Worst Book Ever?

[Daedalus1942]

"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.

Umm... and also Ian Fleming? Jesus... possibly the greatest spy novelist ever and you think of Tom Clancy first? He's written some great books sure but there's not a bad book writtten by Fleming. Partly cause he drew on his own life as inspiration, sure but still,
Ian frigging Fleming! Also, I quite like some of Rachel Caine's works...
-Tabs<3-
P.S people saying Twilight... you're cheating in my honest opinion.
Worst book I've read would most likely have to be the Mass effect novels.
In particular, Ascension.
Drew Karpyshyn really is a hack writer.

 

[Daedalus1942]

Birth Control is Sinful in the Christian Marriages and also Robbing God of Priesthood Children!!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1425992609?ie=UTF8&tag=pwonderful-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1425992609

lmao, know whats funnier than the book title, what other people who looked at it were viewing lol. Also the price wtf

What was so funny? The uranium ore, wolf urine or vegan cookies?
xD
-Tabs<3-
-edit- or perhaps "How to live with a Huge penis?"

 

[Lizardon]

Worst book I've personally read is The Road. It is such a boring story. Why do I want to read about a man and a boy, who the author is to lazy to name, do nothing in a post apocalyptic wasteland. I want to read about what the hell happened to the world!

But what pissed me off the most was that the author doesn't use proper grammar. There are no quotation marks so its impossible to know who's saying what, or if anything is being said. My teacher said he's writing doesn't follow set conventions because the world he is writing about has rules. That's a load of bull. It's just a stupid book that I never finished and still got an A for the assesment ;-)

 

[infohippie]

Now Twilight and that Justin Bieber book are obviously going to be absolutely awful, but I can't really pass judgement since I have never read either nor am I going to.
My entry, therefore, will have to be Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. This is the most tedious, mind-numbing, godawful book I have ever had the misfortune to read. I had to read it nearly twenty years ago for year 11 English Literature class.
If I remember correctly, I don't think I was ever able to keep the characters or anything they did clear in my mind, so for the only time ever I had to rely on the Cliff's Notes in order to write the essays that were assigned for the class.

 

[dlsevern]

I've heard so many people say that "The Silmirilion" was amazing, but it bored me. It reminded me of trying to get through the appendixes at the end of Lord of the Rings. I couldn't finish it.

 

[Ekonk]

The Bible.

Also, Twilight is hilarious.

 

[emeraldrafael]

inb4 twilight

Actually:

ALSO Twilight

I.e. person who posted right before you.

OT:
Personal opinion. I found Oliver Twist to be bland and boring and really struggled to finish it. Yet I like other works by him and other authors of the period. I dont know,s omething about the pacing I guess, and that I was 12, so I wasnt exactly jumping at the chance to read it.

But I dont know, I guess more against a book would be the twilight series cause its poorly written. Mmm... THe book I'm reading now Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith is kinda mortifying, cause its about Mormon Fundamentalists and some of the violent things that have happened and been associated with them (not saying its bad ot be one... though I personally couldnt follow their rules of religion). It starts out with the violent murder of a young woman and her 15 month old daughter because "God told the Brother to do it" and it just goes down hill after. I'm struggling to finish this too, mostly cause I'm honestly scared of what... I dont know, horrifying thing I'll read next will be.

 

[Jamous]

Hood by Stephen Lawhead. Welsh Obsession, and bad reasoning.

 

[Kingshadow6]

There was a book I had to read called "Shabanu" about some Middle Eastern teenage girl who was supposed to marry some guy she liked, but that gets messed up and she's forced to marry some 40 year old polygamist. She has the chance to escape her shitty life at the end,

Spoiler: Spoiler'd for the ending

but a single one of the family's dozens of camels gets hurt and she doesn't want to leave it behind.

It may just be the cultural gap, but that was probably the stupidest thing I've ever read.

 

[Bon_Clay]

A lot of the books people are mentioning that are generally assigned to be read in school like the Great Gatsby I liked. I think the way English class makes you take forever to go through the book and over analyze the hell out of it (a lot of the time coming up with bullshit interpretations) really makes it less enjoyable that it could be. Having to write a test about a book you read is one of the quickest ways to make someone hate reading books.

I've found some books boring, but I don't know if I've ever read something that I would say is completely terrible and poorly written. I can't even say something so widely hated as Twilight is a bad book since I haven't read it. Though I would guess that at least 20% of its hate could have been avoided if the sparkling thing wasn't added. There really is absolutely no excuse for that.

 

[mattttherman3]

There was this one book I thought was okay in highschool, but now realise is just something to try and prevent underage drinking. It's called My Name is Davy I'm an Alcoholic.

Basicly a guy is not liked much, drinks at school, kool kids catch him, they drink together, boy meets girl, they get real drunk, try to quit, they go to a party, he gets wasted, her drink is spiked, she drowns, and 10 years later, after screaming at some kids who offer his homeless ass money, he realizes he has hit rock bottom and goes to Alcoholics Annonymous.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

I think part of the problem with some of the classics that show up here, are because people are FORCED to go thru them, and not just read them, but study them and analyse them, picking them apart for meanings.

I'm not saying they're all good, but I imagine there'd be less hate for those discovered later on, not forced upon you at the age of 12 'read 50 pages a night or else'.

My votes would be almost anyone under 40 with an autobiography ( there's exceptions, but Wayne Rooney, Katie Price, Bieber? can you see where I'm heading?), because really, how much can someone have done?

Secondly , third rate 'journalists' who decide they can repackage their hate filled opinion pieces into a book, bonus points going to Richrd Littlejohn, King of all the newspaper arseholes, who not only writes hateful racist shite, usually stealing old jokes from the 70s, but then, actually building a story around it. Honestly, 300 pages about a good ol' boy brit, some immigrants, some human rights lawyers, and everything else that regularly appears in his column.

This also goes out to books by Jeremy Kyle, Clarkson, Piers Morgan and anyone else who's ever had a newspaper column. Except Charlie Brooker, because he's not hiding the fact that he hates stuff, he's quite open about it and actually witty and smart about it.

 

[Monoclebear]

The worst book i have ever read was ,,Island of the Blue Dolphins''. It was so f***ing boring.
They made us read it in 4th or 5th grade, and man i hate this book. I mean this girl is alone on a small island for 17 years, fights wolfs and kraken and stuff and it is still boring.

 

[k-ossuburb]

James Herbert "Haunted"

I picked it up for 99p from a charity store because I needed something to read on the train, I wish I picked up something else. I'm never going to forgive that ending.

 

[Funkysandwich]

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

You wouldn't be the first person to have thought that...

 

[CoachZ]

The one book that I'll always have a hate on for is Stephen King's "The Stand". I actually thoroughly enjoyed it although the interweaving personalities and storylines got a little annoying, but then the end. Oh, the end. Worst ending in the history of novels ever. It honestly felt like he got bored and just ended it because he felt he had too. This is a general complaint of mine about the man, but this book was the worst perpetrator for shite endings. To be honest, I think he wrote better when he adopted his pseudonym in an attempt to see if he could recreate his own success under a new identity. Those books actually had a fire under them, whereas his normal novels tend to have a forced feel to them. But I digress...

 

[karloss01]

Spoiler

i've never read this book but i've heard that it is terrible. ;D

 

[Hawk of Battle]

I once had to read Jekyll and Hyde for english class. It was the most boring book I have ever read.

 

[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.

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.

That doesn't count. Also, I'm quite sure he either doesn't have any friends, or the ones he has would be saying it to shut him up. Or his pterodactyl-hunter/artillery officer random guy that he brings along to dinosaur hunts.