Top 5 Worst Books You Ever Read

The Door Within, by Thomas Batson. It was poorly written.

The Rise of the Wyrm Lord, by Thomas Batson. This book was pure torture. PURE.

The Diary of Anne Frank, by Anne Frank. Sorry Anne, but it got really boring after a while.

Twilight, by Stephenie Meyers. It wasn't as good as all the attention it's getting.

I can't think of any other ones I truly hated! Sorry! D;

1. The Grapes of Wrath. ( I don't like Steinbeck in general, but this was slow eye stabbing.

2. Hush Hush (Think twilight with a stupider girl more boring boy and replace the word vampire with Angel and you have this book

3. Terry Good Kings Sword of Truth series. (I've only read two, but it was enough to condemn the whole eleven book series. I've never hated a character more than I hated Richard. The TV show Legend of the seeker is less pretentious.)

4. Twilight series- That one is self-explanatory on here)

5. Gone. A book about kids trapped in a city without parents. The characters acted out of the age being as that they were all under the age of 15. The author kept name dropping, so the story would go like this. "He walked into Blockbuster and looked at all the movies Pirates of the Caribbean, Spiderman 3, The Matrix. He didn't like any of them. He stopped and listened to the Black eyed Peas music I got a feeling that played in the air." Not an actual quote from the book but close enough.

1)Twilight Series or the greatest crime against the world of art since techno saw the lights of night.
2) Pierre et Jean (Peter and John) - By Maupassant slow paced, nothing much happens in it and the joke (for there is only one) takes three days of analysis to work out that it's a joke at all.
3) Phedre - by Racine one dimensional as in: ONE place, ONE day, ONE main character and NO sub-plots, again made to read with analysis.
4) Orcs - Stan Nicholls I love fantasy in general, but I can't stand this one because it didn't deliver what it promised
5) Abarat - Clive Barker, it was well written, but twisted, and the mind of a homosexual drug addict is not somewhere i like to visit thanks very much

Not many Dickens' fans in this thread...I haven't really read much of him, but I did read A Tale of Two Cities for school, and now it's one of my favorite books. Of course, I do have a thing for all things Victorian. Of Mice and Men has been popping up a lot too, which I find surprising...Anyone?

Anyway, on to my hitlist. It's not too long, because it takes a lot for me to knock any kind of creative work, but here goes:

1. The Twilight Saga. It's just not worth all the hype it gets. I wrote better than that woman in the fourth grade.

2. Hatchet; every fifth-grader's worst nightmare. Do I want to read 6485 paragraphs about a decaying pilot? The fact that you don't have enough balls to kill the bird? Try again, Soto...

3. Elsewhere....huh? The main character is in need of a spanking. Yeah, I know you don't really know her much, but who talks to their grandmother like that?

5. Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. That was a horrid book. Painful symbolism, too wordy, poorly executed, flat characters. The whole book served only to capitalize on Hawthorne's "message" and forgot to tell a story.

4. The Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling. Not thrilled with the writing or the characters. It's... bleh.

3. Might not count as a "book," but any play by Seneca. That man was a terrible writer. Brilliant academic, but complete rubbish at writing.

2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Dull. Generally awful.

1. Paper Towns by John Green. Normally I'm a fan of John, but this book was boring. It felt like a repeated idea, like a recycled premise from his other books. The characters weren't very memorable. The plot line was crummy. The only thing I liked was the repeated references to Walt Whitman.

Imperatrix Xoco wrote:5. Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. That was a horrid book. Painful symbolism, too wordy, poorly executed, flat characters. The whole book served only to capitalize on Hawthorne's "message" and forgot to tell a story.

4. The Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling. Not thrilled with the writing or the characters. It's... bleh.

3. Might not count as a "book," but any play by Seneca. That man was a terrible writer. Brilliant academic, but complete rubbish at writing.

2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Dull. Generally awful.

1. Paper Towns by John Green. Normally I'm a fan of John, but this book was boring. It felt like a repeated idea, like a recycled premise from his other books. The characters weren't very memorable. The plot line was crummy. The only thing I liked was the repeated references to Walt Whitman.

It's hard to follow a post like this! You completely trashed some of my favorites! Harry Potter and Jane Eyre.

5. Paul Auster City of Glass. Author was too busy playing with language than showing a usable plot.

4. Eragon. The movie was AWFUL too.

3. Old Man and the Sea. Enough said.

2. The first 50 pages of the Summoner by Gail Z. Martin. After 50 pages, I couldn't take anymore.

1. The first 50 pages of the Summoner by Gail Z. Martin. After 50 pages, I couldn't take anymore.

Yep that is how badly I hated the Summoner

tanith14 wrote:It's hard to follow a post like this! You completely trashed some of my favorites! Harry Potter and Jane Eyre.

Ahah, apologies. If it makes you feel any better, I despised Eragon and the Old Man and the Sea too.

1. Breaking Dawn. Specifically. 100 pages of honeymoon? No thank you.
2. Virgin and the Gypsy. Ughhghhghghghghghhghghghghg.
3. To Kill a Mocking Bird. I don't know why I don't like it. I just don't. I think it is the style.
4. Dime Store Magic. Boring, predictable, and it was random.
5. Anything by Austen. Hate the subjects. Hell, she probably hated them too. XD

VivelaMusique wrote:
4. Scarlett - Alexandra Ripley (A sequel to Gone With the Wind)
Was such a let down...I didn't even make it three chapters. Rhett Butler's People on the other hand was actually very good.

I did enjoy Scarlett, but Alexandra Ripley was just setting herself up for failure trying to get on the same level as Margaret Mitchell. Rhett Butler's People= a work of art. Beautiful, just beautiful

GoldenQuill wrote:The Door Within, by Thomas Batson. It was poorly written.

The Rise of the Wyrm Lord, by Thomas Batson. This book was pure torture. PURE.

The Diary of Anne Frank, by Anne Frank. Sorry Anne, but it got really boring after a while.

Twilight, by Stephenie Meyers. It wasn't as good as all the attention it's getting.

I can't think of any other ones I truly hated! Sorry! D;

Woah, I loved those first two books.

I'm sorry but anything by Sarah Dessen sucks. It's pretty much the same story over and over with different names and different places. They are SOOOOO predictable. I've read most of them and they're all in a girl's POV so once you enter the hot yet mysterious guy, you know by the end, that's who she's with. They are so boring.

(in no particular order...)

1. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer. The first three books were okay at best, but this one...ugh.
2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. 40 pages into this book and I still couldn't understand what Jim was saying nor understand any of the humor.
3. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson. She's got other good works, but this book was just terrible. I especially hated the main character and her sister whom let her get away with all of her crazy ideas.
4. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg. Ugh, just no. Stop.
5. Moll Flanders by Daniel DeFoe. Terrible. TERRIBLE.

... How did Paper Towns work its way into this topic? I guess it was a rehashing of Looking for Alaska, but I still love it.

And now for my list!

5. Geek Charming by Robin Palmer (I think). The writing was bad, she distracted from the story by promoting liberal politics just a little too often, the pairings were off, the characters were flat... I could go on, but I won't.
4. Aurelia by Anne Osterlund. Just one of those cliche "I'm a princess but I don't want to be" stories. Ugh.
3. Any book written by Mark Twain. My gosh, his stuff is just so dull it makes me want to bang my head on my desk. I will forever hate my 8th grade English teacher for making us read so much Twain...
2. Twilight Series. Should never have gotten published. When Meyers finally learns to use proper grammar and actually write a compelling story, well then I'll know the world is coming to an end.
1. Evermore by Alison Noel. It was Twilight, with a parallel (but exponentially worse) plot line (imagine what the first draft of Twilight looked like, then imagine a three year old wrote it (neither is that hard to do...), and you've got the plot of this book). The main character is dull and has a stupid "ability." And the idea is just so blatantly a Twilight rip-off, which really bugs me. For crying out loud, the lady called the sequel "Blue Moon." But enough with the ranting...

1. Twilight, without a flippin' doubt. It just... it's all been said, do I really need to elaborate?

2. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. I rarely have to drag myself through a book, but this time I was about ready to scream. It is beyond boring. Nothing happens, and in the end there is NO sense of epiphany to at least round out the boring.

3. Wicked by Gregory McGuire. Now I now I'll be roundhouse kicked, but I was introduced to the musical before the movie, and I f&%$*ing love it. The problem? The musical is a completely disney-fied version (and it's not even done by Disney lol), so when I picked up the book, I was majorly disappointed. It dragged on, the politics turned me off... I was just so disappointed that I don't like the book at all anymore. Also, I'm confused about Son of a Witch - is Elphaba's son bisexual or what? He never really clarifies how this guy goes from a wife and kid to banging that one guy (or implied banging, at least), then back to wife and kid.

4. The Diary of Anne Frank - this may sound blasphemous but Anne Frank is the most superficial %$%^ I've ever read. I swear, if I knew that girl in my life she'd be the one chick I'd always try to ignore in class. Sorry :C

5. The Old man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, sweet jesus why.



Also, to all the people bashing Harry Potter, I would like to say one thing: You have all broken my heart. I will go die now. Thank you.

I don't really HATE a lot of books, because I tend to get lucky and find really good ones. But there are those certain few that I strongly dislike.

1. New Moon by Stephanie Meyer; just plain depressing. I think I had a few symptoms of depression while reading this book. Sad, isn't it?

2. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee; I had to read this in seventh grade, and let me tell you, complete torture. The ideas were okay, but it was just too long and in-depth for my taste.

3. Eldest by Christpher Paolini; don't get me wrong, this guy is a great writer, and I loved Eragon, but the second book just became extremely boring about halfway through. I put it down for about two years and finally picked it back up and finished it.

4. The Diary of Anne Frank; I really do love the fact that this was published, but being forced to read it is terrible. Its extremely boring (I really don't want you to go over what you do every fifteen minutes, Anne). However, the epilogue was interesting to read, even though it was a bit sad.

5. Wicked by Gregory Maguire; okay, I really love Wicked and am a huge fan, but I began to read the book, and it was just too confusing and the politics killed me. It might also have something to do with the fact that the musical is so different from the actual book...