Friends made a bet in a high school lit class on whether or not I'd be able to make it through all of the first Twilight book.
I got 20 pages in and lost the bet after repeatedly banging my head on a cinderblock. Sidenote: that was much more fun than reading Twilight. BS'd the class report on it but was still the bet loser.
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.
So I won't be labelled a snob if I say Lovecraft is also overrated.
Das Kapital, closely followed by Atlas Shrugged.
Obligatory Twilight mention.
But going to say Raising steam. not that it is bad by any stretch of the imagination. but i cant finish it now.
I would have to go with The Illiad although Great Expectations was definitely up there (which Sim mentioned). I thought it was odd because it was like a war epic which is something I would normally be interesting in reading, but it was just entirely too difficult to get through probably because of the 2000 year gap in understanding and language translation, among other things.
Although I have to say that despite enjoying the myths outside of the Judeo-Christian tradition such as Egyptian mythology and Norse mythology I've never really was that excited about Greek mythology for whatever reason.
I would have to go with The Illiad although Great Expectations was definitely up there (which Sim mentioned). I thought it was odd because it was like a war epic which is something I would normally be interesting in reading, but it was just entirely too difficult to get through probably because of the 2000 year gap in understanding and language translation, among other things.
Although I have to say that despite enjoying the myths outside of the Judeo-Christian tradition such as Egyptian mythology and Norse mythology I've never really was that excited about Greek mythology for whatever reason.
Great Expectations was the most miserable thing I've ever read.
More miserable than 1984 or Brave New World combined. It was just so terrible.
Definitely, Fifty Shades of Grey.... my god why people would suffer through a published Twilight fanfic and "Oh my inner goddess"....
But in term of erotica, still not as bad as some de Sade's works. Those were vile.
Fifty Shades of Grey.
Jesus, that was unreadable. I love how the author made ~70% of all conversations to be emails, probably because she couldn't write proper dialogues.
The dialogues during descriptions of sex scenes are worse than some porn dialogues on free websites. Inner monologues of the main characters are cringeworthy as well.
The story lacks focus and direction, and the main character is just terribly uninteresting (was this on purpose?). The second main character fails to be interesting, because besides his emotional issues, which are the entire point of the story, he is perfect in every other way, which really strips him of his humanity and prevents you from connecting to him, or identifying with him (as a male reader).
There's first person narration, but it clearly proved too much of a challange to write properly for the author.
One of the very few books I wasn't able to finish and I didn't even try the next two in the series.
Twilight Saga was an enjoyable read compared to that.
Why is that book a bestseller, I cannot tell. Only because of the spicy controversy?
Yet why what made 50 Shades so popular?
That is a mystery to me.
Yet why what made 50 Shades so popular?
That is a mystery to me.
Well it does get talked about a lot. I mean a number of people in this thread have read it despite disliking it X3
Bad publicity is good publicity.
Its sad since I do love to read bad erotica but not this bad....lol
I took it as the story of an abusive relationship... Yet the guy is hailed as romantic go figure..
A famous meme I read said that if 50 shades had the same characters and the guy was a working class joe it would instead be an episode of Criminal Minds... And not romantic... Again go figure...
I'll find the meme... Ah found it and a Picard version
These 50 Shades of Grey mentions reminded me of a book that qualifies among the worst I've read.
I haven't been doing much reading in the last few years unfortunately.
I did pick up the first Twilight book when my cousin left it on the table one slow afternoon. A few hours later, I put it back down feeling dumber.
Then there was when I tried reading the Inheritance Cycle a long long time ago. Kudos to the author for getting a book published at 14, then take them right back for some of the most awkward prose I've seen in a published novel.
So I won't be labelled a snob if I say Lovecraft is also overrated.
Boooooooooooooooooo, though I can see him not being everyones cup o tea.
GASP! People slagging Great Expectations? Not his best novel but I am a Dickens fan boy thus I must challenge all of you to a duel who hath slagged him.
50 Shades is the story of extremely rich guy who meets virginal female that's been told time and time again for hundreds of years. It's just a 21st century version of Jane Austen, which is essentially a Jane Austen story with sex toys and a Hollywood film adaptation.
50 Shades is the story of extremely rich guy who meets virginal female that's been told time and time again for hundreds of years. It's just a 21st century version of Jane Austen, which is essentially a Jane Austen story with sex toys and a Hollywood film adaptation.
Buuuuuutttt if the protagonist were not super rich and all it would be labelled a whole different kind of story wouldn't it?
These 50 Shades of Grey mentions reminded me of a book that qualifies among the worst I've read.
I have a confession to make. I own those books
They are bad. Lots of logic fails.
Boooooooooooooooooo, though I can see him not being everyones cup o tea.
He's good but I just don't get the whole "he's the holy grail of horror writing" thing..
Oh god, how could I forget this???
But it's a so bad it's good kind of thing. No shame. It made its way through many classes of my college riding club.
And it's still better than 50 Shades.
I've found both The Iliad and The Odyssey can be very dependent on who's translation you read. I just finished reading W.H.D. Rouse's translation of The Iliad actually and as a plain English translation it was rather enjoyable.I would have to go with The Illiad although Great Expectations was definitely up there (which Sim mentioned). I thought it was odd because it was like a war epic which is something I would normally be interesting in reading, but it was just entirely too difficult to get through probably because of the 2000 year gap in understanding and language translation, among other things.
Although I have to say that despite enjoying the myths outside of the Judeo-Christian tradition such as Egyptian mythology and Norse mythology I've never really was that excited about Greek mythology for whatever reason.
Everyone should listed to Ian McKellen narrating Fagles' The Odyssey. One of the best audiobook experience in my lifetime
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