What is the worst book you have ever read and why? For me it was Pivot Point by Kasie West!
What is the worst book you have ever read and why?
For me it was Pivot Point by Kasie West!
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The Crying of Lot 49
The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg. Lackluster, contrived murder mystery with a full paragraph about the main character putting on pantyhose. I died a little.
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I died only imagining ????
Actually, I enjoyed reading it.
i am!!
Not gonna lie I absolutely hated Dracula by Bram Stoker. It was too boring I never finished it
Most of the ones I was forced to read for school – hubby would say his would be “the Kraken wakes “
Bright shiny morning by James Frey. Its a bunch of little stories all over the place.
How funny because I loved that book. I told my husband it was like having a machine gun fired at you, non-stop hits.
Lol I just could not get into it at all. I loved A million little pieces and my friend Leonard
I liked those too. I just enjoyed the fast pace in BSM.
I think that’s exactly what I didn’t like. I felt like it jumped all over the place and by the time it got back on point to one story my mind was all twisted and stuck in another one lol
Wuthering Heights, by far the worst novel I’ve ever read.
It’s my book I read if I’m having a hard time getting to sleep ? ?
Lol ? I wanted to tear my hair out by the end of it.
Darcy’s passion. I forgot the author’s name lol it was so bad, so so so bad.
Confederacy of Dunces. No sympathy for the main character. Plot was tedious. It was a highly awarded book and it was torturous reading it.
I hated this book as well but I DNF’d it.
You have to be from the New Orleans area to truly appreciate this book.
i totally appreciate your comment. With that said, I’d hope authors would write to be universally appreciated.
was made to read a book called World Shaker in high school!! To this day I still want to cry whenever I see it!
Me, Earl and the Dying Girl- just ugh I hated it so much. The main character kept talking about why he was terrible and how stupid everything he did was that it took away from the book and made me bored and annoyed. I actually marked every paragraph I liked which was only like 3-4 paragraphs. I had gotten super pumped for this book too, such a let down.
The Circle. As a book it was fine, it was thought provoking and intriguing, but I was SO annoyed with the main character Mae that it ruined it for me a bit.
Worst? Well, it doesn’t cross my mind…..although there were some I found boring or less enjoyable. For example, I thought ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ unbearably boring. I disliked Twightlight Saga. It got worse and worse.
50 Shades of Grey…because the writing was garbage and the research was poor
The Selection because America was so annoying I wanted to punch her in the face.
Red Queen because Mare Barrow needs to stop whining.
It Ends with Us. I absolutely hate that book with passion.
Catcher in the Rye or The Pox Party(The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation)
For me, ‘Catcher in the Rye’ was okay but a bit disappointing.
Hairstyles of the damned was a disappointment after the lady at the used bookstore swore she just absolutely loved it!
These Broken Stars. It was strange, boring, and barely any dialogue.
The Cabin by Natasha Preston. Just so much unnecessary drama. If she ended it at chapter 26 it was have been a decent read but the last chapter jist ruined it and ruined reading for me for a bit
Fangirl By Rainbow Rowell I just ill go into a rant if i even get started tbh
I FEEL THIS
awe I loved that book ?
American Gods
Rich dad poor dad. Totally useless
Labor Day. The story was nice enough, but how pretentious do you have to be to believe you don’t need to use punctuation.
Post mortem..
The Vow.
The Jewel – Amy Ewing
The instalove, the romance, I hated it ?
november 9
Jusy curious, what about it did you hate?
@Rachel i felt that the relationship was suuuuuper unhealthy most of all. but everything was very melodramatic too, and i felt like even though she was trying to make a commentary on insta-love it utterly failed because the relationship was poorly developed and like, they barely even got to know each other?? so that’s basically the gist of it
Too Late by Colleen Hoover
Did you hate it bc it wasn’t like her other books? Or just didn’t like it in general?
Twilight. ?
Beautiful Bastard by Christina Lauren. There’s like sex in every.single.chapter.
The vampire diaries! Worse because I was so excited to read it because I had friends who loved the tv series and I saw the whole series for sale at an op shop for really cheap, so bought all the books only to barely make it through the first few chapters before wanting to gauge my eyes out ugh, there are so many I’ve left dnf though, life’s too short to read bad books but I think that was the one that sticks out the most since so many people love it
Have you read the background books,sooo much worse, they have a bar b que in the 1700’s
Oh god, no but if it’s the originals then I learnt from my mistakes and just watched the tv show ?? I actually liked the tv show and I might have even been able to like the vampire diaries tv show if I hadn’t tried reading the books first, my Hate was too strong by then and I couldn’t get into it
oh god, I hope nobody says one of mine …..
The Selection.
Oh, yes. I DNFed that so fast, I almost got dizzy.
The Maze Runner by James Dashner series for me. The first book was fine but the second and third were just terrible for me. Idk exactly why but the quality just seemed to drop and it also had one of the most anticlimactic endings i have read
Yes the second was pretty bad. Never got to the third.
I pushed through it and i almost wish i had not wasted my time with it
Bad bad bad.
I don’t even care who disagrees with me on this but I hated Catcher In the Rye
I just finished Dead Upon A Time where Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Hansel and Gretel were all characters. It was meh. I thought it was in time for halloween because of the title, but, nah.
I think maybe, The Poinsonwood Bible. Or The Reader. I thought they were both awful.
Also Red Queen Series. It’s boring and meh
Twilight. 25 pages and I wanted to kill myself. Anything related to it or the Names Changed of Grey fan fic makes me bite my tongue on how much I hate it for a multitude of reasons.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for peculiar children! ?
Insanity by Cameron Jace. It was an Alice in Wonderland retelling, but it’s not written well in my opinion. Haven’t even made it a quarter through but I’m probably not finishing it.
50 shades of Grey .Rubbish ????
Shatter me. I struggled to get through Shatter me and Destroy me was even worse. And when I was 3 chapters in Unravel me I decided to DNF.
I just tried this book, couldn’t make it through chapter 2. The lack of commas horrified me. There were so many sentences with description, and not a single comma separating them!
What light ?
Dracula or Cujo. Reading them was torture.
the giver. ahh so boring
Edgar Sawtelle because of the last few pages ?
Eat Pray Love. Couldn’t get through it, it was unbearable.
Fifty shades of Grey…. couldnt finish the book and im one to push through to the end!
Me before you ???
Winter’s Tale. It gave me a headache.
The Circle by Dave Eggers
…I honestly can’t think of one. I don’t think I’ve ever really disliked a book! Which I know sounds strange, as there must’ve been something I didn’t like but I sat here for around 20 minutes thinking about this before I commented and thought of nothing. Does my Pre-calculus text book count? ?
Totally counts ?
Twilight. I regretted it due to the story was predictable. I only read it due to i was trying to fit in with the rest of my classmates and i still doi’t even fit in with them. I should have stuck to the books i loved then this series.. Super regret
More Than This .
Kept rolling my eyes the whole time!
Love in the Time of Cholera I did get through it. After reading it vowed to put down books I do not enjoy, there are too many good ones out there
I made it through that one but it was tough.
I disliked the majority of the Mortal Instruments series. I did read the whole thing, mainly for Magnus, and the sixth book was good, because of who shows up. However, a quote in the first one just stuck with me and ruined it, and I disliked Clary. So much.
The quote was “Clary wondered if there were any ugly vampires, or maybe any fat ones. Maybe they didn’t make vampires out of ugly people. Or maybe ugly people just didn’t want to live forever.”
YEAH that would be stuck with me too!
The curious incident of a dog at the night time
Nice to know how autistic person thinks but after five pages I wanted to burn it (hated my English teacher for choosing it)
I just couldn’t read it because of the language.
@Mary that too but I had too ?
Unpopular opininion here but I hated GONE GIRL. I couldnt even get through that book. I might try something else by that author….maybe
Only ones to ever get a 1 star rating
The Goldfinch. DNF’d at the last 50 pages. I just did not wanna go on. Maybe it’s just that book not her. I’ve still got The Secret History on my TBR.
Oh yeah! I couldn’t finish this either! Don’t think I even got half way – the only book I’ve ever DNF.
Everyone around me finished and I was like NO. I am hoping it was just that book. I hate to rule out an author based on one novel.
Yeah I can’t rule her out, but I’m in no rush to try anything else of hers yet ?
I’m glad I’m not alone though!
Me too!! I felt book shame because I didn’t like it!!
Agree
That bad? I have the book and was going to start it soon..
Jeremy but lots of people love it. ??♀️ we just might be the minority!
Give it a go. It is an interesting story I didn’t care for it and I think it could have been edited WAY down.
I would never tell someone not to read a book. The beauty of books is that they reach different people. That is why I have eclectic taste. The story in itself wasn’t horrible but I felt it drug on. Give it a go @Jeremy!!
‘Carve the Mark’
Good grief. It was abysmal! ?
Loved Carve the Mark. Sorry you didn’t like it.
It was a shame because I’m LOVING the divergent series ??♀️
I’ve kept the book and will try again one day.
@Becki yay ya I read it with the local book club
The hamdmaids tale and the giver are 2 that come to mind
The Cabin by Natasha Preston,
Eleanor and Park and Landline…both bored me to tears
awe :((( I LOVE Eleanor and Park. Makes me a little sad. I love Rowell. No judgement or anger here’
Maybe it’s my age. Lol. I’m in my 40s, though there are many YA books I’ve read and enjoyed. I did like Attachments by Rowell, but these 2 books were so boring for me. I have Fangirl on my shelf, but I’m hesitant to read it. Glad you enjoyed E&P though. We all have different tastes. ?
Idaho. The ending cleared up nothing. They teased the mystery and it was never resolved
Second place goes to The Zookeepers Wife, which became my first DNF at the age of 55
@Sue I loved the zoo keeper’s wife movie LOL.
@Jessica maybe I’ll try the movie lol. The pages on bugs and their subsections just bored me
Wuthering Heights. Just awful!!
Cloud Atlas just couldn’t get into it!
The Reliable Wife, hands down
Wicked. Last book I forced myself to finish. Life is too short to not enjoy your book. Too long, horrible things happened Idk. Just hated the whole thing
I think his books are overrated. I read Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister and had to force myself to finish
Three dark crowns (slow and boring), Truthwitch (confusing and boring), Wonder Woman (boring and was more a surface story felt like a debut which Bardugo is SO NOT), Passenger (slow), Shimmer and Burn (no explanation for magic system)
Gone Girl, I hated the ending. It wasn’t badly written, just a poor plot IMO.
Girl on the Train. Just a bunch of egocentrics with no morals. Wanted to reach out and slap those people.
American Psycho. Awful!
Dumplin’ the protagonist was such a selfish person that treated the boys and her best friend like trash. I hated that book
A Separate Piece. An entire chapter to describe a tree. Another chapter just describing a set of stairs. Awful.
Eat, Pray, Love too self absorbing
A Court of Thorns and Roses. Absolutely the worst garbage I’ve ever tortured myself to finish. Boring story, annoying characters, and the award for the worst writing style I’ve ever seen.
Wow and its so popular
So was Fifty Shades of Grey. Go figure.
The only reason ACOTAR is so addictive is because the second book is fairy porn. So unless you’re into Tolkein with sex scenes…it’s not the high fantasy book you’re looking for lol. Literary great? No. A fun read? Yup.
People love hype.
Natali Drake I didn’t like ACOTAR but liked ACOMAF, and it wasn’t for the sex scenes. I actually quite like the characters and Feyre’s character has quite an interesting evolution through the trilogy. She disagrees with being helpless and comes more into her own.
I think the main reason why people like the trilogy is the fairy tale aspect and the whole bit about of being able to land and “reform” the hot bad boy. Rhysand as a character is quite charming, though a bit too “smooth” for my personal taste ?
@Elisa I’m not going to pretend I liked ACOMAF for anything more than Rhys’ charm and the fun friendship between him and his inner circle lol. I also liked that SJM turned things around with Tamlin and showed him up for the controlling selfish man that he was!
I LOVE ACOTAR! I skipped any scene that was remotely inappropriate. That being said, I skipped quite a lot. I loved the style of her writing, and her compelling characters. It was definitely not anything with what you stated. I’m not mad, just saying my opinion. ?
Fifty shades seriously awful…
Life before man was pretty dull too.
Twilight series! Anddddddd, wuthering heights! ?
The Notebook by Nicolas Sparks. Absolutely HORRIBLE. I hate romance for one, but honestly, I thought his writing was horrible. There was nothing to stimulate the brain. And the storyline was terribleeeee ughhhh. I couldn’t stand it
I read The Notebook when I was around 11 or 12. It still stands as one of the worst books I have ever read.
That’s one of the few movies I liked more than the book
Fifty shades. Do I really need to explain why?
Stargirl
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Giver (actually liked the movie though)
Fahrenheit 451
Coincidentally ones I had to read for school
Haha these are some of my favorite books, especially the giver ?
I loved Stargirl, Mockingjay, and the Giver.
I really like Fahrenheit 451
oops. you said to Kill a Mockingbird, not Movkingjay.
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
All the bright places by Jennifer Niven. I hated that book it was so boring and to me unrealistic, totally overrated.
ahhh!! makes me sad ? no judgement or anger here though.
Roommates by Kimmy Hers.
Torturous.
I don’t remember the name but it was bad because of editing rather than the content. But I don’t remember the content because the editing made no sense – wor@&
I wouldn’t say that’s the worst book, but I didn’t like it that much either :/
the worst book I ever read was a self-published piece of shit. I knew the author on a fairly personal basis and she asked me to read and review her book. There were grammar errors (no, not typos because no self-respecting human would make those mistakes) on nearly every page, and I swear I’m not exaggerating. There were even mistakes in the dedication and acknowledgments for crying out loud! And supposedly three of her friends edited the book! I emailed her when I was done and was like, “dude I can’t review this because there’s no way I can give you a good rating because of all these mistakes”. I blamed the editors and grammar mistakes although the writing and story itself were far from great as well. I’m pretty sure I lost brain cells reading that “book”. end rant 🙂
The absolute worst thing I have ever read was Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton. Dear God, that book. Notable runners up include The Historian by Kostava, The Pearl by Steinbeck, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and People’s History of the United States.
I had to read the Pearl for school, I didn’t enjoy it. After my teacher said all these symbols, foreshadowing, and themes, I enjoyed it a little more.
I loved Ethan Frome. Made me cry.
Not a book, but novella–Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad. I thought it was murky and dull.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin is up there as one of the worst, too. Really sappy, IMO. And very racially stereotypical–of course, it was written in the mid-1800s. But still…
The Sound and the Fury, The Great Gatsby
Pride and Prejudice (any Jane Austen)
Fifty Shades of Grey
The Crucible -.-
Aleph by Paolo Coelho. I have always loved his books, but this one was utterly boring and kind of stupid.
Catcher in the rye -_-
Life after life by Kate Atkinson. Hate that book.
Blood Stain by Peter Lalor
Beautiful Bastard by Christina Lauren and Sweet Evil by Wendy Higgins
The longest ride nicholas spark
Every book by Nicholas Spark. Weak plot, predictable, tedious.
Fifty Shades of Grey was okay but Fifty shades darker was just a torture.
the circus of the earth and the air by Brooke Stevens What a terrible, incredibly long dribble this is.
Damon Runyon because it’s hard to understand the language used
Catcher in the Rye…just horrible.