My Most Irritating Read Ever — Let’s Rage Together!

hiteshp · Yesterday, 01:03 AM

📚 The Book That Made Me Want to Throw It Across the Room (and Maybe at the Author)

Ever met a book that didn’t just waste your time, but seemed personally committed to ruining your mood?
The kind where every page feels like the author is winking at you… not in a charming way, but in a “Ha! You thought this was going somewhere?” kind of way?

Maybe it had characters so infuriating you wanted to reach into the pages and give them a stern talking-to (or a flying kick). Maybe the plot looped around like a drunk GPS. Or maybe it was the writing style — dripping with pretension, overstuffed with words that belong in an academic paper, not in a supposedly “fun” read.

This thread is for those books. The ones you finished only out of spite… or hurled across the room with enough force to alarm the cat.
Tell me your “most irritating book” and why it still haunts your memory. Bonus points if you can describe it without naming it — we’ll guess. 📚😈

The one that inspired me to start this thread is :

The Exchange - by John Grisham? More Like The Gourmet — My Top Pick for ‘Most Irritating Book’

This thread is inspired from Dr. Drib's "The Most Boring Book" I read or tried to read.

Quoth · Today, 02:08 PM

Almost anything by James Joyce. All I tried were DNF.

Loosheesh · Today, 06:22 PM

Penhallow (by Georgette Heyer) might be the one. I have only a vague memory of why I detested it so much (according to Calibre, I read it at the beginning of 2013 ... and gave it one star!) but I definitely remember wanting to toss my Kindle after completing the book, I was that furious at the ending. (I'm almost tempted now to pick it up again to see what really all the fuss was about

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Yesterday, 01:03 AM	#1
hiteshp Connoisseur Posts: 72 Karma: 87534 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: India Device: An Android Mobile	My Most Irritating Read Ever — Let’s Rage Together! 📚 The Book That Made Me Want to Throw It Across the Room (and Maybe at the Author) Ever met a book that didn’t just waste your time, but seemed personally committed to ruining your mood? The kind where every page feels like the author is winking at you… not in a charming way, but in a “Ha! You thought this was going somewhere?” kind of way? Maybe it had characters so infuriating you wanted to reach into the pages and give them a stern talking-to (or a flying kick). Maybe the plot looped around like a drunk GPS. Or maybe it was the writing style — dripping with pretension, overstuffed with words that belong in an academic paper, not in a supposedly “fun” read. This thread is for those books. The ones you finished only out of spite… or hurled across the room with enough force to alarm the cat. Tell me your “most irritating book” and why it still haunts your memory. Bonus points if you can describe it without naming it — we’ll guess. 📚😈 The one that inspired me to start this thread is : The Exchange - by John Grisham? More Like The Gourmet — My Top Pick for ‘Most Irritating Book’ *This thread is inspired from Dr. Drib's "The Most Boring Book" I read or tried to read.*

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Today, 02:08 PM	#2
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,284 Karma: 105299897 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	Almost anything by James Joyce. All I tried were DNF.

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Loosheesh Wizard Posts: 1,681 Karma: 3137505 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Jianghu Device: PW1, PW5, iPhone SE 2016, iPhone 13 Pro, iPad Pro 9.7, iPad Pro 2021	Penhallow (by Georgette Heyer) might be the one. I have only a vague memory of why I detested it so much (according to Calibre, I read it at the beginning of 2013 ... and gave it one star!) but I definitely remember wanting to toss my Kindle after completing the book, I was that furious at the ending. (I'm almost tempted now to pick it up again to see what really all the fuss was about )