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[Chromie]

Twilight, I read it before it was popular and I don't see how it become so popular. At least Harry Potter was good.

[TheMufflon]

It's a tie between The Crystal Shard by RA Salvatore and Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.

[LadyJaneGrey]

Wicked: an intriguing concept filled with many moments of "author's on the way to making an interesting social/political/philosophical comment" - but they rarely come through. 

Wuthering Heights: wanted to stab every character repeatedly and then shove them all off a cliff.  <_<

The Shack: amazing what one will do to humor a future in-law; if I didn't know better, I'd say she was trolling me. 

Edit: obviously, I'm ignoring my sig today. 

Modifié par LadyJaneGrey, 19 août 2011 - 08:46 .

[GreedIgnored]

Ringo12 wrote...

Twilight, I read it before it was popular and I don't see how it become so popular. At least Harry Potter was good.

My friend in middle school loved it and I decided to ask to her to lend it to me to read and worst mistake I ever made. she was hooked and I felt liek vomiting

[Cutlass Jack]

I can't think of many books I hated yet still actually finished.

Blade Runner 2 was certainly one of them. The other thread brought back that repressed memory earlier.

[addiction21]

Dune Messiah and God Emperor of Dune. The only books I can ever remember forcing myself to finish,

Alse The Wasteland by King because I had to wait for many years to see how that cliffhanger ended.

[Sundance31us]

Cutlass Jack wrote...
Blade Runner 2 was certainly one of them. The other thread brought back that repressed memory earlier.

Same here.

[Anarya]

LadyJaneGrey wrote...

Wicked: an intriguing concept filled with many moments of "author's on the way to making an interesting social/political/philosophical comment" - but they rarely come through. 

Wuthering Heights: wanted to stab every character repeatedly and then shove them all off a cliff.  <_<

The Shack: amazing what one will do to humor a future in-law; if I didn't know better, I'd say she was trolling me. 

Edit: obviously, I'm ignoring my sig today. 

Wuthering Heights is interesting because it has a reputation of being a great romance, but it isn't, at all. It's a revenge story and every character in it is unlikeable. That said, I didn't hate it.

I think I've blocked out bad books from my memory because not much is coming to mind, but I will say I thought the Wheel of Time series was AWFUL and Rand is the biggest Mary Sue (until Bella Swan I guess, thankfully I never tried to read Twilight).

[Cutlass Jack]

Sundance31us wrote...

Cutlass Jack wrote...
Blade Runner 2 was certainly one of them. The other thread brought back that repressed memory earlier.

Same here.

I think that book was more about how many obsessive details about the movie the author could reference than telling a good story.

[Chromie]

Cutlass Jack wrote...

I can't think of many books I hated yet still actually finished.

Blade Runner 2 was certainly one of them. The other thread brought back that repressed memory earlier.

I'm sorry

[elitecom]

The entire Rama series by Arthur C Clarke.

The first book was all right, since it pretty much just laid a foundation, but from there on things didn't go well. I simply wasn't sold on the whole "god" thing in the end. Also the portrayal of 23rd century humans as the same old power hungry beings, and living under a military dictatorship without the will to do anything about it, starting wars with alien species. If people are living under oppression it's been shown that they may well rebel. There's more to add, but I don't want to write a review so I'll stop for now.

[chunkyman]

The Scarlet Letter.

Hamlet.

The Terror.

[KenKenpachi]

Harry Potter. Damn Witches, wizards, and witchcraft >> It was a gift from a teacher, after the first chapter I took it outside, ran it over with my lawn mower. Twice. It was so worth picking up all of those pieces. And the most enjoyment I got out of the book.

[AtreiyaN7]

Oh boy, I format books, so...many of the books that I've had to work on have been pretty bad, and I mean worse than every other book listed in this thread. Hmm, let me find an example here...(this is from a manuscript that I recently had to format):

“Stop scrunching up your face because your nose was only an appetizer before I eat the main course, the rest of you. Like a grain of rice before a starving glutton I will gobble you up, Mr. Black Man.”

So basically, I occasionally have to work on books with writing that's 1,000,000 times worse than Stephenie Meyer's writing. EDIT: that quote was from a romantic scene, and it made me want to gag.

Modifié par AtreiyaN7, 19 août 2011 - 09:23 .

[Druss99]

Karen Traviss' Star Wars books after her first were offensively crap.

My mate gave me some vampire novel once, I didn't realise it was some sort of womany fiction. I really should have looked at the cover more closely. I gave up while in the middle of a scene involving a woman fleeing for her life it stopped to describe exactly what she was wearing and how good looking the vampire was.

[LadyJaneGrey]

AtreiyaN7 wrote...

Oh boy, I format books, so...many of the books that I've had to work on have been pretty bad, and I mean worse than every other book listed in this thread. Hmm, let me find an example here...(this is from a manuscript that I recently had to format):

“Stop scrunching up your face because your nose was only an appetizer before I eat the main course, the rest of you. Like a grain of rice before a starving glutton I will gobble you up, Mr. Black Man.”

So basically, I occasionally have to work on books with writing that's 1,000,000 times worse than Stephenie Meyer's writing. EDIT: that quote was from a romantic scene, and it made me want to gag.

• Sorry you had to read that.
• Oh man, that's fantastic!

[Remmirath]

I tend to block the memories out of my mind... but that would probably be all those dreadful Judy Blume (I think that was the name - something like) books a friend kept giving me when I was a kid - thoroughly unsympathetic characters, boring plots, and with nothing at all to recommend them. Apparently she liked them, but I could not fathom why. I only read them out of sheer boredom (and an unfortunate desire to not appear ungrateful; I'd probably have stopped recieving the things sooner if I'd just said I hated 'em). At least they were mercifully short.

However, it's a bit too easy to cite things like that, so I'll try to think of some I read more recently (and of my own choosing). Most D&D and Star Wars related books are honestly pretty bad, although it took me a little while to realise that was true of most of them. For the former, I now look on them mostly as humour, and for the latter I now avoid them.

There are others I thought were quite depressing, annoying, or just not my kind of thing - but I wouldn't call them bad. Maybe the Wheel of Time series; to me, there are some interesting things in there and I think it perhaps could've been fairly good if it were only a few books long, but the unsympathetic characters and immense amounts of filler really drag it down. The writing style also has some pretty annoying quirks. I stopped reading I think five books in.

I really didn't like Harry Potter, but I give it the benefit of the doubt because I think I read it a good eight years or so after I was the age that (I assume) it was aimed at. It was better than many children's books at least.

addiction21 wrote...

Dune Messiah and God Emperor of Dune. The only books I can ever remember forcing myself to finish,

I skimmed over large parts of those two (as well as Children of Dune), but the one I couldn't even make myself finish was Chapterhouse: Dune. They went pretty far downhill after the first book, sadly.

[ErichHartmann]

Catcher in the Rye - self indulgent, unsympathetic, whiny main character who I could care less about.

[Volus Warlord]

Dance Dance Dance. Very weird and bitter author, not particularly entertaining and no real governing message whatsoever.

Cmon. You have to think of a better start than the protagonist's roommate who happens to be a woman of purchasable virtue suddenly disappears.

[Neesee]

The Twilight books are the only books I hate that I have any memory of reading.

[GOALISTAIR]

The Lovely Bones

[Dave of Canada]

Most video game novels which try to integrate video game mechanics into the actual book, it's insane and odd. Recent example is the Fable 3 novel which tries to integrate the good / evil alignment system from the Fable series, only... it makes no sense in the context they've explained and it's only there for players of the games to go "oh hey, game mechanics".