The worst book you've ever read or had to have read

Night Games, I forgot who it is by...but it was a really twisted book that made no sense.
And then there was this book in school awhile back, it was called Jar Bell or Bell Jar or something Jar...it was strange. I was forced to read it

 

The Bell Jar. Sylvia Plath's descent into madness. Yes, a great American masterpiece.

 

i hated "Ethan Frome" by: Edith Wharton. It was boring and I hated the entire plot of the damn book. Not to mention my teacher made us watch the movie with Liam Neeson, which was also painfully dull.

 

Animal Farm
i dont know who its by but its about communism and using animals to express the authors view.
I dont even know the words to describe how terrible it is!!!

 

It is hard to get into. i didn't like it either.

 

Animal Farm was written by George Orwell, better known for writing 1984.

 

Of dubious love/hate relationship:

Naked Lunch: Allen Ginsburg?
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: Hunter S. Thompson
Myra Breckenridge: Gore Vidal

I don't know. They are self indulgent and silly and yet brilliant so?

 

Fear and Loathing was pretty awful, in my opinion. I just never found drug humor all that amusing.

I haven't read the other two.

 

I hated Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea. It was about an old man... on a boat... trying to catch a fish. He caught it, it got eat by sharks, he probably died in the end but they never said so explicitly.

That takes about three sentences, and yet it was dragged out for like forever with details that meant nothing.


In contrast, I absolutely loved Animal Farm... that is, until I had to read it for a class and learned it was really about Communism....

 

I found Animal Farm dull.
But not the worst book I've ever read.

On the otherhand 1984 was fantastic.

 

how can you hate, fear and loathing? I thought that was impossible.

 

3 recent bad books that come to mind

Shes Come Undone by Wally lamb, was the typical poor 2nd written book by an author I enjoyed and recommended to all. Hope nobody picked it up first and was totally dissapointed.

American Psycho-Sadistic, revolting. I know this is a classic but I found myself turning cruel and weird, not that I wanted to kill anyone of course.

And I'll probably get shot down in flames, but I found the most over rated book this year was The Memory Keepers Daughter. I could not relate to teh characters, I thought the first half boring and plot overdone. I don't know whether I was just sick of that type of story or not, but I could not finish it. I was halfway through and I couldn't see what all the hype was about. Very dissapointed.

 

The Bluest Eye. It is pure tripe...very bad...pathetic really...but I bet it would make a bundle on Oprah's book club.

I shouldn't be to harsh thought; tripe, especially in some Mexican and Viet dishes, can be quite good, as long as you get over the fact that its tripe.

 

Just like the Odyssey or Aeneid

 

A Room of One's Own, by Virginia Wolff.
Okay okay, I understand how amazing this book is, but it is DULL. The whole point of literature is to keep the reader reading, right? (Well, not the entire point). I hated reading this book - she could have summed up her book in a couple sentences and spared everyone the pain.
I also didn't like Lord of The Rings, my husband made me read them with him after we got married and I kept falling asleep. He loves 'em. I do not. I hated how the author kept bringing in that singing character guy in the first book! He drove me insane!

 

American Psycho is pretty good.

 

True Blue Aussi books annoy me

But i think it's just the language

and writing style

 

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen. Maybe it was bad timing for me, but oh my god, her writing style completely turned me off (the narrative was way too snooty for my desire) that I couldn't even finish the second page.

 

The Scarlet Letter.

 

That book was metaphorical, not just a bunch of talking animals, but I'm sure a man of your age understands that. I can see why you didn't like it, but that's just me. But I absolutely hated the ending.

I don't really "hate" any books, but I thought, "Where I Want to Be," by Adele Griffin was dull and boring, and "Tithe," by Holly Black was just--blegh. What really angers me is that they put, "For ages 13 and up," on the inside panel. (Or at least I think they did ) That book was very well written, but the overall plot didn't interest me, and there were some very inappropriate things in it (sexual themes to the extreme, the f word in every sentence, blood and gore.)

 

I think the worst book I ever had to read was Skelig. We read it in year seven in English once and it was just stupid.

 

The Murder at Red Hook - Racist. Rubbish.

Misery - It bored me.

Echo Delta - I picked it up at an Airport... It was just dull and too predictable.

 

Hmmmm... well, one that I cordially avoid would be The Stranger, by Albert Camus.

Y'know, I sort of liked the way the translation I read was written, but the plot is what bothers me... and the plot is that there is no plot. I really don't get existentialism.

 

The Stranger was, in a way, a very long character sketch.

I recommend The Plague by Camus if you'd like any insight into existentialism, as it seemed to be a much more readable book to me. I loved it. The objective writing style only added to it, for me.

List of bad books:

Jane Eyre
Scarlet Letter
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
(so far every main character is female.. odd)
I can't recall anything else that was just plain horrible, but that's probably because I look into the background of a book before I buy it. The above 3 were required for classes, and that only added to the suffering.

 

I really enjoyed Z for Zacariah in my childhood.

I think the reason why she doesn't want him to starve is because she is afraid that if he dies, she will be alone as the last person on earth, again.