Top 5 Worst Books You Ever Read

Wintersmith by I don't remember who it's be by I couldn't even get through the first chapter.
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. It's not the book it's the hype and everyone talking about how amazing it is that made me hate it.

~peanut~

I totally agree about The Great Gatsby, Kitty15! I read it in my honors English class in high school. My teacher kept going on about how great Fitzgerald's writing was and all his great descriptions. They are great, it's true. But his characters drove me bonkers! I didn't care about them at all! I felt like if I had to hear any more about Daisy's "musical voice" I was going to do something drastic.

The New Rules of High School - Blake Nelson
The character was dynamic, but in the strangest way. He came full circle. I put down the book wondering why he chose to catalogue that particular part of the character's life.

The Blue Sword - Robin McKinley
I don't know why; I love her other books. This one was so dry it sandpapered my eyes.

The Final Warning - James Patterson
I like how most books in a series are about the same size. This one, not so much. Also, the quality was far below his usual wit.

Wideacre - Philippa Gregory
Again, a great author doing terrible, terrible storytelling. What happened to the splendor of The Queen's Fool and The Other Boleyn Girl?

The Face on the Milk Carton - Caroline Cooney
I really did love the idea for this book. Then I read this book and ceased to love any part of it. Something about the way she executed her plan... just... -shudder-


Good lord, a lot of people hate my favorite books! Of Mice and Men?! <3 D=

The only one I can think of right now is Twilight.

Wow, some Twilight haters here.
I would say that too, but, one I liked it very much and even if I'm not as mad about it now as I was then I can't do that when I've got so many others.

The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty - Anne Rice - Don't even ask how I got to read this book.

Rune Master - Claudia Groß - Dear lord, it was like reading a bad copy of Mireille Calmel's books

Prep - Curtis Sittenfeld - Where should I begin?

Ion - Liviu Rebreanu - A book every single high school student is forced to read in my country

I can't think of anything else right now.

Myth wrote:

DarkerSarah wrote:The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon. Shut up. I know the new age emo contemporary lit crowd is going to hate me for this one. I cannot express to you how much I hated this book. I only read it because my best friend asked me to. I understand what he was trying to do, but the book just sucked.

I also hated that book, it was about the author and his problem whatever its called. Something Syndrome... don't know how to spell it.

It was about a 15 year old boy who had Asperger Syndrome in England, than he ran away to his mother's apartment because he couldn't trust his dad anymore. (Had to read it for school. 3 page book report )

Over all it is kind of interesting the way Mark Haddon wrote it in Chris' POV but, over all it was kind of an 'eh' book. I wouldn't buy it. As far as read it again? Maybe. When I'm bored. And all my other books have burned in a tragic fire or something like that.

Twilight - before you yell, hear me out. 1, the plot is boring in too many places, and has too much going on in too little time in others. 2, the vampires sparkle. 3, characters, 2D perfectionists, although the Wolves and Jasper are eceptions to the rule. 4, No one dies. This is a major downer in my oppinion. Almost every great novel has a character die. Maybe not a main one, but one the reader cares about.

Star Wars books - the movies are awesome, but the books are rip-offs.

Max - (by James Patterson) The first three books in the Maximum Ride series were good, the fourth okay, but the fifth... It was continued for the Max/Fang relationship alone.

and those are my top 'highly disliked' books. And I am shocked that anyone could NOT like 'His Dark Meterials' by Philip Pulman. They are so... in depth. And amazing. And they make you think, which is a rare occurence, judging by my observations of the modern teenager.

I know I sound harsh, but thats the way I look at it.

I'm sorry if I offended anyone.

-Kelcia

I remember reading this kids' book, The Teacher's Funeral or something, that was horrible. Plot was flat and uninteresting, characters were not memorable, and the whole thing was just really badly written. I picked it up because I thought there'd be a lot of morbid details regarding the circumstances of the teacher's unfortunate demise, but.. no. A bunch of country kids and their 'adventures', if you could call it that.

You guys that don't like The Catcher in the Rye because of Holden, I agree that he's pretty annoying and whiny at times, but I still like the book. Or at least certain parts of it.

Eragon - Utter crap rip-off of Tolkien.

Elinor Brynn wrote: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

Gaston Leroux. May I ask why you disliked that book?

I feel like, crazy, after just reading through the pages of this thread, how ignorant some people are. oO; I don't mean ignorant in the loaded-term kind of way [like calling you a bunch of idiots -- I'm not], but just the way that several people have posted that they hate books by well-known authors without even remembering who wrote them or bothering to look them up.

Even more than that, a lot of these books seem to be ones that if read at the wrong age, will seem really boring, but that's because they weren't age appropriate and dismissing them as terrible books is completely unfair. I understand differences in taste, but I suppose I can't bring myself to rag on books simply because I don't understand them.

No, nope, gotta get off this thread now. o__O;

I was reading through the first five pages of this thread and was amazed that Twilight hadn't popped up yet because it has to be one of the worst piece of fiction of all time. It doesn't help that Twilight mania sparked off all that craze about vampires and stuff.

And I love Harry Potter, Ella Enchanted, Artemis Fowl and Eragon but just because I love them doesn't mean everybody does, so okay.

My top three worst books I've ever read:

1) Twilight and accompanying books by Stephenie Meyer. Bella and Edward make really annoying protagonists.

2) Evermore by Alyson Noel. I bought the first book, read the first few pages and found it okay but when I got to the end... Summerland? *facepalm* Feels like a Twilight sort of book for me.

3) House of Night series by P.C. and Kristen Cast. See, the strange thing is I enjoy reading this series but I have to admit it's pretty awful. I can't stand the author's allusions to pop culture (like an attempt to hook younger readers) and the main character's sheer perfection (she just prays to her goddess to get new powers and she has like, four boyfriends one after another).

Oh, here we go.

Here are some of the absolute worst books (if you can call them that) I've ever read. How they got published is a genuine mystery to me.
These aren't in any particular order, except for number one which really can't be counted as legitimate writing anyway.

1) Anatomy of a Boyfriend by Daria Snadowsky

I thought it would be a fun, easy read on a Sunday morning, and it turned out to be a violating experience. It was disgusting, had no plot whatsoever, the characters were paper thin, and I only finished it so I could appreciate how fully it sucked.

2) Evermore by Alyson Noel

I couldn't finish it because it was basically a complete rip off of Twilight. The characters spoke the same, acted the same, basically were the same, except Stephenie Meyer's version wasn't awful, and had some actual talent behind it.

3) The Pact by Jodi Picoult.

I thought I wasn't going to name any best-sellers, but my God, did I need to make an exception. This woman has the same basic plot for every book, and will use any method to make her readers cry. None of her books are satisfactory in any way, and I only chose this one because it was so slow paced, I wanted to throw it into the ocean.

4) Teen Idol by Meg Cabot

Possibly the most vapid, pointless waste of an innocent tree's life.

5) Pretty Dead by Francesca Lia Block

It's a God awful, and (surprise, surprise) it's about vampires. It seems all originality has been sucked from the world.

OK, this is hard, but here goes, in order...

1) The Westing Game, by someone-who-I-can't-remember

It is basically impossible to feel anything for ANY of the characters. No idea how it won the Newberry Medal.

2) All of the Eragon books, by Christopher Paolini

As someone has already said, a complete spin-off of LOTR.

3) Twilight Saga, by Stephanie Meyer

OK, no offense to anyone, but...WHY?

4) The Final Warning, by James Patterson

I loved the first three, and the fifth was asi-asi, but this, I can't even talk about.

5) Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott

I was forced to read this when I was in fifth grade, and I just didn't understand it. OK, sure, they had some trauma in their lives, but really, did we need all that drama?

Oh, and BTW, for all of you who are bashing on The Catcher in the Rye, how could you? I absolutely adore that book!

Oh, it kills me to see people hating The Westing Game. D=

1)Twilight Saga My reason is because it had such a depressing mood.if you've read my stories you;d think i was a hypocrite... so I'll explain, Who wouldn't want to live forever? I've read all the books and i do pity some of them, but seriously? And Bella is such a whiner. jeez.

2) Hatchet, I had to read this in 4th grade... i hated that book so much, the plot line didn't make any sense.

3) The Luxe series, read the books. just a bunch of catty girls trying to get some newspaper time... and then there's Henry. That boy just can't make up his mind.

That's all I can think of...