What is the worst book you've ever read?

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"Apt Pupil" which was in "Different Seasons" by Stephen King. I like King's writing but I didn't like that story at all and deem it one of the worst stories I've read.

The Great Gatsby

I second on Ron L. Hubbard

The worst book I've ever read is called La Venganza de la Vaca (The Revenge of the Cow) by an argentinian author called Sergio Aguirre. Just by the title you can tell how bad it is, but they made us read it in high school. One of the intellectual snobs said she didn't read it because she had some self respect. I was like "you're sooo conceited!" but after I read it, I knew she was right.

anything by Lurlene Mcdaniel. It's all the same.

"Omg I found out I have a terrible disease. Omg hott guy. Omg hott guy i have terrible disease. Omg I love you. OMG you've helped me through this tough time. OMG I am dead."

and "Omg I love you random hott guy. Omg You have terrible disease! Omg you are dying. Omg I cannot live without you. OMG you are dead." and maybe a sequel with "Omg I am moving on, hott guy! OMG a new hott guy! OMG now i have a terrible disease! OMG sorry to put you though this hott guy! Blargh i am dead!"

Oh. and BEOWULF! I was forced to read that in school and I loathed every second of it.

We discussed those books recently. Fortunately we had to read only some fragments of Moby Dick. It's undeniably one of the most boring books I ever read.

It's one of my favourite stories by King but I hate the film based on it. Specially the ending was strange and didn't explain anything.

Although I still appreciate the message always, The Scarlet Letter was the most difficult book I ever read.

What is it you find so offensive about Being And Time? This is a genuine question; I haven't read the book myself, and i doubt I'll ever attempt it.

Is it just the fact that Heidegger was a member of the Nazi party?

Dona Barbara - exactly what you'd expect from a Latin American politician writing pseudo-patriotic fiction. All-time worst book I've read.

House of the Spirits - didn't finish it and swore never to read anything by Isabel Allende again.

Don Quijote was pretty bad (ditched it too), it's basically low-quality, repetitive comedy with a rather idiotic sense of humour that for some reason ended up as the putative masterpiece of the Spanish language.

El Tanido de una Flauta by Sergio Pitol - I couldn't stand it.

Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad
Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
All literary criticism. I hate reading what talking heads thought of certain books.
L. Ron Hubbard was pretty bad, too. I could only read about one chapter before I got bored and abandoned it.

Sister wendys story of painting

I thought i would just egnore the fact that there was a grinning nun on the cover so i could find out more about the history of art.
Big mistake,ive noticed some facts are wrong so now i dont know if i can trust the imformation.

We also had to recently read "Awakening" by Kate Chopin. I think I can add it to my private list of books I wouldn't like to read any more

Count me in too!

The worst book I have read is Silas Marner. I had to read it for school and it was horrible.

The Scarlett Letter. I've probably read worse, but at least with other pieces of crap I had the choice of putting them down.

Really? I don't remember it being all that bad; I've found some of Stephen King's works (especially some of the short stories) to be far more grotesque. Actually, I can't remember anything particularly extreme about Sybil, but I haven't read it in awhile.



The storyline is cute, and it has some interesting twists; I have to say I enjoyed the first five novels of her series. I thought the writing style got worse as she went on though. Her first books weren't too bad, then she peaked, and then it all went downhill again, until she finished below where she had started. I really didn't like the last book; the ending, in my opinion, sucked.

The main books I didn't like were The Red Dahlia by Lynda La Plant (I think that was her last name, anyway; she whined far too much), The Girl Who Owned A City (a required read; by the end of, I wanted to shoot her), and this other book... I can't remember what it's called or who wrote it, but it was in Oprah's Book Club; it was given to me by an instructor who was convinced that I'd love it; I hated it.



I really don't like "Hamlet" either, and the book A Million Little Pieces (that other Oprah Book Club one that was proved false) makes me giggle, not because of the story itself, but because the author thought he could get away with it. Trust me, Ohio has nothing better to do with our time than search through old police records.