Top 5 Worst Books You Ever Read

I'm not sure I have 5 books I didn't like. Usually I'll stop after a chapter and forget about it if I don't like something.I'll give this a shot anyway.In no particular order:

1) "The Wish List" by Eoin Colfer. This was rare in that I hated it and still read until the end. I'm all for imagination, but this just went a bit far. People getting mixed up with dogs on the way to hell...no thanks.
2)"Artemis Fowl", Eoin Colfer (Don't think much of Eoin Colfer!) I liked the idea, I just didn't like the way in which this was written. It felt like such a waste of a plot.
3) "Northern Lights" by Phillip Pulman. Didn't even finish this one. I had no idea what was going on. I tend not to bother if I have no idea what's going on!
4)"Little Woman" by Louisa May Alcott. This was so boring! They were so perfect, it drove me mad! And nothing even happens in this book!
5)"The Hobbit" J.R.R.Tolkien. It's probably not fair to say I dislike this as I read about two pages and got bored, but ya know! It's hard to think of five books, as, like I said, I tend to give up really quickly on books I don't like.

Wow Jasmine. i learn something new about you every day. How can you not like Eoin Colfer and Northern Lights? I've written stories with a girl who didn't like Northern Lights? Please, please tell me this was years ago. I'm sure if you try reading it now, you'll love it. I mean who hasn't wanted a Daemon at some point in their life?

Why not jump on the bandwagon?

1. The Odyssey by Homer. I hated that book/epic poem. Odysseus is so stupid.

2. Song of Fire by Joseph Bentz. The embodiment of my hatred for authors who kill characters and promptly forget them afterwards.

3. The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare. I like Shakespeare. I really do, but The Merchant ot Venice? Loathed it.

4. The Cry of the Icemark by Stuart Hill. I really shouldn't say this is one of the worst books I've read because I have not finished yet, but the first two chapters were horrid in my opinion. The writing style made me want to cringe.

5. Eldest by Christopher Paolini. I didn't necessarily like Eragon, but it wasn't as bad as Eldest, which was long, boring and predictable.

Honorable Mention: Beka Cooper by Tamora Pierce. I didn't mind some of her earlier books, but this one was almost impossible to finish. Boring.

Now, I rarely ever don't finish something I read...out of respect for the author, and my own stubborness...but some times...just...ugg.

Eragon (Christopher Paolini)- I got to the "good part" and couldn't stand the writing, the plot or anything like that. It was just one of those books to me. Everybody gave it such good reveiws and everything, my friends loved it. But to me it was just bad. (no offense).

Honey, Baby, Sweetheart (Caletti)- I don't know what it was about that book, but I just could NOT finish it. The plot was weak, the writing mediocre. It refused to hold my attention for any span of time. I took it with me during finals as something to read, and much of the time I preferered studying the desk to reading it. AND it somehow got an award or something. Ew.

Illusions- Okay...now I'm dishing on myself. Yes. this was my first book. No questions asked, one of the worst things I've ever written. lis. =D

Oedipus the King- So technically it's a play...but I didn't like it. *shrugs*

...So that's only four...whatever. Most of the stuff I read is actually pretty good. Most of the time.

-JC

In no particular order...

x. Lord of the Flies
x. Beowulf
x. God of Beer
x. Romeo and Juliet
x. [tba]

Jasmine, do you just not like fantasy? I can understand not liking Artemis Fowl, but Northern Lights and The Hobbit?

Writersdomain wrote:
3. The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare. I like Shakespeare. I really do, but The Merchant of Venice? Loathed it.

Wow, The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare's plays I actually like, butI despise Hamlet, it is so boring.

Lol. Forgot about this. Ya Kit, it was a few years ago. Fine, I'll give it another shot, but somehow I can't see my mind changing (it usually doesn't!). Don't think I really have the patience for it! Ya Meep, that could be it, I don't tend to read much fantasy. Though that said, I enjoyed "Song Quest" and "Spellfall".
JCobsesed, I liked "Oedipus the king"! Though I had to read it for class. Probably wouldn't have done so out of my own accord.

5) Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare, so boring. I had to do coursework on it as well!

4) The Cup of the World - John Dickinson, I just couldn't get into, I went back to it every now and again from where I'd left it, but I just couldn't finish it.

3) Great Expectations - Charles Dickins, I hate this story, I hate it! We had to sdo coursework on it and it was so boring. I had to read all of it!

2) The Silmarillion - J.R.R Tolkein, *shudder* too much history *shudder*

1) The Castaways of the Fliying Dutchman - Brian Jaques, I just really, really don't like it.

Well there's my worst 5.

~ Shadowsun

Usually I stop reading if the book's bad, so I don't have any that I can really list here...

...EXCEPT

Tears of a Tiger.

We had to read it in school.
I was about to shoot myself in the head. The book's horrible.
It's written entirely in dialogue.
Ebonics too, which was even worse.

1) Can't stand Hatchet by... okay, I don't even remember who it's by. I just know that it dragged on for too long. You know what? Second this feeling for any book read in school before the ninth grade. And people wonder why kids lose interest in literature.

2) Babe just bothered me. It was too... happy. Okay, I didn't actually read much of it. But that's because I couldn't stand it.

3) Into the Wild by Jon Krakaur (?). I suppose I could deal with this for a while... until the author put chapter-long self-inserts every fifty pages in the middle.

4) The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Come on. Sentences that last for pages? I want to remember the beginning of the sentence by the time I read the end, thank you very much. It's all a little plodding for my taste. Every time I see it at the bookstore, I turn it around on the shelf so you can't see the title. Every copy. I think the salespeople are going to throw me out one of these days :p

5) A Separate Peace It was all a little too outrageous. And random. Especially the bit at the end, in my opinion.

Hatchet is Gary Paulsen, I think. But I'm not sure, since I haven't read it.

Hmm... books I hate...

* Hesiod's Works and Days and Theogony. This is probably due to my utter loathing of the man who taught this class, but still. It was boring.

* Chosen by God by R.C. Sproul. I. Hate. This. Book. It was one of the first books I read at a new school in eighth grade, and it completely pissed me off. Sproul is a Calvinist, who argues for predestination (i.e. man has no free will, he cannot choose God, he must be chosen by God). Third paragraph of the first chapter: "Arguing about predestination is virtually irresistable. (Pardon the pun.)" Seriously. That's in the book. And he's smug and annoying like that through the whole thing, because he just knows he's right. Uggggh I hated this book.

* Sandpebbles, by Patricia Hickman. I don't know why I can't forget this book. It was completely forgettable. And yet the fact that a woman could whine so much and so piously in the first fifty pages of a book just blows my mind.

* St. Anselm's Basic Writings: Proslogium, Mologium, Cur Deus Homo. I would burn this book as soon as look at it. Ninth graders should not have to read this kind of crap.

* On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura), by Lucretius. Okay, so I only had to read about fifty pages of this sucker, but I really disliked all that I read. It took me forever to dissect what the heck I was reading, then when I figured out what he was saying, it wasn't even interesting! I'm glad that stupid Roman epicurean loser is dead. *makes a face*

... I wonder what this says about me, that all the books I despise are theological?

Here are some books I found annoying/boring to death:

1) Band of Brothers ~Stephen E. Ambrose

2) Eragon ~Christopher Paolini

3) Novel Without a Name ~Huong Thu Duong

4) Gulliver's Travels ~Jonathan Swift

5) Cirque Du Freak ~Darren Shan

MM

1) The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

It went on forever... and I didn't get anything out of it. (school reading)

2)Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

Ick.

3) The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Crane has his characters ejaculate their words, and phrases like "persistent woods" and "blue hazes" of cursing, besides the fact that the main character gives you almost nothing to like/relate to. (school reading)

4)Peeps by Scott Westerfield

Kind of a bizzare story, the ending was crummy, and I didn't find anything impressive about it.

5)Lord of the Flies by William Golding

I doubt I will ever finish this book.

1. Billy Budd (so sad and cornily heroic...idiotic)

2. Animal Farm *gasp gack bleech*

3. The Better Angels of our Nature (kind of weird. About an angel falling in love and opening her mind to sex. in my book, sex and angels just don't mix!)

4. Hatchet. (Yucky yucky. Just boring, repetative and a sad attempt at drama.)

5. Guns, Germs and Steel (author took three hundred pages to say something that could have been condensed into three pages. Terribly dull and boring, and way too much information that was not at all interesting. Repetative, stupid...need I say more?)

AND JANE AUSTEN ROCKS! You...you den of vipers!
Pride and Prejudice is the best book ever!

People don't like Artemis Fowl, Lord of the Flies and Animal Farm???????????????????????????

Wow.

I agree with Jasmine Hart, if I don't like it to start with I tend to ignore it, unless someone had told me it was really good, then I give it more of a chance. I put down "A Tale of Two Cities" after five minutes.

The Series of Unfortunate Events were OK to start with, but now they're just terrible.

The worst book I have ever read has to be The Catcher in the Rye. It is probable that my disappointment was accentuated by the hype surrounding the book but I'm sure I would have found it just as bad without everyone telling me it was great. It was boring, slow paced and aimless. I couldn't identify with the characters because as far as I could tell their personalities reminded me of bread sticks. The ending was abysmal and I felt as if I'd spent the last 4 hours wasting my time. Lastly, I really, really, really hated the main character.