I have just read possibly the worst book in the world

[Mrsrobertduvall]

A Cold Season by Alison Littlewood.
Disclaimer...I bought it in Smith's on a buy one get one half price, and grabbed it as the cover looked good.
It's about a mother and son marooned in a small Lancashire village with unfriendly locals...a bit Wicker Man-ish. And of course there are witch/devil undertones.
It is utter tripe.
It is now in the charity shop for some poor sod to buy.

See you and raise you! I read a Martina Cole once. It went in the bin, I couldn't bear the thought of someone else enduring it.

Thanks for giving another one to avoid....

Agreed. In fact I couldn't even finish it.

Cantdkthis again...I skipped through the last 100 pages in about 10 minutes.
Glad I'm not alone.

I bet The Slap was worse.

Oh no, the Slap was a literary masterpiece.
I actually quite liked it.

I read the tortuous first ten pages of 'Room' and I decided that I didn't care why they were there.

How is it a good idea to detail every minute detail of something in a room

Nope - the worst book in the world is, 'Pemberley' by Emma Tennant. I am willing to accept that the ones listed here are bad but this one is an absolute travesty and should never have been published.

Clive. Cussler.

I don't know, toss up between anything by Marina Cole and The slap being worse. I couldn't read either, they were both so awful, but is completely different ways!

itsatiggaday, me too - I had to throw Pig Island by Mo thingy in the bin - it was sooo rubbish and distasteful I couldn't bring myself to charity shop it!

Yes I hate Mo doo-dah and Martina Cole too.

Dean. Koontz.

Single White E-mail has to beat all of these. It is from the dark mists of time when people used to hyphenate the word "email" because the fact that it was "electronic" was groundbreaking.

Plus, it's really shit and predictable and the protagonist is annoying.

I preferred 'Room' to 'The Slap'.

Is pemberley the 'sequel' to p&p? I remember the author writing an article in the guardian after the Jennifer ehle version on the telly and being so so cross at her

Digital Fortress, which Dan Brown wrote before he improved his literary style and research quality. Yes, I know, can you imagine?

It is the alleged sequel: it is actually a pile of stinking manure disguised as a book. She should be ashamed of herself.

No no no. Women In Love is the worst. Huge swathes of German (fine if you speak German, obvs) and underlying - or rather IN YER FACE - messages that The Working Class Are Unbearable and Women Just Need A Good Shaggin'.

Never trust a man who likes DH Lawrence.

Mine went in the bin.

Twilight. Can only speak for the first as I wasn't silly enough to go back for more, but really? Finished it in a sort of "oh sweet jaysus this is the most utter drivel" daze.

I tried many times to read Anglo Saxon Attitudes which is a very old one but supposed to be funny.
It wasn't, well the first loads of pages weren't so I didn't bother to see if there was anything funny elsewhere.

Room lost its way after they escaped, it would have been a good short story it to drag it out like that! Agh

I do wonder how some shitty chic lit gets published, there was one in WH I saw this morning called cupcakes or something FFS

I really enjoyed "a cold season" - but I like anything a bit creepy. Hated "The Slap" though couldnt get past first 50 pages it was so so boring.

I couldn't read it. Pemberley I mean. I adore p&p so much that even entertaining someone else's idea of what happened next horrified me