worst book you have read

[Rebecca, Group Creator]

What is the worst book you ever read? For me it was I dont know why but i just couldn't get into that book. It took me forever to read the first 30 pages so i gave up on it. Have you ever had a book like that?

[Stephanie (Bookfever)]

this series.

[Rebecca, Group Creator]

Stephanie ♥Loves Adrian Ivashkov♥ wrote: " this series."

Thank you Stephii, I felt the same way! Though my 12yr is loving it :)

[Stephanie (Bookfever)]

I liked it up to the first three books before it started to be the same thing over again. But I did finish the series.

[Rebecca, Group Creator]

Stephanie ♥Loves Adrian Ivashkov♥ wrote: "I liked it up to the first three books before it started to be the same thing over again. But I did finish the series."

The only book I didnt read was the very last one and yeah it was like each book was the same as the last. It really dragged on.

[Tammy ~Witching Hour Reads~]

I got sick of it after book 3, (I was expecting it to end, and it did not, when Evermore came out her site said it was to be a trilogy) but kept reading as I had to know how it ended. the last book was fairly good, it tied everything up in a pretty knot at the end.

[Abby]

Mine was As much as I love all her other books in the series I just Could NOT get into this one...

[Lorre]

Maddie wrote: "Mine was As much as I love all her other books in the series I just Could NOT get into this one..."

How tastes can differ... Renata and Nikolai's story was one of my favorites in this fab series.
I don't have a worst book in PNR but I do have in horror, it was Buick 8 from Stephen King. I really had to force myself to finish cause I kept expecting it would get better. Cause most of the times King's story start slow. I was a huge fan of him but the last books I read before Buick 8 were also disappointing. I stopped reading King after that, and any other horror. It was time to move on I guess cause I discovered the PNR genre and was hooked. I always liked reading horror but I'm crazy in love with PNR. With horror It took me at least 2 weeks, sometimes a month to finish a book. With PNR I read 3 books a week.

[Abby]

Lorre wrote: "Maddie wrote: "Mine was As much as I love all her other books in the series I just Could NOT get into this one..."

How tastes can differ... Renata and Nikolai'..."

I won't say it was the absolute worst book I've ever read because it's not... I just couldn't get into it as much as I could the others before it ...

[Rebecca, Group Creator]

I only just brought this series :) it is good to hear the different views :D

[Rebecca, Group Creator]

Oh I have another not bad book but a book i didnt like and that was The girls vera and nora annoyed me to no end. As friends i just could understand it...maybe I am out of touch, I dont know but yeah it goes on my bad read list...though I will read :)

[B.C.]

I am a great Lynn Viehl fan. I have all the Darkyn Series. Night Lost Yet, I can not get into the Kyndred 'sister' Series.

The two series overlap enough that I want the two worlds to collide. But they only brush so slightly, I am annoyed. The elaborate plots and conspiracies spin ever further out of believability.

[Kirsty]

Sara wrote: "I've only give one book a 1/5 rating here on GR and that's "

I agree Sara . . . .sorry, but it was a BAD book :-( . . . the characters were weak, the plot was trying too hard and it lacked emotion . . . .poor

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i'm sorry but the Dracula on my ereader

[Kirsty]

Sara wrote: "Kirsty wrote: "Sara wrote: "I've only give one book a 1/5 rating here on GR and that's "

I agree Sara . . . .sorry, but it was a BAD book :-( . . . the characters wer..."

I don't know Sara, there are some really evil reviews of this book here on Goodreads . . . I got called some nasty names just for disputing a couple of points . . .but y'know everyone's entitled to their opinion ;-)

[Tammy ~Witching Hour Reads~]

The Host , I could not even finish it.

[Sharon]

Yep , I couldn't even finish it...which is very unusual for me.

[Sharon]

Also I'm reading right now and trying to find a reason to keep going with it. If anyone has read it and thinks it's fabulous let me know please!

[Eva]

I read the first few chapters ofWicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West but i couldn't finish it.

[Sharon]

My hairdresser told me I HAD to read that book. I checked out all the reviews here on GR and decided to stay away from it. Glad I did.

[L.M.]

I REALLY WANTED to like this book and for the first chapter I thought "hey this girl can write" but then it was just the same thing over and over and over again.

The first time that she spent three pages describing the girl's scream I told myself that was the theme of the book and if she needed us, the readers, to understand this world's-most-epic-scream then so-be-it. The second time she spent three pages describing a scream I started thinking 'redundant much?' but then when she did it a third time I was like "really?! Really?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!"

Meanwhile an entire week in the psyche ward of a hospital flew by in a single page or two. And maybe this is over sharing but I spent three days in the psyche ward once for voluntary evaluation after a traumatic experience many years ago and could write VOLUMES on it.

I went from being interested in the book, to wanting to like the book, to being bored with the book, and eventually ended up being annoyed and even angry about this book ... which is unusual for me because I can generally find the silver lining in just about anything. Heck, I LIKED A Tale of Two Cities so it's REALLY hard to bore me as much as this book did.

[Caron]

I really like the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan but I haven't been able to get into the Kane Chronicles series he started. I mean, I love the mythology in Jackson and how he spun it into modern times, but it just seemed to get old once it hit the Kane Chronicles. A little of that same ol' same ol'.

[Dina]

Worst book I've read this month: John Locke's How to Sell a Million Ebooks
Was really an ad for his westerns.
My book, Halo of the Damned, is up for July's reads. If you haven't voted, please consider it. Pitch: A fallen angel who runs an ad empire, fathers a new race, finds worship among an angel cult, and wants to secede from Hell...
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[Angela]

so far the book I am currently reading, though don't know if I'll finish cos it appalls me

[Dina]

50 Shades? Yeah, I thought it was disgusting. For whatever reason I could read about death and violence and be fascinated, but kinky sex acts bother me. I'm sure Freud would have a field day with that one-LOL!

[Angela]

I agree totally, I am the same in that respect

[Dina]

I started tuning out when he followed her to Georgia and they had sex on the bathroom counter in a hotel room while she was on her period.

[L.M.]

Dina wrote: "I started tuning out when he followed her to Georgia and they had sex on the bathroom counter in a hotel room while she was on her period."

*vomits*

[Dina]

It's very sad to me that the number one book in America is 50 Shades of Gray trilogy. 400 pages X 3= of two people banging their brains out...And what a crock-she has an orgasm every time! I rated the book 5 stars b/c the author was a great story-teller, but I won't be buying the other two books. Were they good?

[Angela]

I thought it was a load of rubbish, no one needs to know that many details about a couple's warped sex life and i think E.L. James is sick, i rate it zero

[Dina]

I totally agree with you in content, but got to hand it to the woman-she knows her craft. Part of it reminded me of that part in PUlp Fiction when the gimp came out of it's cage/chest dressed in a leather mask. Probably way off the mark, but that's what I thought of.

[Tony-Paul]

Dina, I just watched a movie about Feud and Jung and believe me, if those two were as mixed-up as the cinema depicts, their reaction would be mild. All I could think after seeing it was, "And these are two of the people who shaped our attitudes toward mental illness? Mon Dieu!" (Not that this has anything concerning books but it's an interesting aside.)

[Dina]

What'd you think of 50 Shades?

[Eva]

Dina wrote: "What'd you think of 50 Shades?"

Im reading 50 shades at the moment, still not sure if i like it. I thought it was meant to be a love story, but it isnt, nothing has really happened in half the book appart from the sex and her thinking if to sign the contract...pretty rubbish i think. As well, people have slagged off twilight because is against femenism but this one is a lot worse, ok she has the choice to do it or not, but in my opinion she has become addicted to sex, so not really a choice...tricky! unless it gets better im not going to bother with the other two. It lacks of imagination

[Laura]

Eva wrote: "Dina wrote: "What'd you think of 50 Shades?"

Im reading 50 shades at the moment, still not sure if i like it. I thought it was meant to be a love story, but it isnt, nothing has really happened in..."

Dina, 50 Shades is a love story. I think the first book is about shocking the audience, the second book is about love, and the third book is about suspense. The series as a whole is a great love story because Ana and Christian make each other better people. Ana becomes self-assured and Christian learns how to care about another person. It is still the set of books that set the standard to which I judge other romance novels. Give it a chance, and don't stop after book 1.

[Kirsty]

Dina wrote: "What'd you think of 50 Shades?"

I read it months ago before all it became this big "cult" thing and I can't walk into the playground or turn on Facebook without someone referring to it. The first two books were ok, though I agree there are so many underlying issues that basically you have to take it at face value but the third book is just so repetitive and not thought through that I wish I hadn't bothered. I know that she wrote it as a Twilight fan fiction but now I just think there is so much hype around it that soon it could be bigger that the whole Twilight franchise!!!

[Laura]

L.M. wrote: "Dina wrote: "I started tuning out when he followed her to Georgia and they had sex on the bathroom counter in a hotel room while she was on her period."

*vomits*"

I read that part of 50 Shades quickly and then never thought of it again until you brought it up. Thanks.

[Laura]

The worst book I ever read was "They Hunger" by Scott Nicholson. It is a vampire book with too many characters, most of whom were unlikable. If it wasn't a book club book, I would not have finished it. I have heard that other books by this author are good, though.

[Trinity, PNH Lovers Tech Support & Group creator]

Last night, I started what turned out to be the worst book I have EVER read!

You know how you have that shelf of books, your 'desperation' books? The books that if you're in a pinch, have nothing else, you'll read?

Yeah. No! It made my 'Not Even Desperation' shelf, along with my 'Unable To Suspend Disbelief' shelf.

The book??



OMG! It was AWFUL!! I was so excited about it, too! It sounded like it was going to be great!

...then I hit Chapter 3.

By Chapter 5, I was done. I just... I couldn't. I... there are no words. None.

[Alli]

is the worst book I've ever read but there are alot of close seconds.

[Jennifer]

Dina wrote: "Worst book I've read this month: John Locke's How to Sell a Million Ebooks
Was really an ad for his westerns."

I agree. I didn't hate the book, but it wasn't nearly as helpful as it could've been.

I won't say the name of the worst book I've ever read, because I know the author does occasionally frequent Goodreads, but holy cow! This book stole from so many other books and movies, it had flat-out sloppy writing, the characters' emotions made no sense, and the plot... oh, the plot. I feel like an eight-year-old probably could've done better. >.<

[Dannye]

How many times do you read a book that is a one or two star rating and then go to Amazon to find nothing but eloquently phrased or excitement-filled reviews with five stars, touting it as the best offering ever?

Does it ever make you wonder if there was something you missed? Or does it just make you wonder if there's a lot of "being nice to someone you know" on Facebook or Goodreads going on?

[Erin]

One of the few books I couldn't even stand to finish was . It's probably tolerable when you're 15, but to me as an adult, unreadable.

[Rebecca, Group Creator]

Dannye wrote: "How many times do you read a book that is a one or two star rating and then go to Amazon to find nothing but eloquently phrased or excitement-filled reviews with five stars, touting it as the best ..."

Dannye I have wondered that a few times. It makes me wonder if i am being to critical but than I figure what is ones trash, can be someones treasure :)

[Trinity, PNH Lovers Tech Support & Group creator]

I'll be honest with you... if I don't like the book, I don't care who you are, I'm going to tell it like it is.

If I know you personally, I won't be AS harsh as I normally would, but I'm not going to be all "it's the best book EVAR!! You have to buy this likeomgrightnow!!"

If it sucks, it just plain ole sucks.

Wow... I really do sound like a cold-hearted bitch, don't I?

:-/

[Rebecca, Group Creator]

Muse wrote: "I'll be honest with you... if I don't like the book, I don't care who you are, I'm going to tell it like it is.

If I know you personally, I won't be AS harsh as I normally would, but I'm not going..."

I respect my friends who are honest more then those who feel they have to lie. I know i make mistakes and friends who point them out also help me learn. If my story sucks let me know, hopefully next time I will learn and do better :-)

[Eva]

Rebecca wrote: "Muse wrote: "I'll be honest with you... if I don't like the book, I don't care who you are, I'm going to tell it like it is.

If I know you personally, I won't be AS harsh as I normally would, but ..."

I agree, if no one is honest about your work you will not be able to better yourself, right?
That's why I hate showing my mum my writing, becuase even if I write dribble she'll say t's amazing.

[Sharon]

Muse wrote: "I'll be honest with you... if I don't like the book, I don't care who you are, I'm going to tell it like it is.

If I know you personally, I won't be AS harsh as I normally would, but I'm not going..."

Yes you do! Lol just kidding. I'm pretty much the same way but sometimes I'll just say nothing if I wasn't crazy about the book. I think because honestly there are books out there that I absolutely cannot stand but they are getting great reviews from everybody else. So I figure it's just not my thing.

[Dannye]

I understand when a book is just not one's cup of tea. I try not to review those myself because it's not really fair. However, when a book is just boring (and I always try to make it to the end) and yet you hear people talk about what a beautiful and profound story it was, it does make me wonder about a lot of things, including myself. Was it possible that I wasn't in a good mood? I went back over my latest experience to give it another chance, but for me, it was like watching paint dry. Result - I just didn't review it.

[Seth]

The worst book I ever read was without a doubt . I could not get behind it and could not stand most of the characters.