Top 5 Worst Books You Ever Read

Woo. Hmm. Worst books I've ever read...

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer - The writing is all purple prose, but what really bothered me was the lack of interesting characters and the boring plot. Bella was whiny and ignorant while Edward was creepy. Oh, and the complete murder of all that is vampire. What did SMeyer vampires and Stoker's vampire have in common? Drinking blood, but that wasn't even human blood. Hannibal Lecter was leagues closer to being a vampire than the Cullen family (not to mention Hannibal is freaking epic and could probably become a dolphin if he wanted).

Demon in My View by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes - I picked it up because I heard she became a published novelist at thirteen and wrote this particular book at sixteen. I was sadly disappointed by its quality. Her writing was nice, but again the characters and plot failed to impress. The dialogue was terrible as well. In my short time here at YWS, I've seen many writers who surpass Amelia in talent and their ability to come up with coherent plots and interesting characters.

Eragon by Christopher Paolini - I hated it. It was a complete rip-off of Lord of the Rings, which, despite its sexism, is one of my favorite epic series. There were far too many obvious parallels between the two, and I never found myself really rooting for Eragon. I liked this better than the previous books mentioned because the characters were more interesting, if only because he ganked them off Tolkien.

When the Legends Die by Hal Borland. Tedious. I understand that it's about identity and whatnot, but the main character was a psycho, and not in a fun way. I found no reason to like him or respect him. I also found it weirdly stereotyping Native Americans. The whole "I understand the bear and speak to him" thing was so unnecessary. Borland didn't even make it seem plausible.

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen - Considering how old she was when she wrote this particular book, I envy her vocabulary. Then again, people spoke differently back then, so... In any case, I disliked it. It read like Shakespeare's marriage plays, where the plot is way too confusing for its own good and the characters were all simpering, rich idiots. There was no wit or dry humor, the components that made her later book Pride & Prejudice a fantastic book.

It's funny how three of the worst books I've read were written by athors who were around my age. I wonder what this means....

5. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
4. Magic Treehouse by I forget
3. Junie B. Jones by Barbra Park
2. Phantom of the Opera by I forget his name
1. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

1. Eragon and all the books that came after it, Eldest is the worst.
2. The Gravedigger's Daughter-Joyce Carol Oates
3.Eclipse- Stephenie Meyer (liked the rest though)
4.The secret garden- Frances Hodgson Burnett. I read in sixth grade, and its not bad, but I was eleven and it was too long and confusing, besides, the vocabulary was too intricate.
5.The last one, well,it was a sci-fi, it talked about tesseracts, and I hated it so much that I don't ven remember its name.

Pudin, was it A Wrinkle in Time, that tesseract book? I thought that was pretty good.

Anyway:

1. Z for Zachariah, Robert C. O'Brien. The teacher's personal choice of book for English, and it was awful. The main character was so irritating, even down to her name, Ann Burden, because all the way through she was 'the victim' and unable to think. Cheered myself up by watching the made-for-TV movie on YouTube, though, which is so bad it's funny. Recommended it to the teacher.

2. How I Live Now, Meg Rosoff. The stream of consciousness style drove me insane.

3. The Moth Diaries, Rachel Klein. I expected vampire fic a la Twilight, and got a psychological horror. Totally wasn't expecting it.

Oooh... I can't think of anything else. I tend to re-read old books way more often than I read new ones.

1) twilight series
2)Henry Tumour
3)Captain Cooks' Apprentice

Can't think of any more and I can't think of any of the authors well I can I'm just to slack. also Harry Potter is good it got me reading and writing!

Wow, I'm having a hard time thinking up actual books that I hate and not going through and defending every favorite of mine that I see on someone else's hate list.

I refuse to put in Twilight, Eragon or any of their demon spawn... It would eat up my list too quickly.

1) All of the "Artemis Fowl" books after The Opal Deception (by Eoin Colfer). Seriously, I loved, loved, loved that series to death. Then the recent few books came out and I was all like "No. Just... No." Very bad. Character derailments, plot holes and sudden screaming enviromental messages (and the others weren't too subtle about it either...)

2) The Naming (by Alison Croggon). You guys thought Eragon was a rip-off of The Lord of the Rings? O-ho-ho, you ain't seen nothing yet.

3) Daniel X (or something like that) (by James Pattinson). Bad. Just bad. Seriously, didn't even have the charm of the early (early, mind you) Maximum Ride books.

4) Walden (by Henry David Thoreau). Yes, I know it's kind of a cliche that all highschool students who were forced to read Walden hate it, but I didn't hate the book so much as the hypocrical guy behind it. Seriously, I hate Thoreau. The book, seperate from him, is okay, but knowing that he wrote it and what his entire life was outside of Walden, oh gosh. Hated it.

And to tie for the number 5 spot are some of the Bronte sisters. (disclaimer: I think these are well-written books and they are actually readable. I just hate them.)

5) Jane Eyre (by Charlotte Bronte). Oh gosh, how I hate this book. It is a thorough downer. Seriously, I hated the entire thing. It would raise my hopes, only to crush them with something else completely depressing. Even the "happy" ending is depressing. And I hate Rochester's guts. Seriously. I could go on for days about it. And what's with their momentary psychic connection? Can anyone say "Deus Ex Machina"?

5)Wuthering Heights (by Emily Bronte). Again, depressing. I think I just wasn't cut out for their brand of Gothic romance. (Funny thing is, one of the Bronte sisters -can't recall which one - actually talked about hating Jane Austen for being so light and fluffy... and I love Jane Austen!)Hated this book and also cannot stand all those Twilight fans (and Bella herself) who completely miss the point of this book. Seriously people, this is not a happy romantic book! Everyone, everyone is seriously messed up or manipulative in some way. E v e r y o n e.

Yeah, those be mine. There are more out there that are bad, but those be my top five(-ish).

1. Twilight
2. Twilight
3. ... Twilight?
4. Yeah... I normally like literature, but twilight...
5. AUSTRALIA rules

Wow, I'm surprised so many people dislike Jane Eyre. I remember really liking it when I read it in high school, but I'm kind of into Gothic and depressed romance. I should read it again, and see what I think of it now that I'm six years wiser.

My list:

1)Twilightby Stephanie Meyer: So bad I could only get through 30 pages, but my loathing of the madness it has spawned runs deep in my soul.
2) Eragon and its accompanying Bricks of Doom by Christopher Paolini: I have three words: Naked Elf Groins. That's all you ever need to know.
3) The Anita Blake series past Bloody Bonesby Laurel K. Hamilton: I was so on board with this series until Anita-Sue got all the benefits of being a wereleopard without having to actually get furry once a month, and the entire plot started revolving around "le ardeur" and her "need" to do the deed with as many perfectly chiseled men as possible. Lame in all respects, the worst author-insert I've seen anywhere, including the Pit of Voles.
4)The Wheel of Timeby Robert Jordan: Too long, too many characters, too many too-powerful characters! I don't wish to speak ill of the dead, but once your MC achieves the level of power necessary to move mountains when he blinks, the story loses all urgency. This is probably the most sexist story I've ever read. All the women are irrational and think they're better than everyone, and all the men just sigh and deal with it and complain about how irrational women are.
5)Death of a Salesman by Henry Miller: I know, it's not a book, but it haunts me. I loathe this play, and I keep having to read it for class.

1) Darkhenge by Catherine Fisher
2) Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
3) Harry potter by Jk Rowling

i apologize for harry potter fans but when i read it...it just go on...and on...and on...and on...

4) Untouchable by Chris Ryan

1. Twilight series
2. Lord of the Flies
3. Wicked series by Nancy Holder
4. Anthem
5. Martian Chronicles


That's all I can think of right now, but trust me, there are more

Here's the ones I could think of:

-Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes [[had to do it for a summer assignment and hated if since I didn't care about it]]

-Animal Farm by can't remember [[stupidest book ever, it's about pigs becoming communist and my favorite character ends up dying so it sucked]]

-Tuesdays with Morrie by what's-his-face [[too contradictory and has stupid beliefs, and just boring in general]]

-Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyers [[the first ones were semi-tolerable, but this one was just dumb, I mean seriously no one cares about their freaking honeymoon or hearing Jacob's thoughts]]

-any textbooks [[enough said.]]

Okay, so off the top of my head I came up with this list:
5-1984- I realize that this is a classic, and okay, so Orwell is a good writer, but I hated this book. It was way too boring and creepy for my taste.
4-Brave New World- See above, minus the Orwell thing.
3-Night- We had to read this in Grade 9, and I think that they definitely should have waited to spring this on us until college. It was a creepy, depressing book about this kid who is sent from Concentration Camp to Concentration Camp during the Holocaust.
2-Where the Red Fern Grows- Depressing and sad. We read this in Grade 7, and I pretty much was depressed the whole year because of it.
1- Okay, so many hate me for this, but I HATE the Artemis Fowl books. He is a total know it all, evil jerk, and I don't like reading about people I don't like. Plus, I couldn't get the plot, like at all. I did not like these books at.

Hey, i feel Twilight and Eragon were really cool books. maybe they didn't suit you.

Eragon, in some parts, really was based on Lord of the Rings. but the author was just 15 when he wrote the book!

Wooow. Some of my favourite books have been named here, hpw queer it is that people's taste can vary so much.

1. The Heart of Darkness (by Conrad):- It was slow and dull and I despised every page. It took me months to finish just because I'd pick it up and put it straight back down after reading another word of the drivel. I hate it soooo much. I thought there's be nothing that could ever make me read it a second time but I'm now studying it this year and therefore must. I rue the day I thought I'd try a 'man's book'.

2. The Great Gatsby (by Fitzgerald) :- The best part of this book was when Gatsby died. My whole class let out a whoop of delight much to the dismay of our English teacher. The characters grate on you more than any others and the narrator is perhaps the worst of all just for his passiveness! I know the book is supposed to be a clever critique of American society but it could have managed that and been enterteining I'm sure. I'll say one thing for Fitgerald and it's that his descriptions were enthralling and very memorable but when combined with the badness that goes against him.

I have fortunately not hated any other book as much as I did these two. The term dislike can be applied to a fair few but I'll reserve the other three spots for now.

WEll,


1. I kinda liked the twilight series at first but after thinking about them its REALLY stupid. First they meet, then they fall in love like 2 days l8er, then some random vampire comes up and tries to kill her. It was pretty sad.

2. The PRIVATE series stunk. It was soooo badly writen. The privelege series ( a spinoff) was pretty good though.

3. Teen Idol. What a waste of time

4. Things Fall apart by Chinea Achebe. God that was revolting. Okwonko or watever his name was just liked fighting and beating his wives.

5. Eraon just bored me soo much.