Discounting books from High School English, the worst book I have read would have to be Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind. Silly me for thinking that multiple books means the author is good.
Worst Book or Book series you have ever read.
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Lord of the Flies
Considering how many times I had to read it, it just got annoying. And boring.
Considering how many times I had to read it, it just got annoying. And boring.
I'm actually reading that book right now. (I think its fairly good, not spectacular).synobal said:
For a young adult series, I really liked the Artemis Fowl books. In my opinion, the series should have ended with The Lost Tribe (sure, it had little to do with the rest of the series, but it sticks out in my memory a whole lot more than any of the other ones and, in my opinion, did a nice job of wrapping up the series even if the book before it did the same thing).
Then Eoin Colfer wrote The Time Paradox. What a horrible book.
Not only does it end on the third biggest cliffhanger of all time (the all-powerful villain that moments earlier was ready to take over the world vanishes without a trace), but it's endlessly confusing.
The mom's sick and it turns out that she has a magic disease that can only be cured with the brain fluid of a species of lemur that would be extinct except for the one that Artemis's mom bought for the heck of it (because that's just what rich people do). Whoops, Artemis sold the lemur in question. A long time ago. As in before the first book. Luckily for them, they happen to know an imp that can send them back in time. Then there's some nonsense about Holly suddenly greiving over the mom she lost even before the first book but never thought about until now and an organization dedicated to eradicating all "useless" species on the planet, which is just a front for Opal to gain the MacGuffin lemur's brain fluid to give herself UNLIMITED COSMIC POWER!!!!
They get the lemur, come back to the future, but guess what: Opal already has UNLIMITED COSMIC POWER!!!! Big showdown happens, some people get locked in barrels of life-sucking goo and others kill themselves trying to save Artemis (or nearly, anyway. It is a young-adult book after all). Then Artemis runs to the solar plane he'd prepared earlier and leads Opal into a trap based on a Checkov's Leviathan mentioned earlier in the story.
I know that's a lot of spoilers, but trust me: you don't want to read it. I think another book got written, but I really don't want to bother reading it just to see how they resolve this mess.
Then Eoin Colfer wrote The Time Paradox. What a horrible book.
Not only does it end on the third biggest cliffhanger of all time (the all-powerful villain that moments earlier was ready to take over the world vanishes without a trace), but it's endlessly confusing.
The mom's sick and it turns out that she has a magic disease that can only be cured with the brain fluid of a species of lemur that would be extinct except for the one that Artemis's mom bought for the heck of it (because that's just what rich people do). Whoops, Artemis sold the lemur in question. A long time ago. As in before the first book. Luckily for them, they happen to know an imp that can send them back in time. Then there's some nonsense about Holly suddenly greiving over the mom she lost even before the first book but never thought about until now and an organization dedicated to eradicating all "useless" species on the planet, which is just a front for Opal to gain the MacGuffin lemur's brain fluid to give herself UNLIMITED COSMIC POWER!!!!
They get the lemur, come back to the future, but guess what: Opal already has UNLIMITED COSMIC POWER!!!! Big showdown happens, some people get locked in barrels of life-sucking goo and others kill themselves trying to save Artemis (or nearly, anyway. It is a young-adult book after all). Then Artemis runs to the solar plane he'd prepared earlier and leads Opal into a trap based on a Checkov's Leviathan mentioned earlier in the story.
I know that's a lot of spoilers, but trust me: you don't want to read it. I think another book got written, but I really don't want to bother reading it just to see how they resolve this mess.
A Swedish one called "Aldrig fucka upp" ("Never fuck up", yes that is an Swedish-ified English word in the title). The first book by the author was quite good, especially the language - lots of slang and written like it was spoken - which suited the story very well. In this book he took the language too far, making it a laughable mess.
Harry Potter is one of my favorite book series (anyone who doesn't like it can peace right the hell out), but the WORST piece of shit I have ever read?
three-way tie.
Loser, A Separate Peace, and Silas Marner.
HO-LEE FUCK.
three-way tie.
Loser, A Separate Peace, and Silas Marner.
HO-LEE FUCK.
Yeah, I could see that being a bad choice for younger kids, Dickens is fairly wordy.synobal said:
I want to say Twilight and Left Behind, but they were both so terrible they were entertaining. I'll admit it, I absolutely lost it when I got to the "vampire Baseball" chapter.
I think the absolute worst book series I've ever read and really could get ZERO enjoyment from was Sword of Truth. The characters are Mary/Gary Stus at best, and can never do wrong, yet their actions and decisions are often contradictory to previous statements or decisions the characters have made. The author is a pretentious, smug douche (look up a picture of Terry Goodkind real quick on Google image search if you think I'm joking, that should be enough), and everything is so contrived it's practically painful. In fact, I would go so far as to say that it's the literary equivilant of Manos - something so bad, it surpasses "so bad it's good" territory and falls BACK into normal bad... only worse.
Wheel of Time and Harry Potter are fine series', and I think people are hating on them here mostly because they're so damn popular. When it comes to WoT, around book 8 Robert Jordan really started mucking things up, and while it appeared he was started to get things back on track, we'll never know for certain if he would have been able to mend the series. However, the two most recent books, penned by Brandon Sanderson after Jordan passed away, have been really enjoyable and a lot more in spirit with the beginning of the series. I can't say I don't understand people not enjoying the series, but to say it's the worst is a bit much. The same kinda goes for Potter - it started out really fun, and turned sour. The last 3 books (at least to me) turned a whimsical, fun series into something bland and boring.
I also really hated To Kill a Mockingbird in high school. I'm not going to go too deep into it, but the style was so boring I would have rather watched the ink on the pages dry than read the actual words they formed... and it would have probably been a less tedious process to boot. What sucks is that the message itself is fine, but the style is so damn drab it's like trying to wade through quicksand, and before anyone plays the "well you're just too dumb to appreciate big/classic books" card, I've read plenty of other classic novels and enjoyed the hell out of them. Moby Dick remains, to this day, one of my favorite peices of literature.
I think the absolute worst book series I've ever read and really could get ZERO enjoyment from was Sword of Truth. The characters are Mary/Gary Stus at best, and can never do wrong, yet their actions and decisions are often contradictory to previous statements or decisions the characters have made. The author is a pretentious, smug douche (look up a picture of Terry Goodkind real quick on Google image search if you think I'm joking, that should be enough), and everything is so contrived it's practically painful. In fact, I would go so far as to say that it's the literary equivilant of Manos - something so bad, it surpasses "so bad it's good" territory and falls BACK into normal bad... only worse.
Wheel of Time and Harry Potter are fine series', and I think people are hating on them here mostly because they're so damn popular. When it comes to WoT, around book 8 Robert Jordan really started mucking things up, and while it appeared he was started to get things back on track, we'll never know for certain if he would have been able to mend the series. However, the two most recent books, penned by Brandon Sanderson after Jordan passed away, have been really enjoyable and a lot more in spirit with the beginning of the series. I can't say I don't understand people not enjoying the series, but to say it's the worst is a bit much. The same kinda goes for Potter - it started out really fun, and turned sour. The last 3 books (at least to me) turned a whimsical, fun series into something bland and boring.
I also really hated To Kill a Mockingbird in high school. I'm not going to go too deep into it, but the style was so boring I would have rather watched the ink on the pages dry than read the actual words they formed... and it would have probably been a less tedious process to boot. What sucks is that the message itself is fine, but the style is so damn drab it's like trying to wade through quicksand, and before anyone plays the "well you're just too dumb to appreciate big/classic books" card, I've read plenty of other classic novels and enjoyed the hell out of them. Moby Dick remains, to this day, one of my favorite peices of literature.
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. A book nobody could get into if you had to. Murder mystery plot set up in the Middle Ages, where Not-Holmes and Not-Watson unravel corruption and blah blah blah. Terrible book, never ever read it.
Wow, it must really suck for you guys who have to read a book to the finish no matter how bad it is. :/
Yea, I suppose if you like the dystopian future type scenario it might be cool, just when I was reading it just seemed to drag, I mean the entire book everyone had to be completely bland with everything they do, and this guy finds a light bulb and gets it to work after like 10 god damned chapters. Then the society practically kicks him out. Thanks for nothing guys.synobal said: