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Worst book you have ever read

Worst book you have ever read

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Probably "The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty" by Anne Rice (written under her pseudonym, I forget what it was).

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Black Boy by Richard Wright
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines


I hated them both SO much, I could barely finish them.

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Mary Poppins.
The film is so much better. God bless Dick van Dyke.

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The Ladybird Book of Dinosaurs.

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I started "Atlas Shrugged" by good ole' Assimov. Just couldn't get into it.

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"Macbeth" in 11grade, couldnt understand a friggin word, almost failed english cause of it!!!

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Originally posted by ChessNut
I started "Atlas Shrugged" by good ole' Assimov. Just couldn't get into it.
No way! Asimov rocks!

Aside from that, the worst book I have ever read would be Elf Queen Shannarah by Terry Brookes. It was so fricking rubbish I actually burnt it in a fit of revulsion. I have never burnt a book before or since and I still think it deserved it. The idea that there are talented unpublished authors out there who never get the chance, when this pap gets printed infuriates me. It is about as good as Blobby's 'how to win friends and influence people'....

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Originally posted by Starrman
No way! Asimov rocks!

Aside from that, the worst book I have ever read would be Elf Queen Shannarah by Terry Brookes. It was so fricking rubbish I actually burnt it in a fit of revulsion. I have never burnt a book before or since and I still think it deserved it. The idea that there are talented unpublished authors out there who never get the chance ...[text shortened]... infuriates me. It is about as good as Blobby's 'how to win friends and influence people'....
I thought Ayn Rand wrote "Atlas shrugged"???

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Here's a controversial one.........
The Bible.

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Originally posted by jimslyp69
Here's a controversial one.........
The Bible.
Indeed, I didn't even read the title, I just objected to Asimov being criticised. Did they mean Asimov or Rand?

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Originally posted by shavixmir
I thought Ayn Rand wrote "Atlas shrugged"???
She did and its pretty boring

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Originally posted by Joe Fist
She did and its pretty boring
So who's this Assimov they're talking about then?

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Being the inspiration for this thread, I'll copy and paste my post from the Godfather 1 vs. Godfather 2 thread:

Forget the movies. Has anyone read the new The Godfather Returns book by Mark Winegardener? It is... BY FAR.... the WORST book I've ever read in my entire life. I've never even seen a movie I hated as much as this book. There are literally almost a dozen sex scenes, and (this isn't a big revelation or anything), Fredo turns out to be a homosexual. It is so, so, SO freakin' awful. I've literally thrown the book across the room probably five times now just out of frustration of what has happened to what started out as one of the greatest stories ever told. This guy has completely killed it. Completely. The Godfather 3 was The Godfather 2 compared to this freakin' thing.


-Kev