Worst Book You've Ever Read

There are so many books that I consider to be the worst books I ever read. I could not get myself to finish Moby D!ck. I had such a hard time getting through that thing. Another one was Heart of Darkness. It was written by Joseph Conrad and it was just hard to understand and see where he was going with the story.

The worst book I've read was By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept. I hope I got the title right. Most of my friends were reading it and they just went on and on and on about how good the book was. So when I finally had the chance to get a copy, I was disappointed. I thought the book was a big letdown. I didn't the greatness that my friends saw. I found it overrated. I don't mean to offend any Paulo Coelho peeps. Just my two cents. Peace.

I can't remember the name and NO, I didn't finish it. But I realized it was bad at first when it discribed the Astrodome sitting out in the middle of a "sage covered plain." Well, as a Texan, I can assure you that it might've been sitting in the middle for salt grass, but there was no sage in sight - since Houston is more swamp than desert.... Then it had the guy driving up 45 and someone shoots a missle at it, he goes off the freeway across the sands and while there's the piney woods in East Texas, there are no sands... Then he gets in a plane and and they fly down and go and then follow the missle back to the launch site 250 miles west to the "mountains of west Texas." Well, 250 miles might've put them over the hill country and maybe over Johnson City. Anyway, they are flying over the "mountains of west Texas" and follow the tire tracks to they run into a highway. Then from the "mountains of west Texas" they fly "due south" until they got to El Paso. Now, if you just look at a MAP of Texas, you can see there is NO place in Texas you can go SOUTH and get to El Paso.

Strange Piece of Paradise by Terri Jentz is by far the worst book I've ever read. I read a short summary of it in a magazine and actually thought it sounded interesting, since it is non-fiction. I do like to read non-fiction as well as fiction. Throughout the book she was inconsistent, one chapter she felt this way, the next chapter she denied ever feeling that way. Before I bought the book, I did read a few of the Amazon reviews which I now agree with, but before reading the book, I thought those people were heartless to ridicule the story of a victim of a violent crime. Well, after reading the book, I completely understood all the reviews. Each chapter is just a variation of the proceeding, so if anyone would read this book, I highly recommend reading the first chapter for the background info, and the last chapter for the outcome because all of the other chapters in between are redundant stream of consciousness.

the worst book i've read is 'The Sun Lord's Woman'.dunno who the author is.it's a Mills&Boon novel and i read it coz i couldn't anything else when was craving for something to read.i did manage to finish the 120 page book but got totally disgusted with it's vulgarity and still haven't forgiven myself for having wasted my time on it.i usually never read M&B or any vulgar mushy stuff....this was my first and last M&B book ever.

I don't want to offend anyone, but I hated "The Grapes of Wrath." I guess I just can't take a Steinbeck novel. I read one of his short stories, and I liked that, but I just couldn't take that novel. Most people tell me that they read it up until the turtle chapter, but I could not even get that far. I don't even think I finished the first chapter.

I actually did read a book that i did not like at all--it was just too hard to get through, very little action--tons of talking. The book was called The Mission Song...not sure who wrote it. I won't say that it is a BAD BOOK. it was written very well, professionally. And I liked the characters, but it just wasn't....my cup of tea :P lol. I like stuff to be happening in my book--and there just wasn't a whole lot going on. I kept reading it b/c I thought it would get more exciting towards the end--but it just never picked up speed. I'll defeniatly never read it again.

I would say that The Old Man & The Sea was the worst book I've read. I really like Hemmingway's short stories, but I found The Old Man & The Sea to be boring. I did finish it, but only because I had to; it was required for my eleventh grade English class. My favorite author is Dean Koontz and there was one of his books, The Funhouse that I didn't like.

I've started a bunch of books that I could only get a few pages into before realizing that they were just not my kind of book, or something that I found interesting. I have also had to read books for school that I found boring. The worst book, though, I would have to say was Dune. A friend lent me the book because she really liked it, and we usually had similar taste in books. It is more than three-hundred pages, and I had made it to about fourty pages from the end before I realized that I had no clue who any of the characters were, and I didn't care. I probably could have finished it anyway, but the book was really not for me, if I can be that close to the end, and not even care enough to finish.