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

The Iliad. Gave up halfway through.

I had to study Silas Marner as part of GCSE English LIt and bloody hated it. That probably had a lot more to do with hating analysing the book and my horrible teacher rather than the book though.

A book I read many years ago called Let's Go Play At The Addams'. The last few pages literally made me feel dizzy and sick.

These threads inevitably draw people listing masterpieces as the worst they've ever read.

50 shades was horrendous rubbish. Still read all 3 though!

For a long time my local charity shop had a shelf reserved exclusively for donated copies of 50 shades

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy was so depressing and the 2 main characters needed a good slap.

The Lovely Bones - weird & equally depressing shit.

I also couldn't get into Lord of the Rings. I've tried several times, but no. It's utter bollocks.

Also a book called 'Camberwell Beauty' by Jenny Eclair. I bought it thinking it would be an amusing read, what with her being a comedian. I was very wrong! It was the most depressing book I have ever read. I finished it in the hope that eventually it would all come good. Nope.

I thought 50 shades wasnt that nad when i read it, but then i read something on the Internet, sort of like a screenshot of a post (i havnt been abke too find it since) that completely changed my out look on it. Something alomg to lines of it shows all the common signs of abuse according to American standards, i still have the books but i havnt been abke to pick one up since, i dont veiw them as a love story with a kinky twist now, i do see it as abuse/emotional abuse in a way now.

Oh and Memoirs Of A Geisha springs too mind as well, just couldnt get into it no matter how hard i tried, i still have it in my book shelf, might give it a second chance.

Moon People - Dale Courtney.
The usual fifty shades and Twilight shit.
Moby Dick , not the worst tale as such, but fuck me it's hard going.

@PoloPrincess - I think I've read that hen-do book, it's called In The Dark Woods or something? Girl goes to a long lost mates hen do, the girl who acts as organiser is super high strung? I got quite into that but then it all got a bit preposterous and I guessed the ending.

The Haunting of Hill House. It's just... Word vomit.

The boy in the striped pyjamas. Awfully written, zero compassion for any character. Not the slightest bit bothered when the selfish little brat Bruno dies.

The great Gatsby,I kept expecting something to happen

DOes My Bum Look Big In This - think by Arabella Weir. Absolute dross.

Girl on the train. I am glad i've found you. I am surrounded by people who raved about it! It was so badly written!

50 Shades

'One moment one morning'. Awful book, awful characters. Incredibly snobby and the author spends the whole book sneering at people who work in manual jobs. Nothing happens.

And if you leave a bad review on Amazon the author harrasses you to remove it.

The Devil Wears Prada. So disappointed after the movie (which I love!). Boring, self indulgent, the author is really up herself and once she started with the bigoted comments I had to stop reading.

We are all completely beside ourselves-I hated it. But know many people who loved it.
Couldn’t finish fifty shades-it was abysmal and appallingly written.
I adored the goldfinch though which others on here really dislike. Vive le difference!

Another thumbs down for PS I Love You, and for Wolf Hall and The Alchemist. But how can anyone not love Emma? And I unexpectedly really enjoyed Cloud Atlas.

Life of pi just could not get into it tried few times

The worst book I have ever read is "Sweetie" by Jenny Tomlin, it's so graphic and not for the faint hearted, it's about a pedophile and kids and I just couldn't read it, it made me feel upset and sick 😢

Of Mice and Men. I just don't care for John Steinbeck.

The Slap and the dreadfully written We Need to Talk about Kevin

I also really hated Me before you I am not sure how something that bad got published let alone made into a film.

I also did not like we need to talk about Kevin. I just thought it was so unconvincing. The one thing a novel needs to be is believable.

There are some books on here that I really loved like Emma and the Lovely Bones. The lovely bones did give me nightmares though so I can see why people didn't like it as it is very upsetting.

I happily read some absolute drivel, including things listed on here (50 shades) but I thought The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was painfully bad. I couldn’t bring myself to read the rest of the series.

Ice Station by Matthew Reilly. 1000s of pages of utter crap (I was on holiday with nothing else to read..) and ends up with radioactive mutant killer seals emerging out of the ice. Absolutely bonkers.

"What happened at the Barbecue" by Liane Moriarty. Actually it was called "Truly Madly Guilty". Hundreds of pages leading up to what happened at a barbecue - don't want to spoil the plot for anyone but what happened at the barbecue was SFA.

Jodi Picoult - some book about elephants. Pages and pages lecturing about conservation of elephants disguised as a novel. Some of her earlier books were great but she just seems to write formulaic nonsense these days. "Sing you Home" was also pretty bad - her attempt at writing a novel with lesbians in it.