Worst Book or Book series you have ever read.

[Gizmo1990]

As the title says what is the worst book or book series you have ever read? I already know I am going to be destroyed by a lot of you for saying this but for me it has to be Harry Potter. In my opinion it is the most over rated collection of crap I have ever read. Bad writing, mediocre plot and annoying characters.

But let me explain myself before people just say "then why did you read them then?" as my pain and fury is self inflicted. I was forced to read the first one in English class and that spelled my doom. No mater how bad something is, no matter how boring I find it, be it book, film or game, if I start it I have to finish it just to find out what happens. I hated Final Fantasy XIII but I still played 60 excruciating, boring, mind numbing hours of the damn thing just to find out what happens at the end.

My other problem with Harry Potter is that it spawned 7 crap movies with an 8th on the way.

Thank you for reading my rant. You may now answer the topic question : )

 

[synobal]

Since I didn't actually read Twilight, and found the Harry Potter series some what enjoyable I won't use them. Eragon stands out for me as being pretty bad. Mainly though Karen Chance's Cassandra Palmer series is pretty terrible, maybe it gets better but in the first book the author has terrible pacing problems. It starts at 100mph and never slows down from there. She doesn't take time to resolve anything before moving onto some new problem and the book reads like the main character is on speed.

 

[Kahunaburger]

Eragon

^This.

Also Wheel of Time. Started out okay, then got worse, and worse, and worse. I also dislike Siddhartha by Herman Hesse because that guy really does not get Buddhism. But most terrible books I can never finish haha.

 

[Nocta-Aeterna]

I read Battlefield Earth...
Yes, that one.

 

[4173]

Ethan Frome


It took me 0.5 seconds to come up with that answer, I'm so certain.

 

[King Crab]

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agreed. read the first couple one night in Belgium, though they were trashy fantasy and never looked back.

if there were any other series of books it would probably be the shannara series by terry brooks. read it years ago when I was a little 'un, thought it was good stuff, then went on to read some actual good stuff and realized just how mediocre it was in comparison. it ain't that it is bad writing or story line as such, just so banal and predictable.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

I don't recall a bad series I've read.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and its subsequent books are up there with some of the best things I've ever read.

And Robin Hobb's Live Ship Traders is one of the best examples of character development in written form I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing.

Looking back, I suppose Eragon was pretty poor, but I enjoyed it at the time so it doesn't really count.

 

[AvsJoe]

The worst book I have ever read, hands down, is one called The Medusa Wave. I can't recall the author and I have never bothered to look it up. Trust me on this, TMW is miserable tripe with an additional scoop of gobshite.

 

[Nickompoop]

Youth in Revolt by C.D. Payne
The author certainly lives up to his name. God, that book was awful. It was supposed to be funny, but after the 50th masturbation joke, it just gets kinda weird, especially when you realize that it's a high school freshman having all the sexual experiences. It kind of makes Payne look like a pedophile. Oh, and there are at least 3 sequels to it.

 

[rekabdarb]

have to agree with harry pooter up there. Very poorly done. Go read nightwatch and that series. It's russia's harry potter... expect everyone is 50+ years old and fucks shit up.

 

[Zakarath]

I dunno... Eragon is kinda meh, but it wasn't that bad (and it's hard for me to hate on a book series that has dragons I like)
The first couple of the sword of truth series were pretty good but after the second or third the quality drops off pretty damn fast.
I hated having to read The Catcher in The Rye for school. I pretty much despised that book, I don't care how "classic" it was.

 

[smearyllama]

Left Behind is at least so-bad-it's good, but Twilight takes the cake for terrible books.

 

[ChildishLegacy]

Lord of the Flies.
Oh gawd, no wonder people my age are turned off literature when they had to read THAT in their last year of secondary school. Also I can't believe I used to like Anthony Horowitz' 'Alex Ryder' series when I younger. (Stormbreaker, Point blanc etc.)

I kinda like the Eragon series, it's not written perfectly but the world/story are really quite impressive.

 

[CaptainTrilby]

Lord of the Flies.
Oh gawd, no wonder people my age are turned off literature when they had to read THAT in their last year of secondary school.
Also I kinda like the Eragon series, it's not written perfectly but the world/story are really quite impressive.

I am SO with you on Lord of the Flies. After analysing the book SO much, even down to the punctuation, I want to bludgeon myself to death with a cream shell. Eurgh.... Golding can go roast on a spit.

 

[Rabid Chicken]

I tortured myself throught the first volume of "Wolves of Time" or such, then gave another book
by he same author a chance because I vaguely remembered having read (and liked) an excerpt of
that one many years ago... made it halfway through, then threw it away.

 

[Kinokohatake]

The Anita Blake series is a dump on paper.

 

[ahappycamper]

Ok this is something I must reply to for the good of all, worst series I have ever read has to be The Rogue Agent Series by K.E. Miller, although the protagonist has good potential the author completely sucker punches the reader by barely focusing on him, instead concentrating more on the petty squabbles and boring lives of her supporting characters. I understand the author prefers her female characters but then why put have the protagonist a male and disappoint the reader. A completely uninspired, unoriginal and unimaginative author that I would recommend any intelligent person to avoid like the plague.


K.E. Miller is the worst author I have read, I have read a varied and multicultural plethora of authors, she pales in comparison.

 

[Mr. Omega]

Catcher in the Rye.
The character was an unlikable jackass, and the title's meaning is one of the stupidest things I've ever read.

 

[bluepotatosack]

Some three part fantasy series I can't remember the name of. The plot itself wasn't bad, but the characterization was incredibly bland.

 

[laol1999]

im pretty sure youve read worse then harry potter,harry potter is probobly just the most popular of the books you dislike, because the writing is decent and not a bad story

worst book ive everread is some biography that i never actually finished