Worst Book You've Ever Read

Sorry if it sounds child-ish or whatever, but Indian in the Cupboard was the most boring book I have ever read. It might have sounded better if the author wrote it better, but I absolutely hated it.

I watched the movie version, but I never felt interested enough to read the book.

Okay - sorry about this; please don't kill me - Brisingr. I tried to read it twice, but the thing's so full of purple prose and ponderings of life that I could never really find the plot. A 700 page book that could've fit into less than 100 pages. D:

Lol. Eragon. Though the movie was worse- you notice, that at one point, they zoom in on the dragon armour hanging up, then the next scene she's wearing a completely different set?
And I swear they were wearing jeans at one point XD

Clo wrote:The Prophecy of the Stones... wasn't that written by a thirteen year old?

Pft, yeah. And you could totally tell. It contained a lot of LoTR fantasy things and a few twenty-four hour romances. Grr. No way. And the thirteen year old was French.

But people should read it. It makes you feel soooo good as a writer. *seriously*

~Sunny

Ummm... let's just take a look through my library, shall we? Ah, here we are: The Terrible Wave. A good book... for someone who doesn't like to go full length into a story. It just picks up in the middle and ends... Terrible Wave ends Terribly. Not my favorite book.

'Beyond Ugly' By Constance Briscoe.

I read 'Ugly' and it moved me to tears - as books featuring child abuse always do - so when she released the sequel, I thought "Yay!" This is because at the end of the first book she is picking herself up and shaping a life for herself.

I couldn't wait to hear how she managed, how she coped after such atrocities. Because I think these books lack a fundamental thing, yes they alert us to the horrific nature of child abuse, but the don't tell you how they managed to cope. How - if these things have happened to you - you're supposed to transcend your experiences and become a productive, happy person. They just seem to detail their suffering, then have a small epilogue in the back saying that their life is good now - in one way, shape or form. How?

I think David Pelzer is an excellent did fantastically detailing how he personally constructed a life for himself out of the ruined shell of an appalling childhood. But I'm deviating from my point.

'Beyond Ugly,' Just seemed to be rushed, especially towards the end, and didn't really have an ending. In my opinion it was also rather clinical. I don't know, I just felt disappointed reading it.

Hmm... I'm not really a book hater. I don't usually finish books that I don't like.

But...

I absolutely hate the Clique series! They're - for lack of a better word - stupid. I got to the end of the third book and I had no idea what the plot was. In a word, the series was pointless. If you like actual literature, do not read these books.
-Winter

The worst book I've read, I think, was Peter and the Shadow Thieves.

The plot was that a creature from outside Earth was taking human shadows.

I agree, I read it in yr 7, horrendous. I also hate The Machine Gunners.
And Before I Die is pretty awful.
Shadowmancer. I got a page through that. Wohoooo!

The Millenium Girl. I hated it. Period.

Fools Die caught me in the first two pages and lost me in the next ten.

Moll Flanders is boring.

As is Joss And Gold.

Sun Lord of the Outlander series. Just horrible. The prologue was fine, it actually had an interesting backstory. The first few pages were good, but I got totally lost after Kane got transported. I'm not sure where he is, in a past time or in a different place. The whole book just focuses on how much Kane likes Brigid, as well as a few other inappropriate things. Needless to say, it was the longest three hundred page book of my life. I nearly died when my teacher said that I couldn't switch books midway through the report.

I 'as gots more!!

The Pearl is the "boringest" book I've ever read. The descriptions are flimsy. I can't see the pictures at all. The bombastic words are actually French.

Beside The Ocean Of Time - honestly, I have no idea how it won so many awards. The line between reality and dreamworld blurred in a bad way. I couldn't tell what was his imagination and what wasn't.

The worst books i've ever read are probably Eathan Frome.

It's mainly about this old guy who marry's this old lady he doesn't really love, then he falls in love with this like 17 year old (kinds creeperish i know). and then they decide that they can't be together and blah blah blah.... so cliche.

There have been others that have been pretty bad also but i think this is the worst.

-balletbabe12

I'm going to have to say Interview with the Vampire.

It wasn't even written that badly but it was so boring. Everything was so overly descriptive and wordy my mind wandered, even during parts that should have been interesting. I didn't mind the characters or plot, though I'm not a big vampire person, but it was really a trial to read.

carbonated wrote:I'm going to have to say Interview with the Vampire.

It wasn't even written that badly but it was so boring. Everything was so overly descriptive and wordy my mind wandered, even during parts that should have been interesting. I didn't mind the characters or plot, though I'm not a big vampire person, but it was really a trial to read.

le gasp! I find that terribly ironic for that is my all time favourite book! It was the book that made me want to burn my copy of twilight for twilight was just plain horrendous compared to interview with the vampire!

The worst book I've ever forced myself to read? Normally if I dont like a book... I will just drop it completely. There really is no point to furthur continuing it.

The one book though that was absoluetly horrendous that I read was Breaking Dawn. Completely terrible. No other word for that book. Rushed, boring, Bella was as whiny as ever. All in all, a complete throw out for sure.

Twilight wasnt much better of course, but for some reason I read the entire series and I hated it. Sorry for the people who like twilight, I just cant stand the books. They are simple easy reads yes, but no way could I ever understand a character who whines and complains all the time, goes suicidal when Edward leaves for 5 seconds, has no friends not because they dont want to be her friend (which I find hilarious. Makes her characters sound desperate) but because she just doesnt want any cause she has Edward, and the best part is her father doesnt give a damn when she gets her arm sliced and stuff. Honestly, it was complete and utter crap in book form.

Sorry, but I really hated that series.