I subscribe to : https://www.freebooksy.com/I I get an email every day with free books to read. Some have been pretty good, some I deleted after 10 minutes of reading. :) I found a series calld Zombie Fallout. The first book was from the link above, the rest I bought. I'm about to start on the 8th book in the series.
Not too sure what you like to read... but there's a series caked repairman jack .... omg .... I've read about 20 of them... greatwriting... great characters you really care about and a total developing plot that gathers in the background like an approaching storm ... can't recommend them highly enough
I like horror, sci-fi, fantasy and just about anything except romance books. The series I'm reading now is about the zombie apocalypse, it's called Zombie Fallout. I just finished the last book and I'm waiting to buy the next one. I lost my debit card and I'm waiting for my new one to come in. As soon as it gets here, I'm going straight to Amazon and getting the next one.
I have with those two you mentioned and it's rare that I don't try to finish them but I have to agree with you. Those two books were horrible and I never even made it half way through. I manged to finish one with regret as it was so crappy called: The Last Ship. I saw that they made a TV series out of it and from the short bits I saw of it? The TV show was nothing like the boring long book and looked much better. I still couldn't bring myself to watch the show. Horrible boring book.
Joseph Conrad's "Lord Jim". Not necessarily a bad writing job, its archaic style made it tedious and boring for me. Being a classic, I wanted to like it, I really and truly did, so I kept trudging through chapter after chapter, but it seemed to get worse the more I read. I put it down and picked it back up several times over a few weeks, always wanting to give it the benefit of the doubt. I realized that I had no sense of connectivity with what I read anew and what I had read previously, a rarity for me, so it meant I wasn't enthralled by it or invested in it like I am with other books. I made it approximately halfway through the entire book before giving up altogether. ~
You can cut it from here and paste it where it should have gone then come back here and delete it. I do that all the time when I catch a mistake I've made. ~
My friend who loaned me Wicked, wouldn't even take the book back when I tried to return it to him. He hated it as well. I loaned it to another friend to give to his sister, she didn't finish it either....I refused it when he tried to return it as well. :)
I think I remember enjoying Lord Jim although, since it's 60 years since I read it, I don't recall it. That's a little unusual. Maybe I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought.
But I didn't comment to tell you that. I wanted to say I had a smile at your (badly). :)
More times than I can count or remember. I'm very critical and don't want to waste my time on something that IMO, sucks so once I start to become disinterested or annoyed..... I'm done
I started to read Along Came a Spider hearing how good the Alex Cross series was. Got about 3/4 the way through and couldn't wast any more of my time. Thought aI would give Patterson another chance with Kiss the Girls and it was even worse.
Benedict Arnold 