Writing it was painful for the author, but it makes for painful reading too; as terrible and as captivating, in its way, as the crashed car steaming at the side of the road.Judith Moore is, in her own words, a "short squat toad of a woman", a "grotesque and grunting hog".
Part of the problem is that I've apparently become terrible at reading instructions.
So, while they can analyze the past pretty well, they tend to be terrible at reading the present and, particularly, at predicting the future.
BOMBING German cities into a wasteland was terrible: anyone reading Jörg Friedrich's book, now published for the first time in English, will be in no doubt of the cultural destruction and human suffering that it caused.
What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt I am terrible at reading fiction – I rarely get through a book – so it says a lot about this that it gripped me enough to keep me going to the end.
But, though I know I should, I have never checked the tyre pressure on my car; trying to avoid traffic jams is clearly a good idea but I am terrible at reading maps so I would always favour a route I know over a less congested but less known journey.
Contestants are terrible at reading clues.
It was so beyond funny…I felt terrible for reading it.
They're terrible at reading body language, and insist on mumbling gibberish in your ear whether or not you're interested in what they have to say.
