Mine's Siddhartha. Ugh. Worst, most crappy, boring book ever!
2007-08-09 10:58:38 · 29 answers · asked by hottiecj *~♥~*~♥~* 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
It's not really a book, it's a play, but reading "Waiting for Godot" was absolute TORTURE!! Ugh! Just thinking about it makes me cringe. And "The Crocodile" was stupid too. Basically, I would rather lay on a a fireant nest than read anything existentialist.
And "Death of a Salesman" is right up there, too.
2007-08-09 15:55:48 · update #1
Anything by Ernest Hemingway. Any assigned Hemingway book wound up on my floor for the semester in which it was assigned. Stilted, angry writing with very little redeeming value isn't worth my time.
2007-08-09 12:35:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
I am surprised that some of you thought really good books boring, like Hemingway or Heller. It's a matter of perspective I guess.
But you know there are certain books for which you just have to grow up both literally and figuratively before you can truly appreciate it. I had many authors which I hated, like Shakespeare and Dickens. And about seven years ago I would have said that the worst book ever was Dante's Inferno, I had so much trouble understanding and reading it. Now, I can truly say it's a masterpiece and so are Shakespeare's works, too.
The worst book I ever read was....hmmm I don't even remember the title or the author, but it was something about a girl who run away from home. I just took it out of the library and started to read, but after a few pages I realized that it's not worth it. That was a book specially written for foreign learners of English, probably that's why it was so bad.
One author I like to avoid though is Joseph Conrad. I don't hate his fiction, but I don't enjoy reading it either, although he was a master of the language. But his stories just don't take my breath away.
2007-08-09 13:59:14 · answer #2 · answered by bluepearl 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-02 00:13:52 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
House by Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti. It was pathetic. The two of them together couldn't manage complete sentences. It was written like this.
Frank runs. Goes around the corner. Stops. Listens. Runs again. Faster. Hears a voice. Stops. Listens.
ARGGGGHHH... It drove me freaking nuts!!
It was about a bunch of people running around in this maze in a basement that must have been the size of Yankee Stadium. You couldn't keep up with who was where. This retarded guy kept trying to get the girls to eat dog food. It was a total joke. The so called ending that was going to surprise and shock the reader was a total cliche and I figured it out on about page 50. I hated the book so much I returned it to B and N and asked for my money back. They happily complied. Pax- C
2007-08-09 11:48:06 · answer #4 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Whoever said a Christmas Carol is in Old English is wrong, and it's pretty short, too.
Anyway, I won't finish a book that is really bad. A tried to read The Little Friend, and couldn't finish it. Just never got into it.
I also didn't like Faulkner's novella The Bear. Or Moliere's Tartuffe.
Anything I was ever assigned in HS I thought was pretty good. College was a different story.
2007-08-09 13:38:14 · answer #5 · answered by Silly Sally 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I couldn't finish Siddhartha either.
The worst was Needing Ghosts by Ramsey Campbell.
2007-08-09 13:23:44 · answer #6 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser. I had to read it for a history class in college, and I just hated every second of it. Carrie was such a dumb character I thought, I really wanted her to die at the end. I was quite disappointed that she didn't.
2007-08-09 17:59:39 · answer #7 · answered by DngrsAngl 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Siddhartha was pretty bad - I didn;t find it boring, but it *was* bad.
But the worst of all time is Bored of the Rings. Really. Not Lord of the Rings, but the take-off Bored of the Rings.
What a waste of two bucks!
Jim, http://www.life-after-harry-potter.com
2007-08-09 12:25:22 · answer #8 · answered by JimPettis 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
"Mission Earth" by L Ron Hubbard (Scientology's founder), when I was writing a novel about an evil cult and thought it might be useful as research. It is so terrible that I believe anybody who's considering taking up Scientology should be forced to read it, at gunpoint if necessary.
2007-08-09 11:22:12 · answer #9 · answered by Citizen Justin 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie- although in all fairness, I was so bored I didn't make it too far into the novel, so maybe it doesn't count after all?
2007-08-09 12:02:58 · answer #10 · answered by AG98 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"A Gathering of Old Men"
It was dull, confusing, and lame, they kept changing point of view, and there were so many literary mistakes!.-- My ninth grade English teacher set it for the class last year, no one liked it.
Haha, I'm quoting one of my classmates:
"Who wants to read about old men getting together?"
(Even though that wasn't really what the book was about, I always laugh real hard when I think about that.)
2007-08-09 11:08:10 · answer #11 · answered by Greek 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋