I would have to say Grapes of WrathI know it is standard for high school English class, but ugh... It is the one and only book I refused to read, and I'm certain my grade for it showed. I did take time to explain to the teacher that I just simply couldn't put myself through that kind of punishment
I feel the sameOriginally Posted by yellowfeverlime
Adolf Hitler´s Mein Kampf
Stupid, full of psychological lies, aggressive & lot of upside-down thinking, logic thinking is ridiculous - and filled with repeat, repeat, repeat...
The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg
Has no one here ever ventured to the sci-fi/fantasy section lately? Though, I admit, I've never read any of the entries into the HALO 2 saga, nor any of the Diablo books, but I have read a couple (yes, I am ashamed) of the Star Wars and Star Trek books in my youth. No es bueno.
Though I must confess that the books based on the DOOM video games were surprisingly well written... Did I just say that?
Did you read it? If you didn't, how do you know it's bad?I would have to say Grapes of Wrath
Patrick
The Clansman, by Thomas Dixon, Jr. - read it for a race in literature course...important read, but unsettling.
Patrick
If this is true... then that's really sad.
I read it myself. It's honestly barely tolerable. The only thing that kept me reading was watching a family dynamic completely crumble, that was somewhat interesting.
So... have you ever actually read it?I would have to say Grapes of Wrath
You can't say something is the worst if you haven't experienced it. :P
One of the worst books I've ever read was "The Zookeeper's Wife." The premise, and the actual backstory to the novel is powerful, but the author did a terrible job writing the book.
The story is constantly broken up by her need to dribble quotes from obscure historical sources, that can go on for 10 or more pages, leaving you completely confused to where her characters left off.
In short, it's a broken up, jumbled mess of a story. Maybe if it was re-written I'd like it more.
This is a joke, right?
... Really not trying to be mean here.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Stardust, by Neil Gaimen
He prayed best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
atlas shrugged.
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I still contend that Candide by Voltaire is drivel. I KNOW I got ripped for this on another thread. It wasn't intended for aesthetic value. It's a satire of (I'm confident it was, not completely sure) Liebniz's* philosophy. But still, Austen was satirical (although to the same degree) as Voltaire and her work is much more readable. Crap I thought.
I'm bothered with this post.. can you emphasize reasons for having this claim? or let's just say, were you able to understand the "book" when you read it? i can't believe you're tossing this up..I would have to say Grapes of Wrath
i'm not trying to be mean here though.
kinda lenghy yeah, but It's not the worst for me..
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Worst book I've read the Alchemist
People keep mentioning things that are readable. Most of them aren't very good, but it is possible to read the whole thing. I defy anyone to read all of The Last Immortal by J. O. Jeppson. I don't know anyone who has managed to get past the fifth page.
A Million Little Pieces
That's when I knew how full of it Oprah Winfrey is. She picked this dreck for her BOTM Club. I picked it up off my mother's dining room table and... well, it wasn't pretty. Just bad from so many angles.
I know I'm going to be drawn and quartered for this, but Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I hated it when I read it and want it to be cut into very small pieces, and I think the fact that everyone else loves it doesn't help me like it more.
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