To ask what is the worst book you ever read?

[Joey1471]

And why

I would say mice and men , had to read it for my GCSEs , so boring

I can’t remember the title, but after 2 pages in, I realised the prose was toe-curlingly bad and cliched, so I took the book back to Sainsbury’s to request a refund.

They asked what was wrong with it, and I said it was so appallingly written it was unreadable. They looked a bit surprised but refunded me without a quibble

Good old Sainsbury’s!

Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre.

Absolute pish...didn’t finish it which is rare for me. Made all the worse by the fact that DBC is short for ‘dirty but clean’. Embarrassing and pretentious.

The Eyre Affair
Not a genre I would choose to read, but was suggested at my book club. Well, I had to force myself to read it. Such badly written clunky nonsense. I couldn't follow who was whom or what was what. Forced myself to finish it...but got to book club the following week and everyone else had given up after a few pages, so we didn't review it other than to say it was utter shite!

I read a great deal, and I have hardly any critical faculties at all- I just devour books relentlessly, especially anything escapist; sci-fi and fantasy, chiefly.

There is only one book I have ever started and returned to the library unfinished, and that was a magical fantasy book by Fiona McIntosh. It was some of the most awful, clichèd dross I have ever read.

xTinkerhellx
I came to this thread to say exactly that - The boy in the striped pyjamas.
It makes me cringe when I think about it.

Cloud Atlas.

Complete and utter shit.

Have never persisted in reading a poorly written book so can't remember the worst offenders!!!

50 Shades, of course.

Foucault's Pendulum. Pretentious twaddle, dressed up as highbrow literature that is just boring as fuck.

Cold Mountain. An endless litany of misery, with no redeeming features.

Foucault. Boak.

God 50 shades definitely. Utter fucking gash.

50 Shades.

Room was pretty shite.

Lol all the 50 $hades nominations. What did you really expect?

Mine- The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs by Irvine Welsh. He's very hit and miss. Trainspotting and Filth are great. Everything else a bit dodgy.

The third Bridget Jones book (which a pp mentioned). It was so bad that they had to write a completely different plot for the third film!

How Late It Was, How Late. Utter shite.

How has Eat Pray Love only got ONE nomination?????????
I have fantasies about collecting all the copies and setting several billion dumpster fires.

Veronika Decides to die by Pail Coelho. It gives me the rage just thinking about it.
Heart of Darkness by Conrad. Absolutely pointless and the dullest book I ever read.
50 shades, heard it was shit, read 5 pages, now get the rage every time I read how rich it made the author.
The Faerie Queen by Spenser. Alright its a poem, but its about a million pages long and it nearly drove me to a breakdown at uni.
On Chesil Beach by Ian McKewan. Just utterly maddening.

On the other hand I love Jane Austen,Gone Girl, Time Travellers wife, Never let me go and many others listed here.

50 shades.... and to be doubly sure it was super shit i read all 3 and the Edward and Bella version

Anything by Danielle Steele. I tried one of her books but couldn't read more than a few pages; utter dross. Jilly Cooper is another author I can't read.

The Eyre Affair...so we didn't review it other than to say it was utter shite! Noooooo, it's beyond fabulous, funny and clever.

Some books I've only "got" when I had to teach the fuckers: "The Catcher I The Rye" and "Heart of Darkness".

My vote for unadulterated cack: "The Book Thief". Way too long. Stupid sub-Dickensian conceits, e.g. the "boxy" woman and the "silvery-eyed" man, endlessly repeated, and entirely unrelated to character or action.
Zusak is the emperor's clothes of Aussie fiction. Utter shite.

PS I Love You was utter utter drivel. I could not believe someone had been paid to write such a terrible book and then I read the author was the daughter of a former Irish PM, so I guess sometimes it’s about who you know

Oh and a book which got rave reviews about a couple in Alaska who adopted a girl made out of snow (or something like that, I’ve blocked it as much as possible from memory)

I didn’t hate Girl on a train though, just found parts of it didn’t match up with what I’d seen in the film

Most recently ‘The keeer of list things’

Vacuous nonsense

Keeper

Loads.

Life of Pi....dull, dull and more dull
Time Travellers Wife....ditto
The Goldfinch-had it on my kindle for ages, finally read it cos I was off work sick for a while after a hysterectomy. I preferred the hysterectomy. It as pretentious shite (the book, not the hysterectomy.)
The Alchemist, twee nonsense

Oh God! The keeper of lost things

(I’m not awake yet )