What is the worst book you've ever read?

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every single god damn book that the sh***y school system has made me read... also every single god damn text book i have had to read from the god damn schools...

I couldn't get past the first couple chapters of Moby Dick. I agree also about Heart of Darkness.

Anything by Henry James. His books contain some of the most ponderous prose ever written.

As for children's books, I think the "Stupids" series lives up to its name. I see nothing funny about being proud of being stupid and ignorant.

I'll see your "Stupids" and raise you "Amelia Bedelia." Jesus tapdancing Christ, she was an idiot.

I hate how Amelia Bedilia is touted as an AS icon. They take one aspect of her personality, literal thinking, and claim she has Asperger's.

Definitely "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" by Stephen King. Honestly the most boring book I've ever tried to read, I only got 1/3 through it before quitting.

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The Kingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches (Keeper Martin's Tales, Book 1) by Robert Stanek. I couldn't past the third chapter.

I'd like to add the Politically Incorrect Guide To... books. There's one at my local library called The Politically Incorrect Guide To Women, Sex and Feminism and it basically says that feminists are responsible for women being seen as sex objects and that all women want to be housewives and have sugar daddies. Vomit.

And don't even get me started on Robert Spencer's swill.

You know, I take this one back. It is hell to read and I probably won't finish all of it ( )...but I like the author's message.

Well thank god I'm not the only one that thought this book was a waste of trees. Poisonwood Bible you are not.

Next to the bible, Id say anything written by anton lavey.

Star Girl was pretty bad, but it at least had a good point.
My least favourite book is Red Plaid Shirt, a book of short stories. It is the only book I've actually had to put down because it was sooooooooooooo boring and lame. The stories were stereotypical and bland.

The Bible. Not because I don't respect it but because I don't understand it. Too many metaphors, and "thous", and "thys". And don't even get me started on the confusion that's Revelation. If God wanted to school us why did he make his course material so utterly confusing?

Outcast: The Un-Magician. Blech.

Jeez, Strapples, that's a lot of hate. . .

A lot of people who hated the books they had to read for school did not actually hate the books, but rather the "had to" part. Having to write a paper about something can certainly destroy it.

I always recommend that the person that hated every book they read for school to go and read them all again. 20% of them will be as horrible as you remember (Huckleberry Fin- yechhhhh). 40% of them will be good, but you will not really relate to them. 40% of them will pleasantly surprise you.

Please, please don't hate a book just because somebody made you read it. Some of my favorite books are classics that too many people are forced to read in school. Please give these books a second chance. PLEASE.

Putting in another vote for The Scarlet Letter.

"Passenger to Frankfurt" by Agatha Christie, one of her last novels.

In one passage, she refers to "South America and Peru", as if Peru didn't belong to South America; a German character keeps saying "Ach, so" ("Oh, really") when she means for him to say "Just so"; the French cabinet, having found that tear gas is insufficient to contain demonstrators, seriously considers using nuclear weapons for riot control, etc.! And along the way, Christie manages to insult just about every ethnic group and political faction in the world.