Soxy Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 I know we've done recommendation threads before--so I'm proposing a recommend NOT to read. I just read The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton and it was atrocious. I have never felt more dislike for characters or more indifferent to their fate. Two thumbs down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santo=dorf Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 Anything that didn't have pictures or wasn't about baseball. Books can blow me. :fyou Uncle Tom's Cabin! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wise Master Buehrle Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 The Scarlet Letter. I don't think anyone actually enjoys reading it. They more than likely read it, make sure they understand everything, and then brag that they like it because they understand everything. The Scarlet Letter sucks, end of story. Books should NOT be labor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WHarris1 Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 Hell I haven't read a book in 6 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 (edited) I know we've done recommendation threads before--so I'm proposing a recommend NOT to read. I just read The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton and it was atrocious. I have never felt more dislike for characters or more indifferent to their fate. Two thumbs down. You did realize they were retarded? Did the local references, that were wrong, also hurt the book? The worse book I read lately was my checkbook after a little Christmas shopping. Edited December 3, 2004 by Texsox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackie hayes Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 "Get stewed. Books are a load of crap." -- Philip Larkin I don't finish the book if I hate it, I don't know if I can be fair. I'll offer Pynchon's Mason & Dixon -- it has some REALLY good parts, but gets tedious, I don't think it was really worth the effort. Edit: I would never say that this is one of the "worst" books, but I doubt anyone here has truly read one of those. There have to be some doozies out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnB Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 The Scarlet Letter. I don't think anyone actually enjoys reading it. They more than likely read it, make sure they understand everything, and then brag that they like it because they understand everything. The Scarlet Letter sucks, end of story. Books should NOT be labor. oh wow, i agree to that. i didn't like reading for school to begin with, but that was pure absolute torture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heads22 Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 Jane Eyre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Queen Prawn Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 Jane Eyre I really liked that book. Now Wuthering Heights... :puke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
POTUSChris Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 Of Human Bondage...Worst book I ever had to read. hundreds of pages of crap... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xero Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 Miracle Worker :puke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Be Good Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 Any book I read in school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreye Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 The Scarlet Letter. I don't think anyone actually enjoys reading it. They more than likely read it, make sure they understand everything, and then brag that they like it because they understand everything. The Scarlet Letter sucks, end of story. Books should NOT be labor. You beat me to it! Horrible, disgusting crap! All that stuff I had to read in High School was the same way...Jan Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Ivanhoe... :puke The only thing I liked in High School was The Red Badge of Courage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 Either of the dumbed down newspapers in Chicago (the black eye or the brown streak) they are utterly worthless. I can't think of any books right now, because usually if I dislike something that much, I quit reading it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
False Alarm Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 i'm masochistic or something i tend to force myself to finish books even when they're not good. i think it's a thing where i'm always secretly hoping that the badness is just some kind of experimental device and maybe in the end it'll unexpectedly turn out to be awesome and brilliant after all. i'm still waiting for it to actually happen that way. anyway, my worst book is easy: ruffians, by former NFL defensive end tim green. utter s***. i'm reading dune: the machine crusade right now, and it ain't so good either. not really worthy of the dune name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USAF_11F4H Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 No contest. Walden Pond. Henry David Thoreau. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlaSoxxJim Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 i'm reading dune: the machine crusade right now, and it ain't so good either. not really worthy of the dune name. I have not brought myself to read any of the Brian Herbert Dune installments because I love Frank's originals so much. I've heard good things about House Harkonen and House Atreides but I just can't see them living up to the originals. Then Again I did like Man of Two Worlds that Frank and Brian co-wrote before Frank died. Yeah, it was a poor man's Stranger in a Strange Land but I was in high school at the time, annd I liked that the lead character got stoned from eating basil. ...Man I would have saved a lot of money back then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xero Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 Eh, The Odyssy sucks too :banghead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cali Posted December 4, 2004 Share Posted December 4, 2004 Lord of the Flies. Hands down. f***. That. Book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
False Alarm Posted December 4, 2004 Share Posted December 4, 2004 I have not brought myself to read any of the Brian Herbert Dune installments because I love Frank's originals so much. I've heard good things about House Harkonen and House Atreides but I just can't see them living up to the originals. Then Again I did like Man of Two Worlds that Frank and Brian co-wrote before Frank died. Yeah, it was a poor man's Stranger in a Strange Land but I was in high school at the time, annd I liked that the lead character got stoned from eating basil. ...Man I would have saved a lot of money back then. yeah, i've been pretty much the same way about brian's stuff. this is the only one by him i've read, and it's mainly cuz my friend got me a signed copy of it as a gift. it's probably not fair for me to mention it in a thread on worst books--it's competent, as sci-fi goes, but it just pales across the board next to his dad's stuff. i'd sooner reread the original books or read the frank collaboration than check out the conclusion of this trilogy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerhead johnson Posted December 4, 2004 Share Posted December 4, 2004 I've read some terrible, terrible s*** in my time. But in the end, I'd have to go with Bon Jovi's biography. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlaSoxxJim Posted December 4, 2004 Share Posted December 4, 2004 Lord of the Flies. Hands down. f***. That. Book. ??? Great book. That, Catcher in the Rye, and Cry the Beloved Country were the only modern fistion high school assignments worth reading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex Kickass Posted December 4, 2004 Share Posted December 4, 2004 I hated Anna Karennina. Fires in the Mirror by Anna Devere Smith. My college Freshman common book. Everyone had to read it. She didn't actually write anything. She recorded a bunch of people talking about bulls*** and she transcribed it. Then she said she was an author. Without a tape recorder, she'd still just be the talentless hack actress she is today. My Century by Gunter Grass, no good - and I love Gunter Grass. Also I'd stay away from "The Sorrows of Young Werther" by Goethe. As disappointing in the original German as it is in English. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted December 4, 2004 Share Posted December 4, 2004 Beowulf If this crap was the second oldest work in Old English, instead of the oldest, no College student would ever be subjected to that crap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soxy Posted December 4, 2004 Author Share Posted December 4, 2004 Beowulf If this crap was the second oldest work in Old English, instead of the oldest, no College student would ever be subjected to that crap. I honestly think this one depends on the translation. There's a newish (5 years ago?) translation out by Seamus Haney--and it is amazing. I read a bad translation, but then came to the Seamus one and it blew me away.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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