Books you Hate

This thread is for the books you absolutely hate...something you read and thought was a disappointment or overrated, or something that was just plain awful! Post about all your crappy reading experiences here!

 

I hate Murakami, he is the only one I really hate

 

The Old man and the Sea, by E. Hemmingway, I had to read it for a book report in high school! I about fell asleep!

 

Great Expectations


wow, that was an easy one to pick lol

 

The Odyessy, by Homer. I'm sorry, but Odysseus really annoyed the crap out of me for some reason.

 

naked lunch which made me sad becuase i love burroughs, i love the movie tho but the book was too pointless i wanted to keep reading it i just couldnt

 

Silus Marner, Julius Ceasar, Scarlet Letter. I had to read those for school, but I just skipped over most of them and watched the movie, and read about them on the internet.

 

two books for school that i could never get into:
red badge of courage
evolution

i also read...jane eyre, the ending was ruined for me because the movie was on and i couldn't bear to finish it

 

GAbriel Garcia Marquez comes to mind, I had to read this horridly thick book of his and it was soooooo boring, so, I kind of made it all up in my review.

 

Wuthering Heights, the classic gothic romance. I hated it so bad when I had to read it in school that I ... um... burned it.

 

And what about you?

 

The book I hate the most is "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen. Generally I like books considered to be classics, so I decided to give it a try. In the beginning, I wanted to throw up. In the middle, I wanted to gouge my eyes out. At the end, I was ready to curl up and die. This book is absolutely *horrible!* I hated it. I will slap anyone who says they like it...j/k! ;-)

 

things fall apart...gosh. had to read that for senior english.
sigh. the end was pretty good though.

 

The Taking by Dean R. Koontz. Great story but in the end, it wasn't aliens, it was Satan who took all the missing people. I hate sci fi that turns all Jesusy in the end.

And if I spoiled it for you, too bad.

 

The da vinci code

 

I'm ready to take a hit for this, but I hated A Tale of Two Cities. My junior year in highschool we had to read Jane Eyre, and I hated that one too.

I love to read....just not everything.

 

"The Power and the Glory" by Graham Green.

All about a drunken whiskey priest and his failings. Made me feel guilty for neither caring for him nor his religion. So i broke into the local Catholic Church, striped naked, sacrificed some goats and rolled around in their blood... felt much better afterwards.

 

Im with ya on "A Tale of Two Cities", completely overrated, I also hated "Great Expectations"

 

The Bride Stripped Bare
Worst $20 I ever spent...
Screw the money, I want those wasted hours of my life back.

 

A Seperate Peace.