@tumor: The whole book was a giant joke, I made it into a bunch of different flip-comics.

@paloma: surely you're thinking of 1984 or To Kill a Mockingbird? Or even The Great Gatsby?

Nah, I love 1984 though,To Kill a Mockingbird not so much, and I never finished the Great Gatsby

tbf Brave New World > 1984

A girl I really liked suggested I read Twilight. Being completley infatuated I picked it up and read it. I'm not one quick to judge a person, but anyone who enjoys that book must have some serious problems. Worst read I've ever read in my life. Seriously I've seen 7th graders who are more creative and write better come up with better stories. I remember how she was explaining how when Bella went in the van it said it was "small and chlostrophobic" brilliant writting. It turned me off to the point where I no longer wanted to be associated with her knowing that at the time she wouldn't shut up about it and the last thing I'd want to do was discuss this awful book. If anyone wants to read a good vampire series pick up "Interview With the Vampire" the book is so much better than the movie.

I knew that Twilight was awful without ever having read a word. But seriously, what's with the vampire craze lately? It's rather annoying. Buffy is the original teeny-bopper vampire story, and it was actually good.

But the movie's fucking awesome.

Could you ask for a better cast? I mean, seriously.

I doubt it mate. Impeccable.

I cant tell whether you're being sarcastic or not.

I'm just going to assume that you are and say that the movies/books/bella swan are all complete sh*t.

Haha, I'm not talking about Twilight!

I was talking about the part I bolded:

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)

You should really get that sarcasm meter in for a tune up...

Great Gatsby

That guy took the wrong drugs or something

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Makes long bus journeys feel like flying from Dublin to Australia.

Grabbed My Sisters Keeper from a book exchange when I was travelling in SE asia (only english book there). Dear god is Jodi Picoult ever a terrible writer. Picked up another one of her books by curiosity and it was the same. Really over the top dramatic plot lines with ridiculously one dimensional characters and painfully obvious 'plot twists.' Also, the thinly veiled preachy moral 'lessons' she puts in there are just nauseating.

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I tried so hard to like this... I really did. I'll give Requiem for a Dream a pass even though I didn't really like that one either. I read it right after reading Trainspotting for the first time, and found that Requiem lacked severely. However Last Exit to Brooklyn was just unreadable for me it was so bad.

Probably the Scarlet Letter

If you were on the east coast I'd set you on fire.



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This miserable piece of **** was a book on how not to write. Shock-value plots with unreasonable praise. Reads like the ramblings or a first-time writer who wants to seem troubled.

Sorry for replying to this a year after the fact but really? That book had a huge effect on me when I read it. I thought it was very powerful and very disturbing.

The worst book I've ever read is easily More than money. I can't even find a picture of the cover online, that's how **** it is. My French feminist bitch of a teacher made us read it in grade seven. It's about some stupid French-Canadian girl who falls in love with a life guard and tries to save up for "jeans with roses painted on them" to impress him. Her parents get divorced, she buys her jeans , but the lifeguard still doesn't like her because she's fat. She goes through "the teenage expeirience", grows up a bit and then starts dating an ugly guy THE END.

Bull****....

MOST. AMBITIOUS. BOOK. EVER.

that sounds terrible! sounds very anti-climatic

Lol, that is pretty awful.

I love when Adults write books designed to help kids with the problems of growing up as if they have all the answers. You almost can hear them saying "This one's definitely getting me a series on Oprah."

= only a semi?

the worst book i ever tried reading (up to 4 attempts now) is Generation X by Douglas Copeland.

i've never been able to read it for more than about 2-3 chapters. for something that was supposed to represent the generation coming of age in the 90s i think it failed horribly, i didn't relate to any of the characters. if anything i wanted to stab them in their entitled idealistic faces by the end of the first chapter.

maybe it picks up, maybe it twists around, my roommate tells me it doesn't, it's just the story of those d-bags and their (oh so below them) mcjobs. hell these characters reek of the same type of people that lived beyond their means until not too long ago and helped the economy crap all over itself.

generation defining my a$$.

Everything by Copeland that I've read I've hated. While I don't have the same connection to Generation X as you, I am a Vancouver native and I really dislike the way he tries to describe Vancouver and its residents.

i never got to any part where they left 'heavenly' southern california. speaking of Vancouverites, you read much William Gibson (not a man that deserves to be in this thread). i get a kick out of any Canadian reference he makes in his later books. i think it was in 'Pattern Recognition' where he referred to Quebec as the first virtual country, had me laughing in my chair hehehe.

I feel like people here haven't read enough terrible books, if supposed classics are on your list. I mean, there's an entire LEGION of ****ty, terrible literature. Robert Stanek is a great example, a self-published fantasy author who conned his way onto Amazon and literary conventions, with an entire forum populated by him, where he posts under hundreds of aliases. Look at his genius prose:

This, my friends, is just a sampling the terrible literature I'VE read. I mean, have you people read Terry Goodkind? Another example of TERRIBLE literature, but this time, published in the mainstream. Eragon is another example, the prose is atrocious. Same with Twilight. Or anything by L. Ron Hubbard.

Essentially, shame on those who put down Scarlet Letter, Catcher in the Rye and others as the WORST and expect not to get laughed at by me. What it means is that you haven't read enough.

Catcher in the Rye? Please. Try reading the Sword of Truth series and not stabbing yourself, wishing you hadn't read some bland, straightforward fantasy written by an author who jacks off to Ayn Rand, and has characters do giant speeches about the evils of a socialist system and then kick little girls(but they're evil) in the jaw, shattering their face.

Also, people who can't dig The Great Gatsby are people whose literary opinions I simply can't respect. Unless you aren't American, then I might be able to understand, but the characters are so human, so real. The prose is lyrical and gets to the heart of the lie behind the classic 'American Dream', it's a book about people past their prime, desperately trying to clutch at the one fleeting moment in their past when they were hot sh*t, and failing. It's a book about the shallow pleasures of a materialistic society which parties, goes to mansions and drinks but never seem to be happy or content. To me, The Great Gatsby is America in a nutshell.

Basically, I won't respect your literary opinion unless you like or respect these things which should be universally loved: The Great Gatsby, Slaughter-House Five and Vonnegut in general, The Wasteland/The Hollow Men/Rhapsody on a Windy Night by TS Eliot, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin, The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, Prose of the Trans-Siberian by Blaise Cendrars, part one of Howl by Allen Ginsberg, Neuromancer by Gibson, and assorted things by Robert Heinlein(The Moon is a Harsh Mistress for me) and Philip K. D*ck(screw you word filter, this guy is a legend, read A Scanner Darkly :P)

Those aren't my top favorites, but I feel they are great and shouldn't have a divided opinion, though Gatsby can cause haters for some reason, and T.S. Eliot has detractors, but at his best is one of the most amazing poets. I adore The Wasteland. Anyway. Keep on loving great literature and hating bad literature.

Portrait of the artist as a young man by James joyce...that's if you can call reading the first sentence reading it. It said something about a moo cow coming down the road. A ****in' moo cow!!! Jeez!

James Joyce is cryptic, and his prose is nearly impenetrable to normal readers, but he's a literary genius nonetheless.

The only things I COULD finish by him were Dubliners and The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

I'll never be able to understand Finnegan's Wake, and Ulysses I'm starting to grasp, but slowly.

Ulysseys takes a while. It's one of those books that definitely requires several readings. Still just a warm up for Proust, though--I have yet to tackle that monster.

Anyway, that excerpt you posted up there hurt my brain cells. Ow.

Bro, I can go out and find a million books written by a million sh*tty authors. There are obviously bad books, and then there are supposed "classics" or "good" books that you may have personally hated. Usually, bringing up such titles generates far more discussion than saying "The Breach by Patrick Lee was absolutely terrible!" and having no one know what the f*ck you're talking about.

but... we're all supposed to like the classics... just like everyone is supposed to like The Beatles or Bob Dylan or Led Zeppelin :banghead:

I was suprised at how normal most of Ulysses was. There's some chapters that are highly experimental but for the most part it seems a normal book.

Twilight

Brave New World is not the worst book I have ever read, but the last half of it was absolutely terrible. I thought it was going to build up to something extraordinary like other dystopian novels I've read, but it just snowballed.

Twilight by Stephanie Meyers. biggest waste of three days worth of reading i ever spent.

I wasnt a fan of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift either, but thats probly because the only classic literature i like is Shakespeare.

Imperial Bedrooms, the sequel to Less than Zero, is ****ing terrible. Like expectingtohaveyourlitworldrockedbyoneofyourfavori teauthorsbutmorelikeabookversionofamillionlivingon aprayercoversby****typubbands awful.

Pride and Prejudice (my senior year of high school) it bored me to death

Are you ****ing serious?

I hated Pride & Prejudice too.

Add me to the list. Reminded me of a bad soap opera.

SCARLET- The sequel to Gone with the wind.

the fact that I had a looooney english teacher that i didnt get along with and write a 4 page essay about it.. that i ended up failing