Worst book you ever read?

[JanieDough]

...was brilliant!!!!

Can't believe anyone didn't like it!

you do have to admit though, you should skip the preface and the end was WEIRD!

 

[sophie]

I guess...LOL...I love Steinbeck though. He can do no wrong.

 

[JanieDough]

I guess...LOL...I love Steinbeck though. He can do no wrong.

ok then what is the name of the book with the two brothers?

 

[sophie]

Of Mice and Men?

 

[JanieDough]

nope....let me google this.

 

[JanieDough]

East of Eden - SO GOOD!

 

[sophie]

Yeah, I liked that one too.

 

[Ryder]

I love reading in general but I read the Glass Castle and it was just like. Well it made me want to do this.

*Pours acid on book*

I hate memoirs.

I remember in eighth grade I was reading in this teachers class who the teacher had my sister and she stood in front of me and I looked up and she was smiling. All I said was "Oh. Hi." she chuckled and said "Your just like your sister aren't you?" My answer. "Yup."

 

[JanieDough]

I remember in eighth grade I was reading in this teachers class who the teacher had my sister and she stood in front of me and I looked up and she was smiling. All I said was "Oh. Hi." she chuckled and said "Your just like your sister aren't you?" My answer. "Yup."

???..

 

[StopUgly]

The Life of Samuel Johnson. Hands down.

 

[Tyler Durden]

The phone book

I knew Zzzyz did it

 

[MoonOwl]

Something like "The Woodchipper Murder". I never finished it. Dude killed his wife in there and a cop finding her pinkie nail busted him.

 

[JanieDough]

really - most anything in the oprah book club

 

[Jessica]

There wasn't really a book I hated. some were kinda boring, but I didn't exactly hate them.

 

[MiharuSan]

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck irked me to no end. I usually enjoy his writing style and his plot development, but it seemed like in Grapes all of that just took a shit and died. It was all over the place, and frankly not up to snuff, in my opinion.
Usually, though, I end up enjoying whatever I pick up.

 

[merimali]

Eat Love Pray really really irritated the heck out of me. And my partner who has to listen to me verbally abuse the poor book.

 

[satinbutterfly]

Tommyknockers by Stephen King :thumbdown

 

[Atomic Sky]

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. Yes it's consider a "classic" but my god is it a terrible piece of redudant litterature with no plot.

 

[AuronKae]

The Invisible Man was one of the worst books I've read just because it was too long-winded for my sake. Nice ideas, but my eyes starting glazing over after a while.

 

[USF Sam]

Amazon.com: Empire (Tor Science Fiction) (9780765355225): Orson Scott Card: Books

CRUSHING disappointment as I loved the Ender and Bean series.

This was just a 370-page right-wing rant VERY thinly disguised as sci-fi.

Right-wing rhetoric trumps the logic of story and character in this near-future political thriller about a red-state vs. blue-state American civil war, an implausibly plotted departure from Card's bestselling science fiction (Ender's Game, etc.). When the president and vice-president are killed by domestic terrorists (of unknown political identity), a radical leftist army calling itself the Progressive Restoration takes over New York City and declares itself the rightful government of the United States. Other blue states officially recognize the legitimacy of the group, thus starting a second civil war. Card's heroic red-state protagonists, Maj. Reuben "Rube" Malek and Capt. Bartholomew "Cole" Coleman, draw on their Special Ops training to take down the extremist leftists and restore peace to the nation. The action is overshadowed by the novel's polemical message, which Card tops off with an afterword decrying his own politically-motivated exclusion from various conventions and campuses, the "national media elite" and the divisive excesses of both the right and the left.

I'm a big fan of Mr. Card's science fiction. This book is nowhere near his usual standards.

Here's what Empire has: a lot of action. Great battle scenes. No-nonsense heroes who get into lots of trouble.

All that sounds great, right? Well, there's just one problem. Mr. Card set out to tell a story about the dangers of political polarization. What it turned into was a story about how Democrats are dangerous and, when the stuff really hits the fan, the only people who can save America are Bill O'Reilly fans. Yes, I'm serious: one of the heroes of the book goes on Fox News to reveal a plot to take over America. The title of that chapter is "Fair and Balanced" -- two things this book is not.

The heroes of this book are Special Forces black-ops guys, dangerous and competent and loyal -- sworn to protect and defend the USA and the Constitution. It's not their fault that the blue-staters are the ones causing all the trouble -- their job is to kill the enemy.

The bad guys? All leftists. Mr. Card sets up armies of left-leaning straw men and mows them down with fully-automatic weapons. Liberals are traitors, cowards, assassins and crybabies (sometimes simultaneously). The good guys have caches of illegal weapons and wives who don't work.

As a card-carrying commie pinko, I wish this book made me angry. Instead it makes me sad. It sounds like the rantings of a once-great storyteller who's gone a little senile, a little mean-crazy, and is trying to take it out the Liberal Media etc. I guess Mr. Card's frustrated with the way the nation's going. I know he's written an editorial predicting a new civil war in America if same-sex marriages are approved by the Supreme Court. This entire book is much in the same vein.

Apart from the good action scenes, Empire reads like one side of a Wikipedia edit war. I'll let you guess which side.

Total, pure, unrelenting bullshit.

I quit reading Card after this abortion put to paper.

Amazon has it on sale for a penny and you'e still getting raped if you buy it for that price.