't stand the tone of this book. Too snide, too judgmental, too flip.
85
di David Rakoff
437 utenti
26 recensioni
4
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2021-11-12, 03:09 PM
- Member
- ManWithAnAgenda
86
di Caleb Carr
426 utenti
24 recensioni
2.9
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2018-11-04, 12:00 PM
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: Very info-dumpy. Narrator likes the sound of his own voice. Terrible dialog.
88
401 utenti
10 recensioni
½ 3.6
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2018-11-04, 01:07 PM
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: Too oblique.
89
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: So terrible I couldn't finish and returned it to Audible. Protagonist is an idiot among idiots.
91
343 utenti
67 recensioni
½ 3.4
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2020-01-27, 05:59 PM
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: Too stupid to finish.
93
329 utenti
16 recensioni
3.2
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2018-11-03, 10:05 AM
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: oddly unfocused writing, didn't engage w/protagonist
94
di Sarah Dunn
324 utenti
19 recensioni
½ 3.6
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2018-11-03, 10:22 AM
- Member
- Bookmarque
95
307 utenti
3 recensioni
½ 3.7
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2018-11-03, 10:26 AM
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: Can't remember anything except that there was incorrect forensic detail.
100
di Karen Swan
212 utenti
25 recensioni
½ 3.6
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2018-11-03, 01:06 PM
- 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.
