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

[Cloverjo]

Mad Cows by Kathy Lette springs to mind.

[jim360]

Apparently this woman's works are high contenders...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_McKittrick_Ros

[Rosetta]

I cant get on with Thomas Hardy though I wouldn't say they are badly written, just hugely boring. Can't stand Barbara Cartland books and their ilk, what tosh

[Cloverjo]

Gosh, Jim360. I like your selection. How did anyone get past that paragraph to read the whole book

[jim360]

Thanks cloverjo! I first heard of her via the hilarious "Return of Heroic Failures" -- Stephen Pile.

I've decided to make it my week's project to finish her Irene Iddlesleigh, available on Gutenberg. Not sure why... it's awful. And yet at the same time strangely funny:

"Though a man of forty summers, he never yet had entertained the thought of yielding up his bacheloric ideas to supplace them with others which eventually should coincide with those of a different sex..."

Translation: He was a 40-year-old bachelor...

"Three weeks had scarcely passed ere Sir John was made the recipient of another invitation to Dilworth Castle. This second effusion of cordiality required neither anxious thought nor prolonged decision how to act, knowing as he did that it would again serve to bring his present thoughts into practice by affording him another opportunity of sharing in the 21 loving
looks of one for whom he feared there dwelt a strong inclination on his part to advance his affection."

Translation: Three weeks later, he received another invitation and accepted eagerly. He looked forward to seeing Irene again.

And c., & c.

[mosesg]

Cloud Atlas - read the whole book and still didn't have a clue what it was really about.

[silvergirl46]

I'm with the Da Vinci Code, but would suggest The Bridges of Madison County. Now that was a stinker. And not for nothing was The Silmarrilion know as 'The Sell a Million'. Took people in, hook line and sinker.

[emmie]

i would go with the Da Vinci code as well, total tosh, and i really wouldn't sully myself to read pap like fifty shades of grubbiness.