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[AventuroLegendary]

I've read several bad Warcraft books. Most of them Knaak (lolraptorarmy) but one by Golden, War Crimes. To be fair, you give someone the job to justify one of the most contrived plot points ever to allow for an entire MMO expansion and I'm pretty sure she'd screw it up. Even for Knaak, a lot of the stupid story decisions are made by the Devs.

 

Aside from that, nothing. I just look up reviews to get disinterested or put it down at the library. I've managed to enjoy the books I was forced to read in high school. Yes, even Scarlet Letter and Catcher in the Rye.

[Voxr]

I've read several bad Warcraft books. Most of them Knaak (lolraptorarmy) but one by Golden, War Crimes. To be fair, you give someone the job to justify one of the most contrived plot points ever to allow for an entire MMO expansion and I'm pretty sure she'd screw it up. Even for Knaak, a lot of the stupid story decisions are made by the Devs.

 

 

I was really surprised at how bad War Crimes was even still. Especially after Arthas and The Shattering. Still she's one of my favorite WC authors.

 

Also I don't mind Knaak, I agree his work isn't as great as others, but he's done some good work.  The War of The Ancients trilogy are still my favorite Warcraft books of all time. Rosenburg though....Ugh.

[spinachdiaper]

Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. I tried reading it and quit halfway through because Melville would run on about nothing till your brain starts trying to stroke out just to stop the torture.

[AventuroLegendary]

I was really surprised at how bad War Crimes was even still. Especially after Arthas and The Shattering. Still she's one of my favorite WC authors.

 

Also I don't mind Knaak, I agree his work isn't as great as others, but he's done some good work.  The War of The Ancients trilogy are still my favorite Warcraft books of all time. Rosenburg though....Ugh.

 

Yep. I enjoyed Rise of the Horde and Tides of War so I was convinced that she could handle whatever stupidity Blizzard could throw at her, even the "Garrosh escaped and TARDIS'd an entire orc army" part. But she failed and inserted some silly parts along with it.

 

A lot of people are a bit too hard on Knaak. He wrote up the Dragonflight lore foundation and gave them character, which would act as a backdrop for lots of WoW's worldbuilding.

 

And yes, the WC2 novels by Rosenburg. I liked Turalyon and Alleria as funny hero units before...

[Voxr]

 

 

And yes, the WC2 novels by Rosenburg. I liked Turalyon and Alleria as funny hero units before...

Right? That's probably why we haven't seen them again. They're too ashamed. 

[AventuroLegendary]

Right? That's probably why we haven't seen them again. They're too ashamed. 

 

Heh. I remember when they were hinted at in the MoP loading screens. Oh, Blizz, you rascal. No one understands your type of humor.

[Voxr]

Heh. I remember when they were hinted at in the MoP loading screens. Oh, Blizz, you rascal. No one understands your type of humor.

I hope we do see them again tho.... They pretty cool. 

 

I miss'em

[TheChris92]

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.

There's something about Mafia stories that generally work better on film for me -- Miller's Crossing, Goodfellas, Donnie Brasco etc. Perhaps it's the accents and somewhat larger-than-life personalities, strong orchestral music or crime-does-not-pay that makes these stories feel generally at home on the big screen.

[Isichar]

Speaking of WoW books have any of you read the aspects books? I just picked them up and started and it's decent so far but the WoW books like many based on games seem hit and miss. I'm also curious on the book on Jaina.

[God]

Fifty Shades of Grey. 

 

Yes, I read it. I got bored one day during a tour and decided to read it. 

 

It really was that bad. That's all I'll say about it.

 

Ayn Rand is up there. Granted, I didn't take it seriously when I read her stuff. It was so bad that I thought it was some strawman political satire, and I was thus actually laudably entertained.

[Decepticon Leader Sully]

Mine kampf . kinda a wee bit antisemitic.

[leighzard]

Fifty Shades of Grey. 

 

Yes, I read it. I got bored one day during a tour and decided to read it. 

 

It really was that bad. That's all I'll say about it.

 

Ayn Rand is up there. Granted, I didn't take it seriously when I read her stuff. It was so bad that I thought it was some strawman political satire, and I was thus actually laudably entertained.

That series is so bad it makes the Twilight books look like literary masterpieces.

And yes I read all of them.  I have a really hard time not finishing books no matter how bad they are.  The only exception to that is The Fountainhead.  Or was it Atlas Shrugged?  I can't remember, but I can't read more than 10 pages of Ayn Rand before I fall asleep or throw the book out of a window.

 

Other bad books I was made to read in school:

The Island - Gary Paulsen

Manon Lescault - Abbé Prévost (and in the original French, no less, which probably made it worse)

A Day No Pigs Would Die - Robert Newton Peck

The Golden Bowl - Henry James

Du Côté de Chez Swann - Marcel Proust (also in French, but it doesn't make any more sense in English)

Bread and Wine - Ignazio Silone

Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (not actually that awful a book, just awful for the main character)

The Order of Things - Michel Foucault (blessedly not in French, but it was still insufferable)

 

I think the moral of this story is that I wasn't cut out to be a French major.  Thank god, I switched.

[Drone223]

50 shades of grey started out as twilight fan fiction, that practically tells people how good the writing is.

 

Spoiler

It's really horrible.

 

50 shades of grey is without question the greatest disservice to literature.

[Steelcan]

anything Karen Traviss has put out

 

and on a quasi related note, I do not care for To Kill a Mockingbird

[Isichar]

anything Karen Traviss has put out

 

and on a quasi related note, I do not care for To Kill a Mockingbird

 

And here I was just talking to someone about picking up Go Set a Watchman

 

That's a shame because I'd almost go as far as to say it's my favorite book of all time (definitely in the top 3 of my all time favorites if nothing else)

 

Ah well, different tastes and all that I suppose

[The Devlish Redhead]

I'm adding James Patterson's ZOO to the list of crap I have read over the years.

 

OK I got interested because of the TV show but now can't decide which is worse..

 

The book doesn't even try to explain why or how the animals do what they do, only that pollution and cellphones were the cause...  

 

The book makes huge time jumps and the plot is frankly stupid.   Has a lousy ending too, but once you've gone down the path they did there was no way to get a lighter ending...

 

5/10

 

3/10 for the TV show which shows levels of stupid I can't fathom.

[Ozzy]

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...

 

At least it spawned a fairly entertaining BSN thread. I was in tears on a few occasions.

 

Bioware going "We'll fix it, promise." and then doing nothing was kinda gross. I suppose it was better to just pretend it never happened than try to salvage it since it was such a piece of garbage though.

[NeonFlux117]

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. Such a horrific novel. Terrible. Awful. Hemingway is so amateur. 

 

As I lay Dying by William Faulkner. Trash. This guys sucks at writing. Like Hemingway, he's an amateur. 

 

Ulysses by James Joyce. Many people say this is the greatest novel of all time. I say, it makes great toilet paper when you're in a pinch.  

 

The Sound and the Fury by William "Scrub" Faulkner. They call this guy the greatest American author all time. I call him, an utter poop face. This novel SUCKS. 

 

The Lord of The Rings by JRR Tolkien. Boring. Terrible. Awful. This novel is horrific. I wish hack writers like this guy would go away and make room for the great talents like Daniel Steele and RL Stine. Hate this book. 

[Steelcan]

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. Such a horrific novel. Terrible. Awful. Hemingway is so amateur. 

 

As I lay Dying by William Faulkner. Trash. This guys sucks at writing. Like Hemingway, he's an amateur. 

 

Ulysses by James Joyce. Many people say this is the greatest novel of all time. I say, it makes great toilet paper when you're in a pinch.  

 

The Sound and the Fury by William "Scrub" Faulkner. They call this guy the greatest American author all time. I call him, an utter poop face. This novel SUCKS. 

 

The Lord of The Rings by JRR Tolkien. Boring. Terrible. Awful. This novel is horrific. I wish hack writers like this guy would go away and make room for the great talents like Daniel Steele and RL Stine. Hate this book. 

[Serelir]

I'm embarrassed to admit I read these, though I threw both of them across the room halfway through:

 

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

 

and

 

The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan

 

If you really want to torture yourself, I highly recommend them!

[The Devlish Redhead]

I'm embarrassed to admit I read these, though I threw both of them across the room halfway through:

 

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

 

and

 

The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan

 

If you really want to torture yourself, I highly recommend them!

 

 

Are they as bad as Zoo?

[Serelir]

Are they as bad as Zoo?

 

Haven't read it, but you're welcome to waste precious moments of your life read those two and let us know!

[The Devlish Redhead]

Haven't read it, but you're welcome to waste precious moments of your life read those two and let us know!

Oh no it's OK.  I shall take your word for it.

[The Invader]

Everflame

It had an interesting concept, a young boy raised by a village of humanized bears( think Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe with talking animals etc ), but by chapter four it goes to crap. It was like the author smoked a bowl, got the munchies and decided to let a blind chimpanzee and a five year old finish writing the story.

[Fidite Nemini]

 

 

The Lord of The Rings by JRR Tolkien. Boring. Terrible. Awful. This novel is horrific. I wish hack writers like this guy would go away and make room for the great talents like Daniel Steele and RL Stine. Hate this book. 

 

To be fair (yes, I am aware of the nature of the quoted post), Tolkien was pretty bad at making driven stories. The only saving grace is that he was so impeccably talented at telling the awful stories he made. And that he's lucky no one can accuse him of making overly clichéed stories since he pretty much defined the clichées to start with.

 

Really, if you read a couple good fantasy novels and only then start to read Tolkien, you're gonna have a bad time.