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[Former_Fiend]

Worst book I've read would be a tossup between R.A. Salvatore's Homeland - one of the Drizzt backstory books, or Aaron Rosenburg's Tides of Darkness, the Warcraft novel meant to adapt the second RTS game.

[Linkenski]

To be fair there really are no "original stories". Just original ways to arrange the blocks.

Everything is derivative of something else.

Unless it's author has something Important on his mind and in his heart he needs to get across. That's the best kind of driving force for writers and authors imo.

Sure stuff mostly ends up being derivative because there is so much past work to be inspired by. There's a reason literature or even movies started out quite primitive and often banal, because they didn't have the higher standards.

We still see new works of art which deconstructed tropes and clichés. It's impressive to me how people keep moving forward when so much has already been done at all.

[Voxr]

Unless it's author has something Important on his mind and in his heart he needs to get across. That's the best kind of driving force for writers and authors imo.
Sure stuff mostly ends up being derivative because there is so much past work to be inspired by. There's a reason literature or even movies started out quite primitive and often banal, because they didn't have the higher standards.
We still see new works of art which deconstructed tropes and clichés. It's impressive to me how people keep moving forward when so much has already been done at all.

Well that's certainly true. I was just meaning, if you get down to the brass tacks. Throughout the history of story telling everyone has basically been telling the same like, 12 stories (not a definitive number but you get the idea).

[Dermain]

Worst book I've read would be a tossup between R.A. Salvatore's Homeland - one of the Drizzt backstory books, or Aaron Rosenburg's Tides of Darkness, the Warcraft novel meant to adapt the second RTS game.

 

I'd add all of his books (and a few video games) to this thread, but that would take way too long.

[Isichar]

I enjoyed a number of R.A. Salvatore's works when I was younger. Mind you I was like 12-13 at the time so I can't say whether or not I'd feel the same way now.

[Commander Rpg]

The Old man and the Sea, the most boring and worst book I've ever read. I read it when I was at middle school.

[Jehuty]

Some of the books we were forced to read in grade and middle school. Those were God awful. 

[Former_Fiend]

I'd add all of his books (and a few video games) to this thread, but that would take way too long.

 

I enjoyed a couple of them, but Homeland was the one I hated the most. I've never read a more indulgent description of an author fellating their character than that book.

 

Of course, some of his more recent books - my aunt keeps gifting me the damn things - I wasn't able to get half way through before putting down and never picking them up again, but none of them stand on their own, where as Homeland can kind of stand on it's own as a novel and is still a steaming pile.

[MegaIllusiveMan]

Mass Effect: Deception

 

So bad, it actually needed to be considered non-canon.

 

Plus, Bioware dropped the book as it never existed.

 

Edit: Ok, I haven't read that one completely. Just got to the prologue and it was damn bad. And the whole rest is bad too, so it counts.

 

But TBH, I haven't had my share of bad books... I'm a lucky guy or it's because I only pick reccomended books...

[Exile Isan]

Oh, goddess yes. I read the prologue and like half of the first chapter. I think the moment that he mentioned a quarian with just a breath mask on was the moment I threw the book against the wall- and never retrieved it from where it landed for like three days- was the moment I was done. 

[Isichar]

Oh yes! I've heard Deception was particularly bad. They did to it what Zelda did to that one CDI game...

[Voxr]

I prefer physical books to digital. Though I actually like to use my tablets to read comics on. 

 

The funny thing is I don't keep a lot of the books I've read. I make good use of my library card and I buy multiple books a year too. But save for the ones I REALLY love. I usually just end up selling them at a Hastings or Books-A-Million or giving them to friends and family. Cause I hate moving books and I sure as hell hate moving bookshelves. And I never lend books, it's always a gift. 

 

P.S. Thx Adama lol

[Simfam]

The Silmarillion.

 

Worst piece of dry crap I've read in my life.

 

Five times.

[Isichar]

The Silmarillion.

 

Worst piece of dry crap I've read in my life.

 

Five times.

 

Sim Sim Sim Sim Sim Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim

 

Have you ever read the Baldurs Gate books? Like seriously

[Voxr]

The Silmarillion.

 

Worst piece of dry crap I've read in my life.

 

Five times.

 

 

It reads more like a history book than anything else honestly. But that's basically what it is. 

 

I have it in hardback and I keep it locked away. It is secret, it is safe!

[Simfam]

Sim Sim Sim Sim Sim Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim

 

Have you ever read the Baldurs Gate books? Like seriously

 

I didn't even know there even were ones to read.

 

It reads more like a history book than anything else honestly. But that's basically what it is. 

 

I have it in hardback and I keep it locked away. It is secret, it is safe!

 

Hey!

 

I was joking.

 

I hope you know that.

 

Right?

 

RIGHT?!

[Voxr]

I didn't even know there even were ones to read.

 

 

Hey!

 

I was joking.

 

I hope you know that.

 

Right?

 

RIGHT?!

Which part? I've read it 3 times...

[Isichar]

I didn't even know there even were ones to read.

 

You lucky SOB...I picked them up when I was younger. I didn't know any better.

 

It's honestly some of the worst garbage I've ever read. You should totally read them. We can laugh at them together then Good times will be had by all. Except you as you read them, but you'll look back and laugh about it and thank me (or hate me...)

[Simfam]

Which part? I've read it 3 times...

 

The part where I think it's dry and crap.

 

Seriously.

 

I love that freaking book.

 

I was raised a Tolkien fan and I'll die a Tolkien fan.

 

It's honestly some of the worst garbage I've ever read. You should totally read them. We can laugh at them together then Good times will be had by all. Except you as you read them, but you'll look back and laugh about it and thank me (or hate me...)

 

Ain't nobody got time for that.

 

Have anime to watch

 

999 to finish

 

Chewin to beat.

 

Better books to read.

 

Turtles to save.

[Isichar]

Ain't nobody got time for that.

 

Have anime to watch

 

999 to finish

 

Yes

 

Chewin to beat.

 

Maybe...

 

Better books to read.

 

 

Better than Baldurs Gate? Unthinkable

 

Turtles to save.

 

Grab a bulldozer and knock down that evil bully House for me will you? He keeps trying to rip off turtles shell for like crafting regents or some ****.

[Simfam]

Who told House that turtle shells were an effective form of viagra?

 

Dude hasn't been able to pull a stiffy since he busted 6 nuts in a row that wet and windy winter.

 

#tragicbackstory.

 

Anyway as for bad books.

 

I'm kind of careful in a way since books are a big investment and so I just don't buy anything.

 

But in A level literature I hated Great Expectations with a burning passion.

 

If only the whole book was about Jaggers.

[Mr.House]

Who told House that turtle shells were an effective form of viagra?

 

Dude hasn't been able to pull a stiffy since he busted 6 nuts in a row that wet and windy winter.

 

#tragicbackstory.

 

Anyway as for bad books.

 

I'm kind of careful in a way since books are a big investment and so I just don't buy anything.

 

But in A level literature I hated Great Expectations with a burning passion.

 

If only the whole book was about Jaggers.

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[The Love Runner]

Mass Effect: Deception

Though I only read the rage comic since it made fun of how bad the book was. Lol.

[Cz-99]

Mrs. Dalloway. No other book has made me want to commit Sudoku while reading it as badly as that one.

[Fast Jimmy]

To be fair there really are no "original stories". Just original ways to arrange the blocks.

Everything is derivative of something else.

Simpsons did it.