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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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1 Star Reviews

A Wicked Mess (or Harlan Coben, I apologize!) - A Wicked Snow by Gregg Olsen

Proof That You Can Publish ANYTHING On Amazon - Gay T-Rex Law Firm: Executive Boner by Chuck Tingle

Never Gonna Give You Up – it’s destiny, after all - The Sword (Sons of Destiny Book 1) by Jean Johnson

Lies and The Lying Liars Who Lie Them - Phantom by Terry Goodkind

Crash! - Allegiant by Veronica Roth

This Book Made Me So Uncomfortable - Little Bee by Chris Cleave

Don’t Waste Your Time - Love, Volume 1: The Tiger by Frederic Brremaud

Fu*k the What Now? A Paranormal Romance - Dark Lover by JR Ward

Alas, even an exploding whale couldn’t save this one. - Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead

This book pissed me off. - Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman

These books should have switched endings (spoilers abound) - Julia / The Book of Skulls by Peter Straub / Robert Silverberg

Everything History Should Not Be - Sarah Josepha Hale: The Life and Times of a 19th Century Career Woman by Norma R. Fryatt

Some of Us Are Not as Dumb as All of Us - Gloryhits by Bob Stickgold and Mark Noble

Vacation, All I Ever Wanted, Vacation, Time To Get Away - Faith of the Fallen by Terry Goodkind

Fifty Shades of Liveblogging Part II (with even more NSFW Language and an updated drinking game) - Fifty Shades Darker by EL James

Monsters in Portland - Sinergy by Michael Avon Oeming and Taki Soma

Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song - Crimes of the Brothers by D.L. Carter

This Guy Listened to Blurred Lines a Few Too Many Times - The Devil in Denim by Melanie Scott

50 Shades of Liveblogging and a Drinking Game (NSFW Language Ahoy) - Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James

Play in Traffic, Run with Scissors, Set Yourself on Fire… - Pussy, King of Pirates by Kathy Acker

Not Grokking this One - Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A Heinlein

A Romance, and I can’t even care to add more to the title. - Between the Devil and Ian Eversea by Julie Anne Long

Not the Only Thing Dead in Deadwood - An Ex to Grind in Deadwood by Ann Charles

Economics + sexism = bored AND annoyed - Norstrilia by Cordwainer Smith

The Promise of Intimacy, Denied - The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the most Devastating Plague of All Time by John Kelly

English 101, Dreadnaught 0 - The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Dreadnaught by Jack Campbell

A meandering, immature look at college life. - Exhuming Mary McCarthy by Jessica Lamirand

Overblown and underwhelming - The Point of Rescue (The Wrong Mother) by Sophie Hannah

I’ll Stick with Jelly Beans, If It’s All the Same to You - The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin

No Magic Moments Here - Madwand by Roger Zelazny

A lot of people like this book. I don’t know why. - The Chronicles of Moxie by ZB Heller

Just Bad - Insults and Comebacks for All Occasions by Knock Knock Books

I’m verbose when I hate something. - Eve of Darkness by Sylvia Day

I Really Wanted to Like This (Part Two) - Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan

Frances and Lil did a bad, bad thing - The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

No Sh*t, Sherlock - Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson

300 Pages of Blah. - The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey

Back to High School, Part 2 - The Return by Christopher Pike

I’m embarrassed that I even read this. - Chloe Sparrow by Lesley Crewe

This was so bad. Like, so very, very bad. I can’t even describe how bad it was. - Beautiful You by Chuck Palahnuik

A bratty vampire more concerned with about her shoe collection than being undead - Undead and Unwed by Mary Janice Davidson

Probably my biggest disappointment in 2014. - The Republic of Imagination by Azar Nafisi

Needs more vengeance, fewer stupid people - The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper

Don’t go “Whalin”….. - Gone Whalin' by Conor Lastowka

I read The Secret, so you don’t have to - The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

#11 Mediocre teen dystopian blah I get bored again already - Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi

Come for the Historical Romance, Stay for the Hostility - Once More, My Darling Rogue by Lorraine Heath

Imagine if Harry Potter was all about the Dursleys. - The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling

Would you like some pretension with your racism? - Understand Rap: Explanations of Confusing Rap Lyrics You and Your Grandma Can Understand by William Buckholz

Nerds, gosh! So nerdy, amirite? - Bimbos of the Death Sun by Sharyn McCrumb

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