Worst books you've ever read

What books have you read and after completing it you decided you hated it?

Chopin "The Awakening"

Lord of the rings.

Great Gatsby

I didn't hate it, but I was really disappointed.

Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad.
His prose are mind numbing. Some of his sentences were an entire paragraph long. Just couldn't handle the style.

I didn't enjoy Brave New World as much as I think I should have—I'm just not a fan of Huxley's style.

Edit: I should probably try re-reading it.

Great Gatsby

I didn't hate it, but I was really disappointed.

Agreed. It is one of the only classics that i've read that i thought was overhyped.

I didn't enjoy Brave New World as much as I think I should have—I'm just not a fan of Huxley's style.

Edit: I should probably try re-reading it.

It's disturbingly sarcastic and childish. Hard to pick up on the sarcasm. I found BNW scary because it almost doesn't seem like a dystopia. It's almost sickeningly funny, in a horrifying way. God damn that book fucked me up....


I would have to say.... Cyrano De Bergerac. Maybe I was just too young or whatever but I remember how much I hated reading that book over summer

A Thousand Splendid Suns

It was the most boring book I have ever read. It is very uneventful and hard to read.

snuff

I hated The Swiss Family Robinson. Nothing bad ever happened, it was all good fortune for them. Boring as hell.

Lord of the Flies.

Fucking hated that book in high school. Read it again recently and yep, still hate it.

I can't remember the title but it was about this dude who was so impressed by the novels written by jack London that he hitchhiked all around Alaska to go live off the land. By the time he felt he had enough, he ended up dying in some abandoned bus he found in the woods. It was based on a true story written with info from a notebook he carried with him during his stay

That book was so long and dry that by the time we get to his death scene, I was fucking ecstatic

I can't remember the title but it was about this dude who was so impressed by the novels written by jack London that he hitchhiked all around Alaska to go live off the land. By the time he felt he had enough, he ended up dying in some abandoned bus he found in the woods. It was based on a true story written with info from a notebook he carried with him during his stay

That book was so long and dry that by the time we get to his death scene, I was fucking ecstatic

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Great Gatsby

I didn't hate it, but I was really disappointed.

My 11th grade English teacher"s dog was named Gataby. Best teacher ever too. I did read Gataby in his class. So Gatsby does have a place in my heart. Pretty good book as well, can I ask why you didn't like it?

Edited by RVD420RVD, 12 May 2012 - 03:00 AM.

Couple of The Beatles biographies. God they have boring biographies (about their music in the 50's, forget what ones they were).

My 11th grade English teacher"s dog was named Gataby. Best teacher ever too. I did read Gataby in his class. So Gatsby does have a place in my heart. Pretty good book as well, can I ask why you didn't like it?

Well, let me say that I wouldn't condemn The Great Gatsby to my kindling pile by any means. It is certainly a quirky little read with some admirable traits. This is by no means a condemnation.

I found the whole commentary on cynicism and materialism very forced. I felt as if I was being spoon-fed a very simple idea, with elaborate set pieces that didn't really appeal to me and characters I could not care less about.

Consequently, by the ending, I didn't feel invested, and wasn't really affected by it. It all felt very heavy handed to me. There is this weird disconnect between Fitzgerald's really quality prose and his overarching narrative; he can work subtlety into his prose, but not his story.

For me, this was a book I avoided for decades. I didn't have any interested in it, until a close friend of mine started badgering me to read it. I kept getting the "It's an American classic, how can you of all people have not read it?!" So one afternoon I sat down and indulged her and was just really disappointed. I was expecting a lot more I suppose.

Dracula. I don't know how it is a classic but I found it to be a complete bore.

Into the Wild I believe that I think way to logically to have enjoyed the book. The whole time I was reading it I could only think about the mistakes he made. I dont even think I finished the whole book.

Steven King's "Dark Tower". The last book in the series was the only book Ive ever thrown away when I finished it.