If you spend time here, you'll see that I'm all over the map with my reading. General fiction mostly but I throw in some thrillers, classics and I'm just getting into science fiction.
Once in a while I'll come across a book that is so awful I can't finish it. I usually read about 50 - 100 pages, give it a fair chance, put it down and move on.
Then there are books like this.
So I can appreciate the whole adding-weird-photos-and-text-and-graphics-to-novels-thing that some authors are into lately. That part of the book didn't bother me.*
What bothered me was a nonsensical story involving super annoying characters with a plot line leading no where. There was also a side story that was so bizarre it ended up frustrating me to death. When that story had some guy wandering through the Blitz shooting escaped zoo animals, I threw the book onto my donate pile.
Then....I started reading this beauty.
Sigh.
I know - horror books. I'm taking a chance, I know that! But this one was recommended.
I was about 50 pages from the end when I quit. Let's just say when I got to the scene with the vampire with no face and an erection, I reached my quota of stupidity.
When I read something this bad, it turns me off reading for a couple days. It's intense. Brad also has to put up with my ranting.
*The Raw Shark Texts did a way better job of this by the way.
2 comments:
I haven't read either of these books, but I've seen the movies. (I know.) Did not enjoy Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close at all, but I have to say how much I adored the movie for Everything is Illuminated. (Again, didn't read the book.)
I enjoyed the original (Swedish?) movie for Let The Right One In, but I hated that they made it into an English movie as well. Put a bad taste in my mouth. (And no, the movie didn't have any erection-ist vampires with no faces.)
I have been known to hurl a bad book across the room.
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