December Daily: bad novels

out_there asks: What's the worst novel you've ever read, and why?

I don't finish very many bad novels; my time here on earth is limited, so normally I give a book 50 pages. My Goodreads account is full of books that I started but found too dreadful to waste my time with.

The last bad novel that I remember reading all the way through was The Bridges of Madison County. The main thing I remember about that was that it was so precisely targeted toward a specific demographic of women -- it was like that creep in the bar who says, "I like a chick with a little meat on her bones," only a thousand times more sophisticated.

Also, it was lent to me by a co-worker who thought it was the Best Most Romantic Thing Evar, and so not only did I have to read it, I also had to discuss it with her.