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.
3
di Stacy Schiff
2,628 utenti
68 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
19,238 utenti
1,134 recensioni
½ 3.7
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2013-11-27, 12:22 PM
- 2 Members
- barbharper, ahef1963,
15
di Mark Haddon
5,756 utenti
184 recensioni
½ 3.5
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2018-11-03, 01:03 PM
- Member
- Bookmarque
18
di A. J. Jacobs
4,668 utenti
192 recensioni
3.8
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2015-05-20, 10:20 PM
- Member
- cej1027
24
26
di P. D. James
3,670 utenti
55 recensioni
3.8
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2014-01-23, 03:59 PM
- Member
- katie4098
28
di Iris Murdoch
3,575 utenti
94 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2018-11-04, 11:57 AM
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: zzzz
29
di Thomas Wolfe
3,548 utenti
50 recensioni
4
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2017-09-15, 10:14 AM
- Member
- Crypto-Willobie
30
di B.A. Paris
3,432 utenti
257 recensioni
3.8
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2018-01-16, 11:49 AM
- Member
- Bookmarque
34
di Stephen King
3,088 utenti
98 recensioni
½ 3.6
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2018-11-03, 01:08 PM
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: Repetitive. Boring.
35
di Zadie Smith
3,024 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.
36
37
di Annie Proulx
2,860 utenti
47 recensioni
½ 3.4
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2014-11-23, 12:48 AM
- Member
- Diane-bpcb
38
di Farley Mowat
2,704 utenti
63 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2020-10-13, 12:26 PM
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: Self-aggrandizing asshat. Bad science. Questionable reporting.
39
2,690 utenti
47 recensioni
½ 3.3
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2017-09-21, 07:25 AM
- 2 Members
- dtw42, ManWithAnAgenda,
40
di Gao Xingjian
2,509 utenti
38 recensioni
½ 3.5
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2014-05-01, 11:22 AM
- Member
- starbox
42
43
2,379 utenti
129 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
2,166 utenti
25 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2014-11-23, 12:51 AM
- Member
- Diane-bpcb
49
2,059 utenti
44 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
1,911 utenti
11 recensioni
4.1
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2014-10-03, 03:12 AM
- Member
- Diane-bpcb
53
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: outdated, 80s vibe to Maris's victimhood, predictable and not well written
55
1,679 utenti
35 recensioni
½ 3.5
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2017-09-14, 07:22 AM
56
57
1,466 utenti
149 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
1,084 utenti
64 recensioni
4.2
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2018-11-03, 10:21 AM
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: zzzzzzz
67
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: In my best Colonel Kurtz voice - the writing, the writing.
69
742 utenti
18 recensioni
½ 3.3
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2020-01-27, 05:57 PM
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: Hateful for hatefulness's sake.
72
697 utenti
15 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2013-11-27, 10:48 AM
- Member
- Diane-bpcb
- Spiegazioni
- Diane-bpcb: was this edited?
74
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: an onslaught of cruelty, sadism, viciousness and violence.
76
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: Too bleak. Dwells on the worst people do to each other. All. The. Time.
77
di Marian Keyes
579 utenti
13 recensioni
½ 3.4
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2020-10-13, 10:47 AM
- Member
- Bookmarque
82
495 utenti
61 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
449 utenti
26 recensioni
4
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2021-11-12, 03:09 PM
- Member
- ManWithAnAgenda
86
di Caleb Carr
447 utenti
27 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
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: So terrible I couldn't finish and returned it to Audible. Protagonist is an idiot among idiots.
89
406 utenti
10 recensioni
½ 3.6
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2018-11-04, 01:07 PM
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: Too oblique.
92
346 utenti
67 recensioni
½ 3.4
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2020-01-27, 05:59 PM
- Member
- Bookmarque
- Spiegazioni
- Bookmarque: Too stupid to finish.
94
336 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
95
di Sarah Dunn
335 utenti
20 recensioni
½ 3.6
Punteggio 1
Aggiunto 2018-11-03, 10:22 AM
- Member
- Bookmarque
96
311 utenti
4 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
222 utenti
26 recensioni
½ 3.5
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.
