What's the worst book you've ever read?

yoshidude99

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Mine is Wormwood by G.P. Taylor. The plot is confusing, it's not really clear what the characters motivation's are and what they are trying to do and the whole book is just a mess. I stuck with it thinking it might become clearer what the characters were doing but it didn't. The book was a waste of my time and I'm just glad I didn't pay for it(school library).

So as the title says What's the worst book you've ever read?
 
It's either Things Fall Apart, Let the Great World Spin, or The Great Gatsby.
 
Viridi said:
It's either Things Fall Apart, Let the Great World Spin, or The Great Gatsby.
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What's wrong with TFA? It told its story better than The Poisonwood Bible (pretty much the same thing but from the opposite perspective).
 
For all I have read, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was pretty long and boring. Pride and Prejudice also kind of bored me until I understood it better, although I don't like it that much.
 
Mario4Ever said:
Viridi said:
It's either Things Fall Apart, Let the Great World Spin, or The Great Gatsby.
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What's wrong with TFA? It told its story better than The Poisonwood Bible (pretty much the same thing but from the opposite perspective).
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I couldn't find myself interested with Okonkwo at all, and much of the book wasn't even about conflict between settlers and natives but only followed random stuff about Okonkwo. The only segment I really thought was good was the part with the church that showed up and was nice at first but then they had a new preacher who ruined everything. That was interesting.

As for The Poisonwood Bible I haven't gotten around to reading it yet but I've heard it's good so shhh no spoilers.
 
Viridi said:
As for The Poisonwood Bible I haven't gotten around to reading it yet but I've heard it's good so shhh no spoilers.
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I thought it was terrible, but then I liked TFA so you might like TPB.
 
I once read a book called Space Trap for school and I hated it. I also loathed this book called Bye, Bye, Bailey-Kai (dunno if that's the right spelling but w/e).

More recently, I read a book about Richard III getting brought into the 21st Century (This Time) - it was such a zany concept, but the book's terrible, and the sequel (Loyalty Binds Me) was even worse. The first one was so bad it was funny at times, but I had to only skim the second one: I just couldn't justify sitting down and wasting my time actually reading it in full.
 
Yoshidude99 said:
Mine is Wormwood by G.P. Taylor. The plot is confusing, it's not really clear what the characters motivation's are and what they are trying to do and the whole book is just a mess. I stuck with it thinking it might become clearer what the characters were doing but it didn't. The book was a waste of my time and I'm just glad I didn't pay for it(school library).

So as the title says What's the worst book you've ever read?
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I actually read Wormwood. Like, it is all Christian Fantasy, which is a weird genre in itself, and totally not my thing.

Lord Bowser said:
The Pearl by John Steinbeck

short (90 pages) but incredibly boring
I had to read for an English assignment last year: felt like hell
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I have read a couple of Steinbeck books, and The Pearl is the only one I did not like. It really does not deserve the award it got. Should have been given to some other of his work.

GalacticPetey said:
I know it's a classic and all, but I found Lord of the Flies to be really boring. I didn't hate it. It was just boring.
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Completely disagree. Lord of the Flies was FANTASTIC.
 
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand pissed me right the fuck off, especially when at the end it

suddenly just fucking stopped the plot and became literally just an Objectivism manifesto without any symbolism or story to even hide it, as if the rest of the book already wasn't.

What's funny was that we had to read this for my debate class back in 12th grade where I'd often play the devil's advocate and argue for things I wouldn't actually be for (banning gay marriage, campaigning for John McCain, etc.) and that gained me a false reputation of being a fiery conservative lol. But the thing was, I vocally hated this book and shat on the plot all the damn time and pointed out all of the horrid misogyny such as

when Roark (the main male character) just goes and rapes the shit out of Dominque (the main female character, vague love interest, caught between 2 men resulting her to drop all of her own thoughts and ideologies to just live with her rapist after her going and marrying the man she actually loved and who allowed her to be herself was portrayed as Literally The Worst thing to ever do). Roark just fucking busts into her house and has his way with her because of what's basically described as she was asking for it because she was beautiful, which Roark and Dominique both acknowledge and are totally cool with.

and lapse in any reason or connection to reality, but all of the bleeding heart liberals in the class were just fuckin