Take a photo of a barcode or cover
3.48k reviews by:
snowbenton
Showing DNF reviews ·
Clear filter
95 reviews
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
DID NOT FINISH: 20%
Weiner is so annoying I couldn't take it anymore.
The initial idea is great. Much like the <i>Lucifer</i> TV show, our protagonist wakes up with a devilish ability (and horns) to make people confess their truest feelings.
Then it veers into a backstory that has paragraph upon paragraph about female virginity that made me a little nauseous, and was boring to boot.
Giving up at 29%.
Then it veers into a backstory that has paragraph upon paragraph about female virginity that made me a little nauseous, and was boring to boot.
Giving up at 29%.
I tried so hard. Made it 178 pages but I'm giving up.
I only made it 30 minutes into the audio. Unbearably sexist and racist.
This was so terrible in every possible way. I googled the ending and I'm so glad I didn't waste my time.
Three discs in to the audio before I realized I didn't like any of the characters and none of them were going to grow or change.
I couldn't do it. It made no sense. Nothing made any sense. I can't even list all the things I thought were stupid because I would start crying.
I don't like stories told in flashbacks, I don't like 45-year-old men who call their sisters "Mama" and can't make their own breakfast, I don't like stories about abused children, and I don't like fucked up adults trying to have a romance when they really need fuckloads of therapy.
I hate stories where I have to turn every page going "Christ, main character, don't do this. Oh God, no, don't do that either. Oh my God what is wrong with you?!"
This is one of those books.
This is one of those books.