General Discussion

Title says it all.

For me, it has to be Eleventh Plague. The pacing was terrible, the main character was a bitter jerk who hated that people had fun when he was sad and acts like his jerk grandpa who decided that if what you're doing isn't immediately contributing to survival, then you're an entitled brat, and said eleventh plague never even plays a part in the story, it just appears at the beginning and doesn't happen again. It feels like a blatant ripoff of Unwind, with the 'cool asian girl who fights stuff' stereotype and the character who hates everyone for having different worldviews than him. The main character makes stupid decisions and acts like it wasn't his fault. It's just... Bad.

There's this one book I read last year that had terrible pacing. Everything said on the back of the book was dealt with in the span of 80 pages, and the rest of the book (which is about 300 pages iirc) has the main characters going to some ice place that was the antagonist's species' hideout. And the protagonist dies in the end??? Apparently there's a sequel, but this book was so bad that I don't want to read it. The characters were poorly developed, too.

i dont remember the name of the book (i wouldn't plague you guys with it anyway), but when i was like 11-12 my mom asked her co-workers for any "teen books" to give me for my birthday. she got some, but didn't bother to look up the contents...

the story is about a girl who goes away to college. she's an absolutely spoiled brat and gets everything she wants. she talks about how before she went to college, she'd flirt with a lot of guys or something. in college she finds the dude she knew from a previous school, so she pursues him. she ends up with him, but turns out he's completely awkward. then they uh....................................................
she wakes up the next day and kills him by smashing a "vase" on him (not sure if i can say what it actually was, but not sure if it matters really). she pretends that nothing happened on that date. she doesn't get caught.
i think it goes on for like 1-2 more guys, she dates them, then uh........, then kills them. she kinda gets caught the last time but she somehow escapes across the border or something.

the whole time i was like "what the heck am i reading" but being the avid reader i was at the time, i had to know how it ended, even if i hated it. easily the worst book i've ever read. do not give to anyone, not even your worst enemy. especially not your child.


bonus: i was a very naive child. and i mean. very naive.

edit 2: im pretty sure at some point the narrator (also the main character) literally censors a part, in the text, (literally as if i went "**** *** *** *") during the uh...... and says something like "i wont explain any more its not like this is a [....] novel"......then proceeds to continue on with it, and the similar scenes later on.

A Discovery of Witches, by Deborah Harkness. The main character felt like a self-insert Mary Sue, her special vampire boyfriend fell in love with her because the author ordained it (and he had all the depth of a piece of tissue paper), and for a 600 page book I was expecting a complete narrative by the end.
Nope. Only the first in a trilogy.
It also felt like it was just an avenue for the author to rub it in your face how much she knew about wine and Oxford and whatnot. With two completely uninteresting - though often aggravating - main characters, it was a dud as a romance novel, and barely enough happened to mark it any sort of 'adventure'. I only finished it because a friend suggested it to me, and I still hold it against that friend.

I'm torn between two... that are very popular and I read them with the wrong mindset.

As a book, Romeo and Juliet is a failure, I hated it with passion. It was just boring. But it is meant to be a screenplay, so maybe it can get a pass.

The second one is 1984. I was expecting stuff to happen. 3/4 of the book, absolutely nothing happens. He starts a diary. (wow, fascinating) He meets a girl. They uh............ (as Kitsicles describes it), they get caught, tortured, the end. But it wasn't meant to be an adventure or a YA dystopia, it was trying to describe the climate through the eyes of an average, insignificant person.

I can't remember what the title was, but it had a very manga-esque cover. It was about some kind of society where the rich and poor were separated by a fence, and the rich kid protag had this urge to run and jump over buildings. Turns out he had some kind of natural ability, and most of the poor kids did too, and while the story itself was basically parkour: but magic, the romance was awful, the dialogue sucked, just....it was a slog to get through.
Wish I remembered the title. I remember getting it from my library in highs school and actively telling my friends not to read it.

I once found this book, I can't remember what it was called. I got about three fourths of the way through the book and there were three main characters. Nothing had happened, and they were all on different continents and didn't even know each other. The most exciting thing in all that I read was that a bear caught a fish and found a pile of salt by the highway. I can't remember what it was called but it was terrible.

Eon: Dragoneye Reborn

The main character was a Mary Sue who was the secret wielder of this weird magic power involving some kind of dragon? There were some scenes that just got plain uncomfortable (involving the main character and some... creeps) and it was just unnecessary.

@xXIceWolfXx that sounds like one of the series that came after warrior cats...I remember a polar bear, a black bear and I think a grizzly bear? And they were all cubs, I think.
Could be thinking of something else.

@Pawbeast
I think you might be right. I'm pretty sure I read it because I read warriors and liked it, so I read other books similar. Biggest waste of a sleepless night ever