In your opinion, what is the worst book you have ever read?

Answer 1

Digital Fortress by Dan Brown

This clumsy attempt at a suspense novel leaves the reader angry that he/she wasted their time. The plot is implausible and predictable. The technological base of the novel is fundamentally flawed. The characters do not develop in any meaningful way. And to top it off, Dan Brown's writing is uninspired.

Dan Brown is a formula writer. The Da Vinci Code illustrates his model: stereotypical characters, secret society subplot, and short chapters that switch between competing plot lines. In Digital Fortress, the formula is not fully developed. Without this formula, the reader has to focus on the plot and writing itself. Dan Brown fails miserably. There is no reason for a reader to be entertained by this book and I wonder how it got published in the first place.

Answer 2

Eclipse, Stephanie Meyer. I know lots of people liked it, but it was so...uninteresting? Boring? Predictable? Cliche? Unsuspenseful? It was everything I wouldn't want to read about again. The characters didn't change, in fact they just took a head dive into my worst characters ever, list. I read it and didn't evern realize I'd been reading a 600+ book, it felt like it could've been condensed into 20 pages.

I also hated Mirage, by this author--what's her face? Her last name was something like Kashagoogi or something like that. I got it the first time and read it up to like the 70th page, put it down and didn't look at it until I had to return to the library. I got bored and decided to take a look at it again. Got to almost the few pages, about 20 pages away and I quit it because the protaganist was so damn annoying. I wanted her to get killed, that's what I was looking forward too, but it wasn't going to happen.

The WORST book I've ever read would have to be Blood and Chocolate. My least favorite thing--blood--and my favorite thing--chocolate. I saw the commercial for the movie and thought it looked pretty good. Lots of fighting, action and some romance, my kind of stuff. But I read the book--it took me two tries again--and it was just about some conceited, condescending, innapropriate werewolf who was horny all the time. I mean, she was looking to be screwed. That's all the book talked about. Again, I had like 20 pages to finish and I just shut and never bat an eyelash in it's direction ever again. The character was the worst I'd read about. So far.

Enough with my ranting. Good question though.

Answer 3

Breaking daybreak by ability of Stephenie Meyer. It improve into very poorly written, the characters have been all very out of character and lacked intensity, the plot lacked intensity and had plotholes, the writing skills are comparible to that of a midsection schooler, and Meyer broke a lot of her very own policies to grant her characters a happy ending, which don't have existed in any respect. in actuality it lacked company and stable high quality. And for the 2d component of the question, it relies upon on the e book. If i comprehend it is properly-known or a classic, i'm going to attend it out extra. i'm going to offer a e book like that extra of a huge gamble than one i've got by no ability heard of, in the past. I mean, if a e book is properly-known, there ought to be some rationalization for it. i like to locate it out. Edit: I agree, yet BD improve into by ability of a ways the worst of the series. So I had to declare it. Edit2: do no longer worry approximately it. as a fashion to stay to tell the tale interior the B&a factor, you ought to comprehend that saying something that tricks at your being in choose or against Twilight or Harry Potter will in maximum circumstances immediately get you a thumbs down. extraordinarily for a question like this, haha.

Answer 4

I picked up a trashy romance novel once, on a dare...

It was horrible! The author could not weave words together at all. The book was full of grammatical errors and typos. All over the place.

And as for the sex scenes... I knew more about the sex scenes than the author did, and I haven't had it. Geez.

There was very little plot, and the characters were only motivated by getting sex in the next scene.

*Shudder* Never again. Nevermore, quoth the Raven, nevermore.

Answer 5

The Sterkarm Handshake. I forgot the author. It was the only book I started that I have never finished. It was good at first, but then became horribly violent and pointlessly cruel. I have never read a worse book and advise everybody, regardless of the types of books you like, not to read it.

Answer 6

Most self-help books. They are written so poorly, with short chunks, big headings, sensational language, and are obviously geared toward people whose problems include an inability to read. I agree 'Who Moved My Cheese' was awful. I was recently given "Captivating" by somebody. The authors began drawing examples from classic literature, and I soon realized that they were quoting the movies, not the books.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach. That was awful. I could never understand the hype over that.

Answer 7

Pieces of Payne by Albert Goldbarth.

I had to read it for a class, it was something like 70 pages of jumping back and forth from 8 different plots followed by about 150 pages of footnotes on random topics.

I ended up dropping that class.

Answer 8

For me it was Eragon. I am somewhat jaded, however, because I'm a huge Anne McCaffrey fan (Dragonriders of Pern series). This is the first time I can remember not finishing a book (even if that meant skimming through it). The dragon similarities were partially to blame (like Pern), but so was the style of writing.

Answer 9

Werewolf Vs Vampire Woman, by Arthur N. Scarm, the only horror novel thatr gets its true sense of horror from its sentence structure.

Answer 10

Everything Bad is Good for You by Steven Johnson