What character was so annoying that it made you quit the book?

[Pseudo64]

I usually never quit a book and always finish them, and usually I don't mind if a book has annoying character and sometimes a character being annoying is the point and I can appreciate that. However recently I read Conversation With Friends By Sally Rooney and my god the character of Bobbi Was so annoying that if that woman was real, and I am saying that as someone who don't like hitting anyone let alone women, but if that bitch was real, I would call my mom say sorry for abandoning all her teachings, then wear a sharp iceskate shoes and then round-house kick that bitch in the face and say "road-house" and then refuse to elborate.
Half way through the book I realized that everytime Bobbi appeared in the book, I wanted to just skimm through the text. It got so bad that I was dreading to read the book and its not like entitled characters like her is something i hadn't seen before, but I guess it is to Sally's writing credit that everytime Bobbi speaks I genuinely feel like some liberal arts theatre kid poetry slam human is standing next to me in an elevator and I am being forced to tolerate them and keep the urge to punch them in the face very, very, bad. Not saying other characters were any good people, but they were tolerable, especially if you know that they are supposed to be fictional characters. But Bobbi, she is scientifically designed to make me so mad that I don't want to read the book anymore. Realizing this book was making me miserable and I don't need that misery in my life, i sold the book in a second hand book store and bought a R.L. Stine book instead.

But yeah, is there a character that made a book so intolerable for you, that you just straight up quit, or if you carried on, you just dreaded every time that character entered a scene? Feel free to share.

 

[Jackoragen]

My Teacher on class lol

 

[Pearly]

Tripitaka.

The monk in Journey to the west annoyed the shit outta me, how great the rest of the story was kept me going, I get that he was meant to be annoying in ways due to be a pious monk!, but still, I don't read books often and I don't like deterrents.

Sun Wukong was actually awesome.

Also I really couldn't read any more of the Witcher novels after the last wish, quite a few characters got on my nerves so I dropped the entire series. Unfortunate as I devoured the last wish and loved the games.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I don't recall abandoning books specifically because of their characters, but a lot got close -- not because they were annoying, but because they were cartoons pretending (and expecting) to be taken seriously.

Examples? Justine from Stand Alone -- she was easy to root for at first, but then became more and more of something weird, completely nullifying what should have been a great ending.

The villains on "The Manifesto On How To Be Interesting" start off as cartoons, get weirdly (and effectively) humanized, then they are back at being cartoons -- WTF.

Some minors characters on Diane Zahler's "Wild Bird" (NOT the one I keep mentioning) were really pushing it, too.

And even though I know they were written that way on purpose... My God, the main cast on "The Remarkable Journey Of Coyote Sunrise" was tough to follow.

Oh, and... Just to piss on something: Andy from "Retro". Failed Willy Wonka wannabe -- that should be a subgenre XD

 

[CheesyExplosive]

I usually never quit a book and always finish them, and usually I don't mind if a book has annoying character and sometimes a character being annoying is the point and I can appreciate that. However recently I read Conversation With Friends By Sally Rooney and my god the character of Bobbi Was so annoying that if that woman was real, and I am saying that as someone who don't like hitting anyone let alone women, but if that bitch was real, I would call my mom say sorry for abandoning all her teachings, then wear a sharp iceskate shoes and then round-house kick that bitch in the face and say "road-house" and then refuse to elborate.
Half way through the book I realized that everytime Bobbi appeared in the book, I wanted to just skimm through the text. It got so bad that I was dreading to read the book and its not like entitled characters like her is something i hadn't seen before, but I guess it is to Sally's writing credit that everytime Bobbi speaks I genuinely feel like some liberal arts theatre kid poetry slam human is standing next to me in an elevator and I am being forced to tolerate them and keep the urge to punch them in the face very, very, bad. Not saying other characters were any good people, but they were tolerable, especially if you know that they are supposed to be fictional characters. But Bobbi, she is scientifically designed to make me so mad that I don't want to read the book anymore. Realizing this book was making me miserable and I don't need that misery in my life, i sold the book in a second hand book store and bought a R.L. Stine book instead.

But yeah, is there a character that made a book so intolerable for you, that you just straight up quit, or if you carried on, you just dreaded every time that character entered a scene? Feel free to share.

robuttnik...

 

[qw90700]

Well I'll especially list the popular characters that I wanna throw off a mountain and watch their corpse gets no more each time it hits something lolol:

- Dandelion from Witcher books.

- Zaphod Beeblebrox from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

- Gollum from Lord of The Rings.

- Don Quixote from Don Quixote.

- Carmilla from Carmilla.

- Pollyanna from Pollyanna.

- Lady Jessica from Dune (Just stop with planting some seed into heads of people in every line the book has jeez lol.).

- Dr. Watson from Sherlock Holmes.

Me every time Watson asks obvious questions lol:

 

[UnDubious]

The monk in Journey to the west annoyed the shit outta me, how great the rest of the story was kept me going, I get that he was meant to be annoying in ways due to be a pious monk!, but still, I don't read books often and I don't like deterrents.

I was surprised at how often he cries. Not to say that you can't ever cry but for a mythical hero to start crying every single he hits a roadblock, which is every few pages, is wild. There's a theory that the book was really written to mock buddhism and the monk being this way is the main argument for it.

 

[Pearly]

I was surprised at how often he cries. Not to say that you can't ever cry but for a mythical hero to start crying every single he hits a roadblock, which is every few pages, is wild. There's a theory that the book was really written to mock buddhism and the monk being this way is the main argument for it.

It seems to be a scathing view of many things besides that, it mocks politics, even ways of dieting according to belief and bureaucracy. Much of the scathing commentary in it is actually quite relevant even to this day and I'd suggest it as a must read given how old the story actually is, from the 1500s.

I read the translation by Julia Lovell, a recent hardback release for penguin classics, I had the older one but I couldn't get into it, the new translation though I devoured it within a week. as far as I am aware it's only the new hardback that has that translation, I could be wrong.

I was curious about the actual full version of the story, the five or four massive volumes and I figured that it's mostly the story of Sun Wu Kong that interested me and his story is covered by the single Journey to the west novel known as Monkey King, so I stuck with that.

 

[UnDubious]

I tried reading the full version and I stopped after maybe 2 volumes. It's so repetitive. Somehow Romance of the Three Kingdoms held my interest, but Journey to the West didn't.

 

[Drewski90]

well, I've finished reading ready player one before, but i decided to cheat read through ready player two because i wanna know what happens right away. Here's the thing, after nolan sorrento gets killed, parzival wanted to be proud of this, but then he decides that he would barf which is stupid considering the fact that nolan sorrento has killed his family and hunts for him after refusing to join him in the first book, so basically what my answer for a character so annoying that it made me quit the book, sorta, was 60 percent parzival because of how stupid he became in the 2nd book, even though he was great in the first book like he transformed into ultraman to destroy mechagodzilla, and 40 percent nolan sorrento because his last words are stupid, he tells him that if he doesn't give them the keys he's gonna kill og, the guy he tormented at the start of the second book, and his last words are "It's up to you." which made thanos be like, "You should choose your words more carefully."

I apologize for a bit of a rant about it