THE WORST BOOKS OF 2021 - Page 2

BornToShop · ‎03-10-2010

Hands-down, this is my worst book choice for 2021.

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

@insomniac2 wrote:
The Guest List (by Lucy Foley) is the very worst book I have ever read in my life.

@insomniac2 OH I will agree with you on that! It was horrible. I read one of her books (can't remember which) started to read this one (or the other one) and said "Wait, I've already read this awful book. They are basically the same so I gave up on the second one in a hurry!

Horrible, poorly written, dumb plot, unlikeable characters, and then there's MORE!

FindingMyJoy · ‎12-28-2012

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. I had this book on hold for months. Due to there were tons of glowing reviews on Goodreads about this book, I had high expectations for it. I got it right after Goodreads named this book their choice winner for science fiction so I was super excited to finally get the book and read it. This book really dragged for me, the science explanations were to be honest mostly over my head so maybe that's why I didn't enjoy it. It's supposed to be made into a movie, I will not be going to see it.

BirkiLady · ‎02-22-2015

@Sooner wrote:
Katie Couric: Going There

I couldn't read it.

@Sooner Agree with you!

This was a trashy story of her life, her many loves are named (tacky), years as a neglectful single parent in which she moved a boy-toy in without telling her 15-year old daughter and more antics.

There were the various job changes, always with excuses and blame placed on others for Katie's failures. And her failure to notice Jay Monahan's serious health issues even though he had been eating Tums to survive. The worst IMO was making fun of Jay's love of history and his passion for reinacting Civil War battles and collecting artifacts from that era. Would that marriage have lasted? I doubt it. Her insensitivy was palpalble.

Ashtonishly, Katie failed to notice similar symptoms with her then boyfriend (now husband) had the same signs of cancer as Jay Monahan had exhibited years earlier. She did not notice his weight loss, his pallor, his fatigue as long as he took care of her.

She isn't the cute, sweet girl - she's the self-centered girl with an agenda to get married and, while looking for Mr. Right, she throws everyone under the bus.

Katie Couric laughs thoughout the book, but she is a mean girl who never should have written this book. It should have remained as her dairy.

Money screams; wealth whispers.

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

@BirkiLady wrote:
@Sooner wrote:
Katie Couric: Going There

I couldn't read it.
@Sooner Agree with you!

This was a trashy story of her life, her many loves are named (tacky), years as a neglectful single parent in which she moved a boy-toy in without telling her 15-year old daughter and more antics.

There were the various job changes, always with excuses and blame placed on others for Katie's failures. And her failure to notice Jay Monahan's serious health issues even though he had been eating Tums to survive. The worst IMO was making fun of Jay's love of history and his passion for reinacting Civil War battles and collecting artifacts from that era. Would that marriage have lasted? I doubt it. Her insensitivy was palpalble.

Ashtonishly, Katie failed to notice similar symptoms with her then boyfriend (now husband) had the same signs of cancer as Jay Monahan had exhibited years earlier. She did not notice his weight loss, his pallor, his fatigue as long as he took care of her.

She isn't the cute, sweet girl - she's the self-centered girl with an agenda to get married and, while looking for Mr. Right, she throws everyone under the bus.

Katie Couric laughs thoughout the book, but she is a mean girl who never should have written this book. It should have remained as her dairy.

Yep! That's what I was getting since I didn't read all of it. Or most of it! I was actually shocked that it didn't seem that way to her ear. Mean and privileged girl I would say.

An example: The description of a humorous costume party when they all dressed as people who had died in tragedies that year. What a hoot? NOT? Oh it was terrible but they were journalists and had a twisted sense of humor, she says.

Says it all to me . . . .rude and crude person.

teganslaw · ‎03-11-2010

"Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine." didn't finish it. Annoying dislikeable character who did questionable things. She was not fine at all, and I lost interest.

"The Neighbors" by Joseph Souza. Badly written, annoying, clueless characters, and unbelievable plot. Only read half the book. I have no idea how this got published.

"The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog."

Mark Twain

icezeus · ‎10-30-2010

@insomniac2 wrote:
The Guest List (by Lucy Foley) is the very worst book I have ever read in my life.

@insomniac2

I see we both listed the same book. It was awful.

Free2be · ‎03-10-2010

I didn't ready any books in the OP's list but I did enjoy Katie Couric's book. I guess her honesty in all of it's warts was a better read for me than the sugar coating that usually happens in this kind of book.

gardenman · ‎03-09-2010

@Sooner wrote:
@insomniac2 wrote:
The Guest List (by Lucy Foley) is the very worst book I have ever read in my life.
@insomniac2 OH I will agree with you on that! It was horrible. I read one of her books (can't remember which) started to read this one (or the other one) and said "Wait, I've already read this awful book. They are basically the same so I gave up on the second one in a hurry!

Horrible, poorly written, dumb plot, unlikeable characters, and then there's MORE!

This happens a lot with traditionally published authors. They'll pretty much just write the same book time after time. Their agent and editor will insist they not "break the mold." They'll be told, "We know this works, why change it?" It becomes their "formula" and they just change a few names and locations but write the same book time after time. I would go insane. (Well, more insane. Sanity has never been my strong suit.) Unless the author is willing to buck the system, and most aren't, they get stuck in that formula and can't get out. They'll be told, "The readers expect this from your books. You don't want to let them down." Writers should just be free to tell whatever story they feel like telling in whatever manner they feel like telling it.

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Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

@BirkiLady After reading your review, I checked out the voice version and listened to the rest. I am stunned! I must say she is a far more narcissistic and mean person than I had even imagined. And she can't see it. She blames everyone else for her failures--for not listening to her.

She threw most people she ever worked with under the bus. Especially the women--several of whom she was apparently instrumental in getting booted out.

It shows a really seamy, biased and self-serving system that masquerades as news too. WOW.