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?

  • imankitty@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Kafka on the Shore by Murakami. I still mourn the 24.51usd I paid for it. What a waste of time and money.

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      1 year ago

      Oh god yes. Down with that book. The MC is 15 and I read it when I was 15 and a big Murakami fan. It left me wondering if Murakami had ever met a teenager. He’s written exactly like the typical middle aged divorced Murakami protagonist. Except he also has some rape fantasy thing going on? Why, just why.

      l’ll always love some of his playful, fun, gloriously batshit earlier stuff like Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World but this had absolutely none of those qualities. And was like 4x the length. Maybe he got too famous for his editor to make edits any more…