To ask about the worst book you have ever read.

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Title says it all really. What book or books have you absolutely hated and why?

50 shades was pretty crap tbh i couldnt ger through it, i generallycant read books if im bored by them.

Fifty Shades. I couldn’t finish it, it was just awful.

The Goldfinch. Everyone raves about it and I stuck with it believing it would get better!

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Eleanor Oliphant. Utterly dreadful, unbelievable and I have no idea why it’s so popular. Also The Goldfinch. Pile of relentless, self-indulgent drivel.

Twighlight was pretty awful didn't get to the end.

And agree that 50shades is horrific but in its defence, people who never read suddenly picked up a book albeit a terrible one.

The Da Vinci Code was pretty dire, and The Book Thief was tiresome, overlong and massively overrated.

The Lovely Bones. One of the only books I've never finished. I even finished bastard Fifty Shades!

The alchemist

My little blue dress. Supposed to be a satire but I think that was his publisher's idea when the author produced a pile of kack.

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter. Awful sick book which should never have been written. Took me months to get it out of my head and the graphic torture and violence.

Eat Pray Love

And One Day

Both an absolute pile of shite

Oh yes the da. Vinci code i had forgotton that one and anotherone by Dan Brown they were both dire imo.

50 Shades of Grey

Apple Tree Yard.

What a pile of shit!

And anything by Zadie Jones - poorly written crap.

Monster Love.

Graphic descriptions of child abuse apropos of nothing.

Probably something by Victoria Holt, in terms of books I have read and finished. I kept waiting for something to happen and it never did.

I also disliked the Bourne identity book which was nothing like the film. Bourne hits the heroine fairly early on, and later she says it's fine. I stopped there. Can't really be arsed with another spy-type who hits women and is excused by the narrative; Bond was enough.

Tommy's Tale by Alan Cumming.

I don't blame him, I'm sure he tried hard and enjoyed writing it, but what was the publisher thinking accepting it for print???

The most almighty pile of self-indulgent shite.

Yes the alchemist! Had sooo much hype. Was really predicatable

I generaly like Marian keyes for easy reading but a couple of her books have been really off i did read she suffers badly with depresssion though

Housewife in the North, set in Northumberland where I worked at the time, thought it would be light hearted entertainment. Threw the fucking thing under the bed in fury, what a pathetic moaning character!!

More than one

The Life of Pi. Rambling and long.

I also struggle with anything written in the present tense so Wolf Hall was hard going. Most people said they loved it though so probably just me.

The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. Just too much.