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In a world of “safe spaces” attacking Christians doesn’t apply at Bored Panda. Interesting concept to allow this but protect everyone else. We are all entitled to our own opinions but not Christians. The Bible has helped many people overcome addiction, trauma and abuse. But their stories don’t matter I suppose……

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1) They are talking about the book not its believers. No one is attacking anyone personally here. 2) The church (in its various forms) has been held the balance of power in the West (not even touching on colonisation, but that's another kettle of fish) for well over 1000 years. You are not victims to be protected against an imbalance of power. You are the ones with power. The need to protect does no apply (exception for specific sub-groupings in countries with a different dominating religion/political form).

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This!!! Thank you for saying it.

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I get it, but ancient Christians tried to force their opinions on others, so many people who are not Christians have a grudge. I also do, because my grandma keeps trying to force the religion on me. I understand your point, but what is said above is actually quite honest, and they didn’t jab at Christians, just the book.

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Exactly! I can't stand the way certain people are attacking the single largest religious group on the planet. It's bullying. And for what? Just because Christianity is a collection of immensely wealthy and influential special interest groups that interfere in the democratic process, literally try to tell people how to think and how to live their lives, and are responsible for a global catalog of atrocities? Pfft. That hardly deserves a snarky internet comment, IMHO. These Christianity-bashers should just turn the other cheek, like that guy said...oh, what's his name...tip of my tongue...

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Thank you for this. Everyone keeps attacking christains and somehow still push the agenda that everyone is entitled ro their beliefs, isnt that hypocrisy? Simply because you do not conform to someone else's beliefs does not mean you should insult or attack it. You have yours, i have mine. Lets just respect it. And then someone comes on to say "we are in ones in power"... so those who are apparently in power arent humans whose beliefs should be respected? We are what? Robots? We dont have our own beliefs? Simply because your beliefs are part of the "minority" as you say does not mean, the "majority" should be attacked. Two or more beliefs can co-exist without one being right or wrong. For a place that is a supposed to be a safe space, attacking other beliefs you dont agree with doesnt reall y give off the safety vibes, does it?

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When did bored panda ever say it was a safe space? There are no doubt stalkers, abusers, and maybe even assassins and serial killers on here!

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Read the rag from cover to cover, and stop lying to yourself . Nobody got sober reading that mishmash s**t.

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"Waaaah my incredibly powerful majority has been fairly criticised"

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I don’t attack your religion or your books, do I? Please don’t attack ours.

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I am an ordained minister, and the bible has terrible things that should not be taught to children or that it is to be followed blindly.

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Technically, the Bible does exactly this. Further, Christians (yes *not all*) have a long and currently still very active history of banning books. Furter, this kind of moral policing is specifically required of them via scripture (as always, depending on interpretation).

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Don't forget self-conflicting, barbaric, and justification for most of the world's atrocities.

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The plot is ludicrous, makes no sense, and in the end, Jesus did it.

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It's also very hard to read, and despite having all these twists and turns, horrible events, violence, unlikeable characters, etc, it's still somehow super boring!! Tried reading it, but couldn't get past the first chapter, my ADD would not let me. Read bits of the New Testament though, it was a little better with at least seemingly having one protagonist who wasn't an entirely insufferable f**k. Jesus was an anarchist and pro-human rights, so that's cool. Too bad they murdered him for it. Such a bleak outcome.

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Also, remember that even though they killed Jesus, he was resurrected and opened the gate for us all to be resurrected after death. And that is The Gospel, the good news. That Jesus lives and shows us that there is more to life than the years we spend in mortality.

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I got hooked on the Bible when I read the book of John. If you're interested in giving it another go. Start there.

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That's curious because the first few chapters covers several million years (Earth's creation) and then a couple thousand years. Adam and Eve to Abraham.

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I love reading the Bible. When I get into it, I read several translations. Do research. It's a good read and yes it's full of everything, good, bad, ugly, evil. Just like today's world. It ain't no fairy tale that's for sure. I believe the words of the Bible. I'm just wondering what was left out of the KJ version. It took a thousand years for that version to be finished. I think that is why it's so hinky because yet again people who think they are smarter than the average Joe think they need to think for us.

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In the same Bible, love, forgiveness, hope, charity, and compassion can be found. I think my favorite thing about the Bible is how the Lord uses us lesser people for his greatest works. I thank the Lord for seeing the real me.

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It really didn't take a thousand years for the KJV to be finished. For most of that time it was proscribed by the church to produce a Bible in the common tongue.

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I can't upvote this enough.

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Every religions and philosophy needs to be questioned and examined. Reading a religious text blindly without questioning what you are interacting with is an incredibly dangerous practice-we see how well that works out. That is why many philosophy, religious studies, and anthropology majors take courses that teach them to question and view a religious text or ancient mythology from a historical, cultural, and sometimes gender-focused manner. Blind faith is terrifying and dangerous. People who practice "blind faith" and refuse to question or learn from other faiths and philosophies always seem to be the ones who twist the same one or two verses to harm others.

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Sexis?

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You took the words out of my mouth!

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Can't you guys just let us Christians like the bible? And if not, if you guys think the Bible is a problematic book that causes so much evil, then if you want to reduce evil in this world, actually go and have a chat to Christians in your life about it face to face. Show us why you think our beliefs lead to harming people; most of us don't want to harm others! And if any of my non-Christian friends confront me with their concern, I would love to address these serious allegations with them, because they're showing their concern for me and because I think the bible shows us how to have a relationship with the best being ever! I want you guys to experience God's great love!

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Hang on a sec you LIKE the verses judges 19:21 to 19:29 ? I don't think any person should LIKE those verses. What about the verses Exodus 21:20-21 ? I assume you like those too? What about Psalm 137:9... the bit about smashing children against rocks? Please spare us.

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A Levite and His Concubine really is one of the most disturbing parts in the Bible.

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Thanks for these passages, friend. You're right, I don't really like these. I am also repulsed by Psalm 137:9. Maybe in time I will understand how this is compatible with the God who loves children so deeply and who holds individuals to account for their own lives, not the lives of others that scripture is so clear about. As for the other passages, we see a damaged world. The book of Judges talks about the 12 tribes and shows how us humans really can't fix ourselves as we spiral into worse and worse sin. As for slavery, I probably can't give you a satisfactory answer, but I'd can tell you the story of Hagar, Sarah's abused slave. It is heartbreaking and touching. She is so mistreated by Sarah after being impregnated that she runs away with her son. But God sees this wickedness in Abraham's family, comfort's Hagar and blesses her. Hagar is then the first person to give God a name: 'the God who sees'.

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the bible paints a picture of a world made so awful by even the best of people (e.g. Abraham) and a world we cannot fix. But it promises a new home in heaven, and a good brother, friend and saviour Jesus who takes away the guilt of our wickedness and who gives us strength to get through this life. And it promises us the Holy Spirit to gradually help us not damage each other and ourselves as much.

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but seriously, thank you for sharing your concern. I'm actually going to church later today, so it would be good to chat to others about these

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You can like the Bible, as well as Fifty Shades, Catcher in the Rye, Da Vinci Code, etc. Nobody's disputing that, tho you need to accept that there are people that will judge you for having 'poor taste' in their opinion. That's the funny thing about opinions, you know. Everybody has them.

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I agree with you, Catholic here not a huge believer but still an active member, I have no problem with people not believing in Christianity and I don't force others to believe in God. However, you guys know that there's a reason to he bible is the world's most bestselling book right? Like the og author @Cowws said, can't you just let us be? It's not like we support genocides, sexism and all those bad things.

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Argument from populace. Fifty Shades of Grey sold well, and it's pure shite. And, uh, yes, Christians do have a long history of supporting impostures on others' human rights.

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Implausible events and sexist, take a very good look aroun you. Is the bible depicting ANYTHING that isnt happening right now? Is it? Is the vible depicting HUMAN CHARACTERS that humans arent already doing? Point one single bible event that hasnt happened in the past 100 years. Sexism, war, rape, adultery, point it out. The vible is shows you just how flawed humans are, and then shows you how YOU can be bettr and that your flaws does not define you as a person, but somehow because it doesnt have the fairytale ending you want it to have, its bad? For a book that really poryrays just how evil people are, it is being blamed for showing EXACTLY how the world works, and how you, in your little way no matter how flawed you are can be better. Its really funny how you dont want to be judged for the things you do, but expect ofhers to be judged too because apparently your "little crimes" should be forgiven, and others with much bigger crimes should be punished. And the earlier you begin to understand that you do not judge God by the actions of HUMANS the better. You have flaws as a human, christains do too. They are NOT holy, they make mistakes, but somehow it is God that should be blamed for that. God never told anyone to kill for him in the new testament... p.us you also need to understand that some parts of the old testaments where written according to the rules and traditions of people back then! Just like in the 80's where women werent given some rights. It dosent mean God said so. Plus, ironically, Jesus EMPOWERED women at atime when women werent allowed to speak in public spaces. His resurrection was FIRST given to a woman, not a man. But somehow, JUST SOMEHOW, you pick out the parts you want to read, with an already biased mind, mind you... and then run along with that narrative. Was part of the bible bad, yes! Who committed those acts, flawed humans li,e you and I. So then why will you judge God by the actions of humans?

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The Bible depicted a man who turned water into wine so, er, yes, it DOES depict things that don't happen. Plus, St Paul hated women and told them all to shut their mouths. You seem to be picking out the parts you want to read. So why will you judge humans by a standard that you're happy not to abide by?

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God's a jerk. It's what makes Him so lovable.

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The Christian God is definitely isn't warm and fuzzy in my opinion.

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Please people, if you feel someone knocking at your heart's door, it's Holy Spirit. Open the Bible and it will open your heart.

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Read judges 19:21 to 19:29 , Exodus 21:20-21 ?, Psalm 137:9... we are not idiots.

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Fifty Shades of Gray. In my experience, most erotic fiction tends to be bad, but this was quantum levels beyond bad. My wife wanted me to read this when it first became popular, but it was so awful that it is one of the only books in my life that I could not force myself to read all the way through. It is one of the few books I can think of with absolutely no redeeming qualities: the actual writing is probably the worst I've ever read; there is not a single character who is even remotely likeable; and the sex scenes which are supposedly the main draw are laughably insipid--you'd be better off reading a volume of Penthouse Letters from the 1970's. An awful fan-fic based on an awful movie based on an awful book. How they managed to publish three volumes of this utter dreck is one of the great mysteries of the universe, but I truly hope that there is a special circle in Hell reserved for the editor that actually approved this garbage for publication. I know that Stephanie Meyer did not actually write Fifty Shades of Grey, but I still consider her one of the great villains of human history for all the evils she has unleashed on the world, such as sparkly vampires, Kristen Stewart, and narcissistic sociopaths masquerading as open-minded lovers. I feel dirty just writing this--and not because of the kinky sex scenes.

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Catcher in the Rye. I will never understand the love for this book or why it's considered a classic. If I was not forced to read it for a school assignment, I would have thrown it away and stopped reading it 50 pages in.

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Oh, my list is long. I didn't touch "Twilight" but heard it was bad...


However, for my money, anything by Ayn Rand, particularly "Atlas Shrugged" or "The Fountainhead". Read them for a course, would sooner suffer intestinal parasite than have to even hear the word "Rand". No idea why people adore her philosophy, nor those books. You can hate me if you like, but I see nothing in her/the books but pathological selfishness and arrogance.

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The Art of the Deal by Tangerine Palpatine..

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I am a huge bookworm and for most of my life would read anything to the end. I am much older now and have no patience for ridiculous and poorly written novels. If I get a quarter of the way into the book and found nothing to appeal to me I get rid of it (donate it). There are too many other possible books to read and I no longer have the time to force myself through a book.

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The Da Vinci Code is on this list for me.

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I am sorry but I hated the two main characters with everything in me. They were both selfish, arrogant and self-centred! They didn't care about anyone or anything.
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The Shack, by William Paul Young. Grating prose examining first-year philosophy as envisaged by a concussed illiterate.

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Hate to admit this, but the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy. UGH and I read all three because I was hoping they would get better - they didn't.

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The Girl On The Train. Not a single likeable character in the whole book.

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The last of the Clan of the Cave Bear books by Jean Auel. I loved the first book and liked the second one, but they just got worse and worse. The last one, The Land of Painted Caves, is sitting unfinished on my bookshelf. I can't get past about 1/3 of the way through without getting bored to death.

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Fifty Shades of Grey. One of my good friends recommended it and I bought the trilogy thinking it was some kind of cool murder mystery series or something. We're not friends anymore.

(Just kidding, we're still friends! But the books were donated after I couldn't even finish the first one.)

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"The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand. That book is poorly written, with cardboard characters and a silly plot. In sum, "The Fountainhead" is some sort of Junior-High-School Neo-Fascist fantasy.

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Verity by Coleen Hoover.

All of the characters are unlikeable, selfish and cruel. The main character is a Mary Sue (so average but everyone is very attracted to her), the love interest is objectively a monster who we're instructed is amazing and the only interesting character is abused both by everyone else in the book and the author.

All of Colleen Hoover's books are bad, but this one struck me at the worst.

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Starship Troopers. I was excited to read it becuase the film is silly, satirical and good fun. It was absolutely garbage. Incredibly dull which is difficult when you're in spcae fighting aliens, even the fights were boring. Incredibly right wing and sexist as well without any satire in the mix. Only bothered finishing it because it was short and I kind of hoped it would get better. It did not.

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Rayah Evans

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Five Quarters of the Orange. Horrible people and so boring. I was lent it by a friend who usually gave me great books, but this one was so awful! When I returned it, she told me she just wanted to see if it was really as bad as she thought. It was! Thanks Sue for making me waste my time on a book you knew was horrible!!

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Wildlife by Richard Ford. It was terribly boring and I couldn't relate to anything going on. It just seemed like the story of an unremarkable kid in 1960s Montana who's parents hot divorced. I admittedly did not finish. I was assigned to read it in AP English as a modern counterpart to the classic "one day in the life of Ivan denisovich" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, which was awesome and I highly recommend.

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The Celestine Prophecy

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Greg Horne

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Probably the bible, very boring with poor character development. New Testament better-written but super repetitive, like first four books almost identical and clearly plagiarised each other, some lines verbatim. The pauline epistles tedious praise rambling. The OT full of fury and vengeance and genocide and sexism and mass murder and scatology. (Really) Ezekiel 4:12-17 etc. Caused so many genocides, so much death, justified slavery etc etc. Plus did I mention boring. Yep, read it a few times.

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Any/all of William Faulkner's books. I know he's a great writer and he made his books complex to read for a reason but dang - it was next to impossible to get through them or understand what I had read. I read a lot - at least 30 books a year and every once in a while I try Faulkner again - nope, just can't do it.

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Robin Roper

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You think I know how to read

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Blue_Mouse (is gone!)

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Let's poke the fantasy nerds: Silmarillion. It's a convoluted, needlessly hard to follow history text book about a fictive world. I'm sure it's filled with good stuff, but I for sure am too attention deficit to ever enjoy going through it. I just feel that a good book, including text books, should still be easily enough read that even people with minor disabilities can understand them.

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the quickening

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I had this one book I had to read for a French class called "Les Enfants de Dracule" (The Children of Dracula).

2/3 of the main characters were unlikeable, and the book opened up with both a sex scene, had poor pacing and also included an offensive/stereotypical portrayal of a member of the LGBTQA+ (hope I didn't miss any letters).

If I can say the best part of the book was this graded presentation I did where I portrayed a member of the Belmont Clan from the Castlevania series, retelling the demise of Dracula and one of his more unlikeable children following the events of the book (where I had full creative control), then that should be all of the indication of it's quality.

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CG

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The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work and Team with Positive Energy, by Jon Gordon

Just so, so awful. Incredibly boring and filled with pseudo-science and toxic positivity. This whole book is weirdly cult-like and has just a soupçon of racism for good measure. Ugh.

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Nancy Collins

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'Beloved' by Toni Morrison. Had to read it for a class in college. Supposed to be great.
Could barely get through it.

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Saint Tim the Godless

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My inorganic chemistry text books!!!!!

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Jen Mart

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Meg, by Steven Alten. There's a point in the book where the main character manages to commandeer the USS Nautilus, a floating museum no longer capable of movement and uses it to search for the shark. Tossed the book straight into the trash.

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insomnia by Stephen King, so boring I couldn't finish it, sorry, I like most of his books

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Mrs. Dearly Regret

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The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.. it won the booker prize and so was interested. Plus, she is Indian.. so thought of trying her book. I could not go beyond second chapter... found nothing exceptional to continue. Nothing against her and her book.. she must be good to have followers. But just could not pick it up again.

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Sapna Sarfare

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i have read all of the Twilight books lmao 💀

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twilight (he/they/it)

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This was an easy one for me: The book, Leave the World Behind.

I love to read, and while I've read so many things from really fantastic to, "ok, that was fine", this was definitely the worst book I've ever read. All the characters were unlikeable. There is no real plot. The characters do nonsensical things. The main driving force behind the conceit of the story is never explained. And the book just ends. Unresolved.

I had ordered it upon a review from NPR(and I can never trust that reviewer again). It was painful to get through and when I was done, I angrily threw it in the recycling bin, something I've never done with a book. I usually pass finished books along to other people, donate them, or keep them if I want to reread them. Not this one! My feeling was that I didn't want to contribute to another unsuspecting person wasting their time reading it, and at least the paper could be recycled into something more useful.

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Scott Tepper

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The Road. Or really any Cormac McArthy,

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Joel Hopkins

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Passenger to Frankfurt by Agatha Christie. It was a disjointed, melodramatic mess.

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Lisa Bateman

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Heart of Darkness. I had to read it in high school, and I thought, "Cool! This isn't a very long book! I should be able to finish it in a couple of days!" Nope. Not a chance. The language and wording of that book is so dense and indecipherable that I couldn't read it for more than 15 minutes without getting a throbbing headache. I just could. not. get. through it. I never finished, and have no desire ever to do so. My worst hangover was less painful than reading that book.

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Brandon Sheumaker

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A dream about lighting bugs by Ben Folds. Read it on a day off and would rather have gone to work. He just comes off as your typical campus brah. And not a little misogynistic as well. Thinks he's way cooler than he is

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the dictionary. everything else is just a remix now

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les

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Catcher in the Rye. I will never understand the love for this book or why it's considered a classic. If I was not forced to read it for a school assignment, I would have thrown it away and stopped reading it 50 pages in.

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Patricia Michelin

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Thomas Harris: Hannibal. Once you've lived though that reading experience you will acquire a new appreciation for the work Ridley Scott did with the movie version. It's a so-so movie, but in comparison to the crappy novel it's a masterpiece.

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Saint_Zipcodus

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I loved Robert Heinlein's books in the 1980's, except The Number of the Beast, terrible book.

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KatLurkin

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But not forsake. The main character sits around judging people while her children fight to survive. Also every chapter contains a mini sermon.

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the_avenging_knight (her/she)

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Secondborn (Amy Bartol). Main character is an incredible Mary Sue and the book has such an impossible plot. Straight trash.

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Anička

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Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo. I am fully aware I am not in these books demographics, but my issue with this book is that the background and world look really interesting, but in the end is another pointless boring snowflake story of the magical orphan in a barely explored world. The sequel, however, Six of Crows, is incredible.

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Luis Hernandez Dauajare

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A Painted House by John Grisham. I’ve read all of his other books and to this day, that one just doesn’t seem “Grisham.”

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Ima Manimal

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"The Lovely Bones" Not that the story is bad, but dear God!! was it an absolute gut-wrencher!!!

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Smiley MG

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The last Harry Potter book. I read them while petsitting someone’s goldfish because the books were just there. Enjoyed the first one but that last one was just too depressing and made me want to smack the back of every character’s head.

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Moosy Girl

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Y'all don't hate me but the Hobbit. I couldn't read past the party, I got bored reading it.

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KitKat

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"Holy Blood, Holy Grail" Author spent first three quarters of book "proving" how there is a conspiracy to thwart him from getting any proof that the Scion of Christ is somewhere in France and the Knights Templar are hiding him. One quarter of the book goes into proving this theory. I did finish it only out of fascination of the theory that the fact he found 0 proof of his theory proved he must be right.

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Unpopular opinion, but I really disliked A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson. There were wayyyy to many extremely heavy topics that were written about in such a tone that it almost felt as if it were trying to make light of them. The characters were also so flat and the dialogue was really unbelievable. I'll probably get down voted for this XD

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It was a book called "The Wild". It was disgusting. It caused all kinds of uproar in the idie author community several years ago and I decided I'd read it to see what was going on.

I wish I hadn't.

The parents take the kid(s??) on a trip, mother dies, father ends up shacking up with the daughter. So many taboos, just for the sake of taboos. It was beyond disturbing and triggering. There isn't enough bleach in the world to cleanse my brain.

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Hellcaste's Wife

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Peter Pan. Peter is so unlikable

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Caloola

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I read and loved many of Robert Heinlein's books in the 1980-90's. But I remember being unable to finish 'The Number of the Beast'. Terrible book

I recommended Heinlein to my Uncle, but told him to get any book except 'The Number of the Beast'. So of couse he bought that book and said it was a terrible book, lol.

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Kat Lurkin

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I've not read many awful books. I'm one of those "don't try new things" people, but Without Remorse by Tom Clancy. It's a great book as an origin story. But (major spoilers) there is a character who is in a bad situation, rescued, recovered, happy and then gets brutally snuffed out halfway through. I was so disgusted I had to do a Joey and put the book in the fridge for months before I could bring myself to read the rampage of revenge that followed.

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IT. Read the whole book to find out "it" was a spider. I threw the book across the room.

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Of Mice and Men. I've had to read it this year for school and I just find it sad. The 2 main characters start the book with a dream of living together and being happy, but it ends (spoiler alert) with one getting getting shot by the other! I think it is ok as a book to study from, but as a book to read normally just don't bother.

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a DOGS PURPOSE I SWEAR. I hated that book so much

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rawr.

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American Psycho was terrible. Couldn’t even make it halfway through. Terrible book

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Jon Clingenpeel

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Artemis Fowl (it was annoying how self centered the character was, and I felt like I was celebrating every time he made a mistake)

A wrinkle in time (Really just a boring book, mediocre characters, and a not interesting plot)

Emma (had to drag myself through the first few chapters, but it was bone dry. If it hadnt been written by Jane Austen, no one would even remember it)

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Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy. Well-written, but it's just tragedy upon tragedy upon tragedy and I couldn't take the line "Done because we are too menny", misspelled like a child would write. When conservatives yearn for the "good old days" in our green and pleasant land, I always think: What, like the rural England in this book? Hell no.

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The Grapes of Wrath… soooooo boring!

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Sheri Carlson Peck

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'The Great Gatsby' - boring and about despicable people living it up at the expense of others. Was torture to read (for a University course). Even 'Bleak House' was better, and that's a marathon! Dickens spins a good yarn - but a long one. Victorians, eh? Mind you, my personal reading choices are SF and fantasy, so reading 20thC mainstream does not attract me. There's little 'wonder' in it. It's like eating dull bland food when your palate yearns for spice and stimulation!

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WordWeaver

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Red Scarf Girl (to be fair this was for English class)

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Tiramisu

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I started reading Virginia Woolf's "The Waves" and had to put it down early. It didn't hook me and I usually last a long time before giving up a book.
The same thing happened to me with "Ulisses" by James Joyce, but perhaps here it is more understandable, due to losses in translation, etc.

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Catcher in the Rye. Just didn’t get it. A few hours wasted I’ll never see again.

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how i live now by meg rosoff. dumb plot, awful writing, weird cringey incest stuff, annoying main character. did not make sense and rosoff did not use a single quotation mark which i found infuriating. 0/10

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"The Vorrh". My goodness it sickened me within the first two chapters. Once I started to understand it I was too disgusted to continue. Maybe it's just the fact that I'm oversensitive, but it was the way the author described exactly how a dead girl was cut up and made into a bow and arrows... or maybe it was the crude sex scenes. Can't decide. Either way, yes I know it's a great science fiction book of our time, but I had to quit about a fourth of the way through.

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Forrest Gump. I didn't even have to think about the answer. Books are generally better than the movie, not in this case. How they made such a good movie from that book is beyond me. I can't understand who read that book & thought "I could turn this into a movie."

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The Great Gatsby. I taught high school literature, had to read and teach it year after year after year. Lifeless, annoying characters. Ridiculous imagery. Gatsby reaching out to the green light across the water, the whole "but these shirts" Daisy scene, owl-eyes in the library, all just ludicrous, deep and profound as a tide pool. And the weird "here, you drive mine and I'll drive yours" car-switching plot device that is required to set up the big climax has never, not even once, made sense to me. Like a guy in a boat rowing upstream in the river of time and regret blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Dreck.

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Any book by Clive Cussler. I tried. Good stories, badly written.

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LeeAnne B

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all my textbooks. I hate them.

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Gather The Daughters by Jenny Melamed. I thought it was going to be a great story about a bunch of teens camping in the woods for the summer before they settle down and get jobs and become adults but instead I get a town of men who believe having sex with their preteen daughters is an acceptable form of birth control. In a town of 200 or so people only 1 man doesn’t do it. All the women are miserable but they don’t do anything to stop the men or protect their children. Awful book

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"Mein Kampf" ('My Struggle')

No further explanation needed.

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I don't remember what book it was, but some book written by Rush Limbaugh given to me by a conservative relative. It was vile. He was attacking everyone and everything. I got about 5 pages in. It wasn't just his politics. It was the way he was just mean. I know he made his money that way, but you aren't going to change anyone to your way thinking by beating them over the head with your beliefs.

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First that came to my mind: "Revival" by Stephen King. 80% of it was really boring, but I powered through it somehow, hoping for something great in the end. The end was so bleak and depressing that I regretted picking it up. Exactly the kind of stuff that leaves me absolutely miserable for some time, so it's not even the "good" kind of horror.

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Starship Troopers. I was excited to read it becuase the film is silly, satirical and good fun. It was absolutely garbage. Incredibly dull which is difficult when you're in spcae fighting aliens, even the fights were boring. Incredibly right wing and sexist as well without any satire in the mix. Only bothered finishing it because it was short and I kind of hoped it would get better. It did not.

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When I was a kid--the Animal Ark book "Foals in a Field". Animal Ark was (is? Don't know if they're still being written) an awesome book series for kids about a girl whose parents are vets and her experiences with different animals. They aren't heavy reading, they may have some drama but they don't break you. Except this one. After spending the whole book saving these twin foals, they've finally made it--and then at the end the smaller one, that they fought so hard to save, has an accident and breaks two legs and has to be euthanized. It was an unexpectedly jarring and devastating twist in a series where you wouldn't expect anything like that to happen. Awful book.

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Steven king's IT was awful awful awful couldn't finish it
Michel Criton's travels was so boring

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Catcher in the Rye. Monumentally overrated.

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