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Best and Worst book read this year
Posted on 12/30/19 at 1:34 pm
Posted on 12/30/19 at 1:34 pm
Tops for me were:
Bad Blood: Secrets And Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
And
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Worst for me was The Cabin at the End Of the World. Didn’t care for it at all. Was supposed to be a great horror novel but I didn’t find it scary at all and the tension never built to a point that I just had to keep reading. Overall was just kind of boring and a little depressing.
Bad Blood: Secrets And Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
And
NOS4A2
Worst for me was The Cabin at the End Of the World. Didn’t care for it at all. Was supposed to be a great horror novel but I didn’t find it scary at all and the tension never built to a point that I just had to keep reading. Overall was just kind of boring and a little depressing.
This post was edited on 12/30/19 at 1:45 pm
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Posted on 12/30/19 at 2:53 pm to memphis tiger
Best was Doctor Sleep. Not what I expected from King but probably his best writing and character building.
Worst was Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons. I felt it was contrived and it had a lot of inexplicable plot holes. Story is about a group of mind control vampires for those who don't know.
Worst was Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons. I felt it was contrived and it had a lot of inexplicable plot holes. Story is about a group of mind control vampires for those who don't know.
Posted on 12/30/19 at 4:53 pm to Boss13
I've heard good things about both of you guys worst book. That sucks. I have Head Full of Ghosts on my TBR by Tremblay.
I'd say my best read so far has been Game of Thrones, with Carrie being a close second. I actually don't have a worst surprisingly. Can't say I read a ton this year though. Currently reading Salem's Lot right now. Trying to read King in publication order!
I'd say my best read so far has been Game of Thrones, with Carrie being a close second. I actually don't have a worst surprisingly. Can't say I read a ton this year though. Currently reading Salem's Lot right now. Trying to read King in publication order!
Posted on 12/30/19 at 5:08 pm to JSnipe13
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I've heard good things about both of you guys worst book. That sucks
Yeah, I head heard a lot of good things about Cabin at the End of the World. A lot of people like it. I didn’t. But that doesn’t mean you won’t.
Posted on 12/30/19 at 5:13 pm to memphis tiger
Best: House of Suns. Mind blowing ideas presented by Reynolds. Might like this better than any book in the Revelation Space series
Worst: Steelheart. More my fault than Sanderson’s; didn’t realize it was completely geared for the YA crowd.
Worst: Steelheart. More my fault than Sanderson’s; didn’t realize it was completely geared for the YA crowd.
Posted on 12/30/19 at 7:11 pm to JSnipe13
Carrion Comfort was the worst book I've ever wanted to finish. That being said, I still wanted to finish out the story. The story was good but there were some parts where it seems like the author just wanted to get it done and go to bed, loose ends be damned.
Posted on 12/30/19 at 7:12 pm to memphis tiger
Best and worst book was Don Quixote
Extremely long, Old English, some boring sections but overall really good and glad I read it.
Extremely long, Old English, some boring sections but overall really good and glad I read it.
Posted on 12/30/19 at 7:34 pm to memphis tiger
Best - The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
Worst - Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane
Worst - Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane
Posted on 12/31/19 at 8:51 am to Dubosed
It's hard to pick one for the best. I've read about 10 that I could interchange at number one, but if I had to choose I would probably select The Wolf and the Watchman by Nicklas Natt och Dag and The Traiter's Blade and the whole Greatcoats series (4 books) by Sebastien de Castell.
The worst: The Silent Army, the final book in The Seven Forges series by James A. Moore. It was hot trash.
The worst: The Silent Army, the final book in The Seven Forges series by James A. Moore. It was hot trash.
Posted on 12/31/19 at 9:18 am to memphis tiger
Best: Underworld - Don DeLillo. Maybe the best of the decade.
Worst: Agincourt - Bernard Cornwell. First time I've tried him and it will be the last. The characters were just too simply written and not credible.
Worst: Agincourt - Bernard Cornwell. First time I've tried him and it will be the last. The characters were just too simply written and not credible.
Posted on 12/31/19 at 9:51 pm to MLSter
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Don Quixote
Been sitting on my shelf for years. It’s so big and scary.
Posted on 1/4/20 at 1:39 am to memphis tiger
Setting aside classics like the Iliad and Le Morte De Arthur
Best: toss up between Redliners, Alas Babylon and A Canticle for Leibowitz. Enjoyed all 3 immensely.
Worst: the old 20th by Joe haldeman. Thought the idea sounded cool. People develop a medical procedure to gain immortality, which leads to a war between normal people and the immortals along class lines, those who can afford it and those who cant. This is glossed over and instead this sets the stage for a deep space colonization mission where aboard ship a time machine of sorts (that is used for a distraction) develops a mind of its own and people start dying. There's no payoff though. Turns out the procedure just didn't make people completely immortal and the machine didnt do anything. Major let down
Best: toss up between Redliners, Alas Babylon and A Canticle for Leibowitz. Enjoyed all 3 immensely.
Worst: the old 20th by Joe haldeman. Thought the idea sounded cool. People develop a medical procedure to gain immortality, which leads to a war between normal people and the immortals along class lines, those who can afford it and those who cant. This is glossed over and instead this sets the stage for a deep space colonization mission where aboard ship a time machine of sorts (that is used for a distraction) develops a mind of its own and people start dying. There's no payoff though. Turns out the procedure just didn't make people completely immortal and the machine didnt do anything. Major let down
Posted on 1/5/20 at 9:52 am to memphis tiger
We threw on The Last Mrs Parrish audiobook for holiday driving, and we are now worse, more dumberer people for it. It was the most awful thing I've ever "read," and I can't believe I made it to the end.
Best of 2019 I'll have to think about. I'm still in shock.
Best of 2019 I'll have to think about. I'm still in shock.
Posted on 1/5/20 at 9:54 am to Dubosed
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Worst - Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane
I think it was 2018 when I read this. Just terrible, especially given my love for Lehane otherwise.
Posted on 1/8/20 at 6:56 pm to memphis tiger
Best:Hyperion
Worst: American gods( I know how popular it is but I hated it)
Worst: American gods( I know how popular it is but I hated it)
Posted on 1/9/20 at 6:25 am to memphis tiger
Best: A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie
Runner ups: Grey Sister by Mark Lawrence; The Burning White by Brent Weeks; Aching God by Mike Shel
Worst:Tether by Jeremy Robinson
Runner ups: Emaneska by Ben Galley; A Mark of Kings by Bryce O'Conner
Runner ups: Grey Sister by Mark Lawrence; The Burning White by Brent Weeks; Aching God by Mike Shel
Worst:Tether by Jeremy Robinson
Runner ups: Emaneska by Ben Galley; A Mark of Kings by Bryce O'Conner
Posted on 1/9/20 at 7:32 pm to Big Chipper
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Mark of Kings by Bryce O'Conner
Weird, I thought it started a little rough but was a pretty solid book overall. I like both authors main series. I have Aching God sitting in my Kindle unlimited queue, guess I need to read it.
Anyway, guess I'll do mine:
Best: Tie between Blood of Empire by Brian McClellan and A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie
Runners up:Underlord by Will Wight, books 1-5 of the Spellslinger series by Sebastien de Castell, Dark Forge and Bright Steel by Miles Cameron, The Grey Bastards by Jonathon French, and the Impossible times trilogy by Mark Lawrence.
Worst:The Twelve by Justin Cronin. I still need to finish it, got bored halfway through.
This post was edited on 1/9/20 at 7:38 pm
Posted on 1/9/20 at 9:55 pm to McLemore
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Just terrible, especially given my love for Lehane otherwise.
It really was an abomination. How does an author with that much talent write such a frickin turd?
Posted on 1/10/20 at 11:17 am to memphis tiger
Best: The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton
Worst: The Other's Gold by Elizabeth Ames
Honorable Mention: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates was overrated and mediocre at best.
Worst: The Other's Gold by Elizabeth Ames
Honorable Mention: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates was overrated and mediocre at best.
Posted on 1/17/20 at 2:21 pm to memphis tiger
I finally got around to reading Shogun and Lonesome Dove. Both very long but damn were both really fing good
I finished the year reading the Magicians and wasn't that enthralled by it. Felt like large pieces of it dragged on
I actually liked the 2nd/3rd books in the series much moreso than the first. The first was barely good enough to continue the series but usually I just can't put a series down when I've started.
I finished the year reading the Magicians and wasn't that enthralled by it. Felt like large pieces of it dragged on
I actually liked the 2nd/3rd books in the series much moreso than the first. The first was barely good enough to continue the series but usually I just can't put a series down when I've started.
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