Worst book you ever read?

[The Brain]

An untitled autobiography of Slargos.

That has got to be boring. 

"Wednesday, Sold a cabinet"

"Thursday sold three cabinets".

"Friday, sold no cabinets.  Thought I saw Jew.  It was probably his fault".

"Saturday, parents called to tell me they are ashamed of me again, like they do every Saturday".

"Sunday, saw a Muslim.  Might be a Somali.  Hid in the bushes for six hours till he left".

[Josquius]

The bible.
1633: The Canon Law.
Catch 22.
All of the above I've tried to read but could never get far in.

[Threviel]

Wizards first rule series. The first book was kinda okayish för a commuting read. I just had to read the rest of them, in the end just to see where the fuck he was going with it. 

[LaCroix]

i guess i sorta hate 1984, but more because of how it tends to influence some in certain ways

[Richard Hakluyt]

I greatly disliked Wuthering Heights 

[Norgy]

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.

I can empathise.
I loathed that book. I also loathed some of the books that were required reading for quantitative analysis, but they weren't bad, just boring.

I guess the worst book would be one that I managed to finish. "The Holy Blood & The Holy Grail" is rather horrible with all the "shocking" revelations. But it's probably not the worst. Most likely Alex Scarrow's "A Thousand Suns" is the worst book I actually finished.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Thomas Hardy is very difficult. He can be such a miserable bore, but OTOH he is a superb chronicler of the lives of "ordinary" folk of that period 

I usually feel very satisfied after reading a Hardy book..............but don't rush to get the next one 

[Slargos]

As with all such things, I tend to block them from my mind in order to make the hurt go away so I always have trouble naming them.

After brief consideration (and peering at some entries here), I will have to go with:

Time Enough for Love
Mein Kampf
The Bible

I only very rarely have to force myself through litterature, even when it is atrocious, but some texts simply defy my best efforts.

[Zoupa]

Teeth of the Tiger by Tom Clancy.  Rainbow Six, with eco terrorists wanting to destroy humanity was when he really began to lose it, Teeth of the Tiger, which I bet was ghost written, was beyond shit.

Holy shit 

From wiki's plot summary: Brian is unsure of the morality of carrying out preemptive assassinations, even against terrorists. This changes when cells of Islamic fundamentalists cross the U.S.-Mexico border armed with MAC-10 sub-machine guns and attack several suburban malls.

Gold.

[Octavian]

This one: http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Holy-Roman-Empire/dp/1413754732/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1310029669&sr=8-13

[Darth Wagtaros]

Bear adn the Dragon was shit too.  but Teeth of the Tiger was beyond crap. 

[Darth Wagtaros]

Teeth of the Tiger by Tom Clancy.  Rainbow Six, with eco terrorists wanting to destroy humanity was when he really began to lose it, Teeth of the Tiger, which I bet was ghost written, was beyond shit.

Holy shit 

From wiki's plot summary: Brian is unsure of the morality of carrying out preemptive assassinations, even against terrorists. This changes when cells of Islamic fundamentalists cross the U.S.-Mexico border armed with MAC-10 sub-machine guns and attack several suburban malls.

Gold.

Yeah.  The build up through out the book was "the American heartland will at last experience war!!!!!1111".  Turns out a bunch of tools with sub machine guns go to shoot up a couple of GAPs.  The hardworking and moral Americans are already heavily armed and super brave mange to shoot all of them within seconds of the terrarists opening fire.  Anti-climactic would be an understatement.

[CountDeMoney]

I can't believe all you Tom Clancy suckers.  I learned to stop reading him back in the '80s, after Red Storm Stupid.

[Ideologue]

I can't believe all you Tom Clancy suckers.  I learned to stop reading him back in the '80s, after Red Storm Stupid.

I think I've read exactly one Tom Clancy book.  My reaction was that he sure did know a lot about military hardware.  But so did Fred T. Jane, and no one considers him a great novelist.

[Malthus]

Polyamory?  Weeping gorilla?  An exploration of the fallen nature of man?  I must admit that I am intrigued.

I know I've told this story like 10 times, but this little group got together via a message board similar to Languish (no, I don't know the URL) and either the board was about Ishmael or it was some literary board and the novel constantly came up or some shit.

Anyway, some of the people in the group weren't so batshit, but a faction of it was so cuckoo that they became polyamorous and moved to a hippie commune up in Maine.

If the book convinces some of these types to voluntarily remove themselves from society, I guess it isn't all bad ...

Ah, who am I kidding. It is indeed total crap.