Worst book you've ever read
 

I hated that the Catcher in the Rye had basically no point other then Hey, I'm Holden Caulfield, relate to me. But it was really well-written and I didn't get exhasperated halfway through like I do with most "classic" novels.
For my birthday last year, my mom bought me the Twilight series. I read half of the first one and it was awful. Bella is seriously the blandest character in modern literature, you could not make a more blatant Mary Sue if you tried.

The Bible.

I love The Catcher In The Rye, it's one of my favorites of all time but I most definitely agree with you about Twilight. Maybe it's because I'm a teenage girl but most people expect me to love that series. Some girls called me heartless because I said it was cliché and terrible.

If you treat it as a fictional book, the Bible is actually pretty entertaining.

Oh and to answer the question: Twilight.

Anything by Steinbeck, especially The Red Pony, has to be the worst novel I ever read.

I'm having to read Cannery Row for my English class.:banghead: I do not care for anything I have read by Steinbeck.

I thought The Pearl was decent.

The Pearl wasn't so bad, but I just don't like anything Steinbeck has written.

Also I agree with JH about the Bible,,,a work of fiction.

Something called Slatewiper. It was retarded.

"The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck. I have given it a few tries but I could never really get past that first sentence :laughing:

Actually I've only ever gotten about a quarter of the way through before having to put it down. I found it really, really dry.

And you call yourself a serial killer

A Seperate Peace by John Knowles. Fucking hated it.

Really? I never read it, but it seemed like it would be a good book.

To be fair, I probably only hated it because it was shoved down my throat in english class. I've considered re-reading it to see if I was just being a stubborn, 13-year-old twat but I haven't been able to muster the courage.

^^^^^^^Meh Why bother.

I hated Wicked. Well I didn't hate it, but I found it grossly overrated. To be fair the books I hate are usually the ones I give up on pretty early on.

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Worst. Book. Ever!

God I hated it so much. I bought it under the pretense that it was written by a young author and it was his own critique on his generation, but no it's written by so old douche bag who pines for "the good ol' days". I lent it to my friend and after reading a few pages he asked me if it was OK for him to write in it, I said it was and a few months after I got it back almost every page had a counter-argument or totally destroyed whatever credibility the author had, reading his comments was far more entertaining then the book.

Twilight.

I'm still reeling from the ***gotry.

HA so true

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Some people might disagree... but I hate Stephen King... he's so f###ed in the head!

I like Stephen King, but his more recent horror stuff has been pretty lame.

Anyway. I dunno, probably The Voice of the Night by Dean Koontz.

I thought Fahrenheit 451 was pretty bad overall. I also gave up on Iain Banks' Espedaire Street, probably the dullest thing I've read thus far.

I don't really read that much...:\

A Walk to Remember

I'm not proud of it. It was part of English class.

**** old people. They is stupid n ****.

Twilight: Yes, I'm a vampire. Yes, I'm much older than I look. Why am I at high school again?

Can't really remember a truly awful book that I've read. I guess I could say Stephen King's Dreamcatcher, but it had its good bits. Didn't suck anywhere near as hard as the movie either.

^^Yes. Wicked sucked perpetual balls. It seemed like it was a pretty steady pattern of something like this:
chapter completly made up of flowery writing
chapter completly made up of flowery writing
SEXXX
Repeat

I sort of have a history of getting books for my birthday...and they usually suck. One year, my Grandpa got me this advice book by Bill O'Reiley. It was so stupid it was redic.

I'm inclined to strongly disagree with you and ask if you're saying that because you've actually read it and thought it was terrible, or if you're saying that because of issues you have with religion in general (for which I wouldn't fault you in the slightest)? Just wondering...

Anywho, I can't say there is a book that I've read that I actually flat out hated. Usually if I'm not feeling it by the time I've read a decent portion of it, I put it down.

Atlas Shrugged is the worst book ever.

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Read this if you want a blatant course in arse kissing in literature.

Yeah, talk about plot holes!

In all seriousness, the worst book I ever read is probably The Island by Peter Benchley (the dude who wrote Jaws). It's about a clan of modern day pirates who all live on some secret island in the Caribbean and are all descended from Blackbeard or some such bullshit. Anyway, it's as bad as it sounds.

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umm, Across Five Aprils was horrible.
it made so little sense and it bored me so much i almost failed English that year
(i usually get at least a 91% for a semester grade)

I actually liked that book a lot when I was a kid. It's pretty hard for me to imagine someone having trouble understanding it.

Yeah, it's overlong, bloated, preachy, lacks coherent narration, lacks character depth, is full of gaping plot holes and the main protagonist doesn't even appear until the second half.

It does have a few badass action scenes here and there though, David & Goliath, Samson, Armageddon.

"closing time" joseph heller, the sequel to one of my favourite books-catch 22.

without question, the absolute worst book i ever read was :

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Haha...I forgot about Catch 22. Can't say it's a bad book, I just didn't dig the supposed humour and got tired of waiting for something to actually happen...(after about 30 pages).

Criss Cross
My ****ing god that sucked. It was about puberty and **** and absolutley nothing happened until the end when a dude and a girl had eye contact for a couple seconds. ,dsgmnk,bdhgl.jdfhlkg.sdjf that book sucked

Jane Eyre...worst book ever written.

you read it? jesus christ

Macbeth... if that counts as a book.

But best book ever: Alex Roy's The Driver
If you like cars that is... but if you do it's the best.

in all fairness he wrote it when he was 70. it was a verifiable piece of shit though.

Rand is such a joke as a writer.

Agreed.

Why all the Steinbeck hate? Of Mice And Men is great.

Kiss and Tell.

Most self-indulgent piece of bull**** ever.