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?

Wolf Hall is the only book I've picked up and not persevered with.
Just found it tiring and too many characters.

50 shades
the cows

Oh yes I didn't finish Wolf Hall either.

I thought The Devil Wears Prada was poorly written although they did manage to get a good film out of it.

Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
The fecking Time Travellers Wife
The Lovely Bones
Cold Comfort Farm
There's loads I hated including a Liane Moriary that everyone loved

@BadgerWith Rice. Thank God someone agrees with me. It has such amazing reviews I thought I was really dense!

Les Miserables. Long winded and dull. I stuck with it because I hate to give up on a book but it honestly put me off reading for quite a while afterwards.

I now leave books unfinished if I need to.

The time travellers wife
Still haven't made it through the Goldfinch & A little life.
In A minority coz I enjoyed Shantaram.
Worst ever - Of mice & men

Lord of the Rings.

I felt obliged to keep going because it's a classic but it was just hundred of pages of nothing happening. I briefly got excited when Frodo accidentally disappeared or something and discovered the power of the ring. But then it went back to endless walking and nothing happening. Tedious.

Book based on a true story (I think). It was about an aboriginal woman who was a servant in the house of some rather unpleasant white people. She was actually quite likeable as a character but the writing was horrendous. There are only so many tones you can put vivacious in a novel without it becoming ludicrous.

Witchofzog Mandasue Heller is my guilty pleasure, but I wouldn't admit it in public

i loved 11/22/63 thought it was so clever but then i love time travel

how did E L james ever get published-ive reach much better porn how did she get away with that

billieandthesillies I came on to say Wolf Hall too!

Oh and Tom Sawyer-I swear it wasn’t event written in English. I spent a whole month trying to push my way through that as an 8 year old. Put my foot down when my mother brought out huckleberry Finn.

Oh and Ian McEwan Atonement. What a nob, that was by far the smuggest book I’ve ever read. He’s not much better in person.

Glad someone else thought Paddy Clark was a bit shit (ironic that he got the Booker for his weakest novel).

Fifty Shades of Shite - yup, terrible.

And for literary fiction, the Famished Road - couldn't get into it at all.

I read The Slap years ago. I don't remember it at all, but I don't remember hating it either.

I never got to the gross bits in American Psycho coz I couldn't get past the fucking boring list of designer labels.

I'll admit to having a soft spot for Christmas Cupcake books, but I 100% know what I'm letting myself in for.

The 'classic' that left me utterly cold, though, was Wuthering Heights. It's not a love story (as promised), the characters are vile, and I just remember being utterly bored.

I remember The Slap starting off OK, but deteriorating rapidly. I don't recall many of the details, but I remember thinking 'the slap' was increasingly peripheral to what plot there was.

The Amnesiac, drove me tomdistraction as I know the city it’s based in and all the street names were changed.

Game of Thrones, someone needs to get that man an editor.

Essex Serpent, so much potential, so little fulfilment.

Anything by Tolkien, again with the need for editing.

I give a book 100 pages before I give in but I'm less tolerant now and some books only get two or three pages

Not sure if it’s the worst I’ve ever read but I just finished Conversations with friends by sally Rooney today and hated it. It felt like it was steering towards someone dying but nothing really happened but what was most distracting was the lack of speech marks throughout. I kept losing what was thoughts and what was speech.

The end of Alice. Authors read Lolita and thought right need to top it. Just gross for the sake of being gross

The Secret History, utterly turgid.

i loved 11/22/63 thought it was so clever but then i love time travel

I just found it too long winded every time he fucked up and had to go back right to the start

I agree with so many of these!

I also recently read “Blood Sisters”. It started really well but just got totally bizarre in the second half. There were too many ridiculous twists it just stopped being believable or entertaining.