What's the worst book you have ever read?

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    Ophelia

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    And why?

    Mine would have to be The Tommyknockers by Stephen King. I usually like his books, but I tried four or five times to get through that book, and never got past chapter 6. I can't really even explain why, other than it was just impossible to get into the story.
     
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    The Robert Langdon/Angels & Demons books. Good stories written too plainly. Probably not actually bad but definitely overrated in my view.
     
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    The Bible.
     
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    Eragon.
     
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    Emperor The Gates of Rome by Conn Iggulden
     
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    I think I'll add The Hobbit to my short list. I don't understand all the fuss over it. It's actually quite boring and nothing exciting ever actually happens. Most of the chapters could've been cut down to about three words: "They're still walking." The language gets confusing at times. The best part was when the book finally ended.
     
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    I loved The Hobbit and The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons is ALRIGHT but not the worst i've ever read.

    I think my worst is probably some book that I NEVER knew the title of. It had no cover and was a SciFi story about some girl as the main character, who is with some archeology expedition on a planet with human like natives (pygmy almost) that somehow were connected to the ruins, which was actually a crashed spaceship that never left the planet when all the others did.

    I read this because it was on my teachers book shelf in 6th grade and everyday we had to read for 15 minutes. I ended up finishing the book and was completely insane afterwards.
     
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    "Lisey's Story" by Stephen King is one I have to mention because I found it really boring and I couldn't finish it. But I generally don't remember books I didn't like.
     
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    Flowers in the Attic...I mean the brother and sister have sex. Isnt that bad enough? :lol:
     
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    Inb4Twilight.
     
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    I'm sorry Omar but...The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Omgosh, boredom overload. :lol:
     
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    I read that book right after I finished reading The Da Vinci Code and I was highly disappointed. I wouldn't say it was the worst I've read, though.
     
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    To be fair, Angels & Demons came out first, so if you read them in the wrong order, the older book is going to seem subpar. :lol:
     
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    I know. :lol:

    I actually didn't know about Angels & Demons till after I've read The Da Vinci Code, and I liked the last one quite alot so, I thought this'd probably be just as good. But it wasn't. I don't think it's because I read them in the wrong order, it really was just overrated, like Dean said.
     
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    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! you made vasia veeeeeeeeeery angry!!!
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    The worst I've ever read...King Richard II by Shakespeare and Great Expectations by Dickens :p
     
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    Twilight. It didn't have a definite and/or interesting plotline, plus it was poorly written IMO.

    Dan Brown's Deception Point might take the second spot. It just felt a little too far fetched. However I love the rest of his works.
     
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    Wuthering Heights..

    I know it's a classic.. but it sucked so bad. I could barely keep my attention reading it.
     
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    I'd say Dan Brown is overrated. Although, I didn't read any of his books in English...
     
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    Thank god! I finally found another person that does NOT like this book!!!!!!!
    It was boooooooooooring:p
     
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    Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
    Another hated classic. The ideas are just fucked up in this book.
     

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