Worst Books I Read in 2010 (Because Life's Too Short)

A Listmania! list by Jonathan Posner (LONDON, England United Kingdom)
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This Bleeding City
1.  This Bleeding City by Alex Preston
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  "Holy Moly. This is drivel. And from FABER??"
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
2.  Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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  "Rambling and unintelligible. Feels like it was written in the bath."
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A Gate at the Stairs
3.  A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
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  "Biggest disappointment of the year. I thought it would never end."
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Down River
4.  Down River by John Hart
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  "Poorly written and dull. No idea why he's so successful."
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The Ice Age
5.  The Ice Age by Kirsten Reed
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  "Another big disappointment, unfortunately."
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Her Fearful Symmetry
6.  Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
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  "As awful as The Time Traveller's Wife was brilliant. Want went wrong?"
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SS-GB
7.  SS-GB by Len Deighton
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  "A fascinating premise, well-written and with flashes of brilliance. But what a boring plot!"
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Empire Falls (Vintage Contemporaries)
8.  Empire Falls (Vintage Contemporaries) by Richard Russo
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  "Bloated, self-consciously worthy and strangely old-fashioned. Not a patch on 'Straight Man'."
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Silesian Station
9.  Silesian Station by David Downing
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  "How does a writer go from the very best to the very worst? See also above."
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Ascent
10.  Ascent by Jed Mercurio
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  "Much less than meets the eye - and all those gobsmackingly boring technical details are totally unnecessary."
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