What is the WORST book you ever read?

[Mouse]

Djinn, mi amigo, truly you dance to the beat of a different drum [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]

[Djinn Raffo]

Thanks Mouse! [img]smile.gif[/img]

Well i tell you i really hope someone picked up that book and read what i wrote! To funny..

That is the highlight of my trip to Europe! ..jokin the real highlight was Prague, Budapest, and those coffeshops in Netherlands!

[Nanobyte]

<u>The Left Hand of Darkness</u>
by Ursula K. Le Guin

However tempted you may be, for whatever reason whatsoever, do not even interest yourself in looking on the back cover. By then you'll be lost.

This book was horrible, and I wish I had forced myself onto another. I had read <u>The Relic</u> prior to this one; it was OK, but the gore was not something I find favorable.

[ 01-24-2003, 11:40 PM: Message edited by: Nanobyte ]

[arion windrider]

i think the hobbit is boring now since i read it again... the rest of the series is soo much better...

[Pyrius]

God are you there its me Margeret....I didn't understand that book at all....Just kidding...About the reading it part....The worst book I have ever read would be anything written by Dickens, Twain, and just about anything written by a religous figure(they all read the same to me).

[Grojlach]

Originally posted by Iron_Ranger: Easy, its The Hobbit.

That's a child's book... I read it myself when I was 10 or so, and I thought it was quite good at that time. Never re-read it, though...

Anyways, for my own contribution to this topic: Stephen King & Peter Straub's "The Black House" (or actually, I didn't get past the first chapter... The writing style wasn't difficult, wasn't hard to follow or anything of the kind, though it was extremely annoying and boring (unless someone here is able to stomach page after page filled with "guide-ish" "and-let's-go-here-now,-where-we'll-see-blah-blah-and-behind-blah-blah,-there's-more-blah-blah-while-to-the-right-of-blah-blah-there's-even-more-blah-blah. It wasn't a novel, it was a torture-session.

[ 02-23-2003, 06:23 AM: Message edited by: Grojlach ]

[Tancred]

Originally posted by Barry the Sprout: This is probably not really the "worst" book I've ever read, but I can't really think of which of the many quite bad books I've read was the worst. And this one dissapointed me the most, it really did... So, by default more than anything, I'm going with God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert.

I'll second that. I loved Dune. Excellent stuff. But as I read further on into the series, I began to realise that Frank Herbet was slowly disappearing up his own backside. Don't touch Chapter House Dune. All I could do was read on in horror and occasionally cry in a small voice, cry for help. No-one came.

Come to think of it, 'Atreides', 'Harkonnen' and 'Corrino' are actually not that bad when compared to the sequels. At least we get to see characters we already understand (as opposed to the superintelligent cardboard cutouts in the later novels)

[Night Stalker]

Originally posted by Tancred: </font><blockquote>Quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Barry the Sprout: This is probably not really the "worst" book I've ever read, but I can't really think of which of the many quite bad books I've read was the worst. And this one dissapointed me the most, it really did... So, by default more than anything, I'm going with God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert.

I'll second that. I loved Dune. Excellent stuff. But as I read further on into the series, I began to realise that Frank Herbet was slowly disappearing up his own backside. Don't touch Chapter House Dune. All I could do was read on in horror and occasionally cry in a small voice, cry for help. No-one came.

Come to think of it, 'Atreides', 'Harkonnen' and 'Corrino' are actually not that bad when compared to the sequels. At least we get to see characters we already understand (as opposed to the superintelligent cardboard cutouts in the later novels)</font>[/QUOTE]Thanks for the warning, reading Dune right now ... so the series goes from great to "make it stop!" ?

[Iron_Ranger]

Originally posted by Grojlach: </font><blockquote>Quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Iron_Ranger: Easy, its The Hobbit.

That's a child's book... I read it myself when I was 10 or so, and I thought it was quite good at that time. Never re-read it, though...

</font>[/QUOTE]Really? Its pretty thick to be a childs book, and alot of adults seem to like it alot. But anyway, the entire LotR serries was bad, IMO. It was so..boring.

[wellard]

THE TRAIL

by kafka

ZZZZZ..... "You must read it it's a classic tale of man against the overwhelming power of government and bureaucracy" ZZZZzzzzz...

Listen to my tale good people of Ironworks do not touch this book, one of its most annoying features was that once into it you had to find out who and why regarding his enemy but every page turning was like the drip drip drip of Chinese water torture.

A classic is not always a good read