Books you hate and books you wish they were never made.

[Stoic raptor]

There are books that you hate, and books you wish were never made.
These choices are actually much different then they seem.

For my literature project, I have to read the book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. I really do not like this book. It is just poorly written and unbelievably dramatic. However, I am glad that this book was made. For those who do not know, the publishing of this book (1906) started an investigation of the Chicago meatpacking plants. The book uncovered the disgusting methods the plants were using, and the Pure Food and Drug Act was created to enforce regulation on food companies.

So what are some books that you hate, and books that you wish were never made?

EDIT: Please specify if it is a book you hate or a book you wish was never made. (Or both)

 

[Radeonx]

The Catcher in the Rye.
If there is any chance that it actually caused that guy to kill John Lennon, I'd wish it never existed in a heartbeat.
John Lennon was awesome.

 

[La Barata]

Anything by Margaret Atwood. Also, Mein Kampf.

 

[Sticky Squid]

Of mice and men.

So that people don't get overly confident with themselves when they can simply overanalyse a book and think they are geniuses.

 

[Klitch]

I'm disappointed, 5 posts in and nobody has said Twilight yet.

 

[NeutralDrow]

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

I think my answer is objectively better than anyone else's will be.

 

[JoJo]

In before "the Bible".

OT: Can't think of any particular books, but we would be better off without any advocating racial, religious or other kinds of hate.

 

[Iconsting]

Not the book for the story, but this version in particular. I was assigned to read Count of Monte Cristo for a summer reading project, but they told me to get the abridged version. I borrowed my copy from my neighbor, who had bought it last year for her summer reading. I found out that this version covered the events in the movie, and therefore was a super-abridged version. I missed half the content and started the year off with a 60% test average.

 

[tuddy]

Of mice and men.

So that people don't get overly confident with themselves when they can simply overanalyse a book and think they are geniuses.

I'd have to agree with this one. Of Mice and Men is not deep and meaningful by any stretch of the words, and every time some pseudo-intellectual douchebag says otherwise, God kills a kitten.

Furthermore, I'd have to agree with another general consensus - Catcher in the Rye is another book subject to over-analysis by pseudo-intellectual kids with nothing better to do. Bear in mind, I have nothing wrong with the books themselves- they're decent enough stories. I just kinda wish they didn't exist because people have this tendency of assuming the fact they're "classic literature" implies some form of deep and meaningful story.

 

[RedBeta22]

Both. World War Z. I am fucking sick of zombies being everywhere and WWZ is a huge reason for their pouularity these past few years.

 

[ScoopMeister]

I'm disappointed, 5 posts in and nobody has said Twilight yet.

It's what I was gonna say, if that makes you feel any better.

 

[Tartarga]

I would love for Animal Farm to have never been made so that I wouldn't have had to read it so many god damned times through the course of my high school life. I really enjoyed it the first time I read it but after the fourth or fifth time I wanted to punch George Orwell right in his face.

 

[Sean565]

Anything by Margaret Atwood. Also, Mein Kampf.

What would be the point in Mein Kampf not existing. Sure it was written by one of the most evil men in history, but if people would have read it back then then we could have aquashed him before he committed any of his atrocities.

 

[DJDarque]

People aren't going to like what I have to say, but you asked.

The Lord of the Rings

The books that "defined" high fantasy. Tolkien created a format that no one has any balls to deviate from. It seems that every fantasy author (generalization, I know) just accepts the world he created as a rule for high fantasy. Everywhere it's elves, humans and orcs. Hardly ever do I see anyone try anything different. I spent so long trying to look for gems in the sea of Lord of the Rings clones that I gave up. Everyone tries to emulate it. Tolkien is the reason I can't read high fantasy anymore.

Hate me all you want. It's my opinion and you're not going to change it.

 

[Stoic raptor]

People aren't going to like what I have to say, but you asked.

The Lord of the Rings

The books that "defined" high fantasy. Tolkien created a format that no one has any balls to deviate from. It seems that every fantasy author (generalization, I know) just accepts the world he created as a rule for high fantasy. Everywhere it's elves, humans and orcs. Hardly ever do I see anyone try anything different. I spent so long trying to look for gems in the sea of Lord of the Rings clones that I gave up. Everyone tries to emulate it. Tolkien is the reason I can't read high fantasy anymore.

Hate me all you want. It's my opinion and you're not going to change it.

Obviously you have not looked hard enough.

Try Shadowfall.

(First in the Godslayer Chronicles)

Or try any book from Harry Turtledove.

 

[artanis_neravar]

People aren't going to like what I have to say, but you asked.

The Lord of the Rings

The books that "defined" high fantasy. Tolkien created a format that no one has any balls to deviate from. It seems that every fantasy author (generalization, I know) just accepts the world he created as a rule for high fantasy. Everywhere it's elves, humans and orcs. Hardly ever do I see anyone try anything different. I spent so long trying to look for gems in the sea of Lord of the Rings clones that I gave up. Everyone tries to emulate it. Tolkien is the reason I can't read high fantasy anymore.

Hate me all you want. It's my opinion and you're not going to change it.

Obviously you have not looked hard enough.

Try Shadowfall.

Read the Runelords series

 

[Alex Cowan]

The 'Cherub' novels. All of them.

They're the only books I've ever ragequit because the writing was so bad.

 

[Wierdguy]

All the turn-of-the-century Swedish pessimism books I was forced to read in school... fuck that shit is boring!

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

I think my answer is objectively better than anyone else's will be.

It is.
OP: As I Lay Dying taunts me. It is the bane of my existence.