Tell me a book where you said, "wow, that was blankety blank awful!"

[MrsMuddle]

Following on from the other thread, which books did you hate with a passion? I'll start with The Accidental by Ali Smith, and also Mr Golightly's Holiday by Sally Vickers. Both appallingly awful books, IMO. Next...

The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

Mill on the Floss (though possibly it improved after page 100, I didn't stick around to find out)

Oh and the latest Paolo Coehlo one, the Zahir.

stone diaries - yes not good, but i loved her other stuff. LArry's party - i think it was called, about a guy who designed mazes was pretty bad too.

Jodi Picoult Plain Truth - won't read any more of hers.
Tha Da Vinci code wasn't great either.

lolita;
can't get the creeps voice out of my head whenever I am reminded of it. HAD to read till the end though. yuk.

(Just finished Birdsong, sebastian falks, as recomended by someone on the other thread; best book I have ever read, I think I could start it again right now.)

oh yes the Da Vinci Code - 600 sodding pages, thought it was never going to end, and all that bleating about "the sacred feminine"

maggie farrell who everyone was raving about.... cant even nb title..... crapola

Victoria Hislop, The Island

Just terribly written

Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon. He's terribly critically acclaimed, meant to be a great American writer or something too. I've ovviously got no taste

I hated stone diaries too. I was sooo disappointed. First few chapters, fab, then dull, dull dull. for any martha grimes fans (richard jury series) don't bother her latest. Absolutely horrible. It is almost like she didn't proofread it and her editor didn't bother either.

The Da Vinci Code in number one place, followed by The Accidental by Ali Smith, then On Beauty by Zadie Smith.

glamourama by brett easton ellis. dreadful.

Perfume.

I hate this book. Pretentious, boring, pseudo-intellectual attempt to be meaningful. The f***g pigeon was even worse.

Carl Hiassen - Skinny Dip. Really really didn't get why anyone would want to keep on reading after the first couple of chapters. You find out who did it and what they did on page one, and then spend the rest of the book waiting to see what will happen to characters you really don't like or care about.

We Need to Talk about Kevin

Angels and Demons

At least, MIL stopped giving me all those romance novels.

Although, now's the time I need them. Thinking of going back to penning that sort of schlock. It's fun, it's easy and it sells.

My Little Blue Dress by ... erm... have blocked it out. That's 4 hours of my life I'll never get back.

We Need To Talk About Kevin...no we don't, the worst written book I have ever had to read.

The Little Friend by Donna Tartt, also known as the no real plot.

So far most chic lit books with the exception of Marian Keyes of course.

There are a lot of books I begin, don't get past the first chapter due to its utter sh*teousness and then forget completely about it, blocking out the memory.

Gods Callgirl by Carla Van Ray

Thought a book about a woman who went from nun to prostitute would make good reading ...sadly not, I wanted to poke my own eyes out by the end of it

morningpaper I am reading that at the moment and loving it!

unless by carol ann duffy

it was ok for a bit in the middle but really i got to the end and thought, what was the point of that, then?

oh and all jane austin ever written. anaemic laydees sitting around drinking tea and bitching in frou frou dresses. so not my cup of tea. thank feck for feminism.

Oh this is SOOOOOOOO frustrating. Read the thread title and instantly knew I HAD to post because there is a particular book I hated with a passion. And someone's already got there before me!!!

Anyway, may I just add my (considerable weight) to whatwouldjesusdo's nomination - PERFUME by Patrick Suskind. Absolute twaddle.

i have very mixed feelings about perfume

i liked the first and middle parts a LOT

but then it went crappy