How about the dumbest book ever?
70- Below-average Joe
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Anyone ever read a book where at the very end as you close the back cover you say to yourself, "What a piece of crap" and had no idea why you stuck with it?
For me, "The DaVinci Code". It sold 8 bazillion copies and I was told it was really good by so many people. I finally read it to see what the hoopla was all about. Never listen to the masses. Terrible book. It read like he knew he was writing it to be a movie. The pace of the novel is quick, which is it's only redeeming value because it meant that it was over quick.
Oh yeah, "Flowers in the Attic" was pretty bad too. Never listen to your sister either.
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Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (Or however her surname is spelt)
Or any of the Harry Potter books.
99- Uninvited Writer
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I can't remember any really bad books, I usually don't get very far if I hate them
I got some fantasy/mystery thing to review and barely got beyond the 1st chapter.
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Below-average Joe wrote:
Anyone ever read a book where at the very end as you close the back cover you say to yourself, "What a piece of crap" and had no idea why you stuck with it?
For me, "The DaVinci Code". It sold 8 bazillion copies and I was told it was really good by so many people. I finally read it to see what the hoopla was all about. Never listen to the masses. Terrible book. It read like he knew he was writing it to be a movie. The pace of the novel is quick, which is it's only redeeming value because it meant that it was over quick.
Oh yeah, "Flowers in the Attic" was pretty bad too. Never listen to your sister either.yes that has happened to me. i can't remember the name of the book but i did have the same reaction..."what a piece of crap". hmm, maybe it WAS the DaVinci Code...
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Dynanetix By L. Ron Hubbard
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bloodnlatex wrote:
Dynanetix By L. Ron Hubbard
it is incredible to think that he spawned a whole "religion" after a bet with a friend.
or so i have heard. 
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer.
it was MUCH too experimental and had too little redeeming value. plus, the main character is a little bitch.I TRIED reading "Pilgrim's Progress." I didn't know what I was getting into but it was a snooze...it was on a college reading list and bleh.
Oh, Dreiser's (or whatever his name is) Sister Carrie is a book I despise. So droll.
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It really depends on the individual who is reading said book. Their age group, religion, personal taste, and even how much the book has been 'hyped up' by others. One rule of thumb I live by is: keep your expectations low & you can never be dissapointed!
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torimari wrote:
I TRIED reading "Pilgrim's Progress." I didn't know what I was getting into but it was a snooze...it was on a college reading list and bleh.
Oh, Dreiser's (or whatever his name is) Sister Carrie is a book I despise. So droll.I really liked Sister Carrie if I recall correctly
I read Pilgrim's Progress also... I think I made it through, but just barely. Uninvited Writer wrote:
torimari wrote:
I TRIED reading "Pilgrim's Progress." I didn't know what I was getting into but it was a snooze...it was on a college reading list and bleh.
Oh, Dreiser's (or whatever his name is) Sister Carrie is a book I despise. So droll.I really liked Sister Carrie if I recall correctly
I read Pilgrim's Progress also... I think I made it through, but just barely.*cringe*
Uninvited Writer wrote:
torimari wrote:
I TRIED reading "Pilgrim's Progress." I didn't know what I was getting into but it was a snooze...it was on a college reading list and bleh.
Oh, Dreiser's (or whatever his name is) Sister Carrie is a book I despise. So droll.I really liked Sister Carrie if I recall correctly
I read Pilgrim's Progress also... I think I made it through, but just barely.That was a brilliant book, one of my favs !
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Uninvited Writer wrote:
torimari wrote:
I TRIED reading "Pilgrim's Progress." I didn't know what I was getting into but it was a snooze...it was on a college reading list and bleh.
Oh, Dreiser's (or whatever his name is) Sister Carrie is a book I despise. So droll.I really liked Sister Carrie if I recall correctly
I read Pilgrim's Progress also... I think I made it through, but just barely.That was a brilliant book, one of my favs !
You silly girl as if you could get the meaning of John Bunyan, you sound like some silly college girl being given a reading list !
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. My son just had to read this, he begged me to read it to him because he didn't think he could stand it. I see what he meant.
One of the questions he was asked on it was: Do you think it should have ended differently? His answer was: No, this was the right ending, any other ending might have made sense and that wouldn't have fit with this story.HealthTip wrote:
Thirteen wrote:
Uninvited Writer wrote:
I really liked Sister Carrie if I recall correctly
I read Pilgrim's Progress also... I think I made it through, but just barely.That was a brilliant book, one of my favs !
You silly girl as if you could get the meaning of John Bunyan, you sound like some silly college girl being given a reading list !
My bad if I'm wrong to assume this was for me but, yes, it was on my reading list from college last year. Regardless, though I didn't finish Pilgrim's Progress, I still graduated with my English BA and an overall 3.8. Maybe if I appreciated Bunyan's dry writing more I'd have a 3.9. Wah.
Just because they are classics, doesn't mean they are always masterpieces to everyone or hold everyone's interest.torimari wrote:
HealthTip wrote:
Thirteen wrote:
That was a brilliant book, one of my favs !You silly girl as if you could get the meaning of John Bunyan, you sound like some silly college girl being given a reading list !
My bad if I'm wrong to assume this was for me but, yes, it was on my reading list from college last year. Regardless, though I didn't finish Pilgrim's Progress, I still graduated with my English BA and an overall 3.8. Maybe if I appreciated Bunyan's dry writing more I'd have a 3.9. Wah.
Just because they are classics, doesn't mean they are always masterpieces to everyone or hold everyone's interest.Just messing with you my friend, no offence meant for some reason I actually liked this book, I blame a sad religious period in my mid teens, please don't take offence
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if after the first 50 pages it doesn't grab me, I put it down.
1984 by Orwell. It was boring. I still don't understand the hype about it.
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Breaking Dawn, by Stephenie Meyer.
Let's count the ways: Biologically impossible baby, most horrifically graphic birth scene ever in which the situation is fraught with medical inaccuracies (placentas can detach without the baby suffocating OR the mother projectile-vomiting blood, FYI) then Death Baby is immediately snatched up by a pedophile who used to be hot for her mom. Cue Death Baby's parents pretending to care about her while foisting her off on the other Mormons--I mean vampires--while they go off and have sex.
And Bella turns into the biggest Mary Sue vamp of them all.
Oh, and all the tension leads up to...a non-battle, in which once the Baddies realize their mistake, it's all "Oh. Okay. Bye, then." And then it's "perfect circle of forever."
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For me it was the Queen Victoria birthday edition of Hustler ... by Larry Flintstone
