The worst book I've ever read....
921469
Easily the worst book I have ever read. I too was taken in by the allure of the cover, hoping that this brief treatise would provide a concise history of the Islamic State and offer up solutions as we now stare down this latest threat to world peace. To those ends Jay Sekulow fails in spectacular fashion, delivering a book rife with grammatical errors and full of wild claims without the benefit of citations for his more egregious "facts." Further, less than 50% of the book actually discusses ISIS in any way, with the majority of the content being devoted to railing against Hamas and that group's history of violence in Gaza and the West Bank. All around just an absolute disaster of a book.
3341902
This may possibly be the worst book I have ever had the misfortune of reading.  Simply said...it was awful, the story never really developed into anything but a series of pathetic people responding to a crisis with no clue - the worst being the child psychologist mother.  Will never read this author again...
1176804
I can't believe how bad this book was!  It was so painful for me to read it.  I've read every single John Irving book, and this book was so bad that I will no longer read another Irving book, I'm that turned off by how awful the book was.  Mr. Irving, what were you thinking when you wrote this??!!  I've read some of the rave reviews that other readers have posted, and I'm convined it's Irving posing as readers to hype his book.  There is NO WAY any intelligent human being could find this book even remotely interesting.  I wish I could give it ZERO stars.
2069183
After reading some reviews on Amazon about this book I thought... hmm some people really like it (it's four star rating) yet many think its horrible - i think i'll give it a go... It can't really be that bad can it? -

WELL IT WAS! Don't waste your money or your time on this one... From the opening page to the part where I threw the book, was absolutely rubbish. I have been an avid historical romance book reader for over ten years... and it takes alot for me not to finish a book - I skimmed the whole end half of this one... I don't know how they could be in love with each other as they didn't have too many intellectual conversations... Lust not Love I think... Don't let the cover suck you in - it goes downhill fast after you open the first page.
4569299
This was not just one of the worst books I've ever read...it IS the worst book I've ever read.
It's like being tested to constantly figure out a trend  of the story....it should have come with a set of instructions.
It's just too much to make a continued sense of purpose.  Sorry.
395756
This book is definitely among the worst books I have ever read. It is blazingly unrealistic and terribly written. The excessive use of all caps and italics made this the first book to actually make me deeply angry toward the author for writing it. Anyone with a grasp of how real people converse would immediately realize that any dignified (or undignified for that matter) teenager would never be caught using words like "oogly boogly" or "goopy poop."
  Another thing that agitates me greatly is blatant stupidity of almost everyone in the story. Read the book for yourself if you really must know what I'm talking about, but I think you probably already do.

My closing thoughts:
If there really is a Hell, and I went to it, there would be no greater torture for me that for have to read this book for an eternity.
4085772
I am an avid reader and never regret reading a good book, but upon finishing this novel, I felt saddened by the hours spent reading it that I can never get back! What a complete waste of time! It is so poorly written that I could barely stand to keep turning the pages. McClure's vocabulary is obviously very limited, for I see no other reason to use the same descriptions over and over and OVER again! My stomach churned each time I read abouth mouths filling with moisture (It actually just made me want to spit) and twitching mouths, and "residual"? Really? Way overused and bad description for romantic scenes anyway. Aside from the terrible grammatical errors and over all bad writing style, the characters themselves drove me nuts. Lauryn was immature and had no depth to her character. All we really know about her is that she is whiny, bawls on a whim, and can't resist Mr. Perfectly Imperfect, who is nearly as pathetic as her. Lame, lame, lame.
3734983
This is my most hated book I have ever read, bar none.  And I have read a lot of books.  I've never been so annoyed while reading a book.  Supposedly a pleasurable activity.  I was actually rooting for Tibbie to go back with the former lover who impregnated and abandoned her.  She'd be better off with him than with Nick.  What a clod.  All he had to say was "I love you, will you marry me?" and the book would have ended at the halfway point. BUT NO.  She had to tell him she loved him, FIRST.  Why is he so insistent?  When he knows all she's been through before with her former lover?  It doesn't make any sense except that the author had no plot.  If you read this book you will be wasting your time and money.  I simply can't say enough bad things about it, as I don't have my thesaurus handy.
4502422
I swear, this is the worst book i have ever been forced to read. THE. WORST. I hated this book because:

1. The main character is a complete idiot.

2. The entire plot makes no sense.

3. It's historical fiction, which is known to be boring.

4. When I was reading it, I read 10 pages into the book and fell asleep.

I mean, why waste your time on writing this?

Okay. A summary:

So there's this guy named True Son, he's white but he lives with Native Americans, he's taken away from them, he runs away, he gets all flaky and stupid, he returns to his white family (so he says) and it sucks. A lot.

Don't waste your money, seriously.
3876299
Oh dear...this book is one of the worst I've read. I really struggled to get through it, hoping it might improve, but that never happened. I'd rate it 1 1/2-stars. The first two chapters were funny, quirky and enjoyable, giving me high hopes for the rest of the book. If it weren't for those 2 opening chapters, this would have been a 1-star review. It was all downhill from there. I'm quite familiar with Jenny's blog, which can be really humorous at times, but it can also be tedious and really miss the mark. For me, this book totally missed the mark. It just wasn't funny where it was meant to be--and the added pathos simply did not work here. The author comes across as whiny, selfish, self-indulgent, immature and she tries far too hard to be funny, while, at the same time, trying to make the reader pity her and her circumstances (her bouts of depression, illness, etc.). The result is just strange...odd...and not in a good way. Her book made me feel uncomfortable. I had wanted so much to like what she'd written but, instead, found myself really turned off by her juvenile writing style. Her editors should have tried harder to help Jenny make this memoir read better, rather than allow her to ramble and be repetitious, tedious, and painfully unfunny. I've loaned the paperback to several friends. They couldn't even finish the book because they thought it was so poorly written.
2365357
I read this because it was a book club choice. It was far and away the worst book I've ever read. It failed as erotica and a novel.

Apparently, the author does not have English as her first language, which would explain why there was not a page (and barely a paragraph) that didn't contain some error in punctuation. However, supposedly there was an editor for this thing and if that editor was paid anything, she should be arrested for fraud. Commas that should be there weren't. And commas that shouldn't be there were. What's worse is that there was no consistency in their use. Two sentences on the same page with the same structure would have wildly different punctuation. When I first started reading it, I was reading really slowly because I kept going back and checking to see that I was correct that a virtually identical, older sentence used a comma in a way that the new sentence did not.

I read the first sentence and thought, "Ugh. That's an awkward sentence." The experience went down from there. The word choice showed no thought. Every sentence looked like a first, rough draft. The author would benefit from a thesaurus because the same word would appear multiple times on a page. On one page, for instance, a character "teased" and on the same page the characters were described as doing something "teasingly" twice!

On just about every page, the author over-explained things. My 2 favorite instances were the time we were told that the click of someone hanging up a phone "signaled the end of the conversation" and after a character heard a wounded character's heartbeat and breathing, we were told "he was alive." Too bad. I think if he'd been dead but still breathing with a beating heart, the novel would have improved. A zombie would have really put some zip in the otherwise dull as dishwater plot.

The voices of the narrator and all the characters were all the same. This became especially evident at times when the author's lack of vocabulary showed us that all the characters were speaking in the same limited lexicon. The first time I really noticed it was a few pages in when a character said, "Lucky, our Brit ..." Three short paragraphs later, the narrator says, "Luckily they ..." She couldn't switch it "fortunately" or shake up the sentence structure? Plus I couldn't help but to notice that she used a comma in the first instance but not the second. Why? Who knows?

Plus there is very little motivation for characters. Not to give too much away, but there is a moment when someone gets kidnapped by terrorists. Who were the terrorists? Why did they kidnap the character? What were their goals? We're never told. They appear then disappear from the pages like the commas, for no apparent reason.

The author also made the mistake of telling us aspects of the characters' personalities without showing us those aspects. We're told a character is confident and smart, but we don't see him ever really acting confident or smart. We're told the secretary loves her boss, but we never see what caused her to love him or see her act lovingly. Frequently, the characters are described as clever, but they aren't funny or witty or even interesting.

There was one line in the whole book that rang true. On page 130, a character says, "Oh for Christ's sake,listen to yourself. You sound like a cheap novel." Yes. Yes, you do.
832597
This was probably the worst book I've read in many years. The only saving grace was that I borrowed it from the lending library so it didn't cost me anything.  This book even had two typos in it!  Certainly not what you'd expect to see in a published novel.  The plot was horrible and almost zero character development.  The worst part was the introduction of the "monsters" and the WEMEAN chant that was never explained.  My advice would be to stay away from this one...a complete waste of my time.
2793302
I read constantly and have a profound appreciation for literature of all kinds... this book is AWFUL. I suffered through this book more than any other book I have ever read. It is dry, boring, disorganized, and incredibly lacking in content. There are endless ramblings over nothing at all... awful!!! Please avoid at all costs.
1026630
One of the worst books I've ever read (and I read books for a living). Unbelievable plot, characters, and just all-around terrible. Please, save your money and time.
1673699
I usually don't write reviews, but this book was the worst I have read in a long time!!!  The entire books spans a few days.  How many pages of internal dialogue can a person really stand?  The characters are evil without any redeeming qualities.  You don't really get a chance to get behind one and them and hope for an outcome because they are that bad.  Seriously, save your time and money.  Reading the book was a total waste of both.
2041754
Wish I was allowed to give 0 stars. I am disgusted that I actually wasted a day and a half reading this book...just because a few friends said it was good. I will NEVER take their book recs again. It read like some drunk 22 year-olds were all sitting together throwing out ideas for a mystery story. It is ridiculously overly dramatic; the language/ dialog are stupidly repetitive..."Am I really that DRUNK?" , "Were those screams coming from me?" " There were sounds in the corridor! Was someone coming?!" The loosely-knit web of hysterical events...which can not even be called a plot...requires an enormous amount of completely suspended logic...
2206674
We had to read this book in English class last semester. This is actually the worst book I have ever read. I am not exaggerating one bit. A kid in my class said one day "This book is so boring, I couldn't even read the spark notes". This book would make sense if everyone in the South was an insestious alchoholic. When its not talking about some depraved act, Ellen is rambling on and on about her "new mama" in such a way; its like the author was trying to be excrutiatingly boring. The idea that anyone could say anything possitive about this book is astoudning; if i had a 16 hour plane flight, and all I had was this book to read, I would still not read it.