One of the worst books I have ever read!
934812
This is truly one of the WORST books I have ever read.  Completely uninteresting style of writing.  I am so bored I just can't continue to read it even though honestly I'd love to find out who this author is claiming was responsible for the Great Chicago Fire. But, I will never know because I can't stand the boredom. Don't waste a single cent on this book.
4557452
This was one of the worst books I have ever attempted to read ... and I've read many hundreds.  The book was boring; the storyline incomprehensible; I skipped lots of pages many times! Don't understand why it's No. 1 on lists.  Tried to finish because I wanted to find some redeeming features ... but I failed.
2053633
Was the worst put together book I've ever read. I kept waiting for it to get better. It never did. Even the ending was poorly written. I did not like the way it was written in the third party mostly. And how some parts were dreams and some were not. It was so confusing you couldn't tell what was a dream and what was suppose to be a real part of the book. Worst book I have read and wasted my time on in a long time. Do not waste YOUR TIME!
2789299
Probably one of the worst, cliche- ridden books I have ever read. It was my Book Club's choice, or I never would have finished reading it. Drivel!!
3657701
One of the worst books I have ever read.  How did this get published?? Did they hypnotise the publisher, too? It rambles from one plot to another, the violence is so over the top it's almost funny, and the characters are all annoying.  These guys hit the trifecta of bad writing!

But, hey--I might dash off a book tonight and send it to their publisher.  Maybe they're still under the influence! :-)
1452401
This is the first book I have actually thrown away in years.  I love to read, read probably 5 to 6 novels a month, but this book was awful!  I kept thinking that surely I was missing something (after all, it did win the Man Booker,) but page after page of disconnected, harsh dialogue does not a novel make.  I kept reading thinking the story would eventually redeem itself, but about two-thirds of the way through, I just threw it in the trash.  And the disgusting, hate-filled references to sexual acts...way too many to count and way out there.  If you love completely over the top books which are notable only because they shock, this is the book for you.  Otherwise, there are too many great books out there to waste your time on this one.
2325516
Quite frankly this is one of the worst books I have ever read.
Patterson claims she set the story in an institution to educate the reader of policies once held for the mentally disabled but truly it is only a vehicle for a very predictable, badly portrayed, personal wet dream of the author.
The characters were text book in complete from their unimaginative personalities to the clothes they wore. The two main characters are Toby and his psychologist Denise. Of course the uber rich, emotionally damaged Toby falls for his severely "professional" psychologist Denise who protests at every turn until the end of the novel when Toby professes his love and her defenses break. Being the professional heroine that she is, she agrees to see him on the side for two years as a casual relationship and pursue a new avenue of work providing therapy for people with disabilities learning to sail to prevent getting her licensed revoked for breaking her professional oath.
The biggest issue for me past the awful plot was the incredibly bad writing. We are fed the same information over, and over, and over again like a broken record player. I lost count of how many times the author used the phrase "eyes glazed over" among others. The same words were also used again and again making for very long, and often unnecessary, sentences culminating in excess chapters. This book could have used the finesse of an experienced editor who has no trouble demanding their writer use a thesaurus when need be.
I downloaded this book free of charge and at the time it only had one review -3 out of 5 stars- provided by the author herself. Of course one of her reasons as to why it was so awesome was all of the nicknames she provided to random characters throughout the book. I mean, nicknames, isn't that what it takes to make or break a story?!
When I see an author review their own book, and not even rate it high quality themselves, it screams "trying to look modest but really I'm DESPERATE!". And guess what else? Yup, Patterson herself is a psychologist! Shocking, I know.
Free or not I will be staying far away from Patterson's fantasies in the future.
1461374
One of the worst books ever read...I normally don't leave book reviews unfortunately because I don't like spoilers and it truly is up to the reader. This book however was garbage. The male lead was a jerk, torn between being kind and wanting to "devour" the female lead constantly, devour is putting it mildly. The female lead was weak, no one anyone would really want to relate to. The book felt rushed and had a serious lack of romance and a lot of filthy language which I usually don't enjoy but works in some books. In my opinion don't waste your time
1608989
This is the worst book I have ever read in my life. I have yet to completely finish the book, I can't bear to pick it up and continue.  It is poorly written, and the chapters skip around so much I found myself going back and rereading ( if I could find them ) certain parts to stay abreast of the topic.

If you like reading fiction written by 12 year olds, you will thoroughly enjoy this book. Otherwise, I wouldn't even waste a trip to the library to check it out!!
1894664
I like to read reviews.  I was very interested in what people who gave it more than 1 star thought.  It was one of the worst books I have ever read.  I felt like the author made a list of all the horrible things that could happen to a person and jammed them in to this one book.  I did not like the main character.  There was some parts that seemed vulgar for maybe a sense of shock??  Found this on Pinterest as a must read.  I must disagree.
220618
One of the worst books I have read.  Started out great - fast paced thriller.  Too soon it was dragged down by boring nothing-happened detail.  The ending was awful.  No real resolution, and such a let down!!!!
3476801
This is one of the worst books I have ever read.  The author writes like I am sure she talks; going off the subject and rambling on and on for pages at a time.  Someone please get her some ADD medication and talent or a good editor.  How this book got published is beyond me, makes me believe that anyone can become a published author if they know the right people or pay to have their book published themselves.  The book jacket stated that she is a native Houstonian, I found that hard to believe since I am a born and bred Houstonian and I found so much incorrect information in her book that I spent more time trying to figure out if it was a semi-autobiography and she was changing names and locations to protect the innocent or was it just a poorly written, poorly edited and poorly executed piece of crap, I mean fiction.  I normally only review books that I like and keep the unflattering comments to myself about the bad ones, but I decided I had to put a warning out on this one.  The cover leads one to believe that it received favorable reviews in O, Oprah Magazine by stating "As seen in O, the Oprah Magazine!" but I cannot honestly believe that anyone who read this entire book would have anything positive to say about it.  Everytime I picked it up and read it I always had to take something for the headache it gave me trying to sort through the rambling manuscript, which I am sure the author thought was insightful musings.  Why did I read the entire thing?  As an avid reader and book lover I kept hoping that it would get better, talk about mixed feelings when I got to the end...I was so glad to be done with the book and disappointed that I would never get back the time I wasted reading it!
4619373
This book was absolute GARBAGE! It took forever to get to the point which it still never made. Every single ornate detail was described....as if I gave a damn what the exact tree branch she fell on looks like. The main character is supposed to be some kind of "chosen one" but she is so weak ass! To add insult to injury, the author had the nerve to give this book the most horrible open ending I have ever read just to milk you into buying the next book in the series.....Uhggggg! PLEASE do not waist you time reading this garbage as you will never get that time back. Thank GOD this book was free and in my opinion free is still too much money for this hot mess.
3468849
I don't understand why so many people love this book and are recommending it to others to read. There is no point to the book. The main characters are horrible people. How can you like a book with no one to root for? It got better in the second part after the "twist", which I saw coming. SPOILER ALERT...But then ended almost the way it started off, 2 miserable people not in love with eachother anymore, but are still married for some reason. The book didn't make sense. Why would someone want to be with someone so crazy? The author just focused on the "twist" in the story and didn't care about how the story turned out. Why are people buying her other books? I will never buy another one of her books! What a waste of my time and money!
3874126
This is easily one of the worst books I have ever read.  It's difficult to believe that a publisher can have read this manuscript and thought it was publishable.  Why, wait a minute!  The publishing house, Too Far, was founded by this book's author, Richard Shapero!  Well, that explains the lack of serious editing or promotion.
"Wild Animus" is a fantasy about the 60's.  By "fantasy", I mean that it is a story written by someone who knows nothing about the 60's and made things up as he went along.  The main characters, Sam and Lindy, are fictional hippies who speak in stilted diatribes about enlightenment, empowerment and oppression.  All written by an author who apparently has never been enlightened, empowered or oppressed.
The dialog throughout reads like someone who has never heard a conversation, and has only read bad poetry in translation.  The actions are those of people who have no sense.
I canot, cannot believe anyone would consider this book publishable, let alone start his own company with the intention of publishing it.  Please do not read this book.
78318
I must say, that I doubt that the people who gave this book a 5 or 4 stars actually read it. This is the worst book I have ever read. Actually got the audio. What a waste of time. I did not learn one thing. All I heard was story telling that gave you nothing to take with you. The reader by the way was excellent and he was actually why I kept up to the 2 chapter. It was very bad from other self help books I have read. It literally taught me nothing. Absolutely NOTHING. and it was painful to keep going withoutpicking up any new skill or great insight. A big waste of time! I will try returning it to get my money back. DO NOT BUY AT LEAST A NEW COPY FOR LESS THAN 5 BUCKS IF YOU HAVE $5 BUCK TO WASTE!
4294210
I read, therefore, I am.

With that said- this is the worst book I ever read!  I only continued reading it to the end because I'm one of those anal types that cant let things go unfinished. It took me 4 months to get through!
I think the author studied a few different subjects and felt the need to use EVERYTHING he ever learned in a book!

This book was so bad that I didn't want to offend the other books in my library- so I used it to start a fire in my back yard!