Top 5 Worst Books You Ever Read

5. The Ranger's Apprentice (forget the author) It had it's pretty good moments, however,
overall it was pretty much poor attempt.

4. The Works of Charles Dickens I am not a fan.

3. The Golden Compass Series(forget the author) Repulsive. Its just... Ugh.

And in a tie for first place:

1. The Harry Potter Series Don't get me started.

1. The books of Stephanie Meyer(sp?) ^Ditto that.^

1. Twilight, by Stephanie Meyer. Ugh, it boggles my mind how people like a 100+ year old virgin who is a stalker, a pedophile, and a nightlight. The main character is literally a blank slate whose role readers can step into. (Not even getting into the writing.) No thank you!

2. The Aeneid, by Virgil. As a student in AP Virgil, I can't even get away from this mess. Ugh, Aeneas is an asshole, and he should have left Carthage long before he did. Poor Dido. Virgil really hated you. Anyway, I wish this was an epic about Hector instead. I want to read about Hector's manpain, damn it!

3. The Inheritance series, by Christopher Paolini. Can I just say, total rip-off of Lord of the Rings and Star Wars? It's not even done well. That entire trilogy is basically a fanboy's huge effort to Find and Replace the names of every major fantasy work.

4. The Vampire Chronicles, by Anne Rice. Uhh, yay for the yummy gay subtext, boo for actual writing and content. Well, at least they were actual vampires, unlike someone else we know.

5. I'm sure this fifth spot changes every so often, but recently: Romeo and Juliet, by Shakespeare. I love Shakespeare, I really do. I can quote entire soliloquies and speeches from heart. But Romeo and Juliet is by far the most ridiculous thing he has ever written. I despise both Romeo and Juliet, and wish Mercutio and Tybalt and Benvolio were the focus. Honestly, this play is about two 14/15 year olds who meet one night and commit suicide not even two days later. It's not very impressive, since teenagers falling in love ~against the rest of the world~ happen all the time. Look at how Romeo fell in and out of love with Rosalind so quickly. That kid just wanted to get laid.

This is an interesting one, but my worst 5 would be:

""Homage to Catalonia"" by George Orwell because it's so slow paced and there's no hook. I didn't take to it.

""Halo: The Flood"" by William C. Dietz. Basing a book on a game is hard graft and this book totally ruins their go at it. Unlike the good ""Halo: The Fall Of Reach"" by Eric Nylund, The Flood is just full of reading first person shoot outs. It's dreadful.

""Pride and Prejudice"" by Jane Austen. Okay, so she uses great language and its quite funny in places, but c'mon, its like a bad fairy tale and it drags you out. Painful to read, but I had to for English Coursework .

""Maximum Ride"" by James Patterson. "Schools out forever"... This just didn't have the grab, it was like a fantasy version of Horowitz's Alex Rider and it just didn't work out. I love Horowitz, dislike Patterson.

""Flash Flood"" by Chris Ryan is the worst book I've ever read. Not because it isn't captivating or because it's badly written, but because Ryan tried to make a series out of it and it just ruined everything. I despise it!

I give up on books I don't like, simple. If the writing sucks, or I'm not interested then I go find soemthign that is what I want to read . . . so yeah, I'm going to break the rules here and just say the books that I have attempted to read.

No particular order.

1. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte. (I'm currently having to read it for AS English Lit) Okay . . . she can write, yeah, but what's good writing if I don't care about the characters, or even like them, for that matter? They are all horrible, and I just can't understand why this books is so loved . . .

2. Twilight - Stephanie Meyer. It's 'lol' worthy.I read the first chapter and several othe rlittle bits that my friends have forced me to read, and laughed so hard at the complete rubishness of it. She can't write, she's a cliched, purple-prose mess of mary sues and yeah . . . I'll stop. I don't want to lose my head just yet.

3. Shadowmnacer/Wormwood - GP Taylor. I can't remember which book it was that I read and why I hated it, as it was a long time ago (about six or seven years), but every time I see them in a shop I want to burn it.

4. Patokafus - Ashley Domenic Augustine. Remember him? xD This explains itself, just click on the 'see inside' thing: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Patokafus-Trilo ... 395&sr=8-1

5. Goosebumps - by someone I forget the name of. (I actually read quite a few of these all the way through) Just . . . why? They are so predictable and just don't work. Yeah, they're kids' books, btu I hated them when I was a kid, so meh.


And how can you guys not like Dickens? He might be long-winded, but he was a brilliant writer and storyteller, and captures hsi era brilliantly. Also, he didn't have the editing facilities that we have today, so he had to work a lot harder.

5. The Tommyknockers- Stephen King. It's about 500 pages of droning. It doesn't get to the friggin' point until the last three chapters.

4. The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore- What's her face. POINTLESSS.

3. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants- Ann Brashares. A book about magical pants. Right.

2. The Sea of Trolls- Nancy Farmer. It's supposed to be a young adult book, but the plot sounds like it's for third graders.

1. The TTYL Books- Lauren Myracle. I really love the author, but it just seriously makes me wanna burn a book that's made up of IMs.

Why hate so much on Goosebumps?

Those books got me into reading.

The Book Thief - This was probably a good story, I just couldn't get going with it.

The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness - A heap of crap, and that's putting it politely.

Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson - Boring, dull, tedious, etc.

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - Sorry, I know it's a classic, but I'm not a very classic person, and this was just too hard to read.

TWILIGHT - Stephenie Meyer - I hate vampires and werewolves.

Well, I don't have five books, but I do have one. Rapunzel-or however you spell her name-. I hate that book! She makes women seem helpless and she's the typical damsel in distress and it kills me! She needs a prince to come and save her, psh! She's so helpless! Why couldn't she have been more like The Little Mermaid? She was one independent half fish lady! But Rapunzel, bleh!
Rapunzel, Rapunzel! Let down your hair! Ugh, she could have cut off her hair, made a rope, and climb down herself! Well, that's what I would have done. That's all, my hatred towards Rapunzel is vented.

Big kiss, rant dismissed!
Muffins 'n' Machine Guns x)

I HATE Twilight!!! Finally, someone who agrees with me!!!!!

No particular order...

Charles Dickens. HATE him. 90% of it is nothing, while the other 10% is meaningless plot.

Ernest Hemingway. Not quite as strong a dislike here... but I don't really like AFTA.

The House of Night series, by the Cast mom&daughter combo. Hate them with a great, GREAT passion.

*scans bookcase* erm, that's all I can really think of at the moment. One thing I *do* want to say is, how can you hate Jane Austen?! I absolutely love her works. I was left in a straight daze for a week after I first read P&P, although I have to say, Mansfield Park is my favorite. Sense and Sensibility isn't bad, either!

Oh, and another thing- not a big fan of Shakespeare. I haven't read enough of him to fully support that, though.

5) Hatchet, by Gary Paulson. Repetition + slow elementary school readers = boring class reading a crappy book out loud. STOP MAKING US READ OUT LOUD. We know how to read silently.
4) NEXT, by Michael Crichton. Normally I like Michael Crichton, because his ideas were interesting. Here, the awfulness of the storytelling outweighed any cool ideas.
3) Gormenghast, by Mervyn Peake. Yes, it has a really awesome castle, but an action only happens once every chapter. Too much description.
2) Insomnia, by Steven King. The epitome of long-winded horror.
1) Moby-Dick. Whaling is not a cool subject, and the only good bit was the sharks and the coffin.

Oh boy... let's see. I don't have many books that I hate.

1) Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. (That woman knows how to writer, sure, but she doesn't know how to write BOOKS.)
2) Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. Interesting for sure but the plotline was too jumpy and random. It confused me at places and then killed me in others.
3) Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Horrible ending. I'm sorry but if I'm going to like a book they need to give me a character I love and then end it well.
4) Lavina by Ursula K. Le Guin. Plot and Characters, good. But it was like she was writing from a stream and in some places it dried up which runined the story.
5) Cellphone by Stephen King. It was too weird to really get into.

Hey Elizabeth! Now that your past 7th grade, Little Women will be a better book. I keep rereading it now!

These are out of order. I really don't read much except for required readings in school.

1. Eodipus Rex, Eodipus @ Colonus, and Antigone. All by Sophocles. I understand that these are classic Greek plays and not actual novels... But they suck. The plot is not believable, the characters are flat, etc. It was a waste of time to have to read all these in school.

2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix. I think that Harry was either on his period for the first half of the book or the CAPS lock button on Rowling's keyboard was broken. It becomes almost comical towards the end as well. Don't get me wrong, I love Harry Potter, but this book nearly ruined the series. Plus its about 200 pages too long.

3. Slaugherhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut. This is also considered a classic, but I found it to be the worst book I have ever read. Mr. Vonnegut obviously had Turret's or something. Try to stay on one story line, bucko.

4. On Shaky Ground by John Nance. Somehow this extremely verbose man managed to stretch out an essay, of which should have been only like 10 pages plus, to 200-hundred-something page novel. It is horrible. I had to read it freshman year for my Earth Science class and... just ugh. Don't ever read it. I don't get how it got published.

5. The Bible. Nuff said. I give it points for creativity, though! (ha)

The Twilight Series- I'm not one of the people who constantly go around hating on Twilight, I just didn't like them very much.

Elsewhere- I forgot the author, but I just couldn't connect to any of the characters and it was kind of weird.

North Of Beautiful- I can't remember the author, I could go look but I'm lazy. Hah. It was a very boring book.

Last Night I Sang to the Monster- It was interesting, but nothing of real interest really happened until the very end, which kind of bugged me. The writing was really nice, though.

Hmm. I'd have to say...Three Cups of Tea - I know it's supposed to be really educational and inspirational, but I could barely get through it.