What it says on the tin: What is the worst book you have ever read and finished? What about the worst book you ever read and DNFed?

(Remember this is all in fun, to meet people with similar tastes, and because I'm curious, not to shame anyone for liking or disliking books you liked or disliked!!)

Hi everyone! I was just editing some older reviews from months ago because sometimes I feel like my judgment of a book takes a bit to settle, if that makes sense?

Especially because later in the year, I'm better able to compare that book with other ones I really liked, and decide that maybe I should've given the other one a lower rating in retrospect.

It got me curious about other people's experiences with changing your mind about books. Do you often go back and lower a rating? Or give something a higher rating later?

Listen. I know we need queer joy. I hate when authors kill all their gays and not their darlings.

BUT, I am a sucker for doomed romance. In fact, I hate feeling happy! The more tragic the ending, the more sated I feel.

Give me your contenders in the comments for the sapphic equivalent of Song of Achilles PLEASE. i want to never feel joy again.

Unfortunately my cat over the weekend passed away from a battle we’ve been fighting for the past month. He was about 14 years old and I’ve had him since I was about 8 years old.

I’ve been really struggling and was looking to find maybe some books on grief or the loss of a pet? I tried googling a few but all the ones I found haven’t been available at my library. It’s been really hard to try to research any more so I wanted to ask for some recommendations. Thank you in advance.

What books do you think will age horribly, or already are aging horribly? For any reason.

Personally I feel like a book ages itself when it uses current slang, or references, because those are constantly changing.

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"What the actual fuck is weird girl literature. And how often do we aquiesce to the latest degrading gendered advertising campaign? Women did not pioneer horror , thriller, and sci fi as we know it for publishing to infantilise it into a high school phase. Is Stephen kind weird boy lit?" - Susandsnell

I think this is actually a solid point. My favorite book of all time is "invisible monsters" by Chuck Palahniuk. I do feel like if it was written by a woman if would be "weird girl lit"...