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I read the book Paper Towns by John Green as a teen, and out started out good, then just kept getting better and better and way more adrenaline inducing. The characters were going on this crazy exciting midnight excursion and I was up reading until like midnight.

At a certain point, the mood just dropped straight off of a cliff. It was so depressing and draining but I was in too deep at that point, so I kept reading. After like two chapters of emotional torture, I knew I had to stop so I stopped reading and fully deleted the book off of my kobo and went to sleep.

The next morning though, I woke up desperate to know what happened, so I booted up my computer, went through Adobe's proprietary mess of a program to redownload the book onto my kobo, skipped the entire middle section, and kept reading. In the end, the ending was okay, but definitely not worth that rollercoaster of emotions.

I read John Green's The Fault in Our Stars right after, and I enjoyed it!

I read 50 shades of grey and 50 shades darker. It wasn't that awful, kinda hilarious actually especially the fact some women would believe that could happen Irl.

Any book where the pages aren’t cut together. Fucking pain in the ass turning pages, and forget about flipping through the book.

The Winds of War. I enjoyed the Caine Mutiny so much, I plowed right through it and wanted more. Winds completely deflated that. I tried to read a couple other Woulk books and just couldn't get into any of them.

So I'm usually pretty careful with my "nonfiction", but somehow I got suckered into opening an absolute shit heap of utter nonsense called Power vs Force. I had to make a separate goodreads category called trash just so it didn't show up on my actual "read" list. Also, I finish damn near everything and couldn't get through more than about a chapter before wanting to vomit.

It's about on par with the South Park "this is what Scientologists actually believe" segment (no clue if that was faithful), except not funny.

Crossroads of Twilight

a short story i forgot the name of.

the writing style was poor in a way that instead of the narrator persona narrating (3rd person), it is conversing to you instead (2nd person).

Okay nobody said His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman. So that's my hated reading experience.

The first book was okay, seemed promising, the rest got worse and worse by the page. I've picked up lousy books and I can quickly tell if they would be a waste of time, so I drop them early. I have no beef with those books. But His Dark Materials? What a disappointment. I want my time and money back.

Ive sat on my kindle pw3 on the plane, switch on to find its fucked. This just happened today 😥😥😥😥

Clear and present danger. Only book I’ve ever quit, and 600 pigs in to boot. Shit author, shit book, shit material. The people who enjoy this shit are the same people who jack off to guns and ammo. ‘What’s this author re*arded? Give me back my $15’.

I was about to finish the book (it was mine) when my teacher asked to borrow it. I never got it back.

I remember struggling so much to get into Inheritence that I gave up, not sure if it was because of the writing or I was still annoyed at the end of Brisingr.

American Psycho would occasionally get so graphic about the torture shit that I'd have to read a couple of paragraphs and then pause and look out the window for a bit. Rinse, repeat. It would only be for a handful of pages here and there, but I've never had a similar experience with any other book. But I also rarely read fiction.

I tried to read The Reactionary Mind, but had to stop pretty early in. I consider myself to have a pretty decent vocabulary. Part of why is an OCD-like need to look up the meaning of any word I don't know when reading. However, this author was using so many words that I didn't know that I couldn't get into a flow. I kept having to pause and grab my phone for my dictionary app. Doing that many times per page just doesn't work. I really wanted to get the content from it but it was too distracting.