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Started by Razgovory, July 06, 2011, 10:41:56 AM

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Razgovory

July 06, 2011, 10:41:56 AM
Pretty self-explanatory.  Worst book I ever read was Jonathan Livingston Seagull.  Required reading for an 8th grade  English class.  Even as a dimwitted teenager I could figure out that it was bullshit.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Ed Anger

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July 06, 2011, 10:44:59 AM Last Edit: July 06, 2011, 10:46:57 AM by Ed Anger
Fire Lance by David Mace.

http://www.amazon.com/Fire-Lance-David-Mace/dp/0441235883

A close second, Grunts  or Fitzpatrick's War.

My pet school hate was Flowers for Algernon. EVERY FUCKING YEAR 6TH GRADE AND UP IT IS WAS ASSIGNED.
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Josephus

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July 06, 2011, 10:45:56 AM
Roughing it in the bush by Susannah Moody. Required Can.Lit reading. Turgid, horrible.
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mongers

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July 06, 2011, 10:49:11 AM
Worst book you ever read ?

The one I'm about to write.  :contract:
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Barrister

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July 06, 2011, 10:50:50 AM
It's probably not the worst book I ever read, since it is I guess considered an important work (and I've read my share of objectively crappy fantasy and sci fi novels), but the book I despised reading was Tess of the D'Ubervilles.  It just went on and on, and I had to force myself to read each page. :bleeding:
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July 06, 2011, 11:02:56 AM
Catcher in the Rye.
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Pedrito

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July 06, 2011, 11:03:55 AM
Too many to list.

Luckily, when they were not mandatory for school reasons, I simply throw them in a  corner.
Several so-called "masterpieces" I've found unreadable: Crime and Punishment;Ulysses; almost every theatre piece I've read rather than attended to the play; others I don't recall right now.

I'm crawling through War and Peace right now, if the pace doesn't change in the next 20 pages I'm ready to throw away this one too.

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Drakken

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July 06, 2011, 11:06:57 AM
Mein Kampf, closely followed by Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism by Lenin.

As much as I love the subject, I've found On War by Clausewitz to be nigh-on unreadable, but it could be because of bad translation work.

Razgovory

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July 06, 2011, 11:22:19 AM
Quote from: Pedrito on July 06, 2011, 11:03:55 AM
Too many to list.

Luckily, when they were not mandatory for school reasons, I simply throw them in a  corner.
Several so-called "masterpieces" I've found unreadable: Crime and Punishment;Ulysses; almost every theatre piece I've read rather than attended to the play; others I don't recall right now.

I'm crawling through War and Peace right now, if the pace doesn't change in the next 20 pages I'm ready to throw away this one too.

L.

Oh that reminds me.  I had to read Frankenstein my senior year in high school.  The book is terrible.  The plot often hinges on bizarre coincidence and serendipity, though that's seemed to be common in writing at the time.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

garbon

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July 06, 2011, 11:25:21 AM
Four Blondes by Candace Bushnell

I forget its name but I also have a book about a bisexual vampire that drinks blood to get erections...<_<
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July 06, 2011, 11:34:06 AM
Worst book finished was possibly Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks. Goodkind's Wizard's First Rule was worse but I didn't finish it.

Worst from a writer considered respectable would be Mary Shelley's The Last Man. Or Heinlein's Time Enough for Love if you want to call him respectable.
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Razgovory

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July 06, 2011, 11:35:39 AM
I bet Sword of Shannara is better if you haven't read Tolkien first.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Solmyr

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July 06, 2011, 11:44:28 AM
Death of a Darklord, an obscure AD&D Ravenloft novel from the nineties. While the quality of AD&D novels varied (some were quite good), this one was absolutely horrible.

Grey Fox

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July 06, 2011, 11:48:03 AM
Le Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac. I read 30 pages of it. I think I was only in sentence number 5.
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grumbler

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July 06, 2011, 11:53:52 AM
Quote from: Drakken on July 06, 2011, 11:06:57 AM
Mein Kampf,
You have the winner right there.  Worst. book. ever.
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