Which Book Would You Say Is The Worst Book Ever Written?

[BlackRoseThorn]

I got bored and thought "I wonder what people think the worst book ever written is?" So I'm asking

[rockyracoon]

50 Shades of Grey (utter drivel)
The Time Travellers wife (yee gods, pure borefest)
We Need To Talk About Kevin (nauseous, verbal diarrhoea)

[Jeza]

The only Steven King book I have ever read was Needful Things. I had to finish it (as much as I hated it ). I will never read another one of his. When I finished it I threw it down and a woman asked me if she could have it. ( We were on holiday by the pool at the time ). She gave me a book in return called Charity, and very enjoyable it was. So much so that Lesley Pearce is one of my favourite authors.

[DTCwordfan]

"Ed: The Milibands and the making of a Labour leader"

Yawn

"The Downing Street Years," The Blessed Maggie.

Yawn

"A Journey," Tony Blair

An even bigger yawn.

[Goodsoulette]

does anyone remember the other home schooled 15 year old from many moons ago, maybe 7 or 8 years back? I think she was ginger possibly.

[Goodsoulette]

Sorry BlackRose, that wasnt an attempt to highjack btw, although now this could probably be considered spamming your thread. I'll go annoy people elsewhere now.

[ChillDoubt]

Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

[Svejk]

All the men are big,fat,smelly, stupid pigs. All the women are beautiful,fit,fragrant & super intelligent.
The heroine was a DA or Chief of Police.
On every page a 25st man would pick a fight with her (7st) little realising she was a karate expert who wiped the floor with them.
It was part of a series by a best selling female author.
Any ideas? Or is a lot of 'hen-lit' like this.

[Jeza]

I saw on the Beeb last night a 5 minute speak to the author or something like that. I think it was Alan Davi(e)s and the book was I think Oh Boy. Has anyone read it? Is it worth buying? He made it sound good.

[paddywak]

Over the years I've read some pretty grim books but I did a history course where Mein Kampf was required reading.It was Fluffing awful if I'd not needed it for the course I'd have thrown it in the bin. As it was I stuck with it and it was the hardest reading I've ever struggled through.

[barbara1835]

We have to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver

The Road by Cormac McArthy

Lasting Damage by Sophie Hannah

The Da Vinci Code

After boring myself to death trying to get through these, which I did by hop,skip and jump..........it is a welcome relief to turn to some really skilful writing in


Harlan Coben

Lee Child

Michael Connelly

Jane Gardam

[Sharingan]

Thank you very much MyBlackHen and Goodsoulette for yet again accusing me of being a troll. Can't you come up with anything new? this has already been done to death and is really tedious now. Just because you were not like me at my age does not mean I am not 15. You are not everyone'#s benchmark for how they should be or behave, so please take your nasty comments elsewhere.

[Prudie]

I'm not a great reader and although I know most of the books mentioned I haven't read them. The worst books I've read were the ones thrust at me at A level languages that were supposed to be genius, most notably Kafka's Metamorphosis and Camus' l'Etranger. Horrendous depressing pointless tomes.

[B00]

50SoG, awful, awful book.

I got about half way through that book before I lost the will to live. If I read about her "inner goddess" one more time or read about his "smirk" (I mean seriously, a smirk??) one more time I was in danger of killing myself.

[Goodsoulette]

I was more shocked that your care giver thought it sensible to let you read 50 shades of grey. You can promptly get over yourself now as it is adult material and the thought of my daughter reading that and that being a part of what forms her sexuality is pretty grotesque to any parent.

[AlwaysConfused]

After all the hype, a friend lent me 50 shades of grey. I made it to page 12 before quickly becoming very bored, so didn't bother to stick out the rest of the book. Awful, very juvenile sounding prose.

[BlackRoseThorn]

There was a girl at school who was reading 50 Shades and my friend read a sentence out load and I just sat there like "Oh my god, what did I just hear and how can I unhear it?" I've been scared of reading it for myself since

[Canary42]

Casual Vacancy is high on my list too.

Fifty Shades is top.

Others on my list include Middlemarch (although I love some of her other books), Silmarllion, most of Anthony Trollope, and His Dark Materials.

[BlackRoseThorn]

isn't Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling who wrote Harry Potter? I expected better of her

[Canary42]

Sadly, so did I.