Worst Book You've Ever Read

Well, mine isn't too well known but it was called North of Beautiful. I guess it was okay, but it's the only book that I think was bad/boring that I read all the way through others I just don't read. I don't know why I didn't like it, it was just weird, and boring. And sort of confusing.

here are some of mine-

No More Dead Dogs
The Acorn People
and there's this book we had to read in 4th grade, something about a family coming from England and going to Jamestown to be with their sick father because there mother died, I ABSOLUTLY HATED IT!

The Prince and the Pauper.

It was horrid. I was reading it for a book group and I literally begged my mother to let me stop.

All of the older books that your school makes you read for projects:

The House on Mango Street.
The Red Badge of Courage.
Tale of Two Cities.
The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass.
Moby Dick.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

They are all so BORING!
So, I mostly Sparknote-ed them. ;D

American Psycho. Not badly written. Just a vile, vile book. Had to stop reading because I couldn't take it any more. one of the most depraved characters and gruemsome, relentless violence. The Christian Bale movie this version is not.
If you ever pick it up, and manage to finish it, let me just say you will be desensitized to violence. absolutly.

I'm afraid I have to toss Their Eyes Were Watching God and Where the Broken Heart Still beats in there. very boring school novels, uneventful and uninspiring.
Must say I didn't care for Tale of Two Cities or Gone with the Wind either. (shudder)

Does it count that have never been able to get through the book?

If it does then definetly Lord of the Rings. It is so overwritten. It takes like 30 pages just leading up to Biblo's birthday party.

and If it doesn't then I guess it would be the Fear Street Series by R.L Stine. Like last year my friend was like Tori you have to read these they are so scary. So I got a binch of them from the library by my house. It was hilarious that someone actually thought they were scary. They were litteraly like "As I walked down the dark hall, I thought that I heard a noise as I started to turn around I heard the heavy breathing." I was so like the 7th Friday the 13th movie.

Ok, at the risk of being shot by all the people who think it is the greatest literary work since sliced bread...
To Kill A Mockingbird is the absolute worst book that I have ever read.

Sure Harper Lee is a good writer, I could see the story playing out in my head and all, but I just wasn't impressed. It had a boring storyline and by the time you get to the end of the book nothing has really changed. If I hadn't been forced to read it for school I would have stopped after the first page. Instead of reading 3-4 times like was suggested I read it once and spark noted the rest.

I see a pattern, all the books we have to study in school are exemplary works of boringly 'good' literature.

Earlier in the thread someone brought up 'Jodi Picoult.' I tried reading one of her books because a friend of mine said I should, but I only got to page seventeen of 'Vanishing acts,' before I gave up. The prolouge was interesting, but I couldn't get into the actual book at all.

Another couple of books I hated was 'Spies,' by Michael Frayn and 'Birdsong,' by Sebastian Faulks. Both were utterly boring and I'd have stopped after chapter one if I wasn't reading them for school.

'Vernon God little,' by DBC Prerie was weird - (another book i had to read for school) and it took me ages to get into 'The curious incident of the dog in the night-time' by Mark Haddon, but it wasn't that bad once I got a third of the way in.

I agree with 'dreamintechnicolour' in that the books we're made to read at school are usually mind-numbing in one way or another.

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Twilight. Of course! It's absolutely dreadful, and I mean every little bit of it. In my opinion, Edward is an abusive boyfriend disguised to look like a Prince Charming, and Bella is just a totally clueless damsel in distress who is obviously blind, deaf and spineless to be with a vampire! It's so...dumb.

Four Truths and a Lie. I can't really put my finger on what I didn't like the most about it. I just did not like it one bit. It was the first book I have ever returned.

Huckleberry Finn, ooh I hated that book so badly. I read it for English and I had to read a lot of it repeatedly to understand what they said. Like when Jim was talking about his daughter (who turns out to be deaf) and he said "I told her to shut the door" but he said it so backcountry I couldn't understand it until I read it for the eighth time aloud.

I understand the satire and how it's supposed to be in Southern dialect, but it's just not my cup of tea. After spending weeks analyzing the passages for literary devices, plot devices, etc. It pretty much sealed it. I think the reading and over analyzing of many a classics ruined them for me.

It's sad to see so much old literature on here. As a future English teacher (in two years), let me tell you that when I teach these books, you're going to be going "oh my god! I get it!" and having fun with them.

*very ideal* >_>

Damn can't mention the big 'T' series. Though I guess I could say somethings about it else where. And most of what I got to rant about it has already been said.

I hated the Book 'The Loki Wolf' by Slade.

The story line was so horribly rushed and badly written that I would have burned the book if it didn't belong to my schools libary. He claims to be a fan of Norse Mythology but why would he twist it until it was unreconizable if he did He gives canadain writers a bad name, I seriously want to hurt him. Or destroy his books. Whatever is easier.

Hm, I'd have to say Across 5 Aprils by Irene Hunt. That book was so stretched out and nothing happened! I'm not sure what exactly made it so bad. Just when we had to read it for school, our entire class was sitting there and half of us were nearly asleep (including me ). God, we hated that book so much...it was absolute torture having to read it...I agree with 'dreamintechnicolor', those supposed 'classics' which are so 'deep' and 'meaningful' generally tend to suck...
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I usually don't even finish reading a book if I think it's awful. Walking in Circles Before Lying Down is near the bottom of my list though. It isn't a bad book but it didn't hold my attention. It was kind of boring yet strange at the same time.

Lets see books I don't like
Gossip Girl( worst book ever)
"The Hobbit" by JRR Tolkien (Really Hate this one)
The DarkAngel by Meredith Ann Pierce(one word Boring)
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray(too slow really boring)