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What is the worst book you've read or worst piece of literature?
For me it has to be the metamorphosis. I just didn't like the beginning or end. Its kind of stupid when the main character dies, and how he magically turned into a vermin.
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Hmmm good question... i have authors i can't stand but can't really think of any 1 book i really just hate... Maybe The Return of the King.... Mordor was destroyed like 150 pages in and the book was 400+ or so... one of the only books i started and never finished
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WOW, great question. I think I must block the bad books from my memory, I'm sure I don't finish them.
Maybe Anna Korenina (SP?) by Leo Tolstoy (again, SP?). 6 pages to describe a coffee table in a room of a palace, really. Apparently you need to be an opium addict like the author.
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Twilight series, Eragon series. those two books annoyed me to no end, wether its the poor writing style, cliche subjects, or the overuse and destruction of popular stereotypes. Twilight took a great theme for novels and abosultely destroyed them. Ann Rice needs to go smack a bitch :P Eragon was just as bad. I do give the authors credit for creating succesful franchises at such a young age especially in a field that isnt as popular as it used to be(no one reads as much anymore everyone is all into movies and TV)
another really bad book was the sword of shannara by Terry Brooks, I love all his other stories, but his original Sword sucked, it was a complete rip of LOTR and didnt bring anything new. although I love his newer books and series.
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Hmmm good question... i have authors i can't stand but can't really think of any 1 book i really just hate... Maybe The Return of the King.... Mordor was destroyed like 150 pages in and the book was 400+ or so... one of the only books i started and never finished
oddly enough Return of the king was the best movie of the 3
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Twilight series, Eragon series. those two books annoyed me to no end, wether its the poor writing style, cliche subjects, or the overuse and destruction of popular stereotypes. Twilight took a great theme for novels and abosultely destroyed them. Ann Rice needs to go smack a bitch :P Eragon was just as bad. I do give the authors credit for creating succesful franchises at such a young age especially in a field that isnt as popular as it used to be(no one reads as much anymore everyone is all into movies and TV)
another really bad book was the sword of shannara by Terry Brooks, I love all his other stories, but his original Sword sucked, it was a complete rip of LOTR and didnt bring anything new. although I love his newer books and series.
oddly enough Return of the king was the best movie of the 3
I ranted about shanara series in author rant thread but don't remember specific book... probably the same one you are referring to. Also i love return of the king(the movie) but book i couldn't finish
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Assumed Identity by David Morrell The Jedi Academy Trilogy by Kevin J. Anderson Prey by Michael Crichton Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
Jedi Academy Trilogy?? Really? While that wasn't one of the best TEU books I personally wouldn't put it on this list. Thats just me of course, what about you hate??
Jedi Academy Trilogy?? Really? While that wasn't one of the best TEU books I personally wouldn't put it on this list. Thats just me of course, what about you hate??
I put it there for Anderson's complete inability to develop motive, understand a character, create a mature setting, carry the flow of a novel, use intelligent language, or plot an engaging story. I realize this sounds harsh and insulting, but I read it when I was in high school and passed it off as tripe even back then. For a decent Star Wars story, look no further than Timothy Zahn's original trilogy.
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I put it there for Anderson's complete inability to develop motive, understand a character, create a mature setting, carry the flow of a novel, use intelligent language, or plot an engaging story. I realize this sounds harsh and insulting, but I read it when I was in high school and passed it off as tripe even back then. For a decent Star Wars story, look no further than Timothy Zahn's original trilogy.
I agree no one does it as good as Zahn, but i still enjoyed JA. I feel that a couple of the stand alone ones were the worst... Dark Saber for one (the one with the eye of palpatine in it)... hmm that might of been children of the jedi... either way I'm not as critical of JA but will agree that is one of the worst multi book series in TEU
The worst book I can remember reading is Without Remorse by Tom Clancy. Just ridiculous.
Agreed, yet there are some who list it as their favorite Tom Clancy novel. I felt it was basically a guy who does action quite well trying to pull a tear out of some guys, and maybe appeal to some women. I think it was a poor fit, kind of like casting Jason Stratham (sp?) as Newland Archer.
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The worst book I ever read is Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. I was forced to read this horrible book (I apologize if I've insulted anybody by this statement) by my literature teacher in high school as part of our literature class. Otherwise I would never have agreed to read this book beyond the first page.
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Eragon series is just a re-wording of the StarWars series. I mean you have a blond haired blue eyed orphan that is supposed the be the baddest MF'er in the realm.
Sorry just couldn't get past the first book. Not the worst thing I have ever read by far though.
For example, The Moses Stone by James Becker. Pretty useless and un-engaging. Still not the worst book I ever read.
maybe Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. Granted again, I probably hated it due the requirement to read. I sure didn't pick it for fun.
The Stranger by Albert Camus - Reason: I didn't particularly enjoy reading half developed thoughts (even if their briefness was to create a sense of apathy) and after reading all the emotionless inner thinking of the main character (there was little actual dialog) it all ends in his martyrdom to glorify his undertones of atheism. Most pointless book I've ever read.
I was given Twilight as a christmas gift and I read them and they have sat on my bookshelf since. I hated it... it was the most poorly written piece of trash I've ever had the misfortune of reading and women love them. And the movies-- Robert Pattinson reminds me of a lemur with the squints. And Kristin Stewart or whatever her name is, is a troll and I've seen better emotional acting from my goldfish.
Eragon series is proof of what happens when mummy and daddy have connections in the writing world and hurdle over the heads of editors who are worth their salt. Because whoever edited or even told the kid that this was a good idea should have had his head checked.
And to add to those, the Anita Blake series past book 9. This is proof what happens when the author has a midlife, identity or whatever type of crises, in the middle of the series. It starts out as an amazing concept and then just gets progressively worse from there.
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I am forced to mention the last book of 'The Dreamers'
I enjoyed the series but the way it ended was.... BUNK!!!
Was SOOOOO disappointed with the way the story wrapped up
I absolutely detested The Rule of Four--written by Ian Caldwell & his boyfriend Dustin Thomason (two college punks who think they can write)
Was tricked into buying it by the promising prologue: a Renaissance setting, a messenger delivering a message in the dead of night, and getting killed because he had peeked at the scroll, a mysterious text that emerges and reemerges throughout history. Then fast forward to the present—where the real garbage heap of cliches, dumb plot carriages and inane language barely manage to slog the reader from one dead chapter to the next.
That it made the New York times bestseller list is depressingly laughable, and that Warner Bros. picked up the film rights to it makes the entire situation even more laughable.
That it made the New York times bestseller list is depressingly laughable, and that Warner Bros. picked up the film rights to it makes the entire situation even more laughable.
Actually, since about 1990 this should be a given. The 1980s seems to be the last decade where the majority of people were discerning readers.
In the Woods by Tana French. It was one of those books that lived in the bathroom for a while. I read it while on the crapper and it really belongs in the crapper.
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. We called it As I Die Reading when we were forced to read that drivel. Thanks Duane! Kinda like seeing grandma naked, you just can't un-see it.
I assume I'll get a bit of "hate" (not the best word) for this, but oh well.
The worst book I've ever read has to be The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I absolutely dreaded reading that book. The autobiography, or something close to one, that I read after it (The Glass Castle) was amazing in my eyes compared to Huck Finn.
Matter of opinion I suppose. As a writer and publisher, if a book fails to capture my interest, it's not worth investing my time. A book's plot can develop slowly and still be interesting. John Irving's work comes to mind, in that respect. However a book that starts slowly without keeping me engaged is simply a bad book to me.
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The worst book I ever read is Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. I was forced to read this horrible book (I apologize if I've insulted anybody by this statement) by my literature teacher in high school as part of our literature class. Otherwise I would never have agreed to read this book beyond the first page.
On that note Tess of the D'urbervilles by Thomas Hardy was horrendous. I had to read it in high school and it's the only book I remember having to read that was painful to get through. Sorry if anyone is a fan.
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Matter of opinion I suppose. As a writer and publisher, if a book fails to capture my interest, it's not worth investing my time. A book's plot can develop slowly and still be interesting. John Irving's work comes to mind, in that respect. However a book that starts slowly without keeping me engaged is simply a bad book to me.
I have to agree - if it can't get my attention in the first chapter or two then there's almost no chance I'm going to finish it.
Wicked. My wife and I were going to see the play with a couple of friend and figured we should take the same approach we do with movies based on books: read them first so we aren't lost because of stuff cut out due to editing. We got the audio book to listen to on a longer road trip we were going on.
Holy crap what a steaming pile of bizarre idiocy that was. Imagine some nut job political activist reading the Wizard of Oz, then taking a really bad acid trip.
On the other hand the play was absolutely brilliant and I highly recommend it...
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Tuesdays with Morrie. Read it because a hot chick suggested it to me and ranted about how it was her favorite book. Looking to score some points with the ladies I read all 100 pages or so of it hoping it would get better at some point. It didn't. Waste of my life right there.
What is the worst book you've read or worst piece of literature?
For me it has to be the metamorphosis. I just didn't like the beginning or end. Its kind of stupid when the main character dies, and how he magically turned into a vermin.
Ditto. That was the summer reading for my sophomore year of high school. I was an avid reader and I couldn't get through that book. I eventually finished it, minus the explanatory notes, etc. that we were supposed to read (and that were longer than the book itself).
My teacher threw a couple of fake cockroaches at us the first day of class without warning. (Granted one was a puppet, but the other was a little more realistic; both were unexpected.) It was her way of breaking the ice on the summer reading. Her justification? She'd do the same thing to our parents on parents' night.
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Any recent Steven King book. I'm half tempted to even preemptivly throw his upcoming sequel to The Shining. The last book I somewhat enjoyed of his was Cell though apart from the idea of a sound broadcast through cellphones turning people into zombies is unique, every other portion of the story is as if he just forgot he wrote The Stand. It almost feels like he's run out of ideas and is just writing what worked in the past.
I may be in a small minority with this opinion but I didn't much care for The Catcher in the Rye. The stream of consciousness style was well executed but I just didn't care much for the actual story.
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