hall of shame
Books so unbearably bad I couldn’t even finish them.
A Fire Upon the Deep
Couldn't. Even. Finish. I couldn't even get more than a few hours into it. And I tried twice to get into it.
Catching Fire
The first book was young adult sci-fi that was bearable across the age gap. This one was so absolutely unbearable I couldn't even get through it. I'm not going to waste another movement of my time or…
Conquest
At this point in the series, the pattern to the plots become all too obvious. The travel between the worlds was interesting, as was the continual struggle for survival by the protagonist. But when…
The January Dancer
I tried twice to get more than an hour or so into this book, and failed both times. I should have heeded the reviews. A book has to be pretty terrible to get below 4 stars on Audible. I'm not going…
Off Armageddon Reef
I couldn't get through this book. It was so bad that I wrote a review on Audible to warn others off. Here's part of it: What it does do nicely is give a concise history of 17th & 18th century warfare…
Sex at Dawn
This entire book was a retort to another anthropology book, "Anatomy of Love" by Helen Fisher. I had read that book right after college and recalled being blown away by it. Somehow I stumbled across…
Speaker for the Dead
I kept hoping this book would get better. It never did.