This book is not one to be simply tossed aside. It should be thrown with great force.
I'm not sure if this should go in the Lounge...oh well.
What's the WORSE book you've ever read?
I would have to go with "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver. It's about this missionary family that moves to Africa, and they all end up going insane. VERY messed up.
Ordinary people.
Forrest Gump.
The movie was beautiful. I loved it. But the book (in which the movie was based on, but there's so few similarities) is awful. Forrest is a massive, dumb guy with a downright bland mama. He winds up becoming an idiot-savant math whiz... goes on a space shuttle mission with an ape and a feminazi, crashes in the Amazon, plays chess with the head of a tribe of cannibals, becomes a pro-wrestler, cheats on Jenny and loses her completly, and then later becomes a traveling entertainer with the ape and legless Lt. Dan.
It's written from his perspective, like he's writing it, which makes it terrible to read sometimes. The characters suck... loveable black Bubba from the movie is a mean redneck white guy in the book... the story is just stupid and Forrest as a character doesnt really endear himself to the reader. Bad, bad book.
Luckily I got it at a thrift store for a dollar.
"The Sign of the Beaver" by Elizabeth George Spear
We were forced to read it for English in 7th grade *shudders at horrid memories*.
I like Kung-Fu.
Just about anything that has been made the focus of highschool study. I'm sure they're good books and all, but after all the class reading and essays and book reports... It just takes all the fun right out of it.
Mansfield Park, Jane Austen. Not really my cup of tea Mr. Darcy.
I don't know what the worst book I've ever read was. There are so many crappy ones. If I had to choose one, I guess I would say Moby Dick.
ROll of thunder hear my cry- it was a story about black people being prejeduced against. It blew. Not that I have anything against black people, the book just stank.
I couldnt stand Moby Dick. Yeah it's a literary classic and blah blah blah but it's just so boring and hard to read. I never read the whole thing, just the first chapter or so.Originally Posted by Dragonflame
Mby Dick was hard to get into, I agree, but once you did it wasn't that bad. The same thing happens in Dickens's writing. I'll start it and wonder why I'm reading this crap but by the end I'll be loving it.
For me I would say Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton. It was very unlike anything else he's done and it was pretty boring/too weird for me. I enjoy his other stuff though.
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OMG I think I read that book once. What was it about?
Of Mice and Men. Was there even a point to it?
I like The Poisonwood Bible and Of Mice and Men. You guys stink.
Kidding.
My least favorite book ever is probably..... I don't know.
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The Of Mice and Men movie was funny. He got his hand crushed.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
I really hate that book. It's just so slow. Runner up goes to the Swiss Family Robinson. Why oh why did I even read that book in the first place?
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