Worst Book Ever?

[Thyunda]

What would you say is the worst book you know of? You don't have to have read it - hell, if it's that bad, you'd never make it past the blurb.

For me...it's a toss-up between any of Katie Price's God-awful books or a failed, self-published attempt at cryptozoology.
I mean, I read the blurb of one of Price's books. It's about a girl name Summer who can't decide whether she should stick with her successful, well-paid, loyal boyfriend, or if she should run off with some unemployed layabout surfer guy. That's a bit of a shit plot no matter what way you look at it...and the blurb ends with a teasing question. What will she do?
Common sense says she stays with her boyfriend. Cynical predictability says she'll run off with surfer guy. Internet says she's spit-roasted by the two of them, and I say she overdoses on stupid pills and dies.

And the cryptozoology book...it attempts to prove the Bible through the existence of dinosaurs in modern day, and describes the United Kingdom as a remote part of the world.
Yeah. That about sums it up.

 

[Terminate421]

"Justin Bieber: My Story"

ALSO Twilight and anything involving spies (Aside from Chekists)

 

[Ensiferum]

inb4 twilight

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Twilight. I thinks it's pretty self explanatory.
Horrible plot, horrible characters and it systematically destroyed vampires as an awesome mythological creature.

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

I generally take a long time picking my books... I'm fairly picky so I don't read many bad ones.

I've read quite a few bland ones, and I'm sick of Teen Spy books, but I couldn't name any that were terrible I've read.

 

[Lilani]

I predict that the word "Twilight" will be the most common one on this thread.

On topic, I don't think I can accurately judge this because if I don't like a book I don't finish it. There aren't too many books I was forced to read during school, and of those I didn't particularly despise any. I guess Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix really bored me, but I was only like in middle school or Jr. High so suffice it to say my tastes have significantly changed since then.

 

[Koroviev]

I can't believe I even read it, let alone finished it, but at any rate, Winkie is a literary abomination.

I'd also like to nominate Glenn Beck's The Christmas Sweater and The Overton Window.

"Suit yourself, lady. I'm telling you right now, you made the rules, but you're playing with fire here. I've got some rules, too, and rule number one is don't tease the panther."

- The Overton Window

 

[Rathcoole]

I agree anything that comes from Katie Price (Jordan) is just plain drivel. The women can not write to save her life. How she managed to get where she is without any discernible talent is beyond me. Oh wait no it's because she has huge tits my mistake. That enough to make someone a celebrity these days apparently.

 

[Hyrulian Hero]

Twilight. It appeals only to 13 year-old girls who are usually at the intelligence level of your below average retard anyways, so it barely counts as a book. It destroys vampires, and werewolves, and books... and movies! Stephanie Meyers once said Stephen King was her favorite author and inspiration for writing. He replied by saying he was sorry she said that and that her books were crap. No one likes her, or her work and she needs to go stand in traffic.

 

[Geekosaurus]

It's nice to see new books like Twilight and Justin Bieber getting hated on before the old classics - like the Bible.

 

[mikecoulter]

I think any autobiography by UK "celebrities" could just be burned and nobody would notice.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

3.Richard the 2 (shakespeare)
Just incredibly boring, but I understand Shakespeare wrote it under historical pressures and it has other significances, and one really nifty soliloquy in it.
2.The Ruby in the Smoke (pullman)
That book just sucked. I could tell all plot devices a mile off, the plot itself was a bloated mess, there was no pacing or indentification with any characters, but at least he tried
1. Twilight (meyer)
Dreadful linear plot, cardboard cutout characters, but the descriptions aaaaaaarrrrggghh. They just drained your will to live. I only got to chapter 14 or so. Then I gave up in disgust.

EDIT: oh, and the Twilight series is not a 'saga' that has always annoyed me. Sagas were awesome poetic epics from scandanavia. What gave her the idiotic notion that her books were a saga? they're not poems, not set, written, or even anything to do with norse mythology or culture.

 

[ninja555]

Anything by Dan Brown. His books are a blight upon the literary world. Cujo was awful and so were the Hannibal Lector books. And there are plently of books that I wouldn't mind forgetting, Catcher in the Rye and Demon in my View being two of them.

 

[SilverUchiha]

"Justin Bieber: My Story"

ALSO Twilight and anything involving spies (Aside from Chekists)

No fair starting off with that!

OT: I'm gonna have to say I disliked both "Red Badge of Courage" and "Scarlet Letter" the most and equally. They may not be bad to some people. But in a classroom context where you are forced to look for as much symbolism as you can and not actually try to enjoy the book to any degree... they become really hated really fast.

 

[Jazzyjazz2323]

Catcher In The Rye,after I read that book I wanted to kill someone.

 

[KissofKetchup]

"Justin Bieber: My Story"
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ALSO Twilight and anything involving spies (Aside from Chekists)

Anything with spies? That pretty rules out anything by Tom Clancy. Those may not be the best books ever written, but they're not shit.

 

[staika]

i dont really read books but i do remember in my high school english class we were forced to read the scarlet letter and by god did i hate that book it was so boring and the language was pretty advance (or maybe it was because of that god damn symbolism we were forced to find and describe) and what makes it worse is that i was basically one of the only people in my class to understand it so i was forced to explain alot to my classmates