Worst Books

I actually didn't mind The Secret River, but that might have been a self-preservation thing. I couldn't stand Maestro, by Peter Goldsworthy. Also Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth Park.

 

Every Stephen King book in the last few decades. He's seriously lost his touch. I'm sorry, but I'd really rather just read about the plot that have to sit through 200 pages per book learning about what the character's mother was like, or why he doesn't like to eat pancakes, or which of his socks is the darkest color.

 

Reading in the Dark. My English teacher forced us to read/study it and it is the most boring novel I have ever read...and I have read Lord of the Rings, so I know boring (I know that will offend many people, but LotR just wasn't my liking...Although I reckon I might give it another go one day )

Basically the author uses 300 pages to lament his dead uncle and the book spans I think more than 50 years. I'm sorry, I know people get very upset about death, and it's a very sad thing, but 50 years of grieving? Please move on...just slightly

 

Can't answer that one: if I don't like a book, I stop reading it. I do not feel obliged to finish something once I started. Of the books I do need to read and are mindblowingly tedious would include the 528 page "Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering". I started reading for work just over a year ago and am not yet half-way.

 

Any book by Agatha Christie or J.R.R. Tolkein. I mean just stop describing and get on with the story!

 

Martín Fierro, by José Hernández.
Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes.

 

Hemingway

Just...no.

 

Agreed...

 

Those of you who dont like tolkien make me sad, I LOVE tolkien, but to each their own. Worst book ive read? breaking dawn.

 

Breaking Dawn is possibly the worst book I've ever read.
Actually, the whole Twilight series read like bad fanfiction.

 

I thought gay man loves Hemingway lol

I absolutely hated this Japanese book written by one of my teacher...I just couldn't stand reading it...There was NOTHING good.

 

I agree

I was so excited for his book 'Cell' and it sucked more balls than I've sucked...
My others are:
1.) Twilight Series
2.) Lolita (The beginning and middle were amazing, but I predicted and was disappointed by the end)
3.) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows... I love Harry Potter to death, but I'm sorry... the ending was complete shit in my oppinion. And a bad ending ruins the whole book for me.

 

Definitely, Stephen's best works are his earlier works... It, Misery, The Shining, Insomnia, etc.

 

A Seperate Peace.

Hey...King's short stories are good....everything else is shit.


And that epilogue was fanfiction, I swear.

 

My theory on Twilight is that it was written for a bet.
"Hey, I bet you I can write some appalling Mary Sue fanfiction that promotes emotionally abusive relationships as the ideal and have it published."
"Sure! Double the bet if it becomes incredibly popular and has a movie made of it."
(I believe this because the other option is believing that it was actually written seriously, and that thought just breaks my brain.)

 

:eek::eek: death to u!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I have been saying this for an eternity.

And same to the epilogue of Harry Potter 7. The actual bulk of the book was fine, but the epilogue was complete shit. I swear she got some distressed teenage fan to write it.

And it's not that I dislike reading long books, but King's "Desperation" was just awful. The entire second half of the book was trash, and I HATE it when King writes a book that begins as a horror-suspense book and acts as such right up until the last chapter, where everything turns into supernatural fantasy and the whole point of the book is ruined.

 

I still don't seem to understand King's Dark Tower...

 

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.
I could never read the His Dark Materials books by Philip Pullman.

Those are all bad, but the worst book EVER WRITTEN was written by thirteen year old Flavia Bujor.

The Prophecy of the Stones.
The writing is awful and all of the characters are boringly perfect Mary Sues.
I used my copy to make a hollow book.