James Garner's biography ! Had to grow long arms to pat himself on the back so many times! Couldn't finish .

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Honorable mention goes to Grapes of Wrath.

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Simpsons version is pretty solid:

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Champ Bailey said:

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Honorable mention goes to Grapes of Wrath.

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Simpsons version is pretty solid:

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South Park is better

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Could have been a quarter of the length that it was.

Scarlet Letter for sure. Didn't enjoy it the first time and then we seemed to spend half the year in AP English studying it. It would never go away!

As for highly praised book I didn't connect with, I STRUGGLED to even finish "A Confederacy of Dunces". No idea what people see in that book.

Naked Lunch by William S. Borroughs...too weird to finish

Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson was way overrated and awful

The Road by Jack Kerouac...tried reading this thing three times, so boring.

so basically if you were stoned out of your gourd when you wrote a book, i probably didn't like it.



Confederacy of Dunces was over rated but did have some funny parts, the letter back from the Pants company and the whole hot dog cart.

and throw either Tropic of Cancer/Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller on the list....couldn't slog through whichever one it was I tried to read.

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and throw either Tropic of Cancer/Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller on the list....couldn't slog through whichever one it was I tried to read.

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Constanza, is that you?

Don Quixote

Wuthering Heights

Not surprised to see confederacy of dunces mentioned a few times. I thought it was hilarious but i know well read people who love it and others who hated it.
Cormac McCarthy has a writing style that is tough to get used to with the way he writes dialogue but the content is great.




For me, as a school kid I could never get through 1984 but i think the fact that it was assigned as summer reading was a bigger factor than the book itself sucking.
Lately, I can't get through the Hamilton biography from Chernow. It's not a bad book but i can't get past the middle. I will read a chapter, then put it down and read 2 or 3 other books.

Funny you mention Cormac. I LOVED The Road but hated Blood Meridien. It was so damn slow and repeatative. Another book lots of people love but I barely made it through.

I BSed my way through various essay tests at A&M reading only the first and last page of every chapter.

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I hope you returned it to the library....

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Of course, right after I got done drawing pee pees and wee wees in it

Perdido Street station. Very very highly rated and so bad.

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Perdido Street station. Very very highly rated and so bad.

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i tried to read this one and dropped it after a few pages. The wiki entry for this and the ones that follow are interesting but the writing just didn't do it for me. Not a perfect story plot wise but fantasy that's not sword and sorcery definitely picqued my interest.

Big letdown after reading all reviews ejaculating over it. I guess the author checks a lot of boxes for libtard critics solely based on his socialist views.

I posted this question on the Facebook and it is turning out to be somewhat controversial.

We read "The Killer Angels" jr year of high school. One guy after the test was shocked to find out that the north wore blue, not the south.

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Don Quixote

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This. I got about a third into it and it was just so repetitive. The first few chapters are pretty great though.

TWO OPTIONS ONLY:

Ethan Frome

or

The 3rd Hunger Games book

Maybe low hanging fruit, but one of the worst books I've ever read was The Invasion by Dean Koontz. I tend to finish everything I read because of habit, but I knew I was saving hours of my life by not finishing that piece of sheet. I don't even hate Dean Koontz, but that book was just awful.

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Blood Meridian

Didn't like it from the very beginning and it never got any better. I gave it the benefit of the doubt for a while and stuck it out but eventually realized it was a waste of time and called it quits.

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This is my favorite book. I've read it several times.

Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl and Dark Places. Plus, the diary grammar was so bad that I couldn't tell if the "Gone Girl" was intentionally dumb or Flynn was.

Easily Ethan Frome.

You guys will laugh but "50 Shades of Grey." It seriously reads like it was written at an 8th grade reading level. It's HORRIBLE.

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The one that I hated the most is the Scarlet Letter. I could find a way to enjoy just about anything we read in high school as a class but this was terrible. So bad that I completely shut down any sort of intellectual comprehension and just "read" the pages without actually reading it. What a waste of class time.

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I did this, too. I remember the class discussions and when the teacher pointed out that (Spoiler Alert) Dimmsdale was the one who the affair with Hester, I was like "How the heck did you make that jump?", but again, it was just such a dry slog, that I wasn't even comprehending what i was reading.


But Catcher in the Rye is up there for me for one of the worst books ever. What a complete piece of crap this book is.

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Agree on Catcher in the Rye. Terrible book. After finishing it, I was wondering why it is considered a classic and why it's banned by a lot of schools.

It's a tossup. Freshman year of college I had to read PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. Agony. Even with the help of Cliff's Notes it was hard going because the characters were flat as pancakes. It's a comfort to find that Mark Twain disliked Jane Austen's work even more than I did.

In the late seventies everybody was reading the LEFT BEHIND series. I eagerly checked the first volume of it out of the church library. Talk about BAD writing. As the old saying goes, that's not writing it's typing. A junior high student could have done better.