Worst Book You've Ever Read

Explosive_Pen wrote:Across Five Aprils
Complete torture. I had to read it for school, and I have no idea how I was the one who got the highest score on the test. Haha, I was cursed at for over a month for being the one who brought up the curve.

Oh my gosh! I read this book in sixth grade. I skimmed like the last three chapters I was bored at the end. We had a huge essay test and I passed it with flying colors.

Ugh, it was an awful book.

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Oh I forgot those baby sitters' club books. Those were truely awful.

The Clique by Lisi Harrison. It's TERRIBLE, and the other books in the series are even worse. That's all I can really say about it before I start to yell and point a lot of fingers. :]

And there's another series that starts with the letter "T" that I am forbidden to say...and that's even worse than The Clique...with a lot of characters that happen to be sparkly/overly described....Anyone catch the hint here?

Mind you I went all the way to my overdue library book records to find the title of this book for you, so there was a bit of effort put into this post.

So, I like to look through books at the library that I don't know, hoping to find some sort of unknown jewel to appreciate. This is why I picked up the book The Faerie Path by Frewin Jones. The cover looked attractive enough, and I do appreciate good faerie tales, so to speak, so I opened it as soon as I got home. It started out... alright. The writing was nothing spectacular to begin with, and then it got worse. I don't know if the book was actually horrid, though it was probably under my level and meant for less advanced readers, but the thing that bothered me the most was the HORRIBLE dialogue.

Here's my point, really. When you encounter a fictional world and are brought before FAERIES, do you use short, casual sentences like it's nothing out of the ordinary, like you're talking to your friends from the non-magical world? Seriously, the character just... oh I can't even describe it. ;=;

Anyways, I seriously threw the book down in anguish and let it SIT there, even become over due, just because I hate it so much...

Please don't read it if you appreciate good, reverent fantasy.

How2EataRhesus wrote:The Clique by Lisi Harrison. It's TERRIBLE, and the other books in the series are even worse. That's all I can really say about it before I start to yell and point a lot of fingers. :]

And there's another series that starts with the letter "T" that I am forbidden to say...and that's even worse than The Clique...with a lot of characters that happen to be sparkly/overly described....Anyone catch the hint here?

Oh, oh! I know this! *thinks hard* Wait, never mind. I was going to say Gossip Girls.....oh! Twilight! I wiiiin! *grabs prize*

I liked the Faerie Path. Sure, it wasn't spectacular or anything, but I thought it was a cute story. You know, one of those shallow novels you read just for fun.

I just finished a book called Song Quest, by Katherine Roberts. It was okay, but there were a lot of cliche similies and some parts bored me, so I skipped.

The idea was interesting, though. Cover absolutely sucked - looked like some eleven-year-old messing on Photoshop. The words "Give this to the kid who wants the next Harry Potter" also really deterred me. It was nothing compared to HP, honestly. I hate books that say that.

I just finished a book called Song Quest, by Katherine Roberts. It was okay, but there were a lot of cliche similies and some parts bored me, so I skipped.

The idea was interesting, though. Cover absolutely sucked - looked like some eleven-year-old messing on Photoshop. The words "Give this to the kid who wants the next Harry Potter" also really deterred me. It was nothing compared to HP, honestly. I hate books that say that.

I recall liking Song Quest! I think. Is that the one with the different emotion thingies? I dunno, I read it a while ago, so I can make no judgment upon its quality. As for The Faerie Path being empty but enjoyable, that could be. That's what a certain other well-known book was for me that I had to read because my sister bought me all four of the books. o_O; So, yes, those books have a place. I just can never recall leaving a book on the floor in such a fit of disgust before. :C -laughs-

And the reference to Harry Potter on Song Quest annoyed me too, though I supposed they're both relatively original? xD

The World is Flat by Thomas L Friedman. He's just completely, completely wrong about everything, and the worst part is that he seems to have my global studies teacher convinced.

Hannah wrote:

I just finished a book called Song Quest, by Katherine Roberts. It was okay, but there were a lot of cliche similies and some parts bored me, so I skipped.

The idea was interesting, though. Cover absolutely sucked - looked like some eleven-year-old messing on Photoshop. The words "Give this to the kid who wants the next Harry Potter" also really deterred me. It was nothing compared to HP, honestly. I hate books that say that.

I recall liking Song Quest! I think. Is that the one with the different emotion thingies? I dunno, I read it a while ago, so I can make no judgment upon its quality. As for The Faerie Path being empty but enjoyable, that could be. That's what a certain other well-known book was for me that I had to read because my sister bought me all four of the books. o_O; So, yes, those books have a place. I just can never recall leaving a book on the floor in such a fit of disgust before. :C -laughs-

And the reference to Harry Potter on Song Quest annoyed me too, though I supposed they're both relatively original? xD

Ah yes, but Harry Potter was good. :p Therein lies the difference.

ANCIENTS:

The Odyssey = minor death.

MODERN/ANCIENT:

Great Expectations. Every time I see those two words next to a picture of Barack Obama on a magazine cover I want to purge.

MODERN:
Twilight, Eragon. But of course, mutual agreement there. Yux.

Johnny Tremain and Artemis Fowl. I hated the protagonists of both; they were annoying and boring.

Conrad Rice wrote:The fourth book in the Maximum Ride saga, The Final Warning. It wasn't like it was badly written, but Mr. Patterson kept trying to preach about global warming in almost every other paragraph, at least it seemed that way to me. And, what's more, it didn't have any relevance to the plot of the book. It was just there to try to send a message to kids, and that was painfully obvious.

Really? You didn't find it badly written? I've never read it, but I put down the first Maximum Ride because I found it to be really horribly written... Maybe it's just me, but I really found the writing amateurish, but I guess he's had three books to get better since then, so I won't judge him.

Dragon Flight. Ugh. I tried five million times to read it, but it was just such a waste of paper . . . *inhale, exhale* No offense intended toward Patricia McKillip.

Hmm, oh and The Naming by Allison Croggon. (I don't think I spelled that right.) Just too LOTR and Harry Potter, and it dragged and I couldn't connect with the characters.

The Prophecy of the Stones by Flavia Bujor. Yikes. I won't even go into that one.

EDIT: Brisingr by You-Know-Who (technically that's not the "E" word). It fell flat. On its face. On its ugly golden dragon spiky face. I read the first two hundred pages, fell asleep repeatedly through the next ten and then skipped doggedly to the last five and threw it back into the RETURN box at the library. *sheesh*

And . . . . *drumroll* Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klaus. Ugh. Double ugh. Sick, sexually charged teenaged werewolves with terrible thought processes. They do idiotic things for idiotic reasons, probably because they're all IDIOTS. (Vivian, just marry Gabriel and be done with it.)

*still fuming* I read way too many books. Most of them are bad. *sigh*

~Sunny

I'll give you a hint:
It begins with "E" and I can't say it.


alwaysawriter:
Twiight is awesome, and thats coming from someone who hates romance, anyway, the writing doesn't suck, its just as good as the book: READ IT!

Swordbird *shudder*. "Literature" like that gives me hope that I can become published. If Harpercollins has stooped to that level, it should be easy.

Hannah wrote:

I just finished a book called Song Quest, by Katherine Roberts. It was okay, but there were a lot of cliche similies and some parts bored me, so I skipped.

The idea was interesting, though. Cover absolutely sucked - looked like some eleven-year-old messing on Photoshop. The words "Give this to the kid who wants the next Harry Potter" also really deterred me. It was nothing compared to HP, honestly. I hate books that say that.

Just looked it up, and I read that book and loved it. I even re-read it. However, I was very young and probably an even poorer judge of quality then, so...who knows?

Oh, I just remembered another bad-ish book. A Princess of Roumania by Paul Park. It had a really interesting concept, but I don't think I ever finished it (and I renewed it multiple times). It was a bit over-complicated for my taste and the writing bored me.