the WORST books i've read (according to goodreads)
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"It was published anonymously and i can see why" Jack just keeps on delivering
@@javier-wq3id heyo, we need to stop using that word as it is derogatory towards Indigenous peoples.
@@emmaberger3748 what word?
@@emmaberger3748 what word
@@emmaberger3748 we need to know!
"Eve I expect a public apology for this, i'd like it in writing"
Are you sure you want that in writing? 😭I think we've narrowed that down as the issue 😭
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I CANTTT
that's what exactly what I was thinking when he said that!!
Goodreads wise, everything lower than a 3.5 is literally so bad. So a 2.3 is absolutely horrendous!!
not always!! Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan is rated 3.30 and Jack and I gave it 5 stars. it’s probably my favorite book
For me it is under 2.5. A three star book is an okay book for me.
@@boglarkasmith I think they mean for average ratings. Even really bad books seem to always have above a 3 on Goodreads.
@@jillypepper_ And I disagreed, because it's not always the case.
@@isabellaoliveira4945 that book sucks
Hii jack!!!!
Just a stupid idea but if you're up for it how about reading books that were published on the same day as your bday? Like it would be a bit tough to find but i think it will be so awesome!!! :)
this is such a good idea!
@@heidishaw8991 thanks!! :)
Yeah this is an awesome idea!!
@@Tinkertessa5 so glad you liked it! I hope jack makes a video on this !! :)
I love this idea!
New video ideas:
- books set in spring
- books set in London
- reading one book for each decade (starting from the 1920s)
- books with trans/non-binary lead characters or main characters
- Anya Taylor joy's book recommendations
- books about famous ppl (à la Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones, not autobiographies or biographies)
- books with a love story but not strictly a romance (e.g. Swimming in the Dark, Call me by Your Name, One Day, Brooklyn, Atonement)
The book for each decade is such a good idea!
I'd like to see a video about books set in London. 😊
I love the decade books
I need books for spring its a must
The 3rd one Is such a good idea
Jane Eyre Laid Bare: (exists)
Jack: “You are the bane of my existence.”
JELB: “Wasn’t there a part of being the object of your desire or something?”
Jack: (sighs) “You are an Object FULL STOP!”
The way I saw the title and already knew that ‘Jane Eyre: Laid Bare’ would make a feature 💀💀
I wonder if any of the people who rated Jane Eyre Laid Bare highly didn't realise that Jane Eyre was a whole separate novel and rated the Jane Eyre parts as if they were original to that novel lmaooo
Someone needs to investigate this theory further. I’m serious.
Sadly, this doesn’t seem to be the case for most 😶
Well, I also looked at my "worst books" on Goodreads, and I learned that I am terrible at rating books. I feel bad giving anything under 3 stars, like I'm going to hurt the book's feelings, as ridiculous as that sounds. Middle school me was heartless and gave some of the books we read in school that are typically well liked 1s or 2s because I absolutely hated them, and I still stand by those ratings.
haha totally same 😄
I sometimes go bonkers and give 1 star just bc I hated the plot twist
can i just say i’m always amazed at how well you recall the books you’ve read because as soon as i put a book down, i have already forgotten what happened in it lmao
Same I’m glad this is normal lol
I deemed all of these books (with the exception of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke) unworthy of my time after Jack reviewed them in previous videos. Apparently my entire taste in books is based solely on what Jack likes.
Mine too.
So far, I haven't disagreed with any of reviews of books. But I think that there are some books I've read that he might not like (?)
valid
Miranda Priestly of booktube supremacy
You should do a part 2 to the ‘reading books based on their cover’ and read books that have the worst cover to see if they’re actually good. Like just go to a bookstore one day and find the ugliest books and see if they’re actually good
ooo i love this
Yess amazing idea
I’m here for the Oxygen Thief slander. It’s so satisfying to go onto Goodreads after a book leaves a bad taste in your mouth and see that the most liked comment says exactly what you were thinking!
The best thing about this video is that u can see how visibly uncomfortable jack is with talking abt books he didn’t necessarily like bc he genuinely doesn’t like spreading negativity. That just makes me so happy
spreading happiness while having to be negative is something only jack can do 😂
he is a libra, you know how they are right ?
I feel like Things Have Gotten Worse is not extreme enough for those who like to be shocked, and too extreme for those who don't like to step out of their comfort zone. And then there's a small group of people for whom it is exactly right 👌 the Goldilocks of books.
guess you're right for me it wasn't extreme enough but my main issue was that it wasn't convincing at all. The email back and forth was so cringy to read through, but not in the way the author intended. I also wasn't sold on their personalities, everything they did felt like stiff people trying to roleplay being kinky. By the end I couldn't bring myself to believe that someone as articulate as one of the main characters had such little idea about basic biology.
I actually had the opposite problem with “Things have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke.” I’ve read a lot of what people what call “disturbing” books and I just found this one to be lacking in pacing, and buildup when compared to a lot of other stories I’ve read. I think the concept is great, but the execution needed a bit more polish. The hardest thing for me was I couldn’t really feel a difference in voice between the two main characters, which kind of sapped the believability out of the whole thing for me.
Same, I got it because the reviews were about how disturbing and messed up it was but I didn't feel the same, it really wasn't nad. It got a 3/5 from me but I didn't know if it was because I hyped it up too much in my own head lol.
This is near exactly my issue with this book. Perhaps part of my intense dislike stems also from the fact that I read this exact same disturbing story twist executed much better with a shorter effective word count posted on online horror forums and other parts of the web. There were some serious pacing issues that stripped any of the mystery or intrigue of the story for me to the point that when it got to the twist that was (to me) tired out, the book felt like a waste of time and potential.
agreed! my issue is just its too over the top and it kinda gave me the ick that a male author wrote this and made the women so absurd. i agree about how ppl from the internet can affect u and make u do horrible things but the stuff that happened in this book was more comical to me besides for the ending cuz that one was good. ive seen some true crime about horrible things ppl did thats why the book felt comical to me honestly
This was my exact problem with the book too! It had a lot of potential but the pacing and character development threw me off :(
Agreed! They just became comical, like you can see clearly the author was just putting in certain things for the shock factor without really considering motivation, build up, etc
Kendall and Kylie, two of the most privileged and rich people in the world, writting a book about priviliged people killing people lower and poorer than them sounds like a psychological thriller story itself 😅😅
Has Jack made a video about his favorite poetry books yet? Would love that.
Yes especially for beginners
yeeees, we need this
Yes please, 10/10 would watch this
Yes please
Jacks out here double dipping in goodreads and story graph lol 😂
Finally someone brought it up 💀
@@avneesh6299 Jack talks about it at the end of “the best books i’ve read (according to goodreads)” vid !
Lmao that's me
Can’t help but wonder how’s the progress with Cain’s jawbone
he said in another video that it was stressing him out and wasn't fun so he's not doing a part 2
If Jack is Superman then ‘Jane Eyre Laid Bare’ is his Kryptonite.
oh fascinating, our tastes usually match but things have gotten worse straight up got 1 star from me! i'm glad you loved it but it was an absolute miss from me.
it wasn't the horror aspect at all, but the fact that the emails were written so unrealistically that i couldn't take it seriously or immerse myself. also it went from 0-100 way too fast and i can't suspend my disbelief when the characters exchange like 6 whole emails before a slave contract is brought up. her descent into her mental illness came out of nowhere and as someone who was in an abusive online-based relationship, this felt like...genuinely offensive lol
Every time i hear someone mention jane eyre, thanks to you Jack, i immediately think of jane eyre laid bare and snort, but no one gets it (for obvious reasons) and they're all looking at me like "huh what's so funny" 😭
tysm for posting so often, your videos make me so happy. i hope you are happy and doing well right now 💗
i’ve seen lesbians on tiktok take an issue with thing have gotten worse since we last spoke because of the way the characters were written & trauma porn about lesbians by a guy. (i’m not a lesbian nor have i read this book, it’s just what i’ve seen)
I haven't read it either but the author is non-binary, not a guy!
the author is non binary!
Take a shot every time Jack mentions that he wrote his dissertation on Christopher Isherwood
This seemed to me a good place to wonder why Goodreads doesn't have a dropped-books list. They wouldn't necessarily need to count the scores but I'd love to have a list of books I tried out but didn't like, just for future reference.
Love this! The Queen's Platinum Jubilee Reading List has a load of interesting titles - that could be a really interesting video!
Wow so excited to see the second part so soon! The chaotic atmosphere is just on point 😂🤍
I read Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke after seeing your review of it but I must confess, I was not impressed at all. It only got 2 stars from me because I finished it /o\ I can read the most vile shit ever but I thought the writing was pretentious and the plot underdeveloped, kinda like a first draft. It does seem to be a very polarising book in general.
I saw someone call it “published copypasta” and nothing has ever been so accurate.
spilled holy water
@@joyface I feel like that's insulting to copypasta because some of it is actually written really well lol
I love that the Jane eyre laid bare hatred continues to this day, how dare they do that to our girl Charlotte
Hearing my fave booktubers reference each other makes me so happy
Could you do a video rereading books you loved as a kid/teenager? Would be fun
perhaps a video about authors’ reflection on the art of writing itself? i’m currently reading stephen king’s on writing and it’d be nice to add in personal reflections given that you’ve published a book and have plans to continue do so
If you haven't watched his video where he reads Andrew Garfield's recommendations, that sort of turned out to mostly be about books on writing/creating/artistic lives.
I usually agree with you on most of your reviews, but "Things have gotten worse since we last spoke" was kinda unbearable for me. Not because of the quote on quote disgusting end, I'm a sucker for that type of stuff. But because the two main characters felt so cringy to me. Their texting wasn't organic. To me it felt like roleplay instead of there actually being a power imbalance. And I didn't buy that one of them was articulate enough to write "beautiful" emails but was too dumb to know what was happening to her body? I had the indescribable urge to bully the two main characters into oblivion 😭
You should do a video about underread books on your goodreads list. i have, on occasion, noted that some amazing books have very few reviews on Goodreads and are not very well known.
If you do this in the future, I would love to see how many people rated the book. Just the statistics nerd in me!
I was so traumarized by "Things have gotten worse" that I literally had to skip that part in this video 😭
SAME SAME SAME LIKE I CAN'T STAND EVEN THE SLIGHTEST MENTION OF IT
I laughed so loud at the Jenner sisters review that my dogs came to check on me 😂😂😂
god at this point we really need some sort of collaboration between jack and eve regarding jane erye laid bare, it’s one of the most hilarious and consistent joke in this channel
Things have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke is a weird double edged sword that personally gets hate from two entirely different sides. on one hand you have the GR users who rated it low because they think anything disturbing, gross or with intentionally evil characters is inherently bad, then on the other hand you have people who love disturbing literature and hate it because it's just a lesser version of what they've already read.
LeSser VeRsIon of what they have already read wtfff
@@sakshipandit9666 it is “lesser” in the sense that the disturbing stuff was not well developed at all? They exchanged like. Five emails and suddenly one of them brought up a slave contract. Like. Come on.
@@sakshipandit9666 there's way more disturbing, well written and impactful literature out there. the sluts by dennis cooper is basically a better version of it
wait I swear I've seen this comment before on this channel... wow
i like these chill video's you do. It's just relaxing seeing you talk about books and quick-reviewing them and why. Also always fun to see how much one's opinion differs/relates to the 'general' one !
I came back and found this video after just reading Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke because I remembered you talked about it somewhere. I fall into the category of people who didn't like it, BUT I freely acknowledge that the fact that I still felt physically ill when trying to eat anything this morning is a credit to the writer's ability haha.
You describing the Jenner sisters book was so funny, and things have gotten worse since we last spoke is one that I loved, too!!
I was waiting for this. 😅 I'm gonna look for Jane Eyre Laid Bare here. I was right!!!!
Omg I just saw your comment on his other video lol
@@isabelxy3197 I like Jack Edwards and I cannot lie.
Not Jack blessing us with videos for three consecutive days!!
I genuinely wish this man knew how happy his videos make me.
omg I wanna know the full story about the gabbie hanna thing 😮
I think the two things Jack mentions the most is Jane Eyre laid bare and "I wrote about Christopher Isherwood for my dissertation"
this was a fun one and i'm def on board w/ ur ratings!!
Have you read tender is the flesh? I would love to see a review of that book! It’s a translation too!
For some reason yesterday I decided to add everything from the last few years I to Goodreads all at once. I used it sporadically until a few years ago. And it's bothering me so much that there's no half stars. Like why?!?!
I have never hated anything more than things have gotten worse since we last spoke. I just don’t think it was done well at all and I was so excited about it, and idk that I’ll ever understand the love for it.
I saw someone comment this on another video and it’s a great idea. Reading books Isaac from Heartstopper reads :)
When is the heartstopper book video coming out jack 😭
Could you do a video on which books would make good book club books?
Jack’s reaction to ‘All the Conspirators’ sounds like that textbook that you pulled off an all-nighter for and we don’t know as an adult lol
Would be interested in videos with your personal lowest and highest ratings on books
hi Jack
I reallyyyyyyyyyyy reallly realllyyyyy want you to read The Pact please!!!
As soon as I saw the title of the video my first thought went to Jane Eyre Laid Bare and I was not disappointed lmao. It's become an iconic part of this channel.
my problem with things have gotten worse since we last spoke was that i was so excited for the horror, and then got... nothing... like the people complaining about how disgusting it is ?? okay, it has unsettling moments but honestly it could have been SO SO much more, the idea was really good and interesting, but the delivery was kinda disappointing. so it's a bummer
Thanks for warning us about what not to read haha
Anyway I looooved your gift guide. I’d love a guide about books to read at certain locations, maybe some sort of summer vacation reading guide (for example, what to read on a beach in the south of Italy), based on the location of the story and/or the general vibe
Jack , pleaseeee can you do books set in Edinburgh !!!!
I legit told my a level English class about Jane eyre laid bare 😂
Happy Monday hope you had a great day xoxo 😘
omg Jack thanks for blessing is with so many videos
Sometimes the negative content is just what the doctor ordered. 💜
no way, i literally just finished watching the previous video. we stan.
You are so amazing Jack! 💙💙💙💕💙💙💙💙💙💙
I want some good mystery/crime book recommendations that are actually good and keeps you on the edge
Try ' a good girl's guide to murder ' series , or anything by Agatha Christie or Dan brown
truly devious series by maureen johnson, a good girl's guide to murder trilogy and basically anything from karin slaughter!
@@sadlunafairy I second this! Karin Slaughter is hands down one of the best thriller/mystery authors there is!
Try tami houg i first read the 9th girl by her and it was so good she writes in a way that you can work out the killer along with the story but its still entertaining
the bookstore worker in my local Waterstones told me I could go upstairs to read diary of an oxygen thief as it wasn’t worth buying 😭😭😭 so I still haven’t read it bc I was like then why would I read it bro
Imagine a book being so bad that someone whose job it is to sell you books tells you not to waste your money on it
@@flippanties she did the same with some of the colleen hoover books as well, she said “don’t waste your money on them, they’re popular but they’re not good, just read them on yespdf” 🙃🙃🙃
@@maryseptihet wish bookstore employees near me had taste this good. Quite recently I was speaking to the cashier at my Waterstones and I mentioned I liked fantasy and she tried to get me to buy ACOTAR. I didn't have the heart to tell her I can't bear Sarah J Maas books. She DID convince me to get The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo though so it wasn't all bad
@@flippanties if you like fantasy then you should deffo read The Witches Heart by Genevieve Gornichec which actually the same person that recommended me NOT read hoover and diary of an oxygen thief recommended for me TO read aha !
Edit: it’s on the same lines of The Song of Achilles and Circe but instead of being about green mythology it’s based on Norse mythology!
Yessss so glad you did this 🙌
I have to say I think frog music was actually quite good overall. It was more just that it started off very poorly but it picked up afterwards.
Just reminded me I haven't read properly in 2 weeks and just got an aamazing new book called Whisper. Whoops.
i just finished Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, i still feel a lil bit nauseous
I just knew this would start with Jane Eyre Laid Bare lol
WAAAHHHH!!! I LOVE THIS SERIES AKA DUOLOGY! HIHI! ❤🥰🥰
Now starting my DNR list - Do not read book list
Thank you. I needed this today.
Pretty sure the reason Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, was because many people thought the gore only relied on chok value and the lebian action was forced, fetishised and unnecessary. i have not read it myself, but i've heard many people describe it as such
Everybody i need some help!! I think Jack recommenden a book, on this or his main channel, which was about two characters who lived in similair situation only one of them is black and one of them is white but as a reader you never get to find out which is which??? Please can sombody help me find the title of this book???
I loved 'Things have gotten worse since the last time we spoke'!! Really weird and good 😂
idk wif i'm really choosy about the books i read or what because there are only 2 books i've read that have a rating less than 3.2 on GR. (I, otoh, have rated plenty of books with 1 or 2 stars, lol). tip though - GR ratings tend to be more generous, so if it's under 3 (or even 3.5) it's probably really, really bad. Ofc it's not always the case, but it works as a thumb rule
"I call it Jane Hair/Heyre" I am DONE 😂 😂
crazy how frog music is written by the same author as room
"things have gotten worse since we last spoke" was written so good, i could feel the tapeworm running through my body while reading it
Help💀💀
I'm just wondering, are you using both Goodreads and The Storygraph?
Yes he is.
LOVE what you had to say about Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. I also liked it for the same reasons.
its crazy how i've essentially agreed to everything you've said ever and that's why you're one of my favorite booktubers but I did not like 'things have gotten worse since we last spoke' at all. Not because of the disgusting bits but i did not enjoy the writing as a whole.
I always tend to rate books that are 3 stars on Goodreads a 5. The ratings don’t mean much to me.
The way I’d rather read all those books three times in a row than ever read Dune again 😂
I never trust goodreads scores of youtuber/influencer books, because I've seen that they're inflated by reviews from biased fans who would give 5 stars to them no matter what
I love your videos! 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡
jack trying not to get attacked by gabbie hanna 😂
"so...bye, i guess" lmao
Your opinion on Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke is my exact opinion on Wuthering Heights. I understand how it's a classic and I'm glad I read it, but I have never hated a character more than Heathcliff. Threw that book straight across the room in anger at his antics, but good literature doesn't HAVE to make you feel good.
This was my problem with Wuthering Heights, too. I get that it's the point, but every single character being an utterly unbearable person with no redeeming qualities really made it a difficult to get through read for me. I don't think it helped that I read it as required reading back when I was doing my Literature A Level.
i recently read things have gotten worse and i hated it but in a “this author is deranged, can’t stop reading, five stars” way- cannot believe it’s rated that low!
i read things have gotten worse since we last spoke and every time i think about it again i want to give it a lower rating not gonna lie.. it just kind of feels like goreporn and i really do love books that make me uncomfortable, but this book made me feel nasty in ways i didnt really Need. im planning on reading another book by the author, hoping i like it more
Please read Jews Don’t Count by David Baddiel !!