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?

Despite anything by Kate Mosse - overly long, tedious, sloppy, boring. Tried two, didn’t finish either!

*despise

The Slap.

Hated it. Despised most of the characters and wanted to give some of them a slap 👋!

Harry potter and the cursed child. The hype had me expecting something totally different and it was crap.

I can't remember the title, it was about a girl who was mentally ill and imagined herself living in a commune, but was really murdered by a serial killer.

Enduring Love by Ian McEwan

I've never been able to fathom why they made a novel if such a frustrating/disappointing/pointless novel

Needless to say I didn't bother watching the film

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Anna Karenina

the english patient
the great gatsby

So glad to see some mentions of Eleanor Oliphant. Awful story and kept reading to find out what the big twist was. To find out there wasn’t one. Extremely unlikeable protagonist and the characters are all half assed stereotypes

The Psmith books by P. G. Wodehouse get better and better until Leave it to Psmith, which is so disappointing that I try and pretend it didn't happen, and that Psmith lived out his days in America, having a great time, being an eccentric and formidable force for social good like he was in Psmith, Journalist, and also he eventually gets together with Mike and you can't tell me it's not true, I'm not listening, la la la...

Another vote for 50 Shades.
It lost me when 2 pages in and she'd 'restored her equilibrium' twice

I'm surprised quite a few saying Eleanor Oliphant, I enjoyed it and thought it was well written

Agree with loads of these, especially the PP who said The Crimson Petal and the White - awful, terrible book and constantly going on about various bodily fluids why?!? So unappealing. Called it a day after about 50 pages, life's too short and there are so many other books waiting to be read...

To the Baltic with Bob by Griff Rhys Jones, reading it at the moment. Supposed to be witty, laugh a minute type of book. I haven’t raised so much as a snigger. If it gets cold tonight I may well burn it to keep warm.

I absolutely hated The Slap. I walked over and put it in the bin which l never do.
I also hate all Cecilia Ahern books. Just don't understand the attraction at all.
I loved Of Mice and Men..for whoever said they hated it.

House Rules - Jodi Picoult

Basically the two teen boys in the story created a situation where a woman died and her body was dumped but PLOT TWIST they didn't mean to.

So that's fine then.

Judi Picoult is shite. The one I read had an abused child who indicated to a therapist that father did it but it turned out he meant a priest

Agree with lits listed;the miniaturist, 50 shades.

Lullaby really disturbed me and the ending felt incomplete so it felt gratuitous. I found it harrowing

I can't remember the title, it was about a girl who was mentally ill and imagined herself living in a commune, but was really murdered by a serial killer.

Was that The Lovely Bones?

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Ben Hur

I quite like a lot of these!

Catcher in the rye though is terrible. I detested everything about that book.

Thought lovely bones was terrible too.

The one book that has stayed with me that I couldn’t finish was Haunted by the man who wrote fight club. Truly horrible.

The Goldfinch. I read it on my kindle, so didn’t realise what a long book it was. If I’d been reading it in book form I wouldn’t have finished it. Hours and hours of waste that I won’t get back!

Captain Corelli's Mandolin.Have attempted it 3 times and can't get past the first 50 pages.I tried to watch the film but that list my interest too.
I don't know why as I will read almost anything but it's one of those books where you find you've read a few pages and taken non of it in.

Captain Corelli
Anything by Dan Brown
The Minaturist, bloody awful
Wolf Hall, just couldn't read it

Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough. An amazingly realistic psychological thriller that was hard to put down right up until the last chapter where it was utterly ruined with a non-sensical/paranormal/fantasy ending. It’s even garnered its own hashtag #WTFthatending