Books you Hate

Any Book Written By A Conservative Christian.

 

life of pi

it was really disturbing. i wouldnt have read it if i'd known it was going to be so dark

 

I liked life of pi.

Big fish was really a bad book. It was too predictable. the movie sucked too.

 

Across five aprils... the most ass-tastic book ever written.

 

first off i'll say that it takes a lot for me to hate a book, but 'nothing but the truth' was just awful. it almost made me want to burn the thing it was so bad!

 

Go Ask Alice is a fraud. Check www.snopes.com

I really like a lot of what Mark Twain wrote. He was a smart man and his books had a good deal to say on the state of the south. To Kill a Mockingbird was a great book too, imho.

The only book I've been given to read throughout school that I can really remember hating was "Emma" by Jane Austen. OH MY GOD it was the most boring book I've ever read. I have a lot of patience for books, I dont care if the writing style is boring, I can deal with that, but Emma was nothing more than an 18th century chick flick... blegh, gag me with a spoon...

 

I'm with bbbeccaaa, it takes a lot to make me hate a book. That said, Huck Finn was so boring. I never finished it, I don't know how I passed that section in school, with tests every few chapters, but I somehow managed (no, didn't use Cliffs notes either). I liked the beginning but once he met the Duke (was it the Duke?) it was just terrible, I never got past it.

Great Gatspy was terrible too. Hated it.

And I could never get into A Clockwork Orange. Maybe read 2 pages. I couldn't understand it, it's gibberish. What kind of author does that to his readers? What kind of author doesn't want to be understood? Not an author I read, that's what I know.

It saddens me greatly to see someone say "all of Steinbeck's work". The man was a literary genius. East of Eden and Grapes of Wrath were both excellent. Of Mice and Men was good too, though I read it for school which always takes away from it. Same with the Pearl, which I enjoyed least of any of his works. But it wasn't bad, and had a good point to it.

Also, 1984 did indeed make me sick and depressed. But that speaks to the greatness and sheer power of the book, that it can make me feel so low.

 

"The Red Badge of Courage", "Farewell to Arms"--god, the woman kept asking, "Do you love me? But do you REALLY love me?" all thru the book, made me want to throw up, "For Whom the Bell Tolls" just long and drawn out, "Lord of the Flies"...now there are a lot of classics I really like (especially now that I'm out of school and can read them at my leisure, for example, I loved "Anna Karenina", "Frankenstein", "Moby Dick") but these I just could not get into, "The Red Badge of Courage" especially is a yawner.

 

hahahah... love it when 14 yr olds are experts on ALL POSSIABLE drug reactions. Thank you, oh drug guru for imparting your wisdom upon us all!

 

Of Mice and Men. I tried. I tried really hard, but I was just unbelieveably annoyed by it. I finished it and never touched it again.

Also I hated Catcher in the Rye. I kinda wanted to find Holden Caulfield and beat the living hell out of him and tell him to just grow a set already. Entirely too much bitching.

~Layla

 

The Elizabeth George book 'A Great Deliverance.' I wanted to like this book because I wanted to get into the series, but the junior character (the working class sergeant) just about irritated me as much as any character could.

 

I could go the rest of my life never remembering a single scene from "Lord of the Flies" and I'd be happy.

I fucking hated that book.

Sm**chies!

Jacob.

 

Michael Crichton's Congo
Tom Wolfe's A Man In Full
Rush Limbaugh's How To Be A Fat, Drug Addicted, Cocksucker

 

Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar

 

the scarlet pimpernel

 

Did you even read the whole book, it was unbelieveably lighthearted and uncomprimisingly loving to many darker aspects of the universe or things that we just don't like, like religion (well comparatively speaking). As a spiritual person I thought you might have understood the point of that.

 

"The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I know that some people will find this blasphemous but I thought it was absolutely awful.
Read "The Alchemist" instead.

 

If it don`t grab me from page 1 then i don`t read it, so i wouldn`t know whether i hate a book, hate`s a bit strong really, it`s just not to your taste..

I wont have the Alistair Crowleys `Magick ` in my house....does that count??

 

I found that book fantastic. Achebe has written some excellent essays also.

 

I hated 'Moby Dick', 'A Tale of Two Cities' by Dickins and Joseph Conrads 'Heart of Darkness'.