Hopefully this thread hasn't been done before. Tell us the worst book you read and leave a detailed "angry bitching" complaint on why it was so dreadfully awful.
Just one?! The Bible - that was really fucking long, pretty poorly written, and made me decide I was an atheist for sure. The bloodlines part of the Old Testament (don't remember which book) and Revelations especially sucked. Worse than the worst college textbook. runner-up: Haunted by Chuck Pahlaniuk I enjoy some of his work (namely, Rant), and love Jim Uhls/David Fincher's adaptation of Fight Club, but FUCK this book. It's made up of different fictional character's writing, but they all write in almost the exact same voice, and half of the gruesome shit in the book isn't even possible. And it's sooooo boring. I don't even remember what it was about, but I sure know I didn't make it a full half way.
Ernest Hemingways'- The Sun Also Rises I can't stand his lazy, half assed writing style and his subjects always seem the same to me.
i'm going to say anything by stephen king. i have started reading several of his books and, his works just don't speak to me. king is the only author who has ever done this to me.
You're not the only one.."The Talisman" completely killed it for me.:smash: I Love Kubrics "The Shining" though ZW
OH GOD. Anything by Stephen King. Really. He goes on and on about things that don't matter. Never gets to the point. He'll sit there and describe some chicks tits for like 10 pages. I mean, yes, tits are nice, but i don't want a fucking short story about them. Just get to the point. And people are afraid to say this and follow everyone else praising him for his books, when they're not that good at all. SIGH. Also, the classics. Why the hell are they so special just because they were written years and years ago? They make us read them in school like theyre so amazing but really, they're just books like everything else. Bring out something new so that we can learn something instead of shoving the same ideas into our head over and over again. I don't care about some kid living on a farm who had a cool dog. I don't care about any of the classics. I want something different so i can actually be interested and learn something. Something with a better vocabulary because they all dumb us down. The Teacher's curriculums annoy me, and they say they have to follow it, but they could do something about it to change it. They can bring up new ideas. But they never think about it -__-. So yeh. Stephen King and all the classics. Hate em.
William Gibson - Idoru I think Gibson fired his editor for this one. He's been known to play a bit with grammar but with this book, he just threw grammar out the fucking window. Unreadable.
LOL. School has turned me off of all the classics. I see classics just as i see any other book, and i don't understand why they're so damn special. That's what i meant.
Stephen King's alright, I reckon. Well, his earlier stuff anyway. My nomination is The Nudist Colony by Sarah May. Also, some piece of shit by a bellend named Nicholas Salaman - London dwelling, harpsichord playing cocksnot that he is. Can't remember what it's called though.
The Bible A rulebook, not the book said to have given enlightenment to thousands globally, across millennia. It's sexist, cunning and full of lies.
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett This was recommended to me by an avid reader, declaring it "the best book [he'd] ever read". Had I known that it amounted to nearly 1000 pages of well-researched (and how well it was researched is debatable) tripe, I never would have read it. Admittedly, I now know much more about the design and building of cathedrals than I did previously, as well as the history regarding medieval England and its rulers (albeit through my own research), but unfortunately it came at the expense of plot and compelling characters. It is a fast, easy read, stuffed with pages of the author showcasing his grasp of building and architecture (and less grand undertakings, such as felting wool) and forgetting that stories are important too - his plots are exceedingly trite, predictable and unimaginative: Good guys can't get a break. Bad guys prosper. A series of convenient events give good guys the upper hand. A series of convenient events allow bad guys to exact revenge. And so it goes. Further, the characters are terribly underdeveloped, leaving no room to either sympathise with their plight or be filled with ire at their evildoings; they lack soul, which is an amazing error considering the subject matter. It is not at all challenging, which wouldn't be a sin had it at least been entertaining. The Pillars of the Earth was even awful enough to dethrone The Da Vinci Code from its lowly spot as Most Insulting Read; at least that was somewhat exciting, even if poorly written.
The Twilight Saga. I lived in the north of China and there was little else in the book store if you wanted a break from the classics. That's my only excuse.
I read a book on Bipolar Disorder (which I have) called "Welcome to the Jungle" or something along those lines (stupid wannabe catchy title). I bought it and was nauseated by the author in every way. It was a 20-something female who obviously had 'just' been stabilized in her Bipolar Journey and essentially claimed that just taking Depakote (a realistically very harsh, side-effect laden drug that isn't even that effective for most people) would solve all of her problems and all of ours. She acted like avoiding drugs, not getting depressed, and rising in the coroporate ladder were all very easy things to do once you were on Depakote. The truth is that bipolar disorder is a daily BATTLE even when relatively stabilized. She clearly had not had her first "relapse." In fact, I would bargain to say she was in a bit of a manic phase when she wrote the book. She also displayed an embarrassing lack of knowledge of the pharmacology of the disorder. She didn't even offer a good explanation of how her beloved Depakote worked. For a scientific person like myself, I was expected a really good synopsis of the psycho-pharmacological profiles of various drugs. Nope. Basically, I ended up SO PISSED reading this book that I almost relapsed myself. Luckily I stopped reading it 2/3 through, and never relapsed haha.
