Hello all!

1. WICKED (I just didn't care for the ending and was disappointed with how the writer explained certain things. And what happened to what's her name's boyfriend? Where the hell did he go? Did he die? Never confirmed. blagh)

2. Anna Karenina (she was too drippy for me)

3. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (just not my cup of tea)

4. Moby Dick (Rebecca said it all for me)

John Buchan's The 39 Steps. Henry James's Turn of the Screw. Edith Wharton's Descent of Man.

The worst books I have read this year.

WHRauf, you might want to post those over in the Books To Avoid thread too then :)

I hated Turn of the Screw. Just agonizing for me!

# Freaking 1: War and Peace

I think that, really, people only read this book to be able to say that they've done the impossible.

#2: The Portrait of a Lady

I got 100 pages in and put it down because nothing was happening. Nothing at all.

#3:A Wild Sheep Chase

This book was a gift from a friend so I really did try to read it, but it tells you the entire plot in the title. Not for me.

Haelee wrote: "# Freaking 1: War and Peace

I think that, really, people only read this book to be able to say that they've done the impossible.

Or... they genuinely enjoy Russian lit. :)

ULYSSES.

But then I'm only fluent in English. Do they have a Rosetta Stone program for incoherence?

Stephanie wrote: "ULYSSES.

But then I'm only fluent in English. Do they have a Rosetta Stone program for incoherence?"

Snort!

The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan....omg, I loved, loved, loved it! Book 6 ended with this amazing cliff-hanger, then book 7 was such a disappointment. It didn't even feel as if he wrote it. I couldn't even get through the first few chapters of book 8 and I got so sick of waiting for the next book and more disappointment that I just gave up on the series. So frustrating because I really, really like some of his characters. I think I might have to try to stick to series that are finished (except I never do...i.e., George RR Martin's Song of Ice & Fire).

Jennifer, I think I made it through part of Wheel of Time's book six and just gave up. Too many characters to remember, too much jumping around from place to place.

I do try now to only start completed series, but it's just not always possible, and sometimes you pick up a book and really love it, and THEN realize that it's just the first volume in a who-knows-how-many-volumes series.

I too await the ending of Song of Ice and Fire, at which time I will have to read ALL of them over from the beginning. Have you heard, HBO is making it into a series?

@ Haelee
That's Henry James for you :D even his novelettes seemed to be three times longer than its original length.

Marsha,
I did hear about the HBO series...that should be quite interesting.

1. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
2. Atonement
3. The Memory Keepers daughter

1. Atonement by Ian McEwin
2. Wicked by Gregory Macguire
3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson

And let me explain the 3rd one...I really enjoyed the middle part of the book...but the beginning and the end were such a drag!! there had to be a better way of getting there...if you know what i mean...don't want to put any spoilers in here.

Anna Karenina and Moby Dick. Even more boring than One Hundred Years Of Solitude. Although Moby Dick did have some off beat humor for me. I liked the headhunter with his tomahawk in the bed.

Kate wrote: "

1. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
2. Atonement
3. The Memory Keepers daughter"

Captain Corelli's Mandolin I disliked so much that when the book physically fell apart I didn't bother to pick the pages off the floor. My mother loved it so much she wouldn't let me throw it away and keeps it together with a rubber band!!

The Memory Keeper's Daughter had an interesting concept but the writing was leaden and the whole last third should have been edited out. I recommended it to my mother who loved it although she did admit the writing was a bit slow.

Atonement is on my TBR. My mother has just read and not liked it so I'm quite hopeful :0)

1. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
I thought I'd love it. I do like the author as a person. I recommended it to my book club. Nobody much liked it.

2. Cold Comfort Farm
I thought I'd find it hilarious but I barely cracked a few smiles. This was another (real world) book club read.

3. Vanity Fair
This was only the second book I had to read for school that I actively disliked. (the first was The Old Man and the Sea ) This was frustrating because I should reread it as I think I'd like it now, but I loathed it so much at the time that I'm not willing to pick it up again.

My latest book nemesis: Catch-22; and I'm not crazy about The Graveyard Book at the moment, either (but I'll get through it) ; Books by the Bronte sisters, like Wuthering Heights, so far bores the crap out of me. LOL
I guess I'm weird, for half of the books mentioned here, I don't mind, and would possibly read again (like Hannibal, although the ending is quite the pisser, and any HP book I would definitely read again, and do). What a strange reader am I?! :D

Grace wrote: " I just finished The Reader and I can't say that I was all that impressed with it."

I am reading it right now ....and stuck on pg 137 it's not one of those books that i can't put down ...I need a more believable love/togetherness between a couple ...just makes things seem more unbelievable to me that man sees girl then immediately starts fornicating and this is love! lol

Only three? Well here are a few that made me tear my hair and resent the time wasted on them:
1. Kafka on the Shore - @#$%^&*%@#*&#$!!!!!
2. Daughter of Fortune - Idiot making idiotic decisions
3. Theft: A Love Story - Unlikeable characters in unbelieveable situations.

1) A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - my most hated book ever.
2) A Year in Provence - just didn't care about these people at all.
3) Rebecca - I never could finish this one.

Tammy wrote: "1) A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - my most hated book ever.
2) A Year in Provence - just didn't care about these people at all.
3) Rebecca - I never could finish this one."

I was just going to order Rebecca too off a site maybe I will think again on ordering it lol

Rebecca is one of my favorite books! Jenna, I still recommend you check it out.

The three books that frustrated me the most are:


1)Small Island A Novel by Andrea Levy
2)The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
3)Lost Girls by Andrew Pyper