Book dissapointment?

Yes, this happens. Normally I can judge a book by its cover or at least the panel that tells what its about. A while back I decided to start reading classics and finally read "A Tale of Two Cities". It was an early edition and the language was terrible and the book difficult to get through. I was pleased with some of the outcome, but for the most part, it was the worst story I've ever read.

I was (and I might take some heat for saying this) extremely bored with The DaVinci Code. I got about halfway in and was totally falling asleep, so I never finished it. THEN I got invited to see the movie, and I still maintain it was the biggest waste of $10. The only reason I didn't walk out was because I kept thinking it was going to get better after all the hype around it. Way overrated.

yes I have, a few times, but the one I really disappointed was the one with the title "Make money is easy", it says in the beginning that success can be learned like math, it's exact, but as I read the book till the end, the author didn't show any exact way to success, just some success principles. From there I know that I can't expect much from books about success.

I read the insight of the book and decide on buying it or just th ereview froma reliable source and buy it or borrow to read it. If i happen toread a book then the book has to be good and i make sure of that.

I was more angry than disappointed when I finished The Name of The Rose. There was a mystery that was kept hanging til the very end, and then the last line or so was in Latin. I've always meant to find out what it meant, but never got around to it, so I still don't really know what the point was.

A few times, I thought the ending of Stephen Kings needful things was the sorriest ending I have ever come across, come to think of it "It" was another bad ending book. I found both of them lacking, and that the ending was a little too convenient, a little too much deus ex machina and not enough imagination. On a different vein I also was disappointed by the Silmarillions, but more because I expected it to be something like the Lord of the Rings and instead found it to be a history book, so it wasn't so much the ending as the entire book that was the problem. That being said I don't regret reading any book that I have read, at least I can say I read it and that is why I don't like it rather then just claiming not to like an entire genre of books just because, without ever actually reading anything. Not saying that you do that, just saying some people do. Man apparently I am in a foul mood because everything I post turns into a rant... somewhere along the way I became a cranky old man... why didn't someone tell me?

Yes I've had this happen. The things that irritate me are when they spend so much time building up a plot and then have a really abrupt ending, or when the ending doesn't have any resolution. However, I think series are even more annoying in this respect than a single book because sometimes the first few books in a series are great and then they just taper off. I was reading the Robert Jordan series and after number 6 I just gave up.

Yeah. There are books I've read, really fantastic, up until the last chapter. It seems like the author reached his page limit, and rapped things up in as few paragraphs as possible. It's a huge disappointment.

yes I have had this happen, and I can't stand it, because you are all into the plot, the characters, then suddenly because they have a page limit or whatever they cut things short and give you pat answers and you are left going yeah right like life just fixes itself in nice neat packages that easily.

the first time i read the house of mirth, i cried and cried because if how the book ends. i had foreseen it ending so much better, and there were so many opportunities for a good ending, but she missed all of them. i love the book still, it is a good picture of a woman struggling through debt and things don't always work out the way you want them. i find it impossible to put a book down once i've started it, tho, so i've read some bad, badbooks (vc andrews, anyone?)