Worst book you've ever read? : Othor Games

» Mon May 14, 2012 5:02 pm

You must have missed the part where I said I didnt enjoy any of it.

I must have missed the part where you said that you read the entire book.

» Mon May 14, 2012 10:47 pm

The single worst book I ever read was book #7 from Robert Jordens wheel of time series - which also wins as the worst series of books ever

» Mon May 14, 2012 9:21 pm

The single worst book I ever read was book #7 from Robert Jordens wheel of time series - which also wins as the worst series of books ever

You haven't read a lot of books, have you?

» Tue May 15, 2012 3:22 am

Is Wheel of Time any good? I'm planning on making it my next series to read. After I finish A Dance With Dragons, but I'm still 3 books away.

» Tue May 15, 2012 3:41 am

which also wins as the worst series of books ever

I don't understand where all the WoT love comes from. I stopped halfway through book 5 myself, I thought the story was a jumbled mess, there wasn't a single charachter I cared about in the least and the writing itself was painful. I can't for the life of me figure out why this series is considered a fantasy classic.

» Mon May 14, 2012 3:36 pm

Didn't anyone of you get that Ratslayer is just trolling you along?

I'm in book three of Wheel of Time, and I like the setting and some of the characters, but I heard it gets a bit stiff later on in the series.

» Mon May 14, 2012 5:23 pm

I read a book once about a spelunker who goes too deep into a cave and comes out in a different world populated by bipedal cat people who want him dead (there are no other humans in that world). It's written in first person (which I loathe), and the entire story was so gd painful to read through. Man, I hated that book.

Also, Anne Rice's witch books, and her last few vampire books too. She should have stopped at Queen of the Damned, and she should not have manifested her dead... oh, never mind. That will go *nowhere* good. Suffice it to say that while I kind of liked QotD, it had some problems. Wasn't particularly fond of her mummy book either.

And Cujo. And Insomnia. Both of them horrible pieces of crap from Stephen King who displays, in these (and other) books how tiresome he can sometimes be. Come to think of it, the only books I actually liked from him were The Stand and the Dark Tower books.

And anything written by the abominable Stephanie Meyer. I hope she rots in hellllllloooooooo nevermind.

The Southern Vampire Mysteries. One and all, those books are awful. I enjoyed the HBO vision of them though.

The Stand was good mostly, but it dragged on at parts. The parts that seemed to drag on weren't prose.

To Waspinator, does WoT have middle book syndrome? Which series is better to you, ASOIAF or WoT?

» Mon May 14, 2012 9:01 pm

Also, Anne Rice's witch books, and her last few vampire books too. She should have stopped at Queen of the Damned, and she should not have manifested her dead... oh, never mind. That will go *nowhere* good. Suffice it to say that while I kind of liked QotD, it had some problems. Wasn't particularly fond of her mummy book either.

The first witch book was actually good, although it veered into Mills & Boon territory quite a few times. I don't mind reading about six, but unless it's a story about six, I don't need to read your six fantasies, Author. Fade to black, pop a cork, or get through it as quickly as possible.

And Cujo. And Insomnia. Both of them horrible pieces of crap from Stephen King who displays, in these (and other) books how tiresome he can sometimes be. Come to think of it, the only books I actually liked from him were The Stand and the Dark Tower books.

I'm surprised, because the Dark Tower books are some of his worst. The first half of The Stand is his best work; but then he dragged God into the story and ruined it. I was furious. IT is pretty good, as is The Green Mile, and Shawshank Redemption, and Apt Pupil, and Carrie.

» Tue May 15, 2012 5:11 am

As far as sci-fi/fantasy goes I've read many horrible books, if you want names I felt angry after reading a book from John Norman's Gor. What a crappy series!

'quality' books can also be pretty bad. For instance, The Scortas' Sun received one of the most prestigious prizes in French literature (the Goncourt Prize), after reading it I felt like I'd been robbed of my money.

» Tue May 15, 2012 1:50 am

@ThatGuy91: I prefer A Song of Ice and Fire for its political setting and more 'realistic' plot. Wheel of Time has a more interesting magic system, but also more 'standard' fantasy. Also, there's the problem with the later books, apparently, which I haven't read yet.

» Mon May 14, 2012 7:10 pm

That I've read entirely? Probably Oryx and Crake.

» Tue May 15, 2012 2:27 am

I think some people need to learn the difference between 'this is bad' and 'I didn't like this'

:shifty:

» Tue May 15, 2012 3:15 am

I think some people need to learn the difference between 'this is bad' and 'I didn't like this'

:shifty:

And the difference between 'I'm stating my opinion' and 'I am baiting all of you for fun'.

» Mon May 14, 2012 4:27 pm

A Separate Peace.

Never in my life have I been subjected to reading such a horrible, worthless peace of "coming of age" tripe as A Separate Peace.

Much less that I had to read it three times, AND listen to the audio book, AND watch the movie.

Me and High School English are still not on good terms for that.

Let's just ignore the rampant homoeroticism and budding sixuality of pubascent boys in an all boy boarding school, because if you see any of that you must have read it wrong because it's totally not there. Honest. No, let's just pretend it's so incredibly DEEP that you can wax poetic on the CHRIST REFERENCES everywhere and how it makes you understand yourself through the process of watching the character come of age.

There is no other book on earth which I hate more than A Separate Peace. If I had A Separate Peace, Twilight, and M.I.T.H and only two matches...I'd set A Separate Peace on fire twice.

» Tue May 15, 2012 5:48 am

I think some people need to learn the difference between 'this is bad' and 'I didn't like this'

:shifty:

I understand the difference: "this is bad" if *I* didn't like it, whereas if someone else didn't like it, it may or may not be bad.

» Mon May 14, 2012 8:29 pm

I understand the difference: "this is bad" if *I* didn't like it, whereas if someone else didn't like it, it may or may not be bad. :tongue:

Just remember: If someone else liked it, then that doesn't invalidate the fact that it's still objectively bad because I said so. :hehe:

» Mon May 14, 2012 5:38 pm

1) No I find them to be quite the opposite.
2) Ignoring the fact I found it all dull, and had to force myself to read through it. Yes it was just that scene I had issues with *rolls eyes*
3) So my oppinion about it reading like a fanfic is wrong because I dont know the whole story. Right, I forgot how that made the writng any less cringe worthy.

You know what, all this is doing is making my view of this like twilight even stronger. You also have the cult like group, who seem hostile when you dont like their damn book.

You know what, [censored] it. Im done with this thread. Accept I dont like your damn book, accept I think its [censored], and move the [censored] on.
The world is full of people with different oppinions, some of you seem like that is a real challenge for you. If you act anything irl like you do here.

I'm not mad because you don't like it, I'm mad because you condemned a good piece of literature without reading it (or even watching the show).

» Mon May 14, 2012 5:27 pm

There is no other book on earth which I hate more than A Separate Peace. If I had A Separate Peace, Twilight, and M.I.T.H and only two matches...I'd set A Separate Peace on fire twice.

It can't be worse than The Scarlet Letter, though, surely? To be worse than that it must dredge the depths of the deepest nightmares of humanity...

...Shelters of Stone, by Jean M. Auel. It was like someone finally decided to allow the author to publish without an editor, and it was a disaster.

Gah! I really liked The Clan of the Cave Bear and The Valley of Horses. Are the rest of them that awful?

» Mon May 14, 2012 10:34 pm

Gah! I really liked The Clan of the Cave Bear and The Valley of Horses. Are the rest of them that awful?

Yes. Although if you liked Valley of the Horses, you might like the others. They're closer to it than Cave Bear by far.

"Walk with Ursus. . ."

» Tue May 15, 2012 2:49 am

Yes. Although if you liked Valley of the Horses, you might like the others. They're closer to it than Cave Bear by far.

"Walk with Ursus. . ."

"..and then Ayla did some other [censored] that lasted years with no plot progression"

I think I get that Auel was trying to establish character progression and development, I just wish she'd kept it to that one character mostly. The other half of the book seemed to involve Jondalar meeting increasingly transient and unlikeable people.

» Mon May 14, 2012 6:52 pm

To Kill A Mocking Bird, I had to read it for class and I hated it. Why? I dont know I just didnt like it all, it wasnt interesting or exciting to me. The Graqes Of Wrath svcked more. That book was just mindnumbingly painful to read.

» Mon May 14, 2012 11:59 pm

Probably "Lace" by Shirley Conran. This was back when I was young and (even more) foolish and wouldn't put a book down however bad it was until I'd finished it.
A few years back a friend lent me "The Carpetbaggers" by Harold Robbins. That was shaping up to be even worse but I did the sensible thing and gave it back to him after reading maybe a quarter of it.

» Mon May 14, 2012 5:28 pm

"..and then Ayla did some other [censored] that lasted years with no plot progression" :tongue:

Oh, that's reminded me of a book I really hated which was one of Raymond E Feist's, where he claimed that his roleplaying meant that his books almost wrote themselves: evidently it didn't. His writing quality could be a bit inconsistent but this one (I forget which, sorry: I threw it out in disgust; it would've been around 15 years back, though) was far worse than anything I'd read to date. Pretty much the entire book was written in the style of "they did this. And then they did that. And then they did something else." It was terrible.

» Mon May 14, 2012 10:29 pm

The Liturgy of the Hours 2, The Book of Numbers (King James), The Book of Mormon, The Diary of Anne Frank, and The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived by Watchtower Publications

» Tue May 15, 2012 2:56 am

Man I haven't read almost any of these books. Probably because no one's recommended them to me. Which is probably a good sign they're bad.

Of the ones I have read

http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=323 http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=329

The whole book sets up for some wonderful tragic psychotic breakdown where heathcliff finally snaps and murders Hindley and that other jerk...and then everyone starts dying of natural causes instead. It's supposed to be some sort of romantic tragedy, but there's nothing romantic about any of it. It's just one absolutely enormous anti-climix. Also a ghost for some reason.