Worst Book Ever?

[kakaomasse]

gosh i thought i saw justin bieber there smiling at me...THERE HE IS, GOD NEWWW!
worst book would be the tale of the body thief from anne rice...i was practically suffocating but i have a bad habit of finishing anything i start to read...whhyy?
never read twilight but saw some pretty decent parodies...i may get around it, so i can laugh some more ;P
btw, i heard there was a version of pride and prejudice with zombies? i gotta have it!

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

If you read the original post and my examples, you'll find out that I didn't ever say you had to read the book. I only read the blurb before formulating a decision about Katie Price.

Not familiar with the term "blurb" to be honest.

 

[nin_ninja]

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

Or frieking Xenocide, that ruined Ender's Game for me.

 

[Ace of Spades]

If a play counts, I would have to vote for J.M. Synge's 'Playboy of the Western World'. I'm not exaggerating when I say that every character in that play was a jackass.

 

[BioHazardMan]

The Scarlet Letter...Good god

 

[velcrokidneyz]

websters dictionary, what the fuck do they know,
and the ending was so predictable.

Interesteing "characters" (see what i did there?), but the plot was very contrived and you never find out who webster is.

 

[velcrokidneyz]

If you read the original post and my examples, you'll find out that I didn't ever say you had to read the book. I only read the blurb before formulating a decision about Katie Price.

Not familiar with the term "blurb" to be honest.

the little paragraph on the back of the book jacket saying what its about

 

[velcrokidneyz]

gosh i thought i saw justin bieber there smiling at me...THERE HE IS, GOD NEWWW!
worst book would be the tale of the body thief from anne rice...i was practically suffocating but i have a bad habit of finishing anything i start to read...whhyy?
never read twilight but saw some pretty decent parodies...i may get around it, so i can laugh some more ;P
btw, i heard there was a version of pride and prejudice with zombies? i gotta have it!

indeed, pride prejudice and zombies by seth grahame-smith, as well as sense and sensibility and seamonsters, adn newly dawn of the dreadfuls, my brother loves them and i am going to give them a chance

 

[Huddo]

"Justin Bieber: My Story"

Spoiler: Spoilered for size

Oh wow... is his neck really that long, or was it just a bad camera angle? I hope it's just a bad angle...

 

[octafish]

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents ? except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. Paul Clifford by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

You can't go past the classics, although the Harry Potter books are an interesting mix of purple prose, repetitiveness and stilted structure. Like Dan Brown for kids. I can't believe no-one has mentioned the Left Behind books yet either.

 

[Hader]

To break away from the first few book names I saw mentioned...

I would say I disliked The Fountainhead the most. Yeah, the one by Ayn Rand...never heard of her until I read this book and even then it was a required read for senior year language arts. I think it was her somewhat bland style combined with my teacher's unhealthy obsession with the author that made me really loathe discussion of the book, let alone reading it.

 

[Thyunda]

If you read the original post and my examples, you'll find out that I didn't ever say you had to read the book. I only read the blurb before formulating a decision about Katie Price.

Not familiar with the term "blurb" to be honest.

The writing on the back of the book

 

[Professor James]

Firewing by Kenneth Oppel. Don't get me wrong Kenneth Oppel is a pretty good author. I loved the 2 previous books in the Silverwing series, but he seemed to lost his touch. We meet Shade's son Griffin who is basically an unlikable version of his father. He gets trapped in the Underworld and Shade must go on a mind numbingly boring adventure to rescue him. from what I read (which is about the first 3 or 4 chapters) the new characters become forgettable and the old characters become predictable and clichéd.

 

[Steambroom]

To me it would be "Die Leiden des jungen Werther" by Goethe.

I know it´s supposed to be a "classic", but still I think it´s just terrible.

Let me explain, the story follows young Werther who falls in love with a girl.
Girl is although promised to another man.
Ripped apart by his emotions he sets a gun to his head and ends his life.

First of all it´s nearly frigging unreadable, there are pages only committed to a single
scenery and his feelings about it all packed in over 200 year old German.

Also because of this it´s also incredibly boring, which is a painful to your eyes.

Well I wasn´t able to read it completely, therefor I bought a compilation of it
(had to be read for school).

Also Stephen Kings books are mostly very good, but what disturbs me that the endings are
out of the sudden and with no explanation.

 

[WOPR]

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.

Something tells me this will be spammed with "TWILIGHT!" and "THE BIBLE!"

...I say twilight; I love reading and no book has ever gotten me to say "no" after about half way through the book

...seriously what book build up "he might be a vampire" for the first HALF only to say on the back of the book "I knew He was a vampire when-"

that's like reading a Sherlock Holmes book and it saying who was behind it all on the very back

and having the story stretch out on catching him for 3 more books!

...in other words just go watch the movie while someone sits next to you telling you how everything happens

 

[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.

 

[WOPR]

inb4 twilight

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

EPIC

QUICK!
IF YOU READ TWILIGHT, GO BUY CASTLEVANIA SYMPHONY OF THE NIGHT!
DON'T SEE WHERE I'M GOING WITH THIS JUST DO IT!
NOW!

 

[VivaciousDeimos]

The last book in David Eddings' The Dreamers series. Now don't get me wrong, I love David Eddings writing, but the way the book ends the series is complete bullshit.

The first three books in the series where good, solid Eddings books. They had everything that a one of his books would normally have. Yet in the fourth book, after building tension for most of the series about the epic final battle and then, wait for it, they solve the problem by going back in time and killing the villan before it beacame dangerous. He wasted three and a half goddamned books.

I wanted to love The Dreamers so much, simply because Eddings is one of my favorite authors, but the series just doesn't stand up to The Belgariad or The Elenium.

As for my worst list, let's see...The Eye of Argon is a classic: so hilariously bad it curves back around into readable just to see the absurdity continue. The Inheritance Cycle is like Twilight for boys, but I'm committed to seeing how it ends--a combination of guilty pleasure and bile fascination I suppose.

 

[Mechalemmiwinks]

Twilight, obviously.

Oh, and anything past the 3rd Dark Tower book, just as a matter of disappointment via contrast. Imagine, a rockin' epic cowboy knight saga...turned into a pop-culture-referencing-cheeselog-Stephen-King-poop. Not to spoil anything, but King pulls a Deus Ex Douchina and writes himself into the story to progress the plot.

 

[Thyunda]

Twilight, obviously.

Oh, and anything past the 3rd Dark Tower book, just as a matter of disappointment via contrast. Imagine, a rockin' epic cowboy knight saga...turned into a pop-culture-referencing-cheeselog-Stephen-King-poop. Not to spoil anything, but King pulls a Deus Ex Douchina and writes himself into the story to progress the plot.

Now I liked that bit. The pop-culture references made sense in the setting...