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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

Eric Weiner

DID NOT FINISH: 20%

Weiner is so annoying I couldn't take it anymore. 

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Seth Grahame-Smith

DID NOT FINISH: 20%

Gosh this was so boring.

Horns

Joe Hill

DID NOT FINISH: 29%

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%.

The Philosophy of Civilization

Albert Schweitzer

DID NOT FINISH: 51%

I tried so hard. Made it 178 pages but I'm giving up.

The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao

Junot Díaz

DID NOT FINISH: 3%

I only made it 30 minutes into the audio. Unbearably sexist and racist.

The Woman in Cabin 10

Ruth Ware

DID NOT FINISH: 40%

This was so terrible in every possible way. I googled the ending and I'm so glad I didn't waste my time.

Their Eyes Were Watching God CD

Zora Neale Hurston

DID NOT FINISH

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.

Meows, Magic & Murder

Madison Johns

DID NOT FINISH

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.

Ruby

Cynthia Bond

DID NOT FINISH

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.

Holly & Mistletoe: A Hiatt Regency Classic Christmas Duet

Brenda Hiatt

DID NOT FINISH

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.