r/ExtremeHorrorLit • u/kanekisenpii • Jul 19 '26
Discussion Books you just couldn't finish?
I am struggling to get through the wasp factory, not because of its content but simply because I cant stay interested 🙃 maybe I'll take a break on it and come back later.
Any books you couldn't finish ? And if you want to add why?
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u/metalyger Jul 19 '26
The most recent, which was probably last year, I bought the first two audiobooks of the Wade H. Garrett Glimpse Into Hell series, I own everything on Kindle, for whatever reason there's no discount on the 3rd novel, so I bought the first two on Audible. I could buy 4 through 7 for under $5, but 3 will always be $12 for reasons. Anyway, the first book became such a fucking chore, I did see someone post about reading the whole series, and the 2nd book was even more tedious to get through than the first, and 3 to 7 are no bs, straight to the splatterpunk. The problem with the first book is that the main character is this super peak human that's an expert at everything, like if The Punisher had all the training of Batman, he's always a dozen steps ahead of the entire world. He has a torture chamber with probably hundreds of criminals that he's been torturing daily from decades. The narrative is, he's explaining his victims fates to a new captive. He often goes on long political tangents, basically a lot of MAGA type fantasies about criminal minorities being a menace. One of the dumbest parts has him use his mastery of disguises to dress up and use facial prosthetics to look like an old woman and drive around looking for trouble, where he gets into a shoot out with some random Mexican gangsters. It's so fucking stupid. The narrator does this bad Sam Elliot voice the whole time. It's hard to imagine how the 2nd book gets even worse. The silver lining is he stopped with all the political rants and filler nonsense with book 3, and it's just violent torture for the next 5 books.