Worst Book You've Ever Read

I LOVED To Kill a Mockingbird! The Lord of the Flies isn't so bad, but I can't honestly say I enjoyed reading it.

My friend was praising Twilight to me, so I borrowed hers - I read 2 paragraphs and gave it right back. Sweet Valley is terrible, so is Nancy Drew. Lord of the Rings is boring, but my brother loves it. The content is good.

the faerie wars.

Le gasp! I loved the faerie wars!

Lord of the flies and the sweet valley high series. Both made me fall asleep.

But, I would read those every day if it would kill twilight. Sarah will tell you, Twilight is just not the kind of book you should allow near me.

And there was another book I read that had me howling in laughter over how poorly it was written... I just don't remember the title. Maybe if I did it out of my closet then I can tell you guys...

and Daddy long legs was such a boring book to read.

Now that you mention it, Faerie Wars was pretty bad...

But the absolute worst book? That's tough to pick. I don't really remember the bad ones. There was this one called The Monster's Legacy that I couldn't even finish. Also disliked The Road by Cormac McCarthy(sorry Oprah).

Oh yea. The most unintrigueing, boring, and utterly sleep-inducing book I have ever read would probably be Moll Flanders. I thought the summary sounded interesting, and it was - way more than the book itself.

Twilight.

I'm not even saying that be I'm a down-right, absolute, positive hater. I'm saying that because it was BAD. It pretty much went like this:

Bella: ZOMG, I just moved to teh Forks and this dude is like all mean to me.
*next day*
Edward: Lawlz, u smell good Bellaz.
Bella: OMG, I wub you Edwardz!
*300 pages later*
Jacob: I h8 u, Edwardz.
Edward: I h8 u 2 foo.
*50 or so pages later*
James: Imma eat chuz Bella. U smell good.
Bella: ...
James: RAWRG!
*end of book*
Bella: I dont wunna go to teh promz. Not even wit meh hot bf.
Edwardz: I saved you from a crazy vampirez dood. Be thankfulz!
*Bella and Edward start dancing*
Teh Endz


Now when I think about it.. That's a pretty good summary.

Um Great expecations....to be honest I couldn't even finish it. The closest I have got to reading more Dickens is watching a BBC version of Bleak house on tv and writing a scathing report when my teacher asked me to describe how Dickens introduces characters using a snippet from the very same hated book.
Don't get me wrong, I love alot of classics. Who ever bagged out Jane Eyre is evil in my book!!
Oh and I hated Catcher in the rye. It was amusing for about two pages then it got tedious. Also, song of an innocent bystander. I hated it all the more because I had to write an essay praising it all the more. If you've never heard of it, count your lucky stars and don't look into it.
Also some book by Jodi Picoult about some girl who's sister has cancer and she was born to be the donor and she doesn't want to or something. I can't even remember the name. But it was rubbish, especially the ending.

Great expecations

Oh and I hated Catcher in the rye.

*sobs*

Moving on swiftly.
This is getting to be such a cliche, but Twilight.
I laughed at it most of the time I was reading it.

Grammar and spelling - bad. Very bad.

Bella- Whiny, dependant, bitchy, selfish, pathetic, Mary Sue, obsessive, and parasitically dependant upon Edward. She literally saw no point in living with out him. 200 years of fighting for women's equality all shattered by one very annoying character. Also She is Stephenie Meyer's dream self. I mean she fits Meyer's description - just add 40 years. It was her pathetic-ness that bothered me. I'd never read a book with a main character like her. Never hated a fictional character the way I hated her. There was always a redeeming quality to the characters I'd read about but with Bella it was just - missing. It wasn't there. Not only did that bother me - it scared me.

Edward- Abusive, arrogant, controlling, demanding, lying, disgusting, stalking twangleberry who loves a girl because she smells nice. Male version of a Mary-Sue.

Eek, sorry for the rant.

-Sarah

He's a Gary-Stue!
(Thank you anti-shurtugal.com!)

CastlesInTheSky wrote: twangleberry

Definitely the best description of Edward Cullen I've ever seen. If not, you know, the best description ever.



My least favorite is definitely The Old Man and the Sea. We also read this absolutely horrific play in my Modern Irish Literature class, Stones in His Pockets. Poorly written, unconvincingly plotted, and it all hung on a gimmick. Yuck.

To be completely honest, Twilight. I couldn't finish reading it! It was so poorly-written! The plot is very cliche and overused, and the characters are unrealistic and horrendous. Bella, the protagonist, is basically:

"Oh my gosh! I'm such a sad loner. No one loves me. My dad is so dumb. Euh. Life sucks. I have no social skills, but at this new school, everyone loves me! For doing nothing! All of these guys want to get in my pants! And there's this really cute guy! He sparkles! This is why I love him!"

It's pathetic. I mean, I have nothing against those who really enjoyed it, but it definitely did not float my boat.

Since everyone has forgotten, as the founder of this popular thread I feel I should say that in my initial post for this I said Do Not Mention Twilight or Harry Potter, and now I add especially Twilight, because these books have been talked about enough and there are other books to dislike out in the world.

We get it.

Uhhm...okay then.

I disliked A Separate Peace. Though this book played a significant role for those during its time, I thought it was very slow and boring. The momentum of this piece didn't get rolling until the very middle. Probably, the worst assigned reading I've ever read. I dealt with Great Expectations, that was okay. But this one, was almost unbearable.

The worst book ever: Brisingr -- I read through over 700 pages of this drivel, and not one thing exciting or otherwise happened throughout the book.

The second worst book ever -- Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. This book was predictable, cliched and horribly written.

The third worst book ever -- Faerie Wars. No other word to describe it other than "horrible".