Have you ever hated a book you read?

@SW-User Have you ever read a book so bad you piss yourself off by not being able to putnit down to see what trainwreck comes next? I have.

@MethDozer Not quite! All the bad books I read just end up being tedious slogs. I wish I could encounter a bad book whose badness makes it a page-turner.

What book fit that description for you?

@SW-User Celestine Prophecy stands out as a big example. There's been others but not anything I can really remember off the top of my head. I had a really boring kiosk job for three years that gave me a lotnof time to sit and read to pass time so I eneded up reading a lot of good and awful books during thay time. I'd pretty much read any book anyone gave me or was lying around because I just sat at a kiosk doing nothing all day. To this day I think the owner was laundering money through it because there is no way they made a dime at that kiosk.

@MethDozer Never heard of that one, but sounds like a delightful new age romp 🤭 I can see how a book like that (or maybe one of the "Left Behind" series) could be page-turningly bad.

@SW-User oh. Quite a few crime and poltical scandel books I've read sorta fall into the catagory. But those were more reading waiting for it to get good than actually seeing how bad is it going to get. There's been a few of those that as a read them kept thinking " how can someone write something so boring about something that should be so interesting?".

@MethDozer [i]The Unconsoled[/i] is an interesting case because it is a book that is deliberately designed to be frustrating; it's written with the logic of a dream, in that the plot seems random and chaotic, goals and quests are interrupted constantly by new ones, and the main character doesn't seem to be getting anywhere. It reminds me of Kafka, but not as compelling. I just couldn't get past the thought that this book is one big practical joke and Ishiguro wrote it just to see if anyone would actually read it. 😒

@SW-User I bet money I'd love that.