Worst Book Ever?

[InnerRebellion]

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen.

 

[The_Echo]

Every book is the worst book.

Conversely, every book is the best book.

This is a matter of opinion, so unless there's a book that did to literature what Manos: The Hands of Fate did to film, I don't think there's an actual "worst book ever."

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Ruins of Dantooine. Even haters of the Republic Commando series believe that this is even worse than they are.

But I like Republic Commando.

 

[Holyeskimo]

The Great Gatsby, that book bored the living hell out of me so bad i would have rather reread bloody romio & juilet then it.

And I liked reading The Great Gatsby. Can't remember what I liked about it though...been a year or two since I read it

Well i'd only read what you would expect out of an english class, and fantasy books like drizzit up to that point so my taste's probably weren't tempered for that kind of book

I also feel like a spell-tard now, bloody a key

 

[WicketL]

"Justin Bieber: My Story"

ALSO Twilight and anything involving spies (Aside from Chekists)

Most of auto-help books and any book to low steem teenagers, like Twilight or anything like it. Yeah i'm looking at HP now, i don't like so c'mon fan boys.
HP isn't bad, i just don't like that teen thing on it and the way that show wizards and magic at all, totally random like all spells are look alike from the others. But i admit that have a deep inspiration and a lot of researched stuff. Because of that i was only joking putting it here.

 

[Tdc2182]

Jarhead.

A few hundred pages about a person who joined the marines complaining that the Marine Corp was... the Marine Corp.

He was pissed that it was hard and unrewarding, despite being completely prepared for it and wanting to do it since he was a boy. The movie completely missed the point. The guy is whiny complaining idiot.

It was a book about someone who was lazy. A late developing procrastinator who complained about a life he chose expecting something he never would explain in the story. It was completely stupid.

 

[AMMO Kid]

The Alan Wake instruction manual sucked to be honest

 

[Thyunda]

Every book is the worst book.

Conversely, every book is the best book.

This is a matter of opinion, so unless there's a book that did to literature what Manos: The Hands of Fate did to film, I don't think there's an actual "worst book ever."

Literature is not something based solely on opinion. There are rules to literature. Rules you cannot disobey.

 

[The_Echo]

Every book is the worst book.

Conversely, every book is the best book.

This is a matter of opinion, so unless there's a book that did to literature what Manos: The Hands of Fate did to film, I don't think there's an actual "worst book ever."

Literature is not something based solely on opinion. There are rules to literature. Rules you cannot disobey.

That doesn't mean one can't have the opinion that a work of literature which breaks all of those rules is good. Thus, the merit of any given creative work is still up to personal opinions.

 

[Thyunda]

Every book is the worst book.

Conversely, every book is the best book.

This is a matter of opinion, so unless there's a book that did to literature what Manos: The Hands of Fate did to film, I don't think there's an actual "worst book ever."

Literature is not something based solely on opinion. There are rules to literature. Rules you cannot disobey.

That doesn't mean one can't have the opinion that a work of literature which breaks all of those rules is good. Thus, the merit of any given creative work is still up to personal opinions.

If you can find me evidence that 'Living Dinosaurs' by Philip O'Donnell has any kind of merit in anybody's opinion, I'll pay heed to your point.

 

[The_Echo]

Every book is the worst book.

Conversely, every book is the best book.

This is a matter of opinion, so unless there's a book that did to literature what Manos: The Hands of Fate did to film, I don't think there's an actual "worst book ever."

Literature is not something based solely on opinion. There are rules to literature. Rules you cannot disobey.

That doesn't mean one can't have the opinion that a work of literature which breaks all of those rules is good. Thus, the merit of any given creative work is still up to personal opinions.

If you can find me evidence that 'Living Dinosaurs' by Philip O'Donnell has any kind of merit in anybody's opinion, I'll pay heed to your point.

With a world population of over seven billion people, you cannot tell me that there is no one on this earth that would find Living Dinosaurs a good read. Especially if we're counting the author himself, but I assume we aren't. (I mean, c'mon. You know those lame-o newspapers with stories like "Batboy Spotted on Moon Surface"? There are people who read that shit like it's their job.)

 

[Thyunda]

Every book is the worst book.

Conversely, every book is the best book.

This is a matter of opinion, so unless there's a book that did to literature what Manos: The Hands of Fate did to film, I don't think there's an actual "worst book ever."

Literature is not something based solely on opinion. There are rules to literature. Rules you cannot disobey.

That doesn't mean one can't have the opinion that a work of literature which breaks all of those rules is good. Thus, the merit of any given creative work is still up to personal opinions.

If you can find me evidence that 'Living Dinosaurs' by Philip O'Donnell has any kind of merit in anybody's opinion, I'll pay heed to your point.

With a world population of over seven billion people, you cannot tell me that there is no one on this earth that would find Living Dinosaurs a good read. Especially if we're counting the author himself, but I assume we aren't. (I mean, c'mon. You know those lame-o newspapers with stories like "Batboy Spotted on Moon Surface"? There are people who read that shit like it's their job.)

Alright, I change my definition. Anybody who can read Living Dinosaurs and take it as it was intended - outright fact, with serious crypto-religious messages, and not read it because it's hilariously bad.
And I'm fairly sure not all of those people speak English, the one language it was printed in.

 

[Eogris]

great expectations. enough said.

 

[black-magic]

I hated the unabridged Frankenstein, but I was probably too young to appreciate it...

 

[The_Echo]

Every book is the worst book.

Conversely, every book is the best book.

This is a matter of opinion, so unless there's a book that did to literature what Manos: The Hands of Fate did to film, I don't think there's an actual "worst book ever."

Literature is not something based solely on opinion. There are rules to literature. Rules you cannot disobey.

That doesn't mean one can't have the opinion that a work of literature which breaks all of those rules is good. Thus, the merit of any given creative work is still up to personal opinions.

If you can find me evidence that 'Living Dinosaurs' by Philip O'Donnell has any kind of merit in anybody's opinion, I'll pay heed to your point.

With a world population of over seven billion people, you cannot tell me that there is no one on this earth that would find Living Dinosaurs a good read. Especially if we're counting the author himself, but I assume we aren't. (I mean, c'mon. You know those lame-o newspapers with stories like "Batboy Spotted on Moon Surface"? There are people who read that shit like it's their job.)

Alright, I change my definition. Anybody who can read Living Dinosaurs and take it as it was intended - outright fact, with serious crypto-religious messages, and not read it because it's hilariously bad.
And I'm fairly sure not all of those people speak English, the one language it was printed in.

Spoiler: Oh, oh, you're a clever one. Changing to rules to prove your point, I see what you did there.

I'm sure Mr. O'Donnell has a friend or something who's like "Yeah, man! You're totally right!", without being an obligatory fan because of his relationship with the writer.

 

[AlexWinter]

Catcher in the Rye.

A classic.

Had me thinking, next page it's going to get good on every single fucking page.

For fuck sake.

It's more of a story you have to "look" for, not just turn the page and *surprise*

Sometimes a book doesn't have to have a unique story or a gripping writing style, writing can be used as an method to get a message across, to enact an understandable idea towards the reader. You have to read between the lines to truly understand what Salinger was trying to say.

But some people don't like that style of storytelling which is understandable given it can be boring, tedious, Cliche and simply dumb in its presentation. Sometimes though, this was the writers intention, to make you question his motives for writing in such a way like the use of the word "Phony" so many times, its a message and Salinger was just bashing into your head a few hundred times to get that message across.

I understood the message but why would anyone want to read a book about some annoying emo kid that whines about everything. Yeah I get it, everyone went through that kind of depressing stage where they bitched and moaned about everything and had no friends. If I saw someone acting like Caulfield I don't think I could stand being around them long enough to strangle them.

It just seemed like, a shit set up for a boring, anti-climactic ending.

 

[thethingthatlurks]

Of all the books I've actually finished, I have to award The Road as being the worst book ever. Now, I know every literary critic from here to Timbuktu will have my head, but the one thing that kept me sane while reading that book was knowing I was going to throw it as hard as I could against the wall.

While I wouldn't exactly call it the worst book ever written, I completely agree that it doesn't deserve the critical acclaim. But hey, at least it was short

Anyway, my worst books EVAR:
Frankenstein. One of the few books that actually caused me to fall asleep while reading. This is shitty writing at its finest, an inept author takes the sensationalist taboo subject du jour and adds some pop-culture elements (which in this case happen to be gothic "horror") to it. Kinda like the Twilight of the 19th century...
Peace Like a River. I had to read this for English back in high school. It's essentially a book about how being religious is so wonderful, and how marvelous heaven is, etc. This obviously didn't sit well with this hell-bound, hedonistic apostate.

On a less serious note:

Spoiler: The Bible

 

[NaramSuen]

Catcher in the Rye and the Great Gatsby. I don't know if they are really the worst books ever, but they are certainly over-rated and a chore to read.
In my experience, books based on video games are pretty bad, see Mass Effect. Also, many books in any popular series Expanded Universe tend to be pretty crappy, see Star Wars and Star Trek.
However, the hands down winner for worst book is the Lure of the Labrador Wild. Read it for free and you will still feel ripped off.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4019

 

[Arsen]

Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five".

I fell asleep reading it three times out of pure boredom, lack of prose, and the inability to be entertaining. Literary classic my ass...