10 Books You Can Do Without

I can't stand to not finish a book, but I know there have been several which were so bad I could not bear through them. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your view) I cannot seem to remember their names. I suspect I blocked them out as they were so bad.

I agree with most of the choices listed here, a lot of that being books I would never read in the first place. But, the author that comes to my mind as being unreadable for me was Ernest Hemingway. I read two of his books. The first because everyone said I should and the 2nd to see if it was as bad as the first. I simply could not get into his strange style of conversation. I kept thinking "people do not talk like that".

Another book that pops into my head just now is a children's book I read to my daughter, Fury of the Broken Wheel Ranch. We stuck through it just to find out how it ended, but the descriptions were rather fantastic and the entire story turned into a silly play between us. Great fun and a bonding moment, but not really worth the read.

1) Tale of 2 cities -dickens
2)Color Purple-Alice Walker
3)The Handmaids Tale--Attwood
4) Lovley bones-- Seabold
5) Gone with the wind
6)his dark materials Trilogy -- philip pullman
7) Lord of the Rings
8)A Lady of Quality-- Frances Hodgeson Burnet (the only book/story of hers that I hated)
9) Regeneration trilogy-Pat Barker
10)Jane Eyre

and ive only just started the list tis could go on and on all night

mhm..."Harry Potter" would surely be on top...after that... :"Harry Potter". And then...mhm..."Harry Potter", I'd say.

Oh, and "The Alchimist" by Paulo Coelho and "Bonjour Tristesse" by Francoise Sagan, wish I hadn't read these...

LOL @ Harry Potter.

However, I loved Jane Eyre.

The da vinci is a great book and so is great expectations! well i thought they were good and i'm 13 and most 13 year olds would turn there noses up at great expectations

I also like harry potter but then again most people love harry potter so i'll shut right up

It seems I should strictly avoid Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, Harry Potter and Jane Eyre!

I read and liked Jane Eyre. Note I said I liked the book, I didn't love it however. I found the 1st ten chapters dull!

Haven't read any of Virginia Woolf, but plan to read some Dickens. Wouldn't consider Harry Potter!

The biggest waste of time in my mind is Lorna Doone by R.d Blackmore. Boring, it drags and I ended up stopping halfway through as I fell asleep!

Fortunately or not, I have very peculiar needs and after a page or two, I know well enough to put the dern thing down!!!

Know thyself?

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Originally Posted by gumption

The da vinci is a great book and so is great expectations! well i thought they were good and i'm 13 and most 13 year olds would turn there noses up at great expectations

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That you're 13 and reading the classics is admirable. I have several books by Dickens in my library and have never once been inclined to read any though I obviously planned to when I bought so many of his books. One day I'm sure I will but for now I'm neutral though I'm partial to the Harry Potter series, find 'em quite entertaining and I'm considerably older than 13.

Essentially to each his own. No one ever agrees with everyone but it's so commendable everyone's reading. Btw, I'm really enjoying this thread, it's confirmed some of my own suspicions regarding some author's and books I could do with out though I am rather partial to the Brontë's and Dumas and Tolkien! Lol!

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Originally Posted by mono

6. The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling,
7. anything by John Grisham,

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OK, I know this is your opinion, but COME ON! The Harry Potter books are kinda overrated, that I know, but the writing's OK, and John Grisham is a terrific writer!

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Originally Posted by Themis

2. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
4. Any book written by Stephen King ( ...I really hated them)
5. (Die Verwandlung) The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
7. The Chamber - John Grisham
9. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

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Themis beat me to these, and because of my loathing for King, Koontz, and (K)Clancy (the KKK of literature) I am way over ten!

A Tale of Two Cities, bring me the Cliff notes....zzzzzzzzz

The Power of Now...Tolle, yeah, Zen rehashed.

100 people who are screwing up America.....biased and lousy.

The Botany of Desire....Pollack...got it for my spouse; a biology major; says the author must be smoking the draperies...ahem.

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Originally Posted by Scheherazade

Here is my list so far:

1. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

2. Mrs Dalloway by Woolf

3. As I Lay Dying by Faulkner

4. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

5. On the Road by Jack Kerouac

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I would like to remove As I Lay Dying from my list.

I don't think there's a list here that doesn't have at least one worthwhile book in it - Heart of Darkness? On the Road? Dorian Gray? Please people - all of these (and Harry Potter too) have either moved me, made me think or entertained me. In fact, all of these (except Potter, which merely entertained) have done all 3.

I could certainly live without James Patterson though - there is a worthless author.

[QUOTE=Beaumains]Flowers in the Attic, by V.C. Andrews (incest is not a good thing)QUOTE]

I think that incest is an horrible thing. That was the reason which made me not to read its second part. When I started Flowers In The Attic, I found it really interesting but then what happened, I found it yucky....and wanted to stop reading the book but then I was curious for the end....but I will not call it a worthless novel though it was really very sick.

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Originally Posted by Aramis

"Wicked" - by Gregory Maguire (The play rocks, though, so I was very disappointed.)

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I didn't mind Wicked, I didn't love it, but I didn't hate either...however...his take on the Snow White tale, Mirror, Mirror I most definately could've done without. That book was just bizarre and not in a good way. :rollseyes:

And I could've done without the two extra Amy Tan books I bought. I loved Hundred Secret Senses so I got a couple more but I discovered that if you've read one Amy Tan book, you've read them all so the the second two were completely superfluous.