Hello all!! Now I’m really rubbish at DNF’ing books- but there are more than a few books I wish I hadn’t finished, so I thought it would be fun to do this tag anyway!
Thank you so much to the awesome Rivermoose Reads for tagging me to do this one!!
Rules:
Thank the person that tagged you (See above!)
Include ping-back to creator of tag (Icebreaker694)
Answer questions (See below!)
Tag other poor souls to do this (Trust me, I won’t)
Easy right?
Oh and only use books that you DNF as your answer hence the “to not to read” part
What book would you be willing to finish?
Well I could go with the rest of the book I’m currently reading, but I’m going to say the Gulag Archipelago, because I have read the first two volumes and have five more to go. It’s quite an undertaking- but I think it will be well worth it in the end.
A dystopian book that you put down.
I rarely put books down! I wish I’d given up on the Testing series though!!
A book that you just didn’t want to finish at all.
A sequel.
There didn’t have to be a sequel to Twilight
A book you’ll never again pick up.
A book with too much hype.
The Bone Season was called the “next Harry Potter”- I think we can all agree that’s just setting it up for failure.
A haunting read.
I don’t think I read enough scary books to think of an answer- I guess I could have done without reading the Accident Season
A contemporary.
Totally not worth finishing
A book you were unsure of.
Boy did I struggle to get to the end of this!! I DNF’d it a million times before finishing it. I even lent it out to someone while I was still “reading” it to get another opinion (unfortunately this book did find its way back to me). Totally not worth it in the end.
I TAG:
A Back of the Envelope Calculation
Angelica @ The Book Cover Girls
That was fun! What book do you wish you had DNF’d? Let me know in the comments below!
I agree with Twilight not needing a sequel. The first book was good and I would have been fine with it but no… she continued. I feel that way about another series too but I’ll wait til you talk about it, hahahaha.
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I definitely agree with you there. The story could have ended when she was bitten… but no… it had to go on. haha I have to ask- what series?
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A certain series by Sarah J. Maas…. When you review ACOWAR I’ll have a lot more to say hahahaha.
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hahaha oh fair enough!! I really look forward to hearing what you say then!! 😀
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Right back atcha! I love your reviews!
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Aww thank you!!
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Hi it would be my pleasure if you would read this https://tanyatale.wordpress.com/2017/03/31/the-big-break
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Sure, no problem, I’ll check it out
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I didn’t like Wicked, either – the style felt really hard to get through, for some reason – I guess it was just because it was long-winded and full of really descriptive things for really small scenes, rather than feeling like an Oz re-telling – which should’ve been lighter and more subtle, I suppose?!
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Ah yes I one hundred percent agree. I really struggled with the style too. So true!! Definitely agree!!!
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I’ve even tried other books by the same author, thinking it may be a fluke – but no, it appears his writing is always that way. 😛
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hahaha yeah I have to say after reading it, I had no desire to check out any of his books and took them off my tbr, even though I liked the premises for a lot of them
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This is going to be a hard one! I am not good at DNF books. Wicked will be on my list, too! Thanks for the tag!
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Ah yes I’m the same, so I mostly used books I wish I had DNF’d. Glad to know I’m not alone with that one!! You’re welcome!
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I never picked up Crossed. I don’t even care what happens to the characters of the book.
The Bone Season is on my TBR but I didn’t know about ‘the next Harry Potter’ thing. Now, I’m unsure.
Love your answers! ❤
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Good call!!! Nor did I- I think I only read it cos a friend recommended it (though to this day I have no clue why).
haha well as long as you bear in mind it’s not the next Harry Potter, you should be alright 😉
Thank you!! ❤
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I struggled with Wicked too! I got it because I love the musical, which is VERY different. So I dont know if my expectations were just off or what.
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Ah I’m glad I’m not the only one- I was the exact same- I love the musical, but the book is nothing like it.
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Great answers!! I loved reading all of these! Some of these book here are ones that I decided not to read either. Thank you for doing the tag!! 😀
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Thank you!! Ahh that’s good to know!! Thank you for creating it- it was a lot of fun! 😀
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Lolita was such a disturbing book 😒
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I know right!!!
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I will never be the same…
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So many good points! Hush, Hush & Crossed both = *YAWN* And I’ve never thought about it, but you’re right, Twilight really didn’t need a sequel! Would have been fine as a standalone.
I DNF books all the time, if I don’t like the after 20-50%, but whenever it’s an ARC I try extra hard to plow through…right now I’m struggling with an ARC of Pawn by Timonthy Zahn 😂 It’s probably going to turn out “ok,” like a 2-3 star, but I just hate to waste my time on a book I already know I won’t love. Still, maybe my experience will save another person from picking it up, if it’s not their thing either 🤞
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Thank you!! Oh I know right!! Yes that’s what I always thought- I just thought it should have ended after she got bitten in the first book.
Ahh it’s so hard for me- I wish I was better at it. Yes I completely get that!! Haha yes- there is that- sometimes I only finish a book to rant about it after, because some good may as well come out of the awful experience 😉
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#reviewproblems lol
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hehehe
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I have Wicked here and have actually started it a few times and ultimately put it back down every time. I keep telling myself that it has just been the wrong time every time.. but I am starting to doubt that..
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Ahh I don’t know what it is about that book, cos a lot of people seem to have had this problem!! I thought it was just me too- now I’m not so sure… 😉
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And yet, I used to here so many great things. I am going to attempt it again in the future. But it will be my final effort.
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Ah yes me too (well one friend who recommended it to me, then it transpired my other friend that mentioned it actually hated it and I hadn’t been paying enough attention 😉 )
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I agree with you about Crossed- the sequels to Matched are both so boring! I was tagged in this ages ago, but I haven’t gotten to it because I don’t DNF many books. Great post!😄
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Ahh I know right!!! I just don’t know why I continued!! haha I totally understand- I cheated with this quite a bit 😉 Thank you!!
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I love the tag, it looks like a lot of fun 😄😄
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Thank you! 😀 😄
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Thanks for the tag! I totally agree about Crossed. I wish I would have left that series alone. Book one wasn’t good. Book two was just plain bad. Book three almost killed me. I don’t know why I do these things to myself, but, oh well. I’ve never read The Bone Season but I do have a nice hardcover copy of it so I feel like I should at least give it a try, despite all the conflicting reviews of it. Maybe one day I’ll read it. Maybe not. Great answers!
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You’re welcome!! Glad you agree!! Me too- I have no idea why I continued with it- and yes, it just got worse and worse. Hehe ah well I hope you enjoy it more than I did- I mostly had issues with the hype (though I wasn’t hugely fond of the plot) Thank you!!
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I hope I like it too! Although, admittedly, my hopes aren’t too high lol
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I’ve read Lolita and I don’t think I’ll ever pick it up either haha
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hahaha I totally understand! I DNF’d that so many times and only finished it in the end cos I had to for uni
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Great post!!! Now I have a good idea of what books not to buy when I go book shopping!! Love your reviews 😊😊
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Thank you!! hahaha so glad I could help 😉
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Its okay and yeah definitely 😁😁
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Lovely answers! I haven’t finished the Matched series either – or I can’t remember if I did, must have been pretty forgettable ahah 🙂
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Thank you so much!! haha good choice- it’s really not worth picking up!!!
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Nice post! Definitely agree with Twilight
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Thank you!!
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LOLITA!!!!! *runs away*
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hahahaa
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Lolita was… unsettling. Which was the point… but still 😳
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hahaa yes!! Definitely agree with you there!!
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Y not Lolita?
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hehe well it’s just horrifying to read. Don’t get me wrong, it’s well written, but it was one of the most unbearable reads I’ve ever endured.
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As in the story? Oh okay 😊 it’s been IN my TBR for a very long time
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Yeah- the main character’s a paedophile- so the only reason I actually read it was cos I set it at uni- but as you can imagine it was *really* hard to read. There is a lot you can get out of the book, but don’t expect to enjoy it!! Hope that makes sense!
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Kinda 😊 anyway appreciate the response
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No problem!
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I always have a good laugh whenever you mention Lolita! Your history with is hilarious!!! 😛 I really need to find myself a copy of that book hahahah
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hehehehe it was crazy how many times I DNF’d that (and threw it at a wall 😉 ) but it is well written- so I hope you like it if you get a copy of it (though don’t expect to enjoy it and just generally expect to be freaked out!!)
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Ah! How come I didn’t already know that you were in the ‘Lolita Cub’ as well? I know Donna dislikes it with passions as do I… I think I only managed about 50 pages and even that was pushing it… 😀
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hehehehe this Lolita Club definitely needs to be a proper thing 😉 I really really struggled with it. I DNF’d it twice, and though I finished it in the end, it was only cos I had to for uni. Yeuch, just yeuch
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LOL 😀 Yes, I;m all in for the Lolita Club 😀 yes, I have been thinking that I will try to reread it because some people are like- ooh, magnificent writing, brilliant book, etc etc- and i’m like- feck, what did I miss? But I’m ‘kicking the can down the road’ so … eh… yeuch is right!
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Hehe yes!! I will give Nabokov the writing- it is very well written- but that doesn’t really matter when it’s too repugnant to actually manage reading it 😉 (which is surely the primary function of a book? :p )
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You said it! I think I’ve never had a gag reflex reading a book before (no matter how gory).. XD
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Ahh yes- so true!!! 😄
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Oo, this looks like a fun unique tag! Thanks for tagging me in it, I’m looking forward to doing it. Shame about Lolita, I thought it was a stunning and mocking read, I’d definitely read it again.
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Thank you!! You’re welcome:D It is a beautifully written book… but yeesh was it hard to get through!! Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think it’s a bad book (it’s actually really interesting to analyse- I had to do it at uni) but man, the subject matter really got to me.
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That’s fair enough! It is a tough read. I read it only holiday when I was 16, not the best relaxing read I have to say
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haha yes!!
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I so agree on The Bone Season!
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Ahh so glad you agree!!
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I return to Solzhenitsyn’s work from time to time. I understand that it was really and it is difficult to read.
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Yes absolutely- it’s tough going but so important!
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This is my kind of tag. I don’t DNF books often, but I almost always DNF books I’m not into. The only exceptions are for book clubs so I can cite specific examples as to my rage-hate of a book. XD
Wicked. I DNF’d Wicked also. I just couldn’t get into it. It’s soooo different from the real Oz books. I get that, but I wanted something in a similar style. Did not work for me.
My haunting read would be The Girl With All The Gifts. I couldn’t finish it because it was too graphic for me. Freaked me out like woah. But the writing is magnificent.
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haha awesome!! Feel free to consider yourself tagged if you’d like to do it (though no pressure) hahaha I totally get that- I do the same for book reviews. When I realise I’m going to be able to do a full on rage review, I keep going 😉 If it’s just meh, I’ve gotten much better about quitting.
Ahh I DNF’d that sooo many times- I just couldn’t get to the end. Yeah it didn’t work for me either- the style really got in the way.
Ahh fair enough!!! I keep seeing that in the library, picking it up and then putting it back… cos I’m not sure I’m over my squeamishness enough to read it 😉
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I had no idea there were this many different DNF types, haha. I’m the sort that usually suffers through to the bitter end, but usually even for books I didn’t like, I can find something redeeming in the experience of reading them that makes up for it, such as self-published books that were a waste of time generally but had specks of decency here and there.
But there is only one book that I would go back in time to stop myself reading if I could, and that’s We Know It Was You by Maggie Thrash. It was staggeringly, jaw-droppingly horrible. Ludicrously inconsistent characters, a nonsensical plot with offensive statements and twists in virtually chapter (of the two major nonwhite characters, the guy was a porn dealer and the girl a voodoo practitioner who rapes her crush via her hypnosis), and everyone being stupid or intelligent at random. It remains to this day the only book that I have ever tossed in a recycling bin, because it was so terrible that I never want to inflict it on anyone else. And since it had a really intriguing blurb, it would be very easy to pick it up thinking it’d be a fun read – as I did – and get an insult to the craft of storytelling instead.
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haha I’m the same!! I usually suffer through it. Though I do often find that i regret bothering
Ahh I will bear that in mind- I hadn’t heard of it before, but will definitely avoid it if I come across it now- thanks for the heads up, that sounds horrible!! Ughh!!!
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Another great tag! And thanks for tagging me! ^^
I don’t think I’d ever be able to pick up Lolita… Just thinking of it makes my skin crawl (no matter how much people praise it).
I have some of these on my TBR but haven’t been super keen on starting them, either.
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Thank you! You’re welcome 🙂 I totally get that- that’s exactly how I felt about it- I only read it cos I had to for uni
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