Worst book you've ever read

Brave New World:  We had to read it in school.  I rather liked this book.
 
 To Kill A Mockingbird:  We had to read it.  I didn't fancy it, or finish it either.  Plus they showed the film in class so everyone would pass the test regardless.  It must be quite awful if they have to do that.

[pip]

I can think of some textbooks I had that were pretty bad, but if we limit it just to fiction, my worst required reading book was easily James Joyce's A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man. All I can say is, thank freakin' God for Cliffs Notes.

[eros]

Never finished it but "Atlas Shrugged" was torture.

[ratioci nation]

cold mountain, couldnt finish it, was a gift
 
 could not be bothered to finish Infinite Jest or Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

[Venerable Bede]

the invisible man- ralph ellison (but i loved native son by richard wright)
 
 a widow for one year- john irving

Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon
 
 I didn't finish it.  It just didn't "snap my elastic".  What can I say?  I must be an idiot.

[sacriforce]

the one where the parents run a circus sideshow type of thing and they purposefully exposed their kids - while in the womb - to checmicals and radiation so they'd come out weird  and sidewshow-y. Never got into it, just sort of made me completely sick.

[sacriforce]

Originally posted by clouds R²:
  Ender's Game

sorry to have to tell you, friend, but you're completely nuts.

Originally posted by _Sexy Fitsum_:
 sorry to have to tell you, friend, but you're completely nuts.

I know that I'm crazy.  ENDERS GAME won all the major awards that year.  
 
 I just cannot see why.  It was a fucking book for children ferchristsakes!

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

Camus' The Stranger.
 
 Dostoyevski's The Idiot is a close second.
 
 I found Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance "ok," not nearly as bad as you all are making out.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I found the Bible exceptionally hard to get through. And some of it is a bit hard to believe.
 
 And never finished "White Teeth" by Zadie Smith. Got to the point where I didn't care about anyone in the book, or what was going on.

[sacriforce]

Interesting; didnt know about the awards or that it was for kids. but the fact that the main characters were kids and how insanely resourceful they were for their age (Ender's siblings going on national political message boards and starting shit) was pretty good story-tellin. Check out author Orson Sccott Card's review of everything
 
 
 

Originally posted by clouds R²:
   

Originally posted by _Sexy Fitsum_:
 sorry to have to tell you, friend, but you're completely nuts.

I know that I'm crazy.  ENDERS GAME won all the major awards that year.  
 
 I just cannot see why.  It was a fucking book for children ferchristsakes! [/b]

[Bombay Chutney]

Zen and the Art of Motorcylce Maintenance  

I'm surprised everyone seems to hate this one so much.  I thought it was pretty good.  Maybe a bit long, but good.

Originally posted by _Sexy Fitsum_:
  Interesting; didnt know about the awards or that it was for kids. but the fact that the main characters were kids and how insanely resourceful they were for their age (Ender's siblings going on national political message boards and starting shit) was pretty good story-tellin. Check out author Orson Sccott Card's review of everything
 

If ENDERS was Orson's best, then I don't want to bother with the chaff.
 
 Another book I hated was Discworld, by Terry Pratchett.  I figure that If an author has a successful list of sequels to his/her original title, then the original must, at the very least, be readable.  Neither Ender or Discworld was.

[sacriforce]

same.
 kinda inspirational, even.
 almost.
 
 

Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
   

Zen and the Art of Motorcylce Maintenance  

I'm surprised everyone seems to hate this one so much.  I thought it was pretty good.  Maybe a bit long, but good. [/b]