Not a good book by any means
344666
Not a good book by any means, story not well thought out, poor plot, strange ending that seems quite impossible to occur
478742
Not worth to buy for any ages. Not at all good book.  Don't waste you time and money
3716072
Can't say anything good about this book.

Written on a 9 grade level or lower, there is no character building or real plot, but there sure is a lot of pointless bloodshed.

Don't waste your time or your stomach.

I wish I could give it a -5 stars.
3449740
This book was a huge disappointment. It sounded like it would be a great story but it turned out to be one of the worst books i have ever read. Implausible,unbelievable characters who do unbelievable things,none of it made any sense. And the ending,wow! just when you think it can't get any worse. How anyone can like this rubbish i don't know, but it was a waste of paper and a waste of my time. If you like books to make sense then don't bother with this one.
4216648
I got this book as a gift from a friend, and truthfully found it bad, just bad. At first I didn't know whether the book was trying to be critic about the trashy/slutty way teens act nowadays or if it was actually glorifying it - visit the author's homepage and you'll see it's the second.

Not only I don't approve of that, but the english level used is just low. Read the excerpt above - "the two teens screwed". That's the kind of language you'll have to endure through this book, and believe me, blunt is not always good. This book lacks elegance in every aspect and its not even funny.

Final words - whether you are looking for something funny or for something sexy I wouldn't recommend this book. There are funnier books, there are sexier books, and most of them are better-written.
3550133
The words in the e-book are blurry. It could just be my computer, but I don't think so. The format of the book looks like something someone clumsily put together in word. There are also a lot of random quotation marks throughout the book....I didn't even finish reading this awful book because it was hurting my eyes and it had poor writing and even poorer illustrations. I wouldn't subject my first grade students to this.
1392068
I didn't like this book at all!! The language is senselessly vulgar and the plot is dumber than the ending. Don't waste your time!
2933360
This is hands down the worst book I have ever read. It was aggressively bad and I am still not sure whether it was a parody or not. This is like Sarah Dessen's wildly untalented younger sister. I knew my mistake when the first metaphor began. E. Lockhart, if that's even her real name, masked a poor plot and weak characters with overwhelmingly bad and overdramatic metaphors about the self-pitying main character's emotional struggle and exaggerated migraines. These tired metaphors are reused until the reader is driven to insanity by the repetitive nature of the book. The family is unrealistic and self-worshipping. There are serious undertones of white supremacy in this book, with most of the focus on the family's wealth and race. One of the major characters compares himself to a character in Wuthering Heights, a serious offense and wild exaggeration. This book is TERRIBLE. I finished it only because I was desperate to understand the plot, which I still don't really. Save yourself time, money, and effort by reading a summary online, or just don't read it at all. How anyone can think this was a good book is baffling to me. It was terribly written in probably a weekend, barely edited, and overall embarrassing. Whoever let this be printed needs some serious reevaluation. I have a strong hatred for the characters and the writing style. Both are childish and underdeveloped. This book took me twice as long as it should have to read because I had to keeping stopping, doubled over in laughter at the absurdity of the characters and terrible sentences, metaphors and imagery. Do not read.
2700669
I have a deal with myself- Never start a book and not finish it.  No matter how bad the book is I make myself finish it.  This is the one book i really had to struggle to finish.  Never in my life have I read such and god alful book.  The story sucks and the dialog is laugable.  I bet the author of this book wrote it in a week because it lacks anything good about it.  IF you buy this book you will be sorry, there are hundreds of other good books to buy over this one.  Think of the worst book possible and times that buy ten and you get a glimps of how bad this book it!
1072146
God, where to begin. In a nutshell, one of the worst books I've read in years. In addition to being simply bad prose, it is also racist, condescending, and full of factual mistakes.

This was published in 1991 by a conservative Brit who traveled to then-Soviet Uzbekistan looking to experience the region where his fellow British gentlemen adventured throughout the 1800's.

As such, he is dismissive of the current culture and politics, does not like to try local foods, passes judgement on local people for being poor and different, and waxes nostalgic for the British Empire.

During one telling moment, the author notices hungry and tired people standing in breadlines (food shortages were common in the early 1990s), and calls them, inexplicably, "crocodiles". I'm not even sure what to make if this, other than that long lines of poorly dressed people waiting to buy food don't look aesthetically pleasing to a European traveler's eye.

Apart from its culturally insensitive tone, the book is also badly edited, with names of places, historical figures, and ethnic groups wildly misspelled. Other times, he condescendingly uses old-style names coined by the British Empire. Occasionally, different spelling variations are interchanged randomly throughout the book (such as Uzbeg versus Uzbek).

In short, absolutely the worst book on the area you will ever read. Uzbekistan has a lot to offer to someone interested in Central Asian history, and sadly there is a dearth of good books on the subject.

This is why this book is especially disappointing: it could have provided real insight and information, but does nothing of the sort. If you want to read poorly written and very badly researched travel notes by someone who is condescending and not really interested in the region apart from the role it played in the formation of the British empire, go ahead and read this.
29727
I tried mightily hard, but found it impossible to finish this egregious example of a BAD book (got as far as 68 percent before admitting defeat). I feel it had to have been written by someone who never paid attention in class when grammar, spelling, sentence structure, capitalization rules, etc., were taught. The plot is absurd; the characters are so one-dimensional as to be transparent (and unbelievable, to boot); the dialogue atrocious; and what could have been interesting was boring. There is nothing erotic about it at all...it's simply inane. Perhaps the book could be helped by employing a good editor, someone who is experienced at writing fiction (or intelligently writing anything at all, for that matter). However, I fear I am being naive if I think that will happen. Save your money -- save your reading time -- don't buy this book.
3790532
This book is really bad... It felt very disjointed and was full of environmental propaganda, without any facts or statistics to back up any of the claims it made.  And the main character was completely unlikeable, very unrelatable.  Very strange, depressing book that leaves you feeling like you just wasted your time.
1683713
This book is not well written. It is not a narrative or a straightly told story. It jumps around in time and topic haphazardly. Very poorly done.

I wanted to read this book, but I found it to be jingoistic, God driven, SEAL sanctimonious, and just plain outlandish in many places. If you can deal with these kinds of issues and a strong dose of anti-Islamic prejudice, by all means dive in.
637459
This book was not good.  It sounded like the ramblings of a 17 year old girl.  It was terrible,  I just wasn't feeling it.  And I am very disappointed because I got this book on the strength of the reviews, they must have been her cousins or something, because I just don't understand how they could give this mess more than two stars (and I am being very generous with 2).
4098737
I HAVE NOTHING GOOD TO SAY ABOUT THIS BOOK. TOTAL WASTE OF TIME.
3452873
not really into it... not even a good book... compare this to HP and you'll be dissapointed.
556515
This book was not good at all.  I had to finish it to the very last to see how it would turn out.  Characters were all over the place.  Just did not hold my interest.