What is the worst book you have ever read?

deadaccountrip 2019-01-10 01:23:56 UTC #106

I thought it was going to be a parody.

It was not a parody.

Nail 2019-01-10 02:01:49 UTC #107

When I was a kid I had a dream in which I was looking exactly like this, but I also had a machine gun installed in my pointing finger, so I could shoot things by pointing on them. I'm missing those times...

lunaartemisasama 2019-01-10 02:33:16 UTC #108

One by Blue Jeans, he is a Spanish writer. Truth to be told he´s not bad, probably a Wattpad level of good writer... but I hate one of his books were everything turned out to be a story inside a story...like all the book not just a chapter >_>, give me back my feelings!!. I wished the last chapter never existed.

Just mentioning the ones I was able to read until the end just because I wanted to and it was not a homework.

vfinnigan 2019-01-10 04:00:09 UTC #109

I usually don't waste my time with books I don't like. There were some books I put down in disgust within one or two sentences. Twilight and Atlas Shrugged being examples.

There was one story that utterly broke my heart. It had so much promise, as something combining elements of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings would normally make me geek out. Unfortunately, the writer's grasp of grammar and punctuation was so bad, it actually made me cry. I wanted so badly to like it, and I couldn't.

But all that is fun and fluffy compared to The Miracle Mineral Supplement of the 21st Century. I am only grateful that I didn't actually buy it and put money into the writers' coffers. The only reason I got through it was pure morbid, medical curiosity and trying to figure out what this Dr. Tom Hesselink's medical specialty is, that he'd contribute to a book about one single compound that can supposedly cure a whole bunch of unrelated and incurable diseases, from autism to AIDS.

The "supplement"? Highly concentrated industrial bleach, taken orally, in an enema, or by IV.

I'm half tempted to write a review, saying, "I had systemic lupus, with pain so bad, it limited my mobility. Then I followed the MMS protocol. Glory, Hallelujah! I can hear the angels singing! This really is a miracle! All symptoms of this incurable disease are gone. Of course, my pulse is, too...."

Nail 2019-01-10 04:08:47 UTC #110

There's a youtube channel "Myles Power" dedicated to debunking pseudo medical stuff like this. He also does corresponding books reviews. Can recommend to watch.

tylerpowell09 2019-01-10 05:24:37 UTC #111

The House on Mango Street.

vfinnigan 2019-01-10 18:29:30 UTC #112

I forgot to mention the Communist Manifesto. The only reason I got through that was because it was required reading for political philosophy.

ZBExtreme 2019-01-10 19:47:53 UTC #113

The dog stars, it was extremely disappointing to read this book, it was like "I am the legend", but without all that is good and interesting in it, only the sex scenes that are interesting in the rest is a great succession of wasted time.

unknown_user 2019-01-10 20:05:07 UTC #114

@MantaSei You've made my evening with those pterodactyl and horse
I have already started to ship them unintentionally

@Nail Your dream is the best dream ever

Thanks you both for good laugh

Nail 2019-01-11 13:15:54 UTC #115

Considering bad books, here's something I want to share. The book is:

Here's a video on it by Fredrik Knudsen:

And here's him reading chapters of it in a livestream:

Overall, it's kind of sad, but at the same time fascinating. I'm looking forward on purchasing it, nevertheless.

minerrale 2019-01-11 17:52:05 UTC #116

The brother of my best friend wrote a book. It's called "Imitation of Juice Lizard by Jozeph Rat".
It's horrible. Completely, utterly horrible. The cringe is real, honestly... If I didn't know the guy I'd say "put him behind bars as prevention", so terrible it is. As a matter of fact, I know the guy, and it makes it even worse...

silverraven0 2019-01-11 18:11:51 UTC #117

I bought the black beauty book (translated version) but I still haven't read it for a long time now... Is it really bad?

Luminosophy 2019-01-11 18:23:31 UTC #118

Since it's been necro'd I'll add a less uh.. dramatic one.

Any "how to draw manga" book. I know I know, they aren't novels. But they also universally fail at the task they set out to achieve, which is proper instruction on the topic of learning to draw. If you want to learn how to draw, the only instruction you need is on observational skills/ techniques and real life study. Style is completely arbitrary and so ridiculously easy to pick up that most have one before they've learned how to draw a face. (These books were largely pumped out to cash in on the anime craze during the 90's, and the most prolific author of the genre has been caught using some rather shady practices concerning guest artists in his books.)

Pan 2019-01-11 20:08:10 UTC #119

I read that one back in middle school, what a depressing piece of literature

Aetoras 2019-01-11 20:48:53 UTC #120

I'd say it's okay. It's just that it feels like half-story, half the author telling you about their pet peeves and how horses should and shouldn't be treated and why taking Sunday off is important etc. But it's not really bad or anything.

If you ever read it I'd be interested to hear what you think.

Lady_DarkStar 2019-02-16 17:02:21 UTC #121

A couple of years ago I reread and read for the first time in some cases everything Louisa May Alcott Wrote. Way. Too. Damn. Preachy. I remember going WTF? for the few books I had read as a child. I didn't notice it as a child, but as an adult, it left a really bad taste in my mouth.

spicy_sweets 2019-02-16 20:28:30 UTC #122

There's a book on wattpad that's pretty big. I used to be into it, but realized how horrid some of the relationships were made out to be. It was called My Wattpad Love.

vfinnigan 2019-02-19 18:35:50 UTC #123

Noooo! Don't encourage him!

NickRowler 2019-02-19 22:51:32 UTC #124

I don't think I posted on this forum, but heck...

The worse book I've ever read is TTFN by Lauren Myracle, also known as the 2nd book in the Internet Girls series.

The gimmick of this book is that the whole thing is written as an IM chat board, which is more obnoxious than clever. A lot of the sentences are broken English and the tone is for very young kids. The three girls are all extremely unlikable, they are all awful in their own ways but they are written as the victims. The series came under a lot of fire due to the mature themes in the book. Despite being written on a 5th grade reading level, the girls talk about stuff like blowjobs and doing drugs. I found the book extremely unpleasant to read and I recommend people avoid it.

QueenofBabyLoon 2019-02-19 23:28:21 UTC #125

I guess that would be "Lolita" by Nabokov. I can just imagine the collective gasp, right now. Who dares criticise the grand, the amazing, the flabbergasting Nabokov?!

Truth be said, Nabokov charms readers with the fact that he unapologetically explores the dark side of the human soul. He is rock'n'roll, born to be censured and oppressed. Truth being said, when I read "Lolita", it gave me a lot of courage. Gee whizz, I can write too if this is what society desires. It is considered that Nabokov has absolutely impressive style. And yet, what I see is an overuse of figures of speech, a twisting of stereotypes and cliches. I will give you an example. The celebrated: "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul." How many of us have written such platitudes? Mind you, we don't have a herd of rabid admirers demanding the Nobel Prize of Literature for us.

If I want a safe trip to the dark side and to be seduced by perversion, I will go for "Paradise Lost". No offense to Nabokov or anything, but they did it better in the 17th Century.