Quite honestly I can’t stand only a few books that I’ve read, recently The Awakening by Nora Roberts.
Holy crap, do I reallllyyyyy want my money back. I was bored. So. Bored. The magic system was subpar, the characters just….ew, everything was so, so boring. The MC is an idiot.
What book is a zero star read for you?
Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou! I felt like the only one who hated this! This and the Life of Pi for somewhat similar reasons as I can’t stand when an author thinks they have this brilliant plot twist and it reads so smugly as if their intelligence is twice that of the readers. I also hate when people think that using something as horrific as war/ concentration camps/ horrific violence as some kind of interesting or novel way to make their twist more poetic/ juicier/ avant- guard…. And it shows that they have never really undergone anything close to resembling hardship in their lives and have a sort of rubbernecking at a roadside fatality to gossip about what they saw later with glee vibe. Gross
All of this is why I hated the movie “Life is Beautiful” with a vengeance. An insult to the victims.
I went to a reading by the author of Life of Pi once and can confirm he is a smug prick who thinks he’s infinitely more intelligent than his readers.
Was Life of Pi that bad?
It touts itself as waaay deeper than it is to most people.
Thank you! A friend gave me The Life of Pi for Christmas with a handwritten note saying how it changed her life. Why? How? What? I hated that book.