Worst book you had ever read?

The owner of my favorite comic store recommended me Dark Harvest. Worst book EVER! I honestly don't know if he just has bad taste or if he just saw the short awkward girl and immediately assumed I have the IQ of potato...
This book even won some award... The storyline is overused and predictable. You can see how hard the author is trying to be smart and daring but it's not the least bit immersive, just plain boring.

The Twilight series didn't bug me too much. I took the writing and the plot for who it was meant for (teenage girls), but the last book I wanted to throw across the room. Biggest waste of time!

I hate The Hobbit. It took me 15 years to finally finish that book. I'd pick it up so many times because people said it was great and finally forced myself to read it when the trilogy movies came out and ugh....not sure why I needed to torture myself.

Wuthering Heights is one of my favs.

I can't really think of a book that I thought was just bad. I have had some that didn't catch my attention and some that were a bit strange, but I usually read books that have been recommended by a friend or that have received good reviews from magazines or on TV. Maybe that's why I miss the bad ones. One book that was definitely different than I expected was Wicked. I had seen the play and loved it, so I decided to read the book, and I didn't think it was bad, but it was quite different than the play. Not what I expected and a little odd in parts.

Anything by Danielle Steele.

My cousin keeps giving me the books she's read, and 70% of them are Danielle Steele. I've TRIED to read four of her books, because hey, she's been around forever so there must be SOMETHING good about her novels, right?

WRONG. I can't even slightly immerse myself in them. Normally, I finish every book I start, but hers are so bad, I can't be bothered.

Horrible! lol

I also tried Twilight and gave up after the first 60 pages. Pure garbage -- and I LOVE Vampires! Twilight Vampires are NOT Vamps, sorry.

I mostly read true crime but for a change i decided to read my first Stephen King book "IT" im down to my last 100 pages finally.. I might read another one of his not sure yet. Im like the above poster though if im not captivated early on I toss it. Great post though Id like to see what NOT to read.

All I can say is I hope you don't end up with the same feelings on King that I have. Love his books. Hate his endings.

The ending of the Dark Tower nearly killed me. I love King, and I will concede that some of his works are stronger than others. I had purposefully waited to read the Dark Tower series until book 7 was out. He almost killed m the Summer he released The Green Mile one portion at a time. So I just waited, knowing that The Dark Tower was his masterpiece.

I won't spoil it for anyone, but I was just about destroyed at that ending.

Me Too! I love his Dark Tower series, but when I finished book 7 i was like "seriously!!!!" I wanted to cry it made me so mad!

I don't know if i've ever considered a book "bad"
Sure, maybe some haven't caught my attention so I stopped reading them, doesn't mean someone else didn't love it.

I read the twilight books, all 4 of them, are they profound? God no. But did they take me out of my world and into theirs for a few hours? yes. They were fun. No harm no foul.

Catcher in the Rye I read when i was 17 and I loved it. But I felt a connection to Holden that maybe some people didn't.

Now for me the ones that I stopped reading

A Tale of Two Cities cant' do it. I tried, I re-read the first 30 pages over and over and would get so bored that I would not remember what i just read and have to start over

Drive:The Secret to what motivates us this one I am slowly still working through. It's fascinating but since it's more a collaboration of research and studies it's harder to get wrapped up in.

The Twilight series didn't bug me too much. I took the writing and the plot for who it was meant for (teenage girls)

^^^This. It wasn't as bad as everyone is making it seem considering the fact that it was for young teens. You need to take that into account! The story was perfect for young girls, the writing was perfect for young girls. I didn't care for the books either, but I think everyone needs to get over the Twilight craze AND the Twilight bashing.

I do agree that it was meant for teenage girls, but not everyone can relate to Bella! I WAS a teenage girl when it came out and I just couldn't relate. For me, if I can't relate to the character and like the same people the main character likes or want the same things, then I usually don't enjoy the book despite the age group it is intended for. Twilight is only one example for me, though I have had books where I didn't relate for the most part but they would have the ONE character that would keep me going.
However, I don't HATE Twilight, or the people who do like it, but I definitely don't enjoy it.

To each his own.

I started the Twilight series along with my daughters. I never got beyond book two. Just didn't think they were that great.
Couldn't get into Watership Down either.
Most recently my family has been reading The Hunger Games. I got half way through the second book and had to stop. Man's inhumanity to man sickens me in real life. Haivng to read about it and the fact that they were exploiting children made me ill. I just couldn't finish. The kids are still telling I have to finish them because they are so good. My oldest son (33) says he is reading them becase of the exploitation. He feels that we need to hold the microscope up to society and talk abou the horrors. I tell him I've met the kids in my classroom who have been exploited for sex, been beaten, or who were born drug- addicted or with alcohol in their systems. Harming children so adults can be happy? FAIL.

The Odyssey by Homer. Bleh. I really do not understand what the enjoyment in that book was.

:grumble: Twilight Ugh worst series every badly written with a poor message. I have yet to understand why " OMG my boyfriend left me now I'm gonna do stupid **** til I get his attention is suppossed to be a love story . What a message for young girls

Sadly, some girls do that. :noway: