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Worst book?
For me it has to be Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, the world’s worst author and then some.
This book was sold to me as some new form of literature and one of the most important philosophical tracts in the history of Western Civilisation.
Unfortunately it’s poorly written, hellishly over long and has a story stretched out further than Steven King would dare to and is just plain silly and nasty.
This review nails perfectly why its best avoided. Please, please, please don’t read this. Or anything else she wrote.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/222482/big-sister-watching-you/flashback
This book was sold to me as some new form of literature and one of the most important philosophical tracts in the history of Western Civilisation.
Unfortunately it’s poorly written, hellishly over long and has a story stretched out further than Steven King would dare to and is just plain silly and nasty.
This review nails perfectly why its best avoided. Please, please, please don’t read this. Or anything else she wrote.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/222482/big-sister-watching-you/flashback
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My one would be Melmoth The Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin. Story within a story, within a story until you loose the will to live.
Well the book is read by poor people, who think that once the ‘dead hand of the state’ disappears, they will be millionaires.
HATED HATED HATED IT!!!
It's one of only a handful of books I haven't completed.
Oh, the Bourne Identity is rubbish too and thankfully the movie doesn't follow it closely at all.
So badly written I didn't make it past more than a few pages. Juvenile isn't the word!
*Recommended by a friend.
The biggest pile of nonsensicle tripe I've ever had the misfortune to read. I stuck with it to the end (I don't know why, honest) and then threw it straight into the wheelie bin.
I normally give books I don't want to keep to charity shops, but there was no way I was going to inflict that pile of steaming crap upon anyone else!
I did the same once years ago.
But 10-15 years later I tried again, almost forced myself to read it. It does get better, and I now think it's a pretty good book.
Plus, I can say I read it!
I tried once, got about a third of the way in..gave up
tried again about 2 years later, got two thirds of the way in..gave up..
Im not even gonna try a third time!
THE worst book I have EVER read. Recommended by a work colleague as hilarious.
I despised it-every character was loathsome and I wished them all dead by the end, plus the author for wasting several hours of my life.
Awful book.
If I read Atlas Shrugged, however, I am sure I would hate it more than any other book. Ayn Rand's ideas were thoroughly repellent.
I agree, truly awful book but unfortunately I finished it. Wish I did give up on it!
That came very highly recommended to me and I didn't really like it either! I found I couldn't get into the writing of it or something!
I found Anne Enwrights Book - The Gathering very poor and very depressing, really dont get the fuss around it
I was about to post the same one. Awful, self indulgent, adolescent navel-gazing of the worst order. You can tell you're not meant to hate the hero. But he's an egotistical bore.
For bad writing, I enjoy cruising the self-publishing sites and sites like 'Authonomy'. As they're not professional writers, it seems churlish to name and shame. There are some stupendously bad novels, or extracts of novels, online.
ETA: I HATED 'The Road'. It's probably the grimmest book ever, and I've read and enjoyed some pretty 'dark' novels. I was begging him to kill his kid by about page 5. Also a bit purple prose for my taste.
Oh yes. I once tried to read that and gave up too.
This is one that I've not even bothered finishing -- I think I managed maybe 100 pages.
And despite all those who say it's a classic, Du Maurier's Rebecca is the book that I always feel worst about wasting my time ploughing through it.
Life is far too short for rubbish like that.
Yes, That was crap and shodily written.
I'd add Salmon Fishing In The Yemen to the list also. it's not even a propper book, more like a series of articles.
I also didn't like On Chesil Beach or Enduring Love by Ian McEwan.
Not Ditto.