|
I have the principle that once I've started a book I don't quit - I keep reading out of some misguided idea that there *must* be some point/reason/idea in it eventually... That being said, there are a few books that I so far have been *unable* to finish (they loom like threatening clouds in the bottom of the bookshelf)....
So my list of worst books includes:
- Satanic Verses by Rushdie (I keep going back and starting over, thinking I must be missing something, since it raised such a lively debate worldwide, but just can't get past the dark cloud)
- most of John Grishams books (read a couple and you've read them all....)
- Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
- Trading up by Candace Bushnell
- Torey Hayden (they give me the feeling that the ultimate motive for writing the books after the first is, in addition to making money, to tell the world how good she is...)
|