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?

Captain Corelli Mandolin
life of pi
Harry Potter

Books I started but couldn’t finish

The Slap, horrid, nasty book.

Oh yeah, The Slap was awful.

Shantaram - couldn’t get past the first chapter.

How To Be A Woman - just no.

Cloud Atlas - kept waiting for a big reveal to tie it all together. It never came.

The Goldfinch - again couldn’t get past the first couple of chapters.

I made the mistake of reading another of his books, "Barracuda", awful.
I get the feeling the author is a truly revolting man.

Most of those blockbusters that everyone in the beach is reading
The DaVinci code, girl in the train, 50 shades. My most hated are by some woman who’s name I can’t remember, she’s written loads and they are all so formulaic, they have a kind of moral dilemma ( it’s annoying me that I can’t think of her name!)

@grumpy4squash WHAAAAATTTTT??!!!? That's my favourite book of all time!!

The Time Traveller’s Wife - just awful

Also, that bloody stupid monkey sister thing.
A whole book where you feel like you are in a boring, worthy, animal rights lecture where nothing really happens.

The Dome (Stephen King)

I agree with so many of these - especially Girl On A Train, Lovely Bones and The Essex Serpent. (But not The Goldfinch). Currently I'm reading Map of Days - the latest in the Peculiar series - and it is so disappointing. I'm angry! But will finish it so I can be legitimately furious.

If you want a crap book, trot on down to Asda and pick any one of the Christmas themed ‘girly story’ books. They will be called, “Breakfast at the little Christmas cafe” or “Snowflakes and cupcakes” or some other bollocks.

I read one by mistake a couple of years ago. Can’t even remember the title, but heroine got a job at a run down department store she used to visit with her now divorced parents and discovered a stock room full of pristine vintage stuff, which she secretly made window displays of overnight, thus turning around the store’s fortunes. Christ, it was crap.

Also, I read a terrible book called ‘I heart new York’ or Paris or something. I’m sure that reading it made me stupider, it was that bad.

Another vote for One Day. Can’t understand how anyone could read the entire thing.

yy One Day, I finished it but it was like root canal

That's Jodi picoult Nancy - immediate recognition. I quite enjoyed the first one I read but the second was like a photocopy.

The Man in the High Castle. The series looked excellent but I have a rule that if there's a program/film based on a book that I have to read the book first.

It was pants. Nothing happens.

Might still give the book a go.

Me Before You

I think Ive read a lot of these, but all the rubbish books just blur in to one & I can’t remember what I have & haven’t read

50 shades it's a mills and boon but a bit racier

Annandale yes that’s her! I read one & at some point I read a second, Midway through I was actually confused and thought I had read it before but it was a different book!

Poisonwood Bible. SNORE

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - writer was way overthinking as they wrote

The Sellout - how that won a Man Booker I'll never know

50 shades of poo

The Slap. I burnt it on the fire. And I love books.

One Day was also shite. Dice Man also shite. Agree with any cupcake cafe of schlock type book.

But I actually enjoyed the Goldfinch...

A Little Life - just awful
Little Drummer Girl - (any LeCarre actually)
anything by Kate Mosse

*series. Might still give the series a go.