Worst books you've ever read.

[[deleted user]]

What are some of the worst written or read books that you know of? And let's try not to start any arguments, if that happens then I'll just delete this, or one of the moderators can.

[Eliza]

The Red Badge of Courage. Its the one of two "required reading" books I never finished. It was sooooooo dull! It might have been that I was in 7th grade, but I never did pick it up again.
The Sound and the Fury would be the second. I just gave up on that think in 9th grade. Fugghedaboudid!

I really should give them another try :oS

[[deleted user]]

I didn't like that one either. It was horrible!

[Olin]

i never read sound and fury but the badge of courage was horrabal.
check out my neveragain list.

[[deleted user]]

Twilight was pretty bad. But of course that's just me, I never really had a thing for vampires in the first place. So when my friend said that they recommended it I gave it a shot and really hated it.

[Olin]

ive thought about twilight, is it that bad?

[[deleted user]]

I think it is... very poorly written as well. Everyone raves about how fantastic the character... what's his name... uh... I think it was... Josh? No, it was... Edward, that's it Edward. But I thought people were just too obsessive over such a book. Although if you're a romance fan then you'll like it. Which is another reason why I didn't like it. It was a freakish romance. The 'vampires' aren't even real vampires.

[Olin]

ok, then i wont read it, that it was sooooo popular is what put me off of harry potter too

[[deleted user]]

Yeah, I tried to read that one. I started on book one and... stopped at about chapter two. I couldn't read it anymore.

[Olin]

hmmm

[[deleted user]]

What's another book...

[Olin]

there are LOTS of "another" books...

[[deleted user]]

hehe. Yes, indeed. um...

[Joshua]

Most of the books i read and didn't like were not fantasy. I just figured it was becouse I would rather read fantasy!

[Eliza]

I refused to read Harry Potter at the start of the whole mania BECAUSE of the whole mania. I eventually picked them up after the movie and found I really liked them.

When one of my students recommended Twilight, I gave it a shot so as to not hurt her feelings and encourage reading among my kids.

Turns out I liked them too. But the third book, Eclipse, is way better than the other four. And it my be because it is a basic love story that so many people (mainly hormonal teenage girls) like them so much. That and Jacob is totally like OMG hot! hahah! I still dont know why my students speak that way :OP yay Randomness :oP

[Eliza]

You don't like Anne Rice's stuff?
You should try her Mayfair series (witches) if you dont like Vamps

[[deleted user]]

I liked interview with a vampire because of how she was able to make them vampires. Make them feel pain from the sun and everything. But SM made them 'sparkle!' I thought that really overdid it.

[Eliza]

hahaha sparkly vamps was a bit much. Just added more to the whole "we have to hide" thing. But I did like how Meyers tied in the diamond charm with that aspect of their personality.

[Katherine]

i liked twilight merly because i am a girl and i wanted something easy to read. I swear the last book took three years off my life though

[Hannah]

ahem twilight happens to be the most AMAZING book ive ever ead, katie i know that you love them too and how did the fourth one take three years off of your life??

[[deleted user]]

I never read it. I knew I just couldn't handle another one.

[Rustyford]

I happen to like the red badge of courage, but then again I had to listen to it on cd to get through it.

I hated Sphere by Crichton. It was well writing and the story was pretty good but the end was such a cop-out and it really made me angry.

[Olin]

how was it a cop-out? i thought that it was something i would do.

[Michelle]

I love the mayfair witch series so far I have read the first two and can't wait to read the third.

I am on Anne Rices second book of the vampire series, which I just heard they were going to make into a movie--The Vampire Lestat.

[[deleted user]]

They made one of Interview with a vampire and Queen of the damned. I suppose it's only natural they make another one.

[Katherine]

the last twilight book had me on my seat, i read it in a day and all the twists she put in it made me extreamly stressed

[[deleted user]]

bleh, never tried.

[Olin]

you know katie and michelle, its "worst books"...

[[deleted user]]

tis true tis true, anyway...

[Katherine]

i was defending my point!

[Olin]

right...

[Katherine]

well sorry. DIA DEL PAVO!

[Brad]

well how about i throw this one out. Twilight is the WORST book i've read this year (and olin and kataury know how i've been struggling with other books). Twilight is not even good trashy romance let alone good vampire lit.

[[deleted user]]

I agree, and not even this year, just of all the books. I'm also glad I stopped at Eclipse while I still could, if I read Breaking Dawn then I would really have actually burned the books. And burning books is very blasphemous in my world.

[Jane]

I can't believe they classify this as Fantasy - and wish they did not because it was so bad..but for me it "THe Road" by Cormac McArthy

[Jane]

I just finished reading Twilight - kind of "late to the party" - I really did not like it an agree with the person here who said it was badly written - I have no plans to read any more

[Olin]

i have no plans to read it at all, so hahaha!

[Olin]

not "breaking dawn"... breaking wind!!!

[Katherine]

I really disliked Stargirl and i belive that if i burn any book that shall be it. id rather read my math book.

[Clickety]

Martin's Song of Ice and Fire saga. Ugh. SO long-winded, so many characters and plot threads that I didn't care about any of them and didn't feel like bothering to try to keep the stories straight. Multiple perspective characters, and then he starts killing them off and replacing them with new perspectives! Gah!

[[deleted user]]

I loved them. He can make it seem more like a kingdom of people, some common, some noble, the highest ranks, everything makes them into a real story about a kingdom then just some character's perspective.

[Clickety]

Mmmmh. But just because the story is told from a single perspective doesn't mean that there aren't multiple people and alternate perspectives.

I just don't have that much patience. It's been awhile since I read the first one, but I vaguely recall feeling a lack of closure at the end.

[[deleted user]]

Yes, but I like of how he can make the character's all have their own tales to tell and of how he can stand the great problem of keeping them all based on one thing, in this case the Iron Throne save for a few characters.

[Olin]

im with Kat, tho i've never "martin". i have read books like that tho. i like it when the author has many things going at once, like they are jugaling twelve different plots at once, and i also like it when they bring it all togather in the end.like robert jorden's wheel of time. at first it was really boring, but thin i got into it and i couldnot put it down. last saterday i read a RJ book for 18 hours stright, and i could not put it dawn for more then 30 seconds at a time

[Clickety]

Yep - I think that's a matter of personal taste. I didn't even bother with the WoT series past a chapter or two. But I think I'm something of an anomaly among fantasy readers, because so much current fantasy DOES go for the epic feel.

[Joshua]

If you do like it try Brent Weeks Night angle series. It's written like that. (I'm one that likes those kind.) I just finished them. Their great!

[Olin]

epic rules!

[Eliza]

WoT rules!

[Katherine]

i am reading epic is saga any good

[Shade]

ERAGON. Worst for one reason. It is the one book I was so dissatisfied with that I returned it. Pure Fantasy pulp with nothing different from literally HUNDREDS of other books where one person is born destined to greatness.

Honestly it seemed like partial plagairism from Richard A Knaak's Dragonrealm as well as a couple of other books. Honestly the only reason the kid got published at such a young age was because his parents own the publishing company that first put it out. Crap Crap and Double Crap.