The stupidest book you have ever read?

[Yasha]

Digital Fortress is one of the stupidest books I have ever read. The plot is totally predictable. I can't help laughing at Dan Brown's retardedness when I read this book. But the Da Vinci Code is pretty well written though.

[yummysasuke]

I had to read Wuthering Heights for school a few years back. It was absolutely boring! I ended up reading the first 2 chapters, then threw the book into a dark corner of my room. *thinks to self, "so that would nbe why I failed that test...??"*

[darklinnah]

A coloring book. I have read nothing.

[Dark_wolf247]

The Nosepicker From Outer Space.



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Read it when I was like, ten.

[nah-nah]

In my entire life? It has to be "Fables You Shouldn't Listen To". XDDDD

It's a horrible book. Don't ever read it to your kids, now or in the future.

[Ruri]

Any 'Great Illustrated Classics' book.

These butchered versions ruined so many books for me. :shakefist

[monk3]

Catherine Called Birdy. i had to read it a couple years back for school. it was so stupid i don't even remember what its about, but i know its stupid

[jkingler]

The Great Gatsby. :faint

/hates that infernal book

[uncanny_sama]

i only read books for book repports so ive only had good ones

so you could say ive read 6 good books and further more dont read a book when i dont have to:)

[Pakkun93]

Cookies in Cyberspace, this book made no kind of sense...:blink

[Haruka]

Touching Spirit Bear. Gasp*

[Yasha]

The Nosepicker From Outer Space.
Cookies in Cyberspace
Touching Spirit Bear

I will throw them away after reading their titles:laugh

[Sasuke530]

Um...this is my opinion and it's um....... some pokemon book!:amazed

[HollowDreamer]

Hmmm would have to be "how to read a book for dummys".

[Sands]

-two against the north
(i read it years ago for a book report and i hated it)
-the great illustrated classics
those suck

[Tanthalos]

The Crysalids...mutant relious...bleh

I had to read it for school and wow...

I mean wow was it bad

Worse then William Shatner's Tekwar

[organizedcrime]

I've got to say either "The Diary of Anne Frank" or "Watership Down"

Absolutely ridiculous.

[Robotkiller]

Old man and the sea by: earnest hemingway.

It's so boring...dont know how it became a GREAT AMERICAN CLASSIC.

[Sith_Lightning_no_Jutsu]

Anyone remember the Goosebumps series? When I was little, a particularly stupid one was called "Beast from the East." As for books I've read lately, I didn't necessarily think it was stupid, but I hated Brom Stoker's Dracula.

[TGC]

The Scarlet Letter I hated this book, it was so stupid and boring, then if that wasn't enough I had to watch the movie, and it sucked even more.

[gamesector]

I once read a book by Tom Clancy...can he even read?

[CS2charlemagne]

i read aaaah! real monsters...kinda pointless

[Mousuke]

The Great Gatsby...Diary of Anne Frank...Watership Down...The Scarlet Letter....these aren't bad books. Just because you didn't enjoy reading them, that doesn't mean that there's no merit to the books whatsoever. (Yes, I have read each of those.) Heck, even the long-winded Moby Dick had many interesting philisophical themes.

If you want to read books that are bad, as in badly written, try Eragon. X_X There was a lot of hype about this book so I read it, and wow, was it predicting! Just a few complaints:
-Foreshadowing, both often and obvious, even to the extent that the main character goes to a fortune teller so we get to know everything about the trilogy in advance
-Stereotypical characters. There's nothing wrong with using stereotypes as long as the stereotype helps the character, not hinder them. Characters derived from similar molds must always be their own person. Not so with this book; the naive young boy who will one day save the world, the wise old man, the exotic elf princess, the power-mad king--yup, they're all here.
-Farmboys using SAT vocabulary
-Virtually every permutation of the word "said" is used here, and inappropriately at that. Reading ' "Sorry," apologized Brom' made me cringe.
-Poorly written action scenes
-Unnecessary description

I could go on, but I don't want to take up too much of your space ^_^

[green tea96]

The Misfits is the worst book that i've ever read, everything went way too perfectly and the plot was really corny and stupid.

[TGC]

The Great Gatsby...Diary of Anne Frank...Watership Down...The Scarlet Letter....these aren't bad books. Just because you didn't enjoy reading them, that doesn't mean that there's no merit to the books whatsoever. (Yes, I have read each of those.) Heck, even the long-winded Moby Dick had many interesting philisophical themes.
This is just personal opinion, and IMO the Scarlet Letter was shit along with the movie, does it mean it's crap maybe not but to me it is.

[syrup]

definatly "the giver"

[shadowtyphoon23]

the great gatsby and the catcher in the rye dumbest books i ever read.

[Loderian]

IMO Frankenstein by Marry Shelly.

[Once_Upon_a_Goth]

McBeth
I nearly died
it was the original text

[NeophyteNihilist]

^:amazed How could you hate McBeth?!?!
Old man and the sea by: earnest hemingway.

It's so boring...dont know how it became a GREAT AMERICAN CLASSIC.
I loved that book. I seem to be the only one though.

The worst book I've ever read was The House of Diese Drear. I read it back in 5th grade and the attempts at suspense were downright laughable to me even then. Plus I think the writer just ran out of plot and ended up tacking on one of the worse endings I've ever read.

[vitruvianwoman]

i don't know about the stupidest ive EVER read, but recently, it would be Rebekah by Orson Scott Card.

i'd heard Ender's Game was great, but i couldn't find it at the library so i got Rebekah instead. i thought it was horrible. however i stopped at around the hundredth page

[Sakura Kaijuu]

The Great Gatsby...Diary of Anne Frank...Watership Down...The Scarlet Letter....these aren't bad books. Just because you didn't enjoy reading them, that doesn't mean that there's no merit to the books whatsoever. (Yes, I have read each of those.) Heck, even the long-winded Moby Dick had many interesting philisophical themes.

If you want to read books that are bad, as in badly written, try Eragon. X_X There was a lot of hype about this book so I read it, and wow, was it predicting! Just a few complaints:
-Foreshadowing, both often and obvious, even to the extent that the main character goes to a fortune teller so we get to know everything about the trilogy in advance
-Stereotypical characters. There's nothing wrong with using stereotypes as long as the stereotype helps the character, not hinder them. Characters derived from similar molds must always be their own person. Not so with this book; the naive young boy who will one day save the world, the wise old man, the exotic elf princess, the power-mad king--yup, they're all here.
-Farmboys using SAT vocabulary
-Virtually every permutation of the word "said" is used here, and inappropriately at that. Reading ' "Sorry," apologized Brom' made me cringe.
-Poorly written action scenes
-Unnecessary description

I could go on, but I don't want to take up too much of your space ^_^

Hmmm...I'm glad you said that. I was on the verge of giving up and reading it. I wanted to know what all the hype was about. I think my mom read it and liked it. But all she reads anymore are kids' books (children's librarian). She doesn't have time to read anything else.

Also, I agree with you about The Scarlet Letter. I haven't read any of the others you named, but I liked The Scarlet Letter when I read it for school. I was also one of the only people in my class to think about Pearl as a regular kid with no friends instead of only as an alegorical element...:amuse I kept confusing my classmates cuz they'd try to argue with me that Pearl wasn't normal:

"But she laughed when her mom got hurt!!" :omg

"...Yeah...She was three. Three-year-olds don't comprehend the pain of their caretakers well...":huh

I finally thought of the worst book I ever read! The Lottery Rose. I can't remember for the life of me who it's by, but in seventh grade our Reading teacher decided it would be a terrific jumping off point to read it to us. She does this every year.

From what I can remember, it's about some kid who gets beat by his mom's boyfriend, and then he wins a grocery store lottery and the prize is a rose plant. He's eventually given to an orphanage run by nuns and he doesn't want to plant his rose there. He wants to plant it across the street in some lady's garden. Cuz the lady's pretty. He tries to plant it there, gets yelled at, makes friends with the lady's mentally challenged five-year-old, is kind of the reason said child drowns (indirectly: He used to feed the ducks with him. The kid got it into his head that he could do it himself and ran out of bread. The ducks attacked and he panicked and drowned.)

It was so lame. I actually got tired of hearing her read it to us, and for some reason we had a copy at home, so I read the rest of it. And then she yelled at me for reading it. Y'know, cuz showing some initiative is a bad thing...

[Rin <3]

The Nosepicker From Outer Space.
Cookies in Cyberspace
Touching Spirit Bear

I will throw them away after reading their titles:laugh

LMAO me too xD

[RogueRed2]

Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, anything by Charles Dickens.

I just did not like that fancy writing...and I don't really like Victorian literature in general >.>

Too fancy for me!

Although it isn't stupid by any standard. Just a pain and a bore to read.

[death_by_chocolate13]

I have a list:

1. Gossip Girls (complete and utter crap in my opinion)
2. Catherine Called Birdy (read it in skool, never finished it)
3. Please Stop Laughing at Me (don't even get me started on this one)
4. The Merchant of Venice (was there an actual point to this book?)

[darkgem499]

I have to say the worst book I've ever read was "Charlie and the glass elevator"The book before it(Charlie and the chocalate factory)had a good idea(so I respect the author)but this story was somwhat ridiculous.The main idea and the way the story was going seemed like it had no point with a poor attempt to humor the readers.(sorry to anyone likes this book)

[Liengod]

Old Man and the Sea.

[.Naptha]

a book called "Is it just me or is everything shit"

it was a stupid idea, but hell, it wasent half funny :)

[Cæk]

Wuthering Heights....stupid...ruined school for half year :doh lol

[Efraim Longstocking]

I've never ead a bad book in my life. Just prime stuff...

[Giant Enemy Crab]

The Halo Books. god those are retarded.

[uchihafangirl15]

I once read a book by Tom Clancy...can he even read?
I personaly like Tom Clancy's work. Which book did you read??
Even though I know a lot of people like the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, i personaly couldn't stand it. It just isn't my thing....

[fr33dom]

Great Expectations, fucking retarded.

[RockLee]

Great Expectations was pretty good, although I can see why some might not like it. Tale of Two Cities was far better, though.

Hmmm....stupidest book(s).

Well, the only ones that come to mind are manga wise. Get Backers, what a load of crap.

Book book wise, it'd have to be....can't think of one. I'm pretty choosy about the book I read. However, the one book that just gave me a headache was The Sound and The Fury. Jesus Christ, Faulkner missed on that one.

[mr_yenz]

"Chinese Cinderella" by Adeline Yen Mah. It was her biography, but she didn't have to make herself SOUND LIKE A FRIKKEN' MARY-SUE!!!!!! For serious. Okay, I'm done.

[RedSkyCoffee]

Stupid-est book I've ever read? Probably 'HeartBeat' It has like, no words what so ever and I read in half an hour (It has 100 or some pages)

[Kin]

Dutch = Hoe overleef ik ...

English = How do I survive ...

All the books who starts with "How do I survive..." :oh they're just dumb.

[Blood Dawn]

Catcher in the Rye.

[datenshi]

Charlie's Chocalate Factory....and peggy sue

[Sakura Kaijuu]

The Tolkien Reader. I hate it. And I have to read all of it. Because my English professor decided, long ago, that Tolkien was God on earth. I can't stand Tolkien. And it's boring.

[Twizted]

Into the Wild

I had to read it for entry into UConn. Terrible.

[Nan Desu Ka]

I actually dont think I've ever read a book I didn't like...

[o0oEnderIlleso0o]

Everybody Farts. Its in a whole series of books by in the same category. Everbody poops etc.

[mUcHo LoCo]

Johnny tremain.... 200 pages of hell