The first book in the Left Behind series came out in 1995...
ro828 said:
Thanks. I stand corrected. Senior moment.
I was coming to post this, its awful.rhoswen said:
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.
Technically young adult. And honestly a lot of young adult is as good as or better than a lot of adult booksschmendeler said:
I mean the hunger games were children's books. Seems a little unfair to lump then in with books intended for adults.
aggieforester05 said:
The Dark Tower: Gunslinger was totally awful. I think I only made it halfway through.
Clan of the Cave Bear also bored me out of my mind.
Great Expectations was certainly tough, considering I had to read it over the summer when I would have rather been outside enjoying myself as a young teenager.
I recently started re-reading the Dark Tower series. I agree Gunslinger is a little slow and random. It's all background and setup. But if you can get through it (or even if not), Drawing of the Three is very good.Dread Pirate Roberts said:aggieforester05 said:
The Dark Tower: Gunslinger was totally awful. I think I only made it halfway through.
I fought through Gunslinger because so many people praised it so highly. I kept waiting for it to turn fantastic. It never did.
I love his stories.Bruce Almighty said:
Neil Gaiman books suck. I've tried American Gods and 2-3 others and have given up on all of them. I just do not like his writing style.
you mean you dont like children being murdered by fathers?Teacher_Ag said:
Things Fall Apart was ****ty.
yeah, it was terrible. the paltrow/hawke movie version from the 90s did the horrid book justice as it was a horrid film. the only good thing to come from it was the chris cornell single sunshowerAliasMan02 said:
Great Expectations is objectively terrible. Dickens is probably the worst author among those considered masters. Paid by the word and milked every shilling he could from his publisher.
nai06 said:you mean you dont like children being murdered by fathers?Teacher_Ag said:
Things Fall Apart was ****ty.
so many yamsBQ08 said:nai06 said:you mean you dont like children being murdered by fathers?Teacher_Ag said:
Things Fall Apart was ****ty.
Or yams?
AliasMan02 said:
Great Expectations is objectively terrible. Dickens is probably the worst author among those considered masters. Paid by the word and milked every shilling he could from his publisher.
Cstrickland05 said:91_Aggie said:schmendeler said:
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.
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.
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.
First novel that came to mind. Tried any number of times to get through. just so I could know what was asserted as fact. The premise was a good foundation for a novel, the writing and the plot were nearly unreadable. I don't really understand how it got published much less became a runaway best seller.Dr. Watson said:
How are some of you defining "worst book"? Scarlet Letter isn't my idea of easy reading, but it's also not the worst book I've ever read by a long shot. That would go to The Da Vinci Code. It was mildly entertaining, but Dan Brown might be the worst wordsmith I have EVER come across. A third grader can put together a more complex sentence and a more realistic plot.
unimboti nkum said:
The Poisonwood Bible. Utterly unreadable.