Worst book you ever read?

[Azazel]

really - most anything in the oprah book club

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[Finnishblond]

I do not read worst books, I send them back to library without finishing them.

 

[Wilfred Richard]

I would have to say, The Inheritance Series by Christopher Paolini.

 

[Abcinthia]

Anything by Ian McEwan. I think he is an awful author.

What gets me, is the plot for books such as Atonement and Enduring Love are good. But he writes them in a fucking awful manner, getting far too detailed to the point it ruins the whole flow of the story. Atonement was dreadful for this. There was a whole page pretty much dedicated to light on the floor and dust moats and it made me forget what has going in on the plot becuase it was so distracting (and pointless! It did not improve the plot in anyway to read it).
Enduring Love was just as bad. It is a fantastic plot but becuase the lead character was a Scientist, McEwan decided to just have tons of Scientific debates and facts and it was soooo boring and I didn't even understand a lot of it becuase I am not a scientist and Science has always been my weakness.

Any book that makes you keep going back to find out what is going on becuase the author is going off an a pathetically stupid tangent is a bad book in my opinion.

 

[Peter Parka]

Mein Kampf, at least Chairman Mao's book was so stupid it was very funny.

 

[Kyle B]

Mein Kampf, at least Chairman Mao's book was so stupid it was very funny.

When I was in high school, I read The Communist Manifesto for my AP Euro class. The book is only like 30 pages but I must have fallen asleep 3-4 times while reading it.

 

[edgray]

The Bible. Closely followed by the Qu'ran. Fucking dreadful stuff.

 

[Zorak]

The Bible. Closely followed by the Qu'ran. Fucking dreadful stuff.

We must be reading different versions then. Greatest set of books ever written.

 

[edgray]

We must be reading different versions then. Greatest set of books ever written.

no, you're thinking of Lord of the Rings. Or the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy set.

 

[Zorak]

no, you're thinking of Lord of the Rings.

Well, they both got a load of wierdo's obsessed with them.

 

[edgray]

Well, they both got a load of wierdo's obsessed with them.

I know which I prefer.

no contest.

 

[satinbutterfly]

Tommyknockers by Stephen King

 

[Peter Parka]

The Bible.

I dunno, there's some juicy bits that the Marquis de Sade would be proud of, love when some guy had to collect a load of foreskins and when god made another guy eat shit.:thumbup:24:

 

[bloo]

Im going to go with Catcher in the Rye. I'm assuming its because of the generation gap, but I didn't find it to be shocking or profound. I couldn't help but to take the book at face value

 

[KLD1019]

The Great Gatsby, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and Fahrenheit 451!!

didnt really read them. it was for AP English in highschool and just read CliffNotes to pass tests! but the movies we had to watch afterwards were enough to want to poke my eyes out! i can only imagine what it would have been like to read the books! :willy_nilly:

 

[Sneakiecat]

I liked Fahrenheit 451. Hated the work we had to do with it but I thought it was a great book.

 

[sexysadie]

If I'm remembering correctly, I think it was called 'Life With Billy'....it was a true story and it gave me nightmares afterward. I don't remember it in detail, but what I do remember keeps me from ever picking it up again.

 

[GoatCode]

Worst book I've read... The Devil's Labyrinth took a horrible twist and was only supporting stereotypes

 

[Kyle B]

I liked Fahrenheit 451. Hated the work we had to do with it but I thought it was a great book.

I remember I had to write an essay about symbolism or something on that book.

They made that book into a movie a few decades ago.

 

[Peter Parka]

The Bible - poorly written, bigotted, non sensical and all round a big pile of crap. Only good think to say about it is it usually is made from very thin paper which makes a good emergency supply of cigarette papers for when you've run out of rizlas and the shops are shut.