What's the worst book you ever read?

[readertim109]

I'm sure you've been asked often what your favorite book is. Here's a question you don't get as often. What was the worst book you ever read?

If there are books you started, didn't like, and then stopped reading, feel free to mention some of them too.

Still, out of all the books you've read and finished, which was the worst?

[awelker]

red badge of courage.

i absolutly hated this book.

[sleepydumpling]

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. LOATHED it!! It was boring, petty and pointless. I only finished reading it because it was a book club title.

[Rebeca Darklight]

A collection of books by the Marquis de Sade. I knew he was disgusting, but not THAT terrible, hahaha. The discussion about politics and religion between every sex act was kind of interesting, but really, the guy was sick in my opinion. I only finished "Juliet" and I skipped the rest.

[DanteAzrael]

Old Man and the Sea was probably the worse...Huckleberry Finn right up there.

[Anna]

The most recent one I can rememeber - The Crimson Portrait. Everything about it was soooo slow - I grew restless waiting for something to happen or for characters to grow, change etc. I stopped reading it 2/3 of the way through.
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[bplayfuli]

Tess of the D'Urbervilles.

I think I burned it when I finished (had no choice but to read it; class assignment). I was ready to throw myself off a cliff or something! Or build a time machine to go back in time and whoop Thomas Hardy's A@#.

[awelker]

ive noticed that a lot of the books that i have been forced to read in school i absolutly hated. i hate everything about them and sometimes refused to read them. but now that i don't have that class i actually think, i mean think, about re-reading them to see if i can get more out of them. i mean most of the books that i read for my American Lit class i hated with a passion but now thinking about it i might one day re-read them .

[sleepydumpling]

I was the opposite, I really enjoyed most of the books that I had to read in school. The only one I can remember REALLY hating was Johnny Tremaine. God it was SOOOOO crappy! But that could have been the teacher I had that year - the worst teacher I had in high school.

Oh I didn't like Wuthering Heights though, and I had a good teacher that year. It was too melodramatic for me.

[awelker]

ive never read johnny tremaine but ive seen the movie nor have i read wuthering heights

[Julie20201]

Eldest ....absolute rubbish and long to boot

[DeletedUser]

I have several books that I absolutely hated:

1. Loot by A. Elkins. A romance was sloppily thrown into a story that had no place for one. Yuck.

2. Beyond Good & Evil-F. Nietsche
It read like the ramblings of a mad man.

3. War of the Worlds-H.G. Wells
The slowest moving book I have ever read. Dreadfully dull.

4. So Many Books, So Little Time-S. Nelson
I have never wanted a book to end as much as this one.

[Ason]

The worst book I ever read was Hemmingway's Garden of Eden. I have never been more unimpressed with a writer's style or content. His simple declarative sentences qucikly wear upon the reader's nerves and the story doesn't end or do anything but upset the appetite.

[Linda]

harry potter...yea sorry i couldn't read it. maybe i have a thing about going against the grain. but i tried reading it like in elementary school...and let me tell u there was no magic.

[knightss]

let me tell u there was no magic.

haha that was so corny

the worst book i've ever read was probably running with scissors.. his writing style was way to plain. oh and icebound by dean koontz is awful also.