"The Bible" ...Just awful. Couldn't even finish it
2/10
It's part of the reason I've became an Atheist. I threw away the children's bible and picked up a regular one and... well...
We're not going there. Go to Deviantart if you want to argue religion.
Anyway, besides the bible... I hated that book my mother tried forcing me to read nine years ago.... I only read ten pages, was bored to death and lost it on purpose. What was it... old yeller? Something like that, I cannot remember.
I wasn't aware Deviant Art was where all the heavy Bible arguments are occurring? LolIt's part of the reason I've became an Atheist. I threw away the children's bible and picked up a regular one and... well...
We're not going there. Go to Deviantart if you want to argue religion.
Anyway, besides the bible... I hated that book my mother tried forcing me to read nine years ago.... I only read ten pages, was bored to death and lost it on purpose. What was it... old yeller? Something like that, I cannot remember.
It's part of the reason I've became an Atheist. I threw away the children's bible and picked up a regular one and... well...
We're not going there. Go to Deviantart if you want to argue religion.
Anyway, besides the bible... I hated that book my mother tried forcing me to read nine years ago.... I only read ten pages, was bored to death and lost it on purpose. What was it... old yeller? Something like that, I cannot remember.
I wasn't aware Deviant Art was where all the heavy Bible arguments are occurring? Lol
They have a religion section in the forums, where atheists and theists kill each other for the lols.
I gave up taking part in it.
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...)
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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 EvilTM 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.
Don't.
The man publishes so many books a year you just know they have to be bad.
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
This!!!!
So much this!
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.
Smart decision.
Back to the HHGTTG. Douglas Adams was fantastic.. Those books were so much fun, and sufficiently weird to have repeat value. I love all of the original trilogy, There was a fourth book, I think called "So Long And Thanks For All The Fish" which completely goes off the rails and is weird even by the standard set in the original trilogy.. I like that Arthur Dent finally met a woman for a while that he could have some love with and yeah I must read these again sometime. They were fun.
Now the movie adaptation was utter shyte. The TV series was fun, the radio series was more fun.. For that you could use your imagination to fill the visual gaps.
BTW bonus question for everyone which do you prefer paper books or E books?
I prefer actual real books you can hold ..
Real books make good objects to slap people with.
Back to the HHGTTG. Douglas Adams was fantastic.. Those books were so much fun, and sufficiently weird to have repeat value. I love all of the original trilogy, There was a fourth book, I think called "So Long And Thanks For All The Fish" which completely goes off the rails and is weird even by the standard set in the original trilogy.. I like that Arthur Dent finally met a woman for a while that he could have some love with and yeah I must read these again sometime. They were fun.
Now the movie adaptation was utter shyte. The TV series was fun, the radio series was more fun.. For that you could use your imagination to fill the visual gaps.
The radio show - well, the first two series of the radio show at least - is the best of the HHGTTG stuff. But the first three books are indeed great fun too.
After The First Death, by Robert Cormier
... had to read it in English class. It was excruciating. Horrible writing style, horrible story, horrible characters and stereotypes everywhere. Every time I had to read a chapter of that thing, I needed to read at least three chapters from Without Remorse to cleanse myself.
Real books. It stimulates the sense of touch and smell more. Also there's something satisfying about flipping a page and not knowing what's on the other side you can't get from EbooksBTW bonus question for everyone which do you prefer paper books or E books?
I prefer actual real books you can hold ..
I can't remember the title of the book or the author but it was a book of short stories, all of which sucked. I often stick to authors I know I will like so tough to picjk a tru worst of. I will say that I was highly disappointed in the latest two book Larry Niven collaboration. Bowl of Heaven and Ship Star. Just poorly done and not up to his standard.
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.
Pretty much. I had an obsessions with vampires at some point during my high school years, and read through the series simply because of that alone and it was the series that people were talking about the most. Believed that the books were better than the movies, but alas that didn't end up being the case.
I tried to give both "Twilight" and "Fifty Shades" a chance before judging on hearsay but couldn't go through with it in the end.
The "Mortal Instruments" series was also quite bad. Never finished it.
BTW bonus question for everyone which do you prefer paper books or E books?
I prefer actual real books you can hold ..
Ebooks. Always running around with at least one 500+ page book in my bag was murder on my spine. 
BTW bonus question for everyone which do you prefer paper books or E books?
I prefer actual real books you can hold ..
I prefer to read a real book, but the sheer practicality of my Kindle outweighs that.
For me, all the top spots on this list would be taken up by the collected works of Ayn Rand.
Beyond that, however, I remember reading The Godfather by Mario Puzo a very long time ago. Maybe it's just because my expectations for what the book would be were conditioned by having seen the movie first, but I just didn't like it. I remember there being way too much tangiential stuff about characters and events I didn't much care about. Imagine if the famous baptism sequence of the original Godfather film had been intercut with montages featuring the life histories of all those hitmen who were carrying out the various murders. That's kinda what the experience of reading the book felt like at the time.
Worst book I've ever read? I think I read the first couple chapters of Twilight way back when I was in grade 8 (back when everyone was just starting to go crazy over the series) and to this day, it is some of the worst written literature I've ever read.
Hunger Games is rather ho-hum. The first book is decent, but the author just can't write outside of the arena worth a damn.
I also find a lot of the old "classics" to be grossly overrated and long winded. But I can say that I've actually finished a lot of the "classics"... unlike Twilight where I just want to put that out of my mind.
BTW bonus question for everyone which do you prefer paper books or E books?
I prefer actual real books you can hold ..
E-books just can't replace the awesome book smell. Musty old books are the best. Plus I like collecting books to one day have my own dream library in my future house.
Also, I don't have to charge a book.
Eragon. The worst case of plaguarism I have ever seen. It even has a scene copied and pasted in from an Eddings book in it. The author just changed 2-3 words in it.
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