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Tammar Stein

DID NOT FINISH

Gave up at 53%. Insipid, weirdly religious, and dull.

The Phantom Tollbooth

Norton Juster

DID NOT FINISH

I probably would have really liked it as a kid, but at 28 it is just really annoying.

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Jesmyn Ward

DID NOT FINISH

Unfinished at 25%. I don't care about the characters, I hate road trips, and I hate when people are so bad at lying that they can't pretend they aren't talking to a goddamn ghost. Literally no one is that bad at lying.

Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

Chelsea Handler

DID NOT FINISH

Listening to the audio and gave up after 48 minutes, somewhere in Chapter 2. Her stories inspired more cringing than laughter.

Mistletoe in Montana

Pamela Kelley

DID NOT FINISH

Unbearably boring, and no sex scenes.

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

DID NOT FINISH

Gave up after two chapters. I genuinely can't tell if it's meant to be funny or dramatic, but it fails hard at both.

Hyde

Daniel Levine, Robert Louis Stevenson

DID NOT FINISH

So boring. Gave up after 42 pages because there was no plot, just a retelling of Jekyll and Hyde from Hyde's side. That should be thrilling, but it wasn't.

The Returning

Christine Hinwood

DID NOT FINISH

Gave up at 54 pages because it was so impossibly dull. I tried to read the last chapter because Melina Marchetta's blurb said the last chapter made her cry from start to finish, but that was too boring to finish too.

The Kissing List

Stephanie Reents

DID NOT FINISH

The first chapter starts so abruptly that I thought I had somehow picked up the third or fourth book in a series by mistake. But no, Reents is just a terrible storyteller. Gave up after 44 pages.

Before the Fall

Noah Hawley

DID NOT FINISH

It's honestly impressive how Hawley managed to make a book about a plane crash boring as hell. Gave up around 30%.