Truecrime by Jake Arnott has to be THE worst book in fucking existence.
In The Name of Conscience by Nikolai Khokhlov is a close second. It's the only book I stopped reading due to it's massive amounts of fail.
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Anonymous2008-06-21 14:42
The Da Vinci Code
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Anonymous2008-06-21 15:17
The bible.
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Anonymous2008-06-21 18:38
I don't remember. It was some godawful sci-fi book. The most recent terrible book I read was Mike Brotherton's Spider Star. A quarter of the way in I already hated all the characters and the author and started skimming. Half way through the book I quit entirely, because it was just that worthless.
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Anonymous2008-06-23 5:28
if i'm not enjoying a book i don't finish reading it
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Anonymous2008-06-23 5:56
You might not know him, because I don't think he was translated into English, but Nick Perumov wrote some of the most awful fantasy novels I ever read. You might think of him as Salvatore's and Sapkowski's sworn brother: all three are really-really similar.
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Anonymous2008-06-23 9:53
"Biedermann und die Brandstifter", a play by Max Frisch. Compulsive read in my school. I've read fanfiction that was better. As if Germany had never produced any good authors and we need to read mediocre Swissfags.
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Did you read the Old Testament or just the New one? I admit the New one is pretty boring (save perhaps the final prophecy of John), but I think anyone who's a little into fantasy will enjoy the Old one. Get a decent translation into modern English though, stay away from that KJV shit.
The New Testament is only good if you're into history, because it explains a lot of stuff. For example, at one point Jesus says that hygiene is unnecessary, which I believe ultimately led to many pandemics such as the Black Death.
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Anonymous2008-06-23 15:53
>>7
I was trolling actually but I plan to read it at some point in my life. Thanks for the mini-review.
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Anonymous2008-06-24 1:16
For me, The Cirque Du Freak series by Darren Shan was just positively awful. I admit he was good at creating suspense, but I was impressionable and in middle school at the time, so that's hardly impressive. The writing was overall terrible, and the premise was so ridiculous it could have been some fat-assed high schooler's fanfiction.
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Anonymous2008-06-24 16:59
Speak. Anyone who's read it will know why.
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Anonymous2008-06-24 17:00
Walden. Jesus CHRIST man, shut the fuck up.
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Anonymous2008-06-24 17:54
John Grisham's The Chamber, biggest piece of trash I've had passed off as literature. It was beyond cliche or contrived, it didn't help that I read all fucking 600 pages of it just to confirm what I saw in the first 50 pages.
Everytime I started to read I fell asleep. I usually read outside and it was during the summer, so maybe I could give it another shot some time.
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Anonymous2008-06-27 0:07
>>16
The first 100 or so pages of it are boring as fuck, but afterwards it becomes awesome.
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Anonymous2008-06-27 5:31
Currently reading Jack Vance's Tschai, and it certainly is the worst book I ever read. I'm about half-way through the first book, because it's so bad it's good, actually, but this thing certainly is bad unintentionally, and wonder how it was even published. I saw someone whine about how it was renamed "Planet of Adventure" while it was so serious, but really, PoA is the best title for this kind of stuff, and editors did a great job. Shit's horrible. Worst storytelling, worst prose, no characters (everyone fades into a new personality every few pages, really), no story (he obviously composed as he went). Dear god in heaven, it's bad.
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Anonymous2008-06-27 5:33
>>16
Seconded, Dune's really-really boring. It's just badly written, actually. But the setting is awesome, and people who picked it later on (not the other books, but movies and especially the Westwood game) invented a great atmosphere on top of it.
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Anonymous2008-06-28 0:13
The Bell Jar - Plath.
I get it, you're depressed and have trouble as a woman in society. Kill yourself and stop wasting my time plox.
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Anonymous2008-06-28 4:11
Twilight, the last Harry Potter, Passage to India, or The Lone Ranger and Tanto Fistfight in Heaven
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Anonymous2008-06-28 4:23
>>21 The Lone Ranger and Tanto Fistfight in Heaven
I saw that one at the library and laughed at the ambiguity in its title.
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Anonymous2008-06-28 6:45
>>22
take the title's fail, and just apply that for two hundred pages, or however long the book is. One of the chapter titles is "Because my father was the only Indian who heard Jimmi Hendrix play the Star Spangled Banner." Seriously. I had to read it for sophmore English way back when, and it was all just contrived "feel bad because I'm an Indian and life on the reservation fukken sucks." The whole book is just eye rollingly melodramatic.
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Anonymous2008-06-28 9:15
Anything by Stephen King
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Anonymous2008-06-28 14:26
>>24
King isn't particularly good, but he sure is one of the best American writers.
Left Behind series. A view into the world of a christian fanatic, written with the prose of a ten year old.
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Anonymous2008-07-04 16:20
I can't remember it but it was some harry potter ripp off about some guy who can enter pictures.
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Anonymous2008-07-04 17:59
>>29
Charlie Bone is awesome, and a hell of a lot better than Harry Potter. Now explain what makes you call it a ripoff. It's about a boy? At a school‽ Ripoff!
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Anonymous2008-07-05 17:55
Stardust from Neil Gaiman was the worst book i ever Read.Everything else from Gaiman is ok but stardust is just shit.
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Anonymous2008-07-06 9:20
Franz Kafka: "The Metamorphosis"
We had to read it in school, never read such a bullshit before, never after. I can't understand why Kafka is known as such an extraordinary writer. Extraordinary garbage I would say.
Into the Wild. Pure shit. My English professor sported a huge chubby over this book, and I unfortunately was forced to read it in its entirety. Krakauer is a douche. I burned it. Literally/
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Anonymous2008-07-07 0:43
>>24
In all seriousness, the worst book I've ever read is that weird fantasy book that King wrote (I can't remember the title). God damn that shit was awful. It's the only thing by Stephen King I've ever read and I have no desire to read anything else he's written, even though I know that his other works are probably a lot different. That one book was so horrendous that I don't have much confidence that he has the capability to put out anything worth reading. It also doesn't help that I'm not into horror books.
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Anonymous2008-07-07 2:40
I've read a lot of books, but I say the most recent trash I've read was Ten Thousand Seeds by Linda Ty-Casper. Fucking boring shit.
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Anonymous2008-07-07 10:41
>>33
"OMG, it's a person who disagrees with me! He cannot possibly be serious! Therefore, it MUST MUST MUST MUST be a troll!!"
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Anonymous2008-07-07 10:55
One time I had to read Tuesdays With Morrie for school. I wanted to kill somebody.
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Anonymous2008-07-08 7:01
We had to read a certain amount of books geared toward us young'uns in high school. The book that made me furious with the whole assignment was The First Vial by Linnea Heinrichs.
The beautiful, strong-willed, charming woman-protagonist in a male-dominated society pissed me off to such an extent that I had to stop reading.
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Anonymous2008-07-08 9:56
Ulysses by James Joyce.
Can you say boring? I knew you could.
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Anonymous2008-07-08 13:37
>>40
Read the odyssey by Homer. Fcking epic tale of war
I have to say, most likely Albert Camus' 'The Outsider'. Existentialist masterbation, boring to read - Especially if you think that the mentality is outrageous.
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Anonymous2008-07-19 17:06
Not a bad book per say, but I just finished Parasite Eve and I'd say it was the stupidest thing I've read since I was foolish enough to glance at a couple pages of Battlefield Earth.