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Benedict Arnold

Have you ever started reading a book that was written so bad that you stopped reading it before you finished it?

There are two for me, Wicked and 50 Shades of Gray. Both were horrible. 

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Posted - March 21, 2017
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  • 3191
    There was a book by one of my favorite authors that I just could not get past the third page of...despite others telling me what a good book it was.  I tried several times and just coudn't do it.
      March 21, 2017 5:23 AM MDT
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  • I had one like that from Stephen King. It was Tommyknockers. It was te dullest book he ever put out. I did manage to finish it though. 
      March 21, 2017 7:30 AM MDT
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  • Be careful...die-hard King lovers get a little "funny" about that kind of criticism. lol

    I didn't care for it either.  I also didn't like "The Running Man"  and I thought "The Stand" was too long and overly pretentious.
    now...I'm going to go hide 
      March 21, 2017 7:42 AM MDT
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  • I am a die hard Stephen King fan. Been reading his works since 1975. I just bought a new one this morning, it's The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. It's a book of short stories. I truly do love his short stories. The Mist was one of my favorite. 
      March 21, 2017 7:47 AM MDT
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  • I've been a fan of King myself. i like a lot of his work. I agree. His short stories are excellent.  I really enjoyed Nightshift immensely and concur  about the Mist.  I want to add that the movie actually was better than the story and King also agreed with that. It's quite rare that a King story interprets better to film 
      March 21, 2017 10:03 AM MDT
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  • He said he was very happy with it. He let the director do the ending and said that's how he would have done it if he had thought of it. :)
      March 23, 2017 2:22 AM MDT
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  • 6124
    The Stand was great.  Go away with your baaaahd self, goat.  Shoo shoo. Aww shoop.  I just stepped in goat poop.  


    Actually there are a number of his books I was disappointed in when he just started churning them out after hitting the big time.  Still a fan though (FYI to Karen). ;-)
      March 21, 2017 9:37 AM MDT
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  • 7280
    I agree about The Stand, Harry. Read that over a few days---couldn't easily put it down.

    I started with Salem's Lot---had a hard time sleeping for about 3 weeks.  That kid with the red eyes hanging on the screen became an everlasting image in my mind.

    Tried to read a few others, but he was just too successful in planting unsettling images in my mind.  Unfortunately, I finally had to give up on his books---I really needed more sleep.
      March 21, 2017 9:47 AM MDT
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  • I've read both versions of The Stand. 
      March 21, 2017 10:02 AM MDT
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  • See? That's why I'm hiding! I'm in the minority I think...

    I'm a big Clive Barker fan myself and think he is a better horror author when it comes to generating graphic imagery 


      March 21, 2017 10:06 AM MDT
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  • I do like him too. 
      March 22, 2017 3:32 AM MDT
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  • If it's possible, I consider Clive King's evil, brit twin.  There is something awesome about his prose and the atmosphere he generates.  It's so dark, dank, and bleak 
      March 22, 2017 6:56 AM MDT
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  • 3191
    I love King, too.  This was a Dean Koontz novel.  (I swear they were twins, separated at birth and raised on opposite coasts!)  It is called Dragon Tears, IIRC.  
      March 21, 2017 11:28 AM MDT
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  • I think I read that one. King wrote one called The Eyes of the Dragon. That was a pretty decent one. He wrote it for his daughter because she told him she didn't like all his boogie men. 
      March 23, 2017 2:20 AM MDT
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  • 3191
    I haven't read that one...or at least I don't recall doing so.
      March 23, 2017 12:21 PM MDT
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  • 1713
    No, but I remember The Notebook was so boring I stopped reading it, but I had to read it for a book report so I just skimmed the rest.
    I have also read some weird fan-fiction someone told me about that was so bad that I couldn't stop reading it, it was just so hilariously bad.
      March 21, 2017 5:30 AM MDT
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  • When they are like that, hilariously bad, I can read them. :) I never read The Notebook, nor have I seen the movie. 
      March 21, 2017 7:31 AM MDT
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  • 53509
    Can read them or can't read them?
    ~
      March 21, 2017 8:00 AM MDT
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  • Can read. Sometimes they are just so stinking bad that they're good :) Kinda like you. Brahahahahahaa....
      March 21, 2017 10:03 AM MDT
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  • Lots of time ... life is too short to persist in bad writing
      March 21, 2017 5:58 AM MDT
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  • I agree 100%
      March 21, 2017 7:32 AM MDT
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  • 6124
    Yes.  It doesn't happen often but when it does, sheesh, it's ruined my mood for the day! Couldn't tell you the names.  They must have been so bad that I blocked them from my mind.  
      March 21, 2017 6:12 AM MDT
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  • The two I mentioned were sooooooo bad I can't get them out of my memory. 
      March 21, 2017 7:32 AM MDT
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  • You should try some of the cheap ones in the kindle market  .... all i can say is im glad no trees died in their production
      March 21, 2017 7:50 AM MDT
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