Worst book of all time

[InspiredHome]

What do you think was the worst book ever written?

 

[Nienor]

oh where to begin?
i usually don't finish books i don't enjot unless i have to. so that only leaves books for school. people will probably get mad at me, but i hated
Huck Finn
The Great Gatsby
The Old Man and the Sea
there's more, but i can't remember them. probably deleted them from my mind

 

[Sors]

Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard.

Started off great...with relatively few references to scienentology. It drew you into the story and then...at page 800 the story went all to hell, and the humans bought back the earth through intergalatic banking. What a climatic letdown.

A 1200 page waste of my time. What makes this book so bad, is the promising story at the beginning, and the fact that by page 800, you feel like you have read so much that you pretty much have to finish.

 

[glo]

oh where to begin?
i usually don't finish books i don't enjot unless i have to. so that only leaves books for school. people will probably get mad at me, but i hated
Huck Finn
The Great Gatsby
The Old Man and the Sea
there's more, but i can't remember them. probably deleted them from my mind

aren't those supposed to be the BEST books ever written?

 

[Nienor]

yeah....but they're not. i love reading, but "classic american literature" is classic because it sucks

 

[mochagirl]

I liked Huck Finn...it was funny.

 

[but'n'ben]

I thought the great Gatsby was good, as long as the whole green light=American Dream thing was pointed out to me. Before I noticed that I thought it was a bit random!

Anyway...worst book. As much as I love Stephen King, it has to be Dreamcatcher.

 

[Jinn_Ku]

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. What a long, drawn out waste of time. Dropping subtle hints of the house being haunted was fine, but one would expect some kind of definite proof of it by the end of the story. That didn't happen. This is probably the only time I would recommend the movie over the book.

 

[but'n'ben]

Is this similar to the house on haunted hill film?

 

[hanaya]

A Seperate Peace by John Knowles
Anyone else suffer through that in high school?

 

[ApopkaDad]

I don't know about all time, but the worst book I've read lately is "Shadowmancer" by G.P. Taylor.

 

[stonetoflesh]

The worst book ever written? That's easy... [your favorite book]!

 

[Sors]

Yes this will tick people off...

The entire Left Behind series....minus the first book or two which were actually quite good.

 

[blue_eyes1313]

I hated Little Women. I always wanted Jo to end up with Laurie. I know, I know: it's girlish and dumb, but I never could forgive Louisa for putting Jo with the old man. And AMY with LAURIE! So ridiculous. Ugh. I wish I could rewrite the dang book.

I also didn't like the Left Behind series. (Minus the first one.)

 

[Ashlynn]

Lucky Girls by Nell Fruedenberger.

Just dont.

 

[revolutio]

Old Man and the Sea made me want to hurt myself.

 

[Mad Cow Bomber]

Old Man and the Sea
A Separate Peace
The Left Behind Series (it was like watching one of Arnold Schwarzenegger's stupider movies, except it stopped every ten minutes for a sermon)

But here's one other really awful one:
Everything by Terry Goodkind: the man is a pompous @$$ - uses his books as a bully pulpit for his own stupid ideas - he hates Catholics, organized religion, and that's just for starters. He goes off on some idea for several pages, then sums it up later perfectly well in a paragraph. Never touch anything he writes, except possibly for Wizard's First Rule and Faith of the Fallen - they were okay.

 

[savvy]

Mad Cow, I agree with everything you just wrote!
Except I couldn't even stomach Wizard's First Rule...it was jus bad! I can't imagine how much lower those books could go...I don't want to find out.
Anything by Hemingway is terrible.
My most hated author of all time, however, is John Steinbeck. Gag!

 

[ChrisLockhart]

Some possible books for consideration :

Timothy Leary's Book of the Dead Where Leary divides the Tibetan Book of the Dead and throws in a bit of the Egyptian Book of the Dead into stages of the LSD acid trip. I am not kidding.

William S. Burrough's The Soft Machine The first in a book in a trilogy. This first book is nothing more than this man's adult-rated dreams and nightmares thrown together in a mesh of collage madness. The other two books Nova Express and The Ticket That Exploded are much better, as he actually starts to make some sense worth reading.

 

[Nienor]

i think most 'classic' american literature isn't good, horribly boring must be one of the qualifications