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"One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. A whole book about one day in Russian prison. He went on for about five pages about a shovel. A shovel. For five pages. And me, being the idiot that I am, thought I'd give him another try by readin "The Gulag Archipelago". Awful. Just awful.

2006-12-14 02:02:11 · answer #1 · answered by hotdoggiegirl 5 · 1 0

I went to a Christian high school, and when I was there the fashion was to read those Frank Peretti books. I read "The Oath" from cover to cover, and it was probably the worst thing I've ever read. Just out-and-out terrible -- predictable, puerile, pathetic. Peretti is sort of like the Dean Koontz of Christian fiction, I think.

I sort of wish that I still had it so that I could quote some of the dialogue for you. Even just on a sentence-by-sentence basis, the writing is so obvious and wooden as to raise the question of how Peretti ever came to be an author in the first place. Who would publish this? Why do people read it?

Actually the quality of Peretti's prose isn't the worst part of the book, although it is absolute garbage in its own right. The worst part is the way that it legitimates a kind of smug, holier-than-thou Christian mentality while simultaneously offering Christians violence, gore, sex and horror in a tidy Christian package. The hypocrisy of the thing is just mind-boggling.

2006-12-13 13:27:09 · answer #2 · answered by Drew 6 · 1 1

I am a John Irving fan (I've read 10 so far) and many of his books are counted among my faves - Son Of the Circus, Owen Meany, Cider House Rules. But his last book Until I Find You was horrible. I never even finished it and that rarely happens. The characters were awful,not one that you could feel any empathy for or like in any way. There was some pretty nasty stuff going on in the book that seemed gratutious rather than part of the plot. A huge disappointment.

2006-12-13 13:41:47 · answer #3 · answered by digitsis 4 · 0 0

The Odyssey. It was the toughest book I have read. Although, the story was great, the word choice that was translated was so difficult. I put the book down and never touched it again.

But, Troy the movie was very understandable. It had very descriptive detailed informatives that gave distinctive clues for the end.

2006-12-13 13:31:21 · answer #4 · answered by nbamlw31 1 · 0 1

Malinche from Laura Esquivel. She is a Mexican writer who wrote Like water for chocolate. That one was very good and the movie is so beautiful. I don't know what happened to her with this one. Has many errors, many, many word repeated in the same page, paragraph and sentences (in Spanish you always try to avoid that) and in general the book is way below the expectations, being Malinche a historical character, known to many.

2006-12-13 15:02:39 · answer #5 · answered by Victoria 4 · 0 0

Any book by Barbara Cartland! It is the same book over and over again. They are so called historical novels in which a decadent and aristocratic (and rich) man meets poor virgin and they live happily ever after...

She wrote about a zillion of these books....

2006-12-13 13:25:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

If a book doesn't keep me interested in the first few pages I don't read it. Therefore, I have never read a bad book.

2006-12-13 13:27:36 · answer #7 · answered by Lil' Bossy 2 · 1 0

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. Endlessly, tediously, phenomenally dull.

2006-12-13 14:15:32 · answer #8 · answered by Superdog 7 · 0 0

This one took me a while to figure out, but I've got it!

The Satanic Bible - Anton LaVey Somethingorother.

Totally craaaaazy and stupid. I suggest never picking it up.

2006-12-13 23:49:07 · answer #9 · answered by Multi 3 · 1 0

I don't remember the title, but it was by Danielle Steele. It was written poorly, the characters were unbelievable, and I just couldn't finish it.

2006-12-13 13:21:32 · answer #10 · answered by MOM KNOWS EVERYTHING 7 · 0 0

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