What are some of the worst books you have ever read?

There are always book love threads, now it is time for a book hate thread.

I only read about 3 pages of the Davinci code, so I don't really have a right to call it the worst book I have ever read, but those three pages were pretty bad.

The worst book I have read a substantial amount of? "The Loner's Manifesto" by Anneli Rufus. I thought that it would be a comforting and enlightening read, being somewhat of a loner myself, but it kind of made me not want to be a loner anymore. Perhaps Ms. Rufus was kidding, but I didn't get the joke. Most of the book is spent glorifying loners into this epic sub-species of humanity that are so strong and logical as to have need for any human company whatsoever - whilst painting every single "social" person in society as someone who has respect for loners whatever, not a scrap of original thought and no respect for privacy. If the author was a good example of your average loner, I am inclined to believe that loners are delusional. Her observations would have been better if they were not so extreme.

 

robinson crusoe sucked a fat dick

 

Great Expectations and Wuthering Heights both made me want to punch a baby.

 

I loved it. It was so epic, if not taken too seriously.

 

A couple of Dan Brown books, I should have burned them but I simply threw them outside.

Anything by John Grisham.

"A Catcher in the Rye".

"A Clockwork Orange"

"Fahrenheit 451"

"War and Peace"

The second half of Dostoyevski's "The Idiot"

"Beowulf"

Anything by Chuck who Mojo loves, even though they are entertaining, yet in no way, shape, or form "good".

"The Color Purple"

"The Taming of the Shrew"

Any mythology that I had to read, for I hate it all and had to read way too much of it

Dante's "Inferno" is one long bore.

Hmm, can't think of any more off the top of my head.

 

YES.

 

Ugh, The Color Purple is painful. I tried to read it, but it's a mess of horrible grammar and ebonics.

I also agree with Fahrenheit 451 and Beowulf. Blech.

 

A farewell to Arms was just brutal for me

 

I liked that one, but I'm a big Hemingway fan.

It could have been a tad less sappy though, especially in the ending.

 

Dianetics, read about 4 pages and brain damage started to occur.

 

fahrenheit 451 had so much potential but failed

 

i want to give it another shot...just to be fair...i had to read it for a crappy old lady prof

 

I chose to overlook its faults...it had some really awesome concepts and cool things to say. I enjoyed it.

 

The worst book I ever read was The Keep by F Paul Wilson

It was about a group of SS officers and soldiers who are charged to guard a castle in the carpathian mountains during WWII, only to find themselves slowly killed off by some supernatural force with a hard-on for Jews


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madge piercy's he she it.

 

I think that all the awesome concepts and cool things to say were extremely dumbed down in order to fit the teenage-reader genre. I have always hated books aimed at teens for their bastardization of ideas that could be amazing. 451 does just this.

 

Every single bad book I've read was forced down my throat by institutions of learning.

 

is that because you're really that selective on the books you choose to read?

 

The bible.

No coherent narrative structure, one dimensional characters, and cripplingly long.

 

You would go so far as to besmirch the greatest book ever written

I knew there was a reason I liked you :cheers2:

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