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[Cainhurst Crow]

Twilight, specifically Eclipse. Because its where the characters go from bland to absolutely insufferable and they start to lose what little cohesiveness they had. In a bad book series, this was the beginning of the bottoming out period. I never read Breaking Dawn but if I had, it'd have probably ended up here instead.

[Cainhurst Crow]

hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy I read the whoe collection and I thought I was getting a brain damage. It was so weird and such... I love marvin =)

 

PS what the hell kind of drugs did the author take!

 

I thought it was good and the absurdity funny, but as it went on it just sorta lost what little sense and rails it had. Then it went from being pretty funny, to weirdly amusing, to just plain weird, then to depressing.

 

It's like the author went out for a smoke break and Marvin finished the last 3/4 of the series.

[Liamv2]

Twilight, specifically Eclipse. Because its where the characters go from bland to absolutely insufferable and they start to lose what little cohesiveness they had. In a bad book series, this was the beginning of the bottoming out period. I never read Breaking Dawn but if I had, it'd have probably ended up here instead.

 

I've always wondered how people could read such garbage so far. Hell what little i've seen of the films creep me the **** out with the abusive and possessive guy and the clingy and codependent woman.

[Cainhurst Crow]

I've always wondered how people could read such garbage so far. Hell what little i've seen of the films creep me the **** out with the abusive and possessive guy and the clingy and codependent woman.

 

I'm going to say this now as someone who really doesn't like twilight, but has read the books. The movies took the problems of the books, and cranked them all up to 11.

 

Twilight honestly reads like a generic romance manga. Up until eclipse, where it starts to go into really bad quality and confusing aspects of the lore. Like vampires literally being made of crystals, and werewolves having a biological love-at-first-sight feature.

[Liamv2]

I'm going to say this now as someone who really doesn't like twilight, but has read the books. The movies took the problems of the books, and cranked them all up to 11.

 

Twilight honestly reads like a generic romance manga. Up until eclipse, where it starts to go into really bad quality and confusing aspects of the lore. Like vampires literally being made of crystals, and werewolves having a biological love-at-first-sight feature.

 

Woah ****.

[Verfallen]

Flowers in the Attic.  Just dreadful.

 

And even though they're really fast reads, I got about halfway through James Patterson's Cross My Heart before setting it aside in sheer annoyance.  Bad enough the whole setup is Diabolically Brilliant Psychopathic Serial Killer targets Detective Alex Cross as his ultimate adversary because of course he does, but his Brilliantly Evil^TM  plan is to -gasp!- kidnap Cross's entire family.  [Yeah, let's resurrect the going-after-the-family cliche so we can beat it to death again]   Which I assume he does, since the following book is apparently Cross running around trying to save his kidnapped family.  But I'm still trying to convince myself to finish the bloody thing and not having much success.

[mybudgee]

"The Bible" ...Just awful. Couldn't even finish it

 

2/10

[PhroXenGold]

Eragon.

 

Not that it's a bad book, obviously a lot of people love it and it's follow-up titles. I just never liked it, tried to get into it and couldn't. I also hated that one chick.

 

When I read Eragon, I thought it was reasonable, especially given that the writer was only 15 (IIRC) when he started writing it. It had some pretty big flaws no doubt, but I felt it was a decent first effort, and that as he grew up and got more experience at writing Paolini could come up with some good stuff. Then I read the second book in the series, and it made Eragon look pretty damn good in comparison....

[mousestalker]

The number of books I've read completely and disliked is rather low. That's because if I do not like a book I stop reading it and make the hurting stop.

The one that sticks in my memory is Cell by Stephen King. As with many of his books, it started well and then went goofy in the last third of the book. When he is good, he is very good, but he can mess up a good beginning worse than just about anyone.

The most recent one was Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. I picked it up because it won awards, but I really could not ever get into it. However lots of people do like it, so it's probably down to a matter of personal taste.

[Laamaa]

As mentioned before, Twilight. 

 

Otherwise, this one;

 

 

Had to read it for school. It was just full of cursing and I hated it in general blergh.

[PhroXenGold]

While they're probably not quite the worst, I'd like to nominate: anything by Shakespeare. Now, before anyone says anything, I think he was a fantastic playwright. I've probably seen 15-20 of his plays performed live and, with the possible exception of The Taming of the Shrew, (which is very much a product of its time and was somewhat uncomforable to watch), I've thoroughly enjoyed them all. But when presented as books, as something to read instead of watch, they are awful. Being forced to read Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer's Nights Dream and Henry IV pt. 1 at school was the nadir of my English Literature classes. Fortunately, the school did take us to see the latter two being performed which demonstrated both how good they are as plays, and how bad they are in comparison as books.

[PhroXenGold]

Well, I agree. They're meant to be performed... and in that sense, I love almost everything Shakespeare.

 

Yeah, just to clarify, I wasn't blaming Shakespeare for his plays being bad books. They are great at what they're designed to be. It's those idiots who set English Literature GCSEs that don't seem to get this that I'm bitching about

[OdanUrr]

I can share with you the ones I rated lowest at Goodreads:

 

- Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb

- Rule of Two by Drew Karpyshyn

- The entire Legacy of the Force series

- The Hunted by Grant Blackwood

[Fast Jimmy]

"The Bible" ...Just awful. Couldn't even finish it

 

2/10

 

Its super long and really preachy. And the ending? What an @$s pull - it makes ME3's endings look coherent and well thought out.

 

<looks for any approaching thunderbolts from on high>

[Fast Jimmy]

Also, I would add the entire trilogy of the First Law books by Joe Abercrombie as books I hate.

 

 

I hate them because I was so late reading them... and they are so bloody fantastic.

[Ozzy]

I generally enjoy most books that I take the effort to read (which is a rather low number these days, lol). That wasn't the case with Final Warning, the fourth book in The Maximum Ride series by James Patterson. It was preachy, boring and was the first time I actually felt somewhat disgusted and insulted by a book. The fact that it was the fourth entry in a series that I had come to really enjoy just compounded the issue. I haven't read a James Patterson book since.  

 

Also, I would add the entire trilogy of the First Law books by Joe Abercrombie as books I hate.

 

I hate them because I was so late reading them... and they are so bloody fantastic.

 

I was beginning to feel the stirrings of legitimate anger at your first sentence, lmao. 

[Dutchess]

The Third Kingdom by Terry Goodkind. I enjoyed the Sword of Truth series reasonably well (though they did get more and more weirdly and repetitively preachy with each volume in the series), but this thing was an absolute abomination. Such a long book (500 pages I think) and so little happening. Just filled up and stretched out with word vomit. Ridiculously long explanation of something simple I already understood before the character started on his rant, then the other character goes "you mean like *phrases long explanation slightly differently*", to which the original character goes "no/yes, *ANOTHER long explanation worded a little bit differently*".

 

Also includes a description of events from a child of eight years old or so in vivid detail. Like, author detail. Characters running and fighting and being so so so exhausted but somehow they still have long, long conversations while running but really they can barely breathe. Disgusting, drawn out fight scenes against lots of zombies. And plotholes. 

 

I've read the first two books of the Twilight series and they were awful but this Goodkind book is a whole new level of garbage. 

[Johnnie Walker]

Stephen King's Under The Dome

 

Only got this because of the TV show which I did not enjoy thinking that the book might be better. It's better in parts but the resolution to the story is a real let down.

 

The book was a thousand times better than that damnable tv series imo. I gave the book 5 out of 5 strips of bacon. It's so f*cked up I love it.

They introduced so much crap in the show that wasn't even in the book at all, they seriously took the title premise and redid everything else half baked. It really let me down because I finished the book way before there was talk about a tv show on it and from my experience, King's movies/shows do a decent job at getting it well enough. But Under the Dome show? Absolute crap.

[Fast Jimmy]

The Third Kingdom by Terry Goodkind. I enjoyed the Sword of Truth series reasonably well (though they did get more and more weirdly and repetitively preachy with each volume in the series), but this thing was an absolute abomination. Such a long book (500 pages I think) and so little happening. Just filled up and stretched out with word vomit. Ridiculously long explanation of something simple I already understood before the character started on his rant, then the other character goes "you mean like *phrases long explanation slightly differently*", to which the original character goes "no/yes, *ANOTHER long explanation worded a little bit differently*".

Also includes a description of events from a child of eight years old or so in vivid detail. Like, author detail. Characters running and fighting and being so so so exhausted but somehow they still have long, long conversations while running but really they can barely breathe. Disgusting, drawn out fight scenes against lots of zombies. And plotholes.

I've read the first two books of the Twilight series and they were awful but this Goodkind book is a whole new level of garbage.

Yeah... midway through the SoT books, I realized Goodkind should have the books two trilogies. Because he starts meandering and wandering around, using the plot as a threadbare excuse to soapbox. For an author that really sings the praises of Functionalism and Ayn Rand's vision of meritocracy, be sure made a long set of stories about a character who magically was the best at doing anything, ever, with no work or training required.

Because if that, I haven't picked up any of his other books, especially since they appear to be based on the fact that our world was the result of all the people of their world who were unworthy of working for themselves blah, blah, blah... spare me.

[PhroXenGold]

Oh god, I've just remembered what my actual worst ever book is: Watch on the Rhine by John Ringo and Tom Kratman. Now, I will admit, I do usually enjoy John Ringo's work as somewhat of a guilty pleasure. His books are crap, and the ideas and political ideologies they present are pretty unpleasant, but they're entertaining in a "turn off your brain" way. This one on the other hand...wow. I suspect (and hope) that Kratman did the majority of the writing, as it goes well beyond Ringo's usual stuff in terms both of how bad the writing was, and the basic concept, which boiled down to using an alien invasion as the basis for an attempt to present the ****ing Waffen SS as heroes.

[Isichar]

"The Bible" ...Just awful. Couldn't even finish it

2/10

It hasn't aged well

Somewhere EP is preparing his response...

[PhroXenGold]

To be fair, the Bible isn't a book. It's a collection of a lot of books from different authors on different topics. And as you would expect from something like that, the quality varies massively. Parts of it are perfectly readable and even somewhat interesting. Parts of it are utter tedium. And parts of it were clearly written by someone on some pretty impressive drugs (why, yes, Revelation, I am referring to you...)

[Garryydde]

You don't know the real bottom of the barrel unless you've read kindle exclusive unicorn smut.

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For the love of God, please don't.

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inb4 Recon jokes