What's the worst book you have ever read?

Aglaranna · Post by **Aglaranna** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 10:56 pm 0

The Pearl - can't remember who by. Six chapters of complete tedium. Add to that the fact it was an Eng Lit requirement....

Other than that, i can't say I give books a chance to rate as 'worst' - if I dislike it, I get rid very quickly. Disappointing, however...
Just about everything Eddings did after Polgara (and that barely scraped through), and the Robin Hobb books. I really couldn't care less if Fitz lives or dies.

PhilSmith · Post by **PhilSmith** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 10:57 pm 0

Can't agree with your opinion of Gormenghast, Muttley... but then I suppose it's a bit of an acquired taste.

As for me, though? Worst novel? Probably Elysia by Brian Lumley. A complete debasement of HPL's stories complete with shaky dialogue, bland heroes and to cap it all (gahhh!) a happy ending.

Fil · Post by **Fil** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 10:59 pm 0

Gormenghast is a bit of a marmite series isn't it. Although I loved the first 2 books, Titus Alone was far harder for me to get into.

Ratsoap · Post by **Ratsoap** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:15 pm 0

Fil wrote:I like the Gormenghast trilogy myself.

Worst books i've read have to be Mein Kampf, Hitler couldn't write for shit and Lord of the Flies.

I probably would have liked Lord of the Flies if i'd had read it for the first time now, but I had to study it at school, 100% certified way to suck the fun out of a book.

I studied The Inheritors for higher english, and it remains one of my faves.

Worst was the novelisation of 'Water World', how could it not be? Don't know why the fuck I ever even considered reading it.

grue · Post by **grue** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:18 pm 0

Ratsoap wrote: Worst was the novelisation of 'Water World', how could it not be? Don't know why the fuck I ever even considered reading it.

As if the film wasn't bad enough

phattslagg · Post by **phattslagg** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:19 pm 0

Kemper_Boyd wrote:Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice.

Not just the worst book I've ever read, but the worst
book I've ever read by a country mile. Astonishingly
badly written, and just about the only book I've ever
stopped reading. In fact if I've still got my copy I'm going
to destroy it in order to protect others from its purple
prose.

I absolutely *loved* that book! But then I was only 11 when I read it..

Ratsoap · Post by **Ratsoap** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:20 pm 0

grue wrote:
Ratsoap wrote: Worst was the novelisation of 'Water World', how could it not be? Don't know why the fuck I ever even considered reading it.
As if the film wasn't bad enough

In my defence, I hadn't seen the film when I read the book, but I had seen the terrible reviews it got.

betamax · Post by **betamax** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:56 pm 0

Night Train - Martin Amis.

Depressing navel-gazing waffle about a beautiful, fuck happy (but also innocent and intelligent and every other tedious woman-as-ultimate-mystery trope) young girl with a fantastic hedonistic lifestyle who is found dead, and one fallen-off-the-wagon she-detective's attempt to... I don't know, make us try to kill ourselves? An ugly bludgeon of a book, that tries haltingly to engage in sympathy only to crush it later in the eager rush to embrace the grey meaninglessness of existence. Or at least as far as peachy blonde corpses and spiteful selfish people are concerned. The ending is one big confusing sigh and the journey to get there isn't worth it.

Bah.

DutchLlama · Post by **DutchLlama** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:08 am 0

Rod_S wrote:The Photoshop WOW book.

*Looks* at his copy on the shelf

So Rod, when is your Photoshop book coming out?

DutchLlama · Post by **DutchLlama** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:10 am 0

Fil wrote:Worst books i've read have to be Mein Kampf, Hitler couldn't write for shit

You read that?

That's a crime over here.

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:19 am 0

DutchLlama wrote:
Rod_S wrote:The Photoshop WOW book.
*Looks* at his copy on the shelf

So Rod, when is your Photoshop book coming out?

I've got a five page Photoshop tutorial in the current Computer Arts magazine, available in all good newsagents with a cover disc full of the latest essential graphics software

DutchLlama · Post by **DutchLlama** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:20 am 0

Rod_S wrote:
DutchLlama wrote:
Rod_S wrote:The Photoshop WOW book.
*Looks* at his copy on the shelf

So Rod, when is your Photoshop book coming out?
I've got a five page Photoshop tutorial in the current Computer Arts magazine, available in all good newsagents with a cover disc full of the latest essential graphics software

COOL! Must see if I can get that from the newsagents.

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:23 am 0

DutchLlama wrote:
COOL! Must see if I can get that from the newsagents.

This is the cover:

Should be on sale for another couple of weeks.

~D4T45H4T~ · Post by **~D4T45H4T~** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:35 am 0

I read the book of this film becuase it had an amusing cover, and was only 50p in a chazzer shop:

It was shite.

shimeril · Post by **shimeril** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:47 am 0

The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. Read the first 3 books, then handed all 6 that I was given to a guy at workto sell at a school fete. I hated all of the characters so much I didn't want to read ti anymore.

Closely followed by the Da Vinci Code. What utter, utter, utter tripe.