Books You Couldn't Finish

Descrição
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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31,393 membros
1,241 resenhas
4.1
2 Members
merrystar, 2wonderY
Explicações
merrystar: I'm possibly too old, but I found the beginning of this unreadable.
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8,914 membros
132 resenhas
3.8
2 Members
merrystar, fuzzi
Explicações
fuzzi: Despised the characters, why read about people with no redeeming qualities?
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2,606 membros
68 resenhas
½ 3.5
2 Members
Bookmarque, ManWithAnAgenda
Explicações
Bookmarque: HIGHLY speculative. Repetitive. Repetitive. Repetitive.
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30,394 membros
1,487 resenhas
½ 4.4
Member
ahef1963
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27,848 membros
385 resenhas
½ 3.6
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ahef1963
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23,620 membros
983 resenhas
4.2
Member
Minthe
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19,129 membros
1,132 resenhas
½ 3.7
2 Members
barbharper, ahef1963,
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13,460 membros
759 resenhas
4.2
Member
Minthe
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11,661 membros
453 resenhas
3.8
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10,307 membros
226 resenhas
½ 3.7
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8,712 membros
90 resenhas
½ 3.5
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7,831 membros
59 resenhas
4
Member
merrystar
Explicações
merrystar: the only assigned book I have ever given up on.
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7,805 membros
91 resenhas
3.9
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6,877 membros
192 resenhas
3.8
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5,748 membros
184 resenhas
½ 3.5
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5,705 membros
48 resenhas
½ 3.6
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cej1027
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5,202 membros
99 resenhas
3.9
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4,661 membros
192 resenhas
3.8
Member
cej1027
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4,367 membros
72 resenhas
½ 3.7
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4,358 membros
93 resenhas
3.8
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4,221 membros
79 resenhas
½ 3.7
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Minthe
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4,204 membros
192 resenhas
4
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4,119 membros
68 resenhas
3.8
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Minthe
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3,715 membros
74 resenhas
3.8
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Cecrow
Explicações
Cecrow: Couldn't find the story or the point.
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3,694 membros
218 resenhas
½ 3.6
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3,670 membros
55 resenhas
3.8
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katie4098
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3,603 membros
78 resenhas
3.8
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cej1027
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3,574 membros
94 resenhas
3.9
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Bookmarque
Explicações
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3,535 membros
50 resenhas
4
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3,403 membros
40 resenhas
½ 3.4
Member
aulsmith
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3,391 membros
256 resenhas
3.8
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3,215 membros
175 resenhas
3.9
Member
Minthe
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3,185 membros
137 resenhas
3.8
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3,060 membros
98 resenhas
½ 3.6
Member
Bookmarque
Explicações
Bookmarque: Repetitive. Boring.
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3,019 membros
41 resenhas
3.1
Member
Bookmarque
Explicações
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 membros
43 resenhas
4.1
Member
merrystar
Explicações
merrystar: Enjoyed the first half, but then it bogged down.
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2,853 membros
47 resenhas
½ 3.4
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2,687 membros
63 resenhas
4.1
Member
Bookmarque
Explicações
Bookmarque: Self-aggrandizing asshat. Bad science. Questionable reporting.
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2,680 membros
47 resenhas
½ 3.3
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2,492 membros
38 resenhas
½ 3.5
Member
starbox
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2,456 membros
50 resenhas
3.8
Member
skid0612
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2,412 membros
79 resenhas
½ 3.3
Member
Jullou
Explicações
Jullou: I love satire and absurdism, rarely don't finish books. But I just couldn't get through this one.
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2,367 membros
129 resenhas
4
Member
Bookmarque
Explicações
Bookmarque: I've liked his other books but this one too brutal, nasty and gross
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2,335 membros
74 resenhas
2.9
Member
SimoneA
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2,278 membros
56 resenhas
½ 3.4
Member
Bookmarque
Explicações
Bookmarque: Too stupid. Too manipulative. Dumb characters. Like every cheap horror movie ever.
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2,162 membros
25 resenhas
3.9
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2,132 membros
62 resenhas
4
Member
dara85
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2,094 membros
40 resenhas
3.9
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2,055 membros
45 resenhas
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
Explicações
Bookmarque: boring. convoluted. stop it with the two name boy already. Death to the two name boy!
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2,011 membros
83 resenhas
3.8
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1,903 membros
11 resenhas
4.1
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1,783 membros
23 resenhas
4
Member
cej1027
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1,773 membros
28 resenhas
4
Member
Bookmarque
Explicações
Bookmarque: outdated, 80s vibe to Maris's victimhood, predictable and not well written
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1,745 membros
33 resenhas
½ 3.6
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Minthe
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1,673 membros
35 resenhas
½ 3.5
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gilroy
Explicações
gilroy: How can one sustain a story when you change points of view every two pages? Just horrible writing
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1,610 membros
31 resenhas
3.8
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merrystar
Explicações
merrystar: I generally love re-told fairy tales, but I couldn't make it through this one.
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1,462 membros
149 resenhas
3.9
Member
Bookmarque
Explicações
Bookmarque: Just couldn't stand the brutality. Why do men do this?
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1,434 membros
63 resenhas
3.8
Member
Bookmarque
Explicações
Bookmarque: Adam is just too dumb for me to stick with this book.
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1,366 membros
22 resenhas
3.9
Member
aulsmith
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1,239 membros
38 resenhas
3.9
Member
Bookmarque
Explicações
Bookmarque: Can't write her way out of a wet paper bag. Why do I keep trying?
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1,217 membros
15 resenhas
3.2
Member
gilroy
Explicações
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 membros
70 resenhas
½ 3.5
Member
Bookmarque
Explicações
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 membros
20 resenhas
½ 3.4
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gilroy
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1,076 membros
64 resenhas
4.2
Member
Bookmarque
Explicações
Bookmarque: zzzzzzz
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990 membros
40 resenhas
½ 3.6
Member
hoddybook
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939 membros
44 resenhas
4
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773 membros
46 resenhas
½ 3.7
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Bookmarque
Explicações
Bookmarque: In my best Colonel Kurtz voice - the writing, the writing.
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759 membros
14 resenhas
3.9
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741 membros
18 resenhas
½ 3.3
Member
Bookmarque
Explicações
Bookmarque: Hateful for hatefulness's sake.
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730 membros
5 resenhas
½ 3.6
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711 membros
15 resenhas
½ 3.7
72
694 membros
15 resenhas
3.9
Member
Diane-bpcb
Explicações
Diane-bpcb: was this edited?
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658 membros
29 resenhas
½ 3.3
74
632 membros
48 resenhas
½ 3.6
Member
Bookmarque
Explicações
Bookmarque: an onslaught of cruelty, sadism, viciousness and violence.
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621 membros
18 resenhas
3.8
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597 membros
22 resenhas
3.9
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Bookmarque
Explicações
Bookmarque: Too bleak. Dwells on the worst people do to each other. All. The. Time.
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576 membros
13 resenhas
½ 3.4
78
543 membros
25 resenhas
½ 3.7
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dara85
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514 membros
19 resenhas
½ 3.5
80
508 membros
22 resenhas
½ 3.3
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Bookmarque
Explicações
Bookmarque: Too stupid
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496 membros
15 resenhas
3.8
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gilroy
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488 membros
61 resenhas
4
Member
Bookmarque
Explicações
Bookmarque: Can't stand the tone of this book. Too snide, too judgmental, too flip.
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450 membros
33 resenhas
2.1
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446 membros
26 resenhas
4
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443 membros
27 resenhas
2.9
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Bookmarque
Explicações
Bookmarque: Very info-dumpy. Narrator likes the sound of his own voice. Terrible dialog.
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410 membros
23 resenhas
½ 2.7
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405 membros
10 resenhas
½ 3.6
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Bookmarque
Explicações
Bookmarque: Too oblique.
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401 membros
24 resenhas
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
Explicações
Bookmarque: So terrible I couldn't finish and returned it to Audible. Protagonist is an idiot among idiots.
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370 membros
2 resenhas
½ 3.5
91
348 membros
32 resenhas
3.1
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Bookmarque
Explicações
Bookmarque: These assholes deserve each other, but not my time.
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347 membros
67 resenhas
½ 3.4
Member
Bookmarque
Explicações
Bookmarque: Too stupid to finish.
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342 membros
13 resenhas
½ 3.7
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336 membros
16 resenhas
3.2
Member
Bookmarque
Explicações
Bookmarque: oddly unfocused writing, didn't engage w/protagonist
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335 membros
20 resenhas
½ 3.6
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311 membros
4 resenhas
½ 3.7
Member
Bookmarque
Explicações
Bookmarque: Can't remember anything except that there was incorrect forensic detail.
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278 membros
3 resenhas
½ 3.4
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269 membros
4 resenhas
3.8
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arrwa
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241 membros
10 resenhas
3.2
Member
Bookmarque
Explicações
Bookmarque: boring, self-involed, bossy asshole as a "protagonist"
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222 membros
26 resenhas
½ 3.5
Member
Bookmarque
Explicações
Bookmarque: Desperate name dropping by the author. And it's a romance, which by itself isn't awful, but it's a stupid one.