Worst Book You've Ever Read

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Worst Book You've Ever Read

Posted: 9/9/04 at 10:06pm

For me it's a book called the Double Helix. it's boring, badly written, and I've had to read it twice! Any other terrible reads?

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Keep the peace, take care of each other, and may you find your promised land. -TJST

#2

re: Worst Book You've Ever Read

Posted: 9/9/04 at 10:06pm

My Antonia

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#3

re: Worst Book You've Ever Read

Posted: 9/9/04 at 10:10pm

I'm an avid reader ,and there are only two books i've read that I can ay I truely hated. The first was Slaughterhouse-Five. It made NO FRIGGIN SENSE!!! What was the point?? The worst part was, I had to read this crap twice! Once for summer reading, and then again in 12th grade because it was my English teachers favortie book =/

The other was The Chosen by Chaim Potok. SOOO boring...maybe I would have liked it more if I was Jewish? I don't know, but it was a bad book to me.

Updated On: 9/9/04 at 10:10 PM

#4

re: Worst Book You've Ever Read

Posted: 9/9/04 at 10:13pm

Black Boy by Richard Wright. It was assigned summer reading, and a self-pity trip if there ever was one. It's Richard Wright's autobiography about being an african-american boy growing up in the racist south. He basically spends the whole book whining about how mean people were to him, but most of the time it was because he'd shot them or killed their cat first. Moron.

#5

re: Worst Book You've Ever Read

Posted: 9/9/04 at 10:16pm

MimiChica, I love Slaughterhouse 5!! You're right thow, it doesn't make much sense...but it's so fun to read! I hated All Quiet on the Western Front

#6

re: Worst Book You've Ever Read

Posted: 9/9/04 at 10:17pm

Winston Churchhill's(sp?) first book was sooooo boring.

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David walked into the valley With a stone clutched in his hand He was only a boy But he knew someone must take a stand There will always be a valley Always mountains one must scale There will always be perilous waters Which someone must sail -Into the Fire Scarlet Pimpernel

#7

re: Worst Book You've Ever Read

Posted: 9/9/04 at 10:17pm

The Bell Jar---I wanted her to kill herself and get the book over already!

I'm a huge reader, and I always make a pact with myself that I'll finish the book even if it bad, but the Bell Jar was a real challenge. Usually a book is bad, but then something good can be found out of it. Nothing could comes of the Bell Jar--nothing!

#8

re: Worst Book You've Ever Read

Posted: 9/9/04 at 10:20pm

Kurt Vonnegut isn't about making conventional sense. Try reading Cat's Cradle or God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian and get back to me.

Love the guy, though.

Hmm...worst book I ever read? Possibly Far From the Madding Crowd. So. Boring. I have my limits with the over-elaborate writing style seen in so many 19th-century English writers. Thomas Hardy reached that point after about 40 pages. Ugh

#9

re: Worst Book You've Ever Read

Posted: 9/9/04 at 10:22pm

My favorite author is Charlie Dickens...the man was an utter genious! And who doesnt like the Harry Potter books??

#10

re: Worst Book You've Ever Read

Posted: 9/9/04 at 10:27pm

"And who doesnt like the Harry Potter books?? "

::whispers:: I don't!! ::hides under desk::

Seriosuly, I wish I could figure out the Harry Potter hype. I read the first book and it was very average, to say the least. And this was before all the hype even started! Then I read a few more of them, and they were still average. They aren't horrible books, and anything that gets kids reading is good, but there are sooo many better kids books out there...oh well, I guess i'm an anomoly =)

#11

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Posted: 9/9/04 at 10:29pm

I was a Harry Potter fan back when people had never heard of it. I was reading the british edition of the Prisoner of Azkaban because it wasn't out in the US yet. Then the movies and the hype killed it for me. I love the books, but that's all I love. I don't have any merchandise and the movies were bad, but I have worn those pages out.

#12

re: Worst Book You've Ever Read

Posted: 9/9/04 at 10:31pm

"I hated All Quiet on the Western Front"

Really?
I found it to be one of the most eloquently and hauntingly written books I've ever read.
It is such an inspirational, and disheartening, work.

As for HARRY POTTER, the first two books were very mediocre. The last three were superbly written and magnificently entertaining.

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"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

#13

re: Worst Book You've Ever Read

Posted: 9/9/04 at 10:32pm

I personally remember not liking 'Great Expectations' when I read it in highschool. Though Im pretty sure I disliked other books as well, nothing else is standing out in my mind.

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re: Worst Book You've Ever Read

Posted: 9/9/04 at 10:33pm

GREAT EXPECTATIONS is set in stone as one of my top three books of all time.

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"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

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Posted: 9/9/04 at 10:35pm

Great Expectations cures my insomnia. Needless to say, I haven't read it much.

#16

re: Worst Book You've Ever Read

Posted: 9/9/04 at 10:39pm

Far From the Madding Crowd was possibly the slowest moving book I've ever read but I found once I got into it, I actually kind of liked it. I know I didn't hate it, but I wouldn't call it top 10 either.

As for All Quiet on the Western Front, I absolutely LOVE that book. I thought it was so well written and interesting. Excellent.

I agree about Great Expectations though, I've read it twice and both times was like getting your teeth pulled by Orin in LSOH

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#17

re: Worst Book You've Ever Read

Posted: 9/9/04 at 10:41pm

Man, I am majorly in the minority when it comes to GREAT EXPECTATIONS.

I find the book is everything a novel should be. And entertaining.

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"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

#18

re: Worst Book You've Ever Read

Posted: 9/9/04 at 10:42pm

I love Dickens, but my all time favorite author is Austen. Sense and Sensibility makes me cry every time I read it or watch the movie.

EDWARD:
Elinor! I met Lucy when I was very young. Had I had an active
profession, I should never have felt such an idle, foolish
inclination. At Norland my behaviour was very wrong. But I
convinced myself you felt only friendship for me and it was my
heart alone that I was risking. I have come with no expecta
tions. Only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that
my heart is and always will be yours.

SOB!

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Keep the peace, take care of each other, and may you find your promised land. -TJST

#19

re: Worst Book You've Ever Read

Posted: 9/9/04 at 10:43pm

Bythesword, I think I just seriously wasn't in the mood for such an unbelievably meandering book at the time. It was my senior year of high school and I was reading it for Academic Decathlon- I wanted to get through it and work on comprehension, but it took forever.

#20

re: Worst Book You've Ever Read

Posted: 9/9/04 at 10:44pm

hey priest I can see why some people would enjoy it but it just totaly rubbed me the wrong way I found it very boring but if you like it, good for you

#21

re: Worst Book You've Ever Read

Posted: 9/9/04 at 10:46pm

The only book I can think of off the top of my head is The Giver...

all I will say about it is...

grrrrrr

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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read - Mark Twain

#22

re: Worst Book You've Ever Read

Posted: 9/9/04 at 10:47pm

Oh, i actually enjoyed that book, but I can understand why some people wouldn't like it.

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Keep the peace, take care of each other, and may you find your promised land. -TJST

#23

re: Worst Book You've Ever Read

Posted: 9/9/04 at 10:47pm

Plum, I too read it in High School, just Junior year instead. Like I said, it certain does meander, you're completely right. I think if you sped it up a bit, it has potential to be amazing but its slow pace has the horrible way of killing the desire to finish it.

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And hang on, when did you win the discus?

#24

re: Worst Book You've Ever Read

Posted: 9/9/04 at 10:50pm

The Scarlet Letter

#25

re: Worst Book You've Ever Read

Posted: 9/9/04 at 10:57pm

ooooh you I didnt like Scarlet Letter much either...