What is the Worst Book You Ever Read?

[Jane_the_Bane]

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins is the worst book I can recall in recent years.

Worse than Lee Strobel's "Case for Christ"?

I highly doubt that.

 

[Christian Soldier]

Worse than Lee Strobel's "Case for Christ"? I highly doubt that.

FAR worse than ANY of Strobel's books.

Whereas Strobel is friendly and positive, Dawkins is a negative and deeply bitter little fundamentalist atheist.

 

[Jane_the_Bane]

FAR worse than ANY of Strobel's books.

Whereas Strobel is friendly and positive, Dawkins is a negative and deeply bitter little fundamentalist atheist.

Oh, I guess I agree completely as far as their attitudes are concerned. I'm not exactly a fan of the inventor of the "selfish gene"-theory.

 

[Snark]

Atlas Shrugged. If you agree with Rand's politics, that's fine. But don't pretend her writing isn't turgid, her plots laughable and her characterisation non-existent.

 

[Jane_the_Bane]

Atlas Shrugged. If you agree with Rand's politics, that's fine. But don't pretend her writing isn't turgid, her plots laughable and her characterisation non-existent.

Her writing is turgid, her plots laughable and her characterization non-existent. These "novels" are cheap propaganda vehicles, nothing more.

And her philosophy is downright despicable and misanthropic, with her fascist/elitist disdain for "the masses".

 

[Jeriel]

It must be missing something in in translation because I can read plenty of novels that have little action, but a great deal of character development and yet... this put me to sleep. Then again, it doesn't help that Russians apparently have nine hundred names, making it nearly impossible to keep up with who is who.

lol! I had the same issue in War and Peace. I spent half of my reading-time flipping back through pages trying to remember who was who

 

[Jane_the_Bane]

lol! I had the same issue in War and Peace. I spent half of my reading-time flipping back through pages trying to remember who was who

They not only use names that are perfectly unfamiliar to us, they also use approximately half a dozen abbreviations or variants for each of them.
Who'd think that "Alexander" is the same as "Sasha", or that "Natalya" and "Natasha" are in fact one and the same?

 

[Jeriel]

They not only use names that are perfectly unfamiliar to us, they also use approximately half a dozen abbreviations or variants for each of them.
Who'd think that "Alexander" is the same as "Sasha", or that "Natalya" and "Natasha" are in fact one and the same?

I know! They're use to it though, I suppose, and it all makes sense to them like English names/nicknames make sense to me. lol. Cultures are funny that way - I always find it so interesting!

 

[Dallyn]

Worst books I've read would be

The Golden Compass - Phillip Pullman (had to read it in grade 10 english and hated it.)
1984- George orwell.. Had to read it in grade 11 english and hated it...

I loved the golden compass. My worst in On Chesil Beach. Read it for English.

 

[DougLDS]

Falconer by John Cheever
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Anything by Joyce Carol Oates

 

[BjorkIsCool]

These are the most boring books ive read:

Gormonghast Trilogy
Dune

 

[Dying2Live4Christ]

I Kissed Dating Goodbye- Joshua Harris (ARGH!!)
Anything by John Grisham

 

[Jeriel]

I Kissed Dating Goodbye- Joshua Harris (ARGH!!)
Anything by John Grisham

wow I haven't read that but it sounds really awful

 

[Lessien]

I Kissed Dating Goodbye- Joshua Harris (ARGH!!)
Anything by John Grisham

There's this girl in my youth group, and on the way to a youth retreat she just sat there reading I Kissed Dating Goodbye. It looked dumb. I mean jeez, just because I've never had a boyfriend doesn't mean I'll stop dating forever!

The first three books I read by Grisham were good. Then I found out that it's always the same character stuck in an ethical dillema with a ton of legal jargon in between. No thanks.

 

[NuclearDreams]

The worse book I ever read was Battlefield Earth. I read it sitting in a C-5 on the way to Korea from California. I usually love Sci-Fi books, but this one just rubbed me the wrong way.

 

[Jane_the_Bane]

The worse book I ever read was Battlefield Earth. I read it sitting in a C-5 on the way to Korea from California. I usually love Sci-Fi books, but this one just rubbed me the wrong way.

Does that surprise you? It's been written by third-rate-author and fourth-rate-religious figure L. Ron Hubbard, after all.

 

[NuclearDreams]

To tell you the truth, at the time I didn't know who Hubbard was...must of been in my bubble to long.

 

[lucyclaire]

I hated Cold, Comfort Farm By Stella Gibbons

and sorry Americans but I hated Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck too.

 

[Jeriel]

I hated Cold, Comfort Farm By Stella Gibbons

and sorry Americans but I hated Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck too.

lol that's ok, my sister hated it too. I thought it was good in...a rough sort of way I was pretty shocked the first time I read Steinbeck, but I guess I got immune to his style after a couple books I can see why people wouldn't like him tho.

 

[lucyclaire]

lol that's ok, my sister hated it too. I thought it was good in...a rough sort of way I was pretty shocked the first time I read Steinbeck, but I guess I got immune to his style after a couple books I can see why people wouldn't like him tho.

Of Mice And Men was a set text for my GCSE English Lit. I just found it depressing and grim. I haven't even tried Grapes Of Wrath.
I love English Lit, I love good American classics too such as The Great Gatsby, To Kill A Mockingbird, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, The Color Purple, Little Women etc.

And I agree with the comments of Grisham, I loved The Firm, The Client and A Time To Die but found it very repetitive, lawyers up against corruption, life threatened etc.....