What’s the worst book you’ve ever read? Mine was Animal Farm by George Orwall
What’s the worst book you’ve ever read? Mine was Animal Farm by George Orwall
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What’s the worst book you’ve ever read? Mine was Animal Farm by George Orwall
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer.
I did like the host that she wrote though. But im undecided with the book the chemist.
Twilight is a horrible series, but worst book I read is 50 Shades.
I got about halfway through book 2 and i had enough. I dint understand how a lot of women have read the series more than once
The writing was like nails on a chalkboard to me, I gave up.
Wild by Cheryl Strayed or maybe The Land of Painted Caves by Jean Auel
The Land of the Painted Caves made me so mad! I adored that series, and that last book…I wish I could scrub it from my memory!
Worst I will characterize as disturbing: Lord of the Flies
Three Dark Crowns or The Bone Witch. Complete waste of my time!
Three dark crowns was terrible! I hate not finishing books, but I could not make it to the end of that one
@Tessa One Dark Throne is loads better, but I think it’s just because she set the bar so low with Three Dark Crowns that anything was an improvement. ?
@Teresa don’t think I will bother reading it though… hated the characters so much!
@Tessa they were so bad. There was no plot. It was a complete waste of time. The premise was so badass and I was so here for a dark, awesome book with some cool female leads. Turned out to be a garbage book!
Don’t think a book blurb has ever been so misleading!! It was so underwhelming its not even funny!!
Oh geez. Otherworld was hard to stomach. The Hazel Wood has concerning, toxic behaviors. The Bell Jar made me irrationally angry.
17 & Gone by Nova Ren Suma
Shatter Me/Unravel Me, Turtles All The Way Down, or Fifty Shades Darker.
Omg yesss I thought I was the only one who didn’t like Shatter Me!
I think it’s the most atrocious writing I’ve ever encountered tbh. I’d rather be forced to only read the Twilight series over and over again than to ever come in contact with the Shatter Me series again. The hatred is so real haha
I feel the same way! The crossing out of sentences and the most pathetic main character make me want to hold a bonfire and burn every copy of that book. I hate it so much! ?
Im with you both hahaha the writing bothered me so much that I could not get past chapter 5. Plus very very annoying main character, I knew right away that I would never care for her nor like her :/
Shatter Me was obnoxiously experimental
It’s not technically bad, because the writing was great, but Lolita filled me with rage
I have to say The Hunger Games.
The story was too slow for my liking, it had maybe like (it seemed to me) 25 pages of action and the rest were thoughts or Katniss hanging out doing nothing except letting herself be pushed around and honestly I just found Katniss unlikable.
For me to enjoy a book I at least have to be OKAY with the character- I don’t even have to like the MC (I normally don’t- especially if they’re girls) just be okay with her.
Ouch. Loved Animal Farm. I donno I gave up on a lot of books
I guess the reason why i dont like it is because i had to do it for school and had analyze the whole thing. But also i just dont like his style of writting as well
@Sam Its the only book of his I like. Comparing reading that to The Red Badge of Courage which I read the same summer reading. I’d take it a million times over. I took a 0 rather than finishing Red Badge of Courage.
I loved it too but I read it as an adult. I did the same with brave new world. Read it in school and hated it reread it as an adult and loved it.
I still dont like his style of writting even as an adult
Fifty shades of grey
The Hunger Games. I didn’t even make it halfway through that book. It was not a book that held my interest at all.
Fifty shades, fallen, twilight , the list can go on for awhile honestly
We Are Okay
The last princess by galaxy craze. Awful. Don’t read it.
We all looked up. Not sure who its by. I could not get into it at all and I didn’t even end up finishing. The worst one that ive read all the way through was Bleed Like Me.
A court of mist and fury but I liked animal farm
Yeah Animal Farm was … eh. I didn’t like Kite Runner (more like it just made me uncomfortable) and I didn’t like Catcher in the Rye.
The selection series! I like the first a little but could not make it through the others!
Throne Of Glass. Couldn’t even make myself finish it
Youre missing a lot of action. It gets only better
Yea, gotta get through the first book! The first one, it does get better. She wrote the first one really young I think and it might’ve been her first one if I’m not mistaken.
Nah, not worth it
I agree!!! I don’t even know how I read the first three books.
Revealing Eden
Princess bride
My favourite book ?
@Harri hahahahaha sorry my dude. I just didn’t like how long the explanations were
The time of the doves. Freakin awful. Sooooo boring. Read it for grad school.
50 shades of grey
Haven’t even attempted that one
Spare yourself!
I’ve planned onnever reading or watching those movies. ? I refuse
Enders game or lord of the flies. Those made me so mad its not even funny.
Ooooo tough one. In recent memory, This Darkness Mine And Everless.
Divergent books 2 & 3
DNF 2 and skipped 3 lol
The Long way to a small angry planet comes to mind first. Save me by Jenny Elliott. So many more haha
Recent memory The light we lost or based on a true story by Delphine De vignan
ACOWAR.
I was SO disappointed in this book. I was in denial for three days. It honestly felt like a ghost writer took over.
I gave it a 1. I enjoyed the other books. It wasn’t the pace that bothered me necessarily. It was a lot of different things. I wrote a very long winded review on good reads about it. It wasn’t up to par with the likes of ACOMAF or Queen of Shadows or Empire of Storms.
It wasn’t a book set in a war. It was… feel good, be happy! ??
I have zero respect for writers who will kill their main characters for the emotional impact then bring them back because they don’t want feelings hurt. I mean come on. Amren’s story was over. That was her perfect ending. And Rhys… so unnecessary. Just uuugghhh
That’s just one small aspect of the many MANY things I didn’t like I about it.
@Sara yes. I agree. It’s like she was asleep or something when she wrote it.
OR she was too concerned about the fans opinions when she wrote it. It’s like she lost her edge from the TOG series. She went from having no f*cks given to being safe and secure and treading lightly so no one would be upset. I mean where was the writer who ripped peoples souls apart? If she does that to the final TOG book I’ll just lose my mind lol
YES! *spoilers*
Amren should not have come back. And you shouldn’t be able to heal that easily from being DISEMBOWELED!
And she built up Feyres powers SO MUCH, and then did NOTHING with them. So. Disappointing.
@Sara RIGHT?! Ugh. Anti climatic at its best.
Acowar made me sad, gave it a 3 and was being generous lol. I love sarah too so it was hard
Fahrenheit 451
I can’t choose which one I found more horrible between a shadow bright and burning or a Discovery of witches, they both sucked so hard it took me like weeks to get over their terribleness! Ugh!
Animal farm or Brave New World.
Goodnight mr Tom is pretty bad not sure it’s the worst tho
I’ll probably get some hate for this, but I really disliked the To all the boys I’ve loved before- trilogy by Jenny Han.
I stopped on the first book when she ran a stop sign for no reason and got upset when she crashed her car?? Lmao like what?!?
@Kayla I hated Lara Jean for so many reasons and that was the first one ?
@Jill yeah after that i was i couldn’t bring myself to read anymore ? and i was so upset too because i really likes the summer i turned pretty trilogy!!
@Kayla what is that trilogy about? I’ve promised myself I’d never read a book by Jenny Han again ?
@Jill it ssoooo cheesy and if i read it again I’d probably dislike it a little more lmao.
Thank you so much! I hate that book so much. I thought the synopsis sounded so cool, but I was very disappointed.
@Amy me too. There was also such a hype about these books which made me dissapointed ever more
The maze runner trilogy, 50 shades, twilight.
The matched series.
The love interest was good BUT THEN PISSED ME OFF AND RUINED EVERYTHING
Allegiant (oh wait, my friends and I pretend that one doesn’t exist), Anthem by Ayn Rand, The Maze Runner Trilogy
I also pretend Allegiant doesn’t exist ?
Allegiant was terrible. I was so into that series and I am a big rereader, but a reread will NEVER happen. I also thought Maze Runner was terrible.
The entire Mortal Instruments series. I’ve been trying to read them for years. I even got all the way to book 4 before finally just giving them away and quitting.
I did the EXACT same thing… haha
@Dumas everyone is so obsessed with them and I wanted to get into them so bad but I didn’t like her writing style and they were super dragged out. I also found Clary to be annoying.
House of Night series ?
It’s a tie between these three:
More happy than not, the dark days club, and unhooked
Maze runner trilogy was so bad to me I could not even finish the last book ?
Edgar Sawtelle
Maze Runner. Only because Thomas got on my nerves too much in the second book. This book makes me scared to read from Male protagonists.
You really shouldn’t be! Ever read the name of the wind by Patrick Rothfuss? That is one excellent male perspective you get there!
@Tessa I’ll have to check it out if you think it’s a good read.
@Nena The books are long but absolutely excellent with some of the best writing I’ve ever read. I recommend it to everyone I know 😀
Name of the wind is on tbr list
Give the Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Ness a chance. It starts as a male protagonist but later swaps to dual perspective, male and female. It’s my all time favorite series.
@Amie will check that out ?
Managed to get it in hardcover
@Sam Cool! Did you just get it? 😀
@Sam I just got the anniversary edition and it’s BEAUTIFUL?
Mines the anniversary one too.
@Amie Great books.
I just tried to read Into the Water by Paula Hawkins and I couldn’t finish it. The characters were annoying, there was no suspense or anything to keep me engaged and it went on too long.
Damn, I have that audio from the library I was debating starting it today
I was listening to it on cd, too. You can give it a try, I just couldn’t get through it and now that I’ve given up it’s not like I’m dying to know how it ended.
I started The Alienist so I’m gonna roll with that for awhile. I like psych thrillers a lot but I give up on a lot too
Go set a watchman by Harper Lee the sequel to to kill a mockingbird bird ( my favorite classic) It just sounded like the rambilings of an old women , God rest her soul she died the year after it was published
Matched series. So unoriginal it’s almost as if you’re re-reading The Giver.
House of Night series ??♀️
Either TID or The Bear And The Nightingale for me! Both sooo boring!!!
the neverending story, I loved the movie so then i read the book and it was sooo boring to me
Beautiful creatures one and 2, I couldn’t enjoy them and I couldn’t finish them, they were soooo boring
I would have to say Moby Dick( the small version) Due to the fact that we only had the weekend to read it. (Had to read it for school)
I’d give it another go with the full version. I read it for school and actually enjoyed it. Though I’d recommend skipping the chapters that really go in detail about whale hunting haha.
Anna Karenina. There were at least three chapters in a row where the character thinks about doing farming. Doesn’t actually do any farming in those chapters, oh no that would have been too exciting.
Grapes of Wrath. Hated that book.
I read it this year; I feel like it had potential, but definitely could have been 300 pages shorter while still getting the point across
Fallen by Lauren Kate was bad but its beat by one story–but Cursed Child isnt a book.
Also, I read Deerskin by Robin Mckinley at too young of an age and I will never forget my visceral horror.
Deerskin, YES. Oh, wow, that book.
I was maybe 14 when I bought and read that book and I was NOT ready for it. I still feel nauseated thinking about it 14 years later.
sorry but ‘The Girl on the Train’ nearly bored me to tears.
Gulivers Travels.
The Twilight series
The selection series
They are such a guilty pleasure of mine, even though America is one of the most annoying female characters I’ve ever read
I get why people like it I guess, a cousin I always talk about books like it. I don’t like America either, there’re all kinds of books for different tastes.
Beta by Rachel Cohn
The gentelman’s guide to vice and virtue by Mackenzi Lee. Everyone loves it but I just think is really bad
It’s a tie between Grapes of Wrath and Catcher in the Rye. Although I couldn’t even finish Grapes of Wrath.
The one I disliked the most was the Twilight series stupid and boring
The Handmaids Tale. I had to read it for my A-Level English course. I found it so boring, but after analysising it I realised how clever it is. But I still hate it. I’m only keeping my copy because it is annotated to shit ? and I’m proud of it.
I can’t think of the name of it the book they based apocalypse now on a guy sails al the way down the river to find some guy named Kurtz and he finds him and Kurtz dies. What a waste of time that was although the old man and the sea comes close. The whole time I’m thinking these guys are best-selling author’s and I could write a better plot with my arm behind my back
Heart of Darkness. But that isn’t based on the apocalypse; it gives a gruesome insight into British colonialism in the Congo. So perhaps not what you are talking about.
@Jenn no they based the movie apocalypse now on that book. If you read my post. But thanks. Couldn’t think of name and it was driving me crazy.
Never heard of that movie, so I had no idea that that’s what “apocalypse now” meant. Glad I could help. The part that clued me in was Mr. Kurtz. Lol. Without that bit I wouldn’t have figured it out.
@Jenn I apologize for assuming you’d heard of it. It is a classic about the Vietnam war starring marlon Brando and Martin Sheen. Again, I apologize and j am grateful for your help.
No problem. Now you can see why I was really confused. ?? Glad I could help! Sorry you didn’t like the book. Hope you found something better!
Not to mention having only one shot himself in the leg twice good Lord
Hemingway. Sorry. Wrote old man and the sea
I hated Cat Scratch Fever by Tara K. Harper. The whole thing was basically all about how despair is everything. UGH. I’ve probably read books since then that I would have hated more, but I’ve learned to stop reading books when they start going for super-super-super-negative themes like that — and I hadn’t yet learned to do that when I was a teenager and I read that book.
That’s the first one that came to mind that wasn’t an English class assignment. 😉 I’m sure I could think of more that I was forced to read for English class that I hated more.
Oh, yes, also the Fire Us trilogy. (It’s post-apocalyptic.) I read that from the library about a decade ago, and that was THE series that convinced me that I needed to learn to put down books if I hated them, instead of forcing myself to continue them — it just kept getting worse and worse, which is common with books I dislike intensely.
Oh, and let’s not forget Raymond E. Feist’s Faerie Tale, which I read when I was in junior high school. That was the first fiction book I *ever* put down halfway through and never picked up again. (In fact, until the Fire Us trilogy — see above — that finally cured me of my unwilingness to ever do that a decade later, it was one of only two or three that had held that distinction.) There was no hint whatsoever that it was not appropriate for eleven-year-olds, it was in my junior high school library, the title sounded fun, and it had fairies on the cover. I finally realized that I needed to put that book down and never pick it up again (despite the fact that I had this thing about never doing that!) after the graphic rape scene started. (Shudders.)
The lovely bones
Vampire Academy
House of night
City of bones
Clock work angle
Sword and verse
A darking sacrifice
Graveling
5th wave
Red queen
Twilight
Across the universe by Beth Revis possibly the worst book ever
The bone faeries
The Storyteller by Antonia Michaelis
9th city burning by Patrick black
Ash or Ashes