what's the worst book you've read for a book group?

[lucydogz]

I love the book groups I've been to - they make me read books that I would usually never have picked up, but sometimes they throw up absolute stinkers. I thought the worst ever was the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, but this has been surpassed by A Memmonite in a Little Black Dress. Absolute drivel. I'd love to hear other's bad books

The worst book club read was definitely Golden Gate by Vikram Seth. I loved A Suitable Boy, but this was a whole novel in verse, and I absolutely hate poetry! It was a real ordeal getting to the end.

There was another book by an Egyptian, he is fantastically well known, in fact I think he won the Nobel Prize for literature, but it was turgid stuff.

Marley and Me. Absolute drivel.

Not a book club as such but a group of friends swap books, hands down the worst one was something about Angels.A quiet belief? To be honest I've tried to wipe it from my memory
Relentlessly awful events happening to a man over his life.
Only 1 in a group of 6 liked it.And even then it was lukewarm praise.
I threw it out in the recycling and I never throw books away.

A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler. Quite possibly one of the dullest books I've ever read. Closely followed by Resistance (Owen Sheers?).. the only book club book I couldn't finish and I've struggled my way through Salman Rushdie and The Master and Margarita for the sake of book club!

I'm not sure I could decide between Life After Life (which everyone else loved) and The Heart Goes Last (which was unanimously hated!)...

Oh my god EspressoPatronum, what were they thinking?

I loved The Hare with Amber Eyes. It is one of my all time favourite books. But then I love art history.

I have no idea, but I didn't finish either and never went back!!

The Power by Naomi Alderman. I ploughed on, as did most of us but unwieldy, silly nonsense was the verdict on it.

More recently, 'Melmoth'. Dreary unconnected stories that are presented as a whole and which ultimately add up to precisely nothing.