Hello, i want to know what you thought would be the book you read a couple sentances (or pages) of and left it alone forever.
Please give your book a rating out of 10 on how bad it is, 1 being alright 10 being the worst. So start posting!

Anybody thought of a book yet?

You gotta give people more than 2 hours.
For year 8 English I had to read a book called I am David. The idea of the story was all right, but it was written terribly. I was one of the few in the class that actually bothered to drudge through it.

I tried reading Dragonhorse but i the book didn't take me into the plot very well

Lets see

I can't say I ever hated a book that I just read a few pages of. Mostly, with them, it's a case of just not getting into it, and having something else that I really WOULD like to read.

However, I have a few books that I read all the way through that I hated.

The Lord of the Flies
The Fountainhead
Tess of the D'urbervilles
A novel by Danielle Steele - I only ever read one of hers, and I can't remember the title. I was appalled at how bad it was, though.

I can't even remember the title of the book that I started, got about two chapters into it, then literally threw it into the trash can. I can't believe that it was even allowed to be published; it was a waste of paper. The book was mostly dialogue, but in a way that you couldn't tell who was saying what!

The only book that I started and hated so much that I couldn't finish it was "A Short History of A Small Place" by T.R. Pearson. I have a personal rule that if I start a book that I have to finish it but this book is so boring and hard to follow I gave up.

Something called Oceana Fine - was set in West Australia,my home state, with a storyline that purported to be a detective type thing - my favourite genre - got into incest, witchcraft etc and no real ending.Unfortunately, the writer knew very little about either. Would rate it about 1.2 on a scale of 1 - 10.

Thanks for your posts

I absolutely hated "Blue Prints for a Barbed Wire Canoe" I had to read it for 12th Grade English and it was one of the most boring books I've ever read. I had to really force myself to finish the book as I had to do an assignment on it.

I normally do not read fiction but when "The Da Vinci Code" came out I thought the premise seemed interesting?? Well turns out it was the worst book I have ever read(excluding required reading).

Harry Potter 7. Even almost a year later, I still feel sick just thinking about it. So many premises abandoned, so much hope unrealised, so many things changed, so many contradiction and neither rhyme nor reason to any of it.

I'm ready to chuck the whole series after burning my copy of that book.

Ever the reluctant fan...or was that hypocritical fan?

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

I tried and tried to get into this on a holiday to Kefalonia (to get the right mood)... however, just wouldnt gel.

Has anyone enjoyed reading this tome?

I know the film was not a true reflection of the novel, but it was nonetheless enjoyable and beautifully photographed.

The Bourne Identity...Robert Ludlum
I tried twice, couldn't get past the 1st chapter.

Anything by Margaret Atwood. I'm sorry, but I don't get the hype. I read The Handmaid's Tale , Oryx and Crake and Surfacing. I would say that I gave Atwood a fair shot, but I don't understand her "visionary" status.

When I had to read Jude the Obscure freshman year in college, I thought it was the most dull and excruciating punishment imaginable.

Maybe I should give it another chance now that I'm older!

cydonia, I'd have to say that those were her three least readable books (even though they tend to be the ones that get most attention). In the eighties especially, she wrote several very intelligent, very insightful novels which might be described, for lack of a better term, as "women's" books. Think Margaret Drabble, A S Byatt, or maybe an Ann Tyler with some flair (the real Ann Tyler having very little, in my estimation).

You'd have to a long way to beat Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.
I twice tried it but life's far too short!

Definitely a 10!

A book called "Man of the House" - I too, at that time, had a commitment to read whatever I started. I have now revised that policy! My sister borrowed the book & can't believe I let her!

I dont usually think twice about abandoning a book if I am not into it. I dont consider that it is necessarily because I hate it though. A lot of times, I get moody with my reading. So sometimes I pick it up later and love it. (There are of course books that I am disappointed in.) Two books that I finished and HATED were:

~During the Reign of the Queen of Persia by Joan Chase
~The Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber.

Welcome to books Wizardsheart!
Those are two I will not look for, then!

I didn't much care for "The Great Gatsby". Nor "The Catcher in the Rye" - there wasn't really anything wrong with it that I could put my finger on, just kind of boring.

"Valley of the Dolls" by Jaqueline Susann. This is the only one of her books I have ever read and the last I ever will. Life's too short to waste on this sort of garbage.

Poorly written, disjointed and a sensationalistic bore. I tried to properly dispose of it, but it wouldn't flush.