Top 5 Worst Books You Ever Read

1. A Swiftly Tilting Planet Never read it, Never! I found it absolutely boring. Like one chapter the was interesting the rest were so borring I Had to read it for school. You know what just don't even tuch that book.

2.Eldest I liked Eragon but in Eldest the character Eragon is just too stupid. I just could not stand him.

3.Bible Sorry I don't mean to offend any one so sorry if I do. I just found it borring.

4.The Unfortunate Series of Events Like someone mentioned earlier, it is pointless.

5.I can't remember the name but the main character was horrid. She always felt sorry for her self. I get frustrated when characters do this so I do not like this book at all.

Never read Eldest yet, but Eragon. Geez. That book was terrible. Average teenage writing at best. The author was definitely a very smart boy, but a bad writer and a terrible story teller. He knows all the conventions and archetypes, but he doesn't know how to use them. The only thing that got me through that book was that I listened to the audio book and the actor was performing it very well. I pitty that poor actor.

When it come to the bible, I believe it may be God's ideas and God's stories, but it was the authors' writing voice, tone and style.

And Jane Austin *shudders* I have no problems with stories about rich people. But her styles, she just natters on and on. Get to the bloody point!

Same goes for Lady Chatterly's Lover.

One will eventually stumble upon a horrible book down the reading lane, and I am no exception. Personally I feel none of the bad books I've read deserve even mentions (alluding to the fact that I cannot remember half of them) however two recent books I've read, that are bad, are: The Chrysalids and Eragon. To be more precise, and to be fair to the fantasy, the Chrysalids is on top. It's boring, droning, bland, monotone-it just goes on! I'll take 'real' fiction over speculative fiction anyday!

1. Out of the Dust. I read it in fourth grade, will never read it again.

2. Pride and Prejudice. They must not have had editors back then. A great novel, but it really needs to cut out the droning.

3. This one book that and author in my county wrote.

4. THE SCARLET LETTER. Absolute torture, that book is HORRIBLE.

1- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Sorry, I noticed many of you enjoyed this book, I found it rather disturbing and often times boring. Not to mention I hate aliens.
2- The Princess Bride (I don't remember who wrote this.)
3- Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl by Kate McCafferty. I was really excited when I found this book during my research of Irish slavery. I quickly bought it, thinking it might be informative. It is the absolute most BORING thing I have ever read in my life. It is told in present tense, through the testimony of some Irish slave who ratted out the others involved in a rebellion. But all it does is ramble on for hours and hours, never really getting to a point. I could not finish it, it was AWFUL!
4- Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
5- Well, these aren't books, but almost anything by Shakespeare. Julius Caeser was okay.

Um..I can't even remember a lot of the bad books I read...

-Series of Unfortunate Events-Seriously, I don't even know how these things keep getting published. Each book is too short for you to feel pain, and I just don't care about the characters. I read to about five, just hated them.

-Goosebumps/stuff by R.L. Stine/stuff making fun of Goosebumps-Yeah, I thought about it and agreed, not well written.

-Um...this random fantasy book I read in fourth grade, about this kid meeting a giant and a girl with a knife. Or something...I remember hating it, I don't know why.

-American/Michigan Chillers-I live in Michigan, and recognize some of the places, but these were God awful plot-wise and word-wise. It was way too rushed, and random. It was like a seven year old's writing. Honestly.

-Anything based on Full House-Nah I didn't read those.


-Deltora Quest-GOD awful. It was really popular in my class for some reason, but the characters sucked (I don't remember their names, that's bad!), the dialogue sucked (they kept talking...er...in vague ways that even in fantasy they shouldn't be talking in), and the plot was average, even for a non-fantasy reader. I could go on and rant about how you should NOT any of these books. It's a good thing they were only a dollar at a used book sale, or I would've killed someone for my money back.

-Eragon-Meh, I read it and thought it was okay, but very overrated. And it shouldn't have been published, because of the hundreds or thousands that are rejected every day that are usually better than it. It kept me interested enough to read it, but really...I don't see why so many people like it...

-Harry Potter-It would be good, but it's REALLY overrated. There is better fantasy on the market.

When it come to the bible, I believe it may be God's ideas and God's stories, but it was the authors' writing voice, tone and style.

You have to remember the bible was written and translated from its time period, but I think there's a few books out there that tell the story of the bible, but in a different way. I -think- one of my friends read a book titled "The Big Book of God" which wrote it in a first person view, or in a third person but the actual events going on in perspective. Or something. Just thought I would mention it.

(5) The Voice Imitator by Bernhard.
=While I've enjoyed all of Bernhard's other works -- the man is a genius -- this piece was so translucent I felt as though I had become a part of it by the end. Of course, this is Bernhard's point (that we're all really trapped, Capitalism commodifies everything, etc.), but no less the stylistic technique he employed put me off.

(4) A Home at the End of the World by Cunningham.
=This book has a strange mechanism at work behind its text. There is a lot of superfluous material that is not actually superfluous, just not relating to the book. There were a lot of little interesting tidbits in the book where Cunningham could have poetically elaborated the exact sense of loneliness (I'm reminded of an instant in the novel where the mother of the main character tells us, "These rooms now house only the fleeting absence of youth." Sheer beauty.).

(3) The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald
=As a strictly pleasure-reading experience, this blew me away. The images and the sounds of the novel -- the "groaning" that happens everywhere; the orgiastic green light that is only the harbinger of a future, always just out of reach, on the other side of the sea; and so on -- are truly breathtaking. However, for any criticism, the book is itself a Marxian critique of capitalism. When we are asked to do something "Marxist" with the novel, the oddity of doing a Marxist critique on a Marxian criticism finally hits us. More to the point, this is precisely the problem of the novel: it struggles in vain to be an idea embodied by a text. So many people are disappointed with novels that do this because they lose a certain reality to them, a point where we can identify with the characters. Instead, the function of the characters here is to be homologous to the inner-processes of globalized capitalism. Blegh.

(2) The Rules of Attraction by Ellis
=This novel is similar to Gatsby, but a little more realistic. It depicts the lives of three young college students -- a bisexual, his ex, and a straight guy. This mixture frequently comes together but more often dissolves. As one falls for the other, the third moves away. This is the entire structure of the plot, and while it is a gripping read and the iconography of college life is delineated precisely and accurately, I found myself disenchanted with Ellis's work -- why? For the most part, he relies on shock-value (he's taking that? they're doing what? she's biting him where? etc.) to get across his point. It is as though he could not come up with an actual plot, so instead he found a morsel of one, recycled it twenty or so times, and in each varied it from the others by adding a "shocking" event.

(1) Metamorphosis by Ovid
=I don't have a good reason for disliking this book other than it's old Greek prattle. It just tells the stories of various gods metamorphosing the world around them and sometimes themselves. Like The Rules of Attraction, it has a very repetitious plot-structure.

5. Ella Enchanted by Levine - This book was really depressing for me. I had to read it twice to get through it.
4. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens -No explanation needed
3. The Awakening by Kate Chopin - How Feminist can you get?
2. Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck - The ending is awful
1. Hatchet by Gary Paulson- This book scarred me for life. I've never ever read anything else by this author because I hated it so much.

Well, I don't really hate many books. Quite a few annoy me, but I don't really think they're worth mentioning because it's a kind of indifferent feeling that means I really don't care about them and will simply never pick them up again.

But there are a few I have a thing about ...

1. The Wave -- by Louis (probably) ... something.
had to read it last year in class. I HATED it. I HATED it with so much HATE that I wanted to BURN the book and then send the ashes out into space so no human ever had to come into contact with them again!!! I HATED every one of the characters. EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM, except maybe Robert. Nearly ALL the characters were PERFECT. Perfect looks, most popular girl/guy in school, perfect grades, always right ... I wanted to strangle them all! The ending SUCKED. It didn't even say what happened to Robert! WHAT ABOUT ROBERT!!??? How did he come out of The Wave thing??!! Was he hopeless again???!!! TELL ME!!! I WANT TO KNOW!!!

*deep breath*

Ok ...

2. Hatchet: Winter -- by Gary Paulson
Ok, Hatchet wasn't too bad. Not so great, but a moose attaked Brian so that was OK. But, come on! He was rescued! At the end of Hatchet he was rescued! You don't get to say "Now let's pretend he wasn't!!!" That doesn't happen!!! And all he did was sit in his nice cosy shelter and eat meat. When did he suffer the effects of malnutrition, may I ask? WHEN?! Occasionally he found an exploding tree. Wow. Note sarcasm. Then, in the end, he just happed to wander around and find someone's house. That's CHEATING. It's a STORY. He has to find it hard, and he can't just happen to discover people who were there the whole time. Jeez.

3. Series of Unfortunate Events -- by Lemony Snickket (or something like that)
I read the fist three, and I quite enjoyed them. Then I kept going and it just got so repetitive. I got up to ... must have been book five or six. I stopped reading them. And I NEVER ONCE wondered about the ending.

About here my list gets less hateful and more indifferent.

4. Eldest -- by whathisface
I quite enjoyed Ergon. But this was just ... it really made me depressed about the future of fantasy. Poor fantasy. It doesn't deserve a fate like this.

5. Lord of the Flies -- by dunno
Probably doesn't count, since I've only seen the movie. But my friend had to read it for school so I read little bits of it, like the bit where Piggy died. I don't like the whole idea of it. It's ... disturbing. *shudders*

I had to think long and hard about this since I've got a very open mind when it comes to books. Nevertheless here they are:

NUMBER FIVE
Title: The Most Beauitful Christmas Tree [I think; it's something close to that.]
Author: [Forgot]

It was actually an okay children's book. It's about an ugly tree amidst a forest of big beautiful trees. Every year the Queen of the land would come and select the perfect Christmas tree. The ugly little tree doesn't think it'll have any chance, but in the end it gets picked. I liked this story, actually. The only thing that threw me off was the ending had a sudden unexpected religious theme to it. I don't have any problem with religion but this came unexpectedly and I think needlessly. The message about beauty was quite clear, religious theme or not.

NUMBER FOUR
Title: When Dinsoaurs Roamed The Earth [Actually I might be way off . . . ]
Author: [Forgot]
Scientology children's book pretty much . . . it tried to explain how humans and dinosaurs actually lived together. Now putting beside all beliefs of whether this was true or not, it was done in rather a dopey fashion. And the illustrations were not believable even to an open mind. If you can imagine the giant fearsome T-Rex acting like Clifford The Big Red Dog, you've got a good idea of the pictures were like.

NUMBER THREE
Title: [Forgot; though the title was food related]
Author: [Forgot; it was a woman though]
Mystery novel about an overweight detective. The very beginning of the story looked like a 10-year-old was writing this. (There wasn't any bad grammar or spelling mistakes. And the writing in of itself wasn't "stupid." It just felt to me like I was reading a 10-year-old's story.)
After a while the book seemed to concentrate on food rather than the actual mystery. Food was explained in such detail that I started feeling either hungry or queasy depending on what the food was. Couldn't finish it.

NUMBER TWO
Title: The Cave Boy [I'm pretty sure . . . it had the word "Cave" in the title, I know that.]
Author: [Forgot]
I couldn't get past the first chapter of this one. It was extremely confusing. I think it was about a cave boy preserved in ice and comes out in this world. Though it's hard to tell which world he was in. Characters were impossible to differentiate from each other. There was little dialogue, and what dialogue there was, was pretty much either a name or phrase being said over and over.
The only thing I was able to figure out was that the main character liked to chew his toenails.

NUMBER ONE
Title: Eye Of Argon
Author: Jim Theiss
This is what most people consider the #1 mangled piece of prose ever written. Google it and you can read it online at any number of sites. It's VERY hard to read, but if you keep an open mind and try not to spend too much time understanding it, it's actually a fun read.

*cringes*

People who hate A Swiftly Tilting Planet and Pride and Prejudice and Ella Enchanted... ow... it makes my liver hurt...

(1) "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck - I know this is supposed to be a classic and all that, but it was like reading stereo instructions. Melodramatic stereo instructions.

(2) "The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane - his short stories are okay, but I really really really really hated Henry Flemming, who should have been shot in Chapter One.

(3) "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens - Is there anyone who doesn't hate David Copperfiled?

(4) "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown - To quote a fellow author: "I understand it's supposed to be terribly clever but I found the writing so uninspired I had to stop after page 15."

(5) "Deltora Quest: Dread Mountain" by Emily Rodda - actually all of them are terrible, but I only have more more slot left. I haven't read them since I was like nine but it's like a vaccination. I will never ever write my characters as "the three loyal companions". Uggh.

Deltora Quest: Dread Mountain" by Emily Rodda - actually all of them are terrible, but I only have more more slot left. I haven't read them since I was like nine but it's like a vaccination. I will never ever write my characters as "the three loyal companions". Uggh.

So true. ALL the kids in my class who are into fantasy LOVED these books, and they're like "She's such an awesome writer." So I finally found a majority of the series at a used book sale for like fifty cents-dollar each. I was really excited...BUT FREAKIN' GOD THEY SUCKED. I mean, I got through half of the first Deltora Quest, and everything was so rushed and non-developed, and cliche'd, and everything. I've seen better writing here, eight times better writing. I could go on and on.

Not to mention that the large text made it seem like you were actually reading a book. When you weren't. Needless to say, I was very upset, and when I said they were terrible...a girl in my class was like "Shut up you don't know what you're talking about."

Some kids in my class are also obsessed with Eragon, and it's not really -that- good. I could get through it, it kept my interest, but it just...wasn't the best read.

"The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown - To quote a fellow author: "I understand it's supposed to be terribly clever but I found the writing so uninspired I had to stop after page 15."

I liked Da Vinci Code. o_O

Title: The Most Beauitful Christmas Tree [I think; it's something close to that.]
Author: [Forgot]

It was actually an okay children's book. It's about an ugly tree amidst a forest of big beautiful trees. Every year the Queen of the land would come and select the perfect Christmas tree. The ugly little tree doesn't think it'll have any chance, but in the end it gets picked. I liked this story, actually. The only thing that threw me off was the ending had a sudden unexpected religious theme to it. I don't have any problem with religion but this came unexpectedly and I think needlessly. The message about beauty was quite clear, religious theme or not.

If I remember correctly, that was...a picture book. Right? I think I read it...in second grade. XD

Hatchet by Gary Paulson- This book scarred me for life. I've never ever read anything else

I think Pauslen has an interesting style, but he does get wordy. Really wordy...

2. Haunted by Meg Cabot

she was NOT supposed to end up with...with...JESSE!!! I don't care how much she was in love with him at the beginning of the book...he STILL doesn't exist. >:-|

omg! Chevy! i absolutely agree! i was sooo angry when the other guy turned out bad.
okay, that's on my list now
1. Haunted by Meg Cabot is now tied with Great Expectations by Dickens. this book? i mean, come on- his name was Pip Pirrip! Obviously it didn't stand a chance of being a good story... though I do love Wemmick and Aged P!
2. The Messenger by Lois Lowery- okay, The Giver is phenomenal and I adore Gathering Blue, so when i found the messenger i almost died of happiness. then i read it and wanted to kick something. the ending sucked as far as i'm concerned.
3. The Pearl of the Soul of the World by Meredith Pierce- the last book in the Darkangel Triology, which is sooo freakin amazing, right down until the last like ten pages of Pearl which RUINED THE WHOLE LIKE 1,000 total page series!
4. Dead Girls Don't Write Letters by i don't even care, this book was confusing and stupid and didn't make sense and made me angry!
5. Song of the Lioness Series by Tamora Pierce- started out good and then it seemed Alanna got a little slutty which made me mad. She got on my nerves towards the last books. Ruined a potentially good series for me, dang it!

wow, i never realized how much i disliked some books. i never thought of it as hating them...

and it makes me sad that people don't like Eragon or Eldest. Some of the stuff in them makes me mad, but i really didn't think they were bad books! okay, i admit it. i actually love them. and ella enchanted. it's sad people hate ella enchanted. *sad face*