The Worst Books Ever!

Kijin · Member Joined: 26 Oct 2004 Posts: 69

I hate this book called Catcher in the Rye. My teacher is making us read this piece of crap right now. The main character just goes on and on about stupid things that have no purpose. The only thing he seems to obsess about is sex, ducks, and alchohol. Thank God everytime we read the book I read Misery instead

ChrisFox · Has No Life Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 637

Oi little children know not quality reading. . . But, seeing as this is more about personal preference than anything, I wont go into my English-Major induced rant.

Now, I absolutely love Irvine Welsh, but the worst book I've read is one of his. It's sad, I know, but I couldn't even finish reading Glue. I plan on working my way through it again later on, though. Everything else of his I read is awesome.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley took me a long time to comprehend. I love the meaning(s) of it, though.
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Beatlechick90 · Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 2:14 pm Post subject:

[quote="Kijin (Ken Mays)"] I hate this book called Catcher in the Rye. My teacher is making us read this piece of crap right now. The main character just goes on and on about stupid things that have no purpose. The only thing he seems to obsess about is sex, ducks, and alchohol. Thank God everytime we read the book I read Misery instead [/quote]
I absolutely refuse to read that book. My reasons are my own.
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Thirteen_Black_Roses · Has No Life Joined: 22 Aug 2004 Posts: 510

Only one good thing about Catcher in the Rye...they used a quote from it in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. Something about wanting to be "one of those deaf-mutes."

IzumeSuenix · Very bored Joined: 09 Jun 2004 Posts: 152

[quote] Oi little children know not quality reading. . . [/quote]
i'm not a little kid, but i do read little kids books!!!!!!!!!! (lol) i read everything, but i mostly write my own books '='

ChrisFox · Has No Life Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 637

Haha oh, so do I Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, the Beatrix Potter stories; childrens books rock. That comment wasn't meant as an offense; it's just an expression I use. Sorry about that Smile

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InUyAsHaSgIrL4eVeR · Member Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 56

Wuthering Heights.I hate that book with a passion <_<

DragonicFlames · Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 4:02 pm Post subject:

Books that should die and burn... (D.F.'s hate list )

Dark Half By Steven King

Reason: I could not get through this book, it bored me to sleep. I didn't even get to the halfway make before putting it down and giving it back to the library.

The Giver By someone who I can't remember

Reason: It bored me too. I "had" to read it because one of my friends kept shoving me into the book, telling me "it's soo good" and the kid dies at the end. Yes people he dies, he was in a MEMORY and died. >>;

Goosebump Books (all of them) By R. L. Stine

Reason: They were not frickin' scary. I LIKE R. L. Stines OLD stuff better than the crap he is giving out now... >>;

(end of list..so far)

I have read many a book, but these.. :;shutter with an angry passion that could make me storm right up to the authors and smack them down to the ground...::

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Rebus · Very bored Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posts: 224

Most books by David Eddings. Someone should sit that guy down with a red pen and circle all his modern American slang, then explain why it is not appropriate in archaic fantasy. It's so obnoxious it isn't even funny.

They could also give him a thesaurus, some writing lessons and a proofreader while they're at it.

Or they could just break his fingers.

majohime · Very bored Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 240

I don't have the patience to finish a book that I don't like but in English, I have read too many many books that bored the noodles out of me; examples:

Into the Wild
The Illustrator
Our Town (it's a play but it's in a novel form)
Scarlet Letter (the plot was interesting but too wordy =_=)
The Old Man at the Sea (or whatever the title was)
Of Mice and Men

There's more but I completely forgot the titles.

Beatlechick90 · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 9:33 am Post subject:

In English I had to read this book called Stained Glass. It was sooooooo boring, the author has this weird way of writing... there's hardly any dialouge or action, it's mostly decribing boring things, like the scar on his hand or the little old lady in the church.
*Yawn*
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Vane · Newb Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Posts: 4

Brida, by Paulo Coelho. Awful! Grr!

cherry-chi-hiwatari · Forum Stalker Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Posts: 1143

so many books....

lord of the rings ,
narnia (ive got the little box set somwehere WTF?

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goosebumps books

there are more but i cant remember what theyre called

KeheiZero · Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 1:59 pm Post subject:

"Slaughterhouse 5" by Kurt Vonnegurt. (Hope I spelt that right.)

I could make out the whole time-jumping part, but none of seemed to come together or matter that much. The main character annoyed me as well, as did most of the people mentioned during the war scenes. Overall I just wasn't impressed.

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Thirteen_Black_Roses · Has No Life Joined: 22 Aug 2004 Posts: 510

"The Good Earth." Duuuuull.

Catoni15 · Rookie Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 26

[i]Of Mice and Men[/i]

Dear Lord, that book was so [b]boring[/b]! It was dull throughout the entire thing and I can't believe there are people out there who liked it. There was no action of any kind that made it appealing and the ending really sucked.

[i]Wanted![/i]

I'm not sure if there are many people who read this but it was stupid. The plot was lacking and the ending was pretty predictable. Could've been [b]way[/b] better.

[i]The Cradle Will Fall[/i]

I don't usually bad mouth Clark's works and there was never necessarily anything wrong with it plot-wise. I just didn't really enjoy it. There was way too many medical terminology and things I didn't understand.

That's about all I can think of for the time being.

DreamOfFire · Member Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 49

Frankenstein, I absolutely HATED that book! I don't think I've ever hated a story so much!maybe it's b/c hollywood gave me such a different view of what the story and charys would be like. <_<

Wuthering Heights is horrid b/c you HATE every one of the charys(well not quite everyone...)!@@

Animal Farm*shudder*

Moby Dick.I don't hate it,it's just that it starts out as such a great story but then it suddenly gets really boring!

The Scarlet Pimpernel(spelling)!I LOVE tSP but I hate how many times the word "child" is used!

as for LotR!that's been my fave book for the last 9 yrs!^^ Laughing

SilentSoul92 · Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 5:11 pm Post subject:

God, I fell asleep during the scarlet note. It was fine until the teacher noticed. Detention for 3 days. *sigh*

heartless-sinner · Member Joined: 21 Feb 2005 Posts: 63

aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh! if i have to read The Giver one more time i am going to croak!!!*having a B.F.*honostly i think that book sucked. i read it three times in 3 years for stupid school. i guess that is what i get for moving to a different school!

KotokoPlum · Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:03 pm Post subject:

[i]The Black Middens[/i]

Ack! That was horrible. The typos practically killed me but the storyline was just going waaay too far...

[i]Just Ella[/i]

I thought it was a sequel to [i]Ella Enchanted[/i], but it was actually a continuation of Cinderella! >< I have one thing to say about this book: *twitch*

[i]Dandelion Wine[/i]

Maybe I'm too young to understand, but I despised this book. The plot was jumpy, it never started in the same place it ended and everything seemed to come out of a sci-fi movie or something...

[quote]aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh! if i have to read The Giver one more time i am going to croak!!!*having a B.F.*honostly i think that book sucked. i read it three times in 3 years for stupid school. i guess that is what i get for moving to a different school! [/quote]

Really? :huh: I thought it was good. i dunno I have a thing for sad books...