Worst Book Ever?
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A couple of underwhelming Sci-Fi books, the most "meh" being one about living on an asteroid and coping with the loss of connection to the humans on earth (who were all connected and communicating like Wall-E but moreso with a thing called The Ear)
Also, the 7th Harry Potter. Contrived, dull, killed off certain characters just to get an emotional jump out of the reader and not for any real reason, the ever-repeated criticism of "collect the 10 magic doowhatsits to destroy the shield around the evil wizard" Video Game plot
Also, the 7th Harry Potter. Contrived, dull, killed off certain characters just to get an emotional jump out of the reader and not for any real reason, the ever-repeated criticism of "collect the 10 magic doowhatsits to destroy the shield around the evil wizard" Video Game plot
I bet most of the posters haven't read the books mentioned. Especially Twilight. People hate that book by principle.
Anyway. I hate Old man and the sea. Bored me to death and ruined reading for me for years to come. Now, however, I enjoy Hemingways other stories, but I will never pick that one up again!
Anyway. I hate Old man and the sea. Bored me to death and ruined reading for me for years to come. Now, however, I enjoy Hemingways other stories, but I will never pick that one up again!
Dracula by Bram Stoker.
While the story is pretty good, the writing is outright horrendous. Page after page with walls of text, all of which consists of characters talking about some bullshit that doesn't make any sense and have no relevance whatsoever. Just find the damn vampire already!
While the story is pretty good, the writing is outright horrendous. Page after page with walls of text, all of which consists of characters talking about some bullshit that doesn't make any sense and have no relevance whatsoever. Just find the damn vampire already!
..I honestly don't want to seem bandwagoning, but Twilight definitely deserves it's spot in this thread.
Also, Catcher in the Rye.
Also, Catcher in the Rye.
I'd like to nominate the enitre Left Behind series. Horryfying theology meets fantasticly bad writing. Check out the slacktivist commentary (if you have the time, if you read all of it it's almost as much as the books themselves) http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/left_behind/
Tw-[beeping]-ilight. They have taken ALL the great things about vampires and made them into...
Sissy little punks. Stoker would vomit blood if he ever did read/see this.
Max Schreck would rip his own eyes out.
A damn Vampire look's like this:
[http://img10.imageshack.us/i/nosferatu11.jpg/]
[http://img707.imageshack.us/i/christopherleedraculas.jpg/]
And don't get me wrong, i do like the hole good looking vampire, like Francis Ford Coppola Dracula, since vamiper are a really erotic sort of mythology.
But whene you just turn them in to somekind of silly shiny pussy... thing.. Damn that make me mad.
Sissy little punks. Stoker would vomit blood if he ever did read/see this.
Max Schreck would rip his own eyes out.
A damn Vampire look's like this:
And don't get me wrong, i do like the hole good looking vampire, like Francis Ford Coppola Dracula, since vamiper are a really erotic sort of mythology.
But whene you just turn them in to somekind of silly shiny pussy... thing.. Damn that make me mad.
OH MY GOD YES!!!! I had to read this in 7th grade and hated every page of it!InnerRebellion said:
Easily the Marquis de Sade's "Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom". Horrible reading, and it's not even completed by the said author.
Close second is Mein Kampf by you-know-who.
Close second is Mein Kampf by you-know-who.
Pffft. You haven't seen horrible until you've seen Maradonia and the Seven Bridges [http://impishidea.com/Humor/528/maradonia-sporkings-part-one]. It's a self-published brick of a fantasy novel written by a teenage girl with no sense of grammar, punctuation, or story.
oh man I really tried to read the bible, put time aside and sat down for the old testimate but its just sooooooooooo boring. There were like 10 pages of people just begating (no idea how that's spelt) each other. So that tops my list of books I've at least tried to read.mikecoulter said:
OT: Never finished a book I haven't liked though
It will sound horribly cliché by now, but yes, Twilight is the worst book I have ever read.
Honourable mention goes to "The Pillars Of The Earth" by Ken Follett.
My god, what tripe. This man took an awesome concept and completely butchered it. He can't write for shit. I'm interested in the mini-series though, since the whole thing reads like a movie script anyway.
This "My Immortal"-thing that gets mentioned every so often, I looked it up, and it even has an entry on tvtropes. I'm half-tempted to go read the whole thing, but I'm afraid I might actually die laughing. "I jumped sexily in front of da bullet" indeed.
Honourable mention goes to "The Pillars Of The Earth" by Ken Follett.
My god, what tripe. This man took an awesome concept and completely butchered it. He can't write for shit. I'm interested in the mini-series though, since the whole thing reads like a movie script anyway.
This "My Immortal"-thing that gets mentioned every so often, I looked it up, and it even has an entry on tvtropes. I'm half-tempted to go read the whole thing, but I'm afraid I might actually die laughing. "I jumped sexily in front of da bullet" indeed.
Oh my god yes! Thank you! Everyone I mention my disdain of this book too loves it. That's what I get for hanging out with English Literature students I guess. But I hated every second I had to spend reading this horrible, horrible thing.Xanian said:
