Subject: Worst Book Ever
Posted by: Legola12
Date: Apr 12 04
What is the worst book you have ever read?
I have read two- "Silas Marner" (sorry if I'm offending you if you liked it. I thought it was so weird) and that children's book "The Giving Tree". I about cried when I read that one. If you've never heard of it, you're blessed.
Your thoughts??
Posted by: Legola12
Date: Apr 12 04
What is the worst book you have ever read?
I have read two- "Silas Marner" (sorry if I'm offending you if you liked it. I thought it was so weird) and that children's book "The Giving Tree". I about cried when I read that one. If you've never heard of it, you're blessed.
Your thoughts??
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MiCharlie124 
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Sophie's World A treatise on the history of philosophy told in novel form. I trudged through the entire book, hating every moment of it. Reply #201. Sep 23 09, 12:58 PM |
| MiCharlie124
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Bit of blasphemy here, but I have never understood the love for A Catcher in the Rye. Reply #202. Sep 23 09, 12:59 PM |
lesley153
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Ask mutchisman if he thinks not liking Catcher is blasphemy! There's a lot of people who think they're in a minority of one when they don't like something that's regarded as an icon. I read it when I was about 14 - the class Bohemian lent it to me - and I thought it was "er OK" at the time. I'm sure I didn't understand half of it, and wonder if I'd appreciate it properly now I'm cough cough grown up. Reply #203. Sep 25 09, 6:37 AM |
AvrilBDT
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Twilight, I read up to the third one...Badly written, blown up to be something it's not...Definitly the worst thing I've ever read. Reply #204. Sep 27 09, 1:00 PM |
adams627
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I've decided that the text of "Heart of Darkness" was written to be metaphorically as dense as the jungle that I think Conrad was trying to describe. I'm not quite sure what he was aiming at with that book, but it didn't sit well with me. Reply #205. Sep 27 09, 3:07 PM |
illiniman14
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Well adams627, don't worry because you're not alone. The only book that came to mind for me when I read this topic was "Heart of Darkness" - by far the most boring book I've ever had to read (for class, certainly wouldn't voluntarily!) and the movies made from it are nearly as bad (sorry to all of those "Apocalypse Now" lovers out there) Reply #206. Oct 06 09, 8:05 PM |
swissmiss15
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"The DaVinci Code." Complete rubbish! Reply #207. Oct 12 09, 4:05 PM |
jolana
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MiCharlie, I have just finished "Sophie´s World" and must disagree with you - I find it one of the finest novels ever written. Reply #208. Oct 12 09, 5:14 PM |
| Richie15
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I read about 70 or 80 pages of a Stephen King book once - I think it was 'Salem's Lot' - before giving up in despair at the sheer unreadability of the thing. That wasn't the worst, though - that honour went to a book about talking badgers called 'The Cold Moons' by someone called Aeron Clement which was all done and dusted by (about) page 17. Reply #209. Oct 12 09, 5:32 PM |
halfbloodfreak
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the twilight books are definitly number one for me. terribly written. then its Little women took me a month to read love the movie though couldn't get past the first couple of pages of wuthering heights or Eragon. oh and i detest LOTR Reply #210. Oct 14 09, 8:17 AM |
Calpurnia09
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John Irving has written some good books but "Until I Find You" is not one of them. I spent most of my Christmas holidays one year ploughing through the whole 900 pages plus to finish this load of rubbish to present to my book group. I have had harsh feelings towards the person who choose it ever since. Most others didn't bother to read more than a few hundred pages whch made me madder than ever. Reply #211. Nov 07 09, 6:08 AM |
uc0nnfan92
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must agree with wuthering heights also, didn't get very far before I had to give it up. Quite boring. Reply #212. Nov 08 09, 1:43 PM |
rapunzelbabe
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"The Shack" was pure drivel. It was anti-intellectual, cheesy, boring, juvenile, poorly-written, and dumb. For the life of me, I cannot understand what people see in this book. I only read because my book club is reading it. I consider myself an avid reader and I have read a lot of books from a lot of different genres, but it was possibly the WORST book I have ever read. I know I sound cynical, but I have no idea how it could be a bestseller. I would like to think that I tried to read it with an open mind, but it was a sappy pseudo-Christian allegory story and I was queasy most of the way through it. Had to force myself to finish it. I hated it about as much as I hated "Jonathan Livingston Seagull and the Celestine Prophesy and I loathed both of those, too. I spent a dollar for it used, but would like my money back! Honestly, I probably won't even donate it to charity, but will throw it away instead. Should be titled, "How to cash in on desperate people who are seeking religious transformation by reading irrational watered down heavily metaphorical junk." If you want good fiction, go elsewhere. If you want enlightening, inspirational reading, seek out real philosophers. If you want good theology, go to church or something-- but this is just an annoying, non-profound, stupid bit of trash and a big waste of time. Reply #213. Nov 09 09, 12:01 AM |
mutchisman
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"Ask mutchisman if he thinks not liking Catcher is blasphemy!" Oh Lesley; of all our secrets you have to let that one slip! lol So now I've been outed as a Philistine I must agree with MiCharlie, I never 'got' "Catcher in the Rye" either. I tried hard to emphasise with Holden Cauliflower, I really did, but in the end he just came across to me as a bit of a tosser who could do with a slap. Not my worst book though: I struggled right to the end of "The Gulag Archipeligo" by Solzhenitsyn, phew, about 63 million pages guaranteed to depress even the most passionate optimist. OK so it needed writing but the prose is so turgid it should be mandatory treatment for chronic insommniacs... Reply #214. Nov 09 09, 3:56 AM |
| mutchisman
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Whoops - 0r even 'empathise with' - must stop posting before I'm awake. Can we please have an Edit button? Reply #215. Nov 09 09, 5:59 AM |
| sarahcateh
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I know that this is blasphemy, but I'm not a big fan of Jane Austen and I wanted to kill myself after being forced to read "Persuasion" for class. It sucked. Reply #216. Nov 09 09, 10:43 AM |
Schoonie101
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Now I never liked the Austen/Bronte/etc. type books we had to read in school, just not my style at all. I do enjoy Stephen King books (actually, the LACK of resolution is what makes his stories great, it's not cut and dried, you use your imagination) but The TommyKnockers was beyond terrible. Cujo was a close 2nd for King. Then again, he admits that he was, how do I say this tactfully, heavily under the influence of multiple substances (and not healthy ones either) while writing them. It shows. Silmarillon was wretched. Made you realize that there is a reason books go through an editing process. But the worst of all time has to be Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis. I had to read that for a History class quiz. I honestly tried to read it. After absolutely nothing happening the first few dozen pages, I switched to the Cliffs Notes just so I could get the gist for the quiz. Unfortunately, nothing happened in those either and I fell asleep. Still got a B on the quiz or so just skimming the Cliffs 5 minutes before class. Nothing happened so there wasn't much to remember. One benefit, I suppose. That book could have been edited down to 4 pages and it would still have been a yawner. I feel terrible for the trees that were cut down to create those books. What a waste. Reply #217. Nov 10 09, 1:55 AM |
| Schoonie101
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Just going to add that when the CLIFFS NOTES bore you to sleep, that's a scary, scary sign. :) Oh, left off part of that first sentence in my last post. Not counting Austen/Bronte in that list of worst books. They're not my taste and we had a real feminazi teacher who crammed all this down on our throats but that isn't a knock on the books at all. I do think, though, that there is a major difference between reading for school and reading for pleasure. Plenty of great English teachers out there but some of them just have a way of sucking out the enjoyment of reading, so busy looking for minutia instead of just enjoying the story for what it is and then examining at the end instead of parsing everything apart every 2 days or so. You can't read under timelines or stress. Reply #218. Nov 10 09, 2:01 AM |
lesley153
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John (218) I am so sorry - I didn't realise it was a proper secret. But I have kept all our other secrets - and I promise not to do it again - ever. You're not really a Philistine, though, if you happen not to like something which a million other people don't like either and are all scared to admit it! Reply #219. Nov 11 09, 1:03 PM |
| lesley153
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Schoonie, my son loved reading fiction, till he started doing Parsing and Minutiae in school. Now he reads manuals and textbooks, and it's only when Hell cools down for the odd day or two that he might pick up a book purely for pleasure. English teachers have got a lot to answer for. Reply #220. Nov 11 09, 1:06 PM |
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