Worst Book Ever Read - Page 4

teganslaw · ‎03-11-2010

Another book I didn't like is Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. If one likes reading about bullfighting, bar hopping and disgruntled Americans in Paris, then the book is for you. Otherwise, it's a waste of time.

"The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog."

Mark Twain

kcladyz · ‎04-30-2012

Robin Cook Pandemic. Spoiler Alert there is no pandemic.

maximillian · ‎03-12-2010

Well, I didn't think I would join in this thread, but I read a dud recently. It is The Brink by Murray and Wearmouth. It is science fiction and really bad science fiction at that. There is a really bad guy (family ties to Hitler) and beasts and really super smart, athletic-type good guys. At the end the world is still endangered. I kept reading, hoping there would be some redeeming quality to the book There was NOT! THUMBS DOWN!

smoky22 · ‎05-30-2010

@Calgal2too wrote:

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A couple of the worst books I've read lately are Milkman (Anna Burns; writing style was odd. I know WHY it was written this way, but it was still odd); The Buried Giant (Kazuo Ishiguro; one of the few book club assignments I just couldn't get through).

@Calgal2too I found your post so interesting, especially the part I quoted. I have Milkman on my Kindle Fire (it was only available as an epub book). I read a few chapters, and even though it won the Man Booker Prize, I will be giving up on it. Yes, the style is odd but I can't even get into the story.

I thought the The Buried Giant was intriguing, but maybe too much allegory. I will say, it's a book I still think about. You had to read it to the end, though.

I agree with you on Circe! Loved it.

(And The Outsider) (didn't love it)

"everybody counts or nobody counts"

sabatini · ‎06-29-2015

Books are like art and music; what appeals to one person, might NOT appeal to another!

That being said, I'll admit that my reply might not even count, since I didn't read the entire book. I only made it through 33 painful pages.

It was one of the most poorly written books I'd come across in years. Just plain lousy, clunky writing.

Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel.

How that book has racked up so many glowing reviews is beyond me.

Muddling through...

on the bay · ‎03-09-2010

What was that classic famous novel about some myth we had to read in school? Did it start with an O?

(Course it might have started with something else).

Anyway, that was it lol!

I guess I must have blocked it out.

In the past few years, I too have actually thrown 2 or 3 books out because they were so unnecessarily sad and depressing, I didn't want anyone else to have to read them!

"If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew. Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? can you paint with all the colors of the wind?"

teganslaw · ‎03-11-2010

@on the bay wrote:
What was that classic famous novel about some myth we had to read in school? Did it start with an O?
(Course it might have started with something else).
Anyway, that was it lol!
I guess I must have blocked it out.

In the past few years, I too have actually thrown 2 or 3 books out because they were so unnecessarily sad and depressing, I didn't want anyone else to have to read them!

Maybe it was "The Odyssey"? . I read a modern translation of the classic and liked it. Odysseus' adventures were quite interesting IMO. It might depend on which version is read.

"The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog."

Mark Twain

on the bay · ‎03-09-2010

@teganslaw -

I think that might have been it!

"If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew. Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? can you paint with all the colors of the wind?"

haddon9 · ‎03-09-2010

In high school I simply could NOT get through Moby ******! I hated it!

ETA: Too funny! .....It was so awful I'm not even allowed to say exactly what it was here!!

Cumbercookie13 · ‎05-06-2016

In twelfth grade, I took advanced English lot and it was all British literature. We read a lot of Shakespeare which I enjoy. But we were assigned one book, Return of the Native. Talk about boring and dry. I couldn't finish it but had to bull you know what through it to even pass the assignment and a lot of others did too.

More recently, Crossland's Walk. Now, I'm a huge horror fan and I love werewolf movies and books. The back of the book made me feel like it was going to be a scary werewolf whodunit. What I got was a story where nearly every character apart from about five or six were racist, adulterers, child molesters, or a combo of all three. And there were no werewolves in the story, I can't even tell you what the monsters were, I think they were giant hairless, rats. And it ended on a twist where the author was intending to write a sequel but didn't, and thank God for that.