This book is not one to be simply tossed aside. It should be thrown with great force.

[Skogs]

'The Valkyries' by Paolo Coehlo. 'The Alchemist' was good, but this one was a pile of self-indulgent toss.

[BatChao]

Forrest Gump.

Have you read the sequel, Forrest Gump and Co. ? I really like that one... I haven't read the original, though. But then sequel was pretty fun!

As for worst book ever... hmmm... Beloved was painful to read. As was Tess of the D'Urbervilles (sp?) and Their Eyes Were Watching God.

[Shlup]

I read Mars and Venus in the Bedroom after it was recommended by one of my professors. It was so stupid that I doubt she ever actually read the book herself. The entire book was basically restatements and reasons why a man has to tell a woman he loves her to get sex, and if a woman wants a man to love her she needs to give him sex. It was retarded.

[gokufusionss1]

a tale of two cities, as a peice of literature it's masterful, as a story it's downright boring

[Ariel]

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

I loved that book as a kid. =P *runs*

Violin by Anne Rice was one of the worst. I couldn't find the Vampire Chronicles book that I was looking for, so when I saw this, I picked it up. It was excrutiating. I didn't even bother finishing it before I took it back to the library.

[-N-]

<u>A Passage To India.</u> A gay white man thinks Hinduism rocks, but has no goddamn clue how to say it. Screw you and your messed up representation of colonial India, Forster.

[BatChao]

Oh yea! Sense and Sensibility was boring as hell too.

[Kirobaito]

Have you read the sequel, Forrest Gump and Co. ? I really like that one... I haven't read the original, though. But then sequel was pretty fun!

As for worst book ever... hmmm... Beloved was painful to read. As was Tess of the D'Urbervilles (sp?) and Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Crap....I'm gonna have to read both of those books next year.

[Lord Chainsaw]

I loved that book as a kid. =P *runs*

I thank you for keeping the quote in green. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Nobody ever bothers to keep it green when they quote me.

Anyways, maybe I will give 20,000 another read someday. I don't know it was something along the lines of 2nd grade when I read it so I don't remember it much. It can't be that bad if Sci fi did had a movie on it, right? And to be honest, Jules Verne isn't a bad author.

[Yamaneko]

<u>The Great Gatsby</u>

[Dr Unne]

<i>Return of the Native</i> is pretty bad. I had to read it for HS. It did involve a street urchin who kept coins in his shoes, and a man who was solid red because he sold dye for a living, but unfortunately this wasn't enough to divert my attention from the mind-destroying pain of reading the rest of the book.

There are other books I had to read in HS, but I seem to have forgotten the names. This is probably a defense mechanism.

I liked <i>Of Mice and Men</i> very much, myself.

[Doomgaze]

Their Eyes Were Watching God and House Made of Dawn both sucked horribly.

Also The Scarlet Letter.


Damn you HS English!

[Shlup]

<u>The Great Gatsby</u>

Oh yeah, I remember having to read that in high school. I found it very dull.

[Del Murder]

I almost picked Return of the Native. It is certainly down there.

[TheAbominatrix]

Have you read the sequel, Forrest Gump and Co. ? I really like that one... I haven't read the original, though. But then sequel was pretty fun!

As for worst book ever... hmmm... Beloved was painful to read. As was Tess of the D'Urbervilles (sp?) and Their Eyes Were Watching God.

I havent, no. I'll keep an eye out for it. There was some of Forrest Gump that was okay, but it just went swiftly downhill.

And I loved of Mice and Men! Beautiful story... except that it was ruined for me. We were silently reading in class and I was ahead of everyone (because I read fast) and, in fact, only a few pages away from the end. My teacher was also the football coach, and one of the players passed by and came in for a chat. He looks around, then goes "Oh, they're reading Of Mice and Men? Did they get to the part were (SPOILER)George shoots Lenny yet?"

I hate that guy to this day.