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?
Ishmael.
We had to read this in a modern novels class in college. You can tell the professor, who was a total dbag, just loved it. He dressed like Clark Kent and thought he was a new Hemingway and like flirted with all the college girls despite his wife also working at the college…he would praise any male author but pm hated women writers. He insulted Toni Morrison’s writing.
The book is just so…pretentious? The pedagogue is insufferable. It teaches what I think are basic concepts far below a college level…oh, humans are selfish and have a narrow view point of the world? Duh. Fucking duh.
Like all these pseudo-intellectuals read it and just jerk off to how smart they think they are for agreeing with the gorilla. Have any of these people just taken a Philosophy 101 class? Read some sci-fi? The author presents sophomoric concepts as if they’re brand new jaw dropping, life changing, ideas.
Reminds me of those teeny hopper TikTok’s where they say something that people have been talking about for decades already but end with “But you all aren’t ready for that conversation.”