"Worst" can mean anything you want it to (horrible plot, bad dialogue, not of interest to you or anyone else, lame charaters etc).You be the judge. Thanks for your info.
2006-11-18 11:32:28 · 30 answers · asked by LongAgo 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The Historian by someone called Kostova. It is a book in the Davinci Code vein. I can read anything, on an airplane as a guy? I can read a romance for fun. I can sit and read a cereal box when eating..... but this is the first book ever that I just went this is horrible and get to the point.
2006-11-18 11:39:37 · answer #1 · answered by jackson 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. I had to read this for my english class in high school and as much of a classic it is I despised everything about the book. Even if I had read it on my own time or in another class I still would've hated it because the dialog, the plot, the characters, just everything about that book grated against my tastes and nerves in literature.
2006-11-18 11:38:20 · answer #2 · answered by dancerinthedark 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, I know everyone reading this will probably want to kill me after this, but I would have to say Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I understand that the book is a classic, but I have ever read any book so boring in my life!
2006-11-18 12:10:52 · answer #3 · answered by isayssoccer 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The most overrated books I've ever read are "The Great Gatsby" bu F. Scott Fitzgerald and also "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia. They are both considered classics and are also usually on just about ANY critic's Top 20 list. But I found "Gatsby" incredibly boring, and "100 years" just plain self-induglent and silly, like a little kid trying to make-up a fairy tale.
I also agree with Perelandr about Hemingway: definately the most overrated American author, ever. Period!
2006-11-18 12:05:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
The Hatchet is awesome the Old Man and the Sea was ok . Tuck Everlasting was a bit boring but I couldn't read a single page of the Redwall series, it is too confusing.
The Chronicles of Narnia was awsome too.
2006-11-18 14:46:23 · answer #5 · answered by dark_fire_456 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
well, i thought stephen king's "the shining" was pretty lame. It was a great book until he had to ruin it with something that i forgot what it was. I think it was something about some hedges shaped like animals that came to life and started chasing someone. i dont really know what happened cause i skipped that part. i think the movie was a whole lot better.
2006-11-18 11:36:54 · answer #6 · answered by Major Tom 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Hatchet.
I remember virtually nothing about my 6th grade English class, except that we read (and loathed) that book, and that Edmund was retarded for falling for the White Witch over a helping of Turkish Delight. The stuff STINKS!
2006-11-18 12:15:25 · answer #7 · answered by CrazyChick 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Koko. The single most depraved tome I've ever had the misfortune to pick up. It was the only book I could not finish because I found it so disturbing.
2006-11-18 16:57:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The least favorite book is Simillion by J.R.R. Tolkien. I loved the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings--but I was unable to finish reading this book even though I tried four times. It is one of three books that I have been unable to finish in my lifetime. Since I have read three books a week for over 20 years--I think that says a lot.
2006-11-18 11:50:11 · answer #9 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Portnoy's Complaint by Phillip Roth
It's about a young man who can't control his need to masturbate. The worst scene is when he uses the meat which his mother plans to use for supper.
2006-11-18 12:15:43 · answer #10 · answered by downinthevalley45 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋