Welcome to the Bad Books mini challenge!
Reading is a wonderful hobby, but not everyone has quite the same taste. Can you piece together the “bad” book from these scathing 1-star reviews?
Here’s the challenge: Identify the books based on the bad review.
A lil’ hint: All of these books are spooky books and are categorized as Horror on Goodreads.
The rules? There are none! Have fun! Don’t cheat because that’s boring.
Mostly, enjoy reading these really mad people describe their least favorite reads.
Note: These may be excerpts from longer reviews. Normally, I’d link back for credit but that would spoil the game!
One winner will be picked at random. I’ll be doing something a lil’ different this time around. Winner will select a book (value $20 US max—sorry the Canadian exchange rate is WILD) and I’ll purchase and send it directly from an independent bookseller. To enter into the draw, please leave a comment with your answers! You don’t need to get them all right. Feel free to send me a msg on Goodreads, Twitter, or Instagram if you have trouble commenting.
I’ll be putting the answers on my Instagram Stories and announcing the winner whenever I’m back to normal post-event.
1.
My immediate thought after finishing this was, “Whaat?” This story was absolutely pointless. Nothing happened. It was just two neurotic and insane sisters living together in a creepy shell of a house barricading themselves in and being all hermit-like.
2.
Supposedly a classic of horror literature, I was looking forward to reading this, anticipating a spooky mood and layers of tension as a governess takes over the care of two beautiful but strange children, and starts seeing ghosts.
What I got was boring tripe, where two women shriek themselves into a hysterical frenzy every couple of pages or so thanks to the least interesting or terrifying ghosts I’ve ever read about.
3.
Why is this book – about a psychotic clown, sort of, who actually appears in this book only a handful of times -ELEVEN-FUCKING-HUNDRED pages?
4.
This book is great! Only if you would enjoy serial killers skinning girls and forcing moths down the throats of severed heads. This book repelled me to such an extent that I had to make a decision, an unusual one, to leave this book unread for the best!
5.
Remarkably dry for a novel so overflowing with vomit, blood, pus, and bile. More shocking than scary, and even the shock’s worn off thirty years distant from the pub date, so it’s more simply distasteful than anything. I’d like to say that it at least managed an examination of the nature of faith, but sadly that, too, was largely lacking
6.
The book REDACTED is intended for readers aged 12 and up, but the level of scariness was uncomfortable even to me as an adult. Picture Alice in Wonderland but creepier.
7.
I know this is supposed to be a brilliant satire of American consumerist culture blah-de-blah-blah-blah…and I’ll acknowledge that (probably) it is. At first, it’s even enjoyable. The writing is snappy and the characters are funny and bizarre. The female characters, however, are as vapid as they come. Hard to tell if MAIN CHARACTER is the sexist or THE AUTHOR.
8.
Don’t come for me !! Sorry I just didn’t click or jel at all with this book, I tried really I did, but I couldn’t take it anymore, I felt like a wanted the painkiller she was giving him to just get me through this book I was dying
9.
This story will draw you in with immediate suspense, yet as the pages unfold, the mystery reveals itself to be lacking intricate plot and is merely a shallow depiction of the old-age theory of the dual nature of man.
A decent suspense writer’s failed attempt at profound philosophical thought. A poor imitation of Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein.
10.
For the most part, I didn’t really know what was going on. The characters talk like Yoda from Star Wars sometimes (Yes, I’m aware the original publication was 1897, and it’s written in old-English of sorts. But, still.)