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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I try really hard to finish everything (although I am starting to reconsider, with an ever expanding to be read list and no time).

The Sympathizer.  I just hated it.  I never saw Apocalypse Now, so maybe that was part of it.  Just could not get through it.  (I stopped less than half way through, then read the end, then read the last 100 pages, then read a summary someplace, so I really tried).

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson.  HATED it.  I got stuck during the endless trying to get past the Spanish flu and can't bear the thought of all the other reboots, too.  
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I also started the Maid by Nita Prose [/b]this year and just could'nt get into it and it was way overdue at the library with a hefty wait list so decided to return it.  I just feel like I've read so many books with neurodivergent characters figuring out the world and this felt tedious.  [/quote]
That book is so unrealistic. I loathed it. It made me mad to see it on Good Read's Best of 2022 ballot. [/quote]

Yeah it was a weird book. I would put The Last Thing He Told me in the same category. Like, well written, some good stuff, lots of "wait this makes no sense" parts. I put both in the "how in the heck did these books get so popular?!" category. I did finish both of them though - both audiobooks. I could not get through Apples Never Fall - stopped listening about halfway through and just read a bunch of spoilers. It felt interminable.

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I think with Apples Never Fall and The Last Thing He Told Me are both that book where at the end something unexpected sort of happens, but not in a  good way, if that makes sense? A good suspense read, in my mind, is where you build toward a resolution and it makes sense. Vs to me, in both of those books, there is no way to foresee the ending, if that makes sense. Like the book is about apples and then at the end you introduce an orange and orange is the answer. I am not making much sense. I didn't love either book, but finished both.[/quote]

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