I have never been so mad... at a book

[MommaTrish]

I checked out a book that seemed like it was going to be pretty interesting. (Mind you I had no expectations of loving it or anything.) I get less that like 5 pages into it and I realized... it's a zombie book. I don't do zombie anything. At all. Ever. Zombies freak me and my overactive imagination out and I have nightmares for days after having to sit through something about them.
What made me so angry - and I did go back and check to be sure - was that NOTHING in the book's description even hints at zombies. I feel like I was lied to. And yeah, I'm being a little over dramatic, I know this, lol, it just really made me angry.

So has a book ever made you angry?

[carrie1977]

That blows!

[Beebo]

I don't like zombies either. What is the name of the book so I will know if I ever decide to read it?

[MommaTrish]

The Forest of Hands and Teeth

[MommaTrish]

And all the reviews on Goodreads mentions zombies, lol, but my library's website doesn't do reviews anymore so I had no idea that's where it was going.

[kristalund]

ggrrr!!!

[clearskies]

I read a book once about a guy whose wife vanishes and he spends most of the book sorting his thoughts and looking for her. And then it ended. Poof. Over. No conclusion. I was left hanging. So mad...

[Darcy Baldwin]

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. I win.

lol. Trish - were you not expecting some kind of horror - or was it just zombies that freak you out?

[Jen22]

The last book of the Hunger Games trilogy - that book made me SO mad! I wasted all this time reading what I thought was a great story - only to feel so ... ugh, just majorly let down. I detested the last book, the ending - all of it!! I pretend the 3rd book never happened and I live in my own happy little world where it ended the way I wanted, lol :P

[MommaTrish]

Originally Posted by Darcy Baldwin

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. I win.

lol. Trish - were you not expecting some kind of horror - or was it just zombies that freak you out?

Oh I love a good scary book. It was just the zombie element.

[color of my heart]

i only get mad when it's a series, and they kill off a good character. that's annoying.

i'm sorry you didn't know the book was zombie related, trish. i hate when something like that happens.

[jessica31876]

yes New Moon...soo upset when Edward left Bella. I did not want to keep reading and that was when I thought she should be with Jacob. But after the last book I was back to thinking she belonged with Edward LOL

[rach3975]

Originally Posted by Jen22

The last book of the Hunger Games trilogy - that book made me SO mad! I wasted all this time reading what I thought was a great story - only to feel so ... ugh, just majorly let down. I detested the last book, the ending - all of it!! I pretend the 3rd book never happened and I live in my own happy little world where it ended the way I wanted, lol :P

Yes, yes, yes! I read it right after it came out, so that was 2 or 3 years ago already. I tell myself I should reread the trilogy and maybe I won't hate it so much the second time around, but I haven't gotten over my anger yet. Maybe in 5 or 10 years I'll be willing to try again. I think that's the most disappointed I've ever been in a book, since I loved the first 2 so much and was expecting great things from the 3rd, too.

[lovely1m]

Not so much mad at a book, but when people say they hated Mockingjay, I get all upset. Like I want to hardcore defend it and explain why it works so well that way. How silly is that? Or New Moon. I loved Jacob, was never as big of a fan of Edward. I also loved the way Bella was with Jacob much more than the Bella who was with Edward. So apparently, I love the books the other fans hate. So silly.

Umm, so sorry, Trish, if you are reading facebook tonight, skip my picture. I posted a zombie picture. I freakin love them.

[origami]

Originally Posted by lovely1m

Not so much mad at a book, but when people say they hated Mockingjay, I get all upset.

I think that The Hinger Games trilogy could only have ended the way that it did.

[kristijoy]

I dislike it more when they make a movie out of a good book and completely miss the beauty and depth of my favorite character. I know it's an old movie, but when I saw 'The Robe' as a movie they totally changed it. 'The Robe' is a fantastic book, but the movie completely changed the character of Demetrius.

[Ginger_79]

"The white massai". I didn't finish it and at that time, this was highly unusual for me. I seriously could not read it til the end, because I kept looking at it flabbergasted screaming: Wow, WHY are you so stupid? And WHY are you so stupid AGAIN!"
And why the hell someone would want to write a book about being a naive moron and let the whole wide world know? To my utter suprise the whole wide world seemed to love it.

Ok, daughters everywhere it is NOT romantic to sell all your goods, run away to a distant country to hang out with a guy you haven't even really talked to!!! And guess what? When the life with the guy turns out to be horrible (surprise!), it is also not romantic to STICK WITH IT! If you don't care what a man has to say and how you live, then hey you can have that a lot easier. There are a lot of good looking men in your own country, that can make you miserable. No need to sell your fridge and get a vaccination for that.

[Jen22]

Originally Posted by rach3975

Yes, yes, yes! I read it right after it came out, so that was 2 or 3 years ago already. I tell myself I should reread the trilogy and maybe I won't hate it so much the second time around, but I haven't gotten over my anger yet. Maybe in 5 or 10 years I'll be willing to try again. I think that's the most disappointed I've ever been in a book, since I loved the first 2 so much and was expecting great things from the 3rd, too.

Yep! I totally agree!! I really loved the first two, and I swear she forgot what her characters were like. Who they were. What they felt - all of it -- in the third book! I contemplate reading it again, but yeah - I get angry too and just move onto better series where endings are more in touch with the rest of the story I don't mind a bittersweet ending, but it just felt ... like a different set of characters. Maybe in a decade - though I doubt it, lol.

[Nettio]

The Happiness Project by Gretchin Rubin. I so loved the concept of the book but OMG, could she have been a more spoiled, ungrateful woman? The further into the book I read, the more annoyed with her I became. I think the tipping point for me was the week where she had to be nice to her husband and kept going on and on about how difficult it was and how glad she was when the week was over. Seriously?

Not to mention the whole book seemed disingenuous. There were comments she made that didn't seem to add up so I googled her. And while the publishers clearly want you to think she's a normal wife/mom just looking for a little happiness (which is why the book starts off with her tale of riding a crosstown bus), in reality she's married to a multi-millionaire, is a Yale grad and lives on the Upper East Side of NYC with nannies, maids, etc., all of which she's clearly ungrateful for which is why she needs the dang happiness project in the first place. It all just seemed so inauthentic to me that I'm still angry I ever bought it and inadvertently supported her bad attitude. Kind of ironic given the title of the book, LOL!

[maryinaz]

Originally Posted by lovely1m

Not so much mad at a book, but when people say they hated Mockingjay, I get all upset. Like I want to hardcore defend it and explain why it works so well that way. How silly is that?

Not silly - I liked the 3rd book too.

Yes, I got mad at the 7th Outlander book. I literally thought my book was shorted a few chapters, that's how RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE of story lines it ended. And yes, I KNOW there is an 8th book, but it takes her years and years to write them. It was like her editor said "Time's up!" and she had to just turn in the book unfinished. Ugh.

This partial review on Goodreads states my feelings exactly: Plot: I don't know if I can forgive her for this. She wrote a great book and then failed to end it. Three of the four plots threads end with characters in terrible danger or a major unresolved issue. Why would she do this? In a book that's 800 pages long, it's not like she worries much about editing. Couldn't she write another 50 to 100 pages and get them out of those messes? The cliffhangers are ridiculous when we will probably have to wait another 4 years to see them resolved. No matter how much tension she generates, four years will make it die down. I can't write in any dignified way how upset I am by this- it's cheap, a cheat, and unfair to her faithful readers.

So I always recommend to my friends just to read through book 6 (which has a fine ending) and wait to read 7 right before 8 comes out.

[tanyiadeskins]

Originally Posted by MommaTrish

The Forest of Hands and Teeth

lol I was surprised that was a zombie trilogy as well, but the whole thing is awsome!