Books I Regret Reading (1022 books)

Books I Regret Reading

Terrible books that you regret wasting precious time reading, and want to bury in some dark corner of your house, never to be seen again.

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1	Twilight (Twilight, #1) by Stephenie Meyer 3.67 avg rating — 842,499 ratings score: 67,936, and 682 people voted	My rating:
2	Breaking Dawn (Twilight, #4) by Stephenie Meyer 3.77 avg rating — 413,561 ratings score: 52,314, and 528 people voted	My rating:
3	New Moon (Twilight, #2) by Stephenie Meyer 3.64 avg rating — 462,884 ratings score: 44,950, and 458 people voted	My rating:
4	Eclipse (Twilight, #3) by Stephenie Meyer 3.83 avg rating — 443,346 ratings score: 37,345, and 384 people voted	My rating:
5	The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2) by Dan Brown 3.60 avg rating — 734,324 ratings score: 32,300, and 326 people voted	My rating:
6	The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 3.66 avg rating — 501,290 ratings score: 18,761, and 190 people voted	My rating:
7	Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Wicked Years, #1) by Gregory Maguire 3.37 avg rating — 172,507 ratings score: 17,670, and 179 people voted	My rating:
8	The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 3.73 avg rating — 663,815 ratings score: 13,670, and 139 people voted	My rating:
9	The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 405,058 ratings score: 10,898, and 111 people voted	My rating:
10	Angels and Demons (Robert Langdon, #1) by Dan Brown 3.71 avg rating — 351,818 ratings score: 10,675, and 109 people voted	My rating:
11	The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (Goodreads Author) 3.62 avg rating — 358,850 ratings score: 10,340, and 106 people voted	My rating:
12	The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks 3.84 avg rating — 328,686 ratings score: 9,419, and 97 people voted	My rating:
13	The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger 3.50 avg rating — 227,916 ratings score: 8,896, and 91 people voted	My rating:
14	The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3) by Dan Brown 3.41 avg rating — 93,701 ratings score: 8,368, and 87 people voted	My rating:
15	The Shack by William P. Young 3.47 avg rating — 89,233 ratings score: 8,176, and 84 people voted	My rating:
16	Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert 3.38 avg rating — 354,370 ratings score: 7,265, and 76 people voted	My rating:
17	Marked (House of Night, #1) by P.C. Cast 3.84 avg rating — 84,423 ratings score: 7,182, and 74 people voted	My rating:
18	The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards 3.48 avg rating — 228,784 ratings score: 7,078, and 73 people voted	My rating:
19	Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs 3.51 avg rating — 96,040 ratings score: 6,975, and 71 people voted	My rating:
20	The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 3.27 avg rating — 150,042 ratings score: 6,893, and 71 people voted	My rating:
21	Evermore (The Immortals, #1) by Alyson Noel (Goodreads Author) 3.61 avg rating — 51,186 ratings score: 6,621, and 68 people voted	My rating:
22	Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith 3.25 avg rating — 32,325 ratings score: 6,564, and 68 people voted	My rating:
23	The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1) by James Redfield 3.30 avg rating — 20,569 ratings score: 5,598, and 57 people voted	My rating:
24	Eragon (Inheritance, #1) by Christopher Paolini 3.63 avg rating — 260,905 ratings score: 5,521, and 57 people voted	My rating:
25	Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand 3.75 avg rating — 73,205 ratings score: 5,464, and 56 people voted	My rating:
26	Confessions of a Shopaholic (Shopaholic, #1) by Sophie Kinsella 3.44 avg rating — 192,463 ratings score: 5,144, and 54 people voted	My rating:
27	The Road by Cormac McCarthy 3.93 avg rating — 146,380 ratings score: 4,352, and 45 people voted	My rating:
28	Lord of the Flies by William Golding 3.56 avg rating — 575,985 ratings score: 4,222, and 44 people voted	My rating:
29	Beloved by Toni Morrison 3.67 avg rating — 68,057 ratings score: 4,140, and 43 people voted	My rating:
30	The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand 3.81 avg rating — 81,386 ratings score: 4,049, and 42 people voted	My rating:
30	The Princess Diaries (The Princess Diaries, #1) by Meg Cabot 3.66 avg rating — 32,690 ratings score: 4,049, and 42 people voted	My rating:
32	The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 4.15 avg rating — 512,886 ratings score: 3,928, and 41 people voted	My rating:
33	Hatchet (Hatchet, #1) by Gary Paulsen 3.57 avg rating — 54,383 ratings score: 3,894, and 40 people voted	My rating:
34	Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 3.95 avg rating — 478,252 ratings score: 3,804, and 40 people voted	My rating:
35	A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks 3.95 avg rating — 83,197 ratings score: 3,621, and 38 people voted	My rating:
36	She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb 3.70 avg rating — 93,515 ratings score: 3,597, and 37 people voted	My rating:
37	The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 3.70 avg rating — 666,089 ratings score: 3,568, and 37 people voted	My rating:
38	Hannibal by Thomas Harris 3.40 avg rating — 16,251 ratings score: 3,433, and 36 people voted	My rating:
39	The Pillars of the Earth (The Pillars of the Earth, #1) by Ken Follett 4.17 avg rating — 107,574 ratings score: 3,253, and 34 people voted	My rating:
40	Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell 2.85 avg rating — 9,195 ratings score: 3,224, and 33 people voted	My rating:
41	Pretties (Uglies, #2) by Scott Westerfeld 3.84 avg rating — 54,354 ratings score: 3,131, and 32 people voted	My rating:
42	Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks (as "Anonymous") 3.65 avg rating — 53,139 ratings score: 3,120, and 32 people voted	My rating:
43	Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld 3.28 avg rating — 25,652 ratings score: 3,078, and 32 people voted	My rating:
44	The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski 3.52 avg rating — 38,710 ratings score: 3,020, and 31 people voted	My rating:
45	The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 3.03 avg rating — 26,958 ratings score: 2,887, and 30 people voted	My rating:
46	Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 3.32 avg rating — 74,000 ratings score: 2,831, and 30 people voted	My rating:
47	The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 3.86 avg rating — 381,749 ratings score: 2,745, and 29 people voted	My rating:
48	American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis 3.72 avg rating — 34,798 ratings score: 2,704, and 28 people voted	My rating:
49	Deception Point by Dan Brown 3.44 avg rating — 78,274 ratings score: 2,614, and 27 people voted	My rating:
50	Life of Pi by Yann Martel 3.79 avg rating — 215,622 ratings score: 2,600, and 27 people voted	My rating:
51	Son of a Witch (Wicked Years, #2) by Gregory Maguire 3.33 avg rating — 22,889 ratings score: 2,505, and 26 people voted	My rating:
52	Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez 3.77 avg rating — 95,040 ratings score: 2,433, and 25 people voted	My rating:
53	P.S. I Love You by Cecelia Ahern 3.85 avg rating — 39,284 ratings score: 2,430, and 25 people voted	My rating:
54	Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt 3.95 avg rating — 106,257 ratings score: 2,335, and 24 people voted	My rating:
55	Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson 3.61 avg rating — 40,446 ratings score: 2,330, and 24 people voted	My rating:
56	Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 3.60 avg rating — 111,175 ratings score: 2,321, and 24 people voted	My rating:
57	Atonement by Ian McEwan 3.74 avg rating — 101,045 ratings score: 2,275, and 24 people voted	My rating:
58	The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 3.88 avg rating — 235,070 ratings score: 2,232, and 23 people voted	My rating:
59	Betrayed (House of Night, #2) by P.C. Cast 3.95 avg rating — 54,322 ratings score: 2,210, and 23 people voted	My rating:
60	Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 3.59 avg rating — 41,489 ratings score: 2,152, and 22 people voted	My rating:
61	The Secret by Rhonda Byrne 3.26 avg rating — 33,871 ratings score: 2,145, and 22 people voted	My rating:
62	The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller 3.14 avg rating — 23,725 ratings score: 2,142, and 22 people voted	My rating:
63	The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova 3.66 avg rating — 65,475 ratings score: 2,102, and 22 people voted	My rating:
64	Left Behind (Left Behind, #1) by Tim LaHaye 3.53 avg rating — 27,520 ratings score: 2,017, and 21 people voted	My rating:
65	The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides 3.75 avg rating — 46,660 ratings score: 2,016, and 21 people voted	My rating:
66	Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire 3.43 avg rating — 26,015 ratings score: 2,012, and 21 people voted	My rating:
67	Specials (Uglies, #3) by Scott Westerfeld 3.76 avg rating — 43,956 ratings score: 1,900, and 20 people voted	My rating:
68	Untamed (House of Night, #4) by P.C. Cast 4.01 avg rating — 57,639 ratings score: 1,897, and 20 people voted	My rating:
69	How to Be Good by Nick Hornby 3.09 avg rating — 20,789 ratings score: 1,841, and 19 people voted	My rating:
69	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz 3.81 avg rating — 53,023 ratings score: 1,841, and 19 people voted	My rating:
71	Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 4.22 avg rating — 559,386 ratings score: 1,838, and 19 people voted	My rating:
72	Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel 3.33 avg rating — 13,639 ratings score: 1,819, and 19 people voted	My rating:
72	The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold 2.57 avg rating — 14,942 ratings score: 1,819, and 19 people voted	My rating:
74	Lisey's Story by Stephen King 3.50 avg rating — 15,819 ratings score: 1,810, and 19 people voted	My rating:
75	Hunted (House of Night, #5) by P.C. Cast 3.99 avg rating — 44,135 ratings score: 1,781, and 19 people voted	My rating:
76	Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 3.83 avg rating — 208,301 ratings score: 1,752, and 18 people voted	My rating:
77	The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 3.88 avg rating — 104,119 ratings score: 1,749, and 18 people voted	My rating:
78	Inkheart (Inkheart, #1) by Cornelia Funke 3.80 avg rating — 67,755 ratings score: 1,646, and 17 people voted	My rating:
79	1984 by George Orwell 4.01 avg rating — 523,018 ratings score: 1,634, and 18 people voted	My rating:
80	Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (Author) 3.71 avg rating — 181,959 ratings score: 1,624, and 17 people voted	My rating:
81	The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1) by Philip Pullman 3.83 avg rating — 278,776 ratings score: 1,609, and 17 people voted	My rating:
82	Harry Potter Boxset (Harry Potter, #1-7) by J.K. Rowling 4.71 avg rating — 50,472 ratings score: 1,530, and 16 people voted	My rating:
83	We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates 3.44 avg rating — 20,171 ratings score: 1,508, and 16 people voted	My rating:
84	Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 3.96 avg rating — 78,873 ratings score: 1,449, and 16 people voted	My rating:
85	Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 4.16 avg rating — 267,121 ratings score: 1,364, and 14 people voted	My rating:
86	Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson 3.63 avg rating — 8,581 ratings score: 1,358, and 14 people voted	My rating:
87	Fallen (Fallen, #1) by Lauren Kate (Goodreads Author) 3.77 avg rating — 58,121 ratings score: 1,350, and 14 people voted	My rating:
88	The Edge of Reason (Bridget Jones #2) by Helen Fielding 3.31 avg rating — 30,031 ratings score: 1,347, and 14 people voted	My rating:
89	Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 3.78 avg rating — 203,467 ratings score: 1,280, and 13 people voted	My rating:
90	Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein 3.75 avg rating — 98,483 ratings score: 1,258, and 13 people voted	My rating:
91	Everyone Worth Knowing by Lauren Weisberger 3.26 avg rating — 17,311 ratings score: 1,226, and 13 people voted	My rating:
92	Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence 3.45 avg rating — 21,526 ratings score: 1,162, and 12 people voted	My rating:
93	Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis 3.53 avg rating — 15,219 ratings score: 1,160, and 12 people voted	My rating:
94	Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 3.31 avg rating — 203,624 ratings score: 1,148, and 12 people voted	My rating:
95	Princess in the Spotlight (The Princess Diaries, #2) by Meg Cabot 3.61 avg rating — 13,971 ratings score: 1,138, and 12 people voted	My rating:
96	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 3.54 avg rating — 34,289 ratings score: 1,126, and 12 people voted	My rating:
97	My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult 4.00 avg rating — 214,020 ratings score: 1,074, and 11 people voted	My rating:
98	Plum Lovin' by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author) 3.56 avg rating — 17,787 ratings score: 1,062, and 11 people voted	My rating:
98	Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson (Goodreads Author) 4.02 avg rating — 29,396 ratings score: 1,062, and 11 people voted	My rating:
100	The Hours by Michael Cunningham 3.79 avg rating — 34,615 ratings score: 1,027, and 11 people voted	My rating:

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message 1: by Tahleen (new)

Apr 07, 2009 06:32am

Honestly I don't necessarily regret reading any of these... I mean I hate the Twilight series but it was an important part of my reading since it sparked my independent project and made me want to create a website with alternatives. I guess if anything it would be
The Da Vinci Code, but I don't usually regret reading things.

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message 2: by Laura (new)

Apr 07, 2009 09:50am

Twilight is a tricky one... I loved the first three books in a guilty pleasure kind of way the first time I read them and I got kind of involved in the fandom and met some awesome people through it, but since I've re-read the first two books I feel kind of silly for liking them at all in the first place. That said, they kind of kick started me reading again after two years of almost nothing and I made some friends through the fandom so while I don't think they're great books I don't really regret reading them. Breaking Dawn I regret though. That book was just... ugh... I have no words.

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message 3: by Tahleen (new)

Apr 07, 2009 05:16pm

Haha Laura I know what you mean... I felt REALLY guilty when I bought a copy, like I was doing something awful. And it was pretty horrible. But still glad I read it so I know how to attack the series haha.

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message 4: by Mandee (last edited Jun 15, 2009 01:44am) (new)

Apr 08, 2009 12:42am

I agree with both of you...I don't regret reading them because even though they were torture, it was torture with occasional fun mixed in.

Also, Meyer wrote some interesting characters (I thought) so even though she didn't develop, or give enough time to them, I still was interested in reading what little she wrote about them (with the constant hope that she would all of a sudden become a good writer and decide to write more about them, but it's probably good she didn't because she probably would have ruined them for me too).

And I gotta admit, it is so much fun disliking them! So, while they were very irritating reading, I'm not upset I read them.

I haven't read a lot of the other books on the list, so I can't really comment on them...

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message 5: by Dagmara (new)

Apr 22, 2009 04:57am

Why would you regret reading ¨Anne of Green Gables? :)

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message 6: by Russ (new)

Jun 14, 2009 05:49am

I couldn't vote on the other Meyer books because I wasted enough time with three quarters of Twilight. I read it only because many Harry Potter fans flocked to this one. Rowling wrote such great stuff I thought fans would have good taste. I am sorry to say that lack of age and experience does make a difference. I'll just be patient and see when time passes and these Twilight maniacs look back and say "ughhh, what did I see in that!" yet still love Harry Potter. Good Literature lasts.

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message 7: by Russ (new)

Jun 14, 2009 05:51am

I added Pamela by Samuel Richardson, knowing many would not have read it. I had to read it for a graduate course, but it was extreme torture. I'm sure it won't travel up this list, but it is indeed horrible.

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message 8: by Gabriela (new)

Jul 10, 2009 02:57pm

why would regret readin books at all????

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message 9: by Russ (new)

Jul 10, 2009 04:35pm

Gabriela wrote: "why would regret readin books at all????"

When there are so many good books to read and you wasted that time reading something poorly written or that went nowhere at all.

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message 10: by Thom (new)

Sep 25, 2009 07:17pm

Well, I can list some books I pitched after a few pages, but regret AFTER the fact ? Tell you want, I'm grateful for this list, it gives me some titles to move to the bottom of the ever-growing slush pile.

QUESTION: Would God let you read a lousy book in Heaven ?

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message 11: by Thom (new)

Sep 25, 2009 08:10pm

I have searched for books I reviewed years ago--ghastly shlock science fiction fuck books , to put it plainly and accurately...I can't even find the titles. I did put in the hideous Byrdwhistle Option by Robert Rimmer. Ohh ! John Norman.

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message 12: by Thom (new)

Sep 26, 2009 07:10am

Canary wrote: "Gabriela wrote: "why would regret readin books at all????"

Some books have depressed me so bad I was sorry later I read them.

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This happens to me more with movies...I sit there and cringe rather than walk out.

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message 13: by Themis-Athena (new)

Sep 28, 2009 03:09am

Ditto here -- and it's the same with me for books. I have precious little spare time as it is; if I find after a few pages (or after a few chapters, at most) that I don't like a given book, I simply stop reading it. A number of books on this list certainly spell "big waste of time" to me, but that's a call I make while I'm reading them, not retroactively. Conversely, while there were things I had to read for school that I'd rather have had a root canal at the time than go on reading that particular book, I can't honestly say any of them was trash; however much I may have hated having to dig through them ...

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message 14: by Thom (new)

Sep 28, 2009 05:44am

I walked out on a stage play, a Christian musical starring Debbie Boone . Love the Christian, hate the Christian musical--is my mantra.

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message 15: by Emily (new)

Oct 14, 2009 06:13pm

The Kite Runner - waste of time. The reading challenge was the only reason I finished it.

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message 16: by Diana (new)

Nov 11, 2009 03:42pm

This might sound weird but there are some books on this list that I might regret reading but don't mind having wasted my time on them.

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message 17: by Michele (new)

Dec 07, 2009 02:36pm

Some of these books are really good like twilight series. AgentFlames

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message 18: by Michele (new)

Dec 07, 2009 02:38pm

Diana wrote: "This might sound weird but there are some books on this list that I might regret reading but don't mind having wasted my time on them."
you should try and read the twilight series if so was the series good or bad.

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message 19: by Michele (new)

Dec 07, 2009 02:39pm

Thom wrote: "Canary wrote: "Gabriela wrote: "why would regret readin books at all????"

Some books have depressed me so bad I was sorry later I read them.

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This happens to me more with movies...I sit there a..."
I which some of these books would be movies.

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message 20: by Michele (new)

Dec 07, 2009 02:40pm

Russ wrote: "I couldn't vote on the other Meyer books because I wasted enough time with three quarters of Twilight. I read it only because many Harry Potter fans flocked to this one. Rowling wrote such great ..."

I harry potter books you should finshied the twilight series.

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message 21: by Jan (new)

Dec 09, 2009 06:34am

Stephen Donaldson wrote a series about a guy who had leprosy, who raped a girl who loved him, and who traveled through a land that was being systematically destroyed by a demon. I read all three books, waiting for something, anything, to redeem the horror, but it never happened. The entire experience was depressing. Afterward, I put the books in a recycling bin.

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message 22: by Susanna (new)

Dec 09, 2009 11:16am

Sounds like a reasonable thing to do with Lord Foul's Bane.

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message 23: by David (new)

Dec 09, 2009 12:03pm

This is not a list of the worst books. It's a list of books that snobs are embarrassed about having read. They are embarrassed because the books have become popular, not because of any inherent qualities of the books themselves.

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message 24: by Diana (last edited Dec 09, 2009 12:32pm) (new)

Dec 09, 2009 12:31pm

Michele wrote: "you should try and read the twilight series if so was the series good or bad. ..."

I thought about reading them but now that they're so popular I feel like I'm just following the crowd.

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message 25: by David (new)

Dec 09, 2009 01:13pm

Just because it's popular doesn't mean it's bad. I can't say I'm putting Twilight on my list. I can read only so many series at one time. Currently I'm trying to read all 50 of Ed McBain's 87th Precinct series.

Diana wrote: "Michele wrote: "you should try and read the twilight series if so was the series good or bad. ..."

I thought about reading them but now that they're so popular I feel like I'm just following the c..."

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message 26: by Jan (new)

Dec 10, 2009 06:30am

Jan wrote: "Stephen Donaldson wrote a series about a guy who had leprosy, who raped a girl who loved him, and who traveled through a land that was being systematically destroyed by a demon. I read all three b..."

Yes. Lord Foul's Bane. That was the title. I couldn't remember, and I really did leave those books at the recycling center along with the rest of the trash--empty cereal boxes and whatnot.

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message 27: by Maya (new)

Dec 10, 2009 02:43pm

honestly, anything about vampires is a wast of time. however, i liked Hatchet and loved Flipped. everyone has their own opinion.

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message 28: by Steve (new)

Dec 11, 2009 12:10am

Laura wrote: "Twilight is a tricky one... I loved the first three books in a guilty pleasure kind of way the first time I read them and I got kind of involved in the fandom and met some awesome people through it..."

So Twilight does have it's pro's. Such a nice group of people that love twilight, I personally do not like twilight, but stories like this touches me in a way that is appropriate to say, is orgasmic. Thank you for sharing your story. Let's not disregard books, because one man's trash is another ladies social bridge to the fantastic world of books. Too touchy-feely? No, Never too touchy-feely :3

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message 29: by John (new)

Dec 15, 2009 02:19pm

I drop bad books so fast I can't really say that I've read them, but the furthest I've ever gotten into a really terrible read was Foucault's Pendulum, the most pompous, over-written piece of showy junk I've ever seen.

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message 30: by Eva (last edited Dec 15, 2009 06:20pm) (new)

Dec 15, 2009 06:20pm

Yeah, most of the time, i can tell if a book is bad from the first chapter, but not always, and when i can't (assuming i finished it), i badmouth it and it's author to anyone and everyone.

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message 31: by Nichole (new)

Dec 17, 2009 06:28am

Russ wrote: "Gabriela wrote: "why would regret readin books at all????"

When there are so many good books to read and you wasted that time reading something poorly written or that went nowhere at all."

Then why finish reading them? Surely you had some idea that they weren't appealing to you before you finished them? Life is too short to waste your time reading something you don't like or worse taking the time to create this list.....

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message 32: by Thom (new)

Dec 17, 2009 09:34am

Nichole wrote: "Russ wrote: "Gabriela wrote: "why would regret readin books at all????"

When there are so many good books to read and you wasted that time reading something poorly written or that went nowhere ..."

I don't. Finish them, that is....Nor do I pitch them. I sit them back on the shelf or leave them down in the couch or under the coffee table and then am embarrassed to come upon them later and have to admit to myself I started them in the first place. Then again there are the OK books that just get WAY way oversold. This "franchise" thing. Did it start with Proust do you think ?

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message 33: by Thom (new)

Dec 17, 2009 09:36am

David wrote: "This is not a list of the worst books. It's a list of books that snobs are embarrassed about having read. They are embarrassed because the books have become popular, not because of any inherent qua..."

Hold on there, Holmes ! Are you saying All book-pitchers are snobs ?

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message 34: by Thom (new)

Dec 17, 2009 09:39am

Russ wrote: "I added Pamela by Samuel Richardson, knowing many would not have read it. I had to read it for a graduate course, but it was extreme torture. I'm sure it won't travel up this list, but it is inde..."

See you and raise you Clarissa.

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message 35: by Susanna (last edited Dec 17, 2009 11:55am) (new)

Dec 17, 2009 11:54am

Snort!

(Never read Clarissa and don't want to. Pamela I found funny - I took it as satire.)

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message 36: by Sumeeta (new)

Dec 17, 2009 02:30pm

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message 37: by Kelly (new)

Dec 24, 2009 03:35pm

The Lovely Bones - what a disappointing ending. Who wants to read about a child getting raped and murdered and her murderer getting away with it? How is this satisfying?

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message 38: by Nancy (new)

Jan 21, 2010 05:32am

Some pretty awful books in this bunch (where is The Bridges of Madison County, btw?), but my vote would have to go to Twilight, which reads like it was written by a nine-year-old. The writing is pitiful, the characters are one-dimensional and incredibly tedious, and the plot is so absurd I found myself shaking my head in wonder at Stepahine Meyer's adolescent fantasies. And don't even get me started on the messages it sends to young girls.

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message 39: by Maddie (new)

Feb 09, 2010 06:03pm

Kelly wrote: "The Lovely Bones - what a disappointing ending. Who wants to read about a child getting raped and murdered and her murderer getting away with it? How is this satisfying? "

I agree 100% Books like The Lovely Bones are just a waste of my time, so sorry I read this one. AND now the wizards of taste, fashion and all this is intelligent have made it into a MOVIE.

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message 40: by Kira4Inu (new)

Feb 19, 2010 09:13am

A lot of these books I haven't even heard of. I absolutely regret reading the Twilight Series on account of how America blew it out of proportion. I mean, sure read it once and it has the potential to be a good series but when people obsess over it and make it a movie and make little pins and bags and stickers, then it becomes too much and the series loses any and all of my interest. Then there are other books on this list that I've read that are pretty good and I don't see why someone would regret reading them. Take Eragon for example. Sure, they ruined the story with the screwed up movie but I love that series and I can't wait for the fourth book.

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message 41: by Heidi (new)

Feb 19, 2010 09:40am

Kira4inu wrote: "A lot of these books I haven't even heard of. I absolutely regret reading the Twilight Series on account of how America blew it out of proportion. I mean, sure read it once and it has the potential..."

I agree. I was just wondering who on earth would think Pride and Prejudice should be on this list!

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message 42: by Kira4Inu (new)

Feb 19, 2010 11:08am

Heidi wrote: "Kira4inu wrote: "A lot of these books I haven't even heard of. I absolutely regret reading the Twilight Series on account of how America blew it out of proportion. I mean, sure read it once and it ..."

I've never read Pride and Prejudice but I'm sure that it doesn't deserve to be on this list. ^_^

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message 43: by Chris (last edited Mar 21, 2010 12:22am) (new)

Mar 21, 2010 12:21am

It's hard to regret reading books really, unless of course you'll pick up anything. If you choose carefully you can avoid the duff ones, but there will always be some that, no matter what, refuse to sink in. These might be hard classics that you feel you should read but just can't. Maybe it's the wrong time,maybe it's you. Even the Da Vinci Code wasn't a total waste, nearly, but over quickly, and I wanted to know what the masses were wanting, rubbish really and that goes for everything else-music, theatre, tv, films, art, design, architecture, the plebs don't want exciting and diverse, they want to read The Da Vinci code. I don't regret reading it except for the sad realization that there are more people happy to settle for this shit, and seeing them all reading it simultaneously on the tube is just scary.

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message 44: by Toni (new)

Mar 30, 2010 08:22pm

i dont know how The House of night series got up there that is a great series...

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message 45: by Molly (new)

Mar 31, 2010 08:40am

Don't take this the wrong way, but this list is pretty extensive. Do you regret reading every book you ever read?

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message 46: by Shauna (new)

Apr 03, 2010 02:56am

Why on earth is Pride and Prejudice on the list?

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message 47: by Me (new)

Apr 09, 2010 10:23pm

i had to read the secret garden for school.... never again.

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message 48: by A (new)

May 15, 2010 10:48am

i love to read books butt my lil sister make a it so hard

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message 49: by Barbara (new)

Jun 03, 2010 07:13am

As much as I love Wicked--the Broadway play, I have no idea how I finished the book. I think it was a political satire, however, it was just damn boring. So, needless to say, when I picked up Son of a Witch, I couldn't get through the first 20 pages. Something about an elephant really threw me for a loop! There's some really bad writing (don't get me started on Twilight; only read the first one) out there. All of us critics should write our own books! :)

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message 50: by deleted member (new)

Jun 23, 2010 09:35pm

Gabriela wrote: "why would regret readin books at all????"

I agree, this is a very strange list. I learn something even from bad disgusting books. Some can make a person ill tho.

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