Worst book you had ever read?
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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.
"The story was perfect for young girls"? Are you nuts? "Here girls, is the meaning of your life: having a boyfriend. Without that, nothing else matters". That's the message of the Twilight series.
Are you serious?! They are for entertainment, they are not self-help books. It's FICTION. Jesus. Just because that's the message YOU got, doesn't mean that's the only message. Like I said before, I don't care for the books, but I'm pretty sure the author didn't mean them as a "message" to girls that nothing else matters but a boyfriend. It is for ENJOYMENT. Don't be so freakin' judgemental. Next, you're going to be saying the author should go to prison for sending the message to people that vampires exist.....0 -
Rain of Gold by Victor Villasenor...
That book scarred me for life... Do we really need several pages describing a young mexican girl having her first period while walking on a trail to get out of Mexico?0 -
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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.
"The story was perfect for young girls"? Are you nuts? "Here girls, is the meaning of your life: having a boyfriend. Without that, nothing else matters". That's the message of the Twilight series.
Are you serious?! They are for entertainment, they are not self-help books. It's FICTION. Jesus. Just because that's the message YOU got, doesn't mean that's the only message. Like I said before, I don't care for the books, but I'm pretty sure the author didn't mean them as a "message" to girls that nothing else matters but a boyfriend. It is for ENJOYMENT. Don't be so freakin' judgemental. Next, you're going to be saying the author should go to prison for sending the message to people that vampires exist.....
IDK about jail, but idealizing a suitor who ruined Bella's car so she was trapped because he loved her so much he was going to keep her from Jacob.....sure sounds like the wrong kind of story to me. :noway:
Edward is NOT a good boyfriend, yet Bella gives up her entire life for him. He's controlling to the nth degreee. Teaching our young and impressionable girls that if a man REALLY loves you, he acts like he owns you, is a problem IMHO.0 -
Exactly. This is really disturbing.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.
"The story was perfect for young girls"? Are you nuts? "Here girls, is the meaning of your life: having a boyfriend. Without that, nothing else matters". That's the message of the Twilight series.0 -
A Tale of Two Cities0
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Well, these might not be the worst books, but for whatever reason I could not finish them.
The Grapes of Wrath: I love Steinbeck and I have read everything else that he ever wrote. But this book was just too depressing.
Crime and Punishment: There was too many nicknames to keep track of, it made my head hurt
The Notebook: I actually finished this book and I just thought it was a piece of yuck.0 -
Didn't finish them, but: TWILIGHT SERIES0
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I don't remember the name of the book (helpful, huh? :indifferent: ) because I got so angry reading it I threw it in the trash, but the two quotes that stick out in my mind are:
"men secretely admire rapists because a rapist does what they want to do.." (to that affect) and
"a man will never love a daughter as much as a son because a man doesn't respect women like he does a man.."
TRASH heap!!! :explode:0 -
Currently reading Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell. My 19th century Brit Lit class has disappointed me. =[0
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Are you serious?! They are for entertainment, they are not self-help books. It's FICTION. Jesus. Just because that's the message YOU got, doesn't mean that's the only message. Like I said before, I don't care for the books, but I'm pretty sure the author didn't mean them as a "message" to girls that nothing else matters but a boyfriend. It is for ENJOYMENT. Don't be so freakin' judgemental. Next, you're going to be saying the author should go to prison for sending the message to people that vampires exist.....
Agreed.
I read the Sookie Stackhouse series and if I lived my life by it's "message" I would think my life was meaningless because I wasn't banging a bunch of vampires and were-animals. Sookie is a tad "easy".
It's fiction.
Twilight is trashy romance novels for teen girls, that's all it is.
And my theory is, if it gets some 14 year old girl to pick up a book that normally wouldn't read, then I'm fine with it.0 -
John Milton's "Paradise Lost" was the worst for me. He is a skilled writer, don't get me wrong, but the content of Paradise Lost infuriated me.0
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A few others~
Jodi Picoult-Vanishing Acts, A Novel (My sister recommended her to me...never again)
Allison Dubois- Don't Kiss Them Good-Bye (Loved Medium the show, based on her real life, but she's not an author worth reading)
Dean Koontz-Odd Hours ( I loved the first two Odd Thomas books...the last one I could barely get through it)
Anita Shreve- The Pilot's Wife (Just bored me)
Dean Koontz-Your Heart Belongs To Me (Couldn't finish. Terrible)
Ernest Hemingway- The Old Man and the Sea0 -
I don't know about the worst I've read, but I know the worst I own. A book called Eventide. Its the fourth book in a particular series from Magic: The Gathering. The first three aren't terrible. One has a lot of good moments, and two is just decent but stretched out (if Lorwyn and Morningtide had been one volume it'd been really good). The third book is the strongest of the bunch, and is legitimately good on its own. It's an anthology from the world the series takes place in, just giving a good over-view of its flavour. But the fourth book is dreadful.
Due to an event at the end of the second book, most of the characters are basically wiped out and presented with alternative versions of themselves. So right there you can throw out most of your reason to care. It's a very drastic change too, meaning most of the sub-plots in 1 and 2 now completely don't exist - and they were never resolved in those stories. The rest of the book is just a mess with powerful and mysterious characters we never get to know well doing powerful and mysterious things. I only finished it because I had read the first three, and it took me several months to force myself to do that.0 -
Toss-up. In school I read the three least favourite books I've ever read in my life.
1. Lord of the Flies. Sorry, despised it.
2. A Separate Peace.
3. La Vengence do L'Orignale.
Terrible books, all.0 -
Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper. Oh, god, it was slow torture.0
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"In The Cut" by Susannah Moore. Violent pornographic trash trying to pass itself off as an erotic thriller, with the most blindingly stupid heroine this side of Bella Swan. I needed take about five showers to wash off the grime that book left on me. Yuck and double yuck.0
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Driving Manual by The DMV0
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House of Leaves. Very Confusing. Very weird. Very dense.
Yeah and it was a pain in the *kitten* to try to read. Reading shouldn't be that much work.After I calmed down, I was OK. It took about a week, though. Then my take on it was, "Well, it's the only ending that could be."
I agree. I wasn't happy about it at first, but the more I thought about it, the more it seemed fitting. Also, I was fully prepared for King to put himself at the top of the tower, which REALLY would have made me angry.
I also agree with the people who said Catcher in the Rye and The Lovely Bones.
Another one I hated was Atlas Shrugged. Sooooo much long-winded douchebaggery.0 -
In school my most hated books included:
The Illiad
The Old Man and the Sea
Recent most disliked books (but I finished):
Cutting for Stone
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (I found it totally unbelievable)
Hell at the Breach
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle0 -
House of Leaves. Very Confusing. Very weird. Very dense.
House of Leaves was one of the most remarkable books I ever read. I recommend it to everyone. I can't say I understood it completely but it was beyond reading, it was an experience!0 -
Jodi Picoult is the worst author ever. Next to Stephenie Meyer0
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And I'm currently reading "The Night Circus" and w/ 80 pages left I'm not a fan.0
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Also, I'm not really a fan of Audrey Niffenegger. The Time Traveler's wife was mediocre, in my opinion, and Her Fearful Symmetry just pissed me off.
OMG Her Fearful Symmetry was terrilbe! I was pissed at having read it to the end...maybe I shouldn't be in book club anymore...
Wasn't it like you were cheated?? After plowing through a couple hundred pages of other crap? And poor kitten. :<0 -
Oh I love Jodi Picoult! Though I didn't like Vanishing Acts.
I had to read Silas Marner for class and hated every dull, cryptic moment of it.0 -
I'm not a fan of Jodi Picoult - I've read a few of her books but I find they drag and the endings tend to be REALLY annoying. Why do that??? ie. the end of My Sister's Keeper and Handle with Care (I'll spare you the spoilers).
I loved "Time Travellers Wife" (though the movie left a lot to be desired, maybe because I just can't take Eric Banna seriously)but "Her Fearful Symmetry" was pretty bad.
And I have to admit (shamefully) that I likethe Twilight series. I have a lot of problems with the messages there and don't think they're a great read for young girls - but I got caught up in the story and managed to suspend disbelief enough to enjoy the books. And I liked the movies
But I think the winner in the category of "books I couldn't stick with" was Anna Karenina - I just couldn't get into it, I tried and tried but just found it soooooooo dull!0 -
The Shack. Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk (couldn't get through the vernacular). That is the only book of his that I haven't finished (he is my favorite author, afterall).
Exactly the same here, I adore Chuck Palahniuk but couldn't get through more than a few pages of 'Pygmy'. I intend to give it another go sometime but other books that don't melt my brain keep getting preference.0 -
Atonement, couldnt even make it through the first 50 pages... although i fear that i was not in the right mindset (vacationing in punta cana)... maybe ill give it another try
Don't bother, it's not worth it.
No no DO bother... It's fantastic 0 -
Mrs.Dalloway by Virginia Wolf. UGH! I got the idea, but it was sooooooo boooring! I think I got interested after watching the hours. One of the characters was supposed to be virginia wolf. It is like one big paragraph of what she is thinking and doing for a whole day or something. No chapters or anything. Just irritating. I haven't gotten into the twilight series either, seems a bit juvenile. I'm not a big vampire fan anyway.0
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