Jacoby746 Posted December 11, 2010 Report Share Posted December 11, 2010 The worst book I've read was Dr. Jeckal and Mr. Hyde. It wasn't that it was bad, but I just couldn't understand it, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DARKPLANT RISING Posted December 11, 2010 Report Share Posted December 11, 2010 [quote name='Jacoby746' timestamp='1292054835' post='4843786'] The worst book I've read was Dr. Jeckal and Mr. Hyde. It wasn't that it was bad, but I just couldn't understand it, [/quote] Most old novels tend to be written in Ancient Egyptian. I read several stuff now complimented upon a lot, and they were as hard as hell to decode.[quote name='Dark' timestamp='1292025289' post='4842593'] Forced reading isn't that bad; a few things I was forced to read were quite good[/quote] Yeah. Gotaifumanzoku, a biography I was forced to read based on a man who was born without arms or legs, was seriously funny. Ryoma Ga Yuku (based on Sakamoto Ryoma, a samurai of the late Edo period who ended the samurais' rule) was also awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waterwhip Posted December 18, 2010 Report Share Posted December 18, 2010 The first Narnia book, the great train robbery and the grim grotto are awful The first narnia book was slow i stopped the great train robbery on page 30 the grim grotto was just water everywhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake Posted December 18, 2010 Report Share Posted December 18, 2010 >Slow = Bad One of my favorite books is horribly slow. Until near the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrystalCyae Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 A lot of books I read are slow, but those are some of my favorites. One book, The Floods: Prime Suspect, was reasonably slow to get to the main point, which was who the hell killed Professor Randolf Opengraves. At about page 50, I stopped. I do that a lot. Then I picked it up again, continued to read, and finished. As I said, it started slow, but it got better. Same goes for a lot of books I've read. Except The Red Pyramid. That just kicked slowness down to the deepest level of the Duat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waterwhip Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 [quote name='Obsidan' timestamp='1292743861' post='4863898'] A lot of books I read are slow, but those are some of my favorites. One book, The Floods: Prime Suspect, was reasonably slow to get to the main point, which was who the hell killed Professor Randolf Opengraves. At about page 50, I stopped. I do that a lot. Then I picked it up again, continued to read, and finished. As I said, it started slow, but it got better. Same goes for a lot of books I've read. Except The Red Pyramid. That just kicked slowness down to the deepest level of the Duat. [/quote] the first book in a series is always pretty slow but the other books get faster i myself dont think it was slow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
<}Alpha Frogodile{> Posted December 20, 2010 Report Share Posted December 20, 2010 the worst books ever are ones based off of kids movies. Yes, they, do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrystalCyae Posted December 20, 2010 Report Share Posted December 20, 2010 I reckon movies based off books are worse. Say it's....... Twilight. You read the book, and you like them. Then you have a image of what you think the characters look like. You enjoy imagining them in your head. Then they make a movie from that book. It spoils what you thought the characters look like. (not to mention Twilight in itself is bad) [quote] the worst books ever are ones based off of kids movies. Yes, they, do that. [/quote] When did they do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xazeon Posted December 21, 2010 Report Share Posted December 21, 2010 I read The Giver in 6th grade and I didn't like it; my teacher explained some things in it so it wasn't a lack of explanation. I just found it boring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Gamesmaster Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 [quote name='Obsidan' timestamp='1292808048' post='4866124'] I reckon movies based off books are worse. Say it's....... Twilight. You read the book, and you like them. Then you have a image of what you think the characters look like. You enjoy imagining them in your head. Then they make a movie from that book. It spoils what you thought the characters look like. (not to mention Twilight in itself is bad) When did they do that? [/quote]Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. When I first saw that, my first reaction was *headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk*. But I liked [i]The Giver.[/i] [i]Eldest[/i] (Chris Paolini) and the Twilight series are the worst books I can think of ibidem (that isn't funny like [i]The Eye of Argon[/i]). [i]The Lost World[/i] was also pretty awful, especially seeing how good that guy's other books (read: Sherlock Holmes) are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickiMinaj Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 Okay... This is like my ranting space. LoL I'm an English Major... so seeing this just made me so damn happy. Books I absolutely hated... There's a list really. One of them that really bored me to death, and I had to read it for one of my assignments in college was [u][b]My Name is Asher Lev[/b][/u]. I didn't like the sense of Motifs in that book, and I'm pretty sure my English professor was high when he made me read that because in my analysis essay on the books diction, deeper meaning, and translation to current society, I wrote about how the book represents oppression of self expression and got a B. I guess I didn't understand the book, and that's why I did not like it, but it was just awful. To top it all off, the book dragged on. It wouldn't stop when it needed to, and there was a lot of unnecessary dialect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catterjune Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 [quote name='Petrosian' timestamp='1291791751' post='4837512'] ITT: kids rave about how much they hate decent books which they were forced to read because they only ever read books they were forced to read. [/quote] Reading is like sex. If you're forced to do it when you're a kid, you won't enjoy it when you're older. ... I bet I'll regret saying that quote sometime later on. But yeah, no one ever enjoys being forced to do something. Let kids find a book they want to read, rather then forcing one on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abe - Demonic Sammich Guy Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 [quote name='PikaPerson01' timestamp='1295148151' post='4937337'] Reading is like sex. If you're forced to do it when you're a kid, you won't enjoy it when you're older. [/quote] I most likley will get negged for this but why would a little kid have sex if they want to? their genetailia is not fully developed! Aside from nitpicking, I thought that the catcher in the rye is good unlike some other peoples. I think that the sense of personality and Holden being an annoying prick actually adds to the story and such. Plus, Holden acts pr*ckish because he lost his brothers, his friends and can't go back home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeXodus Posted January 17, 2011 Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 After reading some of the comments, (four pages D:) I've come to the conclusion that you people aren't staying on topic. The topic is awful/bad books but you can't just say a book is bad because it bores you. That would be a book you didn't enjoy, not a book that is awful DIFFERENCE. Which a lot of you do not understand, and then I wonder because half the books I read on this thread or classics from the 60's or lower so I question how you get mixed up with "a book you don't enjoy" and "an awful book". Either you're adults who can't tell the difference, or kids/teens who were forced to read those books and didn't like them because your a kid/teen. I mean I go onto Wikipedia (yes no lifer here) and look up the book that is posted it has boat loads of awards (or no reception section at all)! Are you just trying your best to be an outsider or what? I haven't read any "awful books" but I can say that Nightlife and Starcarrier are a bore to me. I guess I need plot and characters at the beginning instead of plot, characters, action, then dialogue, more plot and characters... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Nu-13 Posted January 17, 2011 Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 [i]Crusaders[/i] I bet that no one outisde of Poland heard of it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickiMinaj Posted January 17, 2011 Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 [quote name='Chillaccino' timestamp='1295227214' post='4939695'] [i]Crusaders[/i] I bet that no one outisde of Poland heard of it... [/quote] LoL I have... On of the books mentioned for a project i had to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Gamesmaster Posted January 17, 2011 Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 Okay seriously am I the only person who likes those books we read in class? I haven't had a bad one yet. You need to pick out books that are poorly written, whose characters you despise, and whose plots stupefy you (for me, [i]Eldest[/i], the Twilight saga, and [i]The Lost World[/i]). And when I say "stupefy you," I don't mean "are above your level of understanding." I mean "are so bad you don't understand how someone could possibly have come up with it." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickiMinaj Posted January 17, 2011 Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 [quote name='Supreme Gamesmaster' timestamp='1295283362' post='4940801'] Okay seriously am I the only person who likes those books we read in class? I haven't had a bad one yet. You need to pick out books that are poorly written, whose characters you despise, and whose plots stupefy you (for me, [i]Eldest[/i], the Twilight saga, and [i]The Lost World[/i]). And when I say "stupefy you," I don't mean "are above your level of understanding." I mean "are so bad you don't understand how someone could possibly have come up with it." [/quote] MY NAME IS ASHER LEV.... I'm telling you... that books just... wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Apollo~ Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 Frickin' [u]The Island[/u] by Gary Paulsen This is the only Paulsen book that has no action at all. You can call this the book that has no plot. A teen boy finds an island and goes there to find himself and his favorite thing to do is act and "dance" like a loon (the bird.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DARKPLANT RISING Posted February 15, 2011 Report Share Posted February 15, 2011 [quote name='abethedemonicsammich' timestamp='1295218531' post='4939348'] I most likley will get negged for this but why would a little kid have sex if they want to? their genetailia is not fully developed![/quote] I agree with you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zektor Posted February 16, 2011 Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 well eragon was slow IMO, i didn't feel like reading it and was reading 4 other books, so it was slow. Eldest was betther though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DARKPLANT RISING Posted February 16, 2011 Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 [quote name='Genex Firefox' timestamp='1297814585' post='5011232'] well eragon was slow IMO, i didn't feel like reading it and was reading 4 other books, so it was slow. Eldest was betther though [/quote] IMO Eldest was even worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue- eyes white dragon777 Posted February 16, 2011 Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 Eldest was great. Eragon was slow until 3/4 of the way through. Brisingir was meh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zektor Posted February 16, 2011 Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 well eldest was slow, but better, and brising'r was still slow. If books aren't slow I usually finish them in 2 days tops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fusion X. Denver Posted February 17, 2011 Report Share Posted February 17, 2011 I didn't like Robinson Crusoe. I was forced to read it in 6th grade because each of the kids in our class were doing their own reading project, it was just me reading it. It sucked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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