Five books I began but never finished. The words that are watching me from the corner of the room, waiting, lingering in the doorway, yearning to be set free.
Oops, this is where y’all find out how bad I am at reading improving tomes. The ones that have meaning instead of the fun stuff I prefer!
#1 – Dianne Collins’ Do You QuantumThink?: New Thinking That will Rock Your World
I’m actually about two-thirds of the way through this self-help tome. It’s not the sort of book you can or should read through in one sitting. There’s just too much that needs to be pondered.
It is well worth the time spent reading it. I found so many points in it I was shocked to realize applied to me and to others. To situations throughout my life. It’s made me more aware of my actions and reactions to what happens around me.
And I didn’t like a lot of what I realized.
It’s enough to ensure that I will finish this book one day. And I’m taking notes…
#2 – Katie MacAlister
I read one short story and thought it was funny in a twisty sort of way. It made me want to read more…gag… What a mistake that was! The idea is great, but her female protagonist was so amazingly stupid. Fortunately, there was a wastebasket near to hand.
#3 – Claude Dancourt’s Return to Caer Lon
I really wanted to read this. I wanted to find out where Dancourt was going to go with this twist on Camelot and King Arthur. It was fascinating. Only. The errors in grammar, punctuation… All those proofreading issues that ravaged the story put me off so much I just couldn’t bear to read anymore.
#4 – Gena Showalter’s Lords of the Underworld
I struggled to get through the second book in this series. It was so awful that I’ve simply written off all Showalter’s books.
#5 – Todd McCaffrey
I was so desperate to read any new stories in the Dragons of Pern series that I actually kept trying to read Todd’s writing. G.A.G. There is no point in reading these. Not only are they extremely poorly written, but he hasn’t even bothered to write anything original. Okay, I lie. He wrote one book and then cloned variations on that one book forever.
Don’t be fooled by Anne McCaffrey’s name on the books, either. I suspect she only put her name on so someone would buy them…
So, what about y’all…any books you started and didn’t finish? For whatever reason??
Sadly I hear you didn’t like Showalter’s books. Otherwise, do you like PNR? Anyway, I also easily reject books by certain authors after reading 1-2 awful books by them. 🙂
Here is my first Haunted Week post.
Mmmm, I read the first two of Showalter’s Lords of the Underworld, and I was fighting strong urges to stop reading. They were like bad impressions of J.R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood. Then I read a third book of hers and gag… It was so incredibly awful that it pretty much put the kibosh on my wasting any more of my time. Yes, actually, I love paranormal books as well as urban fantasy whether it’s adult, erotic, or YA.