Worst book you've ever read

[Barcelona]

Killing Pablo
 
 Got sick reading it, that writer is a fascist.

[pip]

I know lots of people love it, but I hated Infinite Jest. Supposedly David Foster Wallace is a genius of contemporary American literature and the book is a masterpiece and finishing and enjoying it is a sign of the intellectual superiority of the reader. But getting through just the first 1/3 was the most painful experience of my life.

[Bags]

The Red Tent.
 
 I did a customer review of it for Amazon:  "I can review this book in seven words:  "Biblical women menstruating over hay together."
 
 Blech, it was terribly written.  The amazing part is a lot of the negative reviews are all about how it's not true to the Bible, blah blah.  Oy, those folks are SO missing the point.

Originally posted by Bags:
  The Red Tent.
 
 

The movie version with Sean Connery was excellent, though.

[godsshoeshine]

anna karinina
 i really don't care about each blade of grass in czarist russia

[Sir HC]

The Cat Who Could Walk Through Walls.  As I was nearing the end of the book I kept wondering how can he tie this up in the 40 pages...30 pages...20 pages remaining?  Ends very poorly and makes the rest just that much worse.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
  anna karinina
 i really don't care about each blade of grass in czarist russia

If we're including books I never finished, this one would definitely be on my list.

Books I didn't finish because they were hippie crap:
 
 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert Pirsig
 
 Blue Highways, by William Least Heat-Moon

[BookerT]

i had to read "the good earth" by pearl buck back in 7th grade. i remember it being pretty brutal. but i still aced the test.

[walkonby]

glamorama by bret e. ellis
 
 what a waste by such a great

[Jaguär]

Originally posted by vansmack:
   

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
  anna karinina
 i really don't care about each blade of grass in czarist russia

If we're including books I never finished, this one would definitely be on my list. [/b]

I loved this book. In fact, Tolstoy is one of my favorite writers ever.
 
 On the other hand, probably my least favorite is John Irving. God, I hate his works!

[brennser]

Damascus Gate - hated it

Ender's Game

[Frank Gallagher]

Getting Divorced in Maryland

[renton007]

The worst book I read to completion:
 
 Zen and the Art of Motorcylce Maintenance
 
 Books that did not hold my interest so I did not complete:
 
 Tropic of Cancer
 Brave New World