Least Favorite Book

[jkingler]

Post your least favorite book and why you dislike it.

I think this will be interesting to see. Please, don't get offended if someone lists a book you like! (<--Trying to protect myself)

The Great Gatsby.

I think it is pretentious, I don't like any of the characters, and I didn't care for the ending. (Remember, this is an opinion!)

Now, go at it yourselves!

[jkingler]

Wow. So apparently everyone else likes every book they read. Come on! Where are the discerning readers? *Waits patiently, starting...Now!*

[SharinganItachi]

I think my least favorite book was The Lovely Bones. It had a lot of *ahem* nasty stuff in it. It was kind of confusing too, and it was just one of those books that you have to force yourself to finish.

[killerrabbit]

My least favorite books are the Terry Goodkind Wizard's First Rule series of books. They start off good but then get lost on the path of plot.

Ni

[BarbNara]

My least favourite book was one that my teacher made me read last year... "Concepts of Modern Art"...God...I love History of Art, but that was soooo boring...If we talk about novels I think I hate one novel in Spanish called "Niebla" ("Mist"). But I think it´s because I read it when I was 14...maybe if I try reading it now, i´d enjoy it...who knows *shrugs*

[killerrabbit]

There Eyes Were Watching God was an awful book in my opinion; the combination of slang and a weak plot drove me to confusion and wondering what the heck it was all about. So I did not like it.

Ni

[Leto]

Wow i cant choose between The view from saturday, the witch of black bird pond, or the old man and the sea. :wink

[Keramachi]

The Bad Beginning. (from A Series of Unfortunante Events) I don't know how I got tricked into reading that.

[ninamori]

Worst book? Hmmm...

A Light In The Forest.

Boring as hell. I don't even remember why. o_O

[killerrabbit]

Grapes of Wrath I did not like, I could not get into it. Yes I know it is a classic but I did not like it personally.

Ni

[princesstaco]

Ethan Frome.

Had to read it for 10th grade english. It was about a guy and his wife. The guy broke a pickle dish (yes, it had significance to the story), got tired of life, and then rode a sled down a hill with his forbidden sweetie and ran into a tree in an attempt to kill himself.

Any book where you have to interprit *everything* (ie that whole pickle dish thing) to get the significance of the story should not have been written.

The book was just stupid. Plain and simple.

[shadowtyphoon23]

grapes of wrath worse book i ever read. woulnd not have to read it if it wasnt for class.

[darkspark]

wow, don't know if i can think of any off the top of my head... not that most people would know, anyways...
"silas marner" - had to read that in grade 11.... terrible, just terrible.
"old man and the sea" - (something like that...) i see it mentioned above, but, ya, it's really that bad. it's now "old man IN the sea", hopefully never coming up for air again... but there've been some others that just stun me at how bad they can be...

[Orihime]

Hmm, most of the book I read, I do so because it was recommended to me, so in teh end I usually like it, but... I dind't like this book I just randomly bought called "The Romantic" by Barbara something. :\ Worst book purchase ever.

[cloon]

god, just about every book i have been forced to read at school. The Merryl Of The Stones *shudder*. The Granny Project or something like that. I think that i would have enjoyed Of Mice And Men a bit more if my teacher hadn't spoiled everything for me, by explaining everything in minute detail>"so what do you think steinbeck was trying to achieve when he used the word 'the' in this sentence?"

[Fairady]

Any of Anne Rice's books after, and including, Tale of the Body Thief. I know, I know. Just about everyone else likes them and/or worships them as the gospel they are :eyeroll, but I think they're all utter crap. I just can't force myself to read through them.

[Onmyou God]

Worst book? Hmmm...

A Light In The Forest.

Boring as hell. I don't even remember why. o_O

LOL, I hated that book. Grapes of Wrath rocked sox. :laugh

[ghostgal]

Laura eta itsasoa

(laura and the sea)

It was stupid, it's plot was shit and there was no proper ending. The most amazing fact is that the author won a prize, but I don't know if it was for this book

[akuma no omoigakenai saku]

The Wars by Timothy Findley and The Stone Angel by Margaret Lawrence. Had to read them both for the same class. The wars was just stupid in general, and the stone angel was about some crazy old lady running away from home (and it goes into some detail about how hard it is to take a shit when you're really old :sad :notrust :mad)

[Siavash]

books :confused what are books :confused no the last book was i think peter pan i read it half year ago and i think the only one so peter pan was the best book i read

[Voynich]

Meh..I don't like Mansfield Park. I had to read it for class, and normally I'm a very enthusiastic reader that gets trough almost any book within a week. But this crappy thing took me 7 weeks and I'm still not done. I can't get through it -_-;;

[Hangatýr]

Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers. I just hate this book. I can't get through it. It bores me after reading five pages ( I'm in the middle of the book ) and I just can't seem to pick it up again >.>

[_Gejimayu_]

Agreed, Lord of D. There was a time where I was rather obsessed with LOTR (more like Legolas, actually XD). I went to get the book and woa, it was really boring. I think it was because of the writing style. The movie was about 10 times better.

[Hangatýr]

I prefer HP XDDDDDD but, seriously, I enjoy HP way more than LotR... >.>

[Ginnylin]

haha.. i am an arts/journalism student.. so i hate every single theory book i have come across in the last 3.5 yrs at uni.. thats like 1000s of books not joke.
but for leisure, i didnt see what was so great about To Kill a Mockingbird. A bit too conventional for me... i think thats what it was.. so long ago i dont even remember what i hated about it?? I am a bit fantasy/sci-fi/medieval historically based stuff, so maybe i didnt like the modern-ness of it?

I think that i would have enjoyed Of Mice And Men a bit more if my teacher hadn't spoiled everything for me, by explaining everything in minute detail
I also agree with Cloon. Also some of the stuff you have to study @ skool which you LOVE, are TOTALLY ruined when you have to study every friggen little thing. e.g. i loved Romeo and Juliet when i was like 10/11, and i could like recite like 50% of it. Then i studied it in yr 10.. and i have NEVER touched it since LOL
But sometimes, you may hate a book, then you study it and you fall in love with it. Go figure lol =)

*best books of all time - TOLKIEN ONES!! mwhaha*

[Batman]

A Separate Peace. I hate John Knowles.

[Nybarius]

The Catcher in the Rye. Because it's thin and fake, and I can't stand all the silly adulation it receives.

[Shade Luka]

When The Legends Die.............it's so boring it put me to sleep.........

[Sakura Kaijuu]

I think my least favorite book was The Lovely Bones. It had a lot of *ahem* nasty stuff in it. It was kind of confusing too, and it was just one of those books that you have to force yourself to finish.

Really? Even though it is pretty intense with its graphic-ness, I thought it was really good. It was really easy for me to finish it.

As for my least favorite book, I'd say The Lottery Rose. It was a really stupid book.

[XTemariX]

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Diary of Anne Frank both put me to sleep. T_T

[Ruri]

I know quite a few people who like Moby Dick, but frankly I couldn't stand it, and I have no idea how I made it through the seemingly-endless chapters devoted to discussions on such stimulating topics as rope or whale taxonomy. X_X

[Molekage]

billy bud or the catcher in the rye. ugh...

[Spooky_Bunny]

Great Expectations....actually, anything by Charles Dickens (sp?). his writing style is so boring

[Nathan]

I hated the books 'Holes',

really I don't know why I hated it, I just did. It could've been the way the author writes.

[The Pink Ninja]

The Catcher in the Rye. Because it's thin and fake, and I can't stand all the silly adulation it receives.

Word. They just lined up character after character who I couldn't stand.

[Death]

Jaws the book. Everything was better than the movie but the last paragraph. In stead of the shark getting blown up, it just dies due to a heart attack.

[cathydecker]

I can't stand Lacan. I took a Freud and Lacan class years ago and started having all these fantasies of murdering Lacan. I don't like a lot of other French intellectuals, deconstructionists, postmodernists either--if stuff is hard to read, it should be worth all the effort to read it.

[BakaKage]

The lord of the rings series. It has so much hype but for some reason I can't get into it. I don't really like the writing style =/.

hyped because of the movies I bet.
I remember the days when it was this book known only to nerds and fantasy junkies, and yes it is meant to sound archaic and old.

but whatever floats your boat, right? :)

[RockLee]

Sound and the Fury. Terrible.

Cold War. Most boring book I've ever read.

[Dejiko]

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE!!!!!

[Artificial_Sunshine]

I hate the book(s) Gossip Girl. I mean, as a New Yorker, I find it a bit frustrating that my beloved city is being portrayed in such a false/fake light. And since Gossip Girl is a cult hit, I'm sure that there are some (many) 12 year olds out in (insert state/province) assuming that this is how all New Yorkers act. Urgh, first "Sex in the City" and now this? (bangs head against wall)

[mary no jutsu]

I think my least favorite book was The Lovely Bones. It had a lot of *ahem* nasty stuff in it. It was kind of confusing too, and it was just one of those books that you have to force yourself to finish.
wow you really didn't like that book. i loved that book. it made me cry so much just reading about the family's pain.

well anyways i can't believe i read it. the princesses of bamarre or something like that. man i can't believe i read that crap. aghhhhhh. super boring. gosh pretty covers really can fool you.

[Tsumi]

I'd say the Chrysalids by John Windam...

didn't really like the ideas in it, characters were a little boring and I had to write so many essays on it :arg....

[Sara]

The Harry Potter books... *shudders* I'm the kind of person who hates things that are too popular... like Hockey... and Britney Sears...

[Cæk]

WUthering Heights. It's beyond confusing! Practically every characters has the SAME name :arg and it moves from the past to the future to the present without warning and and...it just made my english class hell =_=

[Shogun]

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, i couldn't fnish it and wanted to eat the main character alive.

[Cæk]

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, i couldn't fnish it and wanted to eat the main character alive.

I heard the Curious Incident was a reaaaally good book :S

[proleptical]

Anything by Nicholas Sparks. I shudder whenever I recall his atrocious writing style and his utterly predictable plots. What's more unsettling is the fact that, together with the likes of Dan Brown, he has become one of the most profitable and beloved American authors, which fortifies my belief that people these days lack the ability to distinguish between cheap and fine literature.

I agree with whoever mentioned The Lovely Bones. I allowed myself to be influenced by hype surrounding this book and decided to borrow it from a friend, who happen to have a terrible taste in everything - should've been my first clue about the quality of the book. The narrative itself was too simplistic and the story failed to keep me glued to the pages. It was overly preachy, which made it feel more like an book filled with advice for adolescent girls rather than a work of literature.

Most contemporary American writers (Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut, and Chuck Palahniuk are some of the exceptions) are pretty much trash. Indeed, it's extremely rare to find an engaging book that's not political satire nowadays.

[Anemone]

(IMHO) Catcher In The Rye :iik

[Rotc Girl]

The Heart is a Lonly Hunter. It was way to baised against the south. That ans almost every other book that I was forced to read for school, like To Kill a Mockingbird, it was a good book, I just didn't like it. Mountains bayond Mountains, I have to read it for college, and I really don't like it.

[Twizted]

I'm going with Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. It was just painfully dull and couldn't hold my interest at all. I'm sure part of it was that it was a required reading for entrance into UConn, and I don't like being told what to read.

[Wolfy]

In between 6th and 7th grade my school had required reading of The Diary of Anne Frank. I could not finish it. It was a bit to boring for me. Needless to say thats my least favorite book.

-Obi

[Belldandy]

The Catcher in the Rye. Because it's thin and fake, and I can't stand all the silly adulation it receives.
I totally agree.

[sagesse_reine]

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. Most boring piece of literature I have ever read.

[Suzie]

Any books assigned in middle school

[Vietangel18]

Right now I'm trying to read A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. But from what I've read, it's the only book I've read that is boring.

[Mew♥]

hmmm....i would have to say....Of Mice and Men....:P

[Rin <3]

The Mermaid Chair.... find it boring.

[Sawako]

Worst book? Hmmm...

A Light In The Forest.

Boring as hell. I don't even remember why. o_O

Ugh, I hate that book!

I actually like a lot of books I read since I only read books that I hear are good, but books I have to read for school and stuff suck. Although someone told me A Light In The Forest was good. That book sucked.

I also hate Beowulf. >< My seventh grade English teacher made us read it, boring as hell.

And I'm just starting high school so we'll see what other books I hate!

[Anego]

Cintapuchino and all Indonesian Chicklits n teenlit.. crap! >.<

[Onya]

Riders of the Purple Sage...never has anyone described landscape SO MUCH. Plus the character development...who am I kidding, there is no character development.

[Inuzuka_Kiba_Rocks]

The Davinci Code!

Reasons... Reasons of religion but I won't discuss them, for the rules. But also I read a really bad book... A western, I love westerns, mysteries, and fantasies and this one western I read.... My jaw dropped... So yeah... There you go... (Will I stop using ...?)

[Uncle Lunchwagon]

naked lunch.

I didnt get anything out of it.
I dont even know what motivated me to finish it.

It didnt make an ounce of sense.
People should resist writing novels whilst on large amounts of various drugs.

[HOOfan_1]

The Grapes of Wrath and Old Curiosity Shop were two of the most boring, most pointless books I have ever read...I could not force myself to finish them. Steinbeck and Dickens are without a doubt two of the most boring writers in history.

[Roy]

Harry Potter >_>

[Molekage]

The Davinci Code!
amen to that. that book was almost unreadable. i don't understand how its so popular.

[Roy]

the reason why I didint read that peice of shit is because of my believes and it sounds shitty :lmao

[RockLee]

Sound and the Fury.

I'm just not ready for it. I'm sure that at the end, it'll all make sense. However, I have other books to read and this book is a pain.

As to the haters of The Davinci Code, why not check out prejudices at the door? It's probably stopping you from enjoying something good?

No, I have not read it myself.

[Roy]

thanks for the suggestion :amuse

[Molekage]

@rocklee

i did, but its... really... written poorly. i can't stand dan browns style. it was like the prayer for owen meany, except with a week story and more irritating style

[spotthedog]

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, i couldn't fnish it and wanted to eat the main character alive.


Really? I loved that book. There are very few non-fantasy books I really enjoy and that was one of them.

Out of interest, those who dislke Harry Potter, is it that you dislike the books after reading them, that you dislike the commercial raping it's recieved, or that you dislike it because it's not cool when you're over 12?

If it's the second, the books are far better than the films or any other cash-ins suggest. If it's the third then you have no legitimate reason to hate it. If it's the first I have no problem of course. I just hate it when popularity socially ruins good stuff.

As for my least favourite book? The Gunslinger (Dark Tower Series) by Stephen King. Don't get me wrong, The Dark Tower is one of the best series that I've ever read but if it weren't for the fact that I was warned about the first book (and that they were on offer-3 for 2 :P ), I would never have read the second one. I just couldn't follow it at all. WhenI read a book I don't like over the top description, I prefer story. In the Gunslinger, the description is not only over the top, but very hard to follow. It was more a show off of vocabulary and long sentances than a novel.

[Saurus]

MAster Georgie - Berril BRainbridge (i think) ... worst book . EVER ... i couldnt understand the neek talk.

[Second-Hand Love]

Harry Potter series

they were and still is, awful.

I also didn't enjoy that Alex something series my friend made me read

it's like, a ███ novel, and I read the whole series
I don't know why I did that though
probably to see how bad it was??
I never read a book that was so pointless..
"it wasn't coke. or pepsi. it was the cheap supermarket cola"
now I am never gonna forget that book '_'

[spotthedog]

I never read a book that was so pointless..
"it wasn't coke. or pepsi. it was the cheap supermarket cola"
now I am never gonna forget that book '_'

I actually like that series, but you make an excellent point there :laugh

[momolade]

Out of interest, those who dislke Harry Potter, is it that you dislike the books after reading them, that you dislike the commercial raping it's recieved, or that you dislike it because it's not cool when you're over 12?
i read them when i was younger, really enjoyed it, and now that its been a few years, i cant appreciate the new books because i compare it to the first, when my expectations were lower.
its just not the same. I havnt even finished the sixth. i just dont care. :(

[DMC]

...Eragon...yeah...definitly Eragon

[CABLE]

The ones with writing and or pages.

[dehue]

Little tree by ? It was about a native american kid who lived with his grandparents in the mountains, god, that book was SO boring, its about how little tree(thats the kids name btw O_o) and his grandfather make wine and how they go to town and back to sell it, I seriously don't see how that kind of book could ever get popular.

Why people hate catcher in the rye so much? I'm reading it for english class right now and I don't think its bad, its actually kind of interesting, at least something actually happens in that book unlike most of the other books we read in english class.

[HOOfan_1]

Heart of Darkness is also a pretty terrible book

[Rukia]

I am not a big book reader. Although I occasionally mix in the Jackie Collins stuff. The book I remember hating from high school was terribly dull.

The Great Gatsby.

[Molekage]

Heart of Darkness is also a pretty terrible book
:amazed

AMEN!!! that book sucks too!!! :yell

[lumos08]

Eldest. I'm a fan of the Eragon series, but Eldest just sucked, I didn't follow any of it, and way too much stuff happened in that one book.

[fallengrace]

Eldest. I'm a fan of the Eragon series, but Eldest just sucked, I didn't follow any of it, and way too much stuff happened in that one book.
I found that it was just right, I followed it. It made sense to me so I don't know, I can't wait till the next book.

[Silver Shadow]

My least favorite book is A Day No Pigs Would Die. We read it in the eighth grade, and just the fact that all throughout middle school we were overloaded with the whole "boy gets dog, they become friends, dog dies, boy is sad, but has grown up" plot, that seeing it repeated with a pig just irritated me. There are lots of books we read in my classes in high school and college that I don't like while I'm reading them, but later on (even months later) I'll just think back on the plot and images and realize there was a lot of good things going on in that book.

[Zeig]

Most disliked book gotta be, The Scarlet Ibis.
This was just too sad of a book to me. Don't really like reading sad books. :(

[KunoichiTenten]

Le Morte d'Arthur. It seemed too digressive, introducing characters constantly, and I thought that there was excessive description (which might be considered good for some of you). Yes, I do know that it was written in medieval english and that it's a renowned book. Of course I was forced to read, but it was really unbearable >.>

[beads]

I had to read Cry, the Beloved Country and The Education of Little Tree for school. Unless you like chapters describing roads and leaves, i dont recommend this book

[athenaofstarlite]

Wow i cant choose between The view from saturday, the witch of black bird pond, or the old man and the sea. :wink

Yes! The Old Man and the Sea is soooo boring! My English teacher is awesome, but she made us read this book over the summer. Now we're watching this documentary about Hemingway and his life is so depressing...

[JokerDemon]

The Cay. I forgot the author, but the book wasn't good to me at all. I didn't like the characters, the situation, or even the ending.

[RebelliousKrimpy]

Any book I start, but don't finish, usually becomes my least favourite. ;) =P

[Shiro_Okami]

To Kill a Mocking Bird was so bloody boring, we had to read it in my sophomore year! Although I hated the book, I did well on the tests we took in class.

[Shizor]

I don't have any real least favorite book, but if I had to pick a book that made me go "WTF?!?!?", put it down, and never pick it back up, It's the Fellowship of the Ring.

Tom Bombadil killed that book for me.

[FireCandy]

The Princess Diaries.
I really hate it. :shakefist And I had to read it my little cousin every night. Whole summer. All 7 volumes.

[Harley Quinn]

Pretty much any book that my Language Arts teacher has made us read, But to pick some of them....Prince and the Pauper, and Gone With The Wind, that one is waaaaay too long it's 1024 pages and the print is about this big, It's all romancey too and I don't like that stuff unless it's fanfiction of course ^^

Wait! I have more Of Mice and Men and Grapes of Wrath, they're both by John Steinbeck and sooo boring, they are also both quite depressing although I won't say more because I know that a lot of schools read them so I don't wanna spoil them for anyone who has to suffer like I did :P

[FireCandy]

Pretty much any book that my Language Arts teacher has made us read, But to pick some of them....Prince and the Pauper, and Gone With The Wind, that one is waaaaay too long it's 1024 pages and the print is about this big, It's all romancey too and I don't like that stuff unless it's fanfiction of course ^^

Wait! I have more Of Mice and Men and Grapes of Wrath, they're both by John Steinbeck and sooo boring, they are also both quite depressing although I won't say more because I know that a lot of schools read them so I don't wanna spoil them for anyone who has to suffer like I did :P

Gone With The Wind - My mom reads it all the time. I really don't know why she like it. I read it. Boring. :notrust

[RyRyMini]

Harry Bladder + Great Expectations [ack!]

[Hat Hair]

The Amazon Papers: The perfect story of a perfect young woman with a perfect rival and a perfect love interest and a perfect supporting cast and the story ends with everybody getting what they deserve, which is either a perfect life or the beginnings of a perfect life. This assuming that their lives weren't already perfect, which they were. So, really, it's like infinity plus one in terms of perfection.

I actually chose to read the book in high school as part of a book report; it was a lot like drinking water minus the nourishment. A completely unremarkable experience.

But it was well-written, to be fair.

[Haku2099]

THE WORST BOOK EVER WRITEN WAS twisted window, forgot the author. There was no plot untile chapter 6, and most of the time you couldn't tell what point in time you were in.

[momolade]

Hatchet. read it in grade 6. it haunts me to this day.

[Kent]

Last of the mohicans, I'm reading it at the moment for school..I just don't understand what they are saying. The language is too old.

Otherwise I tried to read Lord of the rings atleast three times, but everytime I've fallen asleep at the first book..

[OniTasku]

Of all the books I've read, I'd have to say my least favorite was The Red Badge of Courage, that or Of Mice and Men. Yes, while some may consider them "classics", I just couldn't get into them and became frequently frustrated while reading.

[Osaka•§an]

Probably A Tale of Two Cities I never really had intrest in it =|

[elektroniks]

His dark Materials series...actually just the ending.

[Triggerhappy69]

1984, I thought it was fuckin boring as hell.

[Mider T]

The Illiad or The Godfather returns, I usually like mob stories/movies or Greek literature.

[die-hard-sheep]

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathon swift... I normally LOVE classic books, it's just that this one wouldn't stop talking about nothing. blah.blah.blah.blah... I could barely get to the end without wanting to throw the book away, which is like total taboo for me if someone even bends a page in a book I get pissed off. yes, I suffer from OCD.. > > but yeah, I don't like that book.

[FireCandy]

"Dziady" by Adam Mickiewicz. I hate it. It's boring.

[s0id3]

least favorite book: Harry Potter writting isnt interesting and i just didnt like the book at all...lol all the harry pot heads are gonna crazy.

[ValentineTheory]

Least favorite book: Great Expectations............That book grinds my gears.....watching George W. pick up horse poop off his ranch would be more interesting.

close second: Pride and Prejudice..........who cares about those 18th century weirdos anyway?

[isanon]

mists of avalon

i know it is suposed to be realy good but i cant stand it

[Saosin]

Harry Potter series. @_@

[S.o.L]

The worst book I've ever read was probably "The Yearling". It's about some country hick boy and his pet.

[sj2k]

wow, so many books I love, lol

First of all, if you are forced to read a book in school it can ruin it. That is an important lesson.

as for books I hate... I can't really think of one off thet top of my head. I mean sometimes I can't get into it, but I can still appriciate it.

If I think of one I will let you guys know!

[Shika-Chou]

I had to read "Their Eyes were Watching God" >_>
ugh....worst books I've ever read

[Booster Beetle]

The Stone Angel- Margert Laurence. 200+ Pages of some miserable old woman dying, fun! By twenty pages in I was wishing someone would just smother the old bat with a pillow.

Wuthering Heights- I hate the Bronte sisters.

[metal_uzumaki]

The worst book I've read is 'A Lesson Before Dying' by Ernest J. Gaines

[Beau Logan]

The entire 'Series of Unfortunate Events' never really struck my fancy as do most pop culture series. 'Queen of the Damned' also weirded me out. *Never liked vampires* o_o

[CharonX]

I was never a big fan of Jane Austen's "Emma". Though I am a good reader and will generally devour any book that is within arms reach, I found "Emma" to be a bore. People told me that it was a classic and one of Austen's greatest works and so on and so forth, and yet I don't remember reading one memorable scene or reading one thought-provoking notion or idea between its covers.

Funnily enough I still remain a fan of "Pride and Prejudice", so I still don't quite understand what caused me to dislike "Emma" so intensely...

Actually, come to think of it I didn't like Elizabeth Gaskell's "North and South". It wasn't necessarily a bad book, and I did enjoy the contrast between the agricultural gentry and the new industrialists, and indeed some of the more romantic aspects were exceptionally well written. However, overall I found it to be too long-winded, and perhaps I missed many of the cultural references Gaskell made with regards to this point in the Industrial Revolution to make it a memorable book for me...

However, my least favourite book is "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, as well as "The Hobbit". Though I sat down and all bar the last book of the trilogy in high school, I found these books to just go on and on and on. Perhaps more irritating was Tolkien's ability to spend pages describing details that were, to me, unecessary with regards to the plot and even visualisation of a scene. To put it bluntly, I told a teacher once that I had never read a book where the author spent so much time describing a single bloody tree when a more simplistic explanation would suffice.

[Lightspeed Suzuka]

I really can't stand Frankenstein, Metamorphosis, 1984, The Scarlet Letter, or Of Mice and Men.

Unfortunately, they were all books I was supposed to read for English Classes.

~Loves, Suzuka

[Voynich]

After carefully thinking it all over again I have to say that Brave New World and Mansfield Park are the most boring books I've ever read. I gave them multiple tries cause I wanted to rule out my dislike being influenced by a bad mood or so, but I just couldn't like them.
I got halfway in Mansfield Park and gave up. Skipped to the last chapter to see how it ended xD
Brave New World I finished but I don't see why everyone thinks it's brilliant. I think it's tedious and uninteresting.

[competitionbros]

Christopher Pike- The Eternal Enemy


just sucked so bad, and i'm a huge fan of Christopher Pike

[Mojo]

I know this is going to make a lot of people mad, but I didn't really like The Hobbit.

[Sawako]

Basically whatever book I'm forced to read for English. Right now that's Animal Farm.

[KyokotheRedButterfly]

Revenge of the Whales..... -gag- it really made me sick.....

[Dream Brother]

The Harry Potter series.

[natwel]

i didn't like dream saga, didn't have a clue whats going on. pointless

[kimidoll]

I hated this one book I had to read last year for Black History Month, I think it was On the Road to Memphis or something like that. Anyways, it was boring as hell and the plot made no sense since it was the third book in a series and I didn't know what they were talking about half the time :arg

[Shika-Chou]

Absolutely hated Their Eyes Were Watching God

[Hoon ♥]

Uncle Tom's Cabin, I think.
I read it when I was in 7th or 8th grade.. it's so damn boring and long.

Perhaps if I read it now, I'll understand it more and learn to enjoy it. :plot

NAH.

[Mukuro Rokudo]

I have to admit that The Scarlet Letter and 1984 bored the heck out of me... And those were for school. :arg

[Purgatory]

Silas Marner. The first day of readin, I swear to God I was going to fall asleep.

[Knight of Fate]

Little Women, I srsly don't like it >_>

[Saosin]

Harry Potter.

Fuck, those books are awful. >_>

[Znith]

Freedom of the city because i had to do it as a text study for english

[dummy plug]

im not a fan of love story books, so anything under that is a no no...:oh

[Liengod]

I have to admit that The Scarlet Letter and 1984 bored the heck out of me... And those were for school. :arg

Same for me. :cry

[Mugiwara Luffy]

I hated Great Expectations. I read like the first 10 chapters and just gave up.

[Alia_Atreides]

There's this book most people like, and I just hate: "The Mists of Avalon", by Marion Zimmer Bradley. I read all the books, but, at the end, I just hated every character in the story.

I love Arthurian ledgends, and I think MZB did a great job destroying it. She turned the great King Arthur into a weak and easy going guy, blindly in love with his bitch wife (Gwenhwyfar gotta be the most irritating female character I have ever seen). Lancelot is equaly blind. Both are selfish creatures, except not as selfish as Gwenhwyfar and Morgana, who are nothing but a medieval version of cheerleaders fighting for a man. Honor? Loyalty? Friendship? Forget about it! It's all about lust, and sex, and fight for power - meanless power, that is. So, yeah, I hate it.

Now, I realize the book has many fans... Please, dont be mad. It's my opinion, my point of view, that's all. Dont be offended. If you never read it, do it, and have your own opinion. This is only my two cents...

[Starber]

Julius Caesar :cry I have to memorize a monologue

[Ninjaguiden]

That is probalby Fire warrior a warhammer 40k novel that I read recently. Very shallow, no good story and predictable ending. Perhaps I just set the stakes too high...

[Shikaonin]

The Rule of Four, it's so boring.. the only book that took me ages to finish..

[Taleran]

Eragon easily

[Jagon Fox]

Moby Dick! I was horrified when my last high school teacher announced when we were going to read it.:cry Because I've tried to read it several times and it's so boring! Fortunately, she found it boring enough that she decided just to rent a modern addition of the movie instead!:gailee Other then that, The Yearling, because it made me cry and to me it was totally unfair to raise an animal and then kill it!

[SHiNiGaMiSHiNoBi545]

So far, it's Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. GOD, that book was boring :nerve. I only read cuz I thought I was going to have IH BritishLit in the beginning of the school year and it was put in Taft's Summer Reading List as a class requirement...it turns out I got regular H English 9AB and it was for 5 pts. EC :doh...*sigh* at least I got the EC :Sashead...

[Ryuu_Haruko]

i have two books for this one

Jackaroo

and

Of men and mice

because their not my favorite genre
thats it

[X]

I hate books on HISTORY!!! ARGHHHHH! I failed every single one of those History tests! :O

[Turnip Girl]

'Tess of the d'Urbevilles'. Agh, I hated it and didn't even read all of it. Still managed to get an A* for the essay I wrote on it, though. XD

What we've studied of French literature has often bored me senseless. :/

[ezxx]

Micheal Cricton's "CONGO"

worst book i've ever read, i kept telling myself it will improve but it only got worse and worse.

[Captain Gir]

dunno..i would never finish it if i hated it and would never think about it then

[Yuki Uchiha]

Grapes of Wrath.....and Sgin of the Qin.....

[Natsuhito]

I can't remember the name of the book.. but it was about this kid in mexico who wanted to become a bull fighter. He saw all these hot shots showing off and at one point he thought he'd try on one of the really aggresive bulls himself.. instead of just the wimps he'd been dealing with. That's basically all I remember.. I tried reading it back in 4th grade or so, and I'd fall asleep reading it.
Otherwise I'd say either little house on the praire, or Harry Potter. Though I'm thinking about giving it another shot since Harry Potter : HAHAHa There's Not Going to be Anymore Books is coming out.

Julius Caesar :cry I have to memorize a monologue

O_O
gahh.. I had to translate that in my latin class.


Ohh.. and Swiss Family Robinson wasn't that good either.. given I tried to read that in the 5th grade too.

[Iria]

I deplored the Sound and the Fury.

the "stream of consciousness" was just annoying and none of it seemed to make sense to me.

I don't understand why everyone loves this book

[RetroElectro]

'Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.'
Without a doubt. >_>

[Captain Pimp]

...Macbeth =/ (Loved Hamlet the most out of Shakespeare's works)

[Kakuzu]

Its got to be Grapes of Wrath.

[shinjowy]

Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series... first two books were ok, but after that the series got progressively worse and worse.

[kakoishii]

...Macbeth =/ (Loved Hamlet the most out of Shakespeare's works)
If you thought Macbeth was bad try King Lear, now that was a truly god awful shakespear piece.

I also rather disliked Animal Farm. I understood how they were trying to symbolize how power corrupts absolutely, but the way they did it having those animals pretty much outsmart their owners was just plain dumb.

[troublesum-chan]

A door in the wall.

[Luckyday]

Same here.:cry
The most unorignal book I ever read with a gary-stu as the main character.:notrust
Sarcasm: The main character's name is a like Dragon but with a capital E instead a D!:nuts:sarc
Wooooow! :yell



Oh, I hated reading New Moon. It made my dislike of Bella soar to new levels of haterd. I not even going to bother buying the third book. :notrust

I just basicly hate reading books that have Mary-stu/Gary-stus in the story or characters that contradicts to their main personality.

[Lo$tris]

I think my least fave is Labyrinth by Kate Mosse.
It wasn`t that bad neither great though.
I forced myself to read it at particular parts but it got better toward the end.

[Nanatsurugi]

I can't stand modern Russian and Ukrainian books. They just make me sick.

[Aideko]

I hated Lord of the Flies and Brave Knew World. LotF was just a very ugly book and BNW used an idiotic view of an unoriginal plot.

[Beau Logan]

Twilight and all like.

I can go on for hours about how much I hate that book.

[Batman]

Moby dick is teeth pullingly boring. Just because an author has done a lot of research does not make the story intersting. It was so "Ahead of it's time." It was long, and random for the sake of standing out, wierd for the sake of wierd, and dry for the sake of killing your readers softly.

[ChowMein]

My most hated book I've read?
hmmm....that's a tough one...
*thinkning* "My Brother Sam is Dead"
I don't think I've ever read a bad book, but that's the worst book out of 'em...
It ain't that bad but it's the worst :nod

[Morwain]

Either Jane Eyre or Black Boy

[The Thieving Queen]

Girl, 13. I'm pretty sure that's the name.
It put me off reading for quite a while.

[Dango]

http://www.adrianmole.com/images/books/diary.gif
The secret diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13 3/4.
Holy fuck, it was the shittiest read on Earth.

[Hoon ♥]

Uncle Tom's Cabin. >_>

[Nikitaa]

Uncle Tom's Cabin. >_>

I just thought of some shit books and now that you mention it, I remember how boring it was. I heard so only good about it and how famous it was, so I bought it (I could've bought something better but nooo..) and after pushing myself to finish reading it, I regret I had bought it -_-
Man, I can't even find that book anymore..

there are also other books that sucked, but as far as I remember, they were mostly books I had to read for school like some supposed-to-be-classics.

[Luckyday]

Twilight and all like.

I can go on for hours about how much I hate that book.

Why don't you like it?:oh
I want to know.:)